http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/43af54fcc947836ef77c054f1f9fd75a.PDF a727afafe59678ae82697b8a6398b938 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS LOG Jan. 22 1965 OFFICIAL ORflAW Of THt SEAFARERt INTIRNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO AFL-CIO Urges Congress Pass Strong Legislative Program -Story On Page 3 Report No Seafarers Hurt As SlU Ship, Tanker Hit -Story On Page 3 New York Longshoremen Vote Approval Of New Contract -Story On Page 3 New Pennmar Completed/ Maiden Voyage Due Soon -Story On Page 2 Eleven Veteran SlU Men On Latest Pension List .Story On Pages 7,10 IN THIS issue: SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District Election — BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT See Centerfold Supplement % �Pare Tw« ' SEAFARERS Jaanrrr LOG Maritime Labor Committee Biasts U.S. Shipping Policy S96S n E FO R T By Paul Hall NEW YORK—joint maritime labor committee composed of the SIU and other mari­ time unions has rapped the wavering Federal policy toward U.S. maritime which the com­ mittee said was threatening the "annihilation" of the U.S. maritime industry. In a telegram sent to^ ' time unions including the SIU. maritime policy" reflects these President Johnson, the joint AFL-CIO President George Meany ideas. committee asked for a meet­ was represented at the meeting "American flag-ships and Ameri­ The fact that the American Labor Movement intends to move ahead with the passage of some long-overdue and much-needed legislation during the coming year was made very clear at the recent four-day AFL-CIO legislative conference In Washington. Key people from unions and central bodies all over the nation gathered to open Labor's drive to remove poverty, unemployment and inequality from the American scene. ing to discuss formulation of by his executive assistant. Lane can shipyards and the skills of the The crushing defeat suffered by the Republican party during the progressive policy for maritime. Kirkland. workers in this industry are last national election has brought with it drastic changes in the makeup The telegram was sent following a essential to our country's defense, meeting in New York of 10 mariThe telegram to the White House to its economic well-being and its of both houses of Congress, The nation Is starting out the new asked that the President send no international prestige," the u.iion year with a truly new Congress. Much necessary legislation which message to Congress on the sub­ message said. "We have constituted has been ignored, stalled or bottled up by past Congresses may now, ject of maritime policy without ourselves as a permanent commit­ we hope, find passage. discussing it with the unions tee to carry out a nationwide Toppdng the list of labor's legislative goals for 1965 are passage of vitally involved. campaign in every area by every Medicare and repeal of section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act which means at our command to save the permits the passage of open shop right-to-work laws in individual Deplorable Situation states. The change for passage of Medicare during the next session merchant marine." The telegram noted that the of Congress look very good right now, and so does repeal of Section Unions Taking Part U.S. is now a sixth-rate maritime 14(b) although anti-labor forces will undoubtedly do all in their power In addition to the SIU, the power and that Federal Adminis­ to prevent its repeal. Section 14(b) was designed simply and purely tration thinking failed to show unions which took part in the New to legalize union-busting in the United States by authorizing so-called York meeting were the Inter­ NEW YORK—Striking welfare any concern "for this dangerous national Longshoremen's Associa­ rigbt-to-work laws in the states. Section 14(b) threatens, the free labor workers vowed not to return to and deplorable situation." tion; National Maritime Union; movement In the United States and is contrary to all the principles work this week despite the jailing Masters, Mates and Pilots; Marine upon which our nation's greatness was built. .For the good of all 14(b) The wire declared that the of three of their leaders as a result Maritime Administration had Engineers Beneficial Association; must go. of the city administration's imple­ failed to consult with labor, had Radio Officers Union; American Medicare legislation is long overdue. The SIU along with the rest mentation of New York's infamous interfered with labor collective Radio Associatioi; Boilermakers, of organized labor has fought a long, hard struggle to achieve this Condon-Wadlin Act. bargaining and that the entire" and the Shipbuilding Workers. insurance for our nation's elderly citizens against poverty and loss of The three leaders of the strik­ U.S. maritime position could be The meeting was called by ILA dignity brought on by illness and the difficulty of meeting the increas­ ing unions, Alan R. Viani, presi­ endangered if the President's President Thomas W. Gleason, ingly high costs of medical care. Retired Seafarers need not worry dent of Local 371, State, County forthcoming statement of "new chairman of the committee. about these high costs because the Union Welfare Plan continues to and Municipal Employees Union, cover their medical needs after retirement. Other elderly citizens are AFL-CIO, and Joseph Tepedino not so fortunate, however, and they too deserve and need this sort of and Ishmael Labah, president and insurance. vice president respectively, of the Along with the high costs of medical care goes the artificially high Social Service Employees Union, costs of drugs and medication in the United States. Investigations by refused to order their members ^ the late Senator Estes Kefauver showed that the big drug companies back to work, terming the city's are keeping the prices of drugs inflated at fantastic levels and are action a strike-breaking move by making unbelievable profits in the process at the expense of the sick. Mayor Wagner. Legislation is needed to break up patent monopolies which enable The SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District the drug industry to charge excessively high prices and to take enormous Unions Fined State Supreme Court Justice Union Tallying Committee has completed its report on the profits from a captive consumer public. Also, more and more, manu­ Irving. Saypol also fined the two election for Union officers which was conducted from Nov. facturers are robbing U.S. worker's paychecks through deceptive pack­ aging techniques designed to make the consumer pay for thin air or unions $250 each, and withheld 2 to Dec. 31. The report, •fcolorfully printed cardboard, instead of for the goods they need. .A action until next Monday on the Philadelphia Agent: Frank Dro- truth in packaging bill has been introduced into Congress and is deserv­ cases of 16 other union represen­ which contains results of the tatives who were also convicted. voting in which 64 candidates zak; Philadelphia Joint Patrol­ ing of passage. But going beyond these goals, there are many problems facing the Over 8,000 members of the two ran for the 45 union elective man: Belarmino (Bennie) Gonzalez unions are manning picket lines posts, will be submitted to the and Leon Hall, Jr.;- Baltimore American people which the AFL-CIO has pledged itself to help elimi­ for the third week in their fight Agent: Rexford (Rex) Dickey; nate. For one thing, as AFL-CIO President George Meany pointed out, for higher wages and a reduction membership at the February reg­ Baltimore Joint Patrolman; W. the present federal minimum wage of $1.25 an hour represents little more than "legislated poverty." The AFL-CIIO has called for a $2 an in very heavy work loads. The ular membership meetings desig­ walkout occurred after the city nated as the "Election Report Paul Gonsorchik, Eli Hanover, hour minimum and will work to achieve this goal as soon as possible. Tony Kastina, and Benjamin Wil­ Improvements in the Fair Labor Standards Aot, including a higher tried to restrict the area over which Meetings." son; Mobile Agent: Louis (Black- minimum wage, extended coverage, a shorter workweek, double time bargaining could take place. The The full text of the Union SIU and other member unions of ie) Neira; Mobile Joint Patrolman: for overtime and more effective enforcement is another necessary goal Tallying Committee's report, the city's Maritime Port Council Harold J. Fischer, Robert Jordan, the AFL-CIO will fight to secure, as well as improvement in the unem­ ployment compensation program. in addition to other sections of the along with all other pertinent Leo P. Marsh and William J. labor movement, have been assist­ and detailed information on American labor has called for enactment of legislation which would (Red) Morris; New Orleans Agent: ing the strike effort of the two aid not only labor, but all the people of the nation. Among these are the election procedures, ap­ C. J. (Buck) Stephens; New Or­ federal aid to education so that every future American will have the welfare unions. pears in a special supplement leans Joint Patrolman: Thomas E. advantage of the best eduction in the world and ignorance will be a The city's legal actions to break in the centerfold of this issue the strike have evoked a storm of Gould, Louis Guarino, Herman M. thing of the past. Along with strong civil-rights legislation, aid to of the SEAFARERS LOG. condemnation by the city's organ­ Troxclair, and Paul Warren; education will help bring about the day when all Americans will have ized labor movement, many of Winning candidates, as an­ Houston Agent: Paul Drozak; equal opportunities in fact as well as in theory. whom voiced their views at a City nounced in the Union Tallying Houston Joint Patrolman: Martin Hall rally last Monday evening. Committee report, who will serve J. (Marty) Breithoff, William J. for the 1965-1969 period, are as Doak, Roan Lightfoot, and R. F. follows: President: Paul Hall; Ex­ (Mickey) Wilburn; Detroit Agent: Jan. 22, 1965 Vol. XXVII, No. 2 ecutive Vice-President; Oal Tan­ Frank (Scottie) Aubusson. ner; Secretary - Treasurer: Al Official Publication of the SIUNA Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Kerr; Vice-President in charge of District, AFL-CIO Contracts and Contracts Enforce­ Executive Board PAUL HALL, President BALTIMORE—The newly converted Pennmar, the third ment: Robert A. Matthews, ViceC-'.h TANNER EARL SHEPARO Due to the length of the of six C-4 troopships to be remodeled by the SlU-contracted President in Charge of The Atlan­ Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President SIU Election Procedures and AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS tic Coast: Earl (Bull) Shepard; Calmar Steamship Company for use in its intercoastal cargo Sec.-Treas. Vice-President Union Tallying Committee Vice-President In Charge of The service, was christened here"*" ROB. A. MATTHEW AL TANNER Report which is contained in Vice-President Vice-President Gulf Coast: Lindsay J. Williams; recently at Bethlehem Steel's MA made 18 reserve fleet ships HERBERT BRAND the centerfold supplement of Vice-President in Charge of The Director of Organizing and Key Highway Yard. The new available to non-subsidized U.S. this issue of the SEAFARERS Publications Lakes and Inland Waters: Al Tan­ freighter was ready for delivery ship operators for conversion to Managing Editor: MIKE POLLACK; Art LOG, the customary 24-page on January 8, and is still waiting commercial service. Calmar of­ Editor: BERNARD SEAMAN; Asst. Editor: ner; New York Headquarters Rep­ ficials estimate the company will NATHAN SKYER; Staff Writers: ROBERT resentative: William Hall, Edward edition of the LOG has been to make her maiden voyage. ARONBON, ALVIN SCOTT, PETE CARMEN. spend about $20 million to convert reduced to 16 pages. With The Pennmar Is the third of the all six C-4's. (Eddie) Mooney, and Frederick the cutback in pages, several C-4 troopships to have been (Freddie) Stewart; New York Port The company operates ten of the regular LOG features christened in recent months. The Agent: Joseph (Joe) DiGiorgio; will not appear in this issue. Marymar and the Calmar have Liberties in coastal service. Al­ New York Joint Patrolman; Theo­ already completed their maiden though it will turn in five of them However, with the publica­ voyages, while the Seamar, Port- to the MA, no decision has been dore (Ted) Babkowskl, Angus Published biweekly at the headquarters tion of the January 30 issue of mar. and Yqrkmar are undergoing reached on the specific ships that of the Seafarers International Union, At­ (Red> Campbell, John Fay, Luifi the LOG, the paper will revert lantic, Oulf, Lakes and iniand Waters will actually be exchanged. conversion at Baltimore. District, AFL-CIO, <75 Fourth Avenue, lovino, Pasquale (Pat) Marinelli, to its normal size of 24 pages Brooklyn, NY, 11237. Tel. HYacinth 9-6m. Delivery dates for the remain­ Calmar is trading in five of its Second class postage paid at the Post Frank Mongelli, E. B. (Mac) Mcand will resume carrying its old Liberty ships to the Maritime ing C-4's, which are in various Office in Brooklyn, NY, under the Act customary complement of news Auley, George McCartney, Keith •f Aus. 24, l*1X Administration for the larger, stages of conversion, are Seamar, and feature stories. 