http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/8e81430b4c88ffe1f6e701b82f102d13.PDF 2602e15088e59d0a3011edaa78f9b875 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORQAMOFTHE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO Union Urges Congressmen To Act SIU Inland Boatmen's Union tugs, team up with Coast Guard tugs above to hold the listing Steel Fabricator against Norfolk dock after last month's fire aboard the SlU-manned vessel. The Fabricator is presently at Jacksonville for repairs. (See Page 2.) Sfeel Fobr/cofor. $IU HITS RENEWAL OF SCHEME TO END PHS FIT-FOR-DUTY SLIPS FOR SEAMEN Story On Page 3 US Charges Price Pigs By Cargill Story On Page 3 Kara photo shows smoke still pouring from piers of the SlUcontracted Pennsylvania RR in Jersey City. SIU Railway Marine Region members gained praise for heroic action during the blaze which gutted piers and equipment. (See Page 2.) ^ VI Union Action Settles Ship Beefs; $25,258 Gained For Seafarers Story On Page 3 2,400 VfC Seamen Come Under Banner Of SlUNA-MSTU Story On Page 3 0f«ccs#wn miiaaaa§ Newsmen from all over the world turned out in force fltfaaffOfl WWnCO¥» when the SlU-manned Globe Explorer arrived at Odessa, Russia recently with a cargo of 23,000 tons of U.S. wheat for the Soviet as part of the U.S.-Russian wheat deal. For an account of a trip to Moscow by a Seafarer aboard another SIU vessel which called at Russia with grain, see page 20. Pre-Balloting Report See Page 4 �SEAFARERS Tagm Twm SIU Supports ILA Picketing Some of the SlU crewmembers who won praise for heroism during the Steel Fabricator fire are shown here on deck. They are (kneeling, l-r) Charies Johnson, AB; John Ohonnosion, AB; Emmonouil Holkios, MM; Andrew Kinney, OS; Charles Wilson, MM. Standing (l-r) are Hans Schroder, 3rd mate; Jay Street, 3rd mate; Manfred Leuschner, AB; Henry Moffett, OS; Alfred Hsndyvedt, bosun; Lysle Fuertado, AB; Lawrence Chrisinger, cook and Claronce Pryor, AB. Steel Fabricator Under Repairs JACKSONVILLE—The Steel Fabricator (Isthmian), which suffered severe damage during a fire in Norfolk on May 15-16, has been transferred here for repair work by Jackson­ ville Shipyards, Inc. Isthmian Line officials expect the re­ gen breathing apparatus. pair job will keep the Fab­ Going Into the hold for short ricator In layup until July 6th. The fire, which started during cargo unloading operations, caused heavy damage in number 3 hold. Company officials estimate that the complete repair job will cost between $340,000 to $350,000. Needs Plates The main part of the repair work will consist of renewing plates, restoring the bulkheads in the hold, and installing new wir­ ing from the winches to the en­ gine room. Following completion of the repairs on July 6th, Isth­ mian officials have scheduled the Fabricator to begin loading cargo In Galveston on July 10th. Sixteen SIU members in the ship's crew won high praise dur­ ing the fire when they coura­ geously volunteered to enter the 'tween decks area of the burning hold to unload smouldering rolls of Hessian cloth. The teamwork and skill displayed by the Sea­ farers as they performed this risky work was lauded both by company officials and Norfolk firefighters. The successful unloading oper­ ation allowed city firemen to un­ cover a hatch where the core of the fire continued to burn. Utiliz­ ing the skills they learned in Union training programs, the volunteers worked with gas masks and oxy- periods of time, the volunteers unloaded 104 rolls of cloth from the smoky hold. They began the job at 9:30 PM Saturday evening and continued until 6 AM the following morning. Firefighting operations on the ship were hindered by an eightdegree list. RMR Vote June 15-19 JERSEY CITY—Election of of­ ficers for the SIU Railway Marine Region under procedures set forth in the Union constitution will take place during this coming week from June 15 to June 19th. The 12 offices which will be filled In the election are those of regional director, assistant regional director in Norfolk and Jersey City, as well as nine chairmen for each of the railroads covered by RMR contracts. Candidates elected to regional offices will serve threeyear terms. The election will take pla.ce over a two-day period in each of the four cities which have an RMR office. Balloting will take place on the following dates: Jersey City, June 15-16; Philadelphia, June 1617; Baltimore, June 17-18; and Norfolk, June 18-19. Hours of voting on the first day June 12,1964 Vol. XXVI, No. 12 will run from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM and from 9: AM to 5: PM on the second day. Members who are pre­ sent to cast their ballots before the closing hours of the voting, will PAUL HALL. President be eligible to vote. HEBfiEBT BBANO, EditOT; IBWIN SPIVACK A special meeting will be called managing Editor; BEBNABD SEAMAN, Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYEB, in each city between the hours THOMAS LAuquLiN. ROBEBZ ARONEON, of 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM on the Staff Writers. day when voting commences to Published biweekly at the headquarters select an election committee. The of the Seafarers International Union, At­ lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters committee will be chosen by ma­ District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue, jority vote of those members pre­ Brooklyn, NY, 11232. Tel. HYaclnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid at the Post sent. Offlea In Brooklyn, NY, under the Act Notice of the election procedures •f Aus. 24, 1912. ~ 120 have been mailed to each RMR member. SEAFARERS LOG Ju* U» JffM LOG MORRISVILLE, Pa.—Seafarers aboard the SlU-contracted tanker Columbia are respecting picketlines set up here by the Inter­ national Longshoremens Associa­ tion. The ILA Is protesting the use of Steelworkers Instead of Longshoremen* In loading prod­ ucts aboard the ship here. The Columbia was returning from San Francisco Bay on the final phase of its maiden voyage as a steel products carrier for United States Steel when the ILA established picketlines at the company's facilities here. SIU members on the vessel then re­ fused to work behind the ILA picketlines and paid off the vessel. The Columbia, a converted T-2 tanker, is the first of two tankers which have been converted for carrying steel products from the East Coast to the Pacific. Job Raid Fails; NMU Sues SIU For $40 Million By Paul Noll This week your Union, the SIU, found it necessary to urge the appro­ priate committees of Congress to take a look at a situation which threatens to affect American Seamen. I am referring to the behindthe-scenes campaign which is being revived by the insurance com­ panies and other vested interests who are anxious to see the Public Health Service cease its practice of issuing fit-for-duty slips. As Seafarers well know, this has been a traditional function of the Public Health Service Hospitals, which are universally respected in the maritime industry for their fairness, objectively and professional competence. Because of these qualities of the Public Health Service, both labor and management in maritime have come to abide by the decisions of the Public Health Service, when questions arise concerning a seaman's fitness for duty. Most certainly, the Union would not necessarily accept a company doctor's decision in such cases. In fact, the SIU contract provides that in the event of a dispute over the fitness of a Seafarer for employment, the determination of the Public Health Service shall be binding. This system has worked effectively and satisfactorily. But now we find that there are those who have a special interest and who are determined to put a halt to the issuance of fit-for-duty slips by Public Health Service Hospitals. Obviously, the Union will not permit any group with a narrow, selfish interest in this matter arbitrarily to decide that a seaman is medically unfit for employment. We have fought too long and too hard to win a fair and equitable method of determining the seamen's fitness for employment. We will not revert to any system under which Seafarers could be made the victims of an insurance company's selfish objective. Although this proposal to halt issuance of fit-for-duty slips was suspended as a result of Union opposition, the interests who initiated this scheme have not given up in their efforts to bring it about. We will, however, maintain the same vigilance with respect to this attempt, as we have with respect to other attempts to whittle down services of the Public Health Service Hospitals. The Public Health Service Hospitals and their vital services are issues over which the Union has fought throughout its industry. Al­ most with clock-work regularity, there have been attempts to close hospitals, reduce and curtail services and otherwise diminish the effectiveness of these important institutions. It is reasonable to expect, in this day and age, that an institution such as the Public Health Service, with such a high degree of pro­ fessional competence, and the technical and scientific skills so val­ uable to the health and well-being of the community, would be in the process of expansion of its services. But such is not the case. Instead, we find ourselves having to fight for the maintenance of these serv­ ices. It is unfortunate that we must do it, but we will continue to do Just that. Having failed In an attempt to raid SlU-contracted jobs by picketline and other pressure moves, the NMU changed Its tactics and Instituted a $40 million damage suit and unfair labor practice charges against the SIU and two shipping companies. The NMU raid attempt was aimed at tanker jobs which have been under SIU contract since 1952—^first under the Colonial Steamship Corporation and then under its successor, the Western Tankers Corporation, which pur­ chased the vessels last year. When the NMU was unable to force Western Tankers to replace SIU crewmen with NMU men, the NMU refused to sign on aboard vessels of American ExportIsbrandtsen Lines, with which it has contracts, maintaining that American Export-Isbrandtsen was ^ JERSEY CITY—^Rail tugmen from the SIU-Railway. Ma­ the owner of the SlU-contracted rine Region played a major role in saving equipment worth tankers. millions of dollars recently in a disastrous fire which de­ After tying up 11 of their own stroyed two piers of the Penn-^ contracted vessels, the NMU de­ sylvania Railroad in Jersey cial praise for the role they played cided to halt the tactic, and release City. The fire, said to be the in the operation. The crews on the vessels and announced that it was filing the law suit and unfair "greatest" waterfront blaze in the numbers five, six and seven city's history, raged over a bridges also were cited for their labor charges. quarter-mile of the waterfront admirable performance. here on May 27. The assistance provided by the $5 Million Damage SIU tug crews has received high The fire caused damage to the praise from the Pennsylvania Pennsylvania's equipment tenta­ Railroad. In a letter to the tug­ tively estimated at $5 million, men, W. C. Rockcy, assistant company officials said. Nineteen superintendent of the road's ma­ fireboats worked to control the rine department, said, "I wish to blaze which broke out shortly be­ express my personal thanks to all DETROIT—The National Labor fore 10 PM. The fire was declared of our employees who partici­ Relations Board certified the under control five hours later. pated in combating the disastrous RMR crewmembers who were fire at Harsimus Cove last week. Seafarers International Union Great Lakes District as the exclu­ working on the middle and last The successful control of that sive bargaining agent for the watches on the Pennsylvania's serious situation without a per­ Pringle Barge and Towing Com­ tugs Pittsburgh, Jersey City, In­ sonal injury being sustained to dianapolis, New York, Altoona, any of our employees was, indeed, pany last week. The SIU had won an earlier Cincinnati and Harrisburg all most gratifying and you should election at the company on April provided invaluable help as they feel proud of having done an ex­ 16. Pringle represented one of responded to the emergency. The ceptional job. "The assistance and cooperation the last-unorganized companies on railroad's tug Trenton, which is berthed in Greenville, NJ, was I received while directing the the Great Lakes prior to the elec­ brought to the scene of the fire operation, under extenuating cir­ tion. by an urgent call to provide help. cumstances, makes me real proud NLRB hearings arose when The chief job of the tug crews to be part of an organization of the company filed nine separate was to pull every piece of fioat- men such as we have in our Ma­ unfair lahor practice charges ing equipment they could reach rine Departnaent." against the SIU. After more than out of the path of the fire and In addition to the destruction 50 days of inestigation, the NLRB into the harbor where it could be of two piers, the fire also de­ threw out all the charges. docked safely. The crews were stroyed three float bridges used The election was won by the instrumental in saving carfloats to carry railroad cars between SIU on a 20-14 count, with one and tugs moored at the blazing barges and tracks on land as well vote void and one challenged. piers worth millions of dollars. as three freight cars. Piers L Pringle Barge operates two tugs Bridgemen and .motormen work­ and M, both coal docks, suffered and two barges and employs about ing on number eight and nine complete destruction, while Piers 40 unlicensed seamen. bridge were singled out for spe­ H and K were severely damaged. SIU Rail Tugmen Star In Pier Fire NLRB Certifies Lakes SIU Win �fin* Iti ItM SEAFARERS^ « EOft Pag* Thre* i' •t\ SlU Settles Beefs, Nets Crews $25,258 NEW YORK—The SIU Contract Department has settled a num­ ber of outstanding beefs with ship operators that will benefit the Seafarers Involved to the tune of $25,258. The ships Involved in the beefs were the Steel Fabricator (Isthmian), Taddei Village (Consolidated), and the Niagara (Oriental Exporters). The dispute on the Steel Fabricator arose as a result of the fire which blazed in her hold on May 15-16 while she was docked in Norfolk. Even though longshoremen were offered the premium rate to unload the cargo, they refused to go down into the hold. The unloading work was then performed by a group of 16 Seafarers who volunteered to do the Job. The contract provides that if sailors are required to work cargo, they are entitled to be paid at the longshore rate. Since long­ shoremen would have been paid $9.21 per hour for performing this work, the crew claimed this rate of pay. After discussion with the SIU Contract Department, company officials agreed to pay the crewmembers who worked the smoulder­ ing cargo at the rate of $9.21 per hour. The 16 SIU men put in a total of 200 hours which brings the total amount of money the crew received to $1,842. The Contract Department also reports that it has settled two beefs resulting from the loss of the Taddei Village. The ship has been declared a total loss after hitting a reef off the coast of Japan. Since the wreck occurred without any loss of life, the entire crew was repatriated to Los Angeles on a tourist class jet flight. The first beef on the wreck involved the difference between tourist class and first class jet fare. Since the ship was considered a total loss, the Union was able to collect $265 per man, the amount of the difference. The total for the 30 seamen involved came to $7,940. The second dispute involving the ship's loss dealt with the con­ tract requirement that the company pay $500 per man as a clothing allowance for personal possessions lost in the accident. The com­ pany has settled this claim which totaled $15,000. The majority of the crewmembers have already collected their clothing allowance checks, but the Contract Department is still holding checks for the following men: William H. Hutchinson, Manuel Silva, Claude B. Jessup, Walker E. Ward, William Essler, Charles Kemczynski and Peter Krupinski. The third beef which has been settled by the Contract Depart­ ment this month deals with a dispute about overtime for tank cleaning aboard the Niagara. The company agreed to pay a total of $465.84 to the men involved, and the Contract Department is hold­ ing checks for the following men: Christo T. Anastasiou, $24.50; Richard Anderson, $73.54; Robert C. Bnjan, $22.73; John W. Gibson, $32.04; James L. Grant, $104.20; Francis M. Greenweil, $5.63; Richard Heckman, $27.38; Herbert Mills, $54.68; Jose A. Paz, $58.96; Albin Samoska, $30.14; and John J. Wynne, $32.04. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of these men is urged to have them contact the contract department to pick up their checks. SIU FIGHTS REVIVAL OF MOVE TO END PHS FIT-FOR-DUTY SLIPS The SIU has called on the appropriate Senate and House committees to prevent the pressures of groups with vested interests from achieving abandon­ ment of the issuance of fit-for-duty slips by US Public Health Service hospitals. Although plans to drop'*^ ——• House Committee on Education "the revival of pressures to this service have been and Labor, SIU President Paul the change." temporarily postponed, the effect In a communication to members Hall said, "1 do not believe that SIU held that immediate ac­ of the Senate Committee on La­ the narrow, selfish interests of tion is necessary in light of bor and Public Welfare and the those who are seeking a cessation SIU Moves To Safeguard Crew Wages On 3 Ships The SIU has filed liens and taken other actions to protect the wages of Seafarers on three vessels operated by the Pacific Seafarers company. The Union's actions were taken against the Jian Baltimore, the A and J Faith in Cleve­ liens against the three ships to land and the A and J Mercury protect welfare, pension and vaca­ in Port Colburne, Canada. The company has filed a petition for reogranization in the New York courts. Arrangements were made by the Union to return the crews to their ports of sign-on and the SIU has advanced funds to the crew-mem­ bers pending the payment of wages as determined by the court. Liens in behalf of their mem­ bers were also placed against the vessels by the MEBA, ROU and MM&P, The Seafarers Welfare and Vacation Plans have also placed US Says Cargill Rigs Wheat Prices Cargill, Inc., a major US grain shipper, has been cited in a complaint issued by the Commodity Exchange Authority in Washington on a charge of manipulating wheat prices. Cargill was one of the firms handling the huge sale of US wheat to the Soviet Union and was a center of the dis--^ pute arising out of insistence thority complaint charged Cargill the height of the dispute over the by the SIU and other unions with "attempted manipulation and Soviet wheat shipments, SIU Presi­ that 50 percent of the cargoes go In American ships. Cargill sought to bypass the use of US vessels despite President Kennedy's pro­ nouncement that half of these cargoes would go in US ships. The Commodity Exchange Au­ manipulation" of wheat prices on the Chicago Board of Trade in May, 1963. Cargill has frequently been the object of Government charges re­ garding price manipulation, illegal trading and other malpractices. At Certify SlU-MSTU For 2,400 Seamen SAN FRANCISCO—The SIUNA-affiliated MiUtary Sea Transport Union has been certified as the exclusive bargain­ ing agent for 2,400 West Coast seamen on Military Sea Trans­ port Service ships. Weisberger authorized an organ­ Notice of the certification izing drive among MSTS seamen was received by SIUNA on the Pacific Coast, and appointed Executive Vice-President Morris Weisberger, who is acting admin­ istrator of the SlU-Military Sea Transport Union. The certification covers all civi­ lian marine personnel employed by the Military Sea Transportation Service, Pacific Area, in the nonofficer ratings. It culminates a campaign that • began two years ago when SIUNA President Paul Hall and Executive Vice-President William Handelsman to direct the campaign. The MSTU-SIU also represents all unlicensed personnel in the MSTS Hawaiian Command, and holds exclusive recognition for all chief stewards, second stewards, troop and third stewards in the four MSTS passenger vessels, and all chief stewards in the MSTS freight vessels in the Pacific Com­ mand. dent Paul Hall cited the company's long record of irregularities in grain dealing, dating from 1940 up to the present time. Denied Trading Privileges Hall noted that the company had only been reinstated as a member of the Chicago Board of Trade on October 24, 1962, after having been out since 1940, when it was denied trading privileges. Hall's reference to Cargill's rec­ ord were made after the company had attempted to justify its bypass­ ing American ships in the grain trades by saying it was doing so in the national interest. Hall said that the company was "waving the flag in order to mask its gluttony for greater profits at the expense of this nation's interests in the carriage of grain products to the Soviet bloc." The complaint lodged this week by the Government agency alleges that Cargill demanded and re­ ceived prices that were "arbitrary and artificial" and that, as a result, cash wheat was traded at artificial prices in violation of the Commod­ ity Exchange Act. A hearing before a referee has been set for August 19 in Minneapolis. The Government agency's com­ plaint came on the heels of Cargill's latest attempt tp manipulate (Continued on page 17) tion payments. The controlling interests in the Pacific Seafarers company also operate three other ships—the A and J Mid-America, the Anji and the A and J Doctor Max. Through arrangements made by the Union, the crew of the MidAmerica was repatriated from Saigon, Viet Nam, where the vessel is currently being protected by the US Government after being looted by a roving mob. The Union has advanced money to these crewmen and taken steps to process their claims against the vessel. Also as a result of the Union's efforts, the State Department has agreed to guarantee the wages and allotments of the Anji crewmem­ bers if they agree to remain aboard the vessel when It arrives in Saigon and to continue the voyage. In the case of the A and J Doctor Max, which is under time charter from Waterman, the Union has obtained assurances that Waterman will guarantee the wages and allotments of the crew­ men. of the issuance of the slips should in any way be permitted to inter­ fere with or cause the abandon­ ment of a valuable and necessary service by a highly respected and competent government agency." The SIU communication stressed that the traditional func­ tions which have been performed by USPHS include "that of pro­ viding reports on seamen patients indicating whether or not they are fit for duty aboard US mer­ chant vessels." Hall pointed out that because of the impartiality and integrity of the USPHS personnel, both maritime labor and management have accepted the USPHS deci­ sions with respect to seamen's fit­ ness for duty where disputes have arisen over this question. The SIU President's message said that a move is under way by groups with vested interests such as insurance companies and others, to have the USPHS cease issuance of the fit-for-duty slips. Hal! said that the SIU and other sections of maritime la­ bor "were absolutely opposed to the scrapping of so vital a service. Implementation," Hall said, "of this change was then postponed. However, we understand that the pres­ sures originally responsible for the proposed change are being revived." In bringing this issue to the at­ tention of the legislators. Hall said "we are calling this matter to your attention as a member of a Congressional committee with an interest and concern in such matters." The SIU President urged that the committee members use their (Continued on page 23) SIU Tops Teamsters In Detroit Cab Vote DETROIT—The SlU's Transportation Services and Allied Workers rolled up a decisive 3-2 vote margin over the Teamsters in an NLRB election among Checker Cab drivers here June 8-9. However, the Board announced that there were 312 challenged votes which could affect the final results of the election. The challenges will be disposed of after a five-day voting period, the Board said. Virtually all of the 312 challenges were made by the company, tlie Teamsters and the NLRB. Hailing the election turnout by Checker drivers, despite the efforts of the company to discourage voting, SIU TS&AW representatives are advising all Checker drivers whose votes were challenged that their votes will remain secret. They pointed out that the challenges by the company and the Teamsters were designed to reduce the total vote and to discourage drivers from voting. Although the Teamsters have a taxi local in Detroit, they never made any effort to organize the Checker cabs or get them an election. The NLRB vote was the result of the efforts of a group of Checker cab drivers who came to the SIU TS&AW two years ago for assistance. During the two years which followed, the company used every devic* to prevent an election, including the claim of multi-ownership of tha cabs. The Board ordered the election after a Supreme Court decision that multi-ownership systems are not a bar to an election. �Page Four SEAFARERS Jwe 18. Ifil LOG Russia Quietly Seeking Further Grain Purchases By Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area Gulf Shipping Outlook Bright The last two-week period has been a profitable one along the Gulf Coast from the viewpoint of Seafarers. Jobs have been plentiful in Mobile, Houston and New Orleans and the outlook for the immediate future is bright. With seven payoffs, four sign-ons and six ships in transit, the mem­ bership enjoyed what amounted to a shipping boom in Mobile which at times has had its lean days in recent years. ington as well as Ottawa. Wheat still not expected to come up to be in small amounts. Progress was being made in the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union too. purchases from Canada by Russia the Soviet's consumption. The grain transactions are con­ Bargaining began at Orange, Texas, on a first contract for the em­ bolster world grain markets and Because of last year's failure, tributing to a reduction in the ployes of the newly organized Slade, Inc., and Southern Towing strengthen the balance of pay­ the Russians were forced to pur­ critical US balance of payments Company. These companies are best known to Seafarers from that ments position of both Canada chase close to 12 million tons deficit. The USSR has to sell gold area as Higman'Towing Co. About 150 new members are involved in and the US, because Canada is from Canada and the US. They to get the necessary currency to this fleet. the largest single customer of the contracted for $500 million of pay for the Canadian and Ameri­ From Mobile comes news that R. L. "Lucky" Pritehett is asking his US, and she pays for American grain in Canada, then pieced out can wheat. The bulk of the gold friends to change his nickname as a result of his recent experiences. goods with nroney received from their requirements by placing sales are made to the free world He got off the Alice Brown after making several trips as chief elec­ $138 million of orders in this gold pool in London, and the US trician to do some work on some land he has acquired at Mobile. This the Soviet Union. collects part of the gold as a turned out to be his first mistake because he stepped in a hole and Although the Russians have not country. Indicated the size of this year's Administration officials ex­ member of the group. broke his ankle. Despite advice from the Mobile staff that it wasn't desired purchase, it is believed pressed hope that some of the The pool transferred $178 mil­ necessary for him to come to the Mobile SIU hall to bring in his that it will again be substantial. wheat purchases again will be lion of metal to the US treasury medical reports, he Insisted on-*in April. doing so. This wasn't such a man P. McNulty left the chief While the Soviets have come good idea, either. He fell on the electrician's job on the A. & J. under considerable pressure to stairs and fractured an arm. Faith to spend some time with his boost exports to earn money to Now, he has both an arm and a family. pay for the food she must buy leg in a cast. At last reports he In New Orleans it looked like abroad, Canada and the US are was playing It safe and both old home week with such famil­ receiving a powerful, unexpected breaks were healing normally. iar faces as Stan Zcaglcr, Andrew boost in bolstering their own pay­ Some of the oldtinrers on the Mir, John Luther, Leo Crawford, ments positions. beach in Mobile include H. M. Bill Tank, Bernie Guarino, John There is mounting European Gilmore, who is taking a rest with Picou and John Mina being seen NEW YORK—The SIU Seniority Upgrading Program was interest in granting credit to the his family getting off the around the hall. sailing at full speed ahead this week when the latest group Russians. American officials are Del Ore, on after which he was second Payoffs of class B Seafarers began participation June 8 in the pro­ not quite so afraid of selling cook. William R. Stone came W. G. Trice went to Houston gram inaugurated this past"*-^ "strategic" goods to the Commu­ ashore from the Ocean Ulla after to register after paying off as February by the Seafarers Battery Place, Suite 1930, New nists, and a slow growth in trade sailing as first cook for about a night cook and baker from the Appeals Board. could be underway. York 4, N.Y. year. He went into the hospital Council Grove in Mobile. The Twenty-six Seafarers are en­ Members of the SAB Seniority However, a sharp rise in US- to have a hernia repaired and is ship laid-up temporarily after a rolled in this fourth group of class Upgrading Committee include Soviet trade is unlikely because looking forward to a "fit for B men to take part in the pro­ Shepard for the Atlantic Area; there are few US export items duty" slip soon. C. H. Williams, trip to Russia with grain. Arthur Sulla decided to hit the beach in gram. Lindsey Williams, Gulf Area; A1 the Russians can sell to earn the on the Alcoa Ranger in an AB's Houston for a rest after several Announcement of the upgrad­ Tanner, Great Lakes Area; and currency that they must have to job for about two years, got off trips on the Walter Rice, Reynolds ing program was made in Feb­ E. B. McAuley, West Coast Area. pay for American goods. to study for a mate's license un­ Aluminum ore carrier. Bob Lam­ ruary by the SAB, a joint Unionder the upgrading program of bert got off the Inger, sister ship management panel governing the the join SlU-management ad­ to the Walter Rice, to recuperate shipping rules set up under the ministered Maritime Advance­ from an illness. He is now fit for contracts for SIU vessels, follow­ ment Programs. He lives in Mo­ duty and looking for a long trip. ing a Union-shipowner survey of bile, with his wife and children. Jimmy Foster paid off the Yaka manpower needs in all ports and H. H. Hurlstone, who has been and says he will be ready to go the number of men shipped to shipping out of the Gulf for 20 soon. He is another one looking fill SlU-contracted vessels in years, got off the Monarch of the for a long voyage. Steve Craw­ 1963. By Cai Tanner, Executive Vice-President Seas and registered in Group 1 ford, one of the Pearl River bo^s, The action was a move to assure of the Deck Department. He paid off the newly-contracted the availability of qualified Sea­ came ashore to help his mother SIU ship Ridgefield Victory and farers to meet current manning get settled in this country after went over to Houston to register. needs. In a recent exchange of letters between President Johnson and the he was able, with the help of the He says he plans to rest awhile The third group of 25 men to participate in the seniority up­ head of the Federal Maritime Commission, Adm. John Harllee, a mat­ Union, to get her admitted from before he starts pitching for a grading completed the program ter of great importance to everyone in the shipping business was dis­ the Grand Cayman Islands. Bow­ fireman's job. cussed. The balance of payments of the United States is in a very May 29. All participants received cer­ precarious position at this time, and one of the most thorough ways of tificates verifying their new class bringing about a better balance is to insure that more goods for export A seniority under the rules estab­ from the US travel in US-flag ships. Specifically, the balance