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One crewman was injured in the blast, which left the 8,067-gross ton freighter without power and dead in the Atlantic for three days. JfUmtuUiofKit pAUldMi^ RBFO RT By Paul Holi • The Important role the U.S. merchant marine plays to the security of this nation has been making the news regularly in recent weeks. The fine job turned in by SlU-confcracted and other merchant vessels during the recent amphibious landing exercises on the coast of Spain won commendations all around—especially from the Navy. The merchant vessels carried the men and machinery which made Oper­ ation Steel Pike a success, and took an active part in the landings themselves. ' More recently there has been another example of the importance of a strong maritime to our national security. The SlU-manned Western Comet displayed the skill and seamanship which has be­ come the trademark of Seafarers all over the world by the efficiency displayed in transferring a cargo of oil at sea to two MSTS oilers. So smoothly did the Seafarers carry out the operation that the MSTS vessels did not have to slacken their speed by a single rpm to .accom­ plish the difficult maneuver. This close and efficient support of the U.S. Navy is what has in the past earned for U.S. maritime the reputation of an additional arm of our armed forces. In wartime or during other national emer­ gencies the U.S. maritime industry is called upon to supply the sup­ port without which the armed forces could not operate successfully. This is significant, because the continuing deterioration and obsoles­ cence of our merchant fleet could leave the nation without this mudi needed capability at some future date. Perhaps it is significant that these examples of the importance of U.S. maritime to the national security should occur at this time. They add heavy support to the SIU position before the continuing sessions of the President's Maritime Advisory Committee. It is clear that the nation cannot allow government agencies to continue their practice of undermining U.S. maritime at every oppor­ tunity and still expect to have a strong, effective merchant marine available in time of emergency to take over the vital job of supplying U.S. forces all over the world. The SIU and other maritime unions have carried out an active struggle throughout the past year to save the U.S. maritime industry and will redouble their efforts during the coming year. SIU protests were instrumental in bringing the Presi­ dents Maritime Advisory Committee into being, and through the committee, maritime labor has been making its voice heard on the highest levels of government. The recent resignation of Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges is perhaps also significant at this time. As head of the Department of Commerce, the Commerce Secretary has a great deal to say in the overall problems of the maritime industry. We hope that the new Com­ merce Secretary, who is a former assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, will display the necessary understanding of the important relationship between the strength of U.S. maritime and the national security. The explosion came at 7:32 A.M., shattering an engine turbine and sending huge chunks of metal rocketing through the engine com­ partment. A searing flash fire followed the blast. Flames from the blaze shot out of the stack and the engine room skylight. Its powerplant gutted, without heat, lights or pumps, the Seatrain New York drifted helplessly in the waters off Puerto Rico's north coast until an oceangoing tug towed her into San Juan on De­ cember 12. Disaster Story The story of the disaster was given to the LOG by members of the Seatrain New York's crew. Eosun Joseph Obreza said he was sitting in the messroom with Seafarer Felipe Aponte (left), ship's delegate, is shown other members of the 4-to-12 watch above describing events before and after the blast aboard who were just preparing to go on the Seatrain New York to a member of the LOS staff. duty when the explosion shook the room. James Gleason, an OS who came with an ear-shattering roar. keep spirits up by playing his was also in the messroom, said: The two officers, standing on the battery-powered radio. "The messman bringing my eggs elevated operating platform, dived On Saturday, the tug Rescuer flew about two feet off the ground." for the deck of the engine room arrived and made fast a tow^ine All crewmen agreed that the at the sound of the blast. Hud­ to the Seatrain New York, In blast had been preceded by grind­ dled on the deck with fireman- three days, the crippled freighter ing sounds from the engine room. water-tender Juan Rodriguez, they had drifted over 50 miles from her position at the time of the Oiler Jaime Pantoja was on all managed to escape injury. explosion. As they approached San The explosion hurled jagged duty when the noises started. He went above to alert the chief and hunks of the turbine in every Juan harbor, a second tug put a first engineers. After examining direction. A chunk estimated at tow on the ship's stern to keep tons ripped into the her straight through the narrow the turbine briefly, the officers six Fort Morro channel. deck above and remained w^ged ordered the powerplant shut down. A stiff wind was coming in from As It was slowing, the explosion there precariously. Another two ton mass of metal slammed into the port side and the tide was the engine room ladder, crushing strong. The tow line on the stern it and a nearby boiler. The blast snapped and the ship began drift­ t t touched off an oil blaze which en­ ing dangerously close to the Fort. The United States is entering the new year a fifth-rate maritime The crew, was called to another gulfed the engine room and spread to a nearby passageway. Injured general alarm. The tug nosed her nation in terms of its active seagoing maritime fleet. For those who in the inferno was Juan Rodriguez, straight again, with three' other care about the future of the martime industry and the national security this is a shocking fact. As the U.S. merchant fleet continues whose shoulder and arm were tugs joining in the effort. In port. Captain Walter Zyber," to decline, the Soviet Union continues to make massive strides in burned as he climbed out of the master of the Seatrain New York, terms of her maritime capacity. The Soviets are out-building us danger area. said damage would run Into "hun­ many times over with no signs of any slackening in what appears to Messman Antonio Acosta, who dreds of thousands of dollars." The be a determined effort to become the world's leading maritime nation. WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO was standing in the passageway ship will be towed to New York The consequences of this tremendous growth of the Soviet fleet is President George Meany has urged between the engine room and the for repairs, the company reported. a sobering factor to consider during the coming year. More and galley, had his eyebrows singed unions affiliated with the labor All concerned had high praise for more facts are piling up, all pointing to trouble in the future If the federation to give their full sup­ by the licking flames. the cool courage of the crew mem­ U.S. continues its past policies of neglect and disinterest of maritime. port to the Peace Corps which is A Second Fire bers. So many of them acted in A good new year's resolution for the entire nation would be a de­ conducting a vigorous campaign Crewmembers working with C02 such a professional SIU manner termination to spend more time, effort, and money if necessary in to recruit skilled and semi-skilled that it was hard to pick out heroes. the future, to revive U.S. maritime. worker volunteers for foreign serv­ fire extinguishers got the blaze under control after 30 minutes. ice. After that they checked over the The federation president has an­ ship and surveyed the damage. nounced the appointment of spe­ Later that afternoon, an attempt cial committee, headed by AFL- was made to restore power by CIO Vice President Joseph A. hooking in diesel oil from a tank Beirne, president of the Communi­ car on deck to an undamaged cation Workers, to coordinate the boiler. Another fire broke out, recruiting campaign with interna­ however, bringing the second gen­ tional unions, the Building and eral alarm of the day, and crew­ Construction Trades, and the Metal men fought the new blaze for two Trades Departments of the AFL- hours before it was put out. CIO. By nightfall, the galley gang was Asked Cooperation faced with the problem of provid­ Following a Peace Corps request ing hot food for the crew without to the AFL-CIO for assistance last the benefit of stoves or other appli­ August, the federation's Executive ances. They fashioned three make­ Council issued a statement calling shift wood-burning ovens in the on all affiliated unions "to co­ galley and set up a grill made from operate with the Peace Corps in a ship's steel plate on the fantail. its efforts to enlist the interest of Through their resourcefulness, the skilled and semi-skilled workers crew was given a good feeding. in service overseas." Crewmen gave a hearty vote of The special committee will co­ thanks to the steward department ordinate Peace Corps efforts to re­ —Ramon Aguiar, Frederick Pat­ cruit at industrial plants, local terson, Pedro Agtuca, Jose Rivera union halls and construction sites, and Antonio Acosta—for their out­ as well as helping in a nation-wide standing job. program designed to meet the A Coast Guard cutter kept track The SiU-manned Neva West (Bioomfield Steamship) has won the company Fleet Safety growing overseas demand for vol­ of the Seatrain New York while Award for the second consecutive year. Shown above at the presentation of plaque at the unteers with mechanical and man­ she waited for the tug to bring Port of New Orleans are (l-r) Seafarers D. G* Harrison and John W. Smith, messmen; third ual skills. her into San Juan. Ship's delegate mate H. J. McHargue; chief engineer J. C. Golman; Bioomfield operations manager W. Committee members will also Felipe Aponte and other crewmen B. Byrne; captain P. J. Gennusa (holding plaque); assistant SIU safety director Bill Moody; deal with the problem of protect­ spent the time sawing and chop­ and Seafarer J. H. Gleason, second electrician. Neva West crewmembers wore highly com­ ing workers' rights for those who ping wood for the stoves. Deck volunteer for the Peace Corps. engineer Luis Cepeda helped to mended for their efforts to make the vessel-a' safe ship. Meany Urges Peace Corps Recruiting Aid Sill-Manned Ship Wins Fleet Safety Award 7-' 7', i '-'.if Vv--r «.»• c? �Deeember 25, 1964 SEAFARERS Pare Three LOG AFL-CIO Gives Johnson Legislative 'Must' List At White House Parley WASHINGTON—The long-term problems of unemployment and automation, the repeal of anti-labor Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley law, the War on Poverty and medical care for the aged were some of the key issues on the agenda last week when AFLrCIO president/^ also a feeling that much more George Meany and a group President Johnson and his needs to be done. key aides in a two-hour White of labor's leaders met with House meeting. Prior to the meeting with the President, an AFL-CIO spokesman SIU Vote Ends On Dec. 31 New York balloting committee members carefully examine the credentials of Seafarer Walter Grosvenor to make sure he is eligible to vote in the election of SlU officers. The balloting committee members are (l-r) Curly Barnes, A! Perini and Rudy Leader. Grosvenor, who last sailed as chief steward on the Ezra Senslbor, voted in the final days of Union election which ends in all ports on Dec. 31, 1964. Navy Commends SlU Ship For At-Sea Oil Transfer WASHINGTON—^The SlU-manned Western Comet has won a commendation from the U.S. Navy for a "smooth and efficient" job of transferring cargo at sea to two MSTS oilers. The Western Comet was as--*" signed recently to transfer oil The Western Comet is only one to the U.S.S. Manatee and of a number of SIU ships which the U.S.S. Kennebec, both fleet oilers, while they were on ocean station. Nosing between the two ships, the Western Comet hooked up hose rigs and began pumping oil into the ships at a rate of 10,515 barrels an hour. V The operation went so smoothly that the Manatee reported it did not have to change a single rpm to maintain contact with the West­ ern Comet. Reported the Manatee: "Western Comet personnel demon­ strated a level of over-all knowl­ edge in handling the hose rigs and in accomplishment of the hook-ups and the breakaway. The entire operation went very smoothly. In a letter of commendation, the Commander of the Military Sea Transport Service said: "This fine performance of the SS West­ ern Comet provides information and experience which will assist us in Improving and developing the commercial tanker capability to deliver petroleum products to the fullest extent possible." have won praise in recent weeks for aiding America's defense ef­ forts. Ships under SlU-contract served with notable distinction in Naval exercises off the Spanish coast in October and as research vessels in the Navy's growing ocean exploration .program. NEW YORK—Balloting in the two-month SIU election for officers ends on December 31. All SIU members are m-ged to exercise their right to vote for the candi­ dates of their choosing before the deadline rolls around. Voting began in A&G ports on November 2 for the 64 fully quali­ fied candidates who are running for the 45 elective Union posts. Under provisions of the SIU Constitution covering voting, the ballot is being conducted on week­ days from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon from November 2 to December 31. No balloting Is held on Sundays and legal holidays. This year's election began on November 2 in­ stead of November 1 because the latter date fell on a Sunday. • In addition to the candidates who nominated themselves and appear on the ballot, space is pro;vided for write-in votes. As an aid to voters, the LOG printed a spe­ cial election supplement in the October 16 issue. The supplement contains photographs and biogra­ phies submitted by all the candi­ dates. The AFL-CIO had again had warned a gathering of automa­ urged the President to move tion experts that the problem must for repeal of 14-B, which out­ not become "smothered by words laws union-shop agreements in many states. The 1964 Democratic Party platform favored repeal of that section of the law, and Presi­ dent Johnson indicated that he stood by the platform. Meany em­ phasized, however, that labor did not come to the meeting to "seek commitments" or to "reach agree­ ment," but only to talk about prob­ lems which concern labor and the nation. Labor is opposed to 14-B not only because it is anti-union but because in the states where it has been enacted—the so-called "rightto-work" laws — it has dragged down wages and labor standards generally. The states with such laws, surveys show, rank near the bottom in wages and working con­ ditions for their labor forces. Em­ ployers bent on escaping from areas where they must pay de­ cent wages have sought out these states as havens. Instead of raising standards by bringing their indus­ tries to the "right-to-work" states, they have pulled them down while denying their employees the right to free collective bargaining. On the subject of unemploy­ ment, Meany noted in a talk with newsmen after the White House meeting that while a rise In the gross national product had served to reduce joblessness somewhat, it still remains at a five percent level. On automation, there was Quarterly Finance Committee Work Session SEAFARERS LOG Dee. 25, 1964 Vol. XXVI, No. 26 PAUL HALL, Presiaent HEPBEBI BRAND, Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, .. Art Editor; MIKE POLLACK, NATHAN SKYER, Assistant Editors; ROBERT ARONSON, ALVIN SCOTT, PETE CARMEN, Staff Writers. Publlshad biwtikly at tha haadquartara of tha Soafarart Intarnatlonal Union, At lit lantle. Gulf, Lakat and Inland Watara piatrict, AFL-CIO, i7S Fourth Avonuo, Brooklyn, NY, 1IJ3Z. Tal. HYaclnth T-MOO. Sacond elaaa poataga paid at* tha Poat Offica in Brooklyn, NY, vndar tha Act of Aug. 24, 1*12. ~ 120 The SIU membership-elected Quarterly Finance Committee, which Includes one member from each of the major ports, is seen inspecting union financial reports at a work session in New York headquarters. Committee members are (l-r) H. Vincent, Baltimore; Tom Garrlty, New Orleans; Charies Moss, Philadelphia; M. B. Gorra, Detroit; J. Cohen, Houston, and Edgar Anderson, New York. The committee, which Is established by the Union constitution, will submit its report at future membership meetings in all ports. and statistics" to the neglect of "policy and action." If we fail to, solve the automation problem "soon and rapidly," the spokesman, Nathaniel Goldfinger, said, "the fabric of our free societies can be ripped apart. Displaced and dis­ connected men are not inanimate machines: they may not always re­ main passive and silent." The labor representatives at the meeting with President Johnson were AFL-CIO vice presidents Joseph D. Keenan, James A. Suffridge, George M. Harrison, A. J. Hayes; John J. Grogran; Lane Kirkland, executive assistant to President Meany, and Andrew J. Biemiller, AFL-CIO Legislative Di­ rector. Administration officials were Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz; Budget Bureau Director Kermit Gordon; Gardener Ackley, chair­ man of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, and Presi­ dential Assistants Jack Valenti, Lawrence F. O'Brien and William Moyers. Hodges QuitsConnor Named Commerce Sec. WASHINGTON —Luther H. Hodges has submitted his resigna­ tion as Secretary of Commerce and will be replaced by drug com­ pany executive John T. Connor, the White House announced last week. Hodges, a former governor of North Carolina and businessman, was appointed to the cabinet post by the late President Kennedy. In addition to heading up the Com­ merce Department, Hodges served as chairman of the President's Maritime Advisory Committee. The 14 member committee in­ cludes repi'esentatives of labor, industry, the public and the Secre­ taries of Commerce and Labor. By resigning his secretaryship, Hodges will automatically leave the MAC post, which was set up by the White House so that the Secretary of Commerce would be its chair­ man. SIU President Paul Hall is a member of the committee and has been active in its work to provide solutions for the nation's continu­ ing maritime problems. Connor, the new secretary, was president of Merck & Company until his appointment. Merck is one of the country's major drug manufacturers. The new secre­ tary supported "the JohnsonHumphrey ticket and has served in other government posts in the Navy Department and in the war­ time Office of Scientific Research and Development. �SEAFARERS Page Four SlU Boatmen Save Capsized Navy Men LOG Deeembw 28, IVM IBU Veterans Join Growing Pension Ranks PHILADELPHIA—The SIU Inland Boatmen's Union con­ By Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Affantic tracted tugboat Eagle Point (Curtis Bay Towing) rescued two of five technicians whose experimental Navy craft cap­ Two members of the SIU Inland Narrows Bridge Lights Called Menace sized while undergoing sea-*The new Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which we mentioned In the tests in the Delaware River from the tug, IBU member Carey Boatmen's Union have been added column a few Issues back, has become a maritime as weli as automo­ here. One of the Navy tech­ discovered that his tie-pin had to the pension roster by approval bile traffic probiem in the weeks since it was built. Both deepsea nicians is still missing and pre­ been left aboard. As it appeared to have some sentimental value to sumed lost. The accident occurred Decem- Simmons, Carey took the next day off so that he could return it to him. The "captured air bubble boat' is familiar to local tugmen, who have watched It undergo tests since last May in the section of the Delaware River known as the "Horseshoe." The boat is 52 feet long, displaces about ten tons, and rides on a bubble of air forced under the hull by a large, jetJackson Hassel powered fan. ber 8 while the craft—called a "captured air bubble boat"—was practicing 40-knot turns in the waters off the Philadelphia Navy Yard. The mishap was witnessed by Captain James Hassel and Mate James Jackson of the Eagle Point, who notified the company dispatcher by radio before begin­ ning rescue operations. The dispatcher then notified the harbor police and Coast Guard while crewmembers of the Eagle Point rescued Walter Simmons, a Navy project engineer who was piloting the craft, and another technician. Simmons, who was in­ jured and suffering from shock, was wrapped in blankets and given first-aid" and hot coffee in the tug's galley by relief cook Ed Carey. The Injured Simmons was later transferred to Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia by police ambulance. After Simmons had been removed Summit Crew Reported Okay After Collision No injuries and some major damage was reported in a col­ lision between the SlU-contracted Summit (Sea Land) and the American Reporter which occured recently near Baltimore. Damage to the Summit was confined to the superstruc­ ture and self-loading crane, which according to the com­ pany may have to be replaced. The SlU-manned containership was outbound from Baltimore for Puerto Rico when the collision took place. She put in at Bethlehem Steel Company's Key Highway yard for repairs. of the Board of Trustees of the Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plan. The two oldtimers of the IBU will each receive a monthly $150 pension benefit. The two new pensioners are Thomas D. Harry, 62, from the Scarborough Hqrry Gulf Coast, and Ernest Scarbor­ ough, 66, from the Atlantic Coast. Brother Harry sailed as cook in the steward department for the Crescent Towing and Salvage Co., Inc. of New Orleans before retir­ ing recently. A native of Alabama, he now makes his home in Algiers, La. He joined the SlU-IBU in New Orleans. Scarborough became a menober of the IBU in the Port of Philadel­ phia. He has been employed by the Taylor and Andrew Towing and Lighterage Co. for the last 18 years, sailing as mate and captain. A native of South Carolina, he has now retired to his home in Oederricktown, N.J., assured of his monthly SlU-IBU pension benefit. Talks To Open On New Panama Treaty U.S. Ready To Negotiate For New Sea-Level Canal WASHINGTON — The United States has decided to proceed with plans to construct a sea-level canal linking the Atlantic and the Pacific across either Central America or Colom­ bia, President Johnson announced last week. One of the sites under consideration for the new sealevel route is the site of the present canal in Panama. Negotiations between the U.S. and Panama are expected to open early in January on the status of the present Panama Canal in order to rene­ gotiate the 1903 canal treaty and to discuss the possibility of digging a sea-level waterway through Panamanian territory. No decision has been made yet on whether the sea-level canal would be dug with nuclear or con­ ventional explosives, whether it would be con­ trolled by the U.S. alone or through an interna­ tional arrangement, or whether construction would be financed by the U.S. alone or through an inter­ national arrangement. Foiu* possible sites are under consideration for the new canal. One would involve conversion of the present lock-type canal through central Pan­ ama. This could be done by reworking the Gaillard Cut, formerly known as the Culebra Cut, and would involve closing the canal to ti-affic for only 12 days. Other sites under consideration are a 60-mile route through eastern Panama; a 102-mile route across northern Colombia, and a 140-mile stretch across Nicaragua and Costa Rica. No definite decision on the route for the new canal will be made for about four years, however, it was pointed out, because it will take that long to complete engineering surveys at the four sites so a technical decision can be made. At the same time, the U.S; would have to reach preliminary, agreements on survey rights and operational pro­ cedures with the various nations • involved. Tech-, nical, political and legal feasibility must be estab­ lished before a definite choice of site can be made. - Difficulties concerning U.S. ri^ts in the Panama • Canal Zone arose during 1963 and led to anti-U.S. rioting in Panama with a subsequent break in diplo­ matic relations between the two nations. Diplomatic relations were later resumed, but much bad feeUng has remained. In addition to the political difficulties over the old canal, it has been clear for some time that the Panama Canal, opened in 1914, is becoming obso­ lete. It cannot-handle modem vessels such as the (Continued on page 14) sailors and harbor boatmen say that the bridge's lights constitute a hazard to navigation in foggy weather. The high-intensity lights become blinding on overcast nights, so blinding, many sailbiis say, that they cannot keep a proper lookout when close to the bridge. The Army Corps of Engineers is looking into the problem now. Shipping has been good in New York and is expected to get even better. Among the oldtimers renewing old friendships at the New York Hall are Rosario Presto, just off the Transglobe, and Tony Palino, off the Hurricane. Also on the scene around the hall are Antonio Schiavone, who sails as chief cook, Clarence White, who sails as steward and Juan Hopkins. IVilliam Janlsch reports he is now fit for duty again and ready and willing to ship. Boston Shipping was on the slow bell in Boston during the last period, with no sign-ons m: payoffs and just three ships serviced in transit. It is expected to brighten in the coming period, however, with a ship ex­ pected to take on replacements at Searsport, Maine. Joseph Garello, who last sailed-f — as chief steward on the Trans- to demand and get good working hudson, is making all the shipping conditions and other benefits for calls. He's been on the beach for its members. He says he is proud three months and is anxious to to be a part of it. get back to sea again. One of our Norfolk 25-year SIU men, Joseph PresShipping has been good in Nor­ hong, signed off the Achilles to folk and is expected to remain spend the holidays ashore with his good during the coming period. family. He spent six months on the Ship activity includes three pay­ ship, which he calls a "floating offs, three sign-ons and four ships hotel." in transit. John Chermesino, who . last Marion Parker, who sailed last sailed as an AB on the Trans- as an AB on the New Yorker, is hudson coastwise and on a run to back at his home in WilliamsIndia, is also glad to get home to burgh, Virginia, to do a little deer spend some time with the wife hunting before shipping again. and kids over the holidays. John Thomas Hill has fallen in love with Farrand, in dry dock for awhile, the "pineapple run." After spend­ just got his fit for duty slip and ing the holidays at home, he will will be ready to ship again after be looking for another Hawaiithe Christmas season. . bound ship. Philadelphia Alfred Sawyer paid off the Shipping has been good here Norina to spend the Christmas and is expected to remain that holidays at home. After the New way over the next period. In the Year he will be ready to sail as a last period, there were six pay­ bosun again. Frank O'Malley, last offs, three sign-ons and five ships on the Henry, has been in dry serviced in transit. dock for some time but is. now W. A. House, just off the north ready to ship again. He's looking Atlantic run on the Globe Carrier, for an oiler's berth. is looking to get back aboard the Puerto Rico "old reliable" Petrochem. He spent Shipping has been somewhat off five years on the ship, and it's a on the sunshine island. It is ex­ second home to him. Jack Pierce, pected to pick up very soon, how­ also just off the Globe Carrier, ever. Meanwhile, everyone here will spend the holidays home with is talking about the great job the family and ship out after the done by the Seatrain New York's New Year on a Calmar ship, if he crew in saving their ship after an can find one. explosion and fire. They kept their P. Navitsky joined the Globe -spirits high, even when drifting Progress on a coal run to Holland. powerless for three days, and are He's in dry dock now, but will be a credit to the SIU. looking for a west coast run as On the Puerto Rico labor front, soon as he gets his fit for duty a strike is in effect at all three slip. Andy Flattery, last aboard the Red Rooster Restaurants here. Inger, has been in dry dock for a About 130 employees have hit the long time. He says he will ship out bricks. The workers are represent­ just once more before retiring. ed by the SIU Puerto Rico Divi­ Baltimore sion, and the strike issue js wages. Shipping picked up considerably Among the oldtimers, Puerto in the last period, with three pay­ Rico's SIU men are together in offs, four sign-ons and 13 ships expressing their condolences to serviced in transit. And there Juan "Johnny Boy" Rios, whose were no ships laid up during the mother passed away while he was period. The outlook for the com­ serving aboard the Alcoa Runper. ing two weeks Is good also. Louis PInilla is back in town aifter John C. Ramsey, who sails in a run to west Africa on the the black gang, just paid off the Norberto Capay. He will be back Yaka and will take some time for at sea again after he gets a few a vacation and to visit his mother shoreside chores straightened out. In Pennsylvania. He reports that the crew and officers on board the Yaka were some of the best fellows he's sailed with, and he hopes to, find another ship as good. Francis J. Haigney, who sails on Headquarters again wishes to deck, paid off the Bangor about remind all Seafarers that pay­ five months ago and has been ments of funds, for whatever fixing up the island home he Union purpose, , be made- only bought in Maine. Now he'll take to authorized SIU representa­ a ship just about anywhere to -get tives and that an official Union ahead again. He says being an receipt be gotten at that time. SIU man is about the..b^t-thing If no receipt is offered be sure to protect yourself by Immi. ithat ever happened to him. . Ed J. Hibbard. sailing .in the .