130 • Terpe and Steven (Steve) Zubofaster C-4's. The exchange was February 19; Portmar, April 2; vich. part of a program, in which the and Yorkmar, May 14.. . . i v New York Jails Welfare Union Strike Leaders V'! SIU Tally Lisfs Eleefion Results SEAFARERS LOG Sorry! / Converted Pennmar Awaits Maiden Trip <1 �iiavtrr'fl.'lSls SEAFAltBRS LOG Pur* TIlFec Rfppff No $eofaf»ft fn/wd SI U Ship, Tanker AFL-CIO Launches '65 Hit Off Le Havre Drive To Win Strong LE HAVRE, France—Heroic efforts by SIU crewmembers aboard the Lucille Blpomfield (Bloomfield) were responsi­ ble this week for saving their own ship and rescuing sur­ vivors of a French gasoline tanker with which the Bloom- other alert Seafarers moved quick­ field collided in the English ly to extinguish fires that started Channel off Le Harve. The collision caused an Im­ mediate explosion on the tanker Port Manech, followed by a fierce fire that forced the French crew to abandon ship. Seafarers on the Bloomfield C-2 immediately be­ gan rescue operations and saved several of the burning tanker's crewmen. French Crewmen Missing There were no injuries on the U.S. freighter, although the Port Manech's crew suffered severe cas­ ualties. A crewman and his wife were known to have died as a re­ sult of the blaze, and five other members of the tanker crew were listed as missing. Twenty other French seamen were injured as a result of the explosion and fire. While part of the crew was de­ voting all its efforts to rescuing survivors of the French vessel, N.Y. Dockers Vote 'Yes' On New Contract •'J t .1 I .ii 1 NEW YORK—Members of the International Longshoremen's As­ sociation in the Port of New York voted yesterday to accept the con­ tract negotiated with the New York Shipping Association. Atlantic and Gulf coast ports from Maine to Texas had been tied up since Jan. 10, when the union ordered a strike after New York longshore workers had rejected the pact by a slim margin on Jan. 8. Rejection of the pact resulted from confusion and a lack of informa­ tion on the provisions, stemming from the fact that substantial numbers of longshoremen did not receive contract details, which the union had rushed to them in the mails, in time to study them be­ fore voting. Information Program The ILA immediately launched an intensive information campaign on the piers, at local membership meetings, through the mails and on radio, explaining every aspect of the contract and its benefits. The second vote was ordered by the union after it had received peti­ tions from longshoremen urging anothen-poll on the basis that they were now fully informed. A key issue throughout the long bargaining period, which began last summer was an employer de­ mand, backed by a federal govern­ ment study, calling for reduction of work gangs from 20 to 14 men. The ILA held fast for a 17-man gang with no reduction until April 1966, when the gang goes to 18 men. The additional one-man drop will not occur until October 1967. This will allow for attrition to set in—that is, the reduction will be covered by deaths and retirement. The four-year contract provides for increases in wages and pen'sions, additional holiday and vaca­ tion benefits and a 1,600-hour work or wage guarantee each year, among others. on their ship as a result of the explosion. Union firefighting train­ ing enabled the SIU crewmembers to quickly control the blaze before it could cause serious damage. Tanker Burning The Bloomfield sent the French crewmembers it rescued ashore in small boats. The flaming tanker, however, had to be beached at the foot of the cliffs near Le Havre where it was reported to be still smouldering as the LOG went to press. Legislative Program WASHINGTON—^The largest legislative conference ever held by the AFLCIO was held here to kick off labor's drive for a "people's program" which AFL-CIO President George Meany said "can and should be achieved" during the first session of Con-'* foresee a modernization of unem- "right-to-work" Sec. 14b—"our gress. Eight hundred dele­ ployment compensaticm, a massive No. 1 legislative goal in 1965." program of aid to education, He termed the provision, which gates from unions and new and the accomplishment of other allows states to outlaw the union shop, "a blight on the whole labor Meany focused attention on movement... It saps our strength. many of the legislative goals which It costs us money. It keeps us the AFL-CIO will fight to achieve constantly on the defensive." during the coming year. He called Beyond that, he declared, "it for action this year to meet the holds down the standard of living. The heroism displayed by the ClO President Meany termed the "very real problems" the nation ... It discourages the right of faces despite widespread pros­ Lucille Bloomfield's crew, which election of President Johnson and workers to organize." perity. was in the highest SIU tradition, a liberal Congress a "mandate" for • Chairman Pat McNamara (D'Legislated Poverty' received quick recognition from "the kind of America where there company officials in Houston, is no poverty, unemployment." He pointed out that it would re­ Mich.) of the Senate Public Works Committee, and Representative Texas. A telegram to the crew, The American people,., he said, quire a wage of $1.50 an hour to John A. Blatnik (D-Minn.), rank­ signed by Wiley R. George, presi­ "voted for a nation where every reach even ttie $3,000 family in­ ing Democratic member of the dent of Bloomfield, said, "Please child has a full and equal oppor­ come which has been classified as House Public Works Committee, convey to Captain Webb, officers tunity to learn, and to shape his the borderline of poverty. unveiled major new programs they and the crew of the Lucille Bloom­ own future; for a nation where The present federal minimum will press this year. field our admiration of the gal­ every worker has a full and equal wage of $1.25 an hour, Meany lantry In coping with the em­ Blatnik proposed a permanent, opportunity to develop his skills charged, represents "legislated ergency and thanks for their mag­ and use them to the utmost." continuing $2-billion-a-year pro­ poverty." nificent job well done in deed, in gram of federal grants to cover Meany said that labor, the saving our vessel and its fine Labor's call for a $2 minimum, two-thirds of the cost of a wide Administration and Congress he said, is "simply saying that an range of community facilities. crew." share an identity of goals "to a employed person, engaged in use­ Economy Spur The Bloomfield ship put into Le greater degree than ever before ful productive work, is entitled to Harve under its own power even in the history of this country." McNamara called for creation something better than a poverty though it had a hole in its bow. of a National Regional Develop­ The AFL-ClO's legislative pro­ wage." It is scheduled to discharge cargo ment Council to spur regional eco­ The AFL-CIO president rejected nomic recovery programs similar and receive repair work to, take gram', he said, is not a labor pro­ gram "in any narrow sense." It the "tired old charges" that social to the pending Appalachia de­ care of damages caused in the disastrous explosion. The freighter is a program "to promote the wel­ programs represent "socialism" or veloping program. was bound for Southampton, Eng­ fare of all. . . . There is not a are "too expensive." • Senator Clinton P. Anderson land and other ports from New single narrow, selfish proposal in "What is more expensive," (D-N. M.), chief Senate sponsor of the lot—and that includes the re­ Orleans. Company officials report Meany asked, "spending money to the bill to provide hospital care she will continue her voyage and peal of Sec. 14b of. the Taft- give every child a good education, through social security, said Con­ complete her regular schedule as Hartley Act." or allowing our children to grow On the subject of Section 14(b) up ignorant and unprepared for gress is "on the eve" of deciding soon as her damage is repaired. that "working people can be per­ Taft-Hartley repeal. Vice Presi­ the modern world " mitted to take care of their old The Port Manech is a small, dent-elect Hubert H. Humphrey At major sessions held during age health needs as a matter of 2,062-ton tanker register in Rouen, told the delegates that he foresaw France. French authorities have the "fulfillment" of the Demo­ the four-day legislature con­ right." It was "an issue" in the stated that a complete report on cratic Party pledge to repeal the ference, the following issues were election, he said, "and I don't have to tell you what the election re­ damage sustained by the ship and "right-to-work" section of the Act. discussed. the fate of its missing crewmem­ He predicted that by spring "we • AFL-CIO Vice President turns showed." bers cannot be made until the fires will have passed hospital and nurs­ Joseph A. Beirne stressed that • A panel of labor experts dis­ feeding on Its gasoline cargo are ing home care under social secur­ labor "has a job to do" to bring cussed the need for major, over­ extinguished. ity (Medicare)," and said he could about repeal of Taft-Hartley's due improvements In the Fair Labor Standards Act including a higher minimum wage, extended coverage, a shorter workweek, doubletime for overtime and more effective enforcement. • Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) listed six areas of need­ ed improvement in the unemploy­ ment compensation program, said action should begin this year and, if not completed in the first ses­ sion, be "at the top of the list" for 1966. • President Johnson's "bold, imaginative and practical" pro­ gram for federal aid to education will open "a new era," U. S. Com­ missioner of Education Francis Keppel said. Keppel said previous federal aid programs have been "a tadpole in the ocean" compared to the magni­ tude of the problem. He said the new program to help children from poverty-hit families will be more than a "token" measure. • Poverty can be eliminated in a single generation if the nation commits its full resources to the SsSSSSS ||||p|||i|:| problem. Jack T. Conway said. Conway, on leave as executive di­ Regular visits by SIU coffee wagons helped to keep up the spirits of striking longshoremen rector of the AFL-CIO Industrial in Philadelphia during the first two weeks of the dock strike which took place during a bitter Union Dept., Is deputy director of cold spell. The SIU and Maritime Port Councils on the Gulf and East coasts actively sup­ the Office of Economic Oppor­ ported the ILA walkout. tunity. central bodies in every part of the nation took part in the forur-day legislative confer­ ence at which the SIU played an active role. In a keynote address, AFL- long-sought labor goals. Coffee Perks Up ILA Pickets �Pageoar SEAFARERS AFL-CIO Hails First Decade Of Morgan News Broadcasts WASHINGTON—Organized labor and news commentator Edward P. Morgan marked their 10th anniversary last month of bringing news and comment to millions of Americans each weekday evening. by any other national "I work for a sense of participation During its decade of spon­ enjoyed broadcaster. among the audience," he explains, sorship by the AFL and the "a sense that this news relates to AFL-CIO, Morgan's 15-minute Morgan describes his aim in them." radio program has been honored news broadcasting and analysis as with virtually every mhjor award an effort to let the listener identify for Journalistic excellence and himself with the world's events. objective reporting. Heard by millions each" weekday at 7 p.m. (EST) over more than Reflecting on the last 10 years, (Continued on page 14) SIU Ship Rescues BiiH Shipwrecked Pair NEW YORK—A shipwrecked father and son who were about to abandon their last hope for rescue from the rubber life raft In which they had drifted for 36 