of payments is the measure of payments lished by the SAB. Applications for the seniority into and out of the country by government, business and individuals. upgrading program are open to In the recent past, the payments out of the country have reached an qualified Seafarers. Class B men alarming figure over the amount this country is taking in. HAMBURG, Germany—technical committee of the Inter­ who wish to apply for an upgrad­ In his letter, Johnson appealed to the FMC to step up its activities national Organization for Standardization is meeting here ing application, or who wish fur­ which would help to wipe out the nation's adverse balance of trade to decide on a world-wide common size for cargo containers. ther information on the program, position. Johnson said that while "we have recorded substantial should write Earl Shepard, Chair­ progress" since the late President Kennedy announced such a program Concerns under contract to-*-^ — man, Seafarers Appeals Board, 17 in July of last year, "it is imperative that we restore equilibrium in the SIU which have container- and are said to be reluctant to our international accounts." ships are Sea-Land Service approve the metric series. "I am sure," President Johnson continued, "that you are entirely and the South Atlantic and Carib­ No votes have yet been cast by aware of the national importance of achieving balan(?e-of-payments bean Lines. Sea-Land has six such Czechoslovakia, Great Britain, Is­ equilibrium. I ask you fully to take into account this urgent national ships, while South Atlantic has rael, Italy, the Netherlands, Nor­ problem in carrying out your-^ one. way, Poland and the Soviet Union. mandate as head of an independent no unwarranted discriminations Recommended dimensions for Delegates to the meeting, how­ regulatory agency of the United against this nation's exports. eight container sizes—five Ameri­ ever, are optimistic about the NEW YORK—Local 1814 of the States." "The most important program can and three European—are be­ chances of at least a compromise International Longshoremen's As­ Economists realize the im­ being undertaken by the com­ ing considered at the meeting. version of the container issue sociation recently celebrated its portance of the American merchant Basically, the American sizes are tenth anniversary with a dinner- fleet as a major contributor mission is an investigation into eight feet wide and eight feet prior to adjournment. The recom­ mendation would then go before ocean freight rate disparities; in dance at the Americana Hotel toward efforts to effect an our most important export trades, high, and range in length from the 50-nation ISO for final con­ Mayor Wagner recently honored equilibrium between outgoing and the export freight rates are sub­ five to 30 feet. The three Euro­ sideration. the local, the largest in the ILA, incoming funds. Revenues earned stantially higher than the import pean sizes are in metric measure­ That means that final accept­ by proclaiming June 6th as "Local by American ships for carrying rates on the same or similar ments, and are four to nine feet ance of the global standard is at 1814, ILA Day" in New York. Over foreign passengers and freight commodities," Harllee said. in length. least a year away. 2,000 guests attended the dinner- came to about $600 million on the US Favored The committee meeting here "As pointed out by the Joint dance, including SIU officials. favorable side of accounts in 1963. Economic Committee of the Con­ Most countriess at the confer­ plans to consider not only the Anthony Scotto, president of the The Federal Maritime Com­ gress such disparities can have a ence have given at least tentative actual sizes to be approved, but 8,000 member longshore local, com­ mission "regards that goal as profound and detrimental effect approval to the American sizes, also the definition of "containers" pared its strong present condition perhaps its most important re­ on this nation's export capacity but the European sizes have yet itself, and methods of marking, with its modest beginnings ten sponsibility," Harllee replied in a and, consequently, upon its bal­ to be worked out by the com­ testing and lifting them. years ago when a small group of return letter to the President. To ance of payments situation." mittee. The proposed container The committee was appointed members met in a dilapidated that goal, he said, his agency is There has been an improve­ sizes have the votes, already cast, because of a request by US in­ storefront in a Brooklyn slum. In engaged in an intensive effort, ment in the balance of payments of the US, Belgium, France, Ger­ dustry leaders and the American those days, Scotto said, Brooklyn involving informal and fact-find­ since the beginning of this year, many and Switzerland. Australia, Standards Association of the ISO longshoremen earned, an average ing investigations and formal but it is not enough, and it is not Portugal and Sweden have en­ to consider world wide standards dorsed only the American sizes, for containers. hearings to ensure that there are (Continued on page 14) annual wage of $2,500. WASHINGTON — Another disappointing wheat crop in the Soviet Union has led Rus­ sian officials to begin new but quiet negotiations to buy a large additional quantity of Canadian wheat to be shipped later this year and during the first half of 1965, Word of the Russian desire to buy is being received with Russia has reportedly started a made in this country, but they great satisfaction in Wash­ better harvest this year, but it is anticipate that any such sales will New Group Starts SiU Upgrading Class US Ships Aid Balance Of Payments Croup Seeks Standard Of Cargo Container Size Local 1814 10 Years Old �U, UM SEAFARERS Vacation Bonanza fV Hft LOa t Operators Rap Mid-Sale Rule Change MA Sticks To Revised C-4 Evaluation Ruling WASHINGTON — The Maritime Administration has affirmed its method of evaluating Government reserve fleet C-4's used in exchange for older ships from private shipowners. The decision announced by MA Administrator Nicholas Johnson came after the shipowners had blasted the MA's evalua->trans, received one apiece. to $500,000 on the C-4s on an "as tion method. Johnson, in rendering his Maritime Administrator Nicholas is, where Is" basis. Credit is given Those happy smiles are all for Seafarer Frank S. Bosmenfe who is seen accepting a whopping $848.22 vacation check from SlU rep. John Dwyer. Posing for the check presenta­ tion are ll-r) Dwyer, Bosmente and his wife, Ramona. Bosmente was at sea for more than a year, most of the time as a night cook and baker on the Hercules Victory I SeaTramp). decision said that he is satisfied that the valuation policy of the C-4 military type vessels is fully supported by the statutory lan­ guage of the Ship Exchange Act, it's legislative history, and the intent of Congress. Of the 18 C-4s released by the Navy from the reserve fleet last year, the MA allocated 13 to SIUcontracted companies. Of these. Waterman drew six, Calmar five, and Oceanic Petroleum and Penn- Work Begun For 2nd APL Two More Seafarers Mariner Type Get Pension Benefits Two more Seafarer oldtimers have been added to the ever­ growing number of Union members who are collecting monthly pension checks. The joint Union - shipowner trustee panel announced its-t^ approval of $150 disability SIU A&G District in Norfolk pensions for Carl McCranie Sailing as a member of the engine and Fred Murphy. The action of the trustees brings the number of SIU members who can spend a secure retirement, supported by a regular pension check, to a total nearing 600. Carl McCranie, 70, became a member of the SIU when he signed up in New Orleans. He sailed as a messman in the steward department. McCranie ended his career as a Seafarer when he made his last trip on the Transeire (Hud­ son Waterways). Prior to becoming McCranie Murphy a seaman, he worked as' a railroad switchman. He makes his home in Port Arthur, Texas where he lives witli his family. Fred Murphy, 65, joined the Group Studies English Channel Traffic Rules For the first time in history, open-sea traffic control for ships was recommended at a conference in London in order to cut down the excessive amount of ship collisions be­ tween Dover, England and Cap Oris Nez, France. Repre­ sentatives from 14 maritime nations at the five-day con­ ference considered a set of rules to alleviate the dangers involved in the 21-miie-wide English Channel cro.ssing. Sta­ tistics compiled by Britain showed that 53 collisions oc­ curred in the area in a 21month period. department, he ended his days as a seaman with a trip on the Maiden Creek (Waterman). Murphy makes his home in Norfolk and intends to spend some of the com­ ing months traveling to visit mem­ bers of his family who live in Oklahoma. Labor Urges Conservation Legislation WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has urged the House Interior Committee to approve a wilderness preservation bill which the Senate passed more than 13 months ago. AFL-CIO legislative director Andrew J. Biemiller, in letters to Chairman Wayne N. Aspinall IDColorado) and other committee members, termed the Senatepassed bill the "best" of the wilder­ ness protectiion bills pending in the committee. The Senate bill, backed by the Administration and conservation groups, would place 8.2 million acres of undeveloped national forest land permanently in the wilderness system and add an ad­ ditional 57.2 million acres of pub­ lic land conditionally to the system, subject to review. Over a 10-year period, other "primitive" areas could be added on the rec­ ommendation of the President, subject to a veto by either house or Congress. He urged that mineral leasing in wilderness areas be restricted to those situations where the Presi­ dent has ruled that a special need exists for mineral development. Labor's position, he emphasized, is that any legislation enacted should include "adequate protec­ tions to assure preservation of our wilderness heritage for the benefit of future generations of American citizens." SAN FRANCISCO —Construc­ tion was begun last month on the second of three Master Mariner cargoliners for SIU Pacific Dis­ trict-contracted American Presi­ dent Line when the keel for the President Monroe was laid at the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company's San Diego shipyard. The 23,000-ton American Presi­ dent Lines freighters will not be ordinary cargo freighters. Special innovations and design features will be built into the ships, and the three vessels will rank among the largest, fastest, and most highly-automated cargo-liners In the American merchant marine. The President Monroe is sched­ uled to be launched in February and delivered to the company in August of next year. A keel for the third ship, the President Harrison, will be laid in November of this year at which time the first ship, now under construction, the Presi­ dent Polk, will be launched. All three liners are expected to be in American President's trans­ pacific service by early 1966. The ships will incorporate an engine room central control system so that one officer may check the entire plant for general perform­ ance and safety without leaving the central control console. The new freighters, under con­ struction at a cost of mora than $37 million, are part of American President's fleet replacement pro­ gram, and will bring to 13 the number of cargo liners that have entered service with the company in the last decade. Eight additional cargo liners are in the planning stages and are expected to enter service by early 1968. Moving? Notify SIU, Welfare Seafarers and SIU families who apply for maternity, hos­ pital or surgical benefits from the Welfare Plan are urged to keep the Union or the Wel­ fare Plan advised of any changes of address while their applications are being proc­ essed. Although payments .are often made by return mail, changes of address (or illegible return addresses) delay them when checks or "baby bonds" are returned. Those who are moving are advised to notify SIU headquarters or the Wel­ fare Plan, at 17 Battery Place, New York 4. NY. Johnson, following the shipowners prodding, agreed to consider the complaint. The shipowners asked for a re­ view of the evaluation method be­ cause after the bids for the vessels were in and the allocations an­ nounced, the MA dropped a bomb­ shell by announcing that it had changed the manner in which the value of the C-48 was to be judged. The new system could add an esti­ mated $250,000 to the cost of each of the ships. Exchange Called 'Sale' Under the MA's new Interpreta­ tion, the ship exchanges under the Ship Exchange Act is considered a "sale" in which the traded out ship miLst be assigned a value "at least equal to the value of the ship to be traded-ln." This, the ship owners charged. Is subverting the entire program which Congress intended as a means to upgrade the non-subsidized US fleet. Under the old Interpretation of the "Vessel Exchange Act, a ship­ owner could receive a ship virtu­ ally free if the cost of converting the vessel amounted to more than $1.2 million. Under the new in­ terpretation, the MA has set a fixed price ranging from $400,000 on any ship turned in under the provisions of the plan, but the shipowner must pay the difference. The shipowner's association is seeking to make the government rescind the new policy and revert to the older formula which was used in the past, and charging that the MA should certainly not bo permitted to change the rules for this program after bids have been tended on the old policy. The Maritime Administrator also said in his decision that the five applicants for the 11 uncommitted C-4's will have 15 days within which time to advise MA whether it accepts the values placed on the C-4's and the ships they intend to turn in. Those agreeing will have a further 30 days to negotiate exchange contracts. Calmar Steamship, has already began conversion of one of the C-4c at Baltimore along with SIU Pacific District-contracted Matson Navigation. The rules change by the MA did not affect Calmar and Matson because the value of the trade-in vessels was equal to the price of the C-4s. Calmar was allocated five of the newer type vessels, for which It plans to trade-in the Pennmar, Marymar, Yorkmar and Portmar. By Ai Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer SIU Welfare Plan Makes Life Easier Many a Seafarer can recall clearly that it wasn't too many years ago when the only thing he could count on from a job was a month's pay. The idea of monetary assistance for himself or his family in time of sickness or old age when he could no longer work was virtually unknown. Today's Seafarer, on the other hand, faces completely different condi­ tions. He knows he can perform his job secure in the knowledge that his Union has provided a vast welfare plan which will help both he and his family in time of sickness and old age, but also will assist his loved ones after he has passed on. SIU members have shown time and again that they are aware of their improved benefits situation. One of the major indications of this is that 60 percent of our Union members are married and support­ ing families. Figures coming into our department show tiiat the number of our brothers who are getting married is increasing every day. This is obviously a good trend. It means that the professional sea­ man is a man who will make a career out of sailing, rather than taking a trip and then quitting until his money runs out. Not only has the Union built up a welfare plan to provide for the married seaman and his children, but it has also provided propor­ tal expenses, which include room tionate benefits for our single and board, the inevitable extras, members. While SIU men who blood transfusions, doctor calls, are married may get more in bene­ surgical and maternity expenses. fits tiian our single brothers, it Other forms of assi.stance in­ should be recognized that they have accepted more repsonsibil- clude medical examinations, opti­ ities since they must think in cal benefits, sickness and accident, terms of providing for tlie needs special disability, maintenance and of two, three, four or more people. cure and special equipment to aid There can be little argument with in recuperation from an illness or the fact that the married man's accident. In addition to the $4,000 dollar must go a great deal fur­ death benefit and regular month­ ther than that of a single member. ly pension, special scholarships We should all remember that are awarded to both Seafarers the single Seafarer also has his and their children each year. From this brief survey it can responsibilities. Ha may be re­ sponsible for taking care of de­ be readily seen that an SIU mem­ pendent parents, younger mem­ ber has more at stake in his job bers of his family or step or foster than his monthly wages. While parents. The Union welfare plan many of our brothers sometimes also provides assistance for these take these extensive benefits for granted, it should never be for­ dependents. Among the typical benefits gotten that they are the result of provided by the SIU welfare many hard-fought battles which plan which a Seafarer and his were waged by you and your family may depend on are hospi­ Union. �SEdFAREnS rase Sis It, lift LOG (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SW Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) Ship Activify May 23-June 5, 1964 The SIU shipping situation continued to show improve­ ment during the past two weeks as a total of 1,211 men were dispatched. The total for the previous reporting period was 1,198. The improved job picture represented increases in the number of openings in the engine and steward departments. Registration also showed a healthy rise, increasing to 1,340 for all three departments from last period's total of l]226. Every department showed evidence of the increase which has "been brought about by the optimistic job pic­ ture. The number of men registered on the beach also went up to 3,644 from the previous reporting period's total of 3.351. The improved job situation was especially reflected in Baltimore and Norfolk on the East Coast. Although the number of job calls in New York declined from the figure of the previous two weeks, activity there continues at a high level. Mobile showed the biggest improvement among the Gulf ports while San Francisco was the only place on the West Coast where activity picked up sig­ nificantly. The rising number of available jobs was further re­ flected in the shipping activity statistics (see right). Both the number of payoffs and in-transit ship visits rose over the previous reporting period's total, while the number of sign-ons remained pegged at the same level. The seniority totals indicate that the total of Class A men shipping slipped to 50 percent from the previous total of 53 percent. The percentage of Class B men re­ mained the same at 36 percent, while the Class C totals rose slightly to 14 percent. Pay Sign la Olh Ont Traof. TOTAL 3 4 0 letten 1 40 22 A N«w York 20 1A 3 Philodolphio.. 2 11 24 4 lalHmero .... 6 14 S Norfolk 2 12 2 I 0 Jocktonvlilo .. 1 * 19 0 20 Tampa 1 17 4 A Mobllo 7 20 A Now Orloani.. A 1A 34 Hooitoa A 4 24 WilmiagtoM .. 0 0 10 10 0 Sa« Fraaciico.. A 4 10 B Soattio 4 3 12 TOTALS A2 3A 154 252 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa lUobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS GROUP 3 2 1 3 5 0 51 4 26 10 4 5 5 19 1 7 11 2 0 3 2 0 1 0 10 11 2 28 21 5 28 3 11 6 3 2 8 6 4 10 6 0 113 182 28 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 3 1 i 8 2 • 81 6 17 23 5 1 19 0 5 1 25 0 10 12 3 1 20 0 4 1 3 5, 0 2 1 0 0 0 I 1 1 23 1 9 15 19 1 s*, 0 ! 42 1 10 16 4 1 11 0 3 3 1 18 1 4 9 1 16 1 8 i 323 12 83 106 Shipped CLASS A GROUP ALL 1 2 3 6 2 2 ~0 1 35 6 1 46 10 5 2 1 10 1 19 7 1 22 6 8 1 1 7 3 1 1 1 5 1 oj 1 0 0 ! 6 0 1 "1 5 23 1 34' 18 8 25 2 1 27 16 4 2 1 7 0 4 1 «, 9 11 5 2 1 181 4 1 201' 76 144 35 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 3 2 1 1 1 4 11 8 0 1 0 0 9 7 3 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 1 7 1 4 1 19 13 2 11 11 1 4 1 1 9 8 0 5 5 79 64 12 ALL 1 "4 1 51 1 8 1 ! 32 12 1 1 3 1 1 1 ! 11 49 43 6 24 11 1 255 ALL 3 23 1 16 6 1 2 12 33 1 24 1 6 1 18 1 10 ! 1551 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 2 0 0 6 1 0 2 2 1 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 20 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 4 3 0 7 7 21 8 36 2 3 6 11 16 51 23 16 9 90 77 89 16 182 6 49 72 127 1 3 8 1 3 12 15 20 9 44 1 5 17 23 2 5 32 16 5 53 30 60 7 97 0 15 34 49 2 5 12 6 5 23 19 3 9 31 0 3 5 8 1 1 3 1 5 1 7 16 1 24 1 7 8 16 1 3 1 3 2 6 3 8 3 14 0 1 2 3 5 11 4 12 5 28 27 28 5 60 1 1 13 15 2 3 49 33 3 85 81 79 12 172 0 85 94 129 0 1 43 24 68 46 1 74 16 136 3 33 37 73 0 1' 6 6 13 14 1 13 32 0 7 5 8 15 2 3 24 18 3 45 20 29 5 54 3 6 15 24 0 1 11 10 1 20 5 18 12 36 22 29 54 6 24 1! 47 255 155 47 1 457 375 466 95 1 936] 23 185 321 1 529 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS GROUP 2 1 5 1 12 41 13 2 18 1 2 6 1 4 0 1 8 4 7 27 11 24 6 3 11 2 14 1 50 175 3 1 7 2 5 2 0 0 0 6 2 3 2 1 31 Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 71 0 1 ! 1 5 1 6 0 ' 60 7 25 22 1 54 9 22 6 7: 15 ; 1 5 1 17| 2 14 1 24 1 6 1 21 ' 1 29 3 0 i 10 1 0 7 7 4 1 ! 51 1 4 2 2 1 7 0 1i 0 1 1 0 3 1 4 0 5 1 12; 0 5 5 1 10 4 16 12 1 33 3 1 40 5 19 ' 37 2 5 9 16 1 27 14 1 12, 2 3 6 0 6 1 I 1 15 2 4 3 1 9 7 15 ' 16 0 3 7; 0 8 4 1 256 22 94 90 ' 206 30 133 Shipped CLASS B ALL ! 11 1 36 ; 1 6 1 34 ! 8, 1 21 0 1 0 0 1 3 0 5 0 4 1 0 1 4 3 1 4 1 23 1 1 9 7 1 26 .ri 1 0 26 22 1 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 1! 0 6 17 11 1 34 0 1 01 l! 1 12 111 24 i 0 3 51 8 1 111 2 0 2 111 3 ; 0 9 311 12 1 5 16 101 31 6 16 6 1 28 2 7 2 3 1 3 5 5 1 13 8 1 5 1! 14 24 92 62 1 178 L ® 1 186 ' Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 2 0 1 2 13 0 1 3 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 3 0 4 0 0 1 6 1 0 2 0 2 5 39 TOTAL Shipped CLASS 3 ALL A B 0 1 1 1 6 21 36 34 1 2 6 1 2 6 34 24 2 5i 8 8 1 2 2 2 1 1 0 3 41 ^ 1 12 5 1 26 1 31 0 1 22 28 6 13 7 7 1 3 26 13 0 14 2, 9 22 1 66 186 178 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP C ALL 1 2 3 8 1 1 3 5 1 97 13 21 1 91 39 2 1 9 2 25 5 6 1 64 12 46 7 5 1 21 5 13 3 2 1 6 3 14 0 4 1 2 11 0 4 1 25 10 25 1 5 1 62 22 58 14 1 1 51 16 70 8 8 13 1 27 13 5 3 1 42, 10 35 5 2 1 25, 10 23 3 66 1 430 148 424 65 GROUP ALL 1 2 3 ALL 3 7 11 1 14 1 46 56 121 1 149 19 23 1 32 1 10 12 39 1 65 2 15 22 8 7 17 1 21 2 20 1 17 2 12 6 0 1 2 1 3 1 0 9 10 19 1 36 40 62 104 1 94 2 72 1 94 6 21 45 7 4 14 1 26 3 7 16 6 1 50 3 21 1 36 3 12 6 1 637 45 186 248 1 479 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port 1-s Bos NY Phil Bal . .... Nor Jac Tam Mob NO 1 7 0 2 1 2 0 2 3 0 0 1 2 Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS 21 Registered CLASS B GROUP 3 1 2 3 0 1 18 10 26 3 2 4 5 8 4 5 3 2 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 10 9 4 24 9 6 13 7 1 1 2 5 10 2 1 6 2 82 39 90 GROUP 1 2 3 0 0 3 4 3 19 0 1 4 3 0 9 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 10 1 1 25 2 1 15 0 4 1 3 18 0 2 3 2 11 0 1 232 14 8 100 ALL ! 5 1 61 1 9 ! 19 ! 11 1 4 ' 2 1 22 1 40 1 26 1 1 1 : ALL 1-s 3 0 1 1 26 6 1 5 0 1 12 4 1 8 0 1 0. 0 1 0 0 1 11 2 1 27 1 4 1 18 1 1 4 0 5 1 1 3 1 1 I 122 19 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 0 3 14 9 32 0 0 1 1 7 2 10 23 9I 3 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 5 11 10 2 29 45 12 4 10 27 0 0 2 2 5 3 1 10 2 0 1 4 52 14 '79 i 164 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B TOTAL Shipped CLASS GROUP GROUP 3 ALL A B c ALL 1-s 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 2 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 0 1 2 0 16 12 3 60 20 0 13 0 11 12 32 16 1 0 3 4 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 17 4 17 8 9 49 9 2 11 1 0 9 23 6 7 22 4 1 4 6 0 6 7 9 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0 2 2 0 2 2 0 10 10 j 0 0 3 3 11 3 24 6 1 9 0 61 17 15 1 0 15 ! 0 0 1 1 ' 45 ,2 13 54 13 18 18 1 0 0 9 1 27 9 0 9 2 16 4 3 10 4 4 4 4' 0 1 4' 2 0 0 7 8 10 6 8 24 9 0 0 6 61 0 1 7 4 4 4 4 4 12 0 0 0 4 4 0 8 84 1 100 3 2 55 1 60 164 100 60 1 324 18~ 8 GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 2 3 ALL 2 13 1 5 7 6 1 4 1 53 50 33 73 176 5 6 42 14 3 11 5 10 28 0 9 29 66 3 2 24 21 '11 25 15 3 6 19 0 6 2 13 7 3 8 0 4 3 1 1 0 1 3 6 1 0 3 0 10 48 1 0 9 20 7 15 34 22 66 139 6 4 121 131 80 6 5 31 42 32 13 22 8 4 5 5 17 3 1 3 66 0 8 3 11 6 35 16 36 33 6 5 25 8 4 14 35 297 1 364 208 114 279 1 699, 32 SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS "GKOUF 123 ALL 113 182 28 I 323 50 175 31 I 256 103 39 90 I 232 266 396 149 r 811 Registered CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS A GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 12 83 106 201] 76 J44 35 T_255 22 94 90 206 30_ 133 23 I 186 8 100 122 71 14 79 I 164 14 48 185 296 j 529 177 291 137 | 605 SHIPPED CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED CLASS GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 123 ALL ABC 47 255 155' 47 20 24 12 79 64 155 'l86 178 66 39 22 '24 92 62 178 60 164 100 60 2 55 8' "8 84 100 3 44 179 210 | 433 11' 61 101 i 173 605 433 173 Registered On The Beach CLASS 8 CLASS A GROUP GROUP ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 457 375 466 95 I 936 23 185 321 I 529 430 148 424 65 | 637 '45 186 248 | 479 I 324'306 114 279 6991 32 35 297~r364 |1211>829 1004 439 12272,100 406 866 |1372 �It. IMt SF Authorities Planning Dock Redevelopment SEAFARERS LOG Baltimore SlU To Get Lifeboat Training Program BALTIMORE—Plans are underway for the extension of the SIU Lifeboat Training Program to this port in the near future. The SIU already offers a Lifeboat Training Program in New York. The purpose of the school is to prepare SIU members for the Coast Guard's examination in lifeboat handling. The program here is expected to get started in the summer and will be patterned SAN FRANCISCO — The Port after the course now being conducted in New York. Authority here has announced The SIU Lifeboat School in New York is the only school of its plans for the -redevelopment of the kind on the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and it provides a minimum abandoned Ferry Building slips. of 15 hours of classroom work and 30 hours of actual experience Cyril Magnin, the Authority in the water. Films, booklets and charts plus dry runs in rigging, chairman, said that In addition to boat-handling, procedures and commands provide background for the dock redevelopment, the sur­ the actual testing and work in the water. plus property area north of Ferry Experience in the boat is designed to weld the trainees into Building Is to be rebuilt. a crew of Seafarers able to give and execute the commands that "We still need the good piers may, one day, save lives. The program was expanded several yet," he said, noting that Piers 1, years ago to Include instruction covering Inflated lifeboats, which 15, 17, 29, 31, 33, 35 and 45 still are now Coast Guard approved. have a long life ahead of them. The SIU's Lifeboat Training Program Is fully accredited by the The natural trend Is to the south CG, and trainees need only three months' seatlme for a lifeboat of Market, Magnin said, explaining ^ endorsement instead of the usual year. Seafarers make up the that the Authority Is spending '• largest group of seamen passing, due to the effectiveness of the most of Its development money in training they receive. that area. In addition to the new Classroom work for the Baltimore Training Program will take Army Street Terminal now under place In the Baltimore SIU Hall and work in the water will be construction, another giant new conducted at a site still to be determined. terminal will be needed In that area and Pier 50 needs expansion, Magnin declared. The biggest problem facing the House Committee To Act port Is finance, the Authority chief said. "At best we're happy to break even, since ours Is the only local facility In the United States that doesn't receive a subsidy." He pointed out that the Authority has cut expenses by $1 million for the past four years and that the Army Street bonds will be paid for out WASHINGTON—Hearings by the House Merchant Marine of the Increased revenues. Although the new facilities will and Fisheries Committee on the Federal Maritime Commis­ Increase revenue, Magnlh does not sion's implementation of 1961 dual rate legislation has been foresee the port regaining the sta­ set by chairman Herbert C."^" tus it held In the bay area back Bonner (D-NC). The long protects US shipping, is to be in the 1920s because of the number awaited action will begin on eliminated completely from the of subsidized ports In the area. dual rate contracts. July 7. It has been Magnln's belief that Even at this. It was made clear Both US and foreign maritime the City of San Francisco should that the foreign steamship compa­ circles have been hoping for a take over the port. "But there are nies and shipowners may not ac­ problems here. The city would new look at the dual rate amend­ cept the agreement once It is ments to the 1916 Shipping Act have to take over the bonded In­ outlined to them by their govern­ debtedness or the legislature which were enacted Into law by ment spokesmen that they still Congress in 1961. The FMC an­ would have to pay for it from gen­ nounced the form that dual rate retain the right to object to any eral fees" he said. contracts were to take to be used in Interference by the US with the US foreign trade In April this freedom of their shipowners and year and immediately elicited an shipping. outcry from 10 leading European maritime nations and Japan, all members of steamship confer­ ences. A steamship conference is a voluntary association made up of American and foreign lines serving on the same trade route and inter­ ested in maintaining the same . SAN FRANCISCO — The color­ WASHINGTON — Secretary of rates and practices. ful boat-trains of the late 1920s Still Not Happy Commerce Luther Hodges has ap­ proved a Maritime Subsidy Board A meeting here in mid-May be­ and 1930s, which carried Hawaiidecision deferring action on the tween Commission Chairman John bound passengers to dockslde to SlU-contracted Bloomfleld Steam­ Harllee and foreign shipping board the SlU-Paclflc District ship Company's request for a 20 attaches resulted In a compromise contracted Mat.son liners, will run year agreement on an operating of sorts In which the FMC agreed again between Los Angeles and differential subsidy on trade route to remove "jurisdictional" lan­ San Francisco next fall. 21. Matson Lines has arranged with guage from the contracts which Bloomfleld had requested the was objectionable to the foreign Southern Pacific Railway to run Secretary of Commerce to review nations. special trains from the Los and reverse the Subsidy Board de­ The foreigners are still far Angeles Union Station right to cision handed down In February, from satisfied, seeing US dual Matson's Pier 35, passing over the which extended Bloomfleld's sub­ rate regulations as yet another tracks of the State Belt Railroad, sidy operation on Trade Route 21 attempt of the FMC unilaterally which serves the San Francisco for only one year. Bloomfleld to police international ocean Embarcadero. The special cruise-boat train had sought a 20-year-pact for shipping. The foreign shipping of­ operations on the US Gulf-Unlted ficials hope that Bonner's hearing will pick up Lurline passengers Kingdom/European Continent will give them a chance to go on at Glendale, Santa Barbara, San route. At the time of its decision, record against such US policies. Luis Obispo, Salinas and San Jose the Subsidy Board had stated that The countries involved are en route to shipside. It is sched­ the subsidy extension was granted Belgium, Holland, the United uled to arrive at dockslde at 7 PM, so that the Board could study in Kingdom, Italy, Sweden, Norway, In time for cruise passengers to greater detail its present subsidy Denmark, West Germany, France, have dinner aboard the ship, which sails for Honolulu at 10 PM. contract with Bloomfleld. Greece and Japan. The Lurline will visit each port The Subsidy Board action was Because not all shippers are the first time that the board had conference members, a dual sys­ at the peak of Makahiki festivities, deferred a decision on renewal of tem of rates exists and It is these including the colorful whaling a subsidy contract in order to grant dual rates on which the FMC Is spree at Lahaina on Maui. After visiting the Islands of an opportunity for comment and attempting to fix its regulatory Oahu, Hawaii, Kauai and Maul, possible public hearing. eye. Bloomfleld has already advised With the FMC still seeking the Lurline will sail to Los the Maritime Administration that "voluntary compliance" with Its Angeles to arrive Nov. 13. The it wishes to withdraw its applica­ regulatory orders, the foreign boat-train will be alongside Mattion for an operating differential shippers continue to drive a hard son's terminal at Wilmington, subsidy to operate on TR 13, which bargain. Consequently, under the waiting to carry San Francisco covers an operation from the US recently reached "tentative agree­ bound passengers and their bag­ Gulf to the Mediterranean, and ment," much language which gage up the coast. The entire Makahiki Festival on TR 12 from the US Gulf to the stresses the control of the FMC and the 1916 Shipping Act, which cruise is scheduled for 15 days. Far East. Dual Rate Hearings Set For Early July Defer Action On Bfoomfield Subsidy Bid Boat-Trains To Run On West Coast By Earl (Bull) Shtpord, Vice-President, Atlantic East Coast Shipping Looks Good The shipping situation in New York has been extremely good in the first part of June. During the last two weeks there were 20 pay­ offs, six sign-ona and 22 ships in transit. Kenny Singh was on the beach for a short time in New York after paying off the Detroit. However, the big city evidently doesn't im­ press him since he didn't waste much time before he signed on the Ellzabethport as ship's electrician. C. Gauthier who recently paid off the Thetis where he sailed as a BR, came around to the New York Hall the other day to say a few words of greeting. Taking it easy while he enjoys a couple of weeks with his family is A. Scaturnie, who just got off the Afoundria. The shipping picture in Boston has been shaping up fairly slow for the past few weeks, although the warm weather Is expected to perk things up in the near future. Summer boats should start making their crew calls In the next two weeks, and this should clear a good number of our Beantown brothers off the beach. Joe Garello dropped around the Boston hall to say how glad he Is to be back home after paying off the Chilore. .Joe is looking for a steward's job on a coastwise ship, since he wants to stay close to the mainland for the summer. Bill Connerty who just got back from Russia on the Fort Hosklns, sayshe is really happy about getting for all ratings In every depart­ back home to see his family. He ment, and in some cases there plans to get a ship bound for haven't been enough men available Europe as an FWT. John Roblee to answer the calls. Norfolk has is also getting re-acquainted with seen two pay-offs, two sign ons his family after a voyage to Rus­ and eight In transit visits during sia. John has big plans for the the past two weeks. The job situ­ summer and wants to ship out ation for the future continues to when the fall rolls around. John look very good. Kulas has been telling his friends Seafarers around the Norfolk In the Boston hall how sorry he hall have been listening to Ferlton was to leave the Mt. Washington Mears tell about his big vacation which he claims Is just like a plans. After paying off the Jean hotel. He expects to sign on one LaFitte, he picked up a whopping of the summer boats making the .