•tejy . bringing the matter to the deck .department for the last. 25 attention, .of the President's years, has seen the SIU grow to office.. the powerful union it is today, able Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts Possible routes for a new sea-ieYel .canal are shown in the above map. They are across Nicaragua and Costa Rica; along the route of the present Panama Canal; e route across eastern Panama,' of across the northern part of Colombia. �December 25. U«4 SEAFARERS PMK» Five LOG Five Veteran Seafarers Awarded Ufe Pensions By Cai Tanner, Executive Vice-President The Board of Trustees of the Seafarers Pension Plan has approved five more Sea­ farers from the Atlantic and Gulf District of the SIU to receive a regular pension of $150 Steel Pike Proves Worth Of Ships a month for the rest of their lives. The new additions to roster bring the total for the year The vital role played by U.S.-fiag cargo ships in the recent Steel to 99. Pike military exercise on the Spanish coast clearly points out that The new pensioners, who in its early days in the port of "The SIU has made it possible to our armed forces would be in really bad shape if they could not may now relax and enjoy the New Orleans sailing as a cook in realize my dream," he says. "It's call on privately-owned American-flag shipping for overseas operations. fruits of their labors, are John F. Gersey, 63; Richard B. Carrillo, 79; Evangelos Koundourakis, 67; Henry A. Mooney, 66; and Luther Roberts, 59. Gersey. is an SIU old-timer who first joined the Union in the port of Philadelphia. Sailing in the steward depart­ ment his last ship was the Margaret Brown. A native of Penn­ sylvania, Gersey now makes his Gersey home in New Or­ leans. Carrillo is a native of California who migrated many years ago to the Gulf, where he made his home in Arabi, La. He joined the Union the steward department. He last sailed aboard the Del Norte. Koundourakis sailed aboard for­ eign-flag ships for many years be­ fore coming to this country and joining the SIU in the port of New York. An experienced deck hand, he joined the Union as an AB. He last sailed aboard the Al­ coa Ranger as deck maintenance man. A native of Greece, he now makes his home in Mobile, Ala. Mooney is a native of Albany, N.Y., who joined the SIU in the port of New York. A member of the engine department, he iast sailed aboard the dredge, Ezra Sensibar. Now that he is retiring from the sea, Mooney plans to make a dream come true. He owns a small amount of property in New Jersey, and plans to fulfill a lifetime wish to raise horses. By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer SIU Clinic Facilities Expanding Of the many SIU benefits available to Seafarers and their families, one of the most important is the diagnostic and preventive medicine carried out by the constantly expanding system of SIU clinics in the U.S. and in Puerto Rico. Some 83,960 medical examinations have been given to Seafarers and their families in ten clinics on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts and in Puerto Rico since the first one opened its doors in New York in April, 1957. The purpose of the clinics is to protect the health and earning power of Seafarers and their families by detecting illness or disease in their early stages, where they can be most readily diagnosed and treated. The centers do diagnostic work only. Those requiring treat­ ment are referred to their own physician, and the Welfare Plan pays the cost under the medical-hospital-surgical benefits prograni. SIU men have taken the greatest advantage of the clinics, account­ ing for 73,269 of the exams given. Women accounted for 6,356 exams, and the remaining 4,335 were performed on the children of Seafarer families. The SIU men usually undergo at least one complete physical examination a year under the program of preventive medicine set up by the Union. The Pete Larsen Memorial Clinic in New York, the first and busiest, performed a total of 36,695 examinations on Seafarers and their families. New Orleans, opened in December, 1957, was responsible for 19,435 examinations. Baltimore, opened in February, 1958, gave 11,352 exams. Houston, in operation since June 1959, had 6,956 exams. Mobile, opened at the same time as the New Orleans clinic, performed 6,902 examinations. The Puerto Rico Clinics, with offices in San Juan and Ponce, have given 1,933 exams. Philadelphia, where SIU men and their families use the International Ladies Garment Workers facility as ILG members use the Baltimore SIU Clinic, had 1,480 examinations. The three newest SIU Clinics, in Boston, Tampa and Jacksonville, were opened in August of this year. So far Boston has performed 109 exams, Tampa has given 42 and Jacksonville has given 27. The SIU medical examination program in Boston is being conducted at the clinic of Dr. Anthony S. Ripa, which is located at 108 Meridian Street, corner of London Street in East Boston. Dr. Ripa is an indus­ trial surgeon who also does physical examinations for airlines operating in the Boston area. His well-equipped office is conveniently located to the Union hall. The Union's medical program in Tampa is directed by Dr. Gilbert' M. Echeiman, at 505 South Boulevard, Tampa. The Tampa facility is located in a new-building which was specially built for a clinic. The clinic is located within a 10 minute ride from the Tampa hall and Is near the facilities of the Public Health Service Hospital and the Tampa General Hospital. Dr. Echeiman is an internal medicine specialist and has served on the staff of the Public Health Service. As in the other ports, visits to both clinics can be arranged by appointment made through the local Union hall. This procedure is followed to allow for orderly scheduling of examinations. Expansion of the SIU medical program services to Boston and Tampa is part of a long-standing objective of the Union's medical plan. The SIU's medical program operates its own clinics in New York, Balti­ more, Mobile, New Orleans and Houston. In Philadelphia Seafarers utilize the facilities of the Union Health Center of the AFL-CIO International Ladies Garment Workers Union. This service is rendered on a reciprocal basis to the arrangement in Baltimore where ILGWU members and their families take advantage of the Seafarers clinic in the SIU hall there. about the greatest thing that ever In view of this, it is difficult to understand why it is so hard to happened to me." convince the powers that be, in Washington, of the importance of Roberts first joined the SIU maintaining a strong and adequate U.S. maritime consistent with the in the port of Tampa. He retired needs of the nation. after many years of shipping as Two SlU-contracted vessels, the Del SoL and the Couere D'Alene chief cook. He last sailed aboard Victory, took part in Operation Steel Pike, among 10 privately-owned ships and seven MSTS vessels. In all, they hauled some 28,000 marines and 90,000 tons of cargo from five U.S. ports to Spain in a 10-day crossing. One vessel alone carried 225 vehicles with their spare parts. In the face of the Steel Pike operation, the penny-pinching policies the Government applies to maritime seem truly ridiculous and short­ sighted. More than that, they are dangerous. If U.S. maritime is allowed to dwindle and die the overseas military capability of the U.S. armed forces dies with it, leaving a fantastic gap in our national security. Steel Pike was an eye-opener in more ways than one. The cost Carrillo Koundourakis of transporting the great mass of men and heavy equipment from the U.S. to Spain by ship has been placed at about $5 million. For this price we were able to put a complete fighting force on a foreign shore. Everything arrived at once—men, machinery, material—ready to go ashore to deal with an emergency situation. By contrast. Operation Big Lift of last year saw only 15,000 soldiers transported by air from the U.S. to Germany with virtually no equip­ ment at a cost of about $20 million. Admittedly, Big Lift got troops overseas faster than Steel Pike—three days instead of ten. But they arrived with virtually no equipment, would never have been able to even land if modern landing strips were not available in friendly hands, and still had to depend on ships sent out weli in advance Mooney Roberts carrying most of their equipment. The idea that you can airlift troops to a foreign land in an the Florida State. A native of Kentucky, he now makes his home emergency is obviously a myth. Vital airstrips would be held by in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the enemy. If not actually held by the enemy they are still highly he will be able to spend his gold­ vulnerable and could be easily put out of action. Assuming that the en years comfortably retired on troops can land, they would find themselves deep in enemy held territory with virtually no equipment with which to repel enemy his regular monthly pension. assaults. The vast proportion of their equipment would still have to arrive by sea, and how they would manage to break through to the coast to rendevous with their supplies is anybody's guess. And what would be the advantage of such a backward maneuver? Purely from a national security standpoint, the Government's attitude toward U.S. maritime is sheer lunacy—as the SIU has often pointed out. But even from a purely economic standpoint, the Gov­ ernment is practicing a false economy by trying to save money at the cost of the nation's maritime industry. Unlike many of the things on which the U.S. lavishes money with CLEVELAND—A canal to link open-handed generosity, every penny it spends on American shipping Lake Erie with the Ohio River 120 in the way of subsidies and other aid finds its way, in one manner miles to the southeast which would or another, back into the national economy. Money spent on U.S. throw Pittsburgh and the Ohio maritime not only strengthens the national security by seeing to it Valley open to small ship and that cargo vessels are available for emergency situations, but also barge traffic may be in the works. preserves the national security in other ways, such as by reducing The Army Corps of Engineers has our balance of payments deficit. just completed a preliminary The facts and figures of the importance of a strong U.S. maritime study on the project, which would have been available for a long time—the contrast between the Steel probably cost more than a billion Pike and Big Lift operations is merely another demonstration of dollars. the fact. If the canal is built, it would be one of the monumental engineer­ ing jobs of this country, rivaling, and costing more than the St. Lawrence Seaway. The canal would open up Pittsburgh and the WASHINGTON—Several new antipoverty projects have been | Ohio River Valley region to world announced here by President Johnson, involving a total expendl- j trade at lower freight rates. ture of $82.6 million. The new projects are nationwide, including s The proposed canal would have the New York-New Jersey areas, Appalachia, the South and the i a minimum depth of 18 to 20 feet, ! Far West. enough only for smaller ships and Over $20 million is scheduled for use in New York State and i tug and barge traffic. At least ten I surrounding areas. This expenditure will include: locks would be needed to run the • About $5 miiiion for a neighborhood Youth Corps program; canal through the Beaver-Mahon­ to provide part and full time jobs for New York youngsters both I ing River section and the Grand in and out of school. River section. Though the navigation season • Special antipoverty projects in Manhattan. on the Great Lakes runs from only • Over $1 million to establish a jprogram of adult education. April to November, traffic on the • Over $11 million to establish a job-training center at the canal -could be maintained on a I abandoned military base at Camp Kilmer. Similar bases will also year-round basis. Standing in the way of the pro­ i be established at San Marcos, Texas and 'Astoria, Oregon. Other allocations include: A $4 million attack on poverty in posed waterway are the facts that I Chicago; preschool training for Sioux Indian chiidren; job training many roads, railroads, homes and i in the Virgin Islands; retraining for residents of the small town businesses would have to be of Martin's Ferry, Ohio; reading instruction for deprived children moved to make way for it, and that in Kentucky—one of the nation's poorest areas. east coast shipping interests and About 100 Volunteers in Service to America, domestic counterrailroads would probably oppose it since it would cut into their ipart of the Peace Corps, will be sent to fight poverty in migrant I camps in California, city slums and in blighted villages and hollows business. I in Appalachia. Supplemented by local money, federal funds will be used to fight, i poverty in Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven and Waterbury, Conn, i and in Trenton and Jersey City, N.J. Adult basic education courses will be established in the District I of Columbia and other cities. U.S. Studies Ohio-Lakes Wafer Li U.S. Spending $82.6 Miiiion In Nationwide Poverty War �Tw Stx SEAFARERS M, IfW LOG (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SIU Atlantic^ Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) December 4 - December 18 The job situation continued the upswing which started in the previous period as tTie total number of Seafarers shipping climbed to 1,469 from the 1,265 during the pre­ vious period. The bulk of the increase in the job situation was a re­ mit of brisk paces set in both the Gulf and the West Coasts. Houston led the shipping gain, with New Orleans and Mobile also showing healthy increases. Shipping in Tampa was also better. On the West Coast, all three ports showed good improvement in the job situation. East Coast shipping, while lower in New York than the previous period, still maintained a brisk pace. The job situation improved considerably in Baltimore, while Boston, Philidelphia, Norfolk and Jacksonville shipping slipped only slightly. As the shipping picture continued to brighten, the number of jobs calls in the engine and steward depart­ ment improved. More Seafarers shipped in these two departments than in the prior period, while the number of deck department job calls returned to normal levels. Registration during the two week period maintained the same pace as shipping. Total registration climbed to 1,521 as compared to 1,381 in the previous two weeks. The number of men registered and on the beach, on the other hand, dropped to 3,569 from 3,855 in the pre­ vious reporting period. The seniority situation. changed during the last two weeks, after remaining at the same percentages for al­ most a month. The ratio of men shipping who held A books slipped 2 points to 52 percent, while B books ans­ wering job calls increased to 35 percent of the total, up from 33 percent in the prior period. G Cards comprised 13 percent of the total, the, same as in previous weeks. Shipping activity increased to previous levels during the reporting period. There were 55 payoffs, compared to 61 the period before, 38 sign-ons, contrasted to 39 dur­ ing the prior period. In transit visits totaled 136, up from 105 in the prior two weeks. Ship Activity Pay Offt Sign la Oni Tram. TOTAL Beitoa ...... 0 N*w York.... 14 0 7 .3 23 3 44 Pkiladelphia.. Bdltlfflore.... 4 3 3 4 7 13 U 20 Norfolk 4 JaektonvHIo.. 0 Tampa 0 Mobile 6 Now Orleaef.. 7 Hontoe 10 Wllmlngtoi ..0 San Francluo. 2 Soattle 3 I 0 0 2 13 3 0 2 3 3 10 7 5 19 30 4 4 4 8 10 7 13 39 43 4 10 10 TOTALS ... S5 38 134 229 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C» GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 0 3 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 0 0 9 1 1 20 47 11 78 26 19 3 12 11 35 4 4 12 5 17 26 0 11 0 11 0 2 2 15 3 4 1 10 4 0 1 2 13 23 41 36 5 6 14 21 9 24 3 3 1 9 11 23 5 2 2 3 2 9 0 2 1 2 2 6 0 3 2 1 1 2 1 4 4 0 1 2 2 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 3 0 2j 0 2 1 0 r 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 7 16 10 16 6 32 3 16 11 4 22 3 2 11 6 7 38 33 39 81 0 21 37 58 20 45 8 73 9 1 16 21 14 27 14 55 2 18 21 41 21 66 34 11 1 8 16 25 3 7 0 5 3 1 11 0 2 2 4 2 3 2 0 1 18 7; 9 17 5 2 5 9 3 12 3 1 4 2 311 2 0 11 0 4 6 4 14 1 13 5 5 6 9 18: 19 9 108 *J9 56 1 363 13 81 112 1 206 95 159 50'| 304 15 62 88 1 1651 TOTAL Shipped CLASS A B C ALL 0 3 2 1 77 35 26 16 15 3 19, 1 36 23 8 671 6 2 3 ll' 4 1 1 6, 1 1 4 32 16 3 51 73 38 7 118 66 25 16 1071 5 3 0 8 18 7 27 2 11 18 32 3 GROUP 1 2 8 ALL 0 0 0 0 0 11 ' 5 16 0 1 1 0 1 2 5 8 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 4 0 0 3 3 0 7 3 4 8 1 7 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 3 3 4 27 32 1 63 304 Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS AI GROUP GROUP 1 2 8 ALL 1 2 8 ALL 23 4 16 3 6 0 2 4 97 134 24 255 11 44 77 132 25 3 19 3 1 8 5 14 40 49 15 104 3 11 28 42 15 13 1 29 1 8 11 20 5 17 7 9 3 2 18 9 4 12 1 17 0 3 7 4 29 30 64 3 5 4 18 25 67 74" 9 150 2 23 57 82 57 23 40 68 49 19 125 5 16 30 0 12 11 10 23 4 9 38 4 51 18 14 10 42 17 19 5 41 0 19 10 29 63 1 532 357 478 96 1 931 46 180 282 1 508 e; 165 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS "A Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle GROUP 2 1 1 2 12 40 6 5 20 6 3 1 1 1 0 3 3 13 15 41 42 12 7 2 2 12 1 8 TOTALS 61 198 Port CLASS B Registered Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS S Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 8 ALL 0 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 37 10 47 33 35 2 16 19 4 4 13 18 0 5 4 9 5 8 1 14 0 3 2 1 21 27 1 5 19 3 1 9 11 9 12 22 0 6 6 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 3 4, 1 5 0 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 2 1 3i 0 0 1 1 0 2 2 14 , 4 0 8 6 7 12 , 1 15 1 5 9 41 10 2 23 16 33 10 53 47 3 32 12 50 12 36 52 9 16 25 4 3 29 19 51 6 0 2 1 8 0 2 4 5 1 3 2 8, 2 6 4 12 2 10 3 15 0 5 3 11 2 7 3 0 3 _0_ 1 1_ 7_ 3 lO' 201 > 34 1 293 18 96 101 1 215 52 156 29 1 237 12 105 84 1 3 ALL 1 4, 58 6 0 11 30 ; 4 5; 1 0 21 0 3, 19 ; 3 7 63 6 60 0 3, 6 20 1 0 9 TOTAL Shipped GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 2 12 47 35 0 7 14 1 6 3 0 3 1 4 27 22 0 1 2 3 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 • 0 •3 2 0 0 0 0 12 15 1 12 53 47 9 2 0 6 5 11 52 51 3 0 0 3 8 3 0 0 0 8 0 15 0 4 4 13 10 0 3 35 18 1 56 237 201 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP C ALL 1 8 ALL 1 2 2 8 ALL 15 0 0 1 2 10 3 3 7 4 94 53 102 10 165 9 46 47 102 12 7 24 7 19 3 29 0 4 11 15 53 11 42 4 62 9 47 2 23 22 3 9 4 16 21 0 1 8 6 14 0 1 2 6 0 8 7 1 4 12 0 5 0 8 9 1 1 0 1 2 0 27 45 0 12 11 7 33 5 23 12 112 24 68 11 103 5 32 37 74 11 114 17 63 84 12 23 37 72 4 3 14 7 19 27 1 1 9 19 9 0 23, 9 40 S3 5 22 10 37 4 4 31 0 . 11 8 4 19 "I 4 23 56 1 494 148 449 55 1 652 36 200 207 1 448 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bai Nor Jae Tam Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS 1-8 1 5 2 3 1 0 1 1 3 5 0 3 1 26 Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 2 2 3 ALL 1-8 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 22 14 33 74 2 5 20 27 15 47 2 12 4 14 10 19 1 7 2 2 13 2 6 1 9 0 6 7 0 2 0 6 1 4 7 4 10 24 2 2 12 16 1 3 16 7 1 13 2 11 23 2 1 3 0 5 1 0 1 2 0 4 0 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 8 19 0 9 1 10 11 0 17 0 16 4 2 3 9 1 26 7 32 68 4 1 34 39 3 16 41 1 37 4 30 53 3 14 46 6 10 17 9 18 33 5 24 13 2 19 8 19 45 3 1 2 1 4 0 0 4 4 1 0 4 4 3 1 1 6 0 6 3 8 20 0 5 0 5 0 7 0 7 7 0 4 4 15 0 2 5 8 1 0 7 8 2 7 0 9 12 2 2 13 3 90 48 123 1 287 18 22 117 1 157 18 7 129 1 150 70 35 97 1 220 14 Shipped CLASS C 1 GROUP CLASS 1 3 ALL A 2 B C ALL 1-8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 2 0 18 20 47 15 20 82 21 0 0 3 3 6 7 3 16! 6 0 0 4 4 23 16 43 4 0 0 1 1 1 4 6 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 4 1 0 0 8 8 9 17 34 8 8 0 0 8 8 53 41 8 102 20 1 0 17 87 13 18 45 24 18 6 0 0 6 0 0 4 0 10 0 0 0 7 0 0 15 22 15 3 0 0 34 9 9 13 12 9 3 0 70 1 73 220 150 73 1 443 111 n SUMMARY Registered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS GROUF 123 ALL 108* 199 61 198 116 48 285 445 56 34 123 213 I 363 I 293 I 287 J 943, Registered CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS A Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B TOTAL Shipped SHIPPED CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAi SHIPPED GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 8 ALL 2 3 10 0 2 4 0 2 61 45 31 65 162 9 10 42 11 5 6 10 27 7 2 2 29 27 11 24 23 2 3 24 18 IS 7 4 21 2 10 1 8 0 6 2 6 1 1 1 13 0 2 2 4 1 7 0 19 41 1 1 17 16 6 11 76 3 5 68 29 17 71 137 7 28 41 86 6 26 18 29 16 0 10 23 6 4 10 3 15 70 0 1 14 11 10 34 54 3 9 22 8 14 32 7 184 115 278 1 688 39 46 262 1 347 Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 123 ALL ABC ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 4 27 32 | 63,304 165 63 | 532, 357 478 96 I 931 46 180 282 1_508 96 101 | 215 52 156 29 1 237 12 105 84 | 201; 3 35 18 | 56 237 201 56 [ 494 148 449 55 | 652 '36 200" 207"j 443 GROUP 123 ALL GROUP 123 ALL GROUP 123 ALL 81 112 I 206 95 159 50 I 304 _15_62_88 I 165 13 18 18 22 117 | 157 88 35 97 | 220 14 7 129 | 150 3 49 199 330 1 578 235 350 176 1 761 41 174 301 | 516' 10 0 70 | 73220 150 73 [443 295 115 278 | 688 39 46 262J 347 62 120 j 192 761 516 192 11469,800 1042 429 |2271.121 426 75ril298 �ti, 1M4 SVAFARERS LOG 123rci Lifeboat Class Goes Into Books By Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area Gulf Seafarers Celebrate Christmas Seafarers on the beach in Gulf Coast ports enjoyed Christmas din­ ners at the hails in Mobile, New Orleans and Houston with family, friends and old shipmates. Another big attraction in this season are the major football bowl games played in coast cities. Smiley Claussen and Bumell Butts were on hand for the Bluebonnet Bowl in Houston. There they saw Tulsa Quarterback Jerry Bhome, a completely authentic wizard with a football if there ever was one, lead his team to an upset 14-7 victory over Ole Miss. As SIU guys in other ports were watching this one on television they also were looking ahead to being on band in person at such hometown affairs as Florida State and Oklahoma in the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla.; undefeated Alabama, Southeastern. Conference champs, against runner-up South­ western Conference titlist and once-defeated University of Texas in the Orange Bov/1 at Miami; LSU and Syracuse in the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans and undefeated Southwesit Conference kings Arkansas vs. Nebraska. To be sure, the latter game is played at a far inland site, but it will draw its quota of SIU spectators, in person and via video. A familiar figure around the Houston SIU hall and a friend of mai^r Seafarers there is Jeff Davis, a promising young heavyweight, who in about 15 bouts has only a close 10-4 round decision loss to Cleveland This Christinas was truly a red Williams to blemish his record. letter day for the Harrises. After And as everyone who knows any­ a couple of trips in an oiler's job thing about the fight game knows, on the Arizpa, Amado Diaz came Cleveland Williams is a most home to spend the holidays with capable fighter. While not training his wife. Harold P. Ducio'ux is for a fight, Davis keeps in shape home after about a year as chief by working an occasional tugboat steward on the York. He has been relief job. shipping out of the Gulf since Robert Broadus came over to 1940. Houston from Mobile to try to Claude Hayes got off the Alcoa ship out on a good trip before the Runner after about seven months holidays. He sails AB and Bosun as day man. He'll be looking for and last sailed as AB on the another spot on the bauxite run Mankato Victory. His wife and after New Year's Day. Donald young son, Jackie, live in Mobile; Chestnut also is home for a vaca­ Adelin Fruge is home to spend the tion after a year on the Alcoa holidays with his wife and two Mariner. O. E. Ferguson is spend­ children. He got off the Transhay, ing the holidays at his home in on which he was bosun for about Richmond, Miss., after getting off five months, in Mobile and says he the Ocean Ulla. New Orleans will be ready to take the first thing Curtis "Butch" Wheat made it moving after New Year's Day. Harry Houston left the chief home in time for Christmas. He steward's job on the Waiter Rice, is registered