hours, are alive and safe today because of the alert"*' ruined the battery, so attempts to seamanship of the SIU- send a distress call were fruitless. manned Seatrain Louisiana Thanking the foresight of Mrs. Edward P. Morgan 200 ABC stations, Edward P. Morgan and the News has de­ veloped a listenership which in­ cludes educators, ministers and opinion-making Americans, a siz­ able number of whom have asked to receive his daily commentaries by mail. In a congratulatory telegram. Vice President-elect Hubert H. Humphrey told Morgan that for 10 years he has been "the eloquent voice of liberalism on radio, and the nation is better for it." He also praised Morgan for "the cogency of your views and on having a sponsor who lets ydu express them with total freedom." A total freedom of expression has been the one ground rule of the 10-year association, wherein, at the AFL-CIO's insistence, Morgan has had full right to speak his mind on any subject, letting the chips of criticism fall where they may. Out of this has come a sponsor­ ship of greater duration than that Tanker Crew Elects SiU Of Canada MONTREAL — The Cana­ dian Labour Relations Board has certified the SIU of Can­ ada as bargaining agent for the crew of the tanker Liquilassie, which is operated by Porter Shipping, Ltd. All 18 crewmembers on the vessel had Indicated their preference for the SIU of Canada as their collective bargaining agent. The Liquilassie is owned by a British company. Eagle Shipping and Investment Company, Ltd., and is char­ tered to Porter Shipping. It carries oil between Montreal and ports on Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. (Seatrain). After having signaled to no avail on two previous occasions, William Shinnick, 43, and his 19year old son, Michael, fired the last of their flares when they spotted the Seatrain vessel in the darkness of early evening on Jan­ uary 11. Luckily, their signal was spotted from the bridge of the Louisiana, and SIU crewmembers were able to pluck them from the sea, ending their long ordeal. Describing the rescue. Seafarers Elmer Witzke and S. Sandino, both members of the deck department, said that after the flare was sight­ ed, the skipper ordered the en­ gines stopped and let the current take the vessel toward the raft. They explained this maneuver was used to avoid hitting the small rubber life raft in the darkness. Aided Rescue Shinnick aided the oncoming Louisiana by reflecting a search­ light beam with a pocket mirror. Once near enough, the two ex­ hausted survivors paddled to the ship where Seafarers threw a line to them from the bow. The raft was then pulled midships to the pilots ladder and the two men were hauled safely aboard. Seafarers in the crew, observing the tattered condition of the ex­ hausted pair, made them more comfortable by donating shoes, jackets and other clothing. The rescued father and son also be­ came aware of how lucky they were when the skipper told them the Louisiana was five miles east of its normal course at the time of the rescue. If the vessel had stuck to its regular course, they would have drifted outside of the regular shipping lane into the open sea where their chances of rescue would be negligible. Wife's Foresight Relating their story to the crew­ members, the Shinnicks said they originally left North Palm Beach, Fla. at 5:30 AM on Sunday, Janu­ ary 10 in a jet propelled, fiber glass cruiser for a day of deep sea fishing. They were originally go­ ing to leave their rubber life raft at home, but Mrs. Shinnick ironi­ cally declared that if they didn't take it with them, it would never get any use. After peacefully trolling for sev­ eral hours, the father and son be­ came alarmed when they noticed a crack developing in the hull. When the cruiser began to sink, they tried to radio for help, but t|he inru^hing water, had already JaaiuiT ilS, UiiT ' LOG Shinnick, father and son quickly inflated the rubber rafts and cast off. Rescue seemed close since two other pleasure craft were less than a mile away. When they fired fiares to attract attention to their plight, they soon found that there is a considerable difference in the attitude of amateur and profes­ sional seamen when universally known distress signals appear on the horizon. The two nearby boats spotted the flares all right, but their occupants merely waved, probably thinking it was a novel kind of fireworks. Drifted In Wind Efforts to head for land failed as the wind carried them out to sea with only two quarts of water and an orange for provi­ sions. After drifting through the night, they encountered heavy seas on Monday, morning, and were forced to bail continuously. A moment of hope occurred dur­ ing the morning when a Coast Guard plane fiew over them at only 100 feet altitude. However, it failed to spot them, apparently be­ cause the search for their missing craft was taking place 75 miles to the south. It was at this point that the elder Shinnick began to lose hope. After their rescue, the Louisiana attempted to put the rescued pair off at Jacksonville, but, heavy seas forced them to stay aboard to the, end of the voyage at Edgewater, N.J. West Coast Rescue Another instance of alert sea­ manship that was responsible for saving another life occurred in San Francisco Bay recently when the SIU Pacific district-manned Korean Bear (Pacific Far East) narrowly missed a floating youth who had fallen 236 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge. Highway patrolman reaching the rail of the bridge just as the 16year old boy came to the surface of the bay, saw the Korean Bear headed directly toward him. The Pacific Far East vessel was able to veer away in time missing the lad by only 10 feet, after spotting po­ lice flares on the bridge. After a Coast Guard boat res­ cued him minutes later, the boy was taken to a San Francisco hos­ pital where he was found to be suffering from a broken collar bone and several broken ribs. Au­ thorities say he is the second per­ son known to have survived a fall from the famed bridge out of 278 recorded who fell to their deaths from .the strqcture, , , ,, i.- t By Eori (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, ArianHe Welfare workers are still picketing the Welfare Centers in New York City, despite the sub-freezing temperatures and snow that hit this city over the last weekend. The member unions of the Maritime Port Council have thrown their full weight behind the welfare workers, and are helping out on the picket line. Coffee wagons filled with steaming coffee and sandwiches are being supplied by the SIU to bolster the picketers morale and help keep up the fight for fair working conditions and better wages. Many oldtimers who are on the beach due to the ILA strike, are taking advantage of the situation to give their personal support to the Welfare Workers cause. One of the oldtimers, C. Maynard, is seen quite often on the picket line. Seafarer Maynard last paid off the Raphael Semmes. Robert Zunkley, another good member of the Union, signed off the Raphael Semmes with Maynard. Zunkley sails as AB. Other oldtimers waiting in the hall for the ships to start moving again are O. L. Fleet, C. Mazuk, "Frenchy" LeBerre, and J. Duffany. Boston Shipping is slow in Boston, as it is in other ports of the East and Gulf Coast, but it is expected to pick up to a good pace as soon as the ILA strike is settled. There were^two payoffs here, and seven ships Bethtex, which is laid up here pres­ stopped in transit during the last ently. Mike is waiting for her to two weeks. recrew. Maurice Gendron, last on the Lyle W. Williamson, just paid off Norfolk as deck maintenance spent the holidays with his family in the Mayflower to go to the hospi­ New Hampshire. Whitey is now in tal. Lyle has been sailing in the the hall looking for a long off shore engine department for 15 years. He hopes that when he" is feeling okay trip. again he will be able to catch an­ Angelo Antoniou, who generally other ship as good as the May­ sails as AB recently paid off the flower. He says the crew aboard Angelo when his wife was forced was one of the best, and the of­ to enter the hospital for a while. ficers were tops. On top of. that, He is .waiting for another ship as the Mayflower is a very good good as the Angelo, and says he feeder, he claims. will be glad to get back to sea. Norfolk Frank Burns is on the beach Although the prediction for ship­ now, and looking for an oilers job. Another oldtimer Joseph Disanto, ping in this port looked bright, the sailed as an oiler on the Hurri­ ILA strike has put shipping almost cane. He paid off before the holi­ at a standstill. days to spend some time with his Vernon Porter, last aboard the family. He says he wants a good Steel King as AB, is registered long trip now. Disanto has been an here. He hated to get off the Steel SIU member for 25 years. King at this time of the year, and he said he misses all that good Philadelphia Shipping has been very slow here weather in Honolulu. He's hoping during the past two weeks, due to to catch a ship going to the Far the ILA strike. In the last two East, however. Porter has been in weeks here was one payoff and the Union for 18 years. Donald Wagner, sailing with the four ships were serviced in transit. SIU for the last 12 years, recently Jose Carames, sailing with the Union since 1949, is on the beach paid off the Rebecca. He is reg­ here. He sailed last in the engine istered here, although he has been department on the Globe Progress, shipping out of New York most of and says he wouldn't mind catch­ the time. He is hoping to catch a good coastwise tanker. Bert Wining the same ship again. > Joseph Merkel, who has been field, last aboard the Globe Car­ sailing SIU since 1943 looking for rier, signed off for the holidays an engine utility or second pump­ and is now on the beach looking man job. He wants to catch a for a 3d cook's Job on an Isthmian coastwise tanker. Frank Cake, last ship. He says the Far East looks aboard the Commander, is look­ good to him right now. Richard Williams, an oldtimer ing for another chance to get back aboard again. He started sailing with the SIU, last sailed as AB aboard the Eagle Traveler. He SIU in 1943. Jake Tucker is on the beach here usually ships out of Baltimore, but after attending the SIU's seniority is registered here this time. He got upgrading class late last year. He off the Eagle Traveler to check on says he is glad he had the oppor­ his coal yard. He has half interest tunity to attend the classes, and in a yard in Plymouth, North Caro­ now is looking for a good steward lina, and wanted to see how busi­ ness is going. department job. Puerto Rico Baltimore We shipped 40 men out of sunny Shipping has been very slow here during the last two weeks. Puerto Rico, with a total of 32 It is expected to pick up though, ships serviced during the last two just as soon as the ILA strike is weeks. On the labor front, the settled. The Longshoremen have SlU-contracted Standard Dredg­ no picketlines here, and the only ing Corp., recently received a ships being moved are the ones $400,000 government contract for dredging operations at Viegues, cairylng military cargoes. Puerto Rico. The Del Sud arrived Thomas Moose, who last sailed on the Steel Artisan, is now regis­ here on Jan. 12, on its first reg­ tered in Baltimore. 