$.500 cheek which was compensa­ Provincetown runs. tion for losing his gear when the Shipping down Baltimore way Taddei Village went on the rocks looks very good after slowing down off the coast of Japan. a bit for a few weeks. A total Back From Russia of 89 men shipped out and there Edward Blevlns is another Sea­ were six pay-offs, four sign ons and 14 in transit visits. The ship­ farer who is happy to be back ping outlook for the next few in the States after returning from weeks is expected to continue Russia on the Marore where he shipped as quartermaster. Jack good. .Mauldin has turned up in Norfolk Some Seafarers just can't seem to look for a good BR job. Jack to get enough of a ship. Mike iisuallyNships out of Balltmore, but Angino who has just spent six has decided to try his luck further months on the Bethtex is In town south. Walter Butterton is also on for a short vacation. He has been the beach looking for a bosun's passing the word around the hall job to come through. He has re­ that he's going to try and get the covered from an ailment which same run again. Dan Cherry is laid him up when he was sailing another familiar face that has on the Morning Light. shown up In Baltimore lately. Dan Shipping in Puerto Rico is mov­ reports that chief engineer Fisher ing along in the same steady on the Alcoa Voyager was the best fashion. Twelve men shipped out chief that he ever sailed with. He in the past week and there ap­ sailed on the Voyager as second pears to be a shortage of wipers electrician. to fill engine department calls. Shipping fell off In Philadelphia Island officials have been studying during the past month with a total a plan with officers from Sea-Land of 34 jobs being filled off the to make Puerto Rico into a huge board. The port recorded a total shipping hub which would Include of two pay-offs, three sign ons Europe, Latin America, the Carib­ and 11 in transits in the last two- bean and the mainland. week period. Delmar MIssimer Luis Carbone came down for a took a few weeks' vacation to make couple of weeks of relaxation after a scientific survey of the situation spending almost a year on the New at neighboring tracks. It seems Orleans. He reports he is about that science couldn't provide him ready to ship again. Enrique with the answers he was looking Rosado, who spent the last six for since he says, "I fed the horses months as a steward on the De­ at Garden State and Delaware. troit Is also taking a vacation in So now I have to ship to get more San Juan for a while. oats." P. Dorrian says that he enjoys sitting around the air conditioned hall In Philadelphia. He says that he'll ship on the first air condi­ tioned ship that comes along, and until then, he'll keep on rooting for the first place Phillies. Charles Palmer reports he picked up his pumpman's card during this stretch on the beach. Charles de­ clares that he's looking forward to using his new rating at the very first opportunity. Frank Fasaluk who Is taking a while on the beach after finishing eight months on the St. Christopher as an AB, has these timely words of advice for his SIU brothers. "Support the union label in everything you buy." The shipping situation in Nor­ folk has taken a decided turn for the better. There are job openings �rte Eifht SEAFARERS Ju* U, INI LOG :sst; IS: Text of President's Pre-Balloting Report quired under Article X, Section 1 (e) of our Constitution, that the following offices be placed on the next refer­ endum ballot of the Union for the election of the officers and other elected representatives of the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters Districts. The President's pre-balloting report, submitted in advance of this year's union elections In ac­ cordance with the requirement of the SIU Consti­ tution, is in the process of submission to the membership for its action at the July regular membership meetings in all constitutional ports. The report, which specifies the number of union officers that are to appear on the ballot, the requirements for candidate eligibility and other balloting details, was adopted at the headquarters meeting of June 8, as recommended in the Secre­ tary-Treasurer's report below. The report will be submitted and acted on at the other regular membership meetings to be held this month. The lext of the report follows: HEADQUARTERS: 1 President 1 Executive Vice-President 1 Secretary-Treasurer 1 Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters 3 Headquarters Representatives PRESIDENT'S PRE-BALLOTING REPORT Under the Constitution of our Union, the Seafarers NEW YORK: 1 Agent International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, 10 Joint Patrolmen Lakes and Inland Waters District, Article X, Section 1 (e), the President shall submit a pre-balloting report at PHILADELPHIA: the regular meeting in July of every election year. The 1 Agent Constitution of our Union also calls for seven (7) Con­ 2 Joint Patrolmen stitutional ports of the Union, which are; New York, BALTIMORE: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston 1 Agent and Detroit. 4 Joint Patrolmen As your President, in consultation along with the Ex­ MOBILE: ecutive Board of the Union, a careful appraisal has been 1 Agent made as to what we feel will be the needs of the 4 Joint Patrolmen organization in all the Constitutional ports, Including the NEW ORLEANS: port of New York and Headquarters, for the coming term 1 Agent of office of the officers and other elected representatives 4 Joint Patrolmen of our Union. Since the Constitution provides for seven (7) Constitutional Ports it was felt that it was advisable - HOUSTON; 1 Agent to place on the ballot the elective jobs of those ports. 4 Joint Patrolmen Where necessary, the personnel for other than the Con­ DETROIT: stitutional Ports may be assigned as needed from those 1 Agent Constitutional Ports, where possible. As the membership is aware, it is necessary for the Union to keep abreast Your President also recommends, pursuant to Article X, of the changes in the shifting of the job requirements Section 1 (e) and Article XIII, Section 4 (e) of the Union's of the companies with whom we have contracts, as well Constitution, the depository to which the Polls Com­ as in being prepared to meet the opportunities for ex­ mittee's shall deliver, or mail, by certified or registered pansion through the means of organizing. This will enable mail, the ballots after the close of each days voting in the Union to maintain maximum services to the member­ the coming Union election, be as follows: ship, and to meet the needs of the organization resulting Mr. Harold Bach, Executive Vice-President from the changing character of the industry. Commercial Bank of North America As a result of the foregoing, it is the recommendation 1400 Broadway of your President, in this, the Pre-Balloting Report, re­ New York City, New York It will be the function of the depository to receive all the envelopes delivered, or mailed in, as aforesaid, safeguard them properly, in the bank, and to aurrendtf them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Oom« mittee in accordance with Article XIII, Section B (d), of our Union Constitution, on or about the first businesf day in January, 1965. Proof of authorization shall be g certification by the Vice-President in charge of the Min­ utes, Robert Matthews. The Union Tallying Committee shall be authorized to sign a receipt for the said envelopes. The depository shall be requested to certify that all the envelopes received by the depository have been properly safeguarded, have been surrendered only to the said Tallying Committee, and that no one, other than appro­ priate bank personnel have had access to them. The Polls Committee is especially urged to insure tha^ whether delivered or mailed, the envelopes are properly addressed, properly stamped if mailed, and certified as per the Constitution. It is the further recommendation of your President that. In addition to the regular Constitutional requirements, each candidate for office be requested to furnish a regula­ tion passport picture of recent taking as well as a state­ ment of not more than one hundred (100) words, giving a brief summary of his Union record and activities, such picture and statement to be run in the Seafarers Log just prior to the commencement of voting. This is to be done in accordance with previous membership action to familiarize the membership with the names, faces, and records of all candidates for office. As provided for in Article XIII, Section 1, nominations open on July 15th, 1964 and close August 15th, 1964. All documents required for eligibility of candidates for Union office must reach Headquarters no earlier than July 15th, 1964 and no later than August 15th, 1964. Your President wishes to point out that this PreBalloting Report provides for one of the largest number of elective posts to be placed on the ballot since the inception of the Union. It is strongly recommended that the maximum number of qualified members, who feel they can be of assistance to the Union in an official capacity, should submit their credentials. In this connec­ tion, the membership is reminded that the SecretaryTreasurer, A1 Kerr, is available to assist them in properly filing their credentials for nomination to Union office, if they desire such assistance. Fraternally submitted, Paul Hall Secretary-Treasurer's Report To The Membership: FORTHCOMING ELECTION OF OFFICERS-ADDITIONS TO VOTING PROCEDURES (The following is the text of an excerpt from the Secretary-Treasurer's report to the regular member­ ship meeting at SIU headquarters on April 6 and again on May 4 entitled, "Forthcoming Election Of Officers —Additions To Voting Procedures." The report was also forwarded to other constitutional ports for action at their meetings in April and May. The report was concurred in at all meetings.) Article XIII, Section 7 of our constitution reads as follows: "The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union." Therefore, in accordance with the above-mentioned sec­ tion and after consulting with and being advised by coun­ sel, it is found that additions to our voting procedures for the election of officers are required by law. Therefore, under the powers delegated to me by our constitution, in the aforementioned section, I am setting up the follow­ ing additions in our balloting procedure for officers. President's Pre-Balloting Report. Article X, Section 1, "The President," Sub-Section (e), provides that the President's Pre-Balloting Report shall be submitted to the membership at the regular meeting m July of every election year. It is recommended to the membership in this connection that such Pre-Balloting Report be made both at the June and July meetings so as to give more than adequate notice to any prospective nominee for office. Provision for Nomination by Others. Article XIII, Section 1, "Nominations," provides for selfnomination to office. In order to square any ambiguity as to the meaning of this section, it is recommended that a member may place his name in nomination or have his name placed in nomination by any other member and further, that in either event, such member nominated must comply with the provisions of the constitution, as they are set forth, relating to the submission of creden­ tials. This change is an amplification of the existing pro­ visions of the constitution and should not be construed to be an alteration of same. Absentee Ballot. Article XIII, Sections 3 and 4, "Balloting Procedures" and "Polls Committee," of the constitution, provide that balloting shall be manual in nature. It is now recom­ mended that the following absentee ballot procedure be presented to the membership upon advice of counsel as an amplification of such provisions: Full book members may request an absentee ballot un­ der the following circumstances, only. While such member is employed on an American-flag merchant vessel which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is to take place during the voting period provided in Section 3 (g) of our constitution, in that event, the member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request Is made, if such be the case. Such request must contain a designa­ tion as to the address to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be received no later than 12:00 PM on the fifteenth day of November of the election year and shall be directed to the Secretary- Treasurer at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, New York. Upon receipt of such request, the procedures as established in Section 3 (d) of our constitution, shall not apply. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for deter­ mining whether such member is a member in good stand­ ing and further whether such member has, in fact, voted previously. He shall send the processed ballot by Regis­ tered Mail-Return Receipt Requested to the address des­ ignated by such member in his absentee ballot request. The Secretary-Treasurer shall send to such member with his ballot, instructions for returning the ballot, which instructions must be complied with exactly. The Secfetary-Treaurer shall further maintain a record showing the name, book number of the member, his ballot number and the date upon which such hallot was sent, which in­ formation shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article XllI, Section 5 (c) of the constitution. The member, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent jnailing device at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if such be the case, to the depository named in the Presi­ dent's Pre-Balloting Report. These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to midnight of December 31, 1964, and must be received by the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Re­ port, prior to January 10, 1965, regardless of when post­ marked, for them to be counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be maintained separately by such depository and shall then be turned over to the Union Tallying Com­ mittee, as provided in Section 5 (d) of Article XIII of the constitution. �Ian* 12, 1964 SEAFARERS LOG rate NiM i i The Seafarers International Union had three booths at this year's Union Industries show displaying many of its consumer items, such as Cal-Pack products and Breast-O-Chiclcen tuna, both from the West Coast. The MTD set up its display in a fourth booth. Together, the displays gave the public a good idea of the scope and activities of the SlUNA In action. The 19t1i annual AFL-CiO Union industries Show in Louisville, Kentucky played host to thousands of visitors during its six-day run last month. The title of this year's show, produced by the Union Label and Service Trades Department of the AFL-CIO, was "Americans At Work." The SlUNA played a prominent port in the show with displays of SlUNA consumer products, exhibits explaining the functions of the Union and a special booth devoted to the Maritime Trades Department. Shown here are several of the SlUNA activities at the show. I-'':.'.- yi-Av A Louisville orphanage received gift of Breast-O-Chicken tuna, made by SlU cannery workers and bearing the Union label. Shown above are (l-r) AFL-CIO asst. reg. dir. Arthur Potter; AFL-CIO sec.-treas., William Schnitzler; SlU sec.-treas. Al Kerr; Union LabeLDept. pres. Richard Walsh; Union Label Dept. sec. Joe Lewis; and Labor Undersec. John Henning, who made the presentation to the delegation from the Catholic orphange. Formal opening of the Union Industries Show, at left, shows AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer William Schnitzler at the micro­ phone with officers of the Union Label & Service Trades De­ partment and guests on the platform with him. Thousands viewed exhibits of union made products and learned about union services. NAMB AMOUNT DUB Ingalls. R. B. Reibus, A. Feinstein. A. Tukey, S. N.. Jr. Hunt. E. R. Ryan. W. Jf. Fernandez. C. Lapham. E. J. Smith. L. H. Probert. R. Rivera. J. Wing. C. H. Gonzalez. A. Arancibia. A. Morey. P. T. Roesch, W.. Jr. Perez. C. R. Rodriguez, L. ' Volketrs, R. A. Delvalle. P. Garofalo. A. Padro. P. Rons. S. Velazquez. J. Wesley, J. Fulton. W. Glass. K. J. Whitney. V. Kamm. E. Yeiinerod. A. H. Jacobs. A. E. Rueda, S. J. Jansen. ~D. R. Soto, J. Reinvelt, R. K. Badyk, J. Irvine. M. D. Cortes. J. Anderson, C. J, Cobb. P. C. Rosado. T. A. . Silva. A. J. Coyle. J. Gonzalez. 6. Sanchez, M. Marie. A. J. Cruz. E. McLaughlin. A. J. 1.4a 5.21 1.97 4.63 4.44 2.43 8.34 3.61 6.81 .19 2.96 4.42 7.17 2.93 8.06 3.72 2.09 4.70 3.14 10.88 > 4.79 3.33 8.88 2.26 7.48 2.96 4.81 2.25 3.04 2.58 4.23 4.67 9.08 7.78 2.49 3.68 3.55 2.74 7.29 10.62 2.14 8.08 6.91 2.04 2.03 10.54 4.91 12.00 NAMB AMOUNT DUB Sarmento. 1^. St. John,. J. Rodriguez, R. O. Aguiar, J. Carbona, L. Peiz, S. H. Moraiea. R. Gogias, A. J, Ayaia, J. Fiores. J. Deigado, M. Lopez. O. J. Martinez. C. Berena, R. Q. Adamson, R. Valentin, J. Serrao, J. Meade, J. R. Thompson, O. Soils. F. Blanch, N. Muniz, F. Tibbetts, R. B. Smith. J. W. Nelson, A. T. Reyes. J. Eland, K. De Sa. J. A. Harford. H. R. Echevarria, A. Werner, J. C. Pacheco. F. J. Brown. K. E. Rosado, R. E. Kirs. O. Sierra, R. R. Latorre. P. • Luiidkvist, K. T. Boniila, E. J. Nieves, J. Riecheison, H. Nielsen. R. Vidai. M. R. Medina, L. Diaz. M. C. Molina, J. Miliar, S. j. Righetti, J. 3.43 4.92 4.32 5.18 3.60 9.00 2.18 4.89 6.90 3.99 2.19 5.06 2.34 12.33 5.22 5.66 9.01 1.11 5.53 1.13 8.60 2.19 4.30 2,78 4.62 2.59 4.82 6.09 2.43 4.75 1.71 3.34 7.15 3.73 3.55 2.30 2.20 9.58 4.34 6.26 2.89 1.99 4.81 5.64 5.38 2.91 2.84 4.04 SEA-LAND Money Due The names listed here of Seafarers vjith money due from SlU-contracted Sea Land Service are in addition to those printed in the May 29 issue of the LOG. The names appearing here were received after the last LOG went to press and are printed now in their entirety. NAMB A.MOUNT DUB Garrison, B. J, Loorents. H. Kariak, A. S. Lewin, P. Rivera, B. Cortes, E. Mojica, C. Case. A. Zaieski. A. Vonis. J. V. Mucia. J. Broomhead, W. R. Powell, E. Meie, A. A. PadiUo, E. 2.62 12.78 11.23 2.60 4.40 .87 2.16 2.06 3.69 18.46 8.69 3.35 5.11 5.49 3.21 NAMB AMOUNT DUB Cunningham, L. J. Cruz. J. Bonefont, E. Passapera, A. Quinonez. G. F. Daniiuk, A. Franklin. E. W. Mersereau. E. W Fernandez, J. Gill. L. Reyes. J. Campbell. R. D. Boggs, C. Hetterlch. P. W. Zaragoza, R. 4.59 3.79 3..37 1.17 3.11 2.19 6.28 17.29 7.56 1.13 10.34 2.22 10.67 2.14 8.61 NAMB AMOUNT Blyth. R. Gonzalez. T. D. Gorsh. N. Tokarchuk. F. Di Sarno. T. R. May, J. J. Passo, L. Averiil, D. A. Andrew, C. Bullock, J. Burlingame. L. Berens. G. R. Beye. J. J. Jr. Biss. E. Blacklock. R. L. Bozricki. C. Boyne. F. Brown. J. Q. Callazo. W. Campbell. L. D. Carlson, J. W. Carpenter, A. Cartwright, L. W Cuda. P. Chang, G. Collins. E. Cook. J. 1. Krisch. C. I. La Boberte, M. Linden, C. Loper, J. Lord. F. A., Jr. Murphy. J. J. Mazuk. F. C. McAlpine, G. Mills. G. Morales. C. I. Morales. I. Morin. H. Mazaris. J. . H. C. Nelson Woi. J. A. White Williams. E. Wright. R. J. Vakavonis. V. J. Zabala. F. C. Zablozkl, S. DUB NAME 10.86 8.42 10.52 3.29 8.00 9.47 1.70 2.66 1.01 2.19 2.08 2.09 2.92 4.30 .55 .25 .46 .90 1.71 .23 1.63 1.98 3.31 .87 4.38 .18 2.89 1.15 .27 1.03 1.28 .12 2.49 3.04 .98 .21 1.39 1.08 .36 1.50 2.18 1.74 .99 .02 .38 .13 .53 2.39 Zal. C. K. Strand. W. Nelson. R. Campbell. D. Usher. U. .4berson, C. Schaiter. V. Morgan. E. Hoke. J. Lewine. A. Smith. W. Woods. R. W. Rogers. B. Blades. P. Lewin. P. Streeter. M. Chisler. E. Hethington. E. Russell. F. Brotherton. F. Hall. D. Sniyln. J. Bonna. P. Hetterlch. W. Biair. J. Derboghosian, J. Hruz. H. \^>n. K. Sheppard. L. Shields. K. Alkire. J. Deigado. M. Wingfield. J. Campbell. D. Reed. R. C. Swanson. G. Kreitler, J. Matir I. Campbell. D. I.ewin. P. Gil Simpson, B. 1. Given. N. 0. Gibson. B. J. . Dillon. R. Kane. E. V. Rivera. A. Tones. P. J. AMOUNT DUB 1.39 157.56 14.65 18.21 8.44 43.45 26.40 14.15 5.45 9.86 70.11 8.95 11.12 37.4j> 9.42 32.77 31.77 9.27 18 51 53.15 13 48 23.48 12.14 57.66 18.41 28.63 21.00 49.42 98.33 727 10.28 34.82 .68 63.01 23.11 13.80 261.15 5.78 39.04 105.95 29.64 3.62 47.25 13.08 .12 2.47 81.13 2.77 �SEAFARERS Paf« Ten Speaking Out By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS Sea-Land Increases Puerto Rico Service ELIZABETH, NJ—The SlU-contracted Sea-Land Service Inc., has announced a new weekly service from all points in Puerto Rico to Jacksonville Fla, The service is part of SeaLand's expanding trade with-*— Puerto Rico and began on pany'a Increased US-Puerto Rican June 6 with the arrival of the service which now includes regu­ Beware Cheap Health Policies Rising costs of hospital and medical care are leading moderate-income families—young as well as older people—to buy seemingly cheap health policies which actually provide little worthwhile insurance. Deceptive practices of some insurance sellers were spotlighted by hospital administrators in recent hearings by the U.S. Senate Sub­ committee on Frauds Affecting the Elderly. The deceivers sometimes use names similar to those of reputable companies; they advertise heavily, urging you to "Protect Yourself"; often they use the mails to invade states in which they are not licensed; sometimes they avoid paying any benefits at all, and when they do, the benefits often are pitifully inadequate. Jack Owen, Director of the New Jersey Hospital Association, told about one man who was hospitalized and told the admitting desk he had insurance in a large insurance company for complete hospitalization, and had paid the premiums for the past two years. He thought he had insurance with the well-known Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S. But scrutiny of the policy revealed it was with a smaller com­ pany which also had the word "Equitable" in its name. It turned out that it was not a complete hospitalization policy, but limited payments to $15 a week. The patient's hospital bill came to $603, of which the Insurance company paid exactly $27. In another case, a patient had been paying $124 a year in premiums to a small company for what was claimed to be complete hospitalization insurance. When he had to be hospitalized, the insurance company was contacted but refused to respond either to the hospital or the patient. The patient's family finally paid the hospital bill without ever hearing from the insurance carrier. Another hospital filed a claim in November, 1963, on behalf of a patient. The claim still has not been acknowledged. Letters to the company have been returned and phone calls have gone unanswered although premiums still can be paid to the address. In a subsequent interview, Owen told this reporter that such deceptive policies hit not only older people but younger ones; that in general it is lower-income people anxious for health protection who get caught by the Insurance deceivers. The hospitals are concerned because often patients believe the hospital is collecting from the insurance company and trying to collect from them too, for the same bill. "When an unscrupulous agent tells a prospective client he will have full hospitalization and then only pays $10 or $15, the patient doesn't understand why he received an additional bill," Owen says. His group of hospitals has been having trouble with seven companies In particular at this time; three in New Jersey, one in Michigan, one in Massachusetts, one in New York, another in Delaware. Others have been reported, by other agencies, and Senator Harrison A. Williams (D., N.J.) chairman of the subcommittee, reports receiving many com­ plaints from people who are sometimes "hopelessly confused" about policies they bought. Often these policies have failed them when they most needed hospital or medical insurance. Senator Williams noted. One of the most active mail sellers is Guarantee Reserve Life Ineurance Company of Hammond, Indiana which advertises that "only three cents puts this great hospital sickness and accident insurance in force for 30 days to protect you and your family." The Better Business Bureau of Akron, Ohio reported that many inquirers expressed skepticism about this company's claim of "America's greatest insurance value." After a study, the bureau said "the advertising has the capacity to deceive the average, trusting reader—making the protection appear to be much greater." The BBB pointed out that the policy is highly limited in its coverage of only specified types of accidents and illness, and "the policyholder is likely to find that he has no protection for the ordinary, common accidents or the usual illnesses." The Federal Trade Commission recently cited this company for "misrepresenting the benefits provided by its policies." For example, benefits are provided for "confining sickness disability" only if the Insured person is wholly prevented from transacting any and every kind of business or labor. As for claim that three cents puts the policy in force for one month, the FTC pointed out that in reality, the policy provides no indemnifica­ tion for loss from sickne.ss until it has been in force for at least 30 days from the issuance date. Especially revealing to people who may be tempted to buy insurance by mail is the FTC's comment that while this company is licensed to do business in 20 states, as the result of its mail solicitation, it has policyholders in many others. Consequently, the misrepresentations are not regulated by state law in states where the company is not licensed. Some other mail sellers are not even licensed in as many as 20 states. Several other mail sellers recently active in promoting seemingly cheap policies are domiciled in Ml.ssouri, Nebraska and Illinois. But if seemingly cheap insurance sold by some of the mail-order and other fringe companies is so limited as to be almost useless, the more adequate policies offered older people by the reputable eompanies are so costly as to be virtually financially impossible for the average retired person. Latest in the Senior 65 plans 'a pooled effort by major insur­ ance companies), is "Western 65." Sacramento City Councilman Richard H. Marriott, who also is a labor editor, reports that California unions have been disturbed about the way this plan has been represented. This plan, which is the insurance industry's answer to demands for some degree of hospital insurance under Social Security, shows the Impossibility of such plans for most oldsters. The Western 65 "com­ prehensive" medical and hospital policy costs $23 a month, or $46 for a couple. In comparison, half the older families have incomes of under $2600 a year. Thus, this policy would take about 22 per cent of the total income of these senior citizens and they still would have to pay out of the pocket for dental and eye care, minor illnesses and that portion of their major illnesses not included in the 80 per cent coverage of the policy. Depending on which policy is selected. Western 65 pays up to $20 or $25 a day for up 31 days for hospital care. In comparison, actual hospital charges in major- California cities are about $32 a day. Am* U, IfM LOG Seafarer Lee Arnett hit the deck at a recent regu­ lar monthly meeting in the Port of New York to say « few words on the benefits he recently received from the SlU. freighter Summit from Puerto Rico. The Summit will serve north­ bound Puerto Rico shippers every other week, departing from San Juan on Thursdays and arriving in Jacksonville on Sundays. On alter­ nate weeks, a Sea-Land VP^PI which calls at San Juan on Fri­ days, will deliver cargo destined for Jacksonville on Monday. Regular Service Sea-Land announced that the new service is part of the com- NLRB Examiner Rules Union Need Not Bargain With Management Gronp WASHINGTON—A union has the same right as manage­ ment to withdraw at an appropriate time from bargaining with a group and instead to bargain individually with each employer in the group, a'*^ National Labor Relations Detroit Newspaper Publishers As­ sociation, notified the publishers Board aide has found. Upholding Detroit Printing Press­ men's Local 13 in its right to bar­ gain separately with the Detroit Free Press and the Detroit News, examiner Paul Bisgyer recom­ mended that the newspapers be ordered to bargain collectively with the union in separate bargaining units and, if an understanding Is reached, sign separate contracts. Same Right The decision said Bisgyer, "turns on the novel question whether a labor organization should be ac­ corded the same right as that en­ joyed by employers to withdraw at a proper time from an established multiemployer unit. He concluded that it should, noting that the issue has not been settled by the NLRB or the courts and that the Supreme Court expressly reserved a decision on the point in its Buffalo Linen case permitting emplo.vers to de­ fend themselves against union "whipsaw" strikes. The dispute arose when Local 13, after 25 years of bargaining with the publishers jointly or with their last Dec. 27 that it wanted to nego­ tiate contract changes and asked that negotiations be conducted "separately and Individually," but not jointly. The association refused, and the union filed unfair labor practice charges last Feb. 25. Bisgyer noted that under past board decisions, employers have had to meet two conditions for withdrawing from group bargain­ ing' one, the withdrawal must be timely; second, It must not be a "mere sham or pretense." In this case, he said, Local 13 met both conditions. The examiner pointed out that the newspapers want to maintain group bargaining because this per­ mits them the use of the lockout weapon but "there is certainly nothing fundamentally unlawful" In the union's attempt to strengthen its bargaining position and to re­ gain the iMihampered right to sti'ike. lar Puerto Rico-New York service from San Juan, Ponce and Mayaguez. Sea-Land, which is a pioneer in transporation by ocean-going trallerships, recently started its long planned expansion of trailership operations in Alaska. Alaska Trade Two of the company's C-4 trailerships, the New Orleans and the Mobile, have entered the SeattleAnchorage trade. The two ships have been taken from the Balti­ more-Puerto Rico run and switched to the Pacific coast service. Fol­ lowing the transfer of the two C-4s, two converted C-2 freighters, ths Bienville and the Raphael Semmes, have begun servicing Baltimore, New York and Puerto Rico. Sea-Land has been operating regularly scheduled intercoastal service ' with specialized jumbo containerships since September, 1962, when the first of four ships was brought into service. Previous­ ly, the company had maintained an interim service with modified C-2s. Sea-Land inaugurated its Seat­ tle-Alaska service with a special sailing of the New Orleans from Seattle on May 3, 1964. The vessel arrived In Anchorage May 7 and returned to Seattle May 12. Regular weekly service be­ tween the two ports began May 14, again with the New Orleans, and thereafter a Sea-Land vessel sailed from Seattle every Thurs­ day. Bookings on the new Alaskan service are quite hcavj', according to the company, and are expected to increase as a result of the vast reconstruction program going on in Alaska as an outgrowth of the recent earthquake damage. As a result of the changing pat­ terns of Sea-Land trade routes, the company also said it has applied for permission to change the names of the vessels now assigned to the Alaska route. The New Or­ leans would be changed to the Anchorage, and the Mobile would be called the Seattle. Lifeboat Class #109 Graduates Cuba Blacklist Grows & Grows WASHINGTON — The government's blacklist of free-world ships ineligible to carry aid cargo because they have called at Cuban ports has increased steadily since the li.st was issued more than a year ago, according to the Mari­ time Administration here. The roster for May, issued by the MA, bears the names of 215 ships of 12 nations that have called at Cuban ports with commercial cargoes since the government ban was established in January, 1963. Last month, 209 ships were on the list, in March, 200, and in February 195. In April, 1963, only 60 ships were blacklisted. The list also names 35 vessels of seven countries that have been transferred to the eligible list under agreement that they will not trade with Cuba for the dura­ tion of the US boycott. Another successful group graduating from the SlU's Lifeboat school has photo taken in New York recently. All of the men in the class earned Coast Guard lifeboat tickets. They are (front, l-r) Charles Husted, Andre Merrltt; middle, Oliver L Nqsh, John B. Abroms, Ediiure Edstrom. Peter Dyer, Rus« sell Sultan; standing, instructor Dan Butts, Orville Payne, Chester Lobfr Vo^n Anderson^ end instructor Arne Bjornsson. �Jn« 12. IM4 SEAFARERS PM» LOO We//, Well—Is November That Near? MORE ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS URGED. The AFL-CIO has urged Congress to provide more adequate safeguards for workers at Hartford, Wash., and other atomic installations ^here government operations are being reduced or turned over to private industry. Labor voiced its plea in opposition to a proposed new section of the Atomic Energy Act on disposal of property which fails to provide protection for workers who may be adversely affected "if certain activities now carried on by the AEC are turned over to private business." 