in Group 1, Deck one of the Reynolds Aluminum Dept. Chat Gait, same group, same ships that runs regularly between department, is still here; which Galveston, Corpus Chrlstl, the means he is staying alive at the West Coast and Honolulu to spend Fair Grounds. Some of the real Christmas with his wife and chil­ oldtimers who checked in . to dren in Houston. Harry's children register in the Steward Depart­ are well past the Santa Claus age, ment in the last few days include however. His sons are 19 and 22 Ernie Bucano, Arturo Vaiiente, John Hals, Frenchy Herbert and and his daughter is 20. Joe Powers. Mardi Gras falls on Mobile an early date in 1965, so Frenchy After sailing as night cook and and Joe will probably stick aroimd baker on the Transhndson on a until then. Others who plan to trip to India, Theodore Harris is enjoy life in the Crescent City home for the holidays with his until after Jan. 1 are Sal Candela, family for the first time in years. Louis Briant and Tinerman Lee. Crew Security Protected In New SIU Lakes Pact DETROIT—^The SIU Great Lakes District has reached an agreement with the Ann Arbor Railroad Company assur­ ing the security of imlicensed crewmen manning the MV Viking upon its return to 4 — service as a diesel-electric being given to the oldest em­ ployees for their option to receive powered carferry. The agreement provides that employees holding stipulated positions affected by the vessel's modernization, will be able to re­ ceive a lump sum severance allowance according to a regular schedule based on seniority and length of service. Under the agree­ ment, crewmembers with suf­ ficient time in service will receive up to a full year's pay as separa­ tion allowance. The agreement also provides that employees holding the af­ fected positions will have the option of exercising their seniority to other positions in the com­ pany's ferry service. Should they elect to do so, the remaining posi­ tions will be open to employees on a fleet basis with preference the separation allowance. The purpose of this arrange­ ment is to allow older employees to retire, if ihey choose to do so. This is the first time an allowance of this type has been provided to employees when Ann Arbor carferries have been repowered and modernized. The Viking is undergoing a $2.8 million modernization at a Superior, Wisconsin shipyard to turn her into the most up-to-date vessel of her kind on the Lakes. The Viking is the former Ann Arbor No. 7. The modernization includes repowering with four diesel-electric engines totaling 6,000 horsepower; a bow thruster and a "flume" antiroll system. Members of Lifeboat Class 123 pose proudly for their graduation picture after passing the Coast Guard test for their tickets. Newest SIU lifeboat ticketholders are (front, l-r) Donald Brer, Leonard Opremolla, Jose A. Torres, Pedro Pinott; (rear) Carlo J. Stefanado, Paul B. White, Ira Hainick, Ray Rios and instructor Dan Butts. Other graduates of the clasl^ot present for the picture-taking session were Charies McCue and Michael Feldstein. FMC Compromises To Get Dual Rate Data Agreement WASHINGTON—^As expected, the Federal Maritime Commission has "reached , a com­ promise agreement with 15 European countries and Japan in the year old battle to make foreign-flag operators open their books on rate making policies on freight moving in U.S. foreign trade. Even now, after a whole FMC had to make to get even tion, assuring that the documents year of bickering, the FMC is this tiny amount of cooperation and information submitted can­ actually getting very little in­ from the foreign shippers are: • A sort of "Fifth Amendment" formation very late in the game. And squeezing even this out of exemption from self-lncriminathe foreign operators required in­ tervention by the U.S. State De­ partment. The FMC requested the data in November, 1963 under pressure from the Joint Economic Com­ mittee of Congress, to investigate charges that the conferences were practicing rate discrimination against U.S. export items by charging higher freight rates for MEMPHIS — Proposed user goods leaving the U.S. than for taxes on towboats and other river goods coming Into the country. craft represent "a totally'new con­ This in turn has an adverse ef­ cept in federal taxation which al­ fect on our foreign trade and most certainly would have an ad­ balance of payments deficit. verse effect on the national Many Compromises economy. Representative Hale Under the' agreement finally Hoggs (D.-La.) told the annual reached, the shipowners will still meeting of the National Water­ not submit data to the FMC. In­ ways Conference. Plans to impose such user stead, the foreign governments in­ volved will offer us their "good charges on the rivers could wreck offices" to induce their shipown­ the competitive balance of various ers to submit the information to modes of transportation and ham­ the. Orgailization for Economic per economic development in Cooperation and Development In many parts of the country, espe­ Paris, which will pass it on to cially the South, Hoggs said. Secretary of the Treasury Doug­ the FMC. The compromises Involved In las Dillon has formally recom­ the. new agreement ^ are almost mended a waterway user charge endless, and all made by the FMC. in the form of a tax on fuel used The pact provides for production by shallow-draft vessels navigat­ of Information only for 1963 and ing U.S. waterways. The proposal only on tonnage, revenue and is expected to be placed before actual documents pertinent to the the next Congress. Industrial development in many trades of the conferences. The data will be submitted in "aggre­ areas is closely oriented to water gate," or totaled form, without transportation, Boggs pointed out. any details or the names of in­ "Toll-free waterways are a neces­ dividual steamship companies, sity if regional development is 'to continue at the present pace," he agents or shippers involved. Some of the concessions the said. User Tax Seen Hurting Inland Water Carriers not be used in assessing fines or penalties no matter how much wrongdoing might be discovered. • The FMC promised that it would undertake no proceedings without first consulting the coun­ try concerned. • Limited the production of documents and data to 1963 only. If further information or docu­ ments are needed, the whole nego­ tiation process might have to be started all over again. Had To "Explain" Although the FMC is granted the authority to order production of the information it requested under the Shipping Act of 1916, the commission still found it necessary to seek the aid of the State Department to get even such minimal compliance. In addi­ tion, FMC chairman John Harlee found it necessary to make several trips to Europe to "explain" the need for the data. The FMC's original call for in­ formation brought all sorts of out­ raged howls from foreign shippers, who make big money in the U.S. trade, including charges of "uni­ lateral regulation" of internation­ al shipping, "invasion of jurisdic­ tion," and "dictatorship." Britain even went so far as to pass legis­ lation (forbidding British shipown­ ers from complying with the orders. QJmvimiai �SEAFARERS toe Page Eigrht f"'. December 25, 19M Scab-Run Railway Threatens To 'Embargo' Cape Kennedy By Al Tanner, Vice President JACKSONVILLE, Fla.—In a move that makes Commodore Vanderbilt's "the public be damned" attitude sound like the prattle of a 2-year old baby, the strike-bound Florida East and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer. Great Lakes Coast Railway has threatened to put an embargo on all construction material headed for Cape Kennedy where it is-*Lakes Season Ends Officially desperately needed for the trict Court in which it was ordered officials will put their "embargo The navigation season on the Great Lakes officially came to an end United States missile devel­ to abide by its old union contract into effect, hoping to cripple the with the closing of the Soo Locks on December 15. The only vessels country's space program. still in operation are a few tankers, car feiries and the SlU-contracted, However, the railroad has al Ben W. Calvin (Roland & Cornelius) now on the winter run. ready run into trouble with the The St. Lawrence Seaway closed on December 7 and the Jean La Florida Public Utilities Commis Fitte, Waterman Steamship Company, had the distinction of being sion over its "embargo" plans. The the last ship to clear the St. Lambert Lock at Montreal. Four other PUC has told the road to cancel deep sea vessels were not so fortunate and for the first time in its its proposed embargo . on rock seven-year history, the Seaway closed and trapped these ships for the products and pulpwood. Company entire winter. Requests to re-open the Seaway, from lawyers, ship officials had claimed that in the agents and embassies of the countries involved could not change the light of the District Court decision minds of the Canadian Seaway authorities. Of the four vessels, one is to observe the pre-strike contract, tlie American-flag, Flying Independent. We recently received mail from several members concerning the it could not find enough qualified union men to carry the bulk prod­ mention of "ice booms" that appeared in this column during the year. We would like to take this opportunity to explain exactly what an "ice ucts. > Evidently realizing that it wasn boom" is foi" the benefit of those brothers that wrote. The booms are stretched across a river above dams to insure freezing dealing with a typically law-abid ing type of railroad management, of a river surface in a smooth sheet, below which the flow of water the commission backed up its de into the dams can continue unimpeded. This also prevents pile-ups cision by going into Florida Cir­ and clogging of ice in the spring, cuit Court in St. Augustine to ask which is one of the reasons the occasions to shoot the breeze and for a restraining order against Port of Buffalo recently installed always keeps in touch. the ice booms. It is believed these the "embargo." We are happy to report that the booms will allow the port to open The Florida East Coast line has its navigation season much earlier bowling team of the SlU's UIW Local 300, employees of Cinch forced the longest railroad strike next year. Manufacturing Company, have won in U.S. history. Eleven non-oper­ WASHINGTON—U.S.-flag shippers operating in the Great ating unions struck the road Jan. Practically all of our contracted their first two games in a NorthLakes are hopeful about their future prospects in the area, 23, 1963 over company cuts in the vessels are now laid up in their side Chicago league and it ap­ winter berths and with most of the pears they have a top bunch going according to testimony given by SlU-contracted Waterman work force, an end to the union crews gone home for the winter for the season. shop, and other issues. Steamship Company in a months, activity in the halls has The SlU-affiliated Transportation Maritime Administration ex­ trucks and other forms of trans­ The road has been able to main­ slackened some. Services and Allied Workers in amination of American - flag portation. These carriers, prin­ tain its operations by using scab Chicago Chicago continues to receive good service on the Great Lakes. The cipally rails, have continuously re­ labor and showing a consistent Chicago maintained good ship­ attendance at their classes on labor duced their export rates on longdisregard for court orders. The hearings, which are now recessed, are tentatively scheduled to re­ haul business for the Midwest and Federal District Court in Jackson­ ping right to the end of the sea­ education and it is expected that sume on Jan. 12, 1965 in New York have failed in most instances to ville has already held the com­ son. With Highway 16 and the during the Winter months attend­ when more ship operators will publish export rates to the Great pany in contempt because it re­ Tanker Detroit still running and ance will be doubled. Lakes, Waterman said. These land fused to follow a previous court expected to run through the win­ The DUOC. Local 777 Chicago testify. ter, the few remaining men reg­ The proceedings here are a full- carriers have historically carried order that reinstated pre-strike istered can also be assured of at Cabbies are expecting a good turn­ great volumes of the export traffic out this Saturday at the affair fea­ scale review of experimental trade to the Atlantic and Gulf coasts contract rules. least some relief jobs during that turing Dick Gregory and Sammie District Judge Bryan Simpson routes into and out of the Great and are resorting to cutting export time. Davis, Jr. who will entertain the Lakes, whether they should be rates in order to retain the busi­ has held that under the Railway Salvators Vetesse has recently cabbies and their families who Labor Act, the company must em­ made permanent, altered or ness, it was noted. ploy the same number of men it returned as cook aboard the High­ are behind the sponsoring of dropped, and whether there is Waterman has maintained serv­ did before the strike and at the way 16 after spending a couple of "Christmas for Mississippi." At already enough U.S.-flag shipping ice on the Great Lakes since the weeks home with the family. Fran­ the same time, they are all busy there to satisfy needs, or whether Seaway opened to Western Europe same rate of pay. Since this means cis Ferry, who underwent a bout preparing for the Cabbies Christ­ that the railroad will lose much steps should be undertaken to get and, more recently, to the Far with a bad hernia is up and around mas party that will be held Decem­ U.S. operators to service Lakes East. Government generated car­ of its advantage in employing and ready to go to work. Usually ber 23 at Cabbie headquarters at strikebreakers, prospects for a ports. goes, mostly foreign aid and Agri­ settlement look considerably Frank spends the winter working 205 West Wacker Drive. R.R. Rate-Cutting ashore as cook or chef at one of cultural Department shipments, brighter. The beef against Hannah Towing Among the major obstacles to have made up the bulk of its car­ After a futile attempt to settle the better class restaurants in this in the port of Chicago is going ex­ more U.S.-flag service on the goes, Waterman said. the strike early this year. Assistant area. He stops' by the hall on many tremely well and, as of this print­ lakes, Waterman pointed out stiff Among other disadvantages Secretary of Labor James F. Reyn­ ing, Hannah is moving exactly rate competition from railroads, faced by U.S.-flag operators in olds declared that a principle nothing. serving the area. Waterman point­ stumbling block to a contract was Buffalo ed to the difficulty and cost of the "petulant insistence" of com­ The following vessels have laid operating large ships in the limit­ pany management on a philosophy up for the winter; C. S. Robinson, ed depths and lock capacity of the that has "no place in this cen­ Phillip Minch, Henry Steinbrenner, Seaway. Harry Findlay, Niagara Mohawk, tury." Sullivan Brothers, Emory L. Ford, J. B. Ford. The J. Claire Miller will be the last vessel to come in here for lay-up and it is expected OTTAWA — The water leVel around the end of this month. DETROIT — Four ships which problem on the Great Lakes will The Erie Sand vessels, including tried to get in "just one more" be tackled by a newly created or­ the Day Peckinpaugh, MV Lakevoyage on the Great Lakes before ganization, the International Joint wood, MV Scobell and the MV Ni­ winter weather closed in on them Commission reported here. agara are all through for the sea­ have lost their race with the ele­ The IJC announced the creation son. The Peckinpaugh is in the ments and will spend the winter of an International Great Lakes shipyard at Port Weller, Ontario. laid up in Lakes ports waiting Levels Board that will begin tech­ The others are in the Erie Sand for the spring thaw. nical investigations and studies dock at Erie, Pennsylvania. The agents and owners of the Buffalo will be lining up the boys aimed at regulating the often ex­ four vessels fought a yaliant fight who remain in that port during the treme changes in the water —not with the elements, but with heights. winter for the shifting gangs the St, Lawrence Seaway Author­ shortly. Many of the Buffalo reg­ Low levels on the Lakes, es­ ity—to get out of the Lakes. The ulars have already departed for pecially in the last season, have Seaway Authority maintained its cost shippers an estimated 100 their homes and others are head­ insistence however, that reopening tons of cargo for each foot of draft ing out to the Coast for shipping. the waterway would involve a bat­ lost. The situation has gotten so We are-hoping for as good, if not tle with ice conditions which have serious that in some previously a better; season next year and look been described as "murderous," deep and passable channels in the for the return of all our Brothers "dreadful" and "terrible." Lakes there is now danger of in the Spring. Only one of the ships flies the ships running aground. Alpena U.S. flag. The other three are of The Commission said it would - The E. M, Ford and the S. .T. Greek, Danish and Nationalist hold no further meetings on the Crapo were the last Huron Port­ Chinese registry. The four ships problem in January and February, land Cement Company ships to layAfter failing in its attempt to complete that one "last trip' remained at anchorage in the St. so that state gover^jments in the up. This ended the shipping season before the winter freeze-up closed the St. Lawrence Sea­ Lawrence River about eight miles U.S. and Canadian provincial gov­ in Alpena. Alpena reports that way, the Formosan-flag freighter Vanfu is seen trapped in upstream from Iroquois Lock ernments could offer suggestions. shipping in 1964 has been one of ice at the Welland canal. Members of itrcrew survey their while there seemed sonM hope of Public hearings on those sections our best years ever. Since this is unfortunate situation from the ice-shrouded bow. The Vanfu getting the Authority to try open­ of the Lakes directly affecting the - last report to the LOG, the was one of four ships that lost their race with the ,winter ing the locks, but have now gone both sides of the boundary line Alpena office girl extends the best on to various Lakes ports for the elements, being forced to lay up in Lake ports to impatient­ will be held in .the spring, the to you and yours during the holi­ winter. ly await the spring thaw. commission reported. days. . opment program. The Florida East Coast line has managed to keep itself in business by recruiting scab operating per­ sonnel at wages significantly be­ low those in the pre-strike con­ tract. Its fight against a new contract, as well as the union shop itself, has been waged in the worst traditions of the legendary 19th century robber barons of In­ dustry. The railroad made its bla^mt threat against the country's na­ tional security after losing a case earlier this year in Federal Dis­ in effect 23 months ago when the strike by 11 non-operating unions began. The road has appealed this de­ cision to the Federal Appeals Court in New Orleans. While most parties to a lawsuit in this^ country are content to fight their battles with lawyers, the Florida East Coast Railway evidently be­ lieves that its threat against Cape Kennedy will blackjack the judges into rendering a favorable deci­ sion. If the court doesn't heed its threat and upholds the decision of the lower court, then the railroad Bright Shipping Future Seen At Lakes Hearing Ships Lose Race With Lakes ice iroup Formed To Study Lakes Level Problem �pMMAer U, 1M4 SEAFARERS • 'zf,. - , -ii PW« Nfna XO.<? .r.,'-« - ^ ••1'^ rjf 'I' The SEAFARERS' aCQD^Q <3/A\[?. '^he sailor has always been known by his cap •*• —^the Seafarer by his white cap. This distinc­ tive hit of headgear — sometimes called the *'Lundeherg Stetson** after Harry Lundeherg, the late Secretary of the Sailo^rs Union of the Pacific and first President of the Seafarers In­ ternational Union of North America—^was horn in the great union organizing drive of the 1930*s. In the beefs and battles that gave life to the SIU, the white cap marked a friend and brother and set him apart from those who would destroy his union. On a ship or a picket line, hitting the bricks or riding the waves, the white cap became thesymbol of a union battling for the rights of sailing men and all laboring people. It was a symbol that graphically showed that the SIU would protect its own and offer a helping hand to other unionists who needed one. The scenes shown in the photos on this page cover more than a quarter-century of this nation*s labor history. They show Seafarers stand­ ing up for their rights when those rights were . still few and far between, and Seafarers march­ ing proudly in their white caps as part of a union that has broadened and strengthened those rights to what they are today. They show white-capped Seafarers offering a helping hand on the picket line to fellow workers, he they garment workers, clerks in Wall Street offices or telephone workers. Tha white cap is a symbol of solidarity and dignity* �Pafe Ten 4i < < SEAFARERS LOG Deeember 25, 19M Birch Smear Boosts UN Yule Card Sale Vice>Pres!denr, Contracts, & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. MONTEREY, Calif.—The John Birch Society, which has QUESTIONt What are the made a lunatic art of looking for communists under every most attractive features of sea bed, is now seeking them out under cradles. life? • The Birchers, undaunted by the defeat of their hero, there's an opportulnty to do a Albert Brown: I think the main Barry Goldwater, have sent hatchet job on the twentieth cen­ attraction for me in sea life is the fact that I can their smear squads into tury. make more mon­ Of the many letters to come into hb department durinr the last period, we have selected a wide range of shipboard beefs for use in this bsue. Three separate Questions dealing with gangway watches and cleaning holds are covered by the first letter, sent in by Seafarer C. Demers aboard the Midland. Question: "Are the Bosun and Deck Maintenance entitled to stand action against UNICEF — The jjangway watches on weekends?" United Nations Children's Emer­ Answer: Yes. Any member of the Deck Department b entitled to gency Fund. The Inept rightists stand gangway watch. In any event, all overtime is to be divided seem to be foundering in the mess equally as possible. of their own mud-slinging, how­ Reference: Article III, Standard Freightsliip Agreement, Section 10, ever. GANGWAY WATCHES, (a) In all ports when watches are broken a Incensed at the UN—along with gangway watch shall be maintained at all times. A sailor shall be as­ almost everything else in the signed to maintain this watch and 8 hours shall constitute a watch. twentieth century — the Birchers No overtime shall be paid for those watches on weekdays between launched their offensive on the hours of 5 p.m. and 9 a.m. On days of arrival sea watches for men UNCIEF only because it was a NEW ORLEANS — The Port of v/ho are to stand gangway watches shall be broken at midnight when part of the world organization. New Orleans is planning to invest s ay of vessel is to exceed 24 hours. UNICEF provides milk, food Question: "Is a Deck Maintenance required to stand a gangway watch and other emergency relief to the over $183 million in new facilities on weekdays." -f underpriviledged and orphaned and the modernization of its Answer: No, because his work­ Agreement, Article V, Section 7— children of the world. To help pay terminals during the next ten ing hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Working Due to Absent Members: the cost of its work, UNICEF vol­ years to assure its keeping abreast If he were required to stand a "When a vessel is in a continental unteers around the country sell of competition from other U.S. gangway watch after 5 p.m. and United States port and a member greeting cards put out by the or­ ports. New Orleans handled 79 million before 8 a.m., he would be entitled of the Steward Department is ganization. tons of commerce in 1963. Average missing, the men who do the miss­ to overtime. The cards are the work of some annual expenditures on moderniza­ ing man's work shall be paid over­ of the world's greatest artists — tion and new facilities will be in­ Reference: Standard Freightship Agreement, Article III, Section 11. time for actual time worked over Picasso, Chagall and Ben Shahn, creased from $13 million to $19 to name a few—and offer nothing DAY WORKERS, (b) The working their normal eight hours." Question: "When the ship leaves more "subversive" than seasons million a year for the next ten hours at sea and in port for all years. men classified as day workers shall one port in the U.S. and is to ar­ greetings. The Birchers find them Two phases are planned for this rive the following day in another be from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, and subversive," however, since they development program. The first U.S. port, what would apply?" 