'The Steel Arti­ ularly scheduled service between san made an around the world trip, Puerto Rico and Latin America. and Tom said it was a fine trip Service to San Juan will be at in­ with a very good crew. Tom has tervals of two weeks. Juan Rodriguez is back in town been sailing with the SIU for 18 years, and wants to catch a Calmar after a stay at the Marine Hospital ship when things start moving in Savannah for a stomach ailment. The illness forced him to pay off again. Michael Angino, sailing SIU for the Floridian, where he sailed in the last 18 years, says the SIU the steward department. Isaac "Mister" Brown missed the Welfare Plan is the best in the industry. His last ship was the . (Continued on page lS) •»>" �SEAFARERS Janiutff M, l»tfl Fv Win LOG SlU Pacific Liner Freed From Reef SAN FRANCISCO—Passengers and crewmembers aboard the SIU Pacific District-contracted Matson Liner Monterery were treated to an unexpectedly long visit on the exotic South Pacific island of Bora^ Bora when the vessel went vessels pulling as hard as they the Monterey remained fast hard aground for nearly three could agroimd. Finally, the Monterey's days on a coral reef at the entrance to the harbor there. Fortunately there were no In­ juries to anyone aboard, either passengers or crew and the ship suffered little more damage than some paint scrapes on the hull. But since the Monterey went aground at full high tide, getting her off the reef proved to be quite a task. The Monterey first tried to get off the reef under her own power. And when this proved fruitless a French tug was sent from Papeete, Tahiti, 140 miles to the south, but was also unable to budge the Monterey. Next, a tanker was called to aid the tug but even with the two bunkers and ballasts were trans­ ferred to the tanker, and with the^ liner so lightened the two vessels were able to pull her free. While the attempts to free the vessel were underway, the 320 passengers and all crewmembers not required for assistance in the freeing attempts enjoyed special tours and entertainment ashore. To make up time lost while the Monterey was high and relatively dry at Bora Bora, Matson an­ nounced the ship's schedule would be slightly altered, with reduced port time in Auckland, New Zea­ land and- Sydney, Australia. The ship is expected to arrive in San Francisco on January 31. By Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area New Cargo Terminal Planned For N.O. h I Good news to Seafarers who prefer to ship out of New Orleans was the announcement that SlU-contracted Waterman Steamship Company is beginning construction of a big containerized cargo terminal in the Mississippi River port. Waterman recently signed lease agreements with the New Orleans dock board for establishment of a $6 minion terminal on the 29 acre tract along the industrial canal at the site of the old Delta shipyard. The announcement said the terminal will be the base for expanded containerized cargo operation to Puerto Rico by Wateman. Of course, this means more and better job opportunities for Seafarers who ship out of the Gulf area. A Waterman represfentative said the terminal will serve as Waterman's base for containerized cargo opera­ tions in the Gulf and will be linked with the company operations in Puerto Rico to provide service to Europe, South America, Central America and the Far East. Waterman initially plans to operate two vessels from the new facility with weekly service via the Mississippi River—Gulf outlet, the new Tidewater Ship Channel linking New Orleans with the Gulf. Shipping has been at a standstill in the Gulf ports, of course, as a result of the longshoremens strike but it is expected to pick up again as soon as the beef is settled. As the LOG went to press, Houston soon as the strike is over. He has reported almost 20 ships laid up in been vacationing since getting off that area. Jobs will be plentiful the Inger. He said this is a good when they start to crew up. ship with a good crew and a pleas­ ant run and he hopes to make a Mobile job back on this one or her sister Bernard Graham, who last ship the Walter Rice. H. L. Moore shipped as AB on the Topa Topa, is looking for a coastwise pumphas been catching up on his fish­ mans job. He was last on the Eagle ing and has, by all reports, been Traveler for about five months. most successful in the angling de­ James Terry made an oilers job partment. He says he will be ready on the Hanover but had to get off to ship again as soon as the strike when the ship was caught in the is over. R. P. Ramos and Dick ILA strike and laid up. His pre­ Drew came ashore and registered vious job was pumpman on the in group 3 of the steward depart­ Transorleans. He says he would ment when the Alcoa Ranger laid like to make the Achilles, a coast­ up as a result of strike. Ramos, wise tanker, but if he can't, he who lives in Puerto Rico, has been will be looking for a chief pumpon the Ranger since the last ILA mans job on a grain tanker to strike. Drew, who hails from Tam­ India. Frank Fisher came ashore pa, has been on this run about ten after five months on the Transmonths. Among other displaced eastern. Ranger homesteaders registered New Orleans here are Frank W. Chavers of Whistler, Alabama; R. C. Busby of Some of the oldtimcrs who hit Mobile, FWT, and Jack Mullis, the beach here include Louis DuBosun. Archie Bishop is back home racher, Joe Martello, John Hals, in Fairhope, Alabama after making Frank Kouns, Frank Foley and a trip to India-with grain on the Frank Cannella. Penn Exporter. He is registered in group 1 of the deck department. CHANGIfiSAVDOESSON^ Houston lOGmiumLmf Don Rundblad is out of the hos­ pital and expects to be fit for duty AiiMieBB soon. He says he will be looking for a Far East trip. Rundblad was AB on the Steel Rover when he became ill and had to be hospital­ ized in Galveston, Gene Coffman says he will bo ready to ship as mu)OE Fosmtm and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes ^ Propose Study Of Year-Round Seaway Flames pour from the fourth floor windows of the SIU Boston headquarters at 276 State Street. Headquar­ ters were moved to 177 State Street following the blaze which gutted the fourth floor and damaged the rest of the building. Fire Forces Boston Hail To Relocate BOSTON—SIU headquarters in Boston is now located at 177 State Street, due to a fire that swept the regular meeting hall and offices at 276 State Street in the down­ town area. No one was injured in the blaze on December 18, which drove 32 Seafarers and SIU officials from the building. The flames roared through the fourth floor, destroy­ ing the offices and equipment there. Firefighting activity caused heavy water damage to the floors below. Quick action by those in the hali saved Union property and valuable papers stored in the safe upstairs. The fourth floor of the building was listed as a total loss by local fire officials, who also listed the fire as of undetermined origin. Inunediately following the fire, SIU offices were moved tempo­ rarily into other quarters, and the next day space was obtained at 177 State Street on the fourth floor. Plans are now underway to move again to bigger quarters on the first floor. Dr. Weisberger Appointed To Medical Posts CLEVELAND—Dr. Austin Weis­ berger, one of the nation's leading researchers on leukemia and other blood diseases, has been appointed chairman of the departments of medicine at Western Reserve Uni­ versity and the University Hospitals here. Dr. Weisberger, who is the brother of Morris Weisberger, executive vice president of the SIU of North America and secre­ tary-treasurer of the Sailors Union of the Pacific, has been associated with Western Reserve since his undergraduate days. He received his medical degree" from the uni­ versity in 1941 and served his internship and residency at the University Hospitals. After a two-year hitch in the Navy, Dr. Weisberger became a member of the university's medical school faculty and the staff of the hospitals associated with the school. In the following years, his research into the basic causes of cancer and related diseases brought him nation-wide renown. Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy, recently announced he is sponsoring a bill for a study to determine whether the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Great Lakes could be kept open for shipping all year. McCarthy is sponsoring the bill on the grounds that the closing of the Lakes to shipping each winter is an obstacle to expanded economy in the Great Lakes, as well as a detriment to certain areas of national defense. The bill would authorize the Chief of Engineers of the Department of the Army to investigate the possibility of applying a waterway deicing system to the St. Lawrence. One of the important reasons for the study would be to determine if the costs of deicing would be more than the revenues of the .system if kept open during the winter months. The study would include methods previously used by private firms and foreign countries. Under the bill proposed by Senator McCarthy, the Chief of Engineers would make a report two years after the money had been made available for the project. McCarthy said that because of the important part the Great Lakes plays in the national economic situation, any method which would open this rich area during the winter to shipping would be a great benefit to the nation as a whole. McCarthy warned ,however, that just because the study would be^ made does not mean that it is Good to hear he is getting along possible to find a method of de- well. icing that would work. Chicago As aiK example of the Great With the Schemm at the AmeriLakes usefulness in the national economy, the Senator pointed out ican Ship Yard for conversion that export traffic through the from a tanker to a self-unloader, Seaway increased during the last Chicago manpower is being kept two years and made an important quite busy. In-patient members at the contribution to the United States balance of payments. The balance USPHSH include Brother John of exports to imports in U.S. move­ Rottaris, in for a check-up. He was ments through the Seaway was 11 run out of one ward and is now in times as high at the close of the "Snug Harbor" keeping everyone season as it was when the Seaway on their toes. first opened. Paul Lacy a Bob-Lo man just off the Overseas Joyce, is in for Frankfort an injury which occurred aboard Shipping has slowed down a his last ship. little in the Port of Frankfort, but The Greater Chicago and Vicin­ some of the boys are beginning ity Port Council, Maritime Trades to think about taking winter vaca­ Department, AFL-CIO, went on tions, so we expect there will be record for pushing port legislation some steady shipping and relief for -the inspection of diesel tug jobs. boats and the requirement for li­ John Stonehouse who is on spe­ censed officers for both Deck and cial disability pension, is still Engine. keeping his hand in the game. He The Teamsters filed petition at baked some of his special holiday the National Labor Relations bread, which was delicious and Board for representation election definitely appreciated. against DUOC 777, Chicago. The News has come to us that Ed­ NLRB is checking Teamster auth­ ward Fitzhugh, SIU pensioner, is orization for validity. Objection back in the Paul Oliver Memorial has been filed by DUOC since Hospital. Our best wishes for his many of the employees signed by early dismissal from there. Teamsters are no longer employed We also have heard that William by the company. The TSAW is on Cerka is home on leave from the an all-out drive for the independ­ United States Public Health Serv­ ent cab driver, receiving many ice Hospital. Brother Cerka was a pledges from the Abernathy Cab victim of a deerhunting accident. Company. Detroit Yuie Dinner Seafarers and their families from the SIU Great Lakes Dis­ trict enjoyed one of the most successful holiday dinners ever held in Detroit on Christmas day. Digging into the traditional turkey feast are SIU Great Lakes District mem­ bers (l-r) John Dashner, John Sejuf and Jack Wiley. Festi­ vities in Detroit were typical of the holiday dinners held in other SIU ports across the country. �Pac* 81s SEAFAREnS A J| i t Janw lO^G INI • t (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only in the SIU Atlantic Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District.) January 2-January 15 The shipping situation during the last two weeks showed level. The largest number, of jobs shipped was in the deck a marked reaction to the Longshoremen's strike, since ship­ department. Registration during the two week period maintained a owners rushed to get their ships to sea before the walkout deadline, Jan. 10. Seafarers shipped during the seven day steady pace despite the declining shipping situation. Total period prior to the walkout totalled 888, only 144 less than the registration during the two weeks was 1,225, as compared to 1,263 in the prior period. The number of Seafarers registered 1,032 shipped in the previous period. Although job calls in New York were the hardest hit, all and on the beach at the end of the period, reflected the halt ports on the East Coast shipped less than in the previous of ship movements as it climbed to 4,228, as compared to period with the exception of Baltimore, where shipping gained 4,004 during the previous reporting period. The seniority situation, which was radically changed over in comparison to the previous period. In the Gulf, shipping was heavy in New Orleans and Houston, almost equalling the holidays, returned to a more normal picture during the the total number shipped from those ports during the entire last two weeks. The ratio of Seafarers shipping with A Books previous period. Tampa job calls gained slightly, while was 55 per cent, against 47 per cent in the prior period. shipping in Mobile dropped considerably. On the West Coast, Holders of B books shipping out totalled 34 per cent of the the impact of the strike has not yet been felt through the total, and C Cards comprised 11 per cent. Shipping activity was slightly higher during the past two lower number of ship movements. Shipping drooped off slightly in Wilmington and Seattle, however. San Francisco weeks, with a total of 175 movements, compared to 165 in the previous period. There were 51 payoffs, the same figure job calls were slightly higher than in the prior period. The change in the shipping situation was also reflected as in the previous period and 23 sign-ons, as compared to 29 in in the number of job calls by department. In all three depart­ the prior period. A total of 101 ships were serviced in transit, ments, the total number shipped was below the previous contrasted with 85 in the prior period. Ship Aciivity Pay Slqa In Offs CM Treni. TOTAL 2 18 1 2 1 2 2 3 6 9 1 2 2 0 4 0 2 1 0 1 0 6 4 1 2 2 7 10 4 9 5 7 _ 5 3 9 14 11 6 11 9 32 5 13 7 f 8 4 21 27 13 10 15 TOTALS ... 