4. i 4^ REAPPORTIONMENT LEGISLATION HAILED. Wisconsin AFLCIO ieaders have hailed the action of the state supreme court in reap­ portioning the state's 33 senatorial and 100 assembly districts as the culmination of labor's long fight for such action. Wisconsin AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer George Hall pointed out that labor for many years bas been in the battle to bring about redistricting "to restore the prin­ ciple that one man's vote is equal to any other's." Specifically, the redistricting gave urban areas more seats, hence workers will be more equitably represented. 4" J" 4^ PLANT PIRACY HIT. The practice of plant piracy must be stopped immediately by appropriate legislation according to two representatives, Henry Reuss (D-Wis) and Florence Dwyer (R-NJ). Mrs. Dwyer de­ scribed the practice as one in which a manufacturing company "pulls up stakes from an established industrial community and moves to a less-developed area because of the availability there of non-union labor, lower wages, new buildings at reduced costs, local and state tax exemptions, free or reduced rates for public utilities and frequently some form of federal benefits." t 4. t MEDICARE NEEDED. The country's desperate need for a health Insurance program under the Social Security system was emphasized recentiy by a US Pubiic Health Service report that said that approximateiy 7.7 million Americans past 65 years of age have no health insurance. The USPHS also reported that almost half, or 3.6 million citizens, have incomes of less than $2,000 a year and fall in the Govern­ ment's definition of poverty-stricken. In addition, the agency states that many peopie, mainly the unemployable and those on low fixed incomes, "are unable to afford insurance protection." Reports such as these, also demonstrate again the need for every SIU member to write his representatives in Washington demanding prompt action on the Medicare Biii. >11,'111.II itoiU j s...' ... ^ y.^< . ^ The average American citydweller lives more comfortably on an Income of nearly $6,700 a year, but the US stUl has a "substantial proportion" of low-income families able to "eke out only the barest existence," the US Department of Labor reports. In 1960-1961, an estimated 54 per cent of city and suburban families had incomes between $3,000 and $7,500, but 21 per cent earned less than $3,000, the department said. In the lowincome group, 2.4 per cent were under $1,000, 8.7 per cent between $1,000 and $2,000, and 9.9 per cent from $2,000 to $3,000. 4" 4" 4 The US Court of Appeals for the pistrlct of Columbia has agreed to speed up the process of deciding if the National Labor Relations Board may open and count ballots cast by strikers and strikebreakers at the Kingsport, Tenn., plant of the Kingsport Press. Denying a company request for a restraining order to prevent the NLRB from counting the bal­ lots, the court agreed to expedite the ca.se and directed the court clerk to set as early a date as possible for oral arguments on the appeal. Five unions struck the plant March 11, 1963, in a con­ tract dispute: the Bookbinders, Machinists, Pressmen, Typogra­ phers and Stereotypers. 4 4 4. The first strike of the Teachers Local 1220, East St. Louis. 111., has won for the Illinois Fededatlon of Teachers its first written local contract, whereby the school board •greed to Increase wages by $306,- f x • K\j.r teachers, attendance officers and supervisors. More than 500 union members stayed away from school four days, until the board agreed to sign a contract, referred to as a "memorandum of understand­ ing." The "total victory" for the union and its members was won, the IFT said, despite efforts of 200 non-union teachers to break the strike by walking through the lines at many of the city's 35 school buildings. 4 4 4 The first major hotel contract in Texas has been won by a group of 125 low-paid workers, back on the job after a 54-week strike against against the Plaza Motor Hotel, El Paso. Culinary Local 628 of the Hotel & Restaurant Employees succeeded in getting a contract from new management of the hotei. The new management not only agreed to the return of all strikers to their jobs with no loss of seniority but also provided wage increases ranging from 5 cents an hour for some workers up to $87.50 a month for cooks. 4 4 4 The Communications Workers of America won important economic gains as they concluded a success­ ful 141-day strike against the Gen­ eral Telephone Company in Santa Monica, Calif. The union assured the right of all strikers to return to work as the final major point in the dispute, the third longest in the history of the union. The settle­ ment included a 3.54 percent wage hike for 8,900 company workers, as well as q reduction in the Social Security deduction' from pensions, plus improved vacations and dis- liiiiiai & C AT It's hearts and flowers time along the cam­ paign trail again. Politicians are once again taking to the hustings to remind their con­ stituents that the day of truth, election day, is not far off, and that their support at the polls is once again requested. No doubt, many of our elected officials do a conscentious job in attending to the needs of their constitutents and the public at large. However, many arise from their lethargy only at election time, and stump their district espousing beneficial policies that they have allowed to remain entangled in legislative cobwebs throughout their term. A democracy, unlike other societies, has inherent in its structure the right of citizens to retain or dismiss their elected representa­ tives according to their wishes. This is a good time to do a little research on how your elected representatives have voted on the crucial issues that have come before the House and Senate this year. How did your representatives vote on the various allotments that have been made to aid the impoverished in our country? What are their stands on medical care for the aged, on federal aid to schools and. hous­ ing and the multitude of other issues that effect our everyday life? The instrument of protest is guaranteed for US citizens under the constitution. It is the citizens who have used this right judici­ ously who have brought beneficial legisla­ tive and social change in this country. The average citizen, although he may be remotely removed from the legislative process in Washington, can make his rep­ resentative know his feelings on an issue either through correspondence or the ballot box. I- li .W •n, There is plenty of time between now and election day in November to find out how your representative has voted on important issues. The fact that their are still over 5 million unemployed people in this country is proof enough that there is much to b» done in Washington legislatively. Elected representatives must give their constituents much more that hearts and flowers before this problem and many others that are confronting us can be solved. Figures Speak In the April data sheet issued by the Marltime Administration, more concrete evidence of government apathy towards the decline in the size of the active US merchant fleet was documented. The MA reported that there were 13 fewer vessels active than iA the month preceding the April statistics. There were only 914 ships of 1,000 gross tons and over, the agency said, and they added that there were no new contracts placed and no ships delivered at the start of April 1. These statistics speak for themselves. There has been a lot of hp service tendered in Washington on the subject of aiding the American merchant fleet. Obviously, more than lip service is needed. Meaningful legislation in the form of in­ creased subsidies and other aid are needed if the American-flag fleet is to be a vital and useful arm of this country. It seems odd, that at a time when every industrialized society in both the East and the West are concentrating on building up th^ir merchant fleet, the United States, the most affluent and powerful on earth, is let- �Paee Twelve By Robert A. Matthews, Vice-President, Contracts, & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. O.T. Guidelines On Grain Ships SEAFARERS Jne 12, 19M LOG U.S. Merchant Fleet Registers New Drop WASHINGTON—In the latest monthly data sheet issued QuesHoil! If you were to re­ by the Maritime Administration, more concrete evidence on ceive a million dollars, what the continuing decline in the size of the active US merchant would be the first thing you marine was documented. The would do? agency added that there were temporarily inactive and some 28 vessels in custody of the Depart­ no new contracts placed and ments of Defense, State and In­ Two questions about the interpretation of the contract have been received from J. R. Thompson who sails on the Eagle Traveler, in­ teresting points are raised by both questions, one of which deals with the replacement of butterworth plates, and the second of which is con­ no ships delivered at the start of Odel Powell; The first thing I terior and the Panama Canal Com­ cerned with the breaking of watches. April 1. would do would be to invest in pany. QUESTION No. 1: What rate of O.T. are crewmembers entitled to MA reported that there were 13 homes and real There were 12 fewer active ves­ if they are required to replace Butterworth Plates through which fewer vessels active than in the estate. That is openings grain has been loaded? This occurred when we loaded grain month preceding the April statis­ sels in the privately-owned fleet. about the best in New Orleans and proceeded down the Mississippi to sea. tics. There were only 914 ships of One bulk freighter was transferred investment today, to ocean from Great Lakes service. ANSWER: Crewmembers engaged in this type of work are entitled 1,000 gross and over, the agency the safest, and I to the Longshore Rate provided this work was done for the purpose said. It was broken down to nine Two freighters were transferred would be think­ of unloading cargo or covering up when cargo is in the vessel. This government-owned and 905 pri­ foreign and a tanker was registered ing in terms of applies only if cargo was loaded through Butterworth Plate openings. vately-owned ships in active serv­ as a marine loss. This made a net rent property loss of two, for a total of 972. Of REFERENCE: Standard Freightship Agreement, Article III, Section ice. rather than real the 67 privately-owned inactive ves­ 20: HANDLING HATCHES, "(a) When the sailors are used to remove However, the list excluded the estate specula­ hatches, strong backs, and tank tops for the purpose of loading cargo, privately-owned vessels which are sels, several were being repaired or overhauled. The remainder were tion. 1 don't think 1 would be very or to cover up hatches when cargo is in the vessel, they shall receive either laid up or temporarily idle. interested in getting into the ship­ overtime as per Article II, Section 32, of this Agreement. The Maritime Administration's ping business in any form. "(b) No overtime shall be paid to day men or the watch on deck own active fleet decreased by one between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM, Monday through Friday, for t t t while the inactive fleet decreased covering up when no cargo is in>Roy Hinkson: The first thing I by 11. Thirteen ships were sold for the ship or taking off hatches for BREAKING WATCHES AND would do would be to take care scrap and the Hydrofoil Ship Deniany purpose other than actual WORK IN PORT, "(a) In all ports, of the needs of sion was placed in the reserve fleet cargo operations. watches shall be broken except in pending survey. The total govern­ my family and "(c) No member of the Unli­ those ports where stay of vessel ment fleet decreased by 12 to 1,785. see to it that censed Personnel shall be re­ will not exceed 24 hours, then The total US merchant fleet de­ they would be quired to perform this work watches shall run consecutively. creased by 14 from March 1 to well taken care where it conflicts with the long­ Any part of a sea watch from of in the fu­ WASHINGTON — Government 2,757. shoremen and the longshoremen midnight until 3 a.m., on day of ture. Of course, have contracts covering such arrival, shall constitute a complete officials were charged here late 1 would give last month with trying secretly to work. AND — Standard Freight- watch. When arrival occurs on a part of it to the ship Agreement, Article II, Sec­ Saturday, Sunday or Holiday, over­ continue railroad rates that dis­ Union, because I criminate against St. Lawrence tion 32: LONGSHORE WORK BY time shall only be paid for hours believe It is a good outfit doing Seaway carriers. CREW. In those ports where actually worked on such waters. a good job for us. Senator Philip A. Hart (D-Mich), there are no longshoremen avail­ "(b) In port when sea watches accused the government of "skul­ ij. J" 4" able, members of the crew may are broken, the hours of labor shall be required to do longshore work be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 duggery" and using "cover up" Lawrence Murphy: I'd go right or drive winches for the purpose p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through tactics which permit railroads to out and hire the best investment of handling cargo. For such work Friday. Except as otherwise pro­ carry Government shipments at counsel 1 could NEW YORK — A program to performed they shall be paid in vided herein, any work outside of rates much lower than those get my hands on, addition to their regular monthly these hours or on Saturdays, Sun­ charged to private shippers, sub­ train specialists for the fishing in­ because 1 don't dustry has been started at the wages $2.24 per hour for those days and Holidays shall be paid for ject to review by the Interstate have the knowl­ Suffolk County Community Col­ ratings receiving a basic monthly at the regular overtime rate for Commerce Commission. edge to handle lege here. The college is present­ Proposes Bill Wage of $357.47 or below, $2.28 the respective ratings that kind of ly the only educational institu­ per hour for those ratings receiv­ Hart is the author of a bill that tion planning to supply trained money and 1 cer­ "(c) When watches are not ing S364.50 but not more than broken in port and the vessel's would authorize the commission tainly wouldn't personnel for the Department of $416.07, and $2.33 per hour for stay exceeds 24 hours in port, to determine whether the Gov­ attempt to do so. those ratings receiving $424.07 or overtime shall be paid for all ernment rates are discriminatory, the Interior's lO-year program to I am going to revitalize the nation's fishing in­ above. The watch below shall be watches stood after 5 p.m. and be­ preferential, or prejudicial. The college now, and some of the paid at the rate of $3.35, and $3.49 fore 8 a.m. after 24 hours. If measure was introduced, he said, dustry. The two-year college program money certainly would go to pay per hour respectively, dependent watches are broken in a port after in response to complaints that is called Trident, because of its off my tuition costs. upon the monthly wage" ranges having been maintained for a rails were hauling Government three-pronged attack on marine4> 4> specified above. period of time, overtime shall be shipments at less-than-cost rates industry problems through re­ lower than those charged by the After 5 PM and before 8 AM paid for all watches stood between Hector Revara: The first thing I and on Saturdays, Sundays and time of arrival and breaking of Seaway, thus depriving the inland search, development and services. would do would be to buy my Many Problems Holidays, the rates shall be $4.47, watches. This shall not apply when waterways of doing business with Walter L. Smith, associate pro­ mother a house. $4.57 and $4.65 per hour respec­ the crew is being paid overtime for the nation's largest shipper. fessor of biology at the college, She is the one tively, dependent upon the month­ standing watche.s." Government officials who testi­ and the man primarily responsi­ person I love ly wage ranges specified above. Kenneth E. Blair, sailing aboard fied at Senate Commerce Sub­ ble for the curriculum, said the most in this This section shall not apply the Overseas Eva, sent in the fol­ committee hearings earlier said problems confronting the indus­ world, and I when longshorem.en are not avail­ lowing questions asking for con­ Government shipping agencies had try "involve cultivation, plant would make cer­ tract clarifications. neither the staff nor the know- sanitation and problems associ­ tain she would able due to labor trouble. Question No. 1: Can members of how to weed out unfair railroad ated with insuring a continuous live the rest of QUESTION No. 2: We proceed­ rates, but later they shifted their supply of marine raw materials her life on this the Deck Department turn down ed down the Mississippi River and policy and notified Hart that they such as fish, shellfish and sea­ earth without got as far as Pilot Town, where overtime and later on during the opposed having any financial needs or the legislation. trip demand that overtime be weed." they refused to take us across the equalized? worries. "T h e Government agencies Technicians will be provided bar due to the ship being loaded Answer: No. Once a crewmem- which could not defend preferen­ through the program who, too far down by the head, and 4» 4" 4* therefore unable to clear the bar. ber turns down overtime, he is not tial, prejudicial, and discrimina­ "through the application of prac­ Ken Westervick: 1 really don't We then went back to New Or­ entitled to equalization of overtime tory rates at a public hearing tical knowledge will gain insight know. It's difficult to say, but I were very much in favor of such as outlined in the contract, pro­ into the problems that confront leans and anchored. We arrived probably would deals at the meeting in which the the industry," Smith said. at 0100 and the Mate did not vided, of course, that the crewtry to go into press was not present. It is time member did not have a legitimate New Slant break sea watches until 12 Noon. some sort of to ask who is trying to cover up reason such as illness, etc. Professor Smith said that the We stayed there that time for business. 1 would Question No. 2: Can the mate these deals. The time has come few existing marine curriculums two days and 23 hours. Accord­ also probably in­ to end this skulduggery," Hart in other colleges or institutions knock off men who have not ing to Freightship Agreement, vest part of the told the Senate. turned down any overtime in are either four-year or graduate Article III, Section 6 (c), if money in slocks "I call upon the officials of the oi'der to bring the men who have watches are broken after being turned down overtime up with executive agencies to reconsider courses of study geared primarily and bonds, per­ for "blue water or deep sea tech­ maintained for a period of time high men? haps some real their private statements and to ad­ niques." Buch as our situation, from 0100 estate and other Answer: The crewmembers who here to their public testimony," The program involves, in addi­ kinds of sound investments. to 12 Noon, our overtime would did not turn down overtime should Hart concluded. tion to general education courses, be for the watches stood from ar­ be allowed to continue to work. 4> 41 4' modern biology, technical math, rival to 0800, or from arrival 0100 Overtime as equalization no long­ commercial fishing techniques, to time of breaking watches at er applies once a crewmember has Marcel Romano: Are you jok­ plant layout, technical chemistry, ing? It would never happen. But Noon. Are the crewmembers turned down overtime, provided microbiolog.v, navigation, econom­ if it did, 1 would who stood watches between the there was not a legitimate reason ics, shellfish, plant sanitation, be the same. I'd time of arrival and Noon- entitled such as illness, etc. Seafarers overseas who want commercial marine products, ele­ really have to ^to overtime? Reference 1 & 2: Standard to get in touch with headquar­ ments of marine ecology and ele­ think about it beANSWER: If the crewmembers Freightship Agreement, Article HI, ters in a hurry can do so by were required to stand watches Section 2. DIVISION OF OVER­ cabling the Union at its cable ments of applied marine electron­ for 1 could say ics. what, I'd do, but between the time of arrival and TIME. All overtime shall be di­ address, SEAFARERS NEW A spokesnoan for the college 1 guess one of Noon, other than Gangway vided as equally as possible among YORK. Use of this address as­ things Watches, they would be entitled the members of the deck crew. In sures speedy transmission on all said that graduates of the course the first will receive Associate of Applied to overtime. any event, the Boatswain shall be messages and faster service for Sciences degrees that will enable I'd do would be to take care of Reference: Standard Freightship allowed to make as many hours the men involved. them to serve as marine techni­ my folks and see that they would Agreement, Article 111, Section 6; (Continued on page 22) cians. have a secure life. Gov't Secretly Anti-:Seaway, Senator Says N.Y. College Course Aids Fish Industry Union Has Cable Address « t V. { �JOB* If. MM SEAFARERS Pace Thirteea LOG In the wildest traditions of Captain Kidd, 69 heavily armed men stole aboard the Portuguese cruise ship Santa Maria on a dark Venezue­ lan night some time back, and eleven days later, took over, lock, stock and barrel. Shocked over the sudden seizure of the vessel by opponents of the regime of Portuguese strongman Juan Salazar, nations represent­ ed on the 600 passenger list^' cerned Is a highwayman of the question whether or not it was national shipping, merchant ves­ rarely seen act today? Several re­ moved into action. The seas, a robber, one who attacked, legal for another state to interfere sels on the high seas are exclu­ ports have recently brought atten­ kidnapped, ransomed, and mur­ in what was essentialiy a crime sively under the administrative, tion to an area of the world where United States* was repre­ dered for personal gain. sented by 42 passengers on the Santa Maria. So, the US Navy was called out in a fanciful search which saw US ships and planes take over three days to spot the luxury liner—off the coast of Brazil. But, Captain Kidd antics or not, the sudden takeover, originally planned as an attempt to touch off a political explosion in Portugal against Salazar was not, in the strictest sense, piracy. Geneva Convention The commiting of an act of piracy according to the Geneva Convention, say international law authorities, is based on the plan to take over the ship for personal gain or vengence. That separates piracy from a political or warlike act of talking over of a ship. The piracy law itself dates back to the days of marauding buc­ caneers of the Barbary Coast and the Spanish Main and is badly outdated. The law just does not fit the antics of rebels against their own governments. The pirate with which these old laws are con­ More recently, Halls Inter­ national Law, the most respected study on the subject, says the test of piracy is whether the grab was performed for personal gain or rather for public. The hijacking of the Santa Maria was essentially for publie gain. The pirate Is one who is primarily interested in satisfying personal greed or vengence in places heyond the jurisdiction of the state and any political bias on the part of the hijacker rules out the crime of piracy. For the pirate is a stateless person according to international law. Piracy is a crime against international law, along with slave trading and mis­ use of the national flag, among others, but International law does not include such crimes as mutiny. Again, sometime later, another ship was hi-jacked when a group of Communists took over the Venezualan freighter Anzoategui. And from this second hi-jacking, where there was no breach of international law (no passengers from other states) there arose the against the state under whose fiag the vessel originally sailed. It was noted in legal pronouncements that the ship hi-jacker was a threat only to the country against which he was revolting. This makes ship hi-jacking very much like the crime of mutiny. Legal Point The legal authorities point out that to act otherwise, that is to accept the right of intervention of international shipping on the high seas, several problems would be created. The most dangerous, au­ thorities say, is the often hazy distinction between the rebel and the rebelled against. In other words, there lies in such a philos­ ophy the problem of just who one Is going to back in a sudden up­ rising. The rebel of today is often the Prime Minister of the country tomorrow. It could also lead to encourage­ ment of interested foreign powers to intervene in a domestic controversery by seizing the vessel of one group or another on the claim that it had been hi-jacked. For the protection of inter­ criminal, civil, and protective jurisdiction of the flag state. Only in cases of crimes under inter­ national law may all nations exercise concurrent jurisdiction. However, a flag-state may avail itself of the opportunity of asking for help from other nations. For a sovereign to request help, it may state the terms of the help re­ quested, such as inviting only certain nations to participate. The sovereign may also limit the help from these nations to search, without allowing that nation to seize the hi-jacked vessel. Hence, in the case of both the Anzoategui and the Santa Maria, the US was invited to search for the vessels (In both cases US Navy planes found the vessels after be­ lated searches) hut prosecution of the insurgents was reserved by the nations under whose flag the Anzoategui and the Santa Maria sailed — Venezuela and Portugal. The Portuguese hi-jackers, how­ ever, sought and received political asylum In Brazil. Is the crime of piracy, then, largely an old-fashioned and small shippers are constantly in danger of what was thought to be pirates. Off the North Borneo coast, a British naval rating was killed recently in a pitched gun battle with Indonesians, thought to be pirates. British insurance officials, how­ ever, have raised the question of piracy or political action. They cited that these recent attacks— some 32 — involved 10 ships mounting machine guns used to prey on shipping in the Straits of Malacca were given to the Indo­ nesians by the Russians. Political Tag With politics as involved as they are today, it's getting tough for a self-respecting pirate to lay claim to his hard-won title. They're all being stuck with political motives. Pity the poor pirate in the con­ fusing political world of today, whose simply out to make an easy and dishonest buck, but who is constantly being tabbed as a mal­ content fighting his own govern­ ment. Ah, for the days of the wild and wooly buccaneers. SlU Great Lakes Bob'Lo Excursion ln30fhYear DETROIT—The SlU-Great Lakes contracted Bob-Lo ex­ cursion boat enterprise opened its 65th season on the Detroit River on the traditional day, May 30, Over 700,000 passengers are expected to pile aboard the veteran steamers of the Bob-Lo fleet, the Columbia, 62 years old, aiid the St. Claire, 53, this season to mark an all time record in Bob-Lo traffic. Since the enterprise's present owners bought the Great Lakes longest surviving and strongest boat-trip attraction in 1949, the excursion has carried 8 million passengers and tripled its popularity. Back in 1949, the excursion 18 miles down river to Bob-Lo (actually spelled Bois Blanc) island, the passenger load was 300,000. By 1955 the total was up to 500,000. Last year's top was 700,000, and it is expected to go well over that figure this year. Indications that this year will well surpass last are in the advance group bookings. Last year over 1,000 groups held special picnic excursions. Only 300 groups were served in 1949. The Columbia and the Ste, Claire, the company's tvvo boats, have a combined capacity of 4,980 passengers. Built as coal-burners, they have been converted to oil and now are almost completely steel as the result of careful mainten­ ance and replacement. Maintenance costs for the two ships and the island (also owned by the Bob-Lo Corporation) are estimated to be about $150,000 a year. This year a 182berth marina on the west side of the island has been built at a cost of $175,000. Browning Lines, owners and operators of the enterprise, bought the package of the two boats and the island from a family's interests in Alpena who