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through come from the UN—^that supreme­ will run from now to 1967. During Answer: If the vessel sails with­ ly "subversive" organization. Friday. Any work performed by that time expansion of the bulk day men outside of these hours out the messman, the men who In this part of central Califor­ terminal along the new Mississippi perform the missing messman's shall be paid for at their regular nia, the Birch Society has been River-Gulf outlet will take place, overtime rate, except for such work, are entitled to a division of trying to hound the housewives general terminal construction in work as defined in Article II, Sec­ wages of the missing man and the who sell the cards and those who the delta shipyard area will be overtime that the missing man buy them. They reached a small tion 18." pushed, old wharves will be razed Question: "When cleaning tanks, would normally have made on a degree of success when they pres­ and existing ship terminals will be Saturday, Sunday or Holiday. under the Freightship Rules, what Reference: Standard Freightship sured the local Bank of America rebuilt. is the overtime rate when it is all Cuts Distance Agreement, Article V, Section 7 branch to remove the cards from scale and no grain." display in the bank. The new Gulf Outlet is a 76-mile (b): "If a vessel sails without the Answer: If Butterworthing Ma­ That success backfired, however. waterway opened in July, 1963 at a chines are not used, the Hold full complement in the Steward The frightened action of the bank cost of $100 million, which cuts the Cleaning Rate (52c per hour) ap­ Department as required by this officials reached the press and ship distance from New Orleans to agreement, then the men who do plies. stirred the sale of the cards. Nor­ the sea by 40 miles. Reference: Standard Tanker the missing men's work will re­ mally, greeting card sales rank The second phase of the develop­ Agreement, Memorandum of Un­ ceive, in addition to a division of with cake sales and church socials ment program, which "Will take wages of the missing men, the derstanding, dated November 22, overtime that the missing men in civic importance. But this isn't place from 1967 to 1974, will see 1960: so in Monterey anymore. People the rebuilding of existing wharves, 4. Cleaning tanks where grain would normally have made on a are buying the cards not only be­ construction of a new wharf on the has been carried. When men are Saturday, Sunday or Holiday." The next Question comes in from cause of the publicity given them, Mississippi River, general terminal required to sweep up grain and but also to show their disgust for construction in the Delta shipyard, remove it from the tanks or wash Steve Krkovich aboard the Mount the Birchers. and new general cargo and other Washington and deals with servic­ the tanks down with a hand hose, Mrs. H. Paul Riee, wife of a re­ terminal facility construction along ing ship's evacuators. this shall be considered the same Question: "When cargo is being tired Navy Admiral and a national the new deep-water outlet to the as cleaning holds and the hold worked and ship's evacuators are board member of UNICEF, said: Gulf of Mexico. cleaning rate shall be paid as per Close to $44 million wiil be being used, whose job is it to serv­ 1 simply can't get enough cards the Freightship Agreement; how­ to fill the demand now that they've spent on facilities along the ice the machines?" ever, when butterworthing ma­ Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, $45 Answer: This Is considered part tried to pressure us." chines are used and the tanks are About 800 UNICEF calendars million for the Delta shipyard site, of the routine duties of the Pump­ cleaned and mucked, men perform­ have also been sold out, Mrs. $63 million for rebuilding wharves ing this work shall be paid at the man during his regular working Riebe reports. and sheds, and $23 million for a hours. tank cleaning rate. "The whole thing has simply public bulk terminal. Reference: Standard Tanker The following Questions were boomeranged on those poor peo­ Smaller amounts are earmarked sent in by C. E. Henby, ship's dele­ Agreement—Memorandum of Un­ ple," she said. As for the Birch­ for improvements in the public gate aboard the Alice Brown. The derstanding, 3 (a): "It has been ers? Having slipped In the red grain elevator, a refrigeration Questions deal with Messmen's agreed that when the ship's evac­ uators are in use that it will be the paint of their own smear, they facility for the public commodity overtime. warehouse and foreign trade zone, Question: "I would like a clari­ pumpman's duty to maintain these have slunk out of the nursery. and improvements along the Inner Chances are, however, that they machines, such as standing by fication on missing man overtime Harbor-Navigation Canal. (messman) when a vessel is in a when they are running, changing will show up again — whenever oil, greasing, refueling them and U.S. port on a weekend. Also I would like to know is there a divi­ doing general maintenance and re­ sion of wages. What would apply pair work as can be done aboard ship. On ships having electric on week days?" Answer: The agreement provides evacuators, it shall be the pump­ The new Soviet luxury cruise liner Ivan Franko is a classless that when a vessel is in a contin­ man's duty to plug in the electric ship, according to the Russians, except that some cabins have more connections and change plugs dur­ ental U.S. port and the messman is missing, the men who do his ing the regular working hours ^ class than others, cost more, are bigger and have private baths. "On board a Soviet ship," the skipper told visitors recently at work would receive overtime for without the payment of overtime." In submitting questions and I Tilbury, Englaifd, "every passenger will enjoy Russian hospitality the actual time worked in excess a warm reception from the hearts of the Russian people." The of their normal eight hours. The work situations for clarification, more well-heeled passengers will also enjoy their own bathrooms, agreement does not provide for a delegates and crews are reminded apparently. division of wages in this instance. once again to provide as much de­ The'19,860-100 Soviet liner is on her maiden voyage to the MediThe same would apply for week tail as possible setting forth the circumstances of any dispute. Be­ I terranean with 642 Soviet tourists. Air-conditioned throughout, the days also. Ivan Franko has a heated, glass-enclosed swimming pool, five bars, Reference: Standard Freightship sides those mentioned, some of the members who were sent clarifica­ i two cafes and miscellaneous lounges, a movie house and a music tions on various subjects during the salon with a juke box. The juke box has a big supply of decadent past few days included the follow­ I Western "twist" records. ing: John Hoggie, ship's delegate. The vessel will carry British passengers from London to LeninWestern Comet; Elbert Lawson; I grad next summer. First-class will cost $178.22 and tourist class i fare will be $90.62. The 25-day cruise the Ivan Franko is now In order to assure accurate Arno P. Calderari; Earl G. McNab, costing its Russian passengers something like $450. digests of shipboard meetings Lucille Bloomfleld; William S. Al­ As usual with Soviet citizens, the passengers and crew of the in the LOG, it is desirable that len, Producer; James J. Labenz, Ivan Franko spent most of their time in the British port on shop- j the reports of shipboard meet­ Alcoa Commander; James M. Eiings be typed if at all possible. well, deck delegate. Western i ping expeditions. Clipper. New Orleans Planning Port Modernization Classless Commie Cruise Ship Called No 'Common Carrier' Type Minutes When Possible it's good work. ey at sea than I can on the shore. There is some­ thing about work­ ing on the shore that is different. Besides, the sea­ man is well paid these days, and. $1 K. J. MoCullough: The most at­ tractive part of sea life to me is two-fold. In the times I'm not working, through reading and study, I can get a good education. The other feat u r e is seeing foreign ports, and foreign peo­ ple. I like to learn about customs that are dif­ ferent than mine. I learn quite a bit as a Seafarer. 4- 4" 4" Ramon Salas: I have been going to sea for over twenty years. In this time, I have learned my pro­ fession. I like that profession, and I feel a sense of pride in doing my job and doing it very well. That is the reason I sail and will keep on sailing. 4> it August Francois: That is a really difficult question, I think one of the better attrac­ tions is the fact I don't have to travel a long dis­ tance to get to work. I can get up an hour be­ fore I go to work, and there is no flighting traffic and people to get to where I do my work. t 4i a' Earl Pritchett: I like to travel. I am happy as long as I'm moving. If I tried to set­ tle I would prob­ ably go to pieces. So I keep on the move. I am nev­ er in the same place long enough to get tired of it, and when one ship gets boring, I off and catch another. 41 4" 4 Jack Summers: I like the free­ dom of a life at sea. You're never stuck in one spot for very long, al­ ways with a new port to look for­ ward to. I just can't spend any time in one city or town, doing the same job in the same place all the time. I can't live on shore. �Deecmber M, MM SEAFARERS Par* iitflTdr LOG "Knife in the Back n EVERY VOTE DOES COUNT—Summing up the November vote tallies, COPE, labor's political action arm, noted the closeiness of so many of the individual races for Congressional and state seats. These t'ght contests tended to go unnoticed in the shadow of President Johnson's sweeping victory. They serve as an important reminder, however, that every single vote—including yours—counts. Seven senate races ended up as squeakers. They were in Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Oalifomia. In any of these races a handful of votes could have changed the outcome. The same holds true in six governorship races and many Congressional races. As the New Year approaches, some states are still carefully counting and recounting votes to make sure who won. The lesson is, of course, to vote—^because it does count. TRYING TO PULL VICTORY FROM DEFEAT—The John Birchers and other fanatic rightists around the nation are taking comfort from Goldwater's tally of 26 million votes. Despite the polls and surveys, they see in it a reservoir of money and recruits for the exitremidt cause. Birchite organizing activities are on the upswing, they say, as are those of outfits like Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade. The polls have shown that the bulk of Goldwater's votes came from hard-core Republicans who voted for him because he was the GOP candidate, just as they would have voted for the more liberal Rocke­ feller if he had been the standard bearer. The extreme rightists, the polls show, accounted for only about five to ten million of the Goldwater vote—still a dangerously large-sized bloc, but not representing a consensus of either GOP or national attitudes. RUBBER WORKERS SET FIGHT ON 14-B—The International Executive Board of the Rubber Workers Union has given top priority to a fight for the repeal of Section 14-B of the Taft-Hartley Law, which allows states to enact union-busting, so-called "right-to-work" laws. The URW Board called upon the I^esident and Congress to take Immediate action in repealing the provision. "We believe every union and employer, regardless of what state, should be permitted to negotiate and sign a union shop contract If they mutually agree," URW president George Burdon declared. The law "offends the basic principles of federal-state relationships and should be repealed," he stated. •mi&m ^ V. A . ... •• . .^ ' ' The Electrical Workers Union (IBEW) has asked a Federal Court to stop the city of Jackson, Mississippi from enforcing an ordinance against the distribution of handbiils. IBEW organizers have been arrested for giving out handbills in connection with a unionization drive at the Zinsco Electrical Products plant. The union's court action is aimed at the mayor and other city officials of Jackson. The anti-hand-billlng law was originally enacted to help crush the continuing civil rights drive in ^Mississippi and is only one of such repressive measures enacted there. Two union organiz­ ers and two discharged Zinsco employees have already been ar­ rested under the law. i 4" 4" Drug and Hospital Employees Local 1199 has won wage increases and other benefits for 1,500 lowpaid workers at four North Jersey hospitals. Affected are service and maintenance workers at Beth Israel Hospital, Newark; St. Barnabas Hospital, Livingston; Clara Maass Hospital, Livingstone and the Hospital Center of Orange. The wage hikes range between $13 and $17 weekly over a threeyear period. Benefits include shift differential pay, complete hos­ pitalization, medical and surgical coverage for workers and their families, eight paid holidays and $2,000 in free life insurance coverage. 4 4 4' Wage boosts of $2.10 to $5 a week will go to nearly 11,000 em­ ployees of the lUinois Bell Tele­ phone Company under a contract won by the Electrical Workers (IBEW) System Council T-4. The increases are retroactive to Novem­ ber 22, and include a wage re-open­ er clause to come due next August The settlement was reached after three months of collective bar­ gaining that went down to the strike deadline and was approved by the membership in a refer­ endum vote. 4,4 4 4 4 A 24-honr strike by Carpenters at the Cape Kennedy Space Cen­ ter was called when one of the bnilding contractors at the Instal­ lation was found to be using non­ union labor. The union. Carpenters Local 1685, threw up picket lines around the Moonshot headquarters and at nearby Patrick Air Force Base. About 3,500 workers honored the lines. The strike was ended when negotiations were agreed to on the hiring of the non-union carpenters. 4 Two unions of shoe workers have won increases of 13.9 cents an hour In wages and other benefits gaining almost identical Improve­ ments for 21,600 employees at two leading St. Louis firms. New twoyear agreements were negotiated by the United Shoe Workers and the Boot and Shoe Workers in joint talks with the Brown Shoe Company and the International Shoe Company. 4 4 4 The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers has won a major decision on a state's right to issue injunctions in Federal Court in Des Moines, la. Federal Judge William C. Hanson heid that his court had jurisdiction in an injunction brought by the Iowa Power and Light Company against IBEW Local 499. The company wanted the case kept in a state court where it felt it had a better chance to obtain an injunction. The Norris-La Guardia Act, passed during the New Deal era, sharply limits the right of Federal courts to grant injunctions arising out of labor dispiiitefl. One of the goals American labor is de­ termined to achieve during the upcoming session of Congress is repeal of Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. dare their real opinion at the polls. Among the states that have rejected union-busting "right-to-work" thus-far are California, Ohio, Washington, Colorado, Idaho, and Oklahoma. Kansas, a predominantly rural The AFL-CIO strongly opposes the unfair, farm state, was the only state where voters anti-labor provisions of the Landrum- actually upheld "right-to-work." , Griflfin law and the Taft-Hartley law, par­ ticularly Section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley, "Right-to-work" is in fact a great fallacy, which authorizes so-called , "right-to-work" and the AFL-CIO has pointed it out as such. laws in the states. State "right-to-work" For the well-being of all concerned-both laws are part of the right-wing, big-business union-busting attack on the free labor move­ management and labor—Section 14(b) of Taft-Hartley must go. Repeal of 14(b) is ment. one of the legislative goals of the AFL-CIO The union-busting, inherent in "right-to- for 1965 and will be pushed to the utmost. work" legislation is easily seen through. The With the new alignment of Congress result­ "National Right to Work Committee" for ing from the crushing defeat suffered by the instance, has been identified as a front for Republican candidates behind Barry Goldthe National Association of Manufacturers, water, many feel that there is now a good the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other chance for repeal of this anti-union clause employer groups. "Right-to-work" is a during the coming session of Congress. The ploy — a misnomer — which actually means SIU and all of organized labor will certainly the right to fire and hire. It gives the em­ do everything in its power to speed the death ployer the right to fire union members and of this repressive, anti-labor, anti-American legislation. hire scabs to take their place. The employer groups pushing "right-towork" legislation have tried in the past to give the impression that such laws are favored by the majority of American people, including the workers themselves. All such claims have been exposed as phony. Amer­ icans have voted against "right-to-work" laws in every single instance but one when­ ever they were given the opportunity to de- Reason'S (flreetingsf tLo mil �Pagre Twelre SEAFARERS By Frank Drozok, West Coast Representative De««m1>er ts, U04 LOG Woodworker Local Defies Anti-Labor Klan Violence LAUREL, Miss.—A grim, armed truce exists here in Mississippi between organized labor and the Ku Klux Klan. S. F. Port Council Supports Strikers It all started when masked, armed night riders of the KKK kidnaped and savagely The Maritime Port Council here threw its full support behind a beat Ottis Matthews, finan--^ strike by the Office and Professional Employees Union against the cial secretary of Local 5-443, creek. When Matthews stopped, a against the KKK, to obey their Bakke Steamship company. The office workers' pickets hit the International Woodworkers, man from the car behind ran up orders in the future and not to try bricks here to further their demands for security, wages and other because the union had complieu and held a gun at his head and to identify them to law officers. benefits. The office worker picketlines, many of them manned by fe­ with federal law to end job dis­ ordered him to- move from under After the beating, Matthews' male typists, stenographers, etc., are being honored by San Francisco crimination at the huge Masonite the wheel. hands were freed and he was longshoremen and halted unloading of frozen beef from the German Corporation plant here. Other masked men then got into warned to forget about the beat­ motor ship Cap Del.gado at Pier 50 here. the front and back seats of Mat­ ing and keep his mouth shut. All Two days later, 16 local union The Military Sea Transportation Union, affiliated with the Seafarers officers met and issued this warn­ thews' car, tied a^ blindfold over except one man then walked away.' his eyes, tied his hands with rope The, last man held a gun at Mat­ International Union, has signed a basic agreement negotiated between ing against the attackers: and drove him about a quarter thews' head and told him not to the Union and the MSTS Pacific Area Command on behalf of executive "We declare that this is the last stewards and unlicensed seamen of all three departments aboard MSTS indignity that is going to happen mile off the public road to a dump move for five minutes, then dis­ appeared into the darkness. vesseis The signing ceremony was held on December 18 on boaixi the to an official or to an employee area. Then they ripped off Matthews' Matthews found the men had USNS General Edwin Patrick at Oakland, California. It was attended of this union, whether it be verbal trousers and pushed him to the pulled several spark plug wires by officials of local unions throughout the bay area. or physical. We declare that the loose on his car, but he managed The SIUNA-affiliated International Union of Petroleum Workers membership of this local is going ground. He was beaten with a heavy to get it started and drove to his and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, Local 1-561, have called to run the business of this union for a boycott against Standard Oil Company of California and its sub­ and not the Ku Klux Klan or any strap. During the beating, the" home, where he notifed the Jones masked men also poured a cor­ County sheriff's office of the at­ sidiaries. The unions have asked the public to send in their Standard other outside organization that rosive liquid on his body. tack. Oil gasoline credit cards and refuse to buy Standard Oil products until may exist, regardless of their aims Over and over during the as­ A deputy sheriff drove Mat­ or goals. the company reverses its present-f ^ sault, spokesmen for the group thews to a hospital, where he was policy and agrees to bargain in see the Yaka, which may possibly "We declare we will not be ordered Matthews to stop talking treated for the beating and shock. good faith with the unions. lay up north of here. coerced, intimidated or threatened Oldtimer Paul Kronberg is on without retribution. Nor will we Sta dsri Oil c'l CaliJcrnia and Its subsidiaries have refused to the beach after piling off the Steel allow the fear of verbal denounce­ Architect. He stopped in at the ment, physical assault or even accept agreements reached recent­ hall to say hello and we were death to deter us from following ly between the unions and all the sorry to hear he may have to spend a reasonable, practical, sound rest of the oil industry, designed some time in the hospital soon. course in promoting the welfare to provide new job opportunities Three other oldtimers shipped out of our union membership, the now and in the future. The com­ recently on the Orion Hunter. community, the county, the state pany has refused to bargain and Chief cook L. Lopez, messinan M. and our nation. NEW YORK—nearly unbelievable navigation device that has shown contempt for the Berlowitz and C. Bogucki, DM, This strong stand has the sup­ unions, their employees and the were looking for a nice long run port of President Claude Ramsay allows a captain to maintain the course of his ship without general public. The unions intend and signed on the Hunter. One of the Mississippi Labor Council, shooting the stars or relying on radio beams is being made to continue the struggle on all of the nicest bosuns shipping, Cal an outspoken opponent of the available to merchant ships. levels and have called for the Wilson, is still being plagued by Klan and other extremist organi­ The device, termed an "in^ information on it to 500 sugareconomic boycott to show the bad luck. Cal is back in the zations. cube-sized computer circuits. The Btrength of public opinion for fair USPHS hospital with a bum leg There are 3,500 IWA members ertial navigator," has been circuits make more than 4,000 so costly until recently that it collective bargaining. and we all wish him a change of here, about 30 per cent of them could only be used in Defense De­ computations a second, correlating Shipping has been fair during luck from bad to good for the new Negro. the starting place of the ship with Matthews, Business Agent J. D. partment vehicles—Polaris subma­ the information on movements it the past several weeks at San year. Jolly and other officers of Local rines, guided missies, high-per­ has received. Wilmington Francisco and from the look of 5-443 have been holding a series formance jet-aircr|ft. Shipping activity has been fair­ things should remain about the The figuring done, the navigator But the Sperry Rand Corpora­ came for some time to come. We ly good here for the last period, of union meetings with employees then gives the ship's exact position paid off the Orion Hunter and the and the outlook for the future is on all shifts at Masonite. They tion, manufacturers of the device, to its operator. Iberville during the last period, very good as we expect about eight reported that more than 90 per­ has come out with a model at half The device, which really looks and listed the Ocean Dinny in the ships in transit soon. During the cent of the workers have pledged the former cost. Company officials within itself then to measure out­ past two weeks we had the St. support to the union and the cause predict that the Universal Naviga­ side movement is expected to re­ Bign-on column. tor, as they call it, will be as revo­ "of law and order. Ships serviced in transit during Lawrence, Elizabethport, Penmar, Matthews was on his way home lutionary as was the gyrocompass place sextants and radio signals on the last period included the Marymar and Robin Hood in trans­ thousands of merchant ships. from the union hall after 7 p.m. at its introduction 50 years ago. Elizabethport, Steel Architect, it. Oldtimer Charles Kath came Inertial navigation consists of Monday, November 16, and was Penmar, Robin Hood, St. Lawrence by the hall a few days ago to vote and the Columbia. We expect to and register. While he was here driving on a country road when the measurement of every known Bee several ships in transit dur­ he enjoj'ed the chance to catch up he saw the headlights of a car movement of a ship from a known IFV^?1^/AR5 starting position. Devices held ing the next few weeks, including on news from some of his old behind blink several times. stable by two gyrocompasses sense Another car ahead then pulled the Steel Recorder, San Juan shipmates. Kath, whose last ship Choctaw, Young America, Over­ was the Mount Washington, says out and blocked a bridge over a the movement of the ship and feed IVlAM OhlB COPT seas Joyce. We should also get to (Continued on page 22) New Jet-Age Device Simplifies Navigation RFCEIN/INS MORB Frisco Labor Supports Office Workers \ ' ;• •••.•I'-"' The San Francisco Maritime Port Council is supporting a strike by the Office and Professional Employees Union against Bakke Steamship company. The office workers have put together one of the nicest picketlines seen in many moons. U.S. Farm Workers Sought By Labor Dept. Recruiters WASHINGTON—The U.S. Labor Department has announced a massive effort to seek out and sign up American workers for sea­ sonal farm work. The new drive is slated to be even bigger than tlie drives to. find workers to tend and harvest crops during World War II. The spur behind the farm labor search is the expiration soon of Public Law 78, under which Mexican laborers were formerly allowed to enter the U.S. to do farm work. For many years these seasonal farm workers have come across the border under the "bracero" program. American labor has long charged that the bracero program kept farm wages at sub­ standard levels, and this year. Congress refused to renew the program, although a move has been underway by U.S. growers to continue the practice under an "emergency" provision of the Im­ migration Act. The AFL-CIO has long contended that there is no shortage of doinestii farm workers which cannot be overcome by decent wages and workmg condtions. The easy availability of the foreign labor has kept wages and working conditions of seasonal farm labor at bare minimum levels however. The announcement of the Labor Department drive to recruit U.S. workers for these jobs has raised hopes that wage rates and working conditions for seasonal farm work will be set by the Justice Department at a relatively high level, since a massive re­ cruitment drive would be pointless if the wage floor remained so low that U.S. workers would not sign up. At this time there is no federal minimum wage law for farm work. At the outset of the drive, the Labor Department will have teams in California, Florida, Texas and Arizona to take job orders from growers. Later, these teams will move to states that traditionally supply domestic farm workers in an attempt to recruit them. OF THE SAME CLIP ALL MAII- IABEI3 SO 100 �; 1- ^ •-* •t',- Deeeulier tS, 19M SEAFARERS tagm Thlrtcea LOG SEAFARERS PORTS OP THE WORLD This phofo shows an intersection in downtown Dakar. The city, known as the "Paris of Africa," is a leading port on the west coast of that continent, handling more than three million tons of cargo yearly from more than 4,000 ships. One of the many Dakar lobster trawlers which rove the Atlantic coastal waters in search of the popular delicacy. The flourishing seaport of Dakar, Senegal, lies on the tip of the Cape Verde peninsula, a spit of land which juts into the Atlantic from the hump of west Africa. Over 4000 oceangoing ships transit the port yearly to load cargoes of cocoa, coffee and other African commodities. The three million tons of cargo which move through Dakar each year represent not only the commerce of Senegal, but of the other nearby African nations which are landlocked or lack such extensive port facilities. Dakar is a regular stop for many American-flag ships. Among these are the SlU-contracted ships of Delta Lines, which include a Dakar stop on their West African runs. The Cape Verde peninsula was discovered in the 15th century by the Portugese navigator Dinis Diaz. The first European settlement of Dakar was made in the early part of the 17th century. Dakar was only a small fishing village then. Its real history as a colonial port began in 1857 when a French Navy captain claimed Senegal for his own country. The nation, with its population of 3.3 million and a land area the size of South Dakota, gained its independ­ ence from France in 1960, but remains a part of the French Community of nations. Because of the French colonial influence and the fact that it is the most cosmopolitan city in its part of the world, Dakar has been called the "Paris of Africa." The cargo piers lie at the north end of the city and the bunkering piers at the south end. Between them is the downtown area. The busiest thoroughfare in the city is at the Avenue de Barachois and the Avenue Albert-Sarraut. Dakar is a city with a heavy Moslem population and con­ tains many mosques. The largest is on Rue Blanchot. and the faithful may be seen here at prayer on Fridays. Close to the center of town is the Anse Bernard bathing beach. Swimming is popular almost year-round in this part of Africa. The beach is also very close to the cargo area in the southern part of the city. The Seaman's Home, which provides rooms, meals and other facilities, is opposite the Bassin Est (East Basin) dock area. It is the favorite stop for seamen awaiting repatria­ tion. The Home arranges tours of the city and the outlying countryside and gets up athletic events and other activities. This huge cathedral in the downtown area of Dakar serves a large Catholic population. The city also contains many impressive Moslem mosques. Dakar's population—African,"Arab and European—is well over 300,000. The bazaar in the African quarter of Dakar. Woodwork is a specialty of Dakar's arti­ sans, who have stalls in the bazaar. U.S.