51 23 101 175 Boiton New York.. • • Philadelphia .. Baltimore.... Norfolk Jackionville .. Tampa Mobile New Orleoni.. Hootton Wilmington .. Son Fronciico. Seattle ...... DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York.... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk . ... Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans. Houston ... Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS GROVP 123 ALL 2 2 0 4 67 14 36 17 0 4 0 4 20 10 10 11 8 3 5 15 9 7 4 3 13 17 34 20 30 11 61 16 16 40 8 6 5 1 12 10 17 5 32 15 8 3 4 GROUP GROUP 3 2 1 2 3 ALL 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 6 17 24 11 25 3 3 2 0 1 2 3 8 13 4 10 5 0 3 2 2 4 0 9 0 0 1 2 1 7 0 0 0 4 1 1 2 0 2 1 9 1 14 1 37 12 2 19 16 6 24 28 3 9 1 17 0 3 3 1 1 4 2 2 5 3 2 9 3 12 1 n 4 12 3 3 6 111 161 50 I 322 13 63 77 | 153 76 2 49' 8 191 7| 1' 5 3 27j 40 6 18 19 GROUP 123 ALL 1 0 2 1 5 1 1 0 1; 0 3 12: 2 0 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 15 1 3 7 21! 11 6 2 2 2 7 4 2 1 8' 3 4 1 I >1. 91 37 | 204 20 TOTAL Shipped Shipped CLASS C Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Registered CLASS B Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS 123 ALL ABC ALL 12 3 ALL 12 3 ^L 0 5 5 10 3 2 2 0 4 3 0 16, 0 49 5 8 62 114 169 39 322' 13 47 72 132 4 8 1 2 11 9 33 0 6 17 23 20 4 2 2 12 33 48 19 12 3 34 49 61 18 128 3 0 7 3 0 10 16 13 10 23 17 2 35 0 0 17 2 110 2 27 28 4 13 10 9 7 5 10 6 2 5 12 2 8 0 22, 0 4 20 28 3 2 0 5 39 40 12 91' 4 0 34 65 103 27 25 7 59 80 88 19 187- 4 5 82 40 21 2 63 68 62 20 150 34 44 0 4 8 11 ,6 6 0 12 12 17 4 33 0 19 0 18 7 2 27 38 4 9 51' 18 14 10 0 42 19 8 5 32 15 20 4 39 2 8 7 2 17 29 45 | 94 4 15 10 | 29 204 94 29 I 327 431 571 133 |1135 52 195 309 | 556 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A CLASS B Registered Mobile New Orleans. Houston . .. Wilmington San Francisco Seattle GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 2 2 0 52 9 39 6 1 5 18 3 13 0 2 2 7 6 1 5 4 1 22 5 15 56 45 9 33 10 18 8 1 Hi 2 22 301 19 2 14 TOTALS 44 193 26 I 263 12 Port Boston " New York.... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk ... Jacksonville . Tampa Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 1 0 0 1 1. 0 2 31 2 14 12 28 6 21 4 0 5 0 1 3 4 18 0 12 2 13 5 8 0 0 1 4 3 6 0 2 1 2 1 4 0 2 3 0 2 2 6 0 1 4 2 4 13 13 3o; 1 21 23 28 7 19 0 18 10 28 7 0 3 4 2 2 0 10 6 4 15 2 12 2 7 2 16 6 1 21 0 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 123 ALL 0 1 0 1 3 14 10 27 0 0 0 0 13 8 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 4 5 1 8i 2 10 171 3 11 19i 3 2 71 8 5 0 6 10 1 77 64 I 153 20 113 22 I 155 12 65 38 I 115 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP 123 ALL ABC ALL 123 ALL 3 2 0 0 0 2 0 8 2 12 1 0 3 0 3 31 27 61 58 144 16 218 0 1 1 5 22 2 0 0 28 0 3 18 13 1 34* 14 61 11 86 2| 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 5 21 2 28 0 1 1 3' 3 13 0 1 1 0 16 0 0 0 3 4 7| 2 0 13 9 2 8 0 3 3 2 13; 11 D 49 7 67 5 9! 23 17 49 32 88 11 131 1 3 50 24 0 2 1 3 28 19 86 5 115 11 6 0 2 2 7 1 1 19 5 30 0 4 6 8 10 10 15 33 9 40 53 4 1 0 2 21 10 2 33, ^ 22 1 3 29 3 21 13 .J 37 155 115 37 I 307 174 582 70 I 826 GROUP 123 ALL 1 4 4 9 9 43 61 113 1 6 6 13 0 23 30 53 0 8 17 25 2 8 3 13 0 2 1 3 1 12 18 31 41 41 4 86 6 41 49 96 2 7 6 15 5 22 10 I 37 0 8 6 1 14 31 225 252 I 508 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Bos NY Phil Bai Nor Jac Tarn Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS GROUP 1-s 1 3 ALL 2 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 10 18 48 0 3 2 6 1 3 5 3 5 16 1 1 1 1 4 0 3 2 7 2 1 1 0 2 4 7 3 3 11 24 5 11 4 37 57 2 10 3 24 9 0 0 0 2 2 6 3 8 3 20 6 3 10 0 1 28 63 33 98 1 222 Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 1 1 1 0 10 9 0 0 2 2 0 1 13 14 0 6 1 5 0 0 2 2 0 2 1 3 0 6 7 1 1 1 34 36 1 2 16 19 0 0 2 2 0 0 5 5 0 0 5 5 4 " 7 101 1 112 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1-s 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 1 1 7 4 2 12 25 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 7 11 1 0 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 2 Q 3 10 4 14 31| 7 4 11 23 1 0 0 0 2 2I 15' 0 4 7 4 4 10! 1 1 4 37 18 61 1 125 9 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 0 0 0 0, 0 0 8 8 0 0 5 5' 3 0 11 14' 0 3 4 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 2, 0 19 1 20 0 0 7 0 5| 2 3 0 0 12 12' 2 1 13 16 8 2 85 1 95 Shipped CLASS C» TOTAL Shipped CLASS GROUP 1 2 3 ALL A B 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 8 10 25 0 10 0 3 1 5 2 1 0 0 2 2 11 14 0 0 2 4 2 3 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0' 0 1 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 2 31 20 0 5 23 1 4 7 0 5 1 1 2 2 0 0 6 6 15 12 0 0 1 10 16 1 3 30 1 34 125 95 1 C ALL 1-s 0 1 1 10 43 24 3 9 4 2 27 16 2 9, 4 1 2 3 0 2 1 0 4 13 2 53 21 5 35 14 2 9 5 6 33 15 1 27 3 34 1 254 124 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 7 3 0 2 5 51 47 69 191 7 8 46 61 8 6 12 30 2 2 6 10 34 17 27 94 1 3 40 44 4 1 6 15 0 1 16 17 4 3 2 12 1 0 6 7 5 2 8 16 0 0 2 2 20 11 22 66 2 ' 1 22 25 42 20 98 181 3 3 84 90 35 24 35 108 7 10 34 51 2 3 8 18 3 1 10 14 11 10 34 70 0 1 14 15 10 2 10 25 3 5 21 29 227 148 334 | 8331 32 35 303 1 370 SUMMARY DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS Registered CLASS A GROUP 1 23 ALL 111 161" 50 I 322 Registered CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 13 63 44 193 26 I 263 12~ 77 91 33 '98 I 222 "4 7 246 387 174 ] 807'"29 147 SHIPPED CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL SHIPPED CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS B GROUP 123 ALL 20 29 45 I 94 77 I 153i 76 91 37 | 204 64 \ 153 20 113 22 | 155; 12 101 | 112 46 18 61 1 125j 8 242| 418 142 222 120 | 484 40 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP 123 ALL ABC ALL 123 ALL 123 ALL 29 204 94 29 I 327,431 571 133 |1135 52 195 309 I 556' 4 15 10 3 21 13 37,155 115 37'I 307 174 582 70 | 826 31 225 252 | 508 3 30 34jl25 95 34 I 254 351 148 334 I 833,32 35 303 | 370 65 38 | 115 2 85 | 95 96 168 J 304' 8 39 93' 10O!484 304 100 j 888 956 130^ 537 j2794i 115 459 864~|1439 f- •J �SEAFARERS By Robert A. Matthews, Vice-President, Contracts, & Biii Hall, Headquarters Rep. r v^-J V :/ I > i> IV X01R Pass Se!tof Eight Seafarers Awarded $150 Pensions For Life Many Beefs sent to the Contract Department were, due to their nature, settled by a Joint Ciarification Committee consisting of rep­ resentatives of this department and representatives from the company to which the beef applied. One such beef was in relation to the number of official holidays that are to be observed in Puerto Rico. In ruling on the beef, the Joint Ciarifications Committee unanimously agreed to the following: Leader Lohse Munin Oliver Blanehard Shiber When a vessel is in Puerto Rico, the following three (3) days, which The Board of Trustees of the Seafarers Welfare and Pension Plan have approved sev­ are recognized as Holidays for Longshoremen in Puerto Rican Ports, en Seafarers from the SIU Atlantic and Gulf district, and one member of the SIU Great shail aiso be recognized as Holidays for the crew while the vessel is in Lakes district to receive a monthly pension of $150 for the rest of their lives. Puerto Rico; Good Friday, July 17th (Munoz Rivera), and July 25th . The Seafarers, who are,^(Constitution Day). now retired in dignity and and made his home in Brooklyn, New York with over 30 years of Another beef which the Clarifications Committee ruled on regarded a comfort on their monthly N.Y. Oliver now plans to spend sailing experience. A member of provision of the Standard Freightship Agreement covering the removal pension are Cecil (Rudy) Leader, his retirement relaxing and rest­ the deck department, he last sailed 69; Joseph Munin, 59; Frederick ing, assured of receiving his $150 aboard the New Yorker (Containeror replacement of Butterworth plates on tankers in the grain trade. Oliver, 65; Napoleon A. Blanehard, pension check every month. He ships Inc.). He plans to spend h's Question: When crew members are required to unfasten Butterworth 66; James Shiber, 42; Peter Lohse, last sailed on the Norberto Capay retirement years in Flushing, New plate nuts and/or remove the Butterworth plates for the purpose of 65; Raymond Mill, 45, and John (Liberty Navigation). York. • loading or discharging grain cargoes or to repiace Butterworth plates Jellette, 65. Blanehard is a native of Mas­ Mill joined the SIU Great Lakes and/or refasten nuts upon completion of grain cargo work, what rate sachusetts who joined the SIU District in Detroit. He sailed in of compensation shouid be payable to the crew, members performing from the port of New York. Sailing the engine department until his such work. in the steward department, he last retirement. He is settled in his shipped aboard the Trustee home in Sebewaing, Mich., with his Answer: It is agreed that the first-class transportation to his (Marine Carriers). He is presently wife, assured of a $150 income for longshore rate of overtime as "original Port of Engagement,' retired at his home in Portland, the rest of his life. He last sailed provided by Articie II. Section 32, which section of the contract is Maine, comfortable in the knowl­ for the Gartland Steamship Com­ is payable to those crew members appiicabie in the case described edge tht he will receive his pen­ pany. performing the work described above? sion check in the mail every Answer: When the seaman left above. Jellette, a SIU oldtimer, joined month. In another matter, regarding the vessel at New York, under the the Union in New Orleans and SIU Oldtimer various past beefs about midnight circumstances described in Section sailed in the steward department. Jellette Shiber joined the SIU from the 14(b), he was entitled to return meais and night lunches, the Com­ Leader had 30 years of experi­ port of New York with 10 years He last shipped aboard the Petrochem (Valentine) as chief steward. mittee decided after discussion transportation to his actual Port ence on American ships in the ratthat the basic problem was due to of Engagement, San Francisco, 1 ng of cook and steward before he experience on American ships. An A native of England, Jellette plans misinterpretations of the existing even though at the commencement joined the SIU early in its his­ SIU oldtimer, he sailed in the to spend some time at his home sections of the Freightships and of employment at San Francisco tory, in the port of New York. A engine department. A native of in Brooklyn, N. Y., "keeping in Tankers Agreement. In order to he had assumed the Port of En­ native of Savannah, Ga., he plans Pennsylvania, he presently makes touch with the activities of the eiiminate this problem, the com­ gagement of the seaman he re- to spend his retirement in New his home in Jersey City, N.J. He Union." He then plans to move to mittee unanimously agreed to piaced. New York. In other words, York City where he presently last sailed aboard the Montpelier Florida. He is the recipient of two citations and the Mariner's Medal, delete subsection (a) and (b) and it is the intention of the Commit­ makes his home. He last sailed Victory (Montpelier Tankers). Lohse, a native of Germany, the highest honor given to mer­ tee to provide that in cases of ill­ to substitute in their place the aboard the Fairland (Waterman). joined the Union in the port of chant seamen. following subsections (a) and (b): ness or injury incurred in the Munin first joined the Union in "(a) Members of the steward de­ services of