had operated the boats and park for 50 years. At that time Browning lines was a growing force in Great Lakes shipping; it operated nine ships. The Bob-Lo operation, however, now represents its entire shipping activity. Getting the Columbia ready for the '64 sea­ son, Forrest Riser mans the sougeeing machine above. The vessel got a thorough cleaning out and wash-down during the fit-out. Seventy men were shipped from the SlU Detroit hall as shore gang to get the Bob-Lo boats in shape for the May 31st deadline. The season got underway June 1st. I 81^ The Columbia was {ust about ready to begin its runs when this picture was taken. Another Bob-Lo boat, the St. Clair was also fitting out at the same dock. Spic and span and in tip-top shape, they will carry hundreds of thousands on memorable trips. \ SlU Great Lakes Dis­ trict member Paul Servinski is shown above giving the Columbia a good scrub-down. �rare FonrteM SEAFARERS Jiwe u, im LOG New License IVesf Coast To Port Canavora! By E. B. McAuley, West Coast Representative Nation Focuses On Coast Politics ICC Examiner OKs Calmar Lumber Hun WASHINGTON—An Interstate Commerce Commission The bir news out here, of course, is the recent Republican primary, Examiner recommended here last week that the ICC grant In which Goldwater walked off with the honors. Actually, though, approval of the SlU-contracted Calmar Steamship Corpora­ of more importance to us out here, is the win of Pierre Salinger, former press secretary to the late President Kennedy over state comp- tion application to make intercoastal lumber delivery avail­ 700,000 board feet moving every troler Alan Cranston. Cranston seemed to be the strongest in the beginning, but as the able from the West Coast to three weeks. With the new vessels. White campaign rolled on, it becan>e apparent that Salinger was gaining Port Canaveral. added, Calmar expects to reduce Calmar, already an intercoastal In popularity and power. His forces were so strong that we felt sure he would win, even be­ water common carrier of lumber, transport time between West Coast fore the election, as reported in this column in the last issue of the made application last year to the ports and Cape Canaveral from ICC to extend service from the 24'days to 15 days so that 8-day LOG. West Coast to the ports of Cape schedules may bo establish^ In Another shipping official has come out for the importance of more Canaveral, In connection with lieu of 10-day sailings. help for US flag vessels from the Maritime Administration. "It is anticipated," the ICC ex­ George Killion, president of American President Lines, stressed Calmar's routes between presently the growing power of Russia on the seas. In a speech in Honolulu, served Pacific Coast and Atlantic aminer said, "that not only will transit time be cut by one-third Killion reminded the Propeller Club there that Russia is well on her Coast ports. Railroads Oppose but also the capacity of the ves­ way to out-stripping all other nations as a shipping power. Opposition to the application sels will be increased by 25 per­ Here in San Francisco we paid off the Mankato Victory, Antinous, Seafarer Harry (The Hat) the additional waterway cent." Ha added that Calmar is Orion Comet, Orion Clipper, Penn Carriers, and the Beloit Victory. for Byrd, his chapeau firmly in In transit were the Ames Victory, Choctaw, Keva Ideal, De Soto, Sea- service was raised by several "fit and able, financially and place, is shown here proud­ mar, Fortmar, Massmar, Elizabethport, Mayflower, Steel Traveler, West Coast railroads, including otherwise" to perform the pro­ Great Northern Railway Company; posed operation. Robin Kirk, and the Longview Victory. ly displaying his newly won The route followed by Calmar Hans Skaalegaard, the skillful "sea-scapist" is now on the beach Northern Pacific Railway Com­ third assistant Engineer's and working temporarily as a rigger in one of the local shipyards. pany; Union Pacific Railroad is along the East Coast through license in New Orleans. Hans sails as bosun and does quite a bit of his work in oils while at Company, and the Chicago, Mil­ the Caribbean and Panama Canal Boyd studied and got his sea. His painting are much sought after and he is considered a master waukee, St. Paul and Pacific Rail­ up the West Coast of Mexico to license through the SIU West Coast ports and return along in painting seascapes. Just back in SF after a few nmnths aboard the road Company. the same route. In the report made to the Com­ Upgrading Program. iKTankato Victory is Joe Carroll, a 20-year SIU man. Joe is looking forward to seeing a .workable pension plan that will benefit the ma­ mission, the examiner. Warren C. jority of the membership and not some short-sighted plan that will White said that at present Cal­ take away from what is already the best plan in the business. How­ mar is operating ten modified ever, Joe, a native Easterner but now strictly West Coast, is still a Libertys which were obtained In young man and is not planning to leave the sea for several years 1944 from the US government and subsequently converted to accom­ to come. Walter Cousins is back in the city by the Golden Gate after a sup­ modate over-size lengths of lumber posedly short run from Japan to the states. He flew from here back and steel products. The vessels, in February on what was to be a 25-day run and just paid off. He are owned by Bethlehem Steel enjoyed the many weeks in the Kobe and Yokohama shipyards, but Corporation and chartered by Cal­ WASHINGTON—^Federal legislation to protect the publia hated those long hours at the end of a tow line while on the National mar from the steel company, its and particularly the elderly—against misrepresentation by Seafarer. More about that later. As a consolation he at least had parent corporation. Calmar is in the process of ex­ land speculators and real estate promoters has been proposed enough time to file for his vacation pay and will spend a few weeks > changing six Liberty ships for six by the AFL-CIO. on the beach for a much needed rest off the lovers' run. The Federation called for C4 troop transports, which are to form filed with the SEC and In a And Victor Harding just paid off the Beloit Victory as AH. Known be converted into fast break-bulk regulation of interstate adver­ prospectus furnished each person as Scottie, he is quite a singer of old sea chantys. tising and sales-by-mail of homes solicited. Also, Alex Witchen, the culinary specialist who used to sail the merchant ships. In the report. White said that and home sites by the Securities Delta Line ships out of New Orleans just joined the Choctaw as "The legislation we propose la baker. Alex is well-known for his cooking and baking abilities and there was a market for some six & Exchange Commission in the urgently needed," the AFL-CIO the crew of the Choctaw is most fortunate in getting his services. million board feet of lumber an­ same manner that the SEC now statement said. "It would provida Alex just passed the 50-year mark and says his dogs are beginning to nually through Port Canaveral, regulates stock sales and offerings. for fair and reasonable regulation with shipments of .some 500,000 to bark a little after the years he has spent working around hot stoves. Ads 'Misleading' in the public interest, convenience Riley Carey finally made the round trip on the Beloit Victory after The AFL-CIO statement, sub­ and necessity, of offerings for sale, a long shuttle run hauling cement to Saigon and Formosa. He is now mitted to the subcommittee by through the mails or otherwise making the rounds down in the "Tenderloin" and is getting to be Legislative Director Andrew J. in interstate commerce, of land well-known to most of the SF innkeepers. Carey, a former New York Biemiller, cited "misleading" ad­ subdivisions and of other real es­ (Continued from page 4) sailor, has been around here for several years now and says he pre­ vertisements "designed to entice tate." fers it here. Byron Slaid, alias "Jimmie," now bosun on the Mankato coming fast enough. The Depart­ elderly citizens to purchase, sight' In a covering letter, Bie­ Victory passed through town last week to say he had a most enjoyable ment of Commerce sources said unseen, real estate purporting to miller praised the subcommit­ trip on the Mankato because of the real professional sailors he had in recently that the adverse balance be suitable for retirement living." tee's investigations into "wide­ his deck gang. It made the trip very pleasant because everyone in the of payments was improved by a After the sale is made, it was spread exploitation" of elderly whole deck department knew his job and was a credit to the SIU. !>51 million pick-up in sales and pointed out, the buyer often finds citizens — including hearings on Jim suffered a broken leg last year and still hobbles a bit during rainy a $155 million drop in foreign that the sites lack such essential health frauds, quackery, and de­ weather, but otherwise is feeling fine on sunny days. Jim is a real obligations during the period utilities as water and electricity, ceptive sales practices for health professional Seafarer and he says the SIU, with all things consid­ from Jan. 1 to May 15. As a re­ and sometimes even access roads. insurance. "The people most like­ ered, has the best set-up for the man who wants to make his living sult the adverse balance for the He urged the subcommittee, a ly to be victimized" by misrepre­ first quarter of 1964 was down by going to sea. unit of the Senate's Special Com­ sentation in land sales "and the In Wilmington, an American flag and plaque was presented to Wil­ to $41 million. mittee on Aging, to require com­ main target of the unscrupulous The agency also reported that plete disclosure of pertinent infor­ speculators" are retired persons liam (Bill) Bassett, Secretary-Treasurer of the Los Angeles Central Labor Council on behalf of Paul Hall, MTD president and Pete it was engaged in eliminating mation regarding the property of­ or elderly persons near retire­ McGavin of the Maritime Port Council. The plaque and flag were pre­ "foreign discriminations against fered for sale in a registration ment, Biemiller pointed out. sented by Blackie Ellis, President of the Port Council, and Frank our merchant marine" that reduce the dollars earned by the Ameri­ Boyne, Wilmington port agent. Over the last two-week period, shipping has been very active, with can-flag shipping companies, 10 ships in transit. Wilmington is short on oilers, FWTs and ABs. Harllee assured the President. We are hopeful that, in the The outlook for the coming two-week period is also expected to be face of so many Government good as they expect some 10 more ships to be in transit there. Frank Feld, last off the Orion Comet, plans to stay on the beach for agencies so often trying to slip awhile after he collects his vacation pay. He said this was a rather something by American shipping short trip for him but he will have to check with his boss, the wife, concerns, some relief may be before he ships out again. He was glad to hear shipping has been achieved. It is obviously so im­ active in Wilmington and that the outlook is good. Bob Morales, who portant that the balance of pay­ was last off the Ames Victory as chief cook and has been on the beach ments deficit be straightened out, since last March not fit for duty, just received his okay and is ready the President is taking personal interest in seeking any and every to get anything smoking. way possible to even it up. And Pete Prevas is registered in Wilmington, but isn't ready to ship out one the ways is certainly that at the present time. He wants to stay with his mother for a few weeks moreofUS-flag ships be utilized in as he has been out for several months and feels he is due a vacation. our trade. It could turn out to be The Maritime Trades Council of Seattle endorsed the re-election of an effective way to bring other Governor A1 Rosellini and also Pat Sutherland, committee member of government agencies to observing the Washington State Public Utilities Commission for a place on the the ietter of the law, and at the Federal Maritime Board. same time vastly impoove the The Longview Victory, Robin Kirk, Mobile, Choctaw, New Orleans, economy of the United States. Young American and Trustco all paid off in Seattle during recent Johnson himself made such a weeks. The Trustco took 20 replacements. The Mobile is being re­ warning in the letter when he named the Seattle and the New Orleans is changing to the Anchorage. said that "the job is not yet The turn-over has been pretty good- on the two Sea-Land C4s, how­ finished." We're behind any such ever it is expected that the. homesteaders will eventually start making program which will not only help Seafarer John Ross, who sails in the deck department, was this coast-wise run into Alaska. alleviate the balance of payments caught by the LOG . camera recently catching up on some The National Seafarer paid off after a hectic voyage fsom .Tapan. problem, biit also will give" a of his writing in the hiring hall at NY headquarters. His What started out to be a run job turned out to be a lovers' stay in the much-needed hand to the Ameri­ can seaman. last shi>„wos tho,j;oblB. G^^fRlloWv JRoJaia X'neJ, f M,,,, Labor Seeks Protection For Elderly In Land Deals Jobs Nice Form �|taM It, if«4 SEAFARERS LOG Fuge Ftfteea fwmwt SchBdule Still Delinquent Seaway Corp. Studies Toll Hike WASHINGTON—Pressure for a toll structure change on the St, Lawrence Seaway has become more severe following closed-door testimony given recently to a House Appropria­ tions Subcommittee by officials of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. The toll structure of the Panama Canal was also stu­ rates and charges. I think that if centers such"- as Pittsburgh and died by the committee be­ our rate of increase in the last Youngstown, is a definite possibil­ cause of the increase of the an­ nual payment to Panama of $3 million. Behind On Payments Joseph H. MeCann, US Admin­ istrator of the St. Lawrence Sea­ way, admitted the possibility of a rise in tolls for the waterway to help it catch up in its delinquent payment schedule to the US Treas­ ury, already $9 million in arrears In interest alone. Both United States and Cana­ dian toll committees are expected to make recommendations to their respective governments by July 1 to keep the seaway solvent. Seaway traffic has not as yet come up to original expectations, although, McCann said, it "is ad­ vancing at a satisfactory rate of growth." The break even point on the Seaway is about 42 million tons a year. In 1963, 30.9 million tons were moved. It was originally anticipated- that the break-even point would be reached last year. Sentiment Against Rise There is strong sentiment against raising the tolls on the Seaway. The arguments are that the rise is too early and would only boost the cost of using the waterway and cause diversion of traffic to railroads. McCann said that another rea­ son put forward against a toll in­ crease is that "we have first to find our competitive level ... of three years is maintained for an­ other three years there will be no need to even talk about raising tolls." McCann claimed flatly that diversion of traffic to other areas, notably the importation of iron ore to Baltimore and on to steel SlU Company Sues Over Rail Rate Cuts DETROIT—The SIU-Great Lakes contracted T. J. McCarthy Steamship Company has filed suit here against the New York Central Railroad for what the shipping concern calls discrimi­ natory rate-cutting and refu-"sal to establish ship-and-train can beat them between Detroit rates for cars shipped to East­ and Buffalo any day of the week." ern markets. The $6 million suit for damages alleges that McCarthy's business has been "destroyed" by the rail's violation of the Interstate Com­ merce Act. The shipping firm has announced that it will not be in operation this year. The McCarthy company has four freighters which are special­ ly built with ramps and "flight" decks allowing about 500 automo­ biles to be driven on and off. "We're still competitive on the water," T. J. McCarthy, chairman of the board of the firm said. "We SiU Lakes Carterry Operates As Barge ST. IGNACE, Mich.—For the first time since 1888 railroad cars were ferried across the Straits of Mackinac May 25 by a "barge" towed by a tug. The "barge" is the SIU- hooks onto the Wawatam to per­ Great Lakes District-con­ mit the tug to operate alongside tracted Chief Wawatam, a vet­ it. eran carferry operating between the Straits of Mackinac and serv­ ing as a railroad link between Up­ per and lower Michigan since 1911. The Wawatam's Coast Guard certificate expired May 24, and Coast Guard inspectors, who had given the certificate two exten­ sions, finally issued orders to the Mackinac Transportation Com­ pany to repair her boilers or cease running her. The Wawatam's owners want to abandon the service, together with rail service to the northern end of the Lower Peninsula, but they cannot do so without permission of the Interstate Commerce Com­ mission. At the request of Attorney Gen­ eral Frank J. Kelley, Judge Noel Fox issued a temporary injunction blocking the abandonment of the carferry until ICC hearings, which have been scheduled for July 8. Must Operate Judge Fox told the company it was up to them to find a way to keep operating with the con­ demned boilers, so until the issue is settled the 351-foot ferry will be towed by the 142-foot tug John Purves of Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The tug was chartered from the Roen Steamship Company, owner of three large lake tugs. It is a 1,800 horsepower diesel, twin screw, extremely maneuverable craft. Workmen welded two - large ity if freight charges are right. One consequence of higher Pan­ ama Canal tolls, Fleming said, may be that West Virginia-mined coal, moving through the Canal, might cease being competitive with Australian coal in some for­ eign markets. The Chief Wawatam can carry 22 raii cars and is the only car­ ferry in the US equipped both as a rail ferry and icebreaker, which is necessary to operate 12 months a year at the Straits. The company faces the prospect of disposing of the four ships or converting them to other trade, involving extensive conversion. The $6 million figure is the es­ timated damage to McCarthy earnings and assets. The latter consists of the ships and two ter­ minals, here and in Buffalo. Charge Discrimination The company charges that the rail company is pursuing "dis­ criminatory rate-making" in a continuing fight to eliminate wa­ ter carriers from domestic trade routes. In the suit, the Central is also accused of refusing to establish a ship-rail combination rate. This, if proved, would be in direct vio­ lation of existing interstate com­ merce legislation. The steamship company says that in 1962 and 1963 railroads set "a new level of greatly re­ duced all-rail rates" from Michi­ gan auto plants and that these rates were so low they knocked out ship-truck transportation of oars. McCarthy said it had offered to establish a Detroit-Buffalo ship rate that would have given the railroad "at least as much com­ pensation" for rail service beyond Buffalo as it received from its allrail rates. SIU Visitor By Al Tanner, Vice President and Frod Fcrnen, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes Lakes Shipping Picture Active The outlook for shipping in the Great Lakes Area continues to be exceptionally optimistic,' with tonnage expected to remain, at least, on an even or rising keel. Cleveland, Buffalo and Frankfort have reported unusually good shipping, Chicago reports that shipping ac­ tivity has been very good and steady with no decline expected, while Alpena has reported shipping at an "unprecedented" high. Nearly all the Buckeye ships lately are coming into the Cleveland Port pretty regularly. At least two each week can be seen in port. The boys who had the Hearts game going so hot this spring have all shipped out now, but they promise to start the game again where they left off. Harold Carroll just got into town to spend some time on the beach here. George Mitchell has had his rest and now is ready to go. Louis Stein, after spending a short time on the beach, has just shipped, leaving very few book men on the board. Book men certainly don't have long to wait in Cleveland. The Chicago Port Council MTD has sent letters of strong protest to Chicago's Mayor Daley, urging him to support a very badly needed dredging of the Calumet River from the break wall to Calumet Har­ bor, which die at low draft. This condition is costing the port thou­ sands of tons of business each 4year, and we hdpe the Mayor will vision. Except for sailing on the get behind this move and put Cal­ Coast during World War II, Mel­ umet Harbor back into its usual vin was with Mackinac on the Wa­ full capacity. watam from 1944 to 1962. From Our "professional p o r t e r," 1942 to 1944 he sailed as oiler George Stevenson, finally has on the William Cullen Bryant, shipped out as a permanent coal deck engineer on the Bryant, oil­ passer on the Gypsum, which he er on the Angeline, and deck en­ feels now will be "it." But every­ gineer on the Benjamine Chew. body in Chicago Is betting the Fit-out of Bob-Lo is now com­ Gypsum uses hard coal and he'll pleted and their vessels are in be back shortly. Joe Yukes still operation. From all indications, is around, his usual jovial self. the company expects a very busy He recently passed up a job on season. the South American to remain Stanley Wares attended the home with his wife, who is ill. Ohio AFL-CIO convention in As Joe puts it, "I'll never have to Cleveland, the main themes of worry about a job in the SIU." which were politics and the War Willard Tolbert has shipped as on Poverty. We supported a reso­ relief deck hand on the tanker lution on unemployment compen­ Detroit. This is one Chicago ship­ sation for Great Lakes Seafarers, per that will never pass up a which was passed and given full chance to work, and we always backing by the Federation. We can rely on him to take the pier also supported Senator Frank W. heads off the board. King as president of the Ohio Bill Toler has shipped as per­ AFL-CIO. He was elected by a manent deck hand on the Piatt, three-to-one margin. where he no doubt will stay until The rocking-chair days of Ed­ layup. He has a party fishing boat ward "Shy" Ryan should be much in California, where he works more comfortable from now on. during the winter. Bill, as many On his recent retirement, Sea­ will remember, was the first man farers on the Huron Fleet pre­ to register at this hall when it sented Shy with a luxurious plat­ reopened in June, 1959. form rocker in appropriate cere­ Mackinac Transportation Com­ monies, with Capt. Ray Stafford pany, in compliance with Coast of the J. B. Ford doing the hon­ Guard specifications, currently is ors. The gift was a token of the making the repairs on the boilers esteem in which his fellow crew­ necessary to continue operation of men hold Shy, who has sailed the Chief Wawatam. The repairs with the Huron Fleet for over 30 are taking place while the vessel years. Happy rocking. Shy. When Robert Sheffield, sailing is being towed back and forth across the straits by the tug, John as an oiler on the A & J Mercury, Purves, so it now is official that was transferred from the vessel this ship will continue to operate to the Buffalo General Hospital, at least until the Interstate Conv this office contacted Dr. Bruck­ merce Commission makes a deci­ ner, head of the USPHS in this sion on the company's request to area, who arranged to have the patient transferred to the USPHS abolish her. Veteran Seafarer from the \Va- in Baltimore, Md., where he haswatani, Melvin L. Wheeler the relatives. This is an example of first SIU Seafarer employed by the exceptionally fine cooperation Mackinac to go on disability, is which we have always experi­ spending his time watching tele­ enced with Dr. Bruckner. mm rnwmmtimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmitmmmmmmmmmmt ooMyn32. NY The rotary board system of assigning jobs to Seafarers was explained recently to a high official of a German labor union when he visited the SIU hall In New York. Right is Heinz Kluncker, vice-president and negotiating secretary of the huge Federation of Public Service, Transport and Communi­ cations Workers. Explaining the system to him and Richard C. Kriegel, center, Department of Labor, is SIU Representa­ tive Jehn Yarmolav I �Pace Sixteea sBAfdnMns xof Jvn« It, UM Part Of Antipov0rty Program Expanded Job Retraining Waiting For More Funds SlU Provides Upgrading Opportunities By Fred Stewart & Ed Mooney Headquarters Representatives WASHINGTON—Although the Senate Apropriations Committee approved a $24.3 mil­ lion supplement to the Federal manpower training program recently, the Senate has not had the opportunity to act upon the additional funds because of the civil rights filibuster. This program, centered on-*equipping unemployed work­ by a committee to tide over a President Johnson's favored antiers with new skills, is thought number of Federal agencies for poverty bill, with all 19 Democrats With more and more stewards signing up for the SIU's Recertification Program, and more and more of them completing it, it may be Important at this point to stop and take a good look at all of the many programs a Seafarer has access to in order to improve himself aboard ship. Of course, the Stewards' recertification is only one of many programs to be essential to any serious at­ this fiscal year. The measure in­ on the committee voting for it available. But quite a number of stewards that have attended the tack on poverty in America. It cludes 46.9 million In emergency and all 12 Republicans against. school boast of their hard won certificate as a mighty proud possession. has been languishing since early funds for Alaska, but about nine- Although the Democrats had made It will become more Important to have the certificate as time goes on. The stewards who are not in tune with the importance of selfin the year because of lack of tenths of the deficiency measure concessions in the bill, the Repub­ funds. In the last four months, is for military pay increases and licans had called the changes improvement, take due notice and act quickly. You don't want to be programs to train an average of maintenance and funds for match­ merely technical. The bill's next left behind. The doors are open, so to speak, for the new member to perpetuate only 3,500 participants have been ing grants for public assistance. stop is the House Rules Commit­ The House denied any supple­ tee, where no serious trouble is a solid union by signing up for the Seniority Upgrading Program. approved each month, about a However, a look before you leap attitude is necessary for the aspirants However, a heavy mental appropriation for the expected. third of the previous rates. training program but authorized schedule of other controversial for this program. Later in this column, the necessary attributes for Using Balances The program, administered by eariy spending of funds allocated. bills may well hold the bill up on successful completion of this program are listed and explained. Many new Seafarers can be trained or older members retrained to In other action on a related bill, the House floor until after the the Labor and the Health, Educa­ take their places in our Seafarer society as full book members by tion and Welfare Departments, the House Labor Committee freed GOP National Convention. joining the Seniorty Upgrading Program. has been using unexpended bal­ However, too many men have"*" ances from completed programs adopted a status quo attitude with Seafarer must be physically fit, and reassigning money from no real desire to better themselves. have an attitude to get along and states that have not used it to The SlU-manned cable ship Long Lines (Isthmian) is celebrating They are not only hurting them­ have a good general conduct back­ states that have used up their in­ her first year in service hard at work on the high seas, laying the selves, they are damaging the ground. itial allocations. last section of a 5,500-mile underwater telephone line connecting future of a strong union. The kind The last classes will attest that The additional appropriation, if Hawaii and Japan by way of Midway, Wake and Guam Islands. of man with this attitude does not they have gone through the mill fin,illy approved, would be enough The trans-Pacific cable is scheduled to be finished this summer. have the basic interest pre-req- in the various courses the right to allow the Labor Department to A joint project of American Telephone & Telegraph Company, ulsite for retraining for the Union's way and they are now ready to go go ahead with training for 30,000 Radio Corporation of American and a Japanese company, Kokusal upgrading program. out as real assets to the Union and jobless workers under programs Denshin Denwa, the $80 million system will provide the equivalent All of the training programs to themselves. that it has approved but for which 128 voice circuits with additional capabilities for handling data are designed to protect the hard funds are lacking. • Ambition. The Seafarer must telephones and other more specialized communications. won gains we now enjoy, plus have the will to improve himself. -The House had earlier cut the According to present plans, the Long Lines will be spending her seeing that every Seafarer has the This means real will, not merely Administration's request for the next few anniversaries at sea in addition to her first. Plans now best possible chance of Improving a vague or intermittent desire. It manpower program for the fiscal call for completion of a second cable link between Hawaii and Cali­ himself individually. year from $411 million to $327.9 must be a drive to get ahead. fornia this fall and a Guam-Philippines telephone cable after that. million. To be eligible for any of the Then, after putting the finishing touches on the Pacific cables, • Industriousness. This attribute, retraining programs the Seafarer coupled with ambition, gives the Hope For Approval the vessel will be all set to lay a cable between Florida and must know the history of the Seafarer the ability to drive him­ St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, and then begin work on trans-Atlantic Advocates of the retraining Union, have a lifeboat ticket, know self steadily toward improvement. Cable Number Four, which will link New Jersey to France. bill hope that the Senate will ap­ how to conduct meetings and know The Long Lines is operated for AT&T by SlU-contracted Isth­ prove the supplemental $24.3 mil­ • Dependability. This is impor­ the functions of the Union. mian Lines. The 511-foot vessel is equipped with the newest lion, and that, when the Senate tant for the Seafarer. He must be cable-laying machinery, capable of laying cable at a rate of 7 to 8 goes into conference with the Other qualifications demand that able to take orders from others, knots, even in rough weather. The effectiveness of older type House, the lower body will be the Seafarer know tlie work aboard and be relied upon to carry out cable-layers was often cut drastically because they had to hove-to persuaded to go along with the ship, general conduct, the con­ the orders with little or no super­ and quit laying cable during bad weather. additional funds. stitution, rights, the labor move­ vision. In addition to her job of laying new cable, the Long Lines' is The training program funds ment, educational programs and • Forcefulness. The Seafarer also .scheduled for a lot of repair work, maintaining the company's were part, of a $1.3 billion defi­ production incentives and working must give people the impression 23,000 miles of ocean cable already in service. ciency money measure approved methods. Generally speaking, the that he is capable and self-con• Dependability. This is impor­ tant trait. • Seif-Confidence. The Union man should never forget the things he does of which he can be proud, and he should always carry himself proudly and exude self-confidence. • Friendliness. Criticism of tha actions of other people can lead not only to strained relations, but WASHINGTON—A fleet of 23 research ships from five nations has provided the first picture of the Indian Ocean floor to a fall-off of shipboard efficiency. • Tact. It is essential that the and unveiled what appears to be one of the most remarkable of the earth's features, according to Dr. Bruce C. Heezen of Seafarer