-flag ships make frequent stops at Dakar to pick up coffee and cocoa sent there from all over west Africa. SlU-contracted-Delta Lines ships, like the Del Mar (above), are regular visitors to Dakar. �Pacv Fonrteoi siEAFARERS ida Russians See 'Profit Motive' Behind Nuciear Sub Disaster After sending her Atlantic trawlers 'fishing' around the site of the Thresher disaster and collecting all available public information on the loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine, the Soviets have come up with their own ideas of why the tragedy occurred. They blame it all on the "capitalist profit mo--*1963. By normal, and abnormal, the Moscow trade union news­ tive." means, they set about to find out. paper Trud published the theories The Russians, who main­ Immediately after tne disaster, of a leading Russian shipbuilder, tain a war fleet of 400 sub­ Soviet trawlers appeared In the A. Narusbayev, and a naval engi­ marines were interested, as search area and were warned neer, G. Lisov. were other naval nations, in what happened to the super-modern Thresher, which went down with a loss of 129 lives off Cape Cod in to stay away by U.S. Naval units. Profit Motive Despite the warnings, the Russians The Russian conclusions on the continued to collect all the data disaster are not that far removed they could on the wreck. Recently, from those advanced by American experts. However, the Reds tend to see the "capitalist profit motive" behind the accident. The Russian theory runs like this: Because of a piping system or other external failure, the sea flooded into the stern section of the Thresher, killing all the crew­ By Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director men in the aft section and short circuiting the electrical system (U.S. theories agree generally with As the holiday season approaches, we naturally think of gifts, the idea of a piping system defect). presents, religious activities, Santa Ciaus perhaps, and many of the Then, the Russians maintain, the traditions of Christmas and the New Year. These are usually all ship went out of control, pitching Navy personnel on the U.S.S. Fort Snelling observe a Russian very pleasant even though often times very expensive. over on its bow. The nuclear re­ fishing vessel at the site where the nuclear submarine But what about the "hangover"—not the financial one which Is actors turned off—as they were usually a sufficient headache, but the hangover from the excessive designed to in the event of Thresher sank in 1963. The Soviet trawler, ignoring signals consumption of alcohol during these celebrations. emergency — and the sub lost from the Navy requesting that it leave the area, was typical There has been much progress in the treatment and eradication power. of the Russian fishing craft that have appeared regularly of diseases which have plagued mankind during the centuries. How­ The water pressure through the to make their own investigations of the disaster. Russian ever, there has been little progress in the treatment of the hangover ruptured tail was so torrential that naval officials, using information collected by the trawlers, since man first discovered alcohol. It's like the weather—everybody the crew could no't cope with it. as well as data from public sources, have come up with knows and talks about the hangover, but no one seems to do much The Russians blame this on the their own theory of what caused the tragedy. about it. Although the hangover may not be classified as a disease, design of the vessel (disputed by nor does it kill, although one often wishes it would, the symptoms the U.S.), saying that some means'* of headache, dizziness, thirst, dry mouth and throat. Irritability and should have been included to pump the water out at a quick rate. the sense of self incrimination are well known. Robert Fenton writing in a recent copy of the Diners' Club Magazine Down, Down, Down describes all of this, and thinks that one of the reasons the hangover The submarine was then falling is misunderstood is because of the jokes made about it. As the late straight down through the sea, its John Barrymore said—"A hangover is when your stomach turns to propeller acting like a stabilizer on suede." However, the illness from-f an airplane bomb. This fall was the hangover is no joke. Benson Y. After this, he would think himself very fast, the Russians say, reach­ ST. PETERSBURG—The only good shark is a dead shark, Landis, a New York economist cured and go to the office. This ing speeds of 125 to 186 miles an many people feel, and no one feels so more strongly than the estimates that hangovers cost a worked for a while, but one mor­ hour. The crash at the bottom was billion dollars a year in the United ning during this treatment, he so hard that the sub buried herself, head of a Florida commercial fishing company who fears a States. dropped dead. but not before bits and pieces $4 million loss in this year's catch because of the ravages being used is to fasten a baited Doctors do not give much con­ Many other cures for the hang­ broke off at impact. steel hook on one end of a heavy sideration to hangovers, neither over were described by Mr. Fen­ In their conclusion, the Russian of marauding sharks. Schools of huge sharks, some up wire, the other end of which is do your friends, as they appar­ ton. These include the Turkish experts quote Admiral S. G. Gorently feel that it is self induced bath and exotic concoctions such shkov, chief of the Soviet Navy, as to 25 feet long, are threatening to attached to a large board floating and that you should pay the piper, as clam juice, bugle week, and maintaining that the Thresher ruin south Florida's commercial on the water. What happens here is and also, despite the old wives wild lettuce. While Tiberius, the tragedy was the result of the fishing industry. The shark popula­ that the shark takes the bait and tales, there is no sure cure for Roman Emperor preferred bitter Pentagon's "unbridled determina­ tion in waters off the keys and begins to swim away towing the the hangover. almonds, the Assyrian King Hozos tion at any price to increase the north along the Gulf of Mexico board, which thrashes around in What has happened to you when used a swallow's beak ground in number of nuclear submarines." coast as far as Naples is double the water and frightens the shark into swimming faster and faster what it was last year. you wake up with a hangover is myrrh. In China, a powder made until it is exhausted. Its blood in The sharks are huge, ferocious very definite. Your metabolism has from the Got Fer flower was and hungry. As an eyewitness re­ the water then attracts other been knocked off balance due to thought to be the best. Some resi­ ports: "I have seen a school of sharks which devour the injured excess consumption of alcohol. The dents of the western United States them attack a gill net 600 feet long and exhausted one. alcohol has been distributed use wahoo bark tea, while others The best way to get rid of Headquarters wishes to re­ and 35 feet deep as it was being throughout your entire body where use wild sage leaves for their cure sharks, it has been noted, is to pulled in by a boat crew. They mind Seafarers that men who 95% Is completely oxidized, mainly of the hangover. develop commercial uses for shark in the liver and insulin is required The "hair of the dog" is probably are choosy about working cer­ devoured 9,000 pounds of fish and livers, hides, fins and carcasses so for this oxidation, also thiamine one of the most universal cures tain overtime cannot expect an punched 400 holes in the net that fishing for them becomes and nicotinic acid. As a result of of the hangover. A friend of mine equal number of OT hours with before the terrified crew could do profitable. A few years ago anything about it." the rest of their department. In this rapid oxidation, the glucose thought this the best, but he had Since the nets cost about $3,000 California was faced by a shark insuline balance in the blood is to modify his method. He would some crews men have been turning down unpleasant OT each, the economic loss to fisher­ menace similar to Florida's present disturbed with other end products take it straight, and if the first problem and managed to develop men can be terrific. jobs and then demanding to of metabolism which produce the few bounced, he was not too per­ markets for shark products. Shark Bait "or>-9 up with equal overtime toxic effects experienced the mor­ turbed because when he was able How do you get rid of sharks on when the easier jobs come Im j. ning after. to retain one, he had it made. a large scale? State and federal Although alcohol appears to Probably the most popular cure This practice is unfair to Sea- agencies have already begun a stimulate a person, it is as a matter for the hangover, and a fairly "arers who take OT jobr as they poisoning program in which of fact a depressant or inhibitor. recent vintage is the Bloody Mary, come. capsules of sodium perchlorate are The general objective is to What the average person assumes Screwdriver, or one of the many equalize OT as much as possible put inside large bait fish. 'When a to be stimulation is really the de­ combinations of Vodka, fruit juices but if a man refuses disagree­ shark eats one to these fish, the pressant effect on the inhibitory and bitters or Worcestershire able jobs there is no require­ capsule explodes on coming into brain control of behavior. Thus, sauce. ment that when an easier job contact with acid in the shark's there is an increase of the pulse There is the other school of comes along he can ma''- up the stomach. rate, a flushing of the face and an hangover fadist who believes an overtime he turned down before. Another anti-shark method abolition of inhibitions, with an ounce of prevention is worth a increase in activity both vocal and pound of cure; who load them­ otherwise, so that one exhausts selves with everything from oliv^ himself both physically and phy- oil to steaks and fruit juices. This chologically. Thus the tired and probably at least slows the absorp­ (Continued from page 4) exhausted feeling experienced the tion of the alcohol. giant supertankers and ore carriers, nor can it logical site would be along the route of the present An ice pack and the usual head­ handle modem warships like the latest aircraft canal. But if nuclear methods are decided upon, morning after. According to Mr. Fenton, there ache remedies are all good, but carriers. It ^as also been pointed out that the one of the other routes, through more desolate are at least 2,000 different drinks lets face it, it takes time and present lock-^type canal would be highly vulnerable areas, would be necessary. and equally as many cures for the fluids to repair the damages of the in time of war because bombing or sabotage by The cost of nuclear excavation of the new canal hangover, none of them very effi­ night before, and many good re­ the enemy could easily put it out of action. A sea has been estimated at as little as one-tenth that of cient He describes a young man solves are sworn to during the level canal would be much less vulnerable, and conventional construction methods. For nuclear construction however, a decision would have to be who had a sure cure. The young trying hours of the hangover, but could accommodate ships of any length. man would go Into the bathroom, I'm sure it will happen again. One of the factors which may effect the decision made on how the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty There may not be any pockets on the site of a new canal is whether or not nuclear would apply. The treaty prohibits nuclear blasts turn on the hot water, and as the steam would accumulate, he would in a shrbud, but if you have money explosives are used during construction. If con­ in the air, under water and in space, but makes no jump up and doVvn like a demon. to burn, you "can take it with you." ventional construction methods are' used, the most exception for the peaceful use of nuclear devices.' Holidays And Hangovers Sharks Threaten Florida Fishermen Turned Down OT? Don't Beef On $$ U.S. Planning New Sea-Level Canal �DcMmler tt, 19M SEAFARERS Pu:« Fiffeea IPG V,.:/ MASTER NAVIGATOR HE "Brotherhood of the Green ocean to the same little strip of Brazil and is a major breeding Turtle" is worried about the beach on the same tiny pinpoint ground for the green turtle. T green turtle. The United 'States Navy Is amazed by the green turtle. Natives of Caribbean islands miss the green turtle. The green turtle apparently worries about nothing, is amazed by noth­ ing and never misses—and therein lies the story. When Christopher Columbus and other early navigators visited beaches in Mexico, Colombia, Florida and the Caribbean islands they found them teeming with huge green turtles weighing hundreds of pounds. The highprotein turtle-meat formed a large part of the diet of native inhabi­ tants near these beaches. In recent years, however, it be­ came increasingly clear that the species of giant turtle was being threatened with extinction. They had been completely wiped out on many Caribbean shores by hungry natives who caught and ate them faster than they could reproduce. The "Brotherhood of the Green Turtle" was formed to help save them. Later reorganized as the Carib­ bean Conservation Corporation, the Brotherhood got the Navy in­ terested in the green turtle. Since that time, the Navy has. been studying the green turtle and, sponsored by the Brotherhood, the Office of Naval Research and the University of Florida with finan­ cial support from the National Science Foundation, the Navy has been helping to save the species from extinction. Happy Wanderer What's so amazing about the green turtle? Simply the fact that he regularly migrates more than 1,000 miles from his birth­ place, hangs around there for two or three years maturing and grow­ ing in size, and then heads back— across 1,000 or more miles of deep of an Island on which he was born. And apparently he never misses. The Navy classifies the green turtle as a truly remarkable navigator. Ordinary directional sense—or compass sense—is not enough to keep the turtles on course over such great distances, the Navy says. The turtles, like some migrating birds, seem to have a two-coordinate system of position-finding the Navy has de­ cided. In many ways the green turtles are much better navigators than Columbus, who discovered them. Columbus was way off course when he came upon the Caribbean Islands, while the turtles knew exactly wheye they were. Learning more about how the green turtle does it, could help the Navy develop simplified and more accurate navigational equip­ ment. If a turtle can find its way around without a lot of expensive machinery, why can't a polaris submarine? Who knows? At any rate the Navy is wiring turtles for sound as part of their experi­ ments. Wetback Radio Miniature radio transmitters have been successfully mounted to the backs of many of these turtles. Equipped with a whip antenna which reaches two and a half feet above water when the turtle comes up to breathe, the device is intended to help track the course of the creatures across the ocean. Difficulties in main­ taining radio contact over long distances has hampered this ef­ fort so far, but the Navy intends to alter its technique. Instead of trying to track the long distance travels of the turtles. It will cap­ ture them as they arrive at Ascension Island, which lies in mid-ocean between Africa and With the radio transmitters at­ tached, the turtles will be trans­ ported a few hundred miles off­ shore and released. They should then be easily trackable with the aid of a tracking antenna atop "I'll find the water if it takes all day." The direction - finding ability of the giant green turtle hat amazed Navy scientists. 5,000 foot Green Mountain on the island and the Navy could gain in­ formation on how the turtles man­ age to "home in" on the Island. Similar efforts have been made to track whales. Until now the wanderings of the green turtle have been fol­ lowed by the simple method of tagging them at Ascension and then watching for the tagged turtles to turn up somewhere else in the world or return to the Island years later. Turtles tagged at As­ cension have turned up along the coast of Brazil and then three years later at the same beach on Ascension where they were origin­ ally tagged. This feat of swim­ ming over 1,000 miles across the In which they lay about 100 eggs open ocean and hitting a five before filling in the hole. The mile wide island after a three-year adults then return to the sea and absense is what got the Navy wander around for two or three interested in these hard-shelled years before returning to lay more eggs. navigators. The natives who make use of To reestablish the turtles on the turtle for food have devised' many beaches, the scientists are some novel ways of capturing the transplanting baby turtles from huge creatures. A scientist taking their true birthplaces to the longpart in the green turtle studies has abandoned beaches soon after described a turtle hunt in which they hatch, with Jiopes that this will fool them into thinking the he took part. The turtles are caught with the beach to, which they are brought aid of a sucking fish called a is their real home. If this succeeds remora. In place of a dorsal fin, they will continue to return to the remora has a suction device these beaches in the future to enabling it to hitch onto sharks, breed. "Columbus Say .. boats and other moving objects. Preparing for a turtle hunt the Earlier this month a Navy fly­ natives catch remora and tie ing-boat made four flights trans­ strong lines around their tails. porting 18,500 baby turtles from When a turtle is seen, a remora Costa Rica, which is the last re­ is taken from a tub carried in the maining breeding ground for the bottom of the native boats and species in the Caribbean, to a placed in the water. On their dozen beaches in Mexico, Colom­ "leashes" the remora swim in bia, Florida and the Caribbean wider and wider circles around the islands. Looking backward as well boat until they encounter the as forward, the scientists picked turtle and attach themselves to the these beaches by delving back into shell. More and more remora are the records and ships' logs of released until enough are attached ' Columbus and other early ex­ to the turtles' shell to allow the plorers to learn which beaches natives to drag the turtle ashore. were turtle-hangouts in the old Naval Fast Shuffle days. As part of its efforts to save The results of these transplant­ the green turtle from extinction, ing attempts won't be clear for the Navy Is trying to pull a fast some time because it takes five or one on the turtles in spite of their six years for the turtles to grow fantastic navigational and direc­ from four-ounce babies to 400tional ability. It is trying to re­ pound adults capable of repro­ establish the turtles on numerous ducing their kind. Among the Caribbean shores where hungry areas where the green turtle is natives have wiped them out. being transplanted is the Ever­ Once the turtles are killed off glades National Park at the south­ on a particular island it is a diffi­ ern tip of Florida, where they cult matter to get them back be­ were entirely exterminated about cause they always return to breed 100 years ago. They are being on the beach where they were established only in communities born. Once they are wiped out none where local officials have agreed are bom there so none ever re­ to protect the turtles if and when turn. The turtles reproduce by they someday return to lay their digging a two-foot hole in the sand eggs. liliiiiiiii . "Columbus? Columbus? Who's Columbus?" Christopher Columbus was looking for India when he discovered the giant green turtle in the Caribbean. A better navigator, the green turtle would never have gotten so far off course. "Just a minute fellas. I think I'm gonna be sick!" The giant green turtle has been a reluctant par­ ticipant in recent research by the Navy to de­ velop better navigational equipment for use aboard United States warships. "Hey Charlie—I can't find the men's room!" After several years absence, the giant green turtle's amazing directional sense allows it to travel unerringly over thousands of miles to the same beach on which it was born. �Pare Sizfeea SB'AF'XRBnS LOG Deeember U, MM Navy^s First Warship Gets Face-Lifting Caught with her spars showing during rebuilding, the U.S. Constellation, the first warship to be- commissioned by the U.S. Navy, is pictured undergoing repairs in the Boston Navy Yard (above). After refurbishing, the 149-year-old frigate was brought to Baltimore where she was dedicated as a national monument (right). The Constellatipn was launched in Baltimore in 1797 as one of six frigates authorized by Congress for the infant U.S. Navy. BALTIIMORE—Even witliout her towering mainmast, the frigate U.S.S. Constellation is a majestic ship. Her hull painted black with a line of white and buff trim running along her gun ports, she looks every bit as formidable as her ship's log reports she was. The first warship of the U.S. Navy, the Constellation was commissioned on September 7, 1797 in Baltimore, where she was also built. She made her reputation in the Atlantic and^ Horse," as she was called in her do the rebuilding work, $250,000 off the coast of North Africa, she carried the first ,Anierican tory. She has won that battle, too. active days and they made an was raised. The money came After lying for a century In a Marines to Tripoli to fight the doing battle with the war­ Barbary pirates who had been quiet part of Boston harbor the heroic effort to save her. through the sale of 250,000 copper ships of nations who did not ap­ prove of the American Revolution. She sank the La Vengeance and captured the L'Insurgente, and Delapidated - and uncared for, medallions made from the ship's Constellation was decommissioned by the Navy and faced the prospect the Constellation had to be re­ spikes. of being scrapped. But many peo­ furbished before She could pre­ When she was sufficiently re­ ple cared about the "Yankee Race sent a proud face to America. To worked to go on public display, she was towed down to her home port of Baltimore. Tied up at Pier 4, the ship was turned into a float­ ing museum of American history. Visitors were charged 50 cents each to rove through her innards and get a glimpse of how the sail­ By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS ing men of old lived. Enough funds are expected to be $40 in 1956, and $50 in 1947-49. Unlike the appliance, furniture and auto industries, neither consumers nor farmers are getting full benefit raised in this way to complete the The public recently has been subjected to a nationwide bombard­ from automation on the farm, because of the increase in marketing and work on the OonstellaUon. That ment by TV and newspaper ads and store signs proclaiming that "food retailing costs. There are a number of reasons, including higher pack­ work includes the refitting of her is a bargain" and takes "only 19 cents" of the average family's dollar. aging and advertising costs, and the weed-like proliferation of brands. mainmast, which rises 93 feet Many supermarkets have been handing out coupons offering prizes For example, there are 3,400 different brands of salad dressings alone above the deck. The mast is now in st<H>age in a Baltimore ware­ on the market today. if figures adding up to 19 appear when you wet the card. house. 