the vessel, the seaman New York after coming to this partment actuaily engaged in serv­ is to be provided transportation country from his native land of back to the port where he was ing hot lunches at midnight are first Latvia. He joined the SIU with engaged by the Company. to be aliowed three hours' over­ over 20 years experience as a sea­ Money Due time for preparing and serving The Contract and Constitution man, and spent his years saiiing same. Department is holding checks for SIU ships in the engine depart­ "(b) When not more than the the Seafarers listed beiow. These ment, as deck engineer or firemanBy Cal Tanner, Executive Vice-President equivalent of one department is men are urged to contact the de­ water tender. Munin now makes served at 9:00 P.M. or 3:00 A.M. partment and pick up their checks, his home in New Orleans. The night lunch, one cook shall be or notify headquarters where the last ship he sailed before retire^ The latest shipbuilding budget did little to cheer those interested ment was the Del Rio (Delta). turned out to perform this work. checks should be sent. in the state of U.S. maritime, especially the shipbuilders. An experienced cook and baker When a midnight hot lunch is The new year begins, according to the Shipbuilding Council, with 43 In the settlement of disputed served to not more than five men, overtime aboard the Transorleans, when he joined the Union, Oliver large merchant ships totaling -f one cook shall perform this work. checks are being held for James began saiiing with the SIU from 481,000 gross tons under construc­ of payments, and continued main­ When from six to ten men are Mahoney, Francis Paine, Seymour the port of New York. A native of tion or on order. Last year the tenance of shipyards skills and the British West Indies, he came industry started out the year with served, one cook and one mess- Sikes, Charles Todora. to this country before the last war two more ships, 45, under contract, capabilities, the council pointed man shall perform this work. out. From the Ames Victory, checks When from six to ten men are totaling 517,390 tons. are being held covering travel In a letter to President Johnson served, one cook and one messman During 1964 new contracts for protesting such a move, SIU Presi­ shall perform this work. When wages, subsistence, and transporta­ 14 ships of up to 187,200 tons were dent Paul Hall warned: more than ten men are served, tion for Wallace P. Anderson, awarded and ship deliveries ran to Morris Berlowtitz, Ralph L. Jones, one cook and two messmen shall "Any attempt to further weaken 16 ships totaling 223,590 tons. and Lee W. Worth. perform this work." or destroy our American ship­ While "scant attention" is given building capability would be not In the settlement of disputed Another question which was put to the shipbuilding industry in only shortsighted and economi­ overtime for tank cleaning aboard before the Committee requested Coast Guardsmen who played this country, the Shipbuilders cally unsound, but eventually a ciarification on which port was a the Manhattan, checks are being man's actuai port of engagement. held for F. Carpenter, M. Chan­ obstetrician to a mother shark and Council pointed out, the Soviet self-defeating and suicidal effort. The problem is described in this dler, B. Dunn, F. Gordon, L. Har­ delivered 30 baby sharks by Union is moving fast towards be­ "Rather, the responsible persons vey, H. Koppersmith, S. Puntillo, Caesarean section were all at sea coming a "formidable maritime example: in our Government should be mak­ C. Scott, H. Sikes, L. Taylor, H. recently over why the sharklets power." "Her navy is second only A vessel on foreign articles Treddin, E. Zebrowski. ing every effort to see to it that to the United States and a com­ all died. while on route around the world, America is restored to her rightful A crewmember of the cutter parison of merchant shipbuilding place as a major shipbuilding A check is being held for Vance arrived at San Francisco where activity provides tangible evidence Seaman A signed off articles by A. Reid for an allotment differen­ Rockaway hooked momma shark of her aspirations in controlling power. about 1,350 miles southeast of mutual consent and Seaman B, his tial aboard the Anji. "In such an effort, the Seafarers Checks for the settlement of dis­ New York. When it was discovered the high seas and thus the destiny International Union of North replacement, assumed Seaman A's of western civilization. that the shark was in a family Port of Engagement, which was puted overtime aboard the Penn America will participate to the way the crew helped deliver the As of November 1, 1964, the fullest extent of its ability." New York. The vessel ultimately Carrier are being held for Earl H. babies. The foot-long sharksters Russians had 673 merchant ves­ arrived at New York where articles Beamer, Jose M. Sacosta, Michael were apparently thriving in a sels of 6.4 million deadweight tons were terminated and Seaman B C. Miller, and Walter Smith. large pot of seawater supplied terminated hi? service with the Checks for John J. Wynne, Rich­ with oxygen by a pump, when on order. During the same period the U.S. had only 43 merchant vessel because of illness, request­ ard Heckman, Jose A. Paz and ing return transportation to the Francis M. Greenwell are being suddenly they all gave up the ships totaling 650,032 deadweight P -^dquarters again wishes to tons on order. port where he first joined the held by the contract department ghost within an hour. An official of New York's Coney remind all Seafarers that p^vvessel, San Francisco. The industry also expressed for the settlement of disputed Island Aquarium suggested that ments o* funds, for whatever Question: Inasmuch as Section overtime aboard the Niagara. the sharklings might have died concern about rumors that some Union purpose, be made only 58(b) of the Freightship Agree­ A transportation differential because there was not enough ships built in foreign yards would to authorized SIU representa­ ment provides for a replacement, check from the Elimir for James room in their pot-sized incubator. be submitted to register under the tives and that an official Union in circumstances described above, H. Smith is being held by this de­ He estimated that a foot-long U.S. flag, which would require a "ceipt be gotten at that time. to assume the replaced seaman's partment. shark would need about 100 change in the present law which If no receipt is offered be sure assures that only vessels built in Port of Engagement and Section In the settlement /of disputed gallons of water to keep it going. to protect yourself by imm;. i14(b) provides that a crew member overtime for oilers aboard the Sea- He also speculated that they may this country can fly the U.S. flag. teiy bringing the matter to the leaving a vessel because of illness train New Jersey, checks are being have been born too prematurely Such a move would represent a attention of the President's or injury incurred in the service held for Julio Gardien, Benjamin or subjected to too much shock "potential loss" to this country in office. terms of the economy, the balance of such vessel shall be entitled to Freeman, and George Doest. ' to survive. CG Midwives Lose Sharklets Be Sure To Get Dues Receipts �Page ^kt SEAFARERS LOG Jamary n, IfW THE SAME OLD SHOUT - NOW against MEDICARE! Times change. Issues change with the times. But the tactics used by vested interests to oppose much-needed social legislation never seems to change. The same scare tactics, unsubstantiated claims, tricky gimmicks and predictions of doom which Big Business used to attack the Social Security Act back in^the 1930's are being used again today by Big Medicine and the American Medical Association in their attacks on proposed medical care for the aged through Social Security (Medicare). The AMA has been sponsoring misleading ad­ vertisements opposing the Medicare program in various newspapers around the country, filled with "scare" headlines and "facts" which, for the most part are not only untruthful, but even con­ tradict each other. Lies—Half Truths For instance, an AMA-sponsored anti-Medicare ad in one newspaper recently cried "CAN YOU AFFORD A 16% INCREASE IN YOUR PAY­ ROLL TAX? That_is the minimum payroll tax increase all workers earning $100 or more a week would be forced to pay if the MEDICARE bill now before Congress becomes a law." Meanwhile, in another newspaper in a neighboring county, an AMA-sponsored ad asked "CAN YOU AFFORD A 237o INCREASE IN YOUR PAYROLL TAX? That is the minimum payroll tax increase all workers earning $100 or more a week would be forced to pay if the MEDICARE bill now before Congress becomes law." The fact is that the increase in employee Social Security payments which would result from pas­ sage of Medicare legislation would amount to only $25.20 a year for workers earning $100 per week. Although Medicare is a new issue, the tactics the AMA is using to try to defeat it are old. Simi­ lar tactics were used by Big Business to fight Social Security legislation. In a speech in October, 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt complained "... a few employers are spreading half-truths about the Social Security Law, half-truths that tell the workers only of the workers' contribution, and fail to mention the employers' contribution. They conceal from the workers the fact that for every dollar which the employee contributes, the employer also contributes a dollar." With the advent of Social Security legislation, the need for corresponding health insurance be­ The AFL-CIO has supported and continues to support Medicare legislation for our older citizens. Through the AFL-CIO Committee On Political Education (COPE) the Federa­ tion has waged an all-out campaign to bring across to the public the necessity for passage of Medicare legislation and to counter the vicious anti-Medicare propaganda campaigns waged by the American Medical Association. Under the new King-Anderson (Medicare) Bill just introduced in Congress and expected to be passed this year without major change, all Americans 65 years of age or over would came obvious. In the August 16, 1936 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, an article by Dr. I. S. Falk. deplored the omission of health insurance measures from the Social Security Act, noting that the inability of persons in the lower or middle in­ come brackets to meet economic crises brought on by illness was one of the greatest hazards of mod­ ern industrial life. The medical associations wasted no time in call­ ing for protection of their own vested interests however. The Journal of the Indiana State Medi­ cal Association of September, 1936 noted that both political parties had endorsed Social Security, and urged the medical profession to "protect itself by intensifying its tremendous influence with the people so that it may at least be supported in as­ serting its superior capacity to direct policies and modify security proposals to the least objection­ able form." Today's anti-Medicare drive by the AMA seems a direct outgrowth of this early warn­ ing. Doom Warnings Another charge the AMA is making in its antiMedicare propaganda is that the Federal Govern­ ment should stay out of medicine. "HAS YOUR CONGRESSMAN TURNED MEDICINE MAN? ? ?" an AMA-sponsored ad asks. Gov­ ernment involvement in medicine, according to AMA propaganda, would mean the growth of a gigan.tic and unworkable Government bureau­ cracy which would reduce the quality of care the aged would receive. This charge, too, is old hat. It was used by Big Business against Social Security back in the 1930's. An October 1, 1936 editorial in the Washington (DC) Herald bemoaned the fact that the Democ­ ratic Administration under F.D.R., "has embarked Hastily and unwisely upon a program of social security that in actual application WITHHOLDS ALL HOPE OF SECURITY FROM THOSE IT PROPOSES TO BENEFIT," and charged that the Social Security Act would destroy the Nation's assets and "EXTENDS THE PROSPECT OF EVENTUAL INSECURITY to millions of citizens who would normally expect to provide their own security." (Capitalization retained from original) A September 19, 1936 Saturday Evening Post article charged that the Social Security Act pro­ vides an instrument by which the Government can 'administer our every day lives and well being," by turning over to the Government a fund that be eligible. This includes nearly 17 million eligible for Social Security or railroad retire­ ment benefits, plus another 2 million not cov­ ered