work in iiarinony with his Columbia University's Lamont Geological Observatory. shipmates. The Lamont Observatory," • Good Judgement. The Seafarer which sponsors the SIU- tending some 3,600 miles along ridges are lines of activity Is de­ flow of heat from the earth's In­ must regularly examine himself, the 90th Meridian east of Green­ noted by the frequent occurrence terior. manned research ship Conrad, particularly as regards initiative It was found, that some ridges and resourcefulness and the ex­ is participating in the survey as wich and is thus called the "90- of earthquakes along those lines and the abnormally high upward extending into the Indian Ocean ercise of good judgment. Ha part of the 1962-65 International Degree Ridge," he reported. Ridges that bisect the Atlantic do not display such activity, and should make resasonable sugges- ' Indian Ocean Expedition. Other Dr. Heezen believes they are dif­ tions to his Union. nations participating in the sur­ and Pacific Oceans enter the In­ ferent in origin. He thinks they vey are Britain, South Africa, dian Ocean from the south, form­ • Neatness. It is important to be ing an inverted "Y," the survey resemble elongated fragments of painstaking in regard to personal Australia and the Soviet Union. revealed. These ridges are divided continents and calls them "micro- appearance and taking care of Deep Trench by a deep cleft, and where they continental." shipboard equipment which is used One of the most drantatic dis­ cross fault lines (breaks in the Others suggest that soma of by the Seafarers. coveries is a trench in the ocean earth), they have apparently been the ridges might be similar to the • Health Habits. Seafarers should floor that is twice as deep as the displaced by lateral movements of mid-ocean ridges but inactive in ask themselves whether their hab­ Grand Canyon and at least 60 the ocean floor. the manner of some volcanic its are those that make for or miles long, Dr. Heezen said. It mountain chains. While much of the floor Is against good health, and how those has been named the Vema Trench Plains habits tell on working ability. for the Lamont Observatory re­ mountainous, there are abyssal plains, usually associated with In addition, the Indian Ocean Mental attitude is greatly affected search ship that found it. mapping disclosed great abyssal by physical health habits, and a near-by continental rivers, the Dr. Heezen de.scribed this and researcliers discovered. plains similar to those found in good attitude is all-important. other recent discoveries relating recent years carpeting other • Capacity to Delegate Work. Ridges to the earth's crust at the annual ocean floors. Dr. Heezen associ­ This quality is especially important meeting of the American Geo­ Four ridges that, unlike the va­ ates them with turbidity currents for those who are, or hope to be­ physical Union here. riety found in mid-ocean, are not —masses of silt or other niaterlal come, the key men. Some men in The Indian Ocean, although one centers of earthquakes and other that race across the sea bottom the key positions on board ship fall of the three great water areas of activity, have been identified, in­ at great speed. short in this category because they the world, until now has been little cluding the "90-Degree Ridge," Usually the material, having col­ lack persistence of a certain kind, Lloyd O'Neal Sr. of the known, but the soundings and the researchers said. lected off a river mouth, suddenly or because of vanity or selfishness SlU United Industrial other observations have thrown The ridges are thought by Dr. Is dislodged. The progress of such which will not allow them to Workers is shown above new light on the world-wide sys­ Heezen and others to be related catastrophic currents has been delegate authority. assembling a tug fender tem of mid-ocean ridges. Dr. to the basic forces responsible for observed on occasion when they Of course, it goes almost without at the UlW-contracted Heezen said. the existence of continents and were set in motion by an earth­ saying that a member must have a Curtis Bay Shipyard in The floor of the ocean Is marked oceanic basins. quake and undersea cables were great amount of pride in the fact that he is a qualified Union man. severed in quick succession. by a strikingly straight ridge ex­ The fact that the mid-ocean Norfolk, SlU Cable Ship Celebrates Birthday Study Of Indian Ocean Floor Shows Mountains, Valleys, Plains Rope Weaver �fii U.IH« SEAFARERS Cost Of Living index Takes Another Jump Catching Up weekly take-home pay stood at $91.22 for the factory worker with three dependents and $83.49 for the worker with no dependents. In each case, the April figure represented a new high, with an increase of 83 cents over the pre­ vious month. The unusually large over-the-year increase of $5.50 in spendable earnings was influenced by increased hourly earnings as well as the reduction in the Fed­ eral income taxes. Consumers found that overall food prices were unchanged be­ tween March and April but up 1.3 per cent above a year ago. Prices of meats, poultry and fish reached their lowest level since February 1960 and egg prices were down by 51^ per cent from a year ago. Prices of milk declined seasonally and sugar prices dropped nearly 4 per cent. The big food increase was in potato and tomato prices, but fresh vegetables declined in April, the first time in 1964. By Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director Mammography For Breast Tumors To Aid Nation's Needy Urge Passage Of 'Food Stamp Plan' WASHINGTON—With medical fees and hospital service charges zoon^g, the cost of living rose 0.1 per cent in April, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced. hourly aamings accounted for the Cost of many consumer increase. After deduction of Social cervices, as well as used cars Security and Federal income taxes, and meii's apparel, were factors Jn the Increase, but medical care —up 0.3 per cent over the month —figured prominently. The cost of medical care has risen 2.2 per cent eince April of 1963. A similar in­ crease was registered for recrea­ tion costs. Up 1.5 Percent At 107.8 per cent of Us 1657 average, the April Consumer Price Index was 1.5 per cent higher than a year ago. Prices of most coneumer items had advanced over the year except for meats, eggs and fuel oil. As a result of the in­ crease, some one million workers will receive a one-cent-an-hour pay increase. They include 800,000 auto workers, 100,000 farm and con­ struction equipment workers, 65,eOO aerospace workers, and 45,000 miscellaneous metal workers. The Bureau foun'd that net spendable earnings of factory pro­ duction edged up slightly between March and April. A small gain in Page Seveofeea LOG WASHINGTON—Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minn.) and Senator George D, Aiken (R-Vt.), both members of the Senate Agriculture Committee, have called for the passage of the Food Stamp Bill. The food stamp measure, vide better diets for 25 million passed by the House, would persons. He said he expects the While waiting for an en­ gine department dot to come up recently at the SlU hall in Philadelphia, Seafarer Teddy Wheeler took the opportunity to catch up on the latest news with a copy of the LOG. Teddy's last ship was the Alomar (Calmer). DONOTBUy 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 tneir 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.) Soft tissue radiography has received considerable publicity as an improved, reliable method of diagnosing cancer of the breast, and possibly as a useful screening procedure in periodic health checkups. As a diagnostic tool which helps determine whether biopsy is necessary, a well-made radiograph is sometimes valuable. But its usefulness for routine "screening" of the asymptomatic female population is less certain, according to The Medical Letter on drugs and therapeutics. In two series of cases by Dr. R. L. Engan and Harvey Geller reported in The Cancer Bulletin, University of Texas, there were as high as "Lee" brand tires 12% false positive readings (benign lesions mistaken as cancerous). Although this error was on the safe side, it could lead to unnecessary (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) operative biopsy. The number of false negatives (actual cancer missed on mammography) is less certain with claims of accuracy ranging 3) 4" t from 79 to 97 per cent in various studies. Eastern Air Lines Dr. Egan's excellent results are evidence of a real breakthrough in (Flight Engineers) the diagnosis of cancer of the breast by radiology. However, if these results cannot be duplicated by radiologists in other communities and other radiological laboratories then further studies will be necessary. H. I. Siegel Thus there is no practical importance of Egan Mammography to cancer "HIS" brand men's clothes control, unless there exists in local communities the ability to reproduce (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) his results. The National Cancer Institute has contracted with the Health In­ t surance Plan of Greater New York (HIP) to conduct a large scale, "Judy Bond" Blouses carefully controlled study which will help determine the reliability, (Int'l Ladies Garment Workers) safety and long term value of mammography as a screening procedure 4* 4" in breast cacer. The study is intended to show whether mammography combined with physical examination results in earlier detection of Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products breast cancer, and if so, will the mortality be reduced. About 20,000 (Retail Clerks) women over 40 years of age wiil be initially screened with an annual follow-up for two years unless the pathology found requires earlier 4' 3^ 4follow-up. An equal number of women will be used as controls. Stitzel-Weller Distilleries The reproducibility of Dr. Egan's findings are also being carried out "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" by 24 radiologists at University and Medical Centers throughout the "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" country. The report of this study will be available within a few months. Bourbon whiskeys Thus the result of the HIP study and other studies may establish soft (Distillery Workers) tissue mammography as a standard screening procedure for breast cancer. Until the reproducibility of Dr. Egan's work has been proven it 4 3> 4should be realized that surgeons with special experience in the diagnosis J. R. Simplot Potato Co. of cancer seldom find it necessary to use mammography in deciding Frozen potato products whether or not to perform a biopsy. (Grain Millers) Mammography does however have special usefulness in the diagnosis 4 4" 4" of some conditions, as fibrocystic disease and primary carcinoma of the Kingsport Press second breast after mastectomy. It is also valuable in lesions of the "World Book," "Childcraft" ducts which might otherwise escape detection. The duct tumors are (Printing Pressmen) small but often contain calcium deposits which make them visible on (Typographers, Bookbinders) x-ray. Mammography may also be useful in diagnosing lesions in the (Machinists, Stereotypers) obese breast. It is hoped that with improvement in technique and with greater 4 4 4 experience, mammography will eventually become a standard part Jamestown Sterling Corp. of the examination of women in whom there is reason to suspect breast Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. cancer, and in women with a family history of breast cancer. Whether Furniture and Bedding It is reliable and safe enough to become a routine screening procedure (United Furniture Workers) like the "Pap" smear for the detection of cervical cancer remains to be determined by further investigation and study. permit communities to use the pro­ gram to help persons on relief ob­ tain more balanced and nutritious diets, instead of the com meal, flour and powdered products now distributed. The stamps, which would be purchased by welfare recipients, might be cashed in gro­ cery stores for almost any foods, except soft drinks, luxury frozen foods, intoxicating liquors, tobacco or imported items. Pilot Project McCarthy reported that the pro­ gram is now operated as a pilot project in 40 counties and three large cities in 22 states. He said 180,000 persons are now partici­ pating, and that "studies have shown that those who take part do Improve their diets. Something over 80 percent of the increases were accounted for by purchase of livestock products, fruits and vege­ tables." Both senators agreed that the food stamp program aids not only the recipients, but producers and business as well. Aiken recalled that he and Sen. Robert La Follelte, Jr., introduced a food stamp program in 1943, called then the food allotment bill. McCarthy noted that the program was u.sed by Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt during World War II, and he pointed out that the current pilot program was one of the first executive orders of Pres. Kennedy to aid distressed families. Aiken estimates that the pro­ posed legislation would help pro- Cargill (Continued from page 3) the shipment of the Russian wheat cargoes. Last week it cancelled the charter of a US-flag tanker, the SlU-manned Transeastern, to car­ ry 43,000 tons of wheat to Odessa. The Transeastern had originally been fixed to carry two 43,000-ton cargoes to Russia, and had com­ pleted the first voyage. However, when it arrived at a Canadian port to pick up the second cargo, the company abruptly cancelled the charter. Cargill was apparently in­ tent on either chartering a foreignflag vessel or getting a lower rate than had originally been agreed upon. The SIU immediately com­ plained to Assistant Secretary of Labor James Reynolds and Mari­ time Administrator Nicholas John­ son, charging that the company was by-passing earlier agreements on the use of US vessels in the ship­ ment of these cargoes. Shortly thereafter, Cilargill an­ nounced that it had chartered the US National Defender, also manned by the SIU, to carry the cargo, but Increasing it from 43,000 to 54,000 tons at $13 a ton, as com­ pared with the original rate of $14.10. Meanwhile, the Transeast­ ern has been chartered by the Mil­ itary Sea Transport Service to car­ ry oil. The SIU will press its complaint over Cargill's action before the Maritime Grievance Committee which was set up by the Govern­ ment after the wheat dispute to deal with issues of this nature. The next meeting of the Grievance Committee is scheduled to be held in Washington on June 17. Agriculture Committee to take up the bill early in June. McCarthy predicted that after a day or two of hearings the Senate would approve the bill overwhelmingly. Grain Surplus We have had considerable sur­ pluses of grain in this country for years," Aiken pointed out. "When people consume grain through this program they will do away with much of this surplus, which is ex­ pensive to store, and rather em­ barrassing at times. Milk, eggs, meat; fruits vegetables and oils and fats would be added to the diet. It is not estimated that the con­ sumption of bread will be affected." McCarthy said that the food stamp program can be an important part of the "war on poverty" since "the fundamental objective is to provide food for those who are suffering from malnutrition and under nutrition, and who, because of poverty, are unable to purchase needed food for themselves and their children. Strengthening the farm economy is important, but secondary to aiding the needy," he concluded. U.S. Union Membership On Upswing WASHINGTON—Between 1961 and 1962, membership in national and international unions swelled by 283,000 to a grand total of 16,586,000 members, according to a study made by the Bureau of La­ bor Statistics. Based largely on reports of la­ bor organizations, the bureau's bi­ ennial tabulation is considered the most reliable basis for ap­ praising trends in union member­ ship. It will be published in the next issue of the Monthly Labor Review. After rising to 17,490,000 in 1956, union membership in the US dropped slightly, but the La­ bor Department's new survey indicates a reversal of the trend. One of the principal reasons for the increase in membership be­ tween 1961 and 1962 was a gain In the number of union members in government service. Kennedy Order This significant gain was large­ ly in the federal service and is attributed to the stimulation of the late President Kennedy's Ex­ ecutive Order of 1962 which rec­ ognized the right of federal em­ ployees to organize. YOU CAN'T SFBA\<UP IF YOU'RE NOT THERE - ATTEMP YOOP �IS, IMS LOO Certificate Of Achievement fAtony Hops 'Avfontatit Oppo$itlon' Cooperate More With Labor Chamber Of Commerce Urged WASHINGTON—Organized business has been challenged by AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany to cease its "automatic opposition" to labor's programs and to cooperate in helping make the nation's economic system work for the benefit of all Americans. , At the same time Meany, member of a discussion panel He noted that, while the labor position" to this and other labor at the 52nd annual meeting of force rose by 8.9 million persons proposals, such as extension of Secretary-treasurer George Munroe (right) of the SIUaffiliated Trinidad Seamen & Waterfront Workers' Union is shown above receiving a certificate of achievement from John Steglmaier, director of the US Aid Mission to Trin­ idad. Munroe and other Trinidad labor leaders were the guests of the SlU at NY headquarters in the summer of 1962 while on a USAID-sponsored labor training program in the US. The man in the center was not identified. Big Business Profits Skyrocketing in '64 WASHINGTON—Corporate profits skyrocketed to historic new highs in the first three months of the year, signalling a record-shattering 1964, a New York newspaper recently re­ ported. — ployment in industry Is expected to The earnings reports domi­ increase by about 8 percent from nated the business and finan­ cial press and spilled over to page one of the "New York Times" as the General Motors Corp. symbol­ ized the situation by reporting the largest quaterly profits ever achieved by an American corpora­ tion—$536 million, or a 29 percent spurt over the same quarter in 1963. Amid the increasing profit re­ ports came a survey from McGrawHill, major business publisher, that U.S. busine.ss as a whole ex­ pects to spend $44 billion on new plant and equipment in 1964, or 12 percent more than in 1963. About 20 percent of the total will be spent for automated equipment, an increase over the 18 percent allocated in 1963. Peacetime Record The profits and spending re­ ports came also as the national economy in April chalked up a peacetime record of 38 months of uninterrupted expansion without rece.ssion. The outstanding factor, economists noted, was the stability in wholesale prices and. according to the Times, "an unusually small upward movement of consumer prices averaging about 1.3 percent a year." The Times summed up the profit outlook after surveying first-quar­ ter reports from 355 companies showing a 33.2 percent increase over the same quarter of 1963. It commented that "the rate of in­ crease and the total corporate profits easily surpassed any other within a comparable period of his­ tory." Labor economists noted that the McGraw-Hill survey supported con­ tentions concerning the speed oi technological change. The survey asserted that if both employment and sales expectations are realized, it would mean annual productivity increases in the next four years of about 3.7 percent, a rate consid­ erably higher than the historical average. Labor has noted that the 3.5 percent annual productivity in­ crease of the past three years was not merely a reflection of cyclical changes. The survey pointed out that em­ the end of 1963 to 1967. This is below the estimated 12 percent rate of growth in Jobs which is deemed necessary if the economy as a whole is to achieve full em­ ployment by the end of 1967. STEEL FABRICATOR (ifthmlan). May 3—Chaiiiiiaii, J. Arnold; Secre­ tary, J. Ohannasian. One man hos­ pitalized in Djibouti and one man hospitalized in Calcutta. Beef on preparation of foods and service from the galley. Motion made to have the chief steward attend SlU steward department school before he Is al­ lowed to ship. Ship should be fumi­ gated for roaches. THETIS (Rya Marine), April 23— Chairman, C. L. Jones; Secretary, C. A. Collins. Brolher W. Cassidy, ship's delegate, is leaving ship at payoff and Brother C. L. Jones was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Discu.ssion on steward inspect­ ing all oranges when taken aboard as some have been rotten. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to depart­ ing ship's delegate. the United States Chamber of Comnoerce, reiterated his firm op­ position to the idea of Wage-price "guidelines" or of government in­ tervention in the collective bar­ gaining process to "assert the public interest." "I do not believe in the regula­ tion of wages or prices," Meany said to strong applause by 1,500 Chamber members. "Where does the process stop? The final step is that you regulate industry as a whole, and I'm opposed to it." It was Meany's first appearance at a national Chamber of Com­ merce meeting. He gave his opinion on the panel subject, the Changing Scene in ManagementLabor Relations, and answered questions of the panel moderator, Dean Nathan A. Baily of Ameri­ can University's School of Busi­ ness Administration. Other panel members were past Chamber of Commerce Pres. Richard Wagner, vice chairman of the Champlin Oil & Refining Co.; and Director William E. Simkin of the Federal Mediation & Con­ ciliation Service. Presiding at the luncheon meeting was M. A. Wright, executive vice president of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) and chairman of the Chamber's labor relations committee. The AFL-CIO president told his business audience that he is "disturbed" over the health of the private sector of the economy. A. Aragonas. Crew extended their deepest sympathy to Brother Abra­ ham Aragones. steward, for the death of his youngest son. $4.75 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew asked to take better care of washing ma­ chine, and to make sure It is turned off after using. Vote of thanks ex­ tended by the steward to the unli­ censed personnel and officers for moral support and cooperation after death of his son. Vote of tjianks to the steward department for the good menus and good food cooked and served aboard. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), April 1'—Chairman, Melvin Keafer; Secre­ tary, Fred Tampol. Books and maga­ zines were given to ship by the American Seamen's Friend Society for which 85 was donated in appre• -1 COLORADO (Waterman), March 21 —Chairman, S. J. Cieslak; Secretary, T. J. Kearns. Some delayed sailing from Oran is disputed. Crew re­ quested to return all books to the library, and all linen to be turned in to steward at payoff. LA SALLE (Waterman), April S— Chairman. Jimmie Bartlett; Secretary, Leo J. Gomes. Ship's delegate re­ signed and brother Arne Boekban was elected to serve. $3.4Q In ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Held discussion about per­ manent telephone on bow, which In­ volves various safety items. COLUMBIA (Oriental), March 30 — Chairman, O. Fargo; Secretary, C. Johnsson. Brother Walter LeClaire was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Held discussion on getting transportation to and from ship in Morrisviile. Crew requesied to keep me.sshall clean. Vole of thanks to Union officials for their interest in crew during their stay in Morrisviile. JIAN (Pacific Warerways), May 2 Chairman^ T, Clough; Secretary/ A. Rudnlcki. .Some disputed OT in each department. Discussion on putting Canal Zone water in domestic tanks. Vote of thanks extended to the stew­ ard department for a Job well done. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), March 6 —Chairman, Edward Kelly; Secre­ tary, J. E. Hannon. No beefs were reported by department deiegate.s. Vole of thanks extended to the stew­ ard department. The steward thanked the crew for helping to keep messhall and pantry clean. PUERTO RICO (Motorshrps), April 24—Chairman, P. Muccia; Secretary, ciation for same. $5 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion made that Brother Fred Tampol be re-elected as ship's leiegate. Crew request mora night lunch be put out. Steward requests all hands to cooperate with the crew messman and crew pantryman to keep both messhall and pantry clean. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), April 12—Chairman, Frank Arana; Secre­ tary, Jasper Anderson. $2.42 in ship's fund. Request made that $1 be contributed to fund at payoff. Mo­ tion made to have headquarters form a quarter committee to Inspect liv­ ing conditions on new ships. In the future. Ship's delegate offered con­ dolence to Brother H. Doweil on behalf of the crew, on the death of his wife. Discussion regarding trans­ portation for the crew from ship to bus station. Vote of thanks to en­ tire steward department. STEEL ARTISAN (Isthmian), April 25—Chairman, A. Quinn; Secretary, Gus Lopez. Ship's delegate reported that all disputed OT will he referred to the patrolman. Crew request new 16 or 12-inch fans be put aboard ship before next voyage. $3.91 In ship's fund. List of personal property that from 1953 to 1963, and the num­ ber of those employed by 6.6 mil­ lion, the number of those working full time in private employment, which excludes government jobs, dropped by 400,000. Asks More Cooperation The finest thing that could happeitr he declared, would be to "build up complete cooperation between organized labor and or­ ganized business" on strengthen­ ing the economy because If labor and management do not work to­ gether to make our system work, "there will have to be some other answer, and this means the fed­ eral government." The unemployment situation, has an Impact on every American problem, he emphasized, declar­ ing: "It's at the heart of the civil rights problem, because Negro unemployment Is twice the na­ tional average. It's at the heart of the delinquency problem be­ cause Juvenile unemployntent is three times the national average. When Wagner, representing business on the panel, said the 35-hour week would "harm our ability to compete," Meany fired back: "This is the same argument we heard when we reduced the workweek from 60 to 48 and 40." Declaring ".we've got to come to" a shorter workweek, the AFLCIO President predicted that at its annual meeting the Chamber would again take "automatic OP- was damaged diia to breaking of water pipe over two crewmember's lockers was, given to the captain but he refused to accept same. MIDLAND (Clearwater), April 26— Chairman, Richard J. Malay; Secre­ tary, Richard Simpson. Ship's dele­ gate took the matter of disputed OT to the captain. This and a few other beefs will be referred to* patrolman at payoff. Chief engineer Is pleased with efficiencies and cooperation of hiackgang throughout the voyage. Motion made that membership vote on new agreements to be signed June 13. Coffee urn In pantry should be replaced. Ship needs fumigation for roaches. ORION CLIPPER (Western Tankers), March 22—Chairman, S. Bergeria; Secretary, Frank Nakllckl. Ship's delegate informed crew that the ship is going to Honolulu and will arrive there about the end of May. Also Informed crew that the Union has a school for Bosuns now, and the dues increased to $160 per year. Let­ ter will be gent to Union regarding treatment of sick men aboard. Motion made to have the doctors that come aboard these ships appointed by the American Council as some of the doctors that now come aboard seem to be quacks. Motion to write to headquarters in regards to cutting out the use of fish oil in engine room, or clothing allowance given when used. $13.63 In ship's fund. SEATRAIN GEORGIA (Seatrain), April 27—Chairman, K. J. McCulloughi Secretary, K. J. McCullough. Ship left Texas City short one wiper. Brother Gunnar Grahne was elected as ship's delegate. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. ERNA ELIZABETH (Overseas Navi­ gation), April S—Chairman, J. Nolsen; Secretary, $. Doyle. One man missed ship In engine department due to ship sailing before time posted. Motion made for 12 to IS years sea time for retirement, re­ gardless of age. Vote of thanks to the entire steward department for Job well done. Crew request that this ship be placed among the best feeders. ORION COMET (Wsstarn Tankers), Feb. II—Chairman, J. Hoggia; Secre­ tary, M. Burns. Brother J. Hoggia was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Discussion on prices of slop chest which are way out of line. $29 out of ship's fund was donaled to men In Marina Hlspital. Request made for $1 per man to be put to­ wards ship's fund. Rusty water to be checked. Shortage of fans—only two were put aboard. minimum wage protection to laun­ dry workers earning 40, 50 and 60 cents an hour. Several million workers, he said, are "not in the market as consumers because they are pri­ soners of a low wage economy." Business, he asserted, "ought to look at this for the benefit of the entire economy" and not Just that "of a few employers who happen to be your members." Canada Hooks Into AMVER Radio System NEW YORK—Twelve Canadian marine radio stations along the east coast of Canada linked with eighteen US Coast Guard and Navy radio stations on May 1 to provide a total of thirty stations in the North Atlantic region which relay messages at no cost for merchant vessels of all nations. The extension of the radio net­ work is a new development in the American Merchant Vessel Re­ port System (AMVER), which is located at Coast Guard head­ quarters in the Custom House, here and serves as a receiving center for all messages that are received from ships that utilize the AMVER system. The AMVER system is an inter­ national mutual assistance program which provides, with the aid of electronic computers, a develop­ ment and coordination of search and rescue efforts in the offshore areas of the Atlantic Ocean, Carib­ bean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Merchant vessels of all nations making voyages in these areas vol­ untarily send sailing and position reports via the radio hookup to AMVER headquarters here. In­ formation from these reports is then entered into a electronic com­ puter which generates and main­ tains dead reckoned positions for the vessels. The memory of the computer also stores certain char­ acteristics related to about 15,009 merchant vessels sailing the Atlan­ tic from time to time. Normally the AMVER computer is plotting about 900 vessels simul­ taneously. This represents about 60 percent of the vessels of 80 na­ tions within radio range of tha AMVER communications network. The predicted positions of tha vessels are accurate to a probabla error of 25 to 50 miles. Over 2,500 separate vessels are plotted making 5,500 separate messages each month, and participation continues to grow each day. When an emergency occurs at sea, the computer is asked to pro­ vide certain infonnation concern­ ing vessels near enough to assist. This Includes the identity, loca­ tion, course, speed, radio watch and frequency guard, availability of doctor, radar and radio tele­ phone and destination. iNlHB CALL SlU HALL/ �• I n. is«4 SEAFARERS LOG rag* Niactcai Galley Experts Seafarers never had much of a reputation when it comes to worrying about the com­ plexion of their hands or deciding what kind of fragrance their soap cakes should have. A seaman who has just come up from a hot four hours in the engine room or has completed a paint chipping job in the teeth — of a raw wind isn't too likely which was directed his way when Health Service is considering drop­ ping its practice of issuing fit for to care whether his skin is his father passed away. duty slips, drew strong condemna­ 4 4 4 going to end up "softer than soft" One reason why chow on the Arizpa (Waterman) often draws raves from crewmembers is the care taken In its prep­ aration by the galley staff. Carl Churke, third cook, II) and Felix Tate, ship's baker, (r) are caught by the camera as they work on the dinner meal. LOG-A-RHYTHM: Sailor's Request By Tony Toker Looking hack to one score and eleven, Onr pgthioay of life was 'tween Hades and Heaven. Until I realized that all was not right; I tried very hard vxith all of rhy might. Setting a pace that was easy to follow. Enjoying the oceans and watching the swallows. To me you are still the same girl I wed; Others may say not, just believe what I said. Keep faith in me always; don't ever despair. Even when gossips may foul up the air. Remember the good that I may have done; Never conderhn me, even in fun. Even though often tve are too long apart. Endless are my thoughts from where I depart. Coming to this phase or part of my poem. Understand darling, that I'm far from home. Relying upon your trust in me; Knowing my actions, judged/ they «nll be. Even when I'm angry or just a plain bore. Yes, I still love you. of that I am sure. ALCOA MASTER (Alcoa), AprU 11 —Chairman, A. Howit; Sacratary, W. Massenger. $3.40 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department deleeates. Brother Messenger was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Crew re­ quested to close drain valve in laun­ dry room before leaving. Ship is Tunning smoothly. smoothly. Motion made that food plan be discontinued. Ships are not stored sufficiently and it Is a waste of Union funds for personnel to operate same. Vote was 100 percent in favor of motion. Motion made that instant coffee be put aboard ship and coffee urn repaired. ALCOA RUNNER (Alcoa), April 12 —Chairman, Marshal C. Cooper; Sec­ retary, Charles E. Turner. Ship's delegate reported that everything is in order. Some minor disputes in deck and engine department to be taken up with patrolman. Entire crew requested to keep pantry and messroom clean. Vote of thanks to the steward department. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), April 32—Chairman,, Harry K. Kauf­ man) Secretary, Fazll All. $64.10 in ship's fund. Motion made that qual­ ity of stores and meats be checked. $10 was given to chief electrician for carrying men In his car to SlU hall to vote. All men requested to turn In room keys. PENN CARRIER (Penn Shipping), April 5—Chairman, R. Harp; Secre­ tary, J. Padelsky. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything Is running I PENN CARRIER (Penn Shipping), May 2—Chairman, Lonnle Cole; Sec­ retary, Michael C. Miller. Motion made that SIU Food committee make sure that the ship has the right amount of food. Ship's delegate re­ ported no beefs but quite a bit of disputed OT in deck department. Everyone asked to be careful with smoking. MASSMAR (Calmer), May 8—Chair­ man, Joe Air; Secretary, John A. Ykeiow, Bumy, THAT SOAP POVVPgK OF VOUI2S su/se OlOMV , lAUNPPYi / The crew aboard the LaSalle when he lathers up. (Waterman) think they have a so­ Crewmembers on the Del Norte (Delta), therefore, weren't too lution to the age-old problem of surprised when A. J. Tremer de­ getting Into locked crew quarters manded that a more masculine brand of soap be put out for the crew's use. Tremer told his ap­ proving audience that Lux, Camay and all the other toilet soaps that are advertised to keep a woman's skin pure were just "too sweet" for his liking. t 4 4. The crew aboard another Delta Line ship also was forced to wrestle with a cleaning problem recently. Since the Del Compo has a limited amount of space where crewmemers can hang their laundry to dry, a definite problem had developed with what could be done with the wet wash. Ev­ eryone agreed that when laundry became dry, it should be prompt­ ly removed from the line. Naviga­ tion on the ship could also be improved if crewmembers would stop hanging their laundry out­ side crew quarters and in the al­ leyway, reports Joseph Zeloy, ship's delegate. Sullivan. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. Crew beefing about the very bad food on the ship. This matter to be taken up with patrolman. partment. Brother Ralph O. King resigned as ship's delegate. Ven­ tilators in engine room need repair­ ing. Each crewmember requested to protest removal of radio operators. ROBIN 600DFELL0W (Moorc-McCormaek), March 22—Chairman, Lu­ ther Cadson; Secretary, Thomas J. Heggarty. Two men missed ship in New York. Radio operator requests that all wires be paid in cash. $17 In ship's fund. $10 was donated to Seamen's Library In New York. Brother Oreste Vola was re-elected to serve as ship's delegate. All de­ partments requested to keep laundry room clean. TRANSINDIA (Hudson Waterways), March 29—Chairman, A. F. Bankstron; Secretary, L. A. Brown. Brother Bankstron, acting ship's delegate, re­ ported things running smoothly. Ship sailed short an electrician. Brother Bankston was elected ship's delegate before end of meeting. Crew re­ quested to leave crew messroom open while at sea. Ship's delegate reported that two men missed payoff in Philadelphia and two men missed ship in Phila­ delphia. Some disputed OT in deck department. Captain will have ship fumigated for roaches in Rotterdam. SACRAMENTO (Oriental Export­ ing), April 5—Chairman, Robert Spencer; Secretary, Robert E. Summerford. Brother Slade was elected to serve as ship's treasurer. $19.50 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department and deck de- 4 4 4 Seafarers on the Raphaer Semmes (Sea-Land) have decided iti about time to improve the recep­ tion on their TV set. A recent reso­ lution asked that each crewmember donate $3.00 to the ship's fund for repairs to the set and also set up a committee to buy a new antenna, reports Guy Walter, meeting sec- its, Ott U Clair after the crewmember has left the ship. Crewmembers voted to set up a deposit system to avoid hav­ ing their shipmates leave ship with the keys in their pockets, 4" 4" Vance' Reid, ship's delegate on according to Leo James, meeting the Anjt (Pacific Seafarers), sends secretary. this message to his Union broth­ 4 4 4 Seafarers on the Penn Trader ers: "Wish us luck on this slow trip to China. But, this is what I (Penn Shipping) might have been like since we've got a good crew. under the impression that their eyesight was going bad until they All is fine." heard an anguished complaint at 4 4 4 " The crew on the Steel Vendor a recent ship's meeting. Crew­ (Isthmian) know how to comfort members. quickly backed up a de­ an unfortunate brother when he mand that the engineer come up is in need. At a recent ship's with brighter light bulbs which meeting, the ship's steward, Fred would produce more than 25 watts Shaia publicly stated his thanks both in passageways and living to the entire crew for the concern quarters, reports John W. Butler, and care they gave him while he ship's delegate. was sick. Frank Travis also ex­ Reports that the US Public pressed his gratitude for the help ST. CHRISTOPHER (Destiny Car­ riers), March 15—Chairman, John Bergeria; Secretary, Thomas Farrell. tion at a ship's meeting on the Transindia (Hudson Waterways). A. F. Blankston, ship's deiegate, states that it is the crew's feeling that such an act would represent the first step in completely ending the care of seamen by the USPHS. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin), March 22—Chairman, None; Secretary, James W. Galloway. Ship's delegate re­ ported some disputed OT. Crew told that each department should order their own sanitary gear. Motion made io request clarification on shore leave for Ascension Island. COLORADO (Waterman), March 1— Chairman, Vincent Kohl; Secretary, T. J. Kearns. No beefs reported by department delegates. Discussion on more food being put out for night lunch, tables being set up correctly, and crew desire to have more coffee served at all meals. This will be corrected. Coffee time is proving a prob­ lem on the Council Grove (Cities Service) where there seems to be a shortage of cups to drink the Java. Despite this inconvenience, the crew was more than ready to vote their thanks for the fine work the steward department was doing. 4 4 4 Contented seamen who know they can look forward to meals prepared in finest SIU style con­ tinue to give high praise to their steward departments. Among the ships whose steward departments have receii'ed votes of thanks lately are the Steel Recorder (Isthmian), Transorient (Hudson Waterways), John C. (Atlantic Car­ riers), Fairport (Waterman), Montpelier Victory (Victory Carriers), Del Monte (Deltal, Midland (Clear­ water), Steel Architect (Isthmian), Transhatteras (Hudson) Water­ ways), Baltimore (Cities Service), Losmar (Calmar), Madeket (Water­ man) and Florida State (Ever­ glades). 4 4 4 Crewmembers on the City of Alma and the Fairport (Water­ man) are really beaming about the company's decision to provide watch focsles for the engine de­ partment since passenger opera­ tions were cut back. Sentiment for the move was very high before the decision i\as announced. 4 4 4 Former shipmates of Bill Olds on the Del Norte (Delta) were sad­ dened to hear of his recent passing. Many of those who remembered him were happy to contribute to the collection which raised $200 for his family in New Orleans, re­ ports ship's delegate Harry Wolowitz. 4 4 4 It's been all smooth sailing on the Marine (US Shipping). F. J. Johnson, ship's delegate, recently gave a vote of thanks to W. Drake, deck delegate; George Williams, engine delegate, and F. Davacol, steward delegate for their excel­ lent cooperation. The crew gave a rousing vote of thanks to Eddie Miller, chief steward, for his good menus, fine food and A-1 service �Fag* Twenty SEAFARERS U, INf LOO SlU Shutterbug Takes Trip To Moscow NEW ORLEANS—When the York (American Bulk Carriers) visited Odessa recently as part of tha US wheat ship* ments to Russia program, Seafarer Eric Joseph took the initiative to go sightseeing in Russia. Joseph's visit to Moscow repre-" sented the second time he had seen streets, and a great real of new the city. He had visited Moscow apartment construction. five years earlier when he had also However, Joseph strikes a more toured Kiev, Leningrad, Riga and somber note when he mentions the fact that he was followed by plain­ Moscow. He reports that he noticed sev­ clothes security police during his eral changes since his last visit to Moscow visit. Even though he was the Soviet capital. He noticed that faced with the uncomfortable situa­ the people on the streets were bet­ tion of being shadowed, he states ter dressed, that there were a that he had the freedom to go any­ larger number of small cars on the where in the city. 4 These views of Moscow were taken for the LOG by Seafarer Eric Joseph who recently made his second trip to see the Soviet ca­ pital. Joseph made hit visit when the York (Amer­ ican Bulk Carriers) de­ livered a load of wheat to Odessa as part of the grain shipments. The top photo shows the huge state-run GUM department stores in Moscow. The photo at the right depicts St. Basil's Cathedral. IsBiii'' -A.. - •• SlU-lifeboat training dramatically proved its value as It prevented an accident from turning into a tragedy when a Seafarer lifeboat crew successfully completed the transfer of an injured crewmember from^' the Oceanic Wave (American that they got a free ride since Oceanic) to a waiting doctor they couldn't keep tha boat going under its own power. When this became evident, oars were struck and "the Vikings could have taken lessons from the way the SIU boys PRODUCER (Marin* Carriers), April 19—Chairman, M. Poole; Secretary, T. Adami. Ship is running smuuthiy. Wiil pay oil April 24th. No beefs reported. Motion to install airpipes from pas­ sageway to each foc'sle. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department. HASTINGS (Waterman), April I9-. Chairman, Leon Jordan; Secretary, John Wells. Nothing much to report. Everything is running smoothly. Draw will be put out before arrival. Pantry­ man hospitalized in St. Nazaire. France. $4.00 in ship's fund. Discus­ sion on repairs. SEATRAIN SAVANNAH (Seatratn), April 26—Chairman, A. Gylland; Sec­ retary, W. NIhem. Disputed OT lor OS wiU be taken up with patrolman. No major beefs reported by department delegates. Use Only One Mail Address from ship to bus station. Vote of thanks to the steward department. Motion made that headquarters form a committee to inspect living condi­ tions on new ships, in the future. CANTIONY (Cities •ervlce), April 23—Chairman, None; Secretary, A. Hebert. No beefs reported. Boarding patrolman to appoint deck delegate. Held discussion about food and prep­ aration of same. NORINA (Marine Traders), Feb. 2S —Chairman, John D. McLemore; Sec­ retary, Wallace O. Perry, Jr. Brother Wallace G. Perry, Jr. was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Some dis­ puted OT in engine department per­ taining to oilers standing watches. Crew requested to keep crew mess clean at aU times. OCEANIC SPRAY (American Oce­ anic), April 26—Chairman, John C. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), April S— Chairman, W. T. Roach; Secretary A, Q. Nail. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. missed ship in steward department. No beefs reported by department delegates. Everything Is running smoothly. Brother Vincent Young was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Miller Brown sent the lifeboat across the water," declares Brown. When the transfer had been completed. Walker was turned over to the Hanover's doctor who turned out to be a young German who had just completed his train­ ing in the US. The German medic told Miller that he was only too glad to do something for an Amer­ ican after the wonderful treatment he had received in this country. The doctor was forced to am­ putate two of Walker's fingers, but after the operation was completed and he had returned to his ship, the brave electrician offered thanks to everyone in the lifeboat crew who had worked so hard to help him. While the operation was in progre.ss. Miller held the lifeboat alongside the Hanover. The Sea­ farer's wait for their injured brother was made more comfort­ able by the hospitality of the Ger­ man crew which gave the Seafarers cold beer. DEL NORTE (Delta), April 19— Chairman, Harold Crane; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Ship's delegate reported that one oiler was flown to New Orleans froih Barbados for being undesirable and a telegram was sent to New Orleans hail to that effect. One man was hospitalized in Buenos Aires. Letter received from Buck .Stephens .stating that the movie fund money $400 (.short $34) was returned. Brother Stephens was thanked for his trouble in recovering the fund. At present movie fund on board is $205.80 and $86.00 in ship's fund. Motion made to have negotiating committee negotiate for two days off a trip. This to be included in con­ tract. RIO GRANDE (Oriental Exporters), April 12—Chairman, Hugh D. Curran; Secretary, S. T. Araies. Brother Hugh D. Curran was elected to serve as ship's delegate. One man missing in deck department. No beefs re­ ported. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), April 12 —Chairman, Frank Arana; Secretary, Jaspar Anderson. Letter sent to head­ quarters regarding conditions on lioard ship. $2.42 in ship's fund. .Sliip's delegate offered condolence to Brother H. Dowcii on behalf of the crew on the death of his wife. Dis­ cussion about transportation for crew Seafarer Joseph poses in front of tha Lenin Museum on his recent visit to Mos­ cow while a group of Rus­ sian school children line up in the background. Al­ though Joseph reports he was followed by security police, he says that he could go anywhere he wanted. and how movies shall be purchased. Crew requests a different brand of catus and chill sauce as present brand explodes. Crew also requests that wash water tanks be repaired as water is now mixed with paint. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), April 12—Chairman, George Hayes; Secretary, Edward MIshanskl. Ship's delegate reported that one fireman was missing duo to illness. No re­ placement was available. This ship won the Safety Award. Crew told to prepare rooms for spraying. Poor grade of toilet tissue aboard ship. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for preparation and serving of food during voyage. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sea-Land), April 4—Chairman, J. Byrnes; Secre­ tary, Guy Walter. Brother Richard Brown was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $15.08 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. Motion made that each man. donate $4 to fund in order to pay for repaPs on TV. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Overseat), Feb. 4—Chairman, C. B. Lee, Jr.; Secretary, T. Jonet. Brother C. E. Lee. Jr., was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew re­ quested to keep mc.ssall clean nnd to take care of washing m.achinc. WARM SPRINGS (Columbia), April 4—Chairman, Walter Marcus; Secre­ tary, Paul B. Gladden, Sr. One man MARGARET BROWN (Bioomfield), April 12—Chairman, P. Blaiack; Secre­ tary, S. Rothschild. One man mi.ssed ship and later rejoined in another port. Vote of thanks extended to stew­ ard department for excellent service. so upset the people of the USSR as the death of President John t, Kennedy. "They had extraordinary respect for the man," he declared. "Practically everyone I spoke with," he continued, "expressed the opinion there would be no war so long as Kennedy were President. Today they shrug their shoulders and say: Now we don't know; any­ thing can happen." 04-;, Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies duo from various operators in back wages and disputed overtime should first check whether they have a proper maUing address on file with the company. SIU headquarters officials point out that reports received from sev­ eral operators show checks have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score is sent from another, thus cre­ ating much difficulty in keeping accounts straight. SIU Lifeboat Crew Saves Injured Brother aboard a passenger liner on the high seas. The incident began when ship's electrician Eddie Lee Walker was stoning a commentator on a gener­ ator, according to a report by ship's meeting secretary Ira Brown. Walker's hand slipped while he was working, and the top of two fingers of one hand were severed when his Walker hand was pulled Into the generator. A quick call for medical help was sent out on the ship's radio, and two minutes later the German liner Hanover answered the dis­ tress signal. The German ship radioed that it had a doctor on board and would turn about to meet the Oceanic Wave. Since the Hanover had gone through the Suez Canal at the same time as the American ship and was only a few miles ahead of it, a rendevous was quickly arranged. When the Hanover came into sight, the value of SIU lifeboat training soon showed itself. Brown writes that bosun, Frank Miller took command of number one life­ boat which was launched "with a bunch of real good sailors at the oars." In describing the transfer oper­ ation, Brown says that the lifeboat crew did a fine job in traditional SIU style. Although two engineers were aboard to work the boat's motor, the meeting secretary notes During his tour, Interpreterguides, "all women, most of them pretty" accompanied his party. He reports that he met several beauti­ ful Russian girls and found that getting acquainted with them was definitely an Individual matter. On the whole Joseph discovered So­ viet citizens were "friendly, polite and curious about anything Ameri­ can. On the other hand, it is obvious that both he and his fellow crewmembers on the York were not too pleased with the way a Russian patrol boat circled their ship for two nights while it awaited clear­ ance to dock at Odessa. Another unpleasant Soviet practice was the assignment of armed soldiers to patrol all the ships in port, he adds. According to Joseph, nothing has Hunt; Secretary, P. J. Foley. Held discussion on draws. Ship sailed from Galveston, Texas, short one oiler and one fireman. One fireman boarded at Freeport. Brother P. J. Douzat, Jr. was elected to serve as ship's delegate. DEL RIO (Delta), April 19—Chair­ man, Leon J. Penton; Secretary, Alf M. Toientino. Brother Norman W. DuBois was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Ship sailed one man short from Beaumont, Texas. $9 in ship's fund. Discussion on food not being cooked properly. Poultry is not cooled long enough. SENECA (Marine Carriers), March 27—Chairman, L. A. Mitchell; Secre­ tary, F. A. McGrath. Motion made to have the laundry room cleaning alternated each week between tha deck and engine crew. Motion to have recreation room clean and that the last stand-by help clean up the crew mess. Crew requested to be properly dressed when entering the dining area. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), Feb. 24—Chairman, Edmund J. Len; Sec­ retary, James Gilliam. Ship's dele­ gate reported no beefs and ship is off to a good start. Few hours dis­ puted OT in deck department. Stow­ away is being returned to Massawa, Ethiopia—this being his third try. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), March 29—Chairman, T. Johnson; Secretary, K. Ryan. $13.55 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Discussion on movie projector LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory Carriers), March 29—Chairman, Rob­ ert W. Ferrandiz; Secretary, F. Ches­ ter. Brother E. O. (Tex) Warren was elected to servo as ship's delegate, and it was agreed that ha take care of the ship's fund. $7.15 in fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. ALCOA MARKETER (Alcoa), April 5—Chairman, D. N. Dickson; Secre­ tary, W. P. Anderson. Brother D. N. Dick.son was elected to serve as ship'.* delegate. Deck delegate reported that he has a check for $110.38 to be deposited in ship's fund for movies. Said chock to be caslied In Sun Francisco and kept for safe keeping by the Captain. It was suggested that the ship's library be locked In port and the key kept In messhall. TRANSERIE (Hudson Waterways), April 23—Chairman, George W. Alex­ ander; Secretary, Richard W. Simpkins. One man hospitalized in Odes­ sa. Another man paid off in Odessa due to death in his family. Brother George W. Alexander was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to Brother John J. Quinter, former ship's delegate, .for a Job well done. Crew requested not to smoke on deck while carrying gaso­ line as cargo. OCEAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas), May 2—Chairman, J. Karl; Secretary, R. F. Mackert. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything Is going well. Praised crew's behavior. One man missed ship in Nola. One man to get off in Canada for operation. Will see the captain about replacements. �U. 1M4 SEAT ARE BS' rag9 LOG Oldtimer Describes Thrills Of Days On Sailing Ships By Fred Harvey, H-120 EDITOR'S NOTE—Fred Harvey is an SIU oldtimer whose sailing career stretches all the way back to the days before steam ships replaced the clippers on the high seas. LOG readers will remember the ac­ count of his days on the whaler Andrew Hicks which appeared in the December 28, 1962, edition. i ni :.i"9;i i r^i It r: ? I^ \U I< Iv h. A drawing of the three sky sail W. F. Babcock under full sail shows the graceful majesty which inspired the loyalty of sailing oldtimers such as SlU member Fred Harvey. After having his fill of whaling, Harvey signed on the Babcock which sailed from San Francisco to Weesong, China. Seafarers Not Charity Cases To the Editor: I was reading a newspaper from England the other day when it struck me just how lucky the American seaman is to have such a strong Union as the SlU to represent them. The paper was the "London Observer," and in the classi­ fied pages there was a small advertisement asking for do­ nations to something called the "Royal Alfred Merchant Seamen's Society." The soci­ ety's pitch was that it never ignored a "distress signal from an aged or disabled seafarer." If American seamen weren't protected by unions like the SlU, they would also have to depend on charity handouts from organizations like the one advertising in the "London Observer." However, we do have the SIU, and I know we can all sleep that much better since we know that our Union will take care of us both while we are sailing and afterwards when we are forced to stay on the beach permanently. Today a Seafarer can hold up his head with pride and not worry about becoming an ob- To The Kditor All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be tcithheld upon request. I ject of charity and whether or not somebody is going to an­ swer a "distress signal." Carl Cowl l" S* Mourns Passing Of Joe Voipian To the Editor: I was very sorry to hear that Joe Voipian passed away. All the oldtimers in the Union will really miss him, especially the ones who are now receiving pensions, not to say anything about the members who are about ready to start collecting their pension checks. tF You ARE RECEIVING MORETHAN ONE COPY OF THE In his job as head of the SIU's Department of Social Security, he was always fighting to make pension conditions bet­ ter for our Union's oldtimers. This is one of the reasons why the SIU has the best pension plans of all the maritime unions. He never gave up working for a better social security plan and an improved deal for SIU pensioners. Let's all hope that the good work that Joe Voipian dedicated his life to will be carried on. Leo Gillis. Seaman Lauds Care By Crew To the Editor: I am writing to tell you of the wonderful care and atten­ tion that I received on my last voyage on the Steel Vendor. During the trip I was taken ill with a kidney stone ailment which knocked me off my feet. I was laid up in bed for eight long days until the pain from the sickness cleared up. When I first got sick, the pain was so much that I really got scared, especially since I didn't know what it was. What I. really want to talk about is the class A treatment that the entire crew gave me. Even though they were all busy, every one of them told me how concerned they were about my poor condition. Dur­ ing the time I was flat on my back, there was always some­ one in my room watching over me. I got this attention for the eight days I was sick, every hour of the day or night. Since everyone on board the Steel Vendor went out of his way to make sure that I would pull through, I really find it very hard to single out any one or two men to give my thanks to. When I say every­ one, I mean right from Captain K. N. Greenlaw to the greenest seaman in the crew. Every last crewmember was ready and willing to do anything that I asked when I needed some­ thing. I want everyone in the SIU to know that as far as I'm con­ cerned, there isn't a ship sail­ ing that has a crew that can top the Steel Vendor's. Fred Shaia A ship flying across the water under full sail is a beautiful thing to see. Back in the days when I first started sailing, the notion of signing on a steam ship never even occurred to me. Sailing ships were good enough for me, just as they were for Andy Furuseth in his time. Back in 1903 when I was on the Andrew Hicks, we caught in the ice which was be­ crew consisting of 18 sailors, a sailed to the Arctic Ocean to ginning to move south. It was sailmaker, carpenter, cook, stew­ get Bowhead Whale. I remember going ashore on Middleton Island, in the Gulf of Alaska, south of Valdez. We found an old Scan­ dinavian captain who lived alone there raising blue and silver fox for their fur. Fresh Eggs After learning that we wanted fresh provisions, the old man told us where we could find sea gull eggs. We headed for some high cliffs and started gathering eggs using long "man helpers" with spoons attached. Til never forget how thousands of gulls descended on us, screaming their protests as they watched their nests being robbed. We managed to get several baskets of eggs which changed our menu on the Harvey ship considerably. We started eating eggs until they came out of our ears. For days we were served nothing but boiled eggs, and fried eggs, but we never did get a slice of ham with them. Our ship's captain gave the old skipper on the island a bolt of canvas for helping us out, and we proceeded to the Bering Sea. When we arrived there, there wasn't any wind. While we were be­ calmed, we started to fish, catch­ ing cod by the hundreds with an occasional halibut. This meant that we finally were able to stop eating eggs. Our diet, which now consisted of fried fish, boiled fish and fish served in every other way we eould dream up, still was a welcome change from our usual fare of salt "horse" (pork). McKenzie River After sailing through the Ber­ ing Strait, we eventually arrived at the mouth of McKenzie River where the crew got its first bowhead whale in the vicinity of Herochel Island. We didn't have much trouble in killing him, and after he was stripped down, we got about 1,000 pounds of bone out of him. This was sold back in the States for around $3 per pound. I guess the shipowner made a good profit out of It, but $3 is all the money that we ever got out of it. Continuing on, we sailed until we reached solid ice, and even though it was summer, I was able to go out on the ice pack with a hunting party. We bagged a polar bear later on and managed to get two walruses. Since the Andrew Hicks had to depend on her sails, she had to turn around toward Point Barrow in order to avoid getting during this time that we got ard, cabin boy and five officers another bowhead, collecting about aft for a total of 28 men. Although 1,500 pounds of bone and some the Babcock had a reputation as oil. After sailing through the a hellship only ten years before, Bering Sea, we killed Sperm we managed to do fairly well. In Whale which gave us about 80 those days we didn't stand the usual afternoon watch in fine barrels of oil. when we reached San Fran­ weather. This meant that every cisco in the early part of Decem­ second day everyone worked the ber 1903, I decided it was about whole days every 48 hours. time to do some sailing on another We made a fast passage to the part of the ocean. Up to that mouth of the Whampoa River in time, most of my trips were on about 45 days. Although Shanghai the Pacific and the waters north lies about 14 miles up the of the Arctic Circle. Whampoa, we dropped anchor at Barbary Coast Weesong on the Yangtze where Meanwhile, 1904 rolled around, our cargo was unloaded into and the old Barbary Coast looked junks. Since we were some distance as fine as ever. Business was really booming at the Thalia and to Shanghai, our skipper promised Hippodrome dance halls, and that half the crew at a time could things were roaring along Bart- get into the city for a weekend. lett Alley and other areas in the As was the custom in those days old Red Light district. along the Chinesse coast, a big Even though I was only 17 at junk would anchor off the stern the time, I felt strong as an ox of a ship whose crew couldn't and considered myself a good 1 get to shore. Crewmembers would boat man. After all, I had been j then have the opportunity to draw serving as a stroke oarsman in i a certain amount from the junk's a whale boat full of gear which ! proprietor out of the $25 a month carried a crew of six. Trying to wages that they were paid. Of run down a whale in one of those course, this didn't amount to too boats is a long way from the much since we all got a month's training SIU men get in lifeboat advance in San Francisco. How­ handling. I still say there is ever, things were very cheap in nothing like practical experience the Orient, and all the average in a whale boat in the long seaman wanted was wine, women swells of the Pacific or fishing and song, all of which could be purchased from the junk so con­ down on the Grand Banks. When I went to the shipping veniently anchored off our stern. Went Ashore master, I found out there was an The first Saturday after our American three sky sail yarder, the W. F. Babcock, loading oil for arrival, I went to take a look at the lamps of China. When he Shanghai with the port watch. I asked me if I wanted to sign on arrived there with $10 in my as third mate (about the equiv­ pocket and promptly bunked In a alent of a bosun's rating), I house that the agent had recom­ immediately accepted and went mended. After about 24 days, the coolie down to meet the skipper, a typical 'Down Easter.' He liked gangs finally got us unloaded, my looks and physique, so I got and we began to take on fresh provisions. Two men left ship for the berth. After we finished taking on jobs on the beach, and the cargo, the ship was towed down agent's shipping master replaced from Richmond and anchored to them with a couple of seamen pick up a crew. We signed on who were tired of staying in 20 men, most of them from board­ China. We beat a fast passage ing masters. Only about half of back to San Francisco, arriving them had ever seen a ship before. in the first, part of May. As soon We left for Shanghai in the as I hit shore, I began thinking middle of January, 1904 with a about getting a ship for Europe. HURRICANE (Waterman), May 3— Chairman, K. K. Brittain; Secretary, J. C. Thompson. Repair lists were made up and turned in. A nice trip. A couple of minor beets aboard. Vote of thanks extended to the ship's delegates for a Job well done, and a : special vote of thanks to the steward department for making it a wonder­ ful trip, OCEAN DINNY (Maritime Overteas), March 1 — Chairman, A. Mlchelet; Secretary, L, Pierson. Ship's delegate didn't have much to report. There are a few beefs and some dis­ puted OT, CLIP ALL MAIL LABELS FROM THE fROHT PASES... AND RETURN LABELS EOINE CANADJUSYLlSr. WILD RANGER (Waterman), March 1—Chairman, A. L, Clamboll; Secre­ tary, W. C. Sink. Ship just came out of a l.l-day lay-up in San Fran- Cisco, and is in good shape. Brother Ciamboli was elected to serve as .chip s delegate. Motion made to have supply of stamped envelopes sent to ship for forwarding crew li.sts and ship's minutes to headquarters DEL MAR (Delta), March 29—Chair­ man, E. McCloskey; Secretary, Rich­ ard Stewart. One man missed the ship in Santos, Brazil, but was re­ placed by anotlier man who had missed the ship there. One man was hospitalized in Curacao, N.W.I. $.128.08 in movie fund. Motion made that the 4-8 FWT and Oiler be re­ lived while maneuvering by the 8-12 watch as customary and this to be entered in the eiariBrations at the next negotiations of the SIU con­ tract. DEL SOL (Delta), April 3—Chair­ man, Pete Valentine; Secretary, E. P. Sahuque. $5 in ship's fund. Motion was made that each man donate $1 to ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deek and engine departments, otherwise everything is running smoothly. MAYFLOWER (Mayflower), April 2S —Chairman, A. Rummel; Secretary, R. Sanchez. Brother F. Pehler was elected tq serve as ship's delegate. All delegates requested to make up repair list as soon as possible. No beefs reported. �• . Twenty-Tfr* SEAFARERS All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Patrick Cranford, born January, Chesapeake, Va. 21, 1964, to the Quincy R. Cran4 4 4^ Melanie Lewingr, born December fords, Chickasaw, Alabama. 