3 The claim that families spend "only 19 cents" of the take-home It's all right to wet the cards. But if you believe "food is a bargain" Historians Dispute Claims because the U.S. Agriculture Deparment, Grocery Manufacturers dollar for food itself will be a surprise to most moderate-income famAssociation and Supermarket Institute say so, you could do some Uies who spend 22 to 30 per cent, and sometimes more. While some historians have The so-called "average" family includes very small families, very serious overspending. Food at retail is not really a "bargain" in com­ parison to other commodity prices, nor as much of a bargain as it could rich families, farm families, etc. In contrast, the Bureau of Labor claimed that the Constellation is not the same ship which rolled off be in view of the low farm prices. You can, however, curb the cost Statistics figures that urban wage-earners and clerical workers spend the ways in 1797, the National His­ an average of 22 per cent of take-home pay for food; those witli more by knowledgeable shopping and preparation. torical Landmark commission is The Agriculture Department and food industry have been doing some than two children even more. Families with Income under $4,000 spend satisfied, after measuring the ship 26 to 28 per cent, BLS figures. Actually, the average expenditure for questionable selecting of statistics in their campaign. In almost every and comparing it to the original speech recently. Agriculture Secretary Freeman and Assistant Sec­ food per person is about $8 a week. For a wage-earner family of four, plans, that it is the real item. earning a typical take-home of about $99 a week, this average bill retary Mehren have emphasized that food has gone up less than other The unbelievers anaong the his­ items; that it now takes only 19 percent of income compared to 26 in would mean spending 32 per cent of income for food, not "only 19". torians have maintained that the That kind of expenditure is impossible if the family wants to keep the 1940's, 30-50 in European countries and almost 100 percent in the Constellation on display now was new African nations. (Canadian Minister of Agriculture Harry Hays up its housing and other living standards. Moderate-income families really built in 1853 and named need to aim for a food budget of $1 a day per person or less. similarly has been claiming that Canadians spend least of any country Despite concern by some families that this is difficult, other readers after the original. Researchers —21 percent. Apparently he failed to check with the U. S. Agricul­ tell have proved, however, that by the how they do it. ture Secretary). Mrs. William Roth (Lorain, Ohio) with two children under four, dimensions of the hull and fittings Here is the oher side of the story; writes that her food bill is running 87 cents a day per person, including found in it dated 1797, 1808 and 1 Food actually has gone up more than almost any other commodity soaps and paper products. Mrs. Roth has kept a record of all her 1812, that there can be little doubt you buy except used cars. When the Agriculture Department says spending since she was married and knows exactly where her money to the authenticity of the Con­ stellation, food has gone up less than-the cost of living in general, the department goes. is including services such as medical care, property taxes, and repair Her below decks compartment, But what about families with older children? Mrs. George Greer, services. But when you compare food with other commodities you (of Newberg, Oregon), has older ones; in fact, five children. Her food though enlarged to accommodate buy over the counter, the 1957-59 dollar's worth of furniture and bill comes to 60 cents a day per person. (Even this unusual achievement the visitors Who wander through household appliances, 99 cents; a dollar's worth of a new car, $1; a requires 30 per cent of her husband's $100 take-home pay.) her, still appear small and dollar's worth of fuel, $1.01. Both these women watch their meat spending especialiy. They cramped, making it hard to believe . Too, retail prices of food have gone up more than farm prices. The usually do have meat or fish every day but limit expensive cuts like she could have carried a crew of farmer now gets 99 cents for the 1957-59 dollar of farm products; the steak to once a week or even less often. In the case of a large family 309 officers and men. manufacturer is getting $1.02 and the retailer is charging you $1.07 like Mrs. Greer's, the occasional expensive cut is balanced by an oc­ She did, however, and by the .2 Despite claims by some food manufacturers that food now takes casional low-cost dish like beans. record they were valiant men Who "only 19 cents" of your dollar because of "better distribution and pro­ Furthermore: "I shop the specials every week," Mrs. Greer reports. served their nation well. It is only cessing", the fact is, food prices have been restrained from more "I avoid high-priced convenience foods and always buy the large fitting that the Constellation drastic rises only by smaller returns to the farmer. Of every $100 you economy size when possible. We eat well. It takes more planning should remain as a reminder of spend for food, the farmer now gets $37 compared to $39 in 1960, and perhaps more preparation but it can be done!" their bravery.' preying on American merchant clippers. Her greatest battle, how­ ever, was the one to remain intact as a reminder of our nation's his­ Methods Of Curbing Food Costs �\- SEAFARERS Dceanber 25, 1M4 LOG Pace SeTentecf Future Major Leaguers By Fred Stewart & Ed Moeney Heodquorters Representatives Many Heroic Acts By Seafarers Seafarers who sail the relatively calm oceans of the world today often fail to remember the terrible days of World War II when an SIU crew could never count on makinc port safely. It was the cou^ace and professional seamanship demonstrated by these crews that has endured to stand as a guiding example for generations of new SIU members. \7hile thousands of SIU members gave their lives for their country while serving in the Merchant Marine during those dangerous days, the heroic, but tragic story of a brave Seafarer illustrates the courage and skill which built this never-to-be-forgotten tradition. The story starts on May 22, 1944, in the yards of the New England Shipbuildiifg Corporation at Portland, Maine, where a crowd had gathered to watch the launching of a new merchant sihip. The on­ lookers cheered as the widow of an SIU hero broke the tradiitional bottle of champagne across the ship's bow, sending it down the laimdhing ramp with the words, "I christen thee Joseph Squires." The widow was Mrs. Joseph Squires of Brooklyn, N.Y. Inunediately before the launching, a representative of the Federal Maritime Com­ Members of the SIU of Puerto Rico, in the San Juan are sure there is plenty of future major mission had presented her. the MercMSht Marine Distinguished Service Medal which had been posthumously awarded to her husband league material on a ball team made up of local youngsters and sponsorea by the SlU-conOne of the Union officials at--f tracted Motorships of Puerto Rico. The team, which is called the "Motorships," is seen pos­ tending the presentation said, the blocks out In a hurry and ing above, with former major league player Cal Ermer, now manager of the professional San "This is the first ship named for pulled away before it could smash Juan Senators Ileft), Jose Martinez, company agent and team coach, and Captain Milton one of the men who sail these ves­ up. It was mighty good seaman­ Williams, general manager of the shipping company (kneeling, center). sels . . . This vessel will always ship. We wondered if we could do carry the tributes of the members as well. of the Seafarers International Detective Agency Seeking New 'Image* Union as well as the high praise , "Our number three boat was of all American seamen in the next, but it was evident that some­ one would have to stay on board Merchant Marine." and handle the lines if we were Thus, the S.S. Joseph Squires was launched as a new addition to get away. "Squires and Harold Whitney, to America's great merchant fleet NEW YORK—The famous and at the same time infamous Pinkerton's National De­ as a commemoration to the hero­ the deck engineer, volunteered. They lowered us away very care­ tective Agency, with a long-time reputation as willing suppliers of management-hired goons ism of an SIU seaman who died fully, timing it so we'd hit the so that his crew mates might live. for violent strikebreaking attempts against early union organizing drives, has decided it is The events that led to this post­ water at the right moment. No time for the company to have humous honor began when the old one seemed a bit nervous or ex­ will most likely continue to haunt ment to provide goons to battle Maideh Creek foundered on New cited. A wave broke over us, but a new image. it however. workers. After the bloody Home­ Starting January 1, 1965 the Year's Eve, 1942. Squires and we didn't swamp. Pinkerton's earned its reputation stead, Pa. steel strike of 1892 how­ "We had to fend the boat off to company has announced, it will be another seaman, Harold E. Whit­ for strikebreaking around the keep from being smashed against ever, even Pinkerton's had enough ney, volunteered to stay aboard known simply as Pinkerton's, Inc. turn-of-the-century when it was to tend the falls and make sure the hull. A few seconds later the The dark record of the old days called on frequently by manage- of management tactics and has the boats got away. In attempting sea earned us away from the side refused, it says, to accept any to save the lives of their fellow of the ship. When Squires and security work that might be in­ SIU crewmembers, the two brave Whitney slid down the falls, we terpreted as strikebreaking. Seafarers sealed their own fate, were too far away, and they had The company's present president since they gave up their own to drop into the water. Whitney refers to Pinkerton's turn-of-thedisappeared. chance for rescue. century capers as "a phase of our "Squires started swimming with The end of the Maiden Creek position that we're not particularly and the heroism of the two sea­ all his might, but he oould't reach proud of. We're delighted to be out us. The captain threw him a line men was recalled by Seafarer of it." Aaron McAlpin, a member of the and tried to maneuver the boat Name's the Same NEW YORK—Shipwrecks and disasters at sea are the last over to him, but the waves were vessel's steward department. Mc­ Name change or no, the 115 year Alpin was one of the 31 survivors too strong. After a few minutes things in the world you would expect a marine insurance old company is rolling up record company to enjoy talking about. of the disaster. He was one of we lost sight of him." In addition to paying tribute to profits. This year saw it doing a three steward department mem­ However one company the brave Seafarer and engineer record $50 million business. In­ bers whose lives were saved. sinking and capturing ships of the cluded in this was a $25 million The Maiden Creek was bound whose skill and sacrifice launched here has decided to get some Yankee whaling fleet. contract for policing the New York for New York with a load of ore the boat, McAlpin also lauded the return from events which With 25 ships already missing, when it ran into a severe Atlantic expert seamanship that kept them cost them money in the past and the owners went to the insurance World's Fair. But its present storm about 20 miles off Block afloat in the heavy seas. "We had has commissioned a series of company and asked if the missing operations actually bear little Island. After taking a tremendous some mighty good sailors on that paintings of famous shipwrecks vessels could still be insured. At resemblance to the mixture of beating from the ocean and los­ ship," he said. "They knew what and disasters at sea to use in its the time there was no notion that glamour and infamy of its past. Founded in Chicago in 1850, ing one of her boats and all of to do and worked like a team." the Shenandoah was operating off Pinkerton's began with a nine-man The men, some of them nearly magazine ads. her rafts, she sent out an urgent The paintings will mark notable New England, and the war, in any SOS on the afternoon of Decem­ frozen, were picked up after four events from the'company's Disas­ case, had been over for several staff. Today it employs over 15,000. days. The other boat was never In those early days, Pinkerton ber 31. By this time, McAlpin ter Book — the roll of all the weeks. Taking the risk, the in­ helped track down such famous remembers, the seas were breaking heard from again. This tale of World War 11 hero­ claims paid out over a century for surance company underwrote the American bad guys as Jesse over her decks and the ship was 25 ships. A few weeks later it was James, Sam Bass and the Younger ism illustrates the tradition that sunken, destroyed or lost ships. settling fast. found that they had been destroyed Brothers. One of the ads will tell the story we Seafarers continuously en­ Another vessel answered the dis­ even before the insurance was pro­ tress call in the late afternoon. deavor to live up to. Today, we of the Confederate cruiser Shenan­ vided. Still, the underwriter had Bad Guys and Scabs doah and the king-size bill it are proud that the SIU Maritime After hoving to, it signalled the to pay off. created for the insurance company From chasing bad guys, the Maiden Creek to abandon ship. Advancement programs are mak­ Another company ad has a story company went to beating up and However, the SIU ship's master ing greater such great strides and because its captain was unaware hoped to bring his vessel to port are qualifying our members to that the Civil War was over. In with a happy ending about the killing workers during its infamous and delayed giving the abandoning continue to be the best profes­ the final weeks of the conflict the clipper ship Neptune's Car. A strikebreaking phase. Intermediate Shenandoah roamed the Atlantic, month out of New York with a exploits included international order. After circling the Maiden sional sailors afloat. cargo bound for California, the hunts for jewel thieves, con men Creek several times, the "rescue" ship's master. Captain Joshua Pat­ and forgers. Right now, industrial ship departed. Later, ther officers ten, had to depose his mate for in­ security is the company's main­ of this ship reported that they subordination. Shortly after, he stay. It provides guards for in­ thought the Maiden Creek had As Seafarers know, copies of each issue ot the SEAFARERS and the two remaining officers dustrial plants in the U.S. and been torpedoed, and that they LOG are mailed every two weeks to all SIU ships as well as to fell ill with malaria. overseas, operates a school for didn't want to endanger their ves­ numerous clubs, bars and other overseas 'spots where Seafarers Mary Patten, the captain's bride, industrial security and makes elec­ sel by "hanging around." congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves then assumed command of the ves­ tronic alarm and safety devices. It McAlpin relates what happened calling all SIU steamship companies for the itineraries of their sel and sailed her safely around also provides guards for many next; "Just about dark, she started ships. On the basis of the information supplied by the ship oper­ Cape Horn and into San Francisco special uses, such as each Hallow­ to go down by the head, and the ator, four copies of the LOG, and minutes forms are then air­ Bay. Her seamanship—acquired as een, when it provides guards for skipper gave the order to abandon mailed to the iigent in the next port. she went along—^saved the ship bowling alleys and car dealers to ship. The waves were terrific, Simjjarly, the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs and its cargo, worth $10 million at protect merchandise and windows thudding against the deck houses at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Seafarer today's prices. For her deed, the from over-exuberant trie k-orand giving the ship a terrible requests it by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers con­ insurance company gave her a treaters. pounding. Worst of all, it was gregate there. generous bonus. In spite of all this, the company freezing, and all of us were soaked As always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU The painting for the ad series, is still in the private-eye business by the spray. ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that which will appear in business and in a big way, doing more detective "We used the starboard boats, the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accuracy of news magazines, were done by art­ work for American industry than lumber one got away first. It hit its mailing lists. any of its competitors. ist Gordon Johnson. a big sea, but the crew knocked Pinkerfon, Finks No More Ship Disasters To Star In Marine Insurance Ads Notify Union On LOG Mail �PMI« BlifcteM SEAF'ARKnS 10& IMMbcr Mi MM Wilmington Thanksglvng Convention Voting System OK'd gy Quiif Supreme Court Upholds Union Voting Procedure WASHINGTON—A unanimous Supreme Court gave a common sense interpretation to the Landrum-Griffin Act and upheld a convention voting system used by the Musicians and many other unions—and by the AFL-CIO itself. The court said it is "abun-fdantly clear" that Congress a vote of a delegate ... A majority an abuse of democratic rights. In never intended to outlaw a [vote so determined in favor of a fact, the court noted, consideration weighted voting system on dues dues increase is approval by ma­ was given to requiring some sys­ increases in which delegates voted jority vote of the delegates voting tem of proportional voting repre­ the membership of the locals they at a convention." sentation at conventions. represent. The court traced the legislative A union convention, the court Two lower courts had invali­ history of the Landrum-Griffin Act indicated, is properly a form of dated a dues increase voted by the and found that It is quite clear representative union government. 1963 convention of the Musicians. that Congress did not considra- the The law "does not require a town The $C-a-year increase had been common provision for weighted meeting for action by an inter­ approved by delegates represent­ voting at union conventions to be national or national luiion." ing a clear majority of the union's He praised the union's attorney, membership, but it would have Henry Kaiser of Washington, D.C., been defeated if each delegate who argued the case before the had only one vote. Supreme Court. Both a federal district judge and The AFM, Kenin said, carried the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals the case forward on appeal as a conceded that the weighted voting matter of principle. He pointed procedure was thoroughly demo­ out that the dues increase was cratic. But they held that it tech­ reapproved at the 1964 convention nically violated the Landrum-Grif­ Action In the marketplace offers fin Act requirement that a dues a method for trade unionists to as­ by a majority of both individual Enjoying fhe delicious Thanksgiving dinner served by the increase be approved by "a major­ sist each other in their campaign delegates and per capita votes. The Union at the Wilmington SUP hall are SlU-United Industrial ity vote of the delegates" to a for decent wages and better con­ decision, therefore, does not af­ fect the union's finances. union convention. Workers Pacific District member Sergio Monzon, his wife ditions. The Supreme Court's decision Both the AFL-CIO and U.S. So­ and daughter. Monzon is employed by the SlU-UIW-conSeafarers and their families are also backs the dissent of Judge licitor General Archibald Oox filed contracted Atlas Rigging Company. His son who also ate "friend of the court" briefs with urged to support a consumer boy­ Thurgood Marshall from the 2-1 his fill of holiday turkey, was on line waiting for another cott by trade unionists against decision of the 2nd Oircuit Court the Supreme Court vigorously portion and was not present when the photo was taken. challenging such a rigid interpre­ various companies whose products of Appeals. Marshall had voiced are produ'-'-d under non-union strong disagreement with his col­ tation. If the lower court decisions were conditions, or which are "unfair leagues' restrictive interpretation permitted to stand, the AFL-CIO to labor." (This listing carries the of the law. Congress, he said, said, it wouid "wreck havoc upon name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ merely intended to prevent arbi­ established union procedures with­ volved, and will be amended from trary dues action by persons "not answerable in any way to the out promoting any known congres­ time to time.) membership." sional purpose." "Lee" brand tires There was no congressional in­ (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum Promotes Democracy WASHINGTON—Labor, management and government ex­ tent, he sfressed, to "dictate" to & Plastic Workers) AFL-CIO President George union a particular method of con­ perts from the principal industrialized nations are challenged 3) 4" ft Meany, in an affidavit submitted vention voting or to foreclose to find the answers to the human and economic problems of at an early stage of the case, Eastern Alt Lines unions from giving more weight stressed that the federation "has (FRght Engineers) to their large locals on dues automation, Labor Secretary been vitally interested in promot­ ft ft ft questions. 'W. Willard Wirtz stated here recently in a welcoming ing democracy in its constituent H. I. Slegel address to a North American con­ unions." The Musicians' rollcall "HIS" brand men's clothes ference on manpower implications procedure, he said, "clearly fur­ (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) U.S. Surveys Spending Patterns of automation. thers intra-undon democrary." ft ft ft The "really hard problem" in A convention of 14,000 delegates Sears, BoebucK Company charting technological progress, he would be needed if the Musicians Retail stores & products said, is "to see to it that none are were to achieve proportional rep­ (RetaU Clerks) left out." The future, Wirtz de­ resentation of members without a ft ft ft clared, must be "one of our build­ weighted voting system, the AFLStitzei-Welier Distilleries ing and not of the machines'." CIO noted. "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" In a broader area, the AFL-CIO The three-day conference fo­ "Cabin StiU," "W. L. Weller" cused on technological develop­ said, the Supreme Court's decision WASHINGTON—^American city families in recent years Bourbon whiskeys would provide "guidance" to lower have spent more of their increas^ incomes for housing and ments and problems in the United (Distillery Workers) courts on whether the Landrumhousehold operations, medical care and education. At the States and Canada, the two host ft ft ft Griffin Act should be interpreted countries. But participants came same time, they have been-f J. R. Simplot Potato Co. in a "narrow and artificial" con­ also from most of the 19 able to increase their savings, Significantly, the higher average came Frozen potato products text or be given "a sensible and other member nations of the Or­ insurance holdings and their income in 1960-61 also made pos­ ganization for Economic Co-opera­ (Grain Millers) realistic reading." contributions to charity and com­ sible greater family savings and tion & Development (OECD). The ft ft ft " The Supreme Court said the law munity services, the Department almost an 85 percent increase in conference was sponsored by the Kingsport Press requires that those voting at a of Labor has reported. gifts, contributions and personal GEOD's Manpower' & Social Af­ "World Book," "Childcraft" convention be delegates, but "says The increased proportion of in­ insurance. (Printing Pressmen) nothing about the number of votes fairs Directorate. come spent for housing "was the (Typographers, Bookbinders) each delegate may east." The de­ The major expansion in per­ AFL-CIO Vice President A. J. most significant uptrend in family sonal insurance spending was in (Machinists, Stereotypers) cision, written by Associate Jus­ Hayes was one of the conference spending" during the decade of social security and other pension tice Byron R. White, added: ft ft ft chairmen. Vice President George the '50's, according to a Bureau of "Where the vote cast at a con­ Jamestown Sterling Corp. plans, which by 1960-61 accounted Labor Statistics article in the for more than half of the $324 M. Harrison headed a 25-member vention is weighted according to Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. November issue of the depart­ spent by the average family for all U.S. labO'r delegation which in­ the number of people the delegates Furniture and Bedding cluded presidents and research di­ ment's Monthly Labor Review. A personal insurance. represents, that vote, we think, is (United Furniture Workers) rector of international unions. second article, giving a break­ The Monthly Labor Review The opening paper presented to down on family spending patterns and variations by income levels article said the city family's aver­ the conference tackled the prob­ and location, is scheduled for pub­ age income in 1960-61 was $5,906 lem of worker displacement and of —an increase of 51 percent from the "silent firings" in industries lication in the December issue. The article, which covered the 1950 dollar figure of $3,910, which require fewer employes to family spending patterns in 1960- which after allowance for price in­ do the same or greater amount of 61 as contrasted with expenditures creases worked out to a 22 per­ work. • Seymour L. Wolfbein, director in 1950, pointed out that increased cent increase in real family in­ of the Labor Department's Office incomes had made possible in­ come. The average family at the same of Manpower, Automation & Train­ creased dollar expenditures in "each major category of goods and time was able to increase dollar ing, said there is hope that actual spending for consumer goods and layoffs resulting from technologi­ services." But there were declines in the services and to limit its expen­ cal change can be held to a mini­ percentage of spending for food, ditures for current living needs mum. He added: clothing, house furnishings and to "only 91 percent of its after­ 'But a great deal of 'silent fir­ equipment and recreation, where­ tax income, compared with 97 per­ ing'—mot filling vacancies created as expenditures for "shelter, fuel cent in 1950," the article con­ by attrition and not hiring addi­ tional workers as production ex­ and utilities, household operations, tinued. City families spent an average pands—appears inevitable in many medical and personal care, auto­ mobiles ... and education each of $1,600 for housing In 1960-61— plants installing automated or took a larger share" of total an increase of $550 from the 1950 other advanced equipment of a labor-saving nature." family spending, the analysis said. level, the BLS report said. Solve Automation Problems, Wirtz Challenges Conference Families Spending More For Housing �Mk IMl SEAFARERS LOC A Helping Hand William Koflowitch, ship's delegate aboard the Santa Emilia (Liberty Navigation) re­ ports that the crew has found a real friend in Port Said. A merchant, by the name of Sayed Awad, who operates a little shop close to the docks was termed by Koflowitch "a true, brother to the seamen that come to his shop." Awad Carriers). According to meeting galley can't go on making ice in and his father, Abdou, op­ secretary Robert Ferranoliz, the coffee cans forever, Forsberg Arthur Nelson,a member of the SlU Great Lakes District, proudly displays a check for hospital benefits he received from the Union Welfare Plan to his wife, Marvel, outside the Duluth hall. PUERTO RICO (Molorshlps), Nov. IS—Chairman, Martin Fay; Sacratary, Gaorga Andarton. It waa requested that, all unauthorized persons not be allowed aboard ship In New York or Puerto Rico. AU shore gang men who are employed in port to be given a pass by the chief mate to show that they are allowed to have meals aboard while working In port. All extra men to be fed after crew finish their meal. Everything else> Is In order with no beefs. Vote of thanks extended by the crew for the good Thanksgiving dinner prepared by the steward department. Ship's delegate resigning this trip—new ship's dele­ gate to be elected next trip. Motion made and carried that all holidays, if they fall on a day in port, be celebrated on day prior to arrival in port. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Nov. IS—Chairman, Bryan C. Slald; Secretary, C. J. Beck. Little disputed OT in engine department. One man hospitalized in Norfolk and two men ill on stiip to be sent to hospital. VENORE (Venore Transportation), Nov. 23—Chairman, H. F. Munzart; Sacratary, J. C. Read. Three men were hospitalized. Some disputed OT in engine and steward department. Washing machine to be fixed. DEL VALLE (Delta), Nov. 15 — Chairman, Jerome Hackar; Secratary, Ramon Irlzarry. Captain will see that the ship is fumigated for roaches. Ship's delegate and department dele­ gates were given a vole of thanks. Discussion on keeping recreation room clean, and each department to take turn in cleaning it. All foc'sles in deck, engine and steward depart­ ment need painting. POTOMAC (Empire Transport), Nov. 1—Secretary, Andy C. Noah. Brother Charles Craiford is serving as new ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Re­ quest made for list of mattress re­ placements for next trip as they will have to be made up in advance. Steward pointed out the present and future effect that wiU benefit aU SIU seaman through the Steward's Up­ grading School. Request was made to help messman keep messroom clean. JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman), Nov. $—Chairman, John H. Morris; Secretary,' L. R. Eckoff. Few hours disputed OT In engine department. Otherwise SD Is O.K. DEL SOL (Delta), Nov. 22—Chair­ man, R. E. Stough, Jr.; Secretary, Ira C. Bridges. $44.05 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. ROBIN GOODFELLOW (Robin Line), Nov. 14—Chairman, A. Vasquez; Sec­ retary, B. Warren. One man was hos­ pitalized in Beira and one man in Capetown. No beefs were reported by department delegates. DETROIT (Sea-Land), Dec. 2—Chair­ man, R. Matarangolo; Secretary, A. Sworizowskl. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for good feeding and fine Thanksgiving dinner. NORINA (Marine Traders), Nov. 22 —Chairman, E. Wheeler; Secretary, F. R. Farmer. Chief engineer will have an electrician come aboard to check and repair gaUey range. Broth­ er E. Wheeler was eleeted to serve as ship's delegate. Motion made to send letter to headquarters for in­ formation about new contraet nego­ tiations. It was suggested that the crew check stores with the steward before accepting them for the voyage. It was suggested that a list of ciga­ rettes be ordered for slop chest. Crew requested to bring books back to library. MANHATTAN (Hudson Waterways), Nov. 1—Chairman, Sam W. McDonald; Secretary, Leo E. Movall. Some of the repairs were not taken care of. New fans have not been instaUed and the ice-eube machine was not re­ paired. Motion was made to install new ice-cube machine in the crew messroom for the crew's use only. Brother Edwin Christian was elected ship's delegate. COLUMBIA (U.S. Stool), Oct. If— Chairman, Guy OlViaio; Secretary, Noll O'Rourke. SIO in ship's fund. Brother Ed Batcho was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Brother Mike Doherty as deck delegate. Brother Guy DiViaio as engine delegate and Brother Bill Brightwell as steward delegate. No beefs reported. COE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Nov. 15—Chairman, W. G. Hamilton; Secretary, R. Davis. One man failed to join ship at sailing time. $14.58 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. KYSKA (Waterman), Nov. 22 — Chairman, J. Smythe; Secretary, Charles L. Shirah. Few beefs will be taken up with boarding patrolman. Suggestion was made that something be done about the heating system in quarters aft. It was suggested that the heating be controUed from en­ gine room. One man was hospitalized in Southamipton. erate the "Oriental Art Galley" just up the main-street from the landing, Koflowitch says, and the two really make a Seafarer feel at home. "He guided us to the right money exchanges and in his shop gave us fair prices for the goods we pur­ chased," Koflow­ itch says. "Just Koflowitch like a member of his own family." $ $ After considerable discussion, the crew aboard the Bethtex (Beth­ lehem Steel) de­ cided that they needed a new antenna for the crew's television set, reports ship's delegate J. J. Perera. It was also decided that the best way to handle the mat­ Pererd ter was to have the ship's delegate price several antennas, buy the one he thought was best fit for the purpose, and then the crew would take up a col­ lection and repay him for the cost. J. i 4" 3^ The steward department has leen receiving a large amount of praise aboard the Hurricane. (Wa­ terman), reports Stanley Hutchin­ son, ship's dele­ gate. At a recent shipboard meet­ ing, the crew gave the galley gang a "tremen­ dous hand," for Hutchinson their service and feeding. "In the estimation of the crew," Hutchinson said, "the Hur­ ricane is the best feeding i^ip on the East or West Coast." 3^ t 3> 3> 3) 4 3» 3!' Another crew that is more than satisfied with the representation being afforded them by their elected ship's delegate is that aboard the Floridian (So. Atlantic & Caribbean). V. Bryant, the out­ going delegate was given a hearty vote of thanks by the crew "for doing such a fine job for the crew," says F. Alverez, the new ship's delegate. T. J. Forsberg ship's delegate, says that the crew has asked for a new ice machine to be installed on the Duval (Suwannee). There just isn't enough ice aboard, and the 4. Kudos were handed out to the galley gang aboard the Alcoa Voyager (Alcoa) recently, reports meeting chairman W. H. Harrel. During the good and welfare section of a rec e n t shipboard meeting, the crew voted the steward depart­ Harrel ment a vote of thanks, with sipecial mention going to chief cook D. C. Archia and cook and baker P. T. Flores. i crew had asked for means to heat water for tea at night. The steward was able to make the crew happy by reporting that the company had just supplied them with a new 15 cup percolator which would be set aside to keep water hot for the tea drinkers aboard. 3) 3) t Ship's delegate aboard the Seatrain Louisiana (Seatrain) has been receiving some high praise from his fellow crewmembers. Accord­ ing to R. Donnelly, meeting chair­ man at the last shipboard meeting, the crew voted a hearty thanks to H. DeLoS'Santos for the fine job he has been doing on the ship. t Tea and coffee preparation was the point of discussion during the recent shipboard meeting aboard the Longview Victory (Victory LOG-A-RHYTHM: Of Trembling Grass Henri Percikow When early humid breath Clings to the green husk Of our black earth And slowly wakens All seeds, all foliage. Then man yearns To walk upon the trembling grass. protests. 4 4 4 4 4 4 According to George Glennon, ship's delegate aboard the Del Aires, (Delta) a. recent report by the steward has sent some slight consemation rippling through the crew. The steward said there was no peanut butter aboard. "There's plenty of everything else, though,." the steward said. This calmed the crew, Glennon reports. Seafarers aboard the Bienville (Sea-Land) recently extended to the company a heartfelt thanks after receiving a new television set. According to the crew, it was a very fine gesture on the part of the company. 4 4 4 The crew aboard the Del Monte (Delta) recently handed out sev­ eral votes of thanks during the good and welfare section of their last shipboard meeting. One spe­ cial thanks went to ships delegate Howard Menz and the three de­ partment delegates for their fine work in representing the crew. Albert G. Espenada, meeting sec­ retary says. The other vote of thanks was to the 4-8 watch for their efforts in keeping the pantry and crew mess clean. 4 4 4 Charles Tallman, meeting sec­ retary aboard the Puerto Rieo (Motorships of P.R.) reports that during the good and welfare sec­ tion of a recent shipboard meet­ ing, the crew was fully behind a suggestion that a new water foun­ tain was needed for the crews quarters. A motion to that effect was passed by acclamation. They also decided to ask for a new grill in the galley, Tallman reports. 4 4 4 Things have been running very smoothly aboard the San Fran­ cisco (Sea-Land) reports meeting Secretary S. M. Simes. "This has been a very nice voyage, with good cooperation from all hands," he says. "The only fly in the oint­ ment is the fact that the television set is broken." The crew plans to have it fixed when the ship hits New York again. When golden spray Enamels -meadow, mountain And fawn leaps From rock to rock In bursts of life 4 4 4 Then man yearsn A motion was made recently To walk upon the trembling grass. aboard the Steel Worker (Isth­ mian) to buy a motion picture pro­ When arid earth jector and some movies. To do Lies eroded and bare. this according to meeting chair­ With only weeds, man Joe Kramer, each man will Man will plow have to pitch in some money to a Till he fingers ripened wheat— special fund set up for this pur­ Yearning pose. The crew is still discussing To walk upon the trembling grass. the proposal and will decide soon, Kramer said. When blood splashed flowers Droop upon molested earth. And death seeping into fields. Tells of a lost vintage, Then man yearns To walk upon the trembling grass. roWeWlS �Page Twentr SEAFARERS DeoMBlMr n, UM LOG Union's Views Hit By Goidwaterite To The Editor! As a long time admirer of tho SIU, may I advlso you that la my opinion the smears and tirades against Goldwater In recent SIU LOG issues are re­ volting and disgusting—^fc^ides being mainly untrue. Unfortunately the position of the SIU against Goldwater with all the smears against him, Is wholly In accord with tho cur­ rent Communist lino as delivered by Gus Hall In his Hospitalized Seafarers in the Galveston USPHS Hospital had a chorus of thanks for their Union after the SlU donated two television sets to help them wile away their tim^ in the hos}ital. Posing proudly with one of the newly acquired sets, SlU members in Ward I of the lospital are (l-r) Norman A. Longine, John J. Tobin, Willis O'Moncrief, Hugh 'Shorty' Grove, Louis Tlorico, Bill 'Flat Top' Koflowitch, Jacob N. Linscomb, George H. Atcherson, Estuordo Cuenca (seated) and Flora Regalado. All letters to the editor for publication In the SEAFARERS LOO must be signed by the writer. Names xmll be withheld upon request. SlU Donafes TV Sets To USPHS Hospital Union Aids Laid Up Seafarers Drydocked Seafarers, like anyone else who must spend time laid up in the hospital, are always in need of something to get their minds off the dull hospital routine and give them some relief from that cooped-up feeling. SIU men laid up in the Gal-"*" up with the donation of a second director of the hospital wrote the vestdn USHP hospital how­ set. SIU, "Your continued concern for ever, discovered recently that Expressing his thanks for these the welfare of patients at this the television sets in two of the wards were in even worse shape than they were. Fuzzy, floppy, headache-producing pictures were adding eye troubles to their other ailments. The men in the two wards became increasingly dis­ gusted as they became aware that the only place the sets would ever be of any use was in an electronic junkyard somewhere. Help On Way It was at this point that the SIU welfare department stepped in to make sure that the men could get a break from the routine of pills and needles and forget some of their troubles in the nev­ er-never land of video. Word was spread around the Houston hall about the need for a new TV set or two, and before long the wheels were in motion and help, in the form of a brand new TV set, was on the way. The arrival of the set at the Inspital brought a great deal of praise for the quick action by 1 -.e Union—both from Union and :-.on-union patients. The accolades increased when the Union followed SUMMIT (Sea-Land), December 10— Chairman, Jette Marcel; Secretary, Stafford McCormick. No beef re­ ported by department delegates. Brother Stafford McCormick was elected to serve as ship's delegate. To contact patrolman regarding drink­ ing water which is rusty, and repairs that have not been taken care of. A big vote of thanks was extended to the steward department. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), No­ vember 29—Chairman, Roy R. Thomas; Secretary, Jon A. Maslow. Ship's dele­ gate reported that there were no beefs and everything O.K. Brother C. W. Palmer was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Chief electrician to check on air conditioner in San Francisco. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a fine Thanksgiving dinner. JOSEFINA (Liberty Navigation), No­ vember 25 — Chairman, R. W. Simpkins; Secretary, C. Hurlburt. Brother Henry Crackness was elected to serve . as ship's delegate. Motion made to have a letter sent to negotiating com­ mittee about a raise in pay and over­ time. Discussion on crew's coopera­ tion in keeping outsiders out of crew's living quarters and in messrooms while in . India. Discussion on several small matters pertaining to gifts. Dr. Milo O. Blade, medical hospital is greatly appreciated." Seafarer's Last Wish Honored By SIU Crew Seafarers on the Norberto Capay (Liberty Navigation) were saddened recently by the death of Ernest Mosley. As is the custom on countless other SIU vessels where an SIU brother passes away, Mosley's-f ; former crewmembers put some money for school." their heads together to find Raises Fund some way to help the surviving members of hs family. The crew was fortunate enough to have been given some guidance in their efforts by a chance remark that Mosley him­ self had made the day before he passed away in Singapore, Ma­ laysia. According to ship's reporter Albert S. Coles, the departed Sea­ farer had said, "Al, I sure got to send my boy Coles the welfare of the crew. COLUMBIA (Oriental Exporters), November 22—Chairman, Mike Reedf Secretary, John Picou. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Brother William (Dick) Massey wai elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion regarding repairs. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), No­ vember 29—Chairman, Dooley; Secre­ tary, Lonphen. Brother Julio passed away and donations from crew sent to family. $4.89 in ship's fund. Dis­ puted OT in deck department. De­ layed sailing disputed in steward. Armed with the memory of this offhand remark. Coles helped or­ ganize the "Moe's Last Request Fund" among the Seafarers on the Norberto Capay. By the time the ship paid off in Vancouver, Sea­ farers and officers chipped In to the tune of $163 to honor Brother Mosley's last wish, writes Coles. When Mosley's son. Earnest, Jr., receives the check for this donation and the accompanying letter from the crew, he will know, as count­ less others have learned before him, that Seafarers never forget a brother of the sea. ST. LAWRENCE (Sea Tramp Corp.), December 5—Chairman, B. C. Brown­ ing; Secretary, Oustav V. Thobe. Brother Herman Whisnant was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to Brother Frank Boyne for the way he handled payoff. Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate. ROBIN KIRK (Robin Lines), November 22 — Chairman, Thomas Markham; Secretary, N. Lambert. WHITEHALL (Whitehall Navigation Corp.), November 15—Chairman, Ma­ rion D. Green; Secretary, E. Kaznowsky. $14.80 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department. Dis­ cussion on repairs. It was suggested that hot breads be served at break­ fast time. STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), No­ vember 30 — Chairman, E. M. Kills; Secretary, A. Ferrara. $22.50 was collected for ship's library. No beefs reported by department delegates. Ship's fund to be coUected by depart­ ment delegates and turned over to the ship's delegate. $30.00 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Brother J. Blanchard was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Steward re­ ported that holida, nuts and candies were stolen during the storing. He will attempt to obtain more in next port. Crew requested to turn in all soiled linen each week. pamphlet—^The Eleventh Hour —D e f e a t The New Fascist Threat, (copy enclosed). I wish you would take the time and notice how your organization, in this case, is doing exactly what Gus Hall advocates. I would also like to comment on an article "exposing" the John Birch Society. The latest Issue of the LOG (Nov. IS-Ed.)contains an article about the new Committee for Civic Responsibility which is designed to expose JBS. In the first place, why don't you in­ vestigate and find out that many of them have been (com­ mittee members) connected with Communist fronts. In the second place I highly doubt the authenticity of the school incident about a JBS member. In any event It in no way represents a typical JBS member because they are every bit as good a citizen as are SIU members. Frankly you ought to study JBS first hand. I am sure you will be convinced they are In no stretch of the imagination to be considered an enemy or hostile to the SIU or labor in general. They are merely the bulwark against a communist internal takeover that would JEFFERSON CITY VICTORY (Victory Carriers), November 29 — Chairman, George Lothrop; Secretary, E. C. Caudill. S13.50 in ship's fund. Motion to have retirement for those with 20 years Union time. Discussion on the unequality of vacation pay—where a rated man makes no mora than a non-rated man. Crew have not. re­ ceived any LOGS since August and will contact patrolman regarding this. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department. Vote of thanks to the skipper for being fair, patient and tolerant. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), Decem­ ber 9 — Chairman, W. Cronan; Secre­ tary, V. Syzmantkl. $20.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT was reported by each department. Motion that the membership be informed, prior to new agreements or contracts for new companies, of any proposed changes in current manning scales. This in­ formation should be made available to membership by way of the LOG or special communications. Crew was re­ quested to help keep messroom and panty clean. Vote of thanks to the steward department ' for a good job and an outstanding holiday menu. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), October U —Chairman, V. SzymanskI; Secre­ tary, W. Miles. $20.00 in ship's fund. plac* every SIU memiber und«r slavery. Fred E. Hontter EDITOR'S NOTE—The SIU, along witit the whole labor movement, it proud of the iNui k played in sending Goldwater down to defeat In November and upholding the advances our nation has made imder respon­ sible leadership. The labor movement opposed Goldwater because Goldwater opposed the labor movement—Its policies. Its goals, its very existence. During his years in Congress, Goldwater voted for every piece of anti-labor union-b u s11 n g legislation and against every positive piece of social legisla­ tion—minimum wage, medioare, civil rights, poverty bill and on and on. Moreover, from the SIU standpoint, Goldwater, by his opposition to trade expansion, threatened to further weaken the U.S. Merchant Marine, if not kill it altogether. The writer's attempt to the link the SIU and other oppo­ nents of Senator Goldwater and the John Birch Society Is so patently ridiculous that a de­ fense is obviously unnecessary. The record of the SIU and tho rest of the U.S. labor movement In fighting Communists on the waterfront and elsewhere speaks for Itself. The National Council of Civic Responsibility, mentioned in a L(JG story ("New Group Fights Rightist Agitation") in the November 13 issue and attacked by the writer as being a com­ munist front, offers a good illustration of the absurdity of his charges. The leaders of the Committee, whom the writer charges with connections with communist fronts, include: General J. Lawton Collins, for­ mer Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; Marion B. Polsom, for­ mer Secretary of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare in the Eisen­ hower Cabinet; David Lillienthal, former chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commis­ sion; Robert B. Meyner, former Governor of New Jersey; George A. Killian, president of American President Lines; Arthur Lichtenberger, presid­ ing bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church; Al J. Hayes, president of the International Association of Machinists AFLCIO; Jacob Potofsky, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers AFL-CIO; Joseph Beirne, president Communica­ tion Workers of America AFL-CIO, and a host of other respected leaders of American labor, industry, religion and government. Surely their record of opposition to the Communist movement is a matter of record and needs no defense. No' beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Patrolman should speak to captain regarding passes at Port Suez, as this was the second consecutive trip crew had to wait 3 to 4 hours at gangway. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a good job. RAPHAEL SEMMES (Sss-Land), De­ cember 13 — Chairman, H. Beeker; Secretary, A. Carpenter. Ship's dele­ gate thanked all delegates for their cooperation. He resigned and wished everyone happy holidays. $7.22 in ship's fund. One man hospitalized in San Juan. No beefs were reported. Will ask patrolman to see about mail situation as some mail is being re­ turned from company marked "Not on Board." Brother J. Cortes was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ gate. Vote of thanks to the steward department. FAIRLAND (SeS-Land), December II —Chairman, Joseph Moody; Secretary, Theodore DIansson, Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly with no beefs. Discussion on mail not being delivered, to ship right away. Ship's delegate to check with captain to find out the reason for the delay. Vote of thanks to the steward department for the well pre­ pared Thanksgiving dinner. �•.V\' DeecnAer it, 1*61 • .'-I- '/•»>•" 'fy •i.- % Vf if SEAFARERS Pace Twenfc-OM LOG Holiday Meah Make The Different Stewards Take Sun Seafarers Mark Holidays On Seven Seas Of World Tile Christmas-New Year holidays have many meanings for Seafarers who are accus­ tomed to celebrating them on any of the seven seas. Not only does the SIU member get the day off, but he can always count on a traditional holiday feast prepared in the finest tradition of the Union stew--*best meal he ever had was this memories of previous holiday ard department. year's Thanksgiving dinner on the meals. Seafarers who spend their Milton Trotman, who sails with holidays at sea often find that the Long Lines (Isthmian) where the best way to distinguish one year's efforts of Steward Dick Grant's celebration from another is the galley crew managed to eclipse all memory of the various Christmas, New Years and Thanksgiving din­ ners they were served. This is evi­ LOG-A-RHYTHM: dent after listening to foiir Sea­ farers relate their holiday experi- a cook-baker rating, looks at holi­ days from a craftsman's stand­ point. As one of the SlU crewmembers who does his best to make holidays a memorable occa­ sion for Seafarers on board, Trot­ man really turns to, putting spe­ cial effort into fruitcakes, pies, bread, rolls and other pastries. Since holidays mean that Trot­ By L. B. Bryant, Jr., man is especially busy turning out I'll tucar the pants out his goodies, At our little house Trotman he doesn't get too And you're gonna like it much opportunity to miss the cele­ Little Miss Mouse brations back home. He recalls that in the last 10 years he has I'm gonna be spent only one Christmas-New The master, yes indeed Years season in the States. While For I'm in possession he's never had a beef against any Of plans to succeed of the holiday preparations on a ship he has sailed on, his vote of You won't have worries unsurpassed excellence goes to a From this and from that huge SIU steward from Texas I'll wear the pants nicknamed "Tiny." According to And I'll be the cat Trotman, there is no steward who You want, around home. can come near "Tiny" at Christ­ Someone to run the show mas time, especially after listening To perk you up to the raves of happy, well-fed SIU When you are low crewmembers on the Trustco (Commodity Transportation) sev­ To share your dreams eral seasons ago. All your troubles, too Another SIU member who finds As master at this home nothing unusual about marking You bet I'll do. the Christmas-New Years holidays at sea is Leroy Temple, who sails This and much more in the deck department. Temple For you Miss Mouse remembers that the holiday spread Since I'll be the master on the Alcoa Voyager (Alcoa) last At our little house year really helped to make Christ­ When I wear the pants mas and New Years a memorable Don't you forget , occasion. What I say or do Temple and his fellow shipmates 'Cause you can bet on the Voyager celebrated Christ­ mas a day out of Karachi, Paki­ It'll be for the best stan. He remarks that Seafarers And dear Miss Mouse grow accustomed to seeing holi­ Remember, only I wear days like Christmas almost totally The pants in this house ignored in the exotic ports of the non-Christian-nations of Asia and Of course, when I'm gone the Middle East. Not only did he You'll be in command and his fellow crewTnembers fail To run the show But when I return, understand to see any celebration of Christ­ mas in Karachi, but they also I'll wear the pants again found that the traditional New And run around the house Year's celebration was virtually And don't you ever forget it ignored when they hit India a few Little Miss Mouse, days later. ril Wear The Pants Relaxing in tKe sun in the port of Karachi, Pakistan are Maurice V. Lockier (left) and WIndei Sanders, both mem­ bers of the steward department on the Hastings (Water­ man). Richard Biomquist, ship's delegate who sent the photo in to the LOS, reports that Hastings crewmembers found old home week in progress at Karachi with at least seven SlU-manned ships calling there. Log Praised By Pensioner Family Lauds Welfare Help To The Editor; I would like to let every one know how much I look forward to receiving my copy of the LOG and how much I enjoy reading it. I am a pensioner and this is one of the ways I keep up with the union activi­ ties and doings. I like the sailing ship yarns very much as I myself sailed square riggers and schooners from 1908 until 1936. After that, I went, steamboating. I hope the LOG continues to To The Editor: My husband and I would like to send our thanks and deep gratitude to the SIU for the assistance it has given us with my husband's doctor bills in the last few months. My husband has been in the hospital for some time now, and 1 don't know what we would have done without your help. I will always be grateful to the SIU. Mrs. Deese Reeves All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. keep up the good work and I will look forward to each issue. Wishing everyone in the un­ ion a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Evald A. Qlsen iS* 4" 4" SIU Family Lauds Welfare To The Editor: I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude and appre­ ciation to the SIU and the Wel­ fare Plaii. Recently, with the arrival of our fourth child, a girl, we re­ ceived not only considerable happiness, but a large medical bill. 1 was forced to enter the hospital .five times after her birth, and on the third time, a hospital employee said, "Your policy will not continue to pay," Well, it did, with efficiency and promptness. 1 would also like to thank the Seafarers for the $25 bond that was given to our new baby. I consider us very fortunate to be a Seafarers fatnily. , Mhs. J. Wayne Adair 4 4> 4 Thanks Union For Pension Plan To The Editor: 1 would like to express my appreciation and gratitude for the pension checks which I have been receiving regularly over the past two years. 1 am also very grateful for the Welfare Plan and the way in which it recently paid all my doctor and hospital bills. The plan is a great comfort to a pensioner. Samuel W. Crouch 4 4 4 Lauds Union Welfare Help To The Editor: 1 want to thank the union for the wonderfui help it has given me and my family during the past four years. We have had so much trouble that 1 don't know what we would have done without the Union's welfare plan. We lost our only son to polio and I have been sick so much of the time. I really can't think of what would have happened if it hadn't been for the SIU coming to the rescue and paying the bills. Mrs. Clyde L. Jamison 4 4-4 Walter Rice Crew Thanked To The Editor: 1 would like to extend to the crew of the Walter Rice my gratitude and heartfelt ap­ preciation for the beautiful floral wreath offering at the death of my brother. Charlie C. Brown and Family Hommen Harper ences which occurred in wide spread corners of the globe. The only exception to these peaceful memories is provided by Sven Hommen who sails as a mem­ ber of the engine department. Hommen picks the Christmas-New Years season of 1943 as definitely the worst one he ever experienced. He recalls that he spent Christmas Day of that year grimly enduring a torpedo attack of a Nazi U-boat pack on the oil tanker he was shipping on In the North Atlantic. Continuous Barrage The Christmas day attack wasn't a special Yule-tide gift from Hit­ ler's submarine wolf pack. Accord­ ing to Hommen, the Germans be­ gan working over the Convoy he was in when it was only one day out of Halifax. By the time the long line of ships carrying sup­ plies for the Allies had reached the coast of Ireland 14 days later, 18 of the convoy's 52 ships had fallen prey to the sinister, elusive enemy. Hommen said that the tankers in the convoy were relatively lucky, since most of the successful attacks were against cargo ships. There was little hope for the men whose ships sustained hits, since the convoy was under strict orders to keep on moving at full speed. Upon reaching the coast of Ire­ land, the U-boat attacks subsided, but the German Air Force ap­ peared on the scene to deliver a treacherous New Years greeting in the form of an air raid. After recalling these grim memories, Hommen is quick to nominate 1943 as the worst Christ­ mas he had spent at sea. On the other hand, he says that the best Christmas gift he ever got was his ship's landing in one piece at the end of the convoy. Hommen declares that he has had his fill of wartime Christmases at sea. "If we ever have another war," he says, "I'm going to do all my shipping on the Great Lakes." Memories of more typical, peace­ ful holidays were recalled by Caroll Harper who has become ac­ customed to celebrating Christmas and New Years at sea. The Christ­ mas of. 1962 really stands out in Harper's recollections since it marked the first time in 15 years that he was able to spend the Yule season on home soil. Harper, who sails in'the engine department, reminisced that he usually found himself eating his holiday turkey while sailing on a iFaf East riin. "He'decfares that the 'Sea Life" 'Unlimited drav/ this time townP ' by Jim Mates This is the ole man's home �SEAFARERS Pagre Twenty-Two December Z5j UM LOG ABXUVAXiS attd 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: Lisanne Rivera, born June 28, 18, 1964, to the Cecil B. Wiggins, 1964, to the Robert Riveras, Jersey Theodore, Alabama. City, New Jersey. 4 4 4 James Witherington, born No­ Gina Kennedy, born October 1, vember 7, 1964, to the James With­ 1964, to the Aubrey B. Kennedys, erington, Fairhope, Alabama. 4 4 4 Jr., Mobile, Alabama. Rebeca Perales, born November S* 3« . Janice Foster, born October 20, 17, 1964, to the Roberto G. Perales, 1964, to the Ernest F. Fosters, Bel- Brownsville, Texas. 4 4 4 haven, North Carolina. Joseph Fox, born November 1, 3i $1 4" 1964, to the Norman J. Foxes, Sondra Johnson, born November Whitehouse, Ohio. 15, 1964, to the Neres Johnsons, 4 4 4 Mobile, Alabama. Kathleen Durfee, born October 4 20, 1964, to the Arthur J. Durfees, Tamara Davis, born November Duluth, Minn. 16, 1964, to the Howard B. Davis, 4 4 4 Mobile, Alabama. Hulet Henson, born August 27, 1964, to the Hulet Hensons, Ray4 4 4 Rose Marie Daniels, born No­ ville, La. vember 16, 1964, to the Dixie W. 4 4 4 Mary Joan Mousseau, born Octo­ Daniels, Virginia Beach, Va. James Adaire, born November ber 27, 1964, to the Bernard L. 17, 1964, to the James R. Adaires, Mousseaus, Ossineke, Mich. New Orleans, La. 4 4 4 Lawrence Smith, born October 4 4 4 Cecil Wiggins, born November 6, 1964, to the James M. Smiths, Kirkland, Washington. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 Francis Lyne Karoly, born Octo­ ber 28, 1964, to the Frank Karolys, Roseville, Mich. Kevin Chambers, born October 4, 1964, to the Martin J. Chambers, Lakewood, Ohio. Paul Kratas, born November 12, 1964, to the William Kratas, Pasa­ dena, Md. " Jennie Donald, born November 28, 1964, to the William J. Don­ alds, Norfolk, Va. 4 ' Raymond Farrell, November 4, 1964, to the Edward Farrells, Houston, Texas. held for the following members by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Build­ ing, 450 Harrison' St., San Fran­ cisco, Calif.: Haik Alexandrian, Joseph Alves, Orla S. Bushoid, Winfred S, 4 4 4 Daniel, Eigll E. Hjelm, Williard R. Timothy McCarthy Layton, Pablo Ojera, Potenciabo Your sister, Mrs. Eileen White, Paculba, Wong M. Sing (3 checks), would like you to get in touch Harold Thomson, Grover Turner, with her at Box 142, R.F.D. 1, Ding Hal Woo. Reeds Ferry, New Hampshire, 4 4 4 03078. David Douglas 4 4 4 Robert L. Houck would like you Adrien Fecteau to contact him at the Florida State D. L. .Adams requests that you get in touch with him concerning Hospital, Chatahootches, Fla. 4 4 4 your P.O. Box at the New Orleans Post Office. He is retiring from John Lawrence Wright service in December, and would You are asked to get in touch like to know what to do with your with your sister, Mrs. Vivian A. box and mail. Taylor. Curt Decker Joseph Thomas would like you to contact him as soon as possible on a very important matter. Write c/o 122 Roosevelt Ave., Norwood, Mass. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Carl Lawson John E. Bertie Donald Mann would like you to Get in touch with your wife im­ write him concerning the money mediately. 4 4 4 Carla Ann Jaks, born November he owes you. Write in care of S.S. 4 4 4 14, 1964, to the Edward J. Jaks, Mount Washington, c/o Victory Clarence Paul Stanley Jr., El Campo, Texas. Carriers, Inc., 655 Madison" Ave., Contact your wife as soon as New York, N.Y. 4 4 4 possible. Matt Moran, born October 17, 4 4 4 4 4 4. 1964, to the Patrick D. Morans, Charles D. Haymond Cleveland, Ohio. You are asked to communicate Lewis W. Roberts with Samuel Segal, Attorney, on a Your mother has asked that you The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare very urgent matter. get in touch with her immediately. Plan (any apparent delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of 4 4 4 4 4 4 beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates): Income Tax Refunds Checks Held Income Tax Refunds are being Waldo M. Oliver, 51: Heart dis­ Hubert George Goley, 44: Broth­ Herbert Henry Williams, 39: Checks are being held for the er Goley died July 9, 1964, at his ease was fatal to Brother Oliver Brother Williams died July 6, below listed seamen by Lynn D. on July 16, 1964. residence in New 1964, in Bronx, Blackburn of Pardo's Service Of­ A member of the Orleans, of acci­ N.Y,, of natural fice, 2420 First Ave., Seattle, Wash. Union since he The contract department is dental causes. A causes. A mem­ He requests that Seafarers listed joined in 1950, member of the holding checks for the Sea­ ber of the deck contact him so they may be de­ he sailed in the SIU since 1953, farers listed below. Members department, he livered promptly. engine depart­ are advised that their checks he sailed in the joined the Union Damian Alabakiff, Gordon K. ment. Surviving deck department. can be had by writing the in 1963. Burial Anderson, George J. Berg, Chas. F. is a friend, Mrs. Surviving is his contract department at Head­ was in the Long Boyle, Yoko Bradley, Robert A. Ethel Taft. Cre­ wife, Mrs. Jeanquarters. Island National Cage, Jose Canul, Mack D. Carmation was in ette Goley. His F. Carpenter, M. Chandler, Cemetery, Pineruthers, Leonard J. Cox, Rex Lee the Olivet Mem­ place of burial is B. Dunn, J. Gonzales, F. Gor­ lawn, N.Y. No Roger Crum, Edward R. Crehan, orial Park, San Francisco Calif. not known. don, L. Harvey, H. Kopperbeneficiary was designated for the Maxine Curtis, Harold Damon, smith, S. Puntlllo, J. Richard­ deceased Seafarer. 4 4• 4 John Deabreu, Wilbur Lee Everett, 4 4 4 son, C. Scott, H. Sikes, L. Anthony ForgionI, 61: Heart dis­ Marvin Firmin, Erick Hawkins, Le­ 4 4 4 Taylor, H. Treddin, E. ZebHilding L. Palmquist, 43: Broth­ ease proved fatal to Brother Foronard M. Higgins, John V. Howarth, rowski, Vance A. Reid, John James Campfield, Jr., 39: Broth­ gioni on July 18, er Palmquist died July 12, 1964, in Relf Huddleston, Vance Idzal. E. Ross, Roy Raymond Thom­ the hospital in E. er Campfield died July 10, 1964, 1964, in the St. Leslie Jonhston, John G. Katsos, as, Francis M. Greenwell, at his residence Agnes Hoin>ital, Patchogue, N.X., Will I. Kroll (2), Robert N. McAnRichard Heckman, Jose A. in New Orleans Philadelphia, Pa. of natural causes. drew, Lloyd C. Marsh, James Paz, John J. Wynne, James H. of natural causes. A member of the A member of the Mates, Manuel C. Noble, Edward Smith, Earl H. Reamer, Jose A member of the steward depart­ SIU since he N. Napaepae, Albert & Margaret M. Decosta, Michael C. Miller, steward depart­ joined in 1948, ment, he has Oromaner, Sherman Phillips, Walter Smith. ment, he became he sailed in the been a member Philip Rubis, Arthur Rummel, Checks are also being held a member of the of the SIU since deck department. Tommy G. Sawyers, Yuriko Smith, In the contract department SIU in 1964. 1957. Adminis­ He is survived Fredrick H. Taylor, Alexander for the following Seafarers Surviving is his by his wife, Mrs. tratrix of his es­ Thompson, Jr., Gervacio Vinluan, from the Robin Kirk. wife, Mrs. Eula tate is Sophia Fiscaro. Burial was Rita Palmquist. Charles J. Welborn, William West, Nell D. Matthey; Arthur L. Mae Campfield. in the Fernwood Cemetery, Fern- Buriql was in the Holy Sepulchre Charles White, Donald White. wood, Pa. Patterson. His place of burial is not known. Cemetery, Coram, N.Y. Money Due Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected hy the membership. Ali Union records are available at SIU headquarterg in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. Ail expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust iund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avail­ able in all Union hails. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard. Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N.Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, •Ither by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Anpeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available In all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the pro^r mahner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union oificial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any Individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub­ lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in ail constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy Is vested In an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. Hie Executive Board may delegate, from among Its ranks, one Individual to carry cut this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone In any official capacity In the SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without suppiying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available in aU Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you ofi* 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 disabiUty-pensIon benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem­ bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role In all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In employment and as members of 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 political objectives which will serve the beat 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 af any time a Seafarar feals 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. Pacific Coast (Continued from page 12) he plans to spend the holidays with his family in Pasadena and definitely hang around there long enough to enjoy the Tournament of Roses Parade. Seattle Shipping has been pretty slow here in Seattle for the last few weeks, but if all the ships that are expected to come in do arrive It should pick up considerably during the next period. This last period we had the Robin Hood, Cathy, Anchorage and Alcoa Master in the payoff column. Due to come in soon for payoffs are the Wild Ranger, Choctaw, Yaka, Overseas Rose and Robin Kirk. Among the oldtimers on the beach right now are electrician John Thompson and night cook and baker Bud Williams. Both are off the Anchorage and both have had their fill of winter already, even though it has not yet officially arrived. The first ship heading for warmer climes may very well have these two aboard when it pulls out. �U, 1M4 SEAFARERS Pace Twealy-TfevM LOG EUminatlon Of Firemen Blamed Accident Rate Jump Charged By Railroad Union President WASHINGTON—The charge that railroad safety has been seriously undermined by the elimination of firemen from engine crews was made by President H, E. Gilbert of the Brotherhood of Locomotive-* Firemen and Enginemen on press for restoration of firemen to the AFL-CIO-produced radio all engine crews when the Board program, "Labor News Confer­ ence." Deaths and injuries from rail accidents during the first three months following the Presidential Emergency Board ruling, which cut many firemen from payrolls, jumped 696 over those during the same period one year ago, Gilbert declared. He said the rail unions had "predicted this would happen. You cannot cut down the number of people in a crew without in­ creasing the hazard rate, because every one of them has a function in connection with the safe and efficient operation of the train," he said. Gilbert said that the BLFE will ruling expires in 1966, unless a prior agreement is reached. "It will be the position of the Broth­ erhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen that the 1950 Diesel Agreement will be restored by law and by the award itself, which will require firemen-helpers on all locomotives," he said. Gilbert said that in the mean­ time, his union will continue to press for additional rail safety re­ gulations through the Interstate Commerce Commission. Reporters questioning Gilbert on the weekly AFL-CIO-produced public service program were Neil Gilbrlde, labor reporter for the Associated Press, and William Eaton, Washington correspondent for United Press International. uireczorv oi UNION SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Willlama A1 Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETTARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BiU HaU Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE ..1216 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. Ed Riley, Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROIT 1022S W. Jefferson Ave. Vlnewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS ....675 4th Ave.. Bklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON ; 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Morris. Agent ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales. Agent FRanklln 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Nelra, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer. Acting Agent ..622-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. John Fay, Acting Agent . DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Paul Gonsorchlk, Agent ..DOuglas 2-4401 Frank Drozak. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE PR -.1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Hep Phone 724-2843 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowski, Agent MAln 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff GUIette, Agent 229-2788 WILMINGTON. Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne. Agent ... .TErminal 4-2528 Great Lakes SECRETARY-TREASURER Fred J. Farnen , ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER Roy Boudreau ALPENA 127 River St. EL. 4-3616 [lUFFALO. NY 735 Washington TT. I.QO'iQ ICAGO b. Chicago, DL LEVELAND .....9383 Ewlng Ave. SAglnaw 1-0733 1420 West 25th St. MAln 1-5450 DULITTH 312 W. 2nd St. RAndoIph 2-4110 FRANKFORT. Mich 415 Main St. MaU Address: P.O. Box 287 ELgln 7-2441 HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av._ River Rouge 18. Mich. Vlnewood 3-4741 Inland Boatmen's Union NATIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Matthews GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR Pat Flnnerty BALTIMORE ,,..1216 E. Baltimore St. .EAstern 7-4800 BOSTON ...278 State St .Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE, Jax ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St FRanklln 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave Tel 529-7546 NORFOLK lis Third St. ^ Tel. 622-1892-8 -J I f. .r. .1 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th St DEwey 6-3838 312 Harrison SL . Tel. 229-3783 GREAT LAKES TUG & DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dradgs Workers Section ASSISTANT DmECTOR Harold F. Yon BOTFALO 94 Henrietta Ave. Arthur MiUer. Agent TR 5-1536 CHICAGO 2300 N. KlmbaU Trygve Varden. Agent .... ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St. Tom Gerrity, Agent 621-5450 DETROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. Lincoln Park, Mich. Ernest Demerse. Agent DU 2-7694 DULUTH 312 w. Second St. Norman JoUcoeur, Agent RAndoIph 7-6222 SAULT STE. MARIE Address mail to Brimley. Mich. Wayne Weston. Agent. .BRimley 14-R 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St. CH 2-7751 Tug Firemen, Linemen, Oiiers ft Watchmen's Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tom Bums ASHTABULA, 0 1644 W. Third St. John Mero. Agent WOodman 4-8532 BUFFALO 18 PortUnd St. Tom Bums. 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 Rutlisatz. Agent MAln 6-4573 MILWAUKEE ....2723 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 Bendheim, Agent RAiLWAY MARiNE REGiON HEADQUARTERS ... 99 Montgomery St. Jersey City 2, NJ HEnderson 3-0104 REGIONAL DIRECTOR G. P. McGtnty ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS E. B. Pulver R. H, Avery BALTIMORE...,1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstem 7-4900 NORFOLK 115 Third St. 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA United Industrial Workers BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstern 7-4S00 BOSTON 278 State St. Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St. SE ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. FRanklln 7-3564 MOBILE 1 S. Lawrence St. HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Phone 529-7546 NORFOLK US Third St Phone 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA ..........2604 S. 4th St. DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA ......313 Harrison St. - ^ Phone'329-2788 All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA John G. Brady E. A. LeBlonc, Jr. Elmer P. Braquet Raymond Lewis, Jr. John A. Buttimer Phillip Mendozo Antolne Caraglorglo Hazel F. Morris Joseph G. Carr F. R. Mapstone VlrgU Clement Leon J. Penton C. E. Cummlngo V. P. Plzzltolo R. E. Cumberland Victor F. Placey Celestlne DeSauza Earl J. Price S. A. Detrlo Floro Regaldo Glenn E. Dickens W. R. Simpson Dominic DlGlovannl Otto Sylvester MarshaU Foster Frank S. Venezia Luis G. Franco S. L. Whlttlngton Chadbourne Gait Wright D. Allen Joseph Green George Armstrong Richard H. Hufford Homard A. Bergine Salres Kerajeorglan W. W. Blckford Antolne Landry USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT. MICHIGAN LeRoy Axllne Clarence Lenhart William Gerka Delbert McGee Allen Datt Nell Stewart John Fedor Charles Stone Harlow Holmes Harold Thllhom John Jamleson Gerald Waz Anton Jenko Marshall Wheeler James Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA J. Davis G. E. Kitchens W. MuUlng O. M. Ames R. B. Pardo H. R. White USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON O. O. Ames P. M. Klauben R. E. Broome C. Martlnusson R. W. Brunner D. Ozlel J. DeAbren J. Ryan J. DaCosta USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VraGlNIA Vlto Comerlco Bennett Megglnson Joseph Curtis Dwlght Skelton Johnnie E. Hudglns Thomas W. Smith Gordon Marbury , USPHS HOSPITAL HOUSTOI^ TEXAS G. H. Atcherson T. L. Laningham A. B. Churchill J- N. Llnscomb Estuardo Cuenca Donald R. Long T F Alien, Jr. George Mike L E. Fuller Willis O. Moncrlef Ludoinh Galles Fustavo Osnua Paul Gllstrap Hugh L. Price Hugh C. Grove Joe C. Selby Robert H. High Louis Talarico James L. Hodges Raymond Thomas U. E. LaBarrere Frank TosU USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Yahy Alzlndai Gordon Chambers C. Astyfidls Arthur Cunningham Emmett Avery Sal DlBella Wallace Beeman John Drewes Joseph Blake David Ferrari First Check Max Fingerhut Wm. Nunez Keith Forster Stanley Ostrom C. Foster Teotonlo Perelra Stanley Friedman Winford Powell Chester Gletek Angel Reyes Albino Gomes James Shlber John Gotself Jack Smithy Burt T. Hanback Henry Stanczak John Holmroos Jerome Stokes Asmund Jacobsen Julius Swykert Robert Kuczynski Burton Veno Wm. Logan G. N. Walter Thomas Lowe Richard Waters Wm. McCarthy Charles Watson Wm. McMahon Carl Wayne A. Mazzarlello Fred Wrafter N. Newsome USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS Truman Patrlquin USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA Wm. M. Barnett Charles W. Lane Roy C. Bru John J. Miller Angelo ClfarelU Chan F. Neu Frank Delos Reyes Vlggo W. Sorenson Charles R. Gilbert USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Edward H. Bayne Robert S. Davis Edgar Benson Thomas FarreU Edmond L. Cain Joe Farrow SIU-AGLIWD Meetings Regular membership meetings for members of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by tele­ gram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: New York January 4 Detroit January 8 Philadelphia January 5 Houston January 11 Baltimore January 6 New Orleans .... January 12 Mobile January 13 t' t> West Coast SIU-AGLIWD Meetings SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, 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. Meet­ ings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. Wilmington San Francisco Seattle January 18 January 20 January 22 February 15 February 24 February 26 i 4" 3) Great Lakes SIU Meetings Seafarer Lionel Desplant (seated) receives best wishes as he accepts his first Union pension check from SIU rep. Joe DiGeorgio. Desplant, who was awarded a disability pension, sailed as a night cook and baker. ilse Only One Mali Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various opqrators in back wages and disputed overtime should first check whether they have a proper mailing 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. Frledof Fondila Joseph Pozzeroll Nolan Hurtt Roy R. Rayfield James A. Johnson Gerado Rivera CecU F. Kane Calvin J. Slvels Elmer Koch Samuel Tate William Lane John Thommen Charles Lovell John Thompson Basillo Madlonado Henry E. Vain Frank Nappl James J. Winters James D. Poston USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Benjamin Deibler George McKnew Abe Gordon Max Olson Thomas Lehay Charles Young SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen Alberto Gutierrez William Kenny Edwin Harrlman PINE CREST HAVEN NURSING HOME COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Frank Martin V.A. HOSPITAL NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS Maurice Roberta U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, D.C. William Thomson EAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL JACKSON. LOUISIANA Donald Sander 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: Defiroit Jan. 11 Milwaukee Jan. 11 Chicago Jan. 12 Buffalo Jan. 12 tSauIt Ste. Marie Jan. 13 Duluth Jan. 15 t i 3> Lorain Jan. 15 SIU Inland Boatmen's Union (For meeting place, contact Har­ Regular membership meetings old Ruthsatz, 118 East Parish. for IBU members are scheduled Sandusky, Ohio). Cleveland Jan. 15 eaoh month in various ports. The Toledo Jan. 15 next meetings will be: Ashtabula Jan. 15 Philadelphia Jan. 5—5 PM (For meeting place, contact John Baltimore (licensed and unMero, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash­ (iicensed ... Jan. 6—5 PM tabula, Ohio). Houston .'.... Jan. 11—5 PM Norfolk ...... Jan. 7—7 PM 3) 3« 4" N'Orlcans ... Jan. 12—5 PM Mobile Jan. 13—5 PM United Industrial Workers Regular membership meetings 3) t 4 for UIW members are scheduled each month at 7 PM in various RAILWAY MARINE REGION ports. The next meetings will be: Regular membership meetings New York January 4 for Railway Marine Region-IBU Baltimore January 6 members are scheduled each Philadelphia ... January 5 month in the various ports at 10 ^Houston January 11 AM and 8 PM. The next meetings Mobile January 13 will be: New Orleans .. January 12 Jersey City Jan. 11 • Meetings held at Lanor Templa, New­ PhUadelphia Jan. 12 port News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Baltimore Jan. 13 Ste. Marie, Mich. ^Norfolk . Jan. 14 t Matting held at Galveston wharves. Regular membership meetings on the Great l.akes are held on the first and third Mondays of each month in all ports at 7 PM local time, except at Detroit, where meetings are held at 2 PM. The next meetings wili be: Detroit Jan, 3—2 PM Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago, January 3—7 PM �SEAFARERS LOG DM. SI X»64 1 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SE/»FARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO KNOW^ YOUR * RIGHTS A N INFORMED membership means a strong union. And to keep his union strong, every Seafarer should keep informed by exercising a most important union right — THE RIGHT TO KNOW! The 'right to know* means that every Seafarer has the right to information about every phase of his union's operation. Thus, he is encouraged to use this right by raising questions at and participating in union meetings, questioning his union representatives about any matter of interest to him and keeping abreast of union activities and affairs through a thor­ ough reading of all union publications and documents which are distributed and posted for the purpose of keeping the membership informed. THE RIGHT TO KNOW: To ask for Information on all union matters at the membership meetings. THE RIGHT TO KNOW: To question your union representatives on all union matters. THE RIGHT TO KNOW: To receive information through the union's various publications. Seafarers International Union Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes And Inland Waters District .r/. A r-r* .•'.I'::, � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource December 25, 1964 Description An account of the resource Headlines: BLAST HITS SEATRAIN N.Y. – REPORT NO SERIOUS INJURIES JOHNSON HEARS U.S. LABOR LEGISLATIVE GOALS FOR ‘65 AT-SEA OIL TRANSFER WINS NAVY KUDOS FOR SIU SHIP SIU ELECTION BALLOTING ENDS DECEMBER 31 IN ALL PORTS SEVEN SIU OLDTIMERS JOIN UNION PENSION RANKS DAKAR – EXOTIC PORT OF CALL FOR SIU-MANNED VESSELS FMC GETS DUAL RATE DATA IN COMPRIMOSE AGREEMENT EXPLOSION RIPS SEATRAIN N.Y. – ONE CREWMAN SLIGHTLY INJURED U.S. READY TO NEGOTIATE FOR NEW SEA-LEVEL CANAL FMC COMPROMISES TO GET DUAL RATE DATA AGREEMENT SCAB-RUN RAILWAY THREATENS TO ‘EMBARGO’ CAPE KENNEDY WOODWORKER LOCAL DEFIES ANTI-LABOR KLAN VIOLENCE RUSSIANS SEE ‘PROFIT MOTIVE’ BEHIND NUCLEAR SUB DISASTER 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 12/25/1964 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. 26 1964 Periodicals Seafarers Log