by either of these plans. Hospital care would be provided for a period of up to 60 days for each illness in semi-private rooms. The patient would pay for one day's care (average about $40). Medicare would pay the remainder. Cover­ age would start July 1, 1966. Nursing home care would also be provided for 60 days per illness only after hospitalization. Also home visits by nurses (etc.) will be covered, as may "very well represent the capital resources of the country." Meanwhile, Dr. Joseph E. Goodbar, President of the Society of Stability in Money and Banking, warned that the process of accumulating such a fund (Social Security) would expose the people of the country to an unpredictable, but constant disturbance of their jobs and business affairs. Of course, none of these dire warnings of doom ever came true. The AMA is continuing the same old line however. AMA Style Morality Perhaps the most subtle issue the AMA has seized upon in its anti-Medicare propaganda is the moral aspect of such social legislation. A recent AMA ad charges "IT IS MORALLY WRONG— THE MEDICARE BILL." The AMA has made the pitch that providing medical care for the aged through social security is bad because it destroys the individual's self respect, his pride in taking care of himself and providing for his own future and the moral obligations of children to take care of their parents in old age. This same sort of pious clap-trap has also come up before, as part of the anti-Social Security cam­ paigns back in the '30s. The Republican presi­ dential candidate in 1936, running on an anti-New Deal Social Security plank, said "social security in the end can only be built upon character and religion and industry." A Saturday Evening Post article in that year defended the right of the working man to use as he sees fit the wages he earns, claiming that the Social Security Acts deprived him of that right. All of these pious moral platitudes were too much for Republican councilman Charles W. Kress of Binghamton, N.Y., however, who gave his own party's watered down stand on Social Security a solid rap in a September 1936 speech. "Under this plank, the unfortunate old person who needs help must, in effect, take a pauper's oath, give up his pride and self-respect, turn over any pitiful possessions he may have and become just another guinea pig in the laboratories . . . wherein the hoped-for dignity and privacy of old age will be snooped on, pried into and dissected by officious vivisectionists." And that, in effect, is what the AMA is still asking for today if you can't afford to pa)' the skyrocketing costs of medical care. would out-patient hospital services such as X-ray and laboratory services. Doctor bills, dentist bills, medicines, drugs, or other supplies and appliances will not be paid for under Medicare. To provide this hospital protection. Social Security payments by employees - will rise only $25.20 a year. This payment by the employee will be matched by the employer. This money would be placed in a separate trust fund to finance Medicare benefits. Hospital, out-patient, and visiting nurse cov­ erage would begin July 1, 1966. Nursing home coverage would begin January 1, 1967. �j«Bnaigr<n..lMSk * ••» '* i-, jf-t • -> • , .. • c •» S£^Fi4K£|{S FtfrNta* LO<; //I •mmm. ( \;^ If fejKzS ii io7. \.n '"".uei *•: 11. j;. , «orW^V ^ ^ t-a.sr sJr'S "is cjSiSrr Ti« • ,1 !£:<»f th. Moiinnnm.n COP";*?*.' StES FRAUD ON WORKERS >vo»°: »dto»n"'",uc1» " • '^iF5«:?^iS^R„ose«eU tn Milw^iukae Spr«cli, Ha Calls ff'sent Act. 'Unworktbia •f.d Stupidly Draftad/ ^ lfeiS«%Chting ff„«elope* W"BVTl»«jS25 RtpllMtC®* - - MMtec •* .. By 4asiM A, lfAC»:nTr Jaunty Act .. "UBJUM. unwork- .,ArtbuU4 i>i 1 «r.rl.l In Tna MM r.aa Tian. NIMVAUKKI:;, . Bepl. 36.~Char•cKrlrlna the Roo-iurMt Soflal Cho»» '4 f»f «< rf rf Mr, t^ti.l9H'.i »peich U |..,,f,^ nk 3,^ Ml etioT^ laiiw®"® 1 I s®®^ ytR lible. itiipldly drafted and waMeWly flnanecd." Oovernor tendon u. emp^«>v«'\|(^-aht wolKht -rKrd;;a ptcdyra ^ hlmacir and tha in yWobllran party (o an amend It to r -- —-n- foMfidna tor needy citlzrna mnr. more than «8 Ohio *" Viai"/•merlcan dtli'n* mra old flnanced on a commonr®"®, pay-aa-you-Ro baali and •'Ka enouRh . to givn each auch hreon a minimum Incoma auffl.®tnt to protect him or her from <y. 'into Dlicloaln* his position on unem jwyment Inaur.mrc, the Rep " "Hlden^o'. I'l Ih i,3»o.;»_ Yi»y^^s^777;-- """f A TAC \\ ^ H' The reproductions on this page are all from the year 1936 and represent some of the tactics then used by Big Business in its at.tempt to defeat Social Security legislation. Similar scare tactics, half-truths and predictions of impending doom are being used today by the American Medical Association in its attempt to prevent passage of medical care for the aged through Social Security (Medicare). M ' rS, '•§ i 1 ri. TO A WEEKLY PAY REDUCTION TllADC^* ccew»«VS r^«u«ic-«r MC—"" for I'f \ALL OF YOUR WORKING LIFE » teeilMrsr:— I YOU'LL HAVE TO SERVE THE SENTENCE UNLESiS YOU HELP TO REVERSE IT NOV. 3 ELECTION DAY "ZwT'^iwvi^e •• » (MPb HfOOl. n«»T HAMC-L- AGISTER VJ""*-" III- i"±LjJ^ �SE/^F Pace Ten haO ^ Lifeboat Class 125 Wins Tickets By Ai Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer Members of Lifeboat Class 125 pose proudly for their graduation picture after passing all requirements for their Coast Guard lifeboat tickets with flying colors. Members of the class are (front, l-r) Frederick J. Walsh, Peter D. Alcantara; (middle) Phil Frank, Jim Ogden, Joe Wescott, Donald W. Paccio; (rear) instructor Dan Butts, James E. Collins, Dave Flynn, Robert Lee, Lee Jones and Ed Connolly. Another graduate who was not present for the picture was Miguel A. Ramos. Study Urges More Jobs, Higher Pay ThreeVeteran Economic Expansion SlU Boatmen Seen Ending Poverty Go On Pension WASHINGTON—Tiie most effective weapon in the war against poverty in the U.S. is a sharply stepped-up rate of economic growth, according to a new study just completed Three members of the SIU In­ by the Conference on Econ--*land Boatmen's Union have been omic Progress. The study, nomic environment in which added to the growing list of SIUtitled "Progress or Poverty— massive poverty would find no the U.S. at the Crossroads," con­ cludes that a rapidly growing economy is the best way to pro­ vide the new jobs and higher in­ comes that are necessary to eliminate the blight of poverty forever from American society. Examines Poverty The 150-page stuay, complete with charts and photographs, brings up to date all of the im­ portant data bearing upon poverty and examines in detail the Administration's anti-poverty pro­ gram. Leon H. Keyserling, head of the conference and a former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, writes in the study that "the only way to reduce poverty in the U.S.—or in any other country—is by increasing the nationwide per capita produc­ tion of goods and services so much that average levels of living rise enough to help the poor as well as others." It is vital also, he says, that the nationwide distribution of goods and services be improved so that "a fair though not equal share is received by those on the lowest rungs of the economic ladder." To draw a fundamental distinc­ tion between the employment and growth problem and the poverty problem "would be self-defeating on all scores," the study declares. An attack on poverty "not inter­ woven with the attack on these other problems," the study says, "would focus excessively upon a purely 'casework' or 'welfare' ap­ proach which sought to make poverty a bit less oppressive or lose itself in a few dramatic situa­ tions of no great nation-wide im­ port, instead of building an eco­ place." If the government will properly expand and direct the War on poverty, it can be eradicated by 1975, the study declares. This would mean a larger government anti-poverty program as well as increased government spending, rather than further tax reductions to provide the greater stimulus for economic growth. Keyserling urged that the Presi­ dent's Economic Report set forth plans to assure a minimum standard of living for all Ameri­ cans and include "goals for the rate of reduction of poverty in America." The study stresses that un­ employment and part-time em­ ployment account for a substantial part of the nation's poverty, and a slow rate of economic growth has aggravated this problem. Ultimate victory in the war against poverty, the study con­ cludes, will "necessarily involve success in all of the other under­ takings which now engage us: the restoration and maintenance of maximum employment and high economic growth; the wiping out of fundamental causes of racial tensions; the provision of full education opportunities; adequate health services and satisfactory housing for all the people; the renewal of our cities and the im­ provement of rural living; the con­ servation and replenishment of our natural resources; the solu­ tion of the thorny financial prob­ lems which now bear down upon governments at all levels." The Conference on Economic Progress is a non-profit, nonpolitical organization engaged in ecbnomic research and education. IBU members to receive a month­ ly pension of $150 for the rest of their lives. All three pensions were approved by the Board of Trustees of the Pension Plan before the new year wais rung in, bringing tbe total for 1964 to 35. Stehouwher Added to the list are John Stehouwher, 65; Hanson Ricicar Adolph A. Hanson, 73, and John F. Ricicar, 44. Stehouwher joined the SIUIBU in New Orleans, where he sailed aboard tu^ operated by Coyle Line. Before joining the IBU, he sailed deep sea for 20 years. He presently makes his home in New Orleans, La. Hanson has sailed in the engine department on Great Lakes Tow­ ing Company vessels in Chicago for over 25 years. A native of Minnesota, he now makes his home in Chicago. Ricicar joined the Union in Gal­ veston, Texas. An employee of Galveston Wharves Co. for many years, and a native of Lafeyetteville, Texas, he retired to his home in Hitchcock, Texas. We thought It would be wise to review the Unlon'e Sickness and Accident benefit program (S&A) in response to several questions which have been frequently brought up by our members. The S&A program is split up into two basic parts: In-patient benefits for SIU men who are hospitalized, and Out-patient benefits for members who are dis­ abled and receiving medical treatment. The Sickness and Accident program was originally adopted in 1962, and then amended to cover all disabilities which may have arisen on or after August 1, 1963. In-patient benefits are available to Seafarers who meet eligibility requirements at the rate of $56 per week. These benefits are payable at the rate of $8 per day to a member who is an in-patient in any USPHS hospital, or a private hospital that has received official ap­ proval, in the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Canada. The S&A in-patient benefit can be paid for a period of 39 weeks, and begins on the first day a member is hospitalized. Members receiving out-patient benefits also are paid $56 per week at the rate of $8 per day. To be eligible, a seaman must be disabled and receiving treatment within the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands or Canada. Should an eligible seaman elect to receive medical care from a private phy-fsician, the welfare plan trustees and cure and has not yet received reserve the right to evaluate the same, he shall execute an assign­ medical proof submitted to deter­ ment of maintenance and cure mine the eligibility of the claim. payments to the Seafarers Welfare If a member has become dis­ Plan. General Rules, (a) Any disability abled as a result of his own will­ ful misconduct, he will not be occurring during a period of dis­ eligible to receive the S&A out­ ability, and before an eligible ob­ patient benefit. A member will tains a fit-for-duty slip, is consid­ also be ineligible for this benefit ered to be the same disability. if he is getting outipatient treat­ The maximum of payments in such ment outside the U.S., Puerto Rico, a case is 39 weeks, no matter how distinct the disabilities happen to the Virgin Islands or Canada. be. A waiting period of seven days, (b) A recurrence of a previous starting with the first calendar day disability shall be considered part a member Is declared not fit for of the same disability period even duty, is required for eligibility though the eligible obtained a fitto receive the benefit. If the dis­ for-duty certificate or accepted ability continues after the seven- employment. day waiting period, payments can (c) Disability for unrelated begin, retroactive to the fifth day from the initial date he was de­ causes shall be considered a new period of disability provided the clared not fit for duty. eligible has been pronounced fitFiling Requirement. Claims for for-duty from his original disabil­ the S&A benefit must be filed ity or has accepted employment. within 60 days after discharge (d) An eligible cannot accept from a hospital or the beginning of the disability period, if no hos­ employment and be disabled pitalization is required. Each simultaneously. Any applicant for claimant is required to submit S&A benefits who accepts employ­ medical proof ..of .his dis?\bility. ment at any time during the period This proof w^l be evaluated by !f6f whidh'he claiitis s&ch benefits; the trustees of the welfare plan shall be declared fit for duty with.^ to determine eligibility for pay­ respect to that disability and shall ments. The trustees can also re­ be disqualified from receiving ben­ quire further examination of the efits for the cause of alleged dis­ applicant by a doctor selected by ability. Any claimant who received the welfare plan, or they may ask benefit payments after accepting for a more complete certification. employment shall be required to reimburse the fund for all such Once an Initial claim has been benefits received after the first day filed for a disability, it will not of employment during such period be nacessary to file additional of alleged disability. claims for weekly payments for (e) Hospital Expense Benefit— the same disability period. It An eligible who is not entitled to should be noted that a member is treatment of a USPHS facility and required to submit medical proof who is hospitalized during any of his continued disability, stating period for which he is entitled to its cause, before any subsequent receive the S&A benefit, shall also payments can be made. be entitled to receive hospital benefits according to the Schedule Duration of Benefit. An eligible for Dependents' Benefits. is entitled to a maximum of 39 (f) In-Hospital Benefit—If an weeks of payments during any one period of disability, including in- eligible is entitled to receive the hospital and out-patient time. in-hospital benefit, the Plan shall Where there has been a waiting pay only an amount which together period, the 39-week period starts with such payments shall equal $8 when benefits are payable. How­ per day. If an eligible is still con­ ever, an eligible shall not receive fined after having received the total benefit payments in excess of S&A benefit payment for a maxi­ 39 weeks in any 12-month period,^ mum of 39 weeks, he is still en­ and the 12-month period for the titled to receive the in-hospital determination of the 39-week max­ benefit. imum payment begins on the first (g) Failure of. an eligible em­ day an employee is eligible for ployee to place himself under payment. treatment promptly or to comply If an eligible is receiving or Is with medical care or instructions entitled to receive maintenance will be deemed,cause for disquali-.^ and cure payments, the Plan shall fication from benefits. pay only an amount which to­ gether with such payments shall equal $56 per week, but the eli­ gible shall be entitled if such pay­ ments terminate before a period TO of 39 weeks to receive a total of $56 per week up to a maximum of 39 weeks. However, if he may be S entitled to receive maintenance IAM I �Kkim Pag* Bbrca, SEAFARMK9 -109 "Clean-Up Squad" ¥ CHANGES IN EEGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS — An ll-man commission appointed by the late President Kennedy recently pre­ sented its report to President Johnson, with 21 recommendations to reduce the legal booby traps and barbed wire which is estimated to have kept millions of Americans from voting in the last election. Headed by Richard Scammon, director of the U.S. Census Bureau, the commission was unanimous in ail 21 points except one which dealt with literacy tests. Two men dissented from the general opinion of the committee on this point. A few of the recommendations are: state residence requirements for voting eligibility should not exceed six months: local requirements should not exceed 30 days; new state residents should be allowed to vote for President; and literacy tests should not be a requirement to vote. ^ NEW RIGHT WING GROUP EYES 1966—A new right wing politi­ cal organization, the American Conservative Union (ACU) will be fac­ ing its first political action when the House of Representatives seats come up for grabs again in 1966. The group will be swinging its sup­ port behind ultraconservative Republicans and Dixieerats. The ACU apparently aims to fill the vacuum existing in right wing leadership by providing continuing direction to persons who supported Barry Goldwater in the 1964 Presidential election. 4" S* t RULES REFORM IN 89th CONGRESS—As the 89th Confess swung into action January 4, several new rules for the House were adopted to strengthen the ~hand of the new Administration. The first political moves were to elect Senator Russell B. Long of Louisiana as Senate Democratic Whip, and Gerald R. Ford of Michigan as floor leader in the House. The new House rules adopted give much power to the Speaker of the House against the Rules Committee which is domi­ nated by 81-year, old conservative Representative Howard Smith. The new rules allow the Speaker to call to the floor for action any bill that has been bottled up by the Rules Committee for more than 21 days. Other changes in the House give the majority Democratic party a mu<^ larger ratio in many important committees including the House Ways and Means Committee and the Appropriations Committee. A The NLRB has voted to author­ ize union representation elections In less than storewlde units at three deparhnent stores in Hie New York City area. In a 3-1 split decision, the NLRB ruled that while storewide units in the retail field are "basically appropriate,'' the circumstances justified a split unit in this case. At the same time, the board directed elections to be held at the stores within 30 days. Under the decision, the depart­ ment store employees will vote on whether to affiliate with District 65 of the Retail, Wholesale, and Department Store Union. Si 4" Theodore Brandt has been elected a vice president of the Lithographers and Photoengravers In the first referendum since the merger of two unions into one last Septemlber. Brandt, former president of the Lithographers local in Los Angeles will succeed ALA vice president James H. O'Niel, who resigned last July. 4i 44The Metropolitan Life Insurance Go, has been found guilty by the NLRB of refusing to bargain with the Life Insurance Workers at its Joliet, 111., office and has been ordered to engage in contract negotiations with the union. It was the 16th such order by the board against insurance firms in the last three years. All the companies have refused all board orders to bargain in cases where the union has won elections in units smaller than statewide. homeless by the disaster In Northem California. More than 1,600 local unions and councils have been appealed to for help. The Red Cross estimated a need for about $5 million to get the fiood victims back to their former standard of living. More than 5,900 families suffered loss, with 1,025 homes totally destroyed, 1,211 suf­ fering major damage, - and 2,548 receiving minor damage. The Caiifornia AFL-CIO is seeking to top $200,000 in the current drive. 4 4 4. Stanley Ruttenberg, formerly AFL-CIO director of research, has been appointed administrator of the Manpower Administration in the Labor Department. He suc­ ceeds John C. Donovan, who re­ signed to become professor of government at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Ruttenberg, who is widely known in union circles, left his AFL-CIO post in 1962 to become special assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. He had held the position in the AFL-CIO since its merger. 4 4 4 Two fellowships for graduate work and two undergraduate schol­ arships are being offered at Ohio State University in honor of the late William Green, president of the former AFL from 1924 until his death in 1962. The fellowships, worth $2,250 each, are for grad­ uate study with concentration in the field of labor and industrial relations. The undergraduate scholarships, worth $500 each, .are t 4" '3^ open to juniors and seniors major­ The California AFL-CIO has ing in economics, history, political created a Flood Relief FUnd to science, mathematics, science, sor provide aid to the thousands .left ciology or business adniinistratipn^ The fact that vast pockets of poverty still exist in the United States, which is pro­ claimed all over the world as the richest nation on earth, is a fact with which the 89th Congress will have to deal actively. Labor has pledged itself to give all-out sup­ port to the President's war on poverty. At the recent AFL-CIO legislative conference in Washington, Federation President George Meany termed the election of President Johnson and a liberal Congress a "mandate" for "the kind of America where there is no poverty, unemployment." To achieve this end. Congress must realize this mandate from the people and act on legislation designed to improve the lot of those Americans who, in the midst of plenty, still live as slaves to poverty and its hand­ maiden, ignorance. The problem of poverty has been with us for a long time. Past Congresses have chosen largely to ignore these underprivileged Americans and little was done to help them to help themselves. But this is a new Con­ gress, with a new, more liberal makeup. There is much which can be done. With the solid support of American labor and the Ad­ ministration, the 89th Congress can carve out a record for itself unequaled by any past Congress. It can make for itself a record as a body which did more for the United States and its people than any Congress in the pastrMany of the paths which must be followed to eliminate poverty in the U.S. have been laid out. The antipoverty programs already underway should be continued and ex­ panded. They are aimed at helping those Americans who need help most, the portion of the American people who have been left b.ehind by t^e lady^nce, pf technology, , Aid to education is one of the most promis­ ing methods of breaking the vicious cycle of poverty-ignorance-poverty which afflicts many Americans. Providing the children of the poor with a good education will help them to break out of the "poverty psychol­ ogy" which can breed only increased poverty and dependence for each succeeding genera­ tion. Regional planning and development is another program which deserves active sup­ port from Congress if victory is to be achieved in the war on poverty. Such plan­ ning and development is important not only in the much-publicized depressed areas such as Appalachia, but in our largest and most prosperous cities as well—^where poverty often lurks unnoticed, masked by the seem­ ing prosperity and well-being of the vast majority of citizens. Part II of the war on poverty should include such areas as the Upper Great Lakes region, the Ozarks and Upper New England. Job retraining for American workers dis­ placed by automatibn, a Domestic Peace Corps to work with American youth soon to enter the race for jobs, civil rights legisla­ tion, and many more measures all deserve support from the new Congress. The Ameri­ can labor movement has pledged itself to do everything within its power to achieve these worthwhile ends. The Administratioe has pledged itself to support these goals. It only remains for Congress to act quickly and wisely—and poverty in the United States can become a thing of the past. While a single American citizen remains a slave to poverty and ignorance, no American—^no matter how well-educated, no matter how prosperouscan cqnsideriljiinself truly free. ^ �Pag* Twelvs SEAFARERS Janoarr SS. LOG Taxi Drivers' Christmas By Frank Drozok, West Coast Representative pUESTIONi What, In your opinion, it th# boit rating aboard ship? Why? SIUNA Oil Workers Still On Strike Quick action and fine seamanship by the crew of the SIU Pacific District-manned Korean Bear (Pacific Far East) helped save the life of a 16 year old high school student who is only the second person on record to survive a fall from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. According to newspaper reports, the boy hit the water directly in the path of the Korean Bear. Police, who reached the bridge railing Just as the boy bobbed to the surface in