23, 1963, to the Clarence Lewings, 4. i Wendy Koss, born December Many, La. 21, 1963, to the James A. Koss', 4 4 4 Alpena, Mich. John Grlmmett, bom January i 4" 3, 1964, to the Richard Lee GrlmTina Marie Cairns, born Janu­ metts, Atlanta, Georgia. ary 14, 1964, to the John V. 4 4 4 Cairns', Sault Marie, Mich. Susanne Morris, born August 4* 4" 4« 12, 1963, to the Mortimer Morris", Orrin Dawson Wicker, born De­ Mobile, Alabama. cember 18, 1963, to the Ben L. 4 4 4 Wickers, Jr., Groves. Texas. Tanuny Wall, born December, 4- 4« 4" 4, 1963, to the James H. Walls, Felicia Mary Pitre, born Novem­ Jacksonville, Fla. ber 9. 1963, to the Raymond Pit4 4 4 res, Marrero, La. Sara McGrew, born December 4' 4* l" Diane Vickery, born January 6, 29, 1963, to the Lloyd McGrews, 1964, to the Walter Vlckerys, Phil­ Leltchfield, Mich. 4 4 4 adelphia, Pa. Scott Alan Louis, born Decem­ 4 4 4" Will Beasley Jr., born January ber 11, 1963, to the John N. Louis", 1, 1964. to the Will D. Beasleya. Manlstlque, Mich. Lisa & Denlse Johnson, born November 18, 1963, to the Ray­ mond Johnsons, Detroit, Mich. 4 4 4 Tammy Frazier, born November 27, 1963, to the Thomas E. Frazlers, Elkton, Va. 4 4 4 Thomas John Buzalewskl, born January 29, 1963, to the Joseph Buzalewskls, Reading, Pa. 4 4 4 Jacqueline Caban, born Febru­ ary 8, 1964, to the Rafael Cabans, New York, New York. 4 4 4 Roxann Waters, born November 23, 1963, to the Phillip M. Waters", Dallas, Texas. 4 4 4 Helen Louise Bowers, born No­ vember 4, 1963, to the Raymond S. Bowers', Algonae, Mich. 4 4 4 Beth-Ann Colllngs, born Decem­ The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported ber 25, 1963, to the Charles F. Colllngs, Philadelphia, Pa. to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment 4 4 4 of elainis is normally due to late filing, laek of beneficiary Linda Trevisano, born February card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates) i 4, 1964, to the Domlnlck TrevlMariano Seano, 74: Brother sanos, Brooklyn, New York. Clement Stann, 43: Brother Staim died of natural causes on Seano was a victim of heart dis­ 4 4 4 ease on August September 14, Houston Thomas, born January 31, 1963 at the 21, 1964, to the Houston Thomas", 1963 aboard the American Hospi­ Mobile, Alabama. Transhudson tal, Manila, The (Hudson Water­ 4 4 4 Philippines. A n ways). A member Gena Williams, born January 30, SIU member of the Union since 1939, he 1964, to the Gene Williams', Ports­ since 1957, he sailed in the deck mouth, Pa. sailed in the department be­ steward depart­ fore going on ment. He is sur­ vived by his pap> pension in 1956. ents, Alelde and Luclen Stann of surviving is his niece, Eufracla GalX r New Orleans, La. Burial was in lano of Manila, The Philippines. New Orleans. La. The place of burial is unknown. Marion P. Edge 4 4 4 You are asked to get in touch 4 4 4 John J. Donahue, 63: Heart dis­ with Red at 477-0606 In Mobile, ease was fatal to Brother Donahue Jose Alonzo, 40t Brother Alonzo Ala. on April 14, 1964 died accidentally when his house 4 4 4 in Jersey City, caught fire in Rudolph CifarattI NJ. A member of Tampa, Fla. Sail­ Your sister, Rita advises you to the SIU-Railway ing in the stew­ get In touch with your mother who Marine Region ard department, Is recovering from a broken arm. since 1963, he he was a member 4 4 4 was a tugman of the SIU since Marion McClure with the Erie 1952. He is sur­ Tha above named is asked to Lackawanna Rail­ vived by a friend, contact Lindsey Ogletree, care of road. He is sur­ Sydney D. Pat­ Airport Parking Company of Texas, vived by his wife, terson of Mobile, Sky Harbor Airport, 3000 Sky Har­ Margaret Donahue of Jersey City, Ala. Burial was bor Drive, Phoenix, Arizona. NJ. Place of burial was not listed. at Colon Cemetary, Tampa, Fla. 4 4 4 Joseph Boulanger, 67: Brother Boulanger died of natural causes on December 23, 1963 at Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, NY. He was a member of the SIU-Great Lakes Tug and Dredge District since 1961 until he re­ tired on pension in 1962. Surviv­ ing are three daughters, Rosemary Young, Margaret Dallman and Elizabeth McAndrew, and a son, Joseph Boulanger, all of Buffalo. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetary, Buffalo. 4 4 4 Tony A. Abella, 74: Brother Abella died of brain disease on January 21, 1964 at King County Hospital, Seattle Wash. He joined the SIU in 1961 and sailed as a member of both the engine and steward depart­ ments. He is sur­ vived by a daugh­ ter, Canida Asuncion of San Jose, Calif. Burial was at Holyrood Cemetary, Seattle, Wash. 4 4 4 Ferdinand J. Bruggner, 52: Brother Bruggner died of natural causes on No­ vember 2, 1963, in the Staten Island USPHS Hospital. He joined the Un­ ion in 1952 and sailed as a mem­ ber of the en­ gine department. Surviving are his sons, Andrew and Robert Brugg­ ner of Bradenton Beach, Fla. Bur­ ial was at St. Charles Cemetery, Farmlngdale, N.Y. 4 4 4 Translndia Crewmembers Seafarers in the New York area who sailed on the last voyage of the Translndia are asked to get in touch with Bob Aronson in the LOG office. 4 4 4 Charles (Dutch) Delhaus Tha above-named, who was a crewmember of the Del Valle, Voyage 81, is advised that his ra­ dio, suitcase and souvenirs are now in the purser's possession. 4 4 4 JteM It, ItM ihif Tax Refund Checks Income tax refund checks are being hold for SIU members listed below by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison Street, 4 4 4 Henry Davis, Jr., 43i A heart San Francisco 5, Calif.: Julian B. Arzaga, Vasco M. Barattack claimed Brother Davis on ros (3), Eugene W. Bent, Marjarito January 24, 1964, Borja, Joseph Camp, Eugene L. en route to the Castano, Jr., Elgll E. Hjelm (2), Johns Hopkins Joseph Luberlch Waldo M. Oliver, Hospital. Sailing Jorgen G. Pedersen, Sammy Roin the steward gamos, Michael Romalho, Henry department, he R. Smith, Charles E. Swltzer, Ber­ had been a mem­ nardo Tombocon and Willie Wal­ ber of the Union ker (2). since 1950. Bur­ ial was at Mt. 4 4 4 Calvary Cem­ Eddie Candel! etery In Anne Arundel County, You are asked to contact Jlmmie Md. Isidore E. Levin of Baltimore, D. Coker, 2824 N. W. 59th Street, Md., was legally appointed ad­ Seattle 7, Wash., about an urgent ministrator of his estate. matter. All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following U the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA Arvo Antilla R. A. Kennedy Joseph A. Baron* R. Klrsohenmann Daniel H. Bishop Duskn P. Korolla Gary J. Bryant M. M. Locklear WUbert Burke Henry J. Maas. Jr. George E. Burleson Mont McNabb. Jr. Adron Cox Claude McNorton Billy Dean Phillip C. Mendnza R. F. Edmonds Cleon Mixon John Fabis Charles Lee Monks Edw. S. Fairfield Ralph H. Newcomb O. R. Farrara Robert Odom John S. Fontan Earl J. Porta Theodore Forlin Vincent A. Quinn Audley C. Foster O. E. Richardson Richard Gallegoo J. P. Shaiigliiiessy James E. Gardiner Louis C. Storie John F. Gersey R. E. Stough, Jr. Jesse L. Green Win. D. Thiemonz* Otis J. Harden B. L. Trosclair Ramon Drizany John Valladares James O. Jackson Louis C. Vanacoer* Frank F. James John D. Vidrine Foster J. Juneau Roy R. Young Ben J. Kazuba USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MARYLAND J. C. Arnold William Milter Tom Danzey James Mitchell Hector Durate Donald E. Murphy Arnold Heinvall S. Orkwiszewski Protasio Herrera Antonio Palmes Charles Hippard Ralph Pardue Emile Haude James Redden Lafayette Howard James Selmon Edward F. Lamb Carl W. Smith Charles Lovell Paul Strickland James Lyness Samuel Walton Jerry Miller USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS John W. Alstatt Chas. C. Martin John Aruanites F. Ouweneel Samuel E. Aviles Joseph P. Pettus James Bencic L. J. Pretious J. A. CichomskI Ernesto Ramirez T. H. Fitzgibbons Frank F. Reese James C. Flanagan J. Leo Rogers John W. Gibson Alfonso Sandino Otis Gilles John E. Sbamel S. H. Harrison Charles M. Silcox Milburn L. Hatley T. A. Spencer Walter J. Koyn L. Springer Michael Machusky Charles B. Young USPHS HOSPITAT. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS John J. May Harold G. Werns Ray Kiersten USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK John Aba Nils Larson E. S. Alvarez George McGinnis Forney Bowen Warren Mclnlyre Lawrence Byrne Ambro.se Magdirila Henry Callahan G. Mihalopoulos Anthony Carrano Haakon Mouin Ed Cleary Clifton Nelson Clarence Collins Harold Nelson John Cullinson Francis Neves Hamilton Dailey N. Palaulzoglnii Joe Denton Winford PoweU Lionel Desplant Tom Rainey James Fisher James Ray Robert Godwin Win. Sargent Lynwood Gregory At StracciolinI Ralph Hayes Tunis Tcnisson Erik Jensen Julian Visla Ellis Jones Harry White Derek Lamb USPHS HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE. FI.ORIDA G. C. Maddox E. S. Bagley H. J. Roef USPHS HOSPITAf. BOSTON. MASSACHUSETTS Gilbert Edwards Charles Robinson Wm. Kouzounas Harris Smallwood Newton Paine Claude Valladares USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA Pastor B. Ablin Edwin L. Kane Charlie A. Gedra Roland E. Parady Emmet C. Humbird R. O. Zaragoza R. J. Henningcr A. Bell USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA G. C. Atherton M. L. Hamilton Robert Bailey Wm. Harris Innes Blankcnship Joseph Perry Frank Buck Otto Sylvester Barron D. Daniels Hildred V. Whit* USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT. MICHIGAN P. M. Novak Edward L. Baats Wm. Wheeler USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASHINGTON E. Le Bourveau John E. Kennedy Sam N. Bowser J. F. Malyszho G. E. Bradford Robert Maloy R. F. Nielsen CecU •. V/aUloh Antonio Penor Wm. L. Williams ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL DULUTH. MINNESOTA WUlard Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Gerald Algernon Billy C. Lynn Thoraa* Cassion George W. McKnew Arthur Collett Samuel Mills B. F. Deibler Max Olson Ab* Gordon Jamea Webb John GotseR Willie A. Young Thomas Lehay SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen Alberto Gutierrez Wm. D. Kenny Edwin Harriman VA HOSPITAL NEW YORK. NEW YORK S. Frankiewicz Harvey Rhoden VA HOSPITAL WEST HAVEN, CONNECTICUT Sahford Gregory IRON MT. HOSPITAL IRON MT. MICHIGAN Arnold Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE James McGee PINE CHEST HAVEN NURSING HOME COVINGTON. KENTUCKY Frank Martin US NAVAL HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA Henry Stone US SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON. DC Paul Stovall Wm. H. Thomson VA HOSPITAL WEST ROXBURY, MASS. R. Arsenault Beef Box (Continued from page 12) overtime as the high man's over­ time hours in the Deck Depart­ ment, except where such overtime has been paid for routine sea watches. The Boatswain shall have the right to stand week-end gang­ way watch in turn with the rest of the Deck Department. If he fails to exercise such right he has no claim for high man's overtime. If the Boatswain is required to work with and supervise the watch on deck on Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays, for which the watch on deck receives additional overtime, he shall receive the same amount of overtime per hour as paid to a member of the watch on deck, in lieu of his regular overtime rate. When the Boatswain is working alone, or with men on watch below only, on Saturdays, Sundays, or Holidays, he shall receive the reg­ ular overtime rate prescribed." In submitting questions and work situations for clarification, delegates and crews are reminded once again to provide as much de­ tail as possible selling forth the circumstances of any dispute. Be­ sides those mentioned, some of the members who were sent clarifica­ tions on various subjects during the past few days included the fol­ lowing: Charles Crafford, deck delegate, Jefferson City Victory; Albert H. Schwartz, ship's delegate, Hudson; Jack Dolan, ship's dele­ gate, Anton Brunn; Mike J. McCormick, deck delegate, Sacramen­ to; and Richard Almojera, ship's delegate, Robin Trent. SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN �SMAFdREnS Jiwet 12, 1964 IOJG Fir* Twellty-Tl^«• Senrice Industries Show Job Gains rOTSSfSPTBT HALLS NEW YORK—According to recent figures released by the Department of Labor, Ameri­ can workeris earning their livelihood in industries which provide services rather than those involved in producing goods now are now leading the latter in the number of jobs held by three-to-two. two-fifths to reach a record total The figures which were tries have lost ground. of 36V6 million last year. Since 1949, when the number compiled by the Department It represented 59 out of every of jobs first topped its counter­ part in goods, the Department 100 persons on a public or private said, employment in the service payroll, and it was almost 11 mil­ industries has increased by nearly lion greater than the 25.6 million with a job in the goods-producing industries during the year. The Institute of Life Insurance said in a statement that "the strength and persistence of the ex­ pansion trend in the service in­ dustries and the new job oppor­ tunities they have been creating SlU-AGLIWD Meetings are of major importance in view Regular membership meetings for members of the SIU Atlantic, of the unemployment problem and Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are held regularly once a our rapidly growing labor force, month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the combined with the impact of auto­ listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. mation and technological change Those who wish to be excused should request permission by tele­ on the goods-producing industries, gram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU notably on manufacturing and meetings will be: agriculture. New York July 6 Detroit July 10 "To this a new factor is being Philadelphia July 7 Houston July 13 added by the tapering off in de­ Baltimore July 8 New Orleans July 14 fense expenditures and the re­ Mobile July 15 adjustments already taking place," the insurance group continued. i. They also reported that the serv­ West Coast SlU-AGLIWD Meetings ice industries, led by public utili­ ties, are the leaders in capital in­ SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule through vestment outlays which are such June, 1964 for the monthly informational meetings to be held in a force for economic growth. West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wil­ mington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 1961. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. (Continued from page 3) The schedule is as follows: good offices to "assure the con­ 'Seattle Wilmington San Francisco tinuation of the fit-for-duty slips June 19 June 15 June 17 by the USPHS in the interests of July 24 July 20 July 22 American seamen and the US maritime industry, with which it has been traditionally concerned." Cleveland June 19 Great lakes SIU Meetings T h e SIU has traditionally Toledo June 19 fought any attempts to alter, mod­ Regular membership meetings Ashtabula June 19 ify or reduce the services per­ on the Great Lakes are heid on the first and third Mondays of (For meeting place, contaci John formed by the USPHS in the best each month in all ports at 7 PM Mero, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash­ interests of American seamen. Periodically attempts are made to local time, except at Detroit, tabula, Ohio). where meetings are helo at 2 PM. curtail services that are essential 4" 4' i The next meetings will be: to the well-being of Seafarers and United Industrial Workers other American seamen, and the Detroit July 10—2 PM Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago, Regular membership meetings Union has kept up a running fight Cleveland, Duluth, Frankfort, for UIW members are scheduled in opposition to such moves, The current effect marks' the June 15—7 PM each month at 7 PM in various ports. The next meetings will be: first time that an* attempt has been made by vested interest t i" New York July 6 groups to knock out the important Philadelphia July 7 SIU Inland Boatmen's Union fit-for-duty service which is ren­ Baltimore July 8 Regular membership meetings dered by the USPHS. 1:Houston June 15 for IBU members are scheduled Mobile June 17 each month in various ports. The next meetings will be: * Meetings held aT Laoor Temple, New­ eBNp'^M port News. Philadelphia ..July 7—5 PM t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Baltimore (licensed and un­ t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. licensed) .. July 8—5 PM Houston June 15—5 PM Norfolk July 9—7 PM N'Orleans ....June 16—5 PM Mobile June 17—5 PM ohow that service industries have dominated the expansion in em­ ployment over the post-war period, while the goods-producing indus­ icneauie o Membershi Meetings III 'K,' Hospitals II f uokj SECRETARY-TREASURER Fred J. Farnen ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER Roy Boudreau ALPENA 127 River St. EL. 4-3616 BUFFALO, NY 735 Washington TL 3-9259 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing Ave. So. Chicago, HI. SAginaw 1-0733 CLEVELAND 1420 West 25th St. MAin 1-5450 DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. . RAndolph 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich 415 Main St. Mail Address: P.O. Box 287 ELgin 7-2441 HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av. River Rouge 18, Mich. VInewood 3-4741 2604 S, 4th St DEwey 6-3828 312 Harrison St Tel. 229-2788 GREAT LAKES TUO A DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dredge Workers Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Harold F. Yon BUFFALO 04 Henrietta Ave. Arthur MiUer. Agent TR 5-1538 CHICAGO 2300 N. KimbaU Trygve Varden, Agent .... ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St. Tom Genity, Agent 621-5450 DETROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. Lincoln Park, Mich. Erne.st Demerse, Agent DU 2-7694 DULUTH 312 W. Second St Norman Jolicoeur, Agent RAndolph 7-6222 SAULT STE. MARIE Address mall to Brlmley, Mich. Wayne Weston, Agent . .BRimley 14-R 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St. CH 2-7751 Tug Firemen, Linemen, Oilers & Watchmen's Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tom Burns ASHTABULA, 0 1644 W. Third St. John Mero, Agent WOodman 4-8532 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, Mich. 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' SAULT 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 Bendbeim, Agent RAILWAY MARINE REGION HEADQUARTERS ... 99 Montgomery St. Jersey City 2. NJ HEnderson 3-0104 REGIONAL DIRECTOR G. P. McGinty ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS E. B. Pulver R. H. Avery BALTIMORE I2I6 E. Baltimore St. EA.stprn 7-jnno NORFOLK 115 Third St. 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th SI. DEwey 6-3818 Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters PRESIDENT Paul HaU EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Llndsey WilUama A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1218 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. BM Riley. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS ... .675 4th Ave., Bklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak, Agent WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Morris, Agent ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent . .622-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S, 4th St. Frank Drozak, Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN fHANCISCO 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 724-2843 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski, Agent MAin 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette, Agent 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne, Agent TErminal 4-2528 Great Lakes PHILADELPHIA TAMPA BALTIMORE 1216 E. BalUmore St. NATIONAL DIRECTOR EAstern 7-4900 Robert Matthews BOSTON 276 State St. GRE.AT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR Richmond 2-014O Pat Finnerty HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn BALTIMORE ... .1216 E. Baltimore St HYacinth 9.6600 .EAstern 7-4900 5804 Canal St. 276 State St HOUSTON BOSTON WAlnut 8-3207 Richmond 2-0140 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St. SE HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn ELgin 3-0987 HVacinth 9-6600 744 W, Flagler St. HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. MIAMI FRanklin 7-3564 WAlnut 8-3207 1 S. Lawrence St. JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE, Jax MOBILE HEmlock 2-1754 ELgin 3-0987 630 Jackson Ave. 744 W. Flagler St NEW ORLEANS MIAMI Phone 529-7546 FRanklin 7-3564 NORFOLK 115 Third St. MOBILE , ,1 South Lawrence St Phone 622-1892-3 HEmlock 2-1754 2604 S. 4th St. NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave PHILADELPHIA DEwey 6-3818 Te' 529-7.')afi 312 Harrison St. NORFOLK 115 Third St. TAMPA Phone 229-2788 Tel. 622-1892-3 Know Your Rights 4» 4* 4" RAILWAY MARINE REGION Regular membei-shlp 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 June 15 Philadelphia June 16 Baltimore June 17 •Norfolk June 18 GREAT LAKES TUG AND REGION DREDGE Regular membership meet­ ings for Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region IBU memlers are scheduled each month in the vari­ ous ports at 7:30 PM. The next meetings will be: Detroit June 15 Milwaukee June 15 Chicago June 16 Buffalo June 17 tSault Ste. Marie June 18 Duiuth June 19 Lorain June 19 (For meeting place, contaci Har­ old Ruthsatz, 118 Ease Parish. Sandusky, Ohio). FINANCIAL REPORTS. The eonslUution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes speciOc provision, for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. AU Union records are available at SIU headquarters In Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU AtlanUc. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. AU these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. AU expenditures and dishursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. AU trust fund financial records are avaUable 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 111 all Union halls. If you feel there bag 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 maU, 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 available In aU SIU haUs. 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 member. It has also refrained from pubUshing 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 tn an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from a* :>ng 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 aiiyuue 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 pubUshes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are avaUable in all Union haUs. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to famiUarize 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 disabUity-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem- . hers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role is all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain tlieir good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. AU 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 has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he Is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and poUtica] 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 funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any tima a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, he should Immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mall, return receipt requested. �SEAFARERSli^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC,.GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO The AFL-CIO International Affairs Department For Democracy •At Home And Abroad The American labor movement has a deep and serious interest in international affairs, because it recognizes the interdependence of trade union workers throughout the free world. The labor movement recognizes that for a country to be truly free, it must have a strong, flourishing trade union movement. Restrictions in the freedom of workers anywhere constitutes a threat to our own free society. Thus American labor works to pro­ mote democracy everywhere. American labor's active partici­ pation in international affairs is not of recent origin. From its incep­ tion, the United States labor move­ ment dedicated itself to the cause of free trade unionism all over the world in recognition of the obliga­ tions v/hich workers in America freely assume to aid their brother trade unionists of the free world and of the common interests of all workers in their aspirations for economic progress, social justice, peace and freedom. The role of the American labor movement in today's serious world crisis, as AFL-CIO president George Meany has put it, is to en­ able our country to develop an effective democratic foreign pol­ icy and to strengthen the interna­ tional free trade union movement, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), as a vital factor for promoting human dignity and security, a strong free world and harmony among nations. By understanding American la­ bor's role in this struggle, Meany declares that our effectiveness will be improved in helping our coun­ try vigorously pursue an interna­ tional policy which will speed the day when all mankind will enjoy the blessings of human freedom, peace and prosperity. In order to foster labor's objec­ tives internationally and to imple­ ment its policies for international cooperation among trade unions in the free world the AFL-CIO has a Department of International Af­ fairs. Under the directorship of Jay Lovestone, the department keeps a sharp eye on international developments and assists the Fed­ eration's officers in their analyses and statements expressing the policies of the AFL-CIO on inter­ national affairs. The department also issues publications, setting forth views of the AFL-CIO on various international problems in foreign countries through the English, French, German and Italian editions of the AFL-CIO Free Trade Union News. Among its many activities, the International Affairs Department promotes the American Institute for Free Labor Development which provides vital training for effective union leadership for representa­ tives from Latin and Central American countries. The Institute is a projection of the AFL-CIO's keen interest in the development of free labor in Latin America and the Caribbean. Last year 150 LatinAmerican and Caribbean area trade union leaders successfully completed courses at the institute in Washington. Most of these leaders are now active in the labor movements in their own countries, and as such are a link between U.S. and Latin-American workers. Members of the SlU are in an especially good position to under­ stand the objectives of the AFLCIO in international affairs since their jobs enable them to see con- The AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs is vitally Interested in worldwide labor issues. Young union leaders from 10 Latin American nations are shown here being welcomed to a recent class of the Ameri­ can Institute for Free Labor by AFL-CIO President George Meany. The AFL-CIO, through Its Department of International Affairs, upholds the realization that if freedom and democracy are not maintained throughout the world, then the entire free world is in danger. Helping those in lands threatened by communism, like this child in war-torn Vietnam, is important to the security of every American. ditions at first hand in virtually all ports in the free and Communist worlds. Recent articles in the LOG carrying the observations of SlU members who visited Russia as part of the US grain shipments program are a case in point. The articles by Seafarers aroused considerable in­ terest in Congress and throughout the country. After personally see­ ing how a totalitarian government stifles the rights of labor. Seafarers are in a far better position than most American workers to ap­ preciate the necessity for labor ac­ tivity in promoting democracy and the need for such efforts as those of the AFL-CIO in international affairs. The American labor movement's desire to see the concepts of free­ dom, economic and social justice established throughout the world is exemplified by the situation in wartorn Vietnam. On a recent ABC radio program, "As We See It," sponsored by the AFL-CIO, Tran Quoc Buu, president of the Con­ federation of Workers of Vietnam, told of his organization's struggle to raise the standard of living of the Vietnamese workers against the grim background of an eco­ nomically weak, underdeveloped nation. Acknowledging the politi­ cal disagreements, misery and poverty which confront Tiis country, the Vietnamese union leader stressed, nevertheless, that the workers in South Vietnam "are far better off than those in communist North Vietnam .. . also above all, we have our freedom." It is obvious thot the American labor movement cannot stick its head in the sand and ignore the crises throughout the world which threatens the freedom of workers in many areas, because a threat to their freedom is a threat to our freedom. No effort must be spared to spread the freedom and prosperity which we enjoy in the US to the four corners of the earth. This is the goal of the American labor movement. And it is to this end that the AFL-CIO International Affairs Department carries out its vital functions day to day. � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource June 12, 1964 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU HITS RENEWAL OF SCHEME TO END PHS FIT-FOR-DUTY SLIPS FOR SEAMEN US CHARGES PRICE RIGS BY CARGILL UNION ACTION SETTLES SHIP BEEFS; $25,258 GAINED FOR SEAFARERS 2,400 WC SEAMEN COME UNDER BANNER OF SIUNA-MSTU TEXT OF PRESIDENT’S PRE-BALLOTING REPORT STEEL FABRICATORS UNDER REPAIR SIU RAIL TUGMEN STAR IN PIER FIRE NEW GROUP STARTS SIU UPGRADING CLASS RUSSIA QUIETLY SEEKING FURTHER GRAIN PURCHASES MA STICKS TO REVISED C-4 EVALUATION RULING AFL-CIO UNION LABEL SHOW SEA-LAND INCREASES PUERTO RICO SERVICE U.S. MERCHANT FLEET REGISTERS NEW DROP SIU GREAT LAKES BOB-LO EXCURSION IN 30TH YEAR ICC EXAMINER OKS CALMER LUMBER RUN LABOR SEEKS PROTECTION FOR ELDERLY IN LAND DEALS SIU COMPANY SUES OVER RAIL RATE CUTS COST OF LIVING INDEX TAKES ANOTHER JUMP BIG BUSINESS PROFITS SKYROCKETING IN ‘64 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 06/12/1964 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. 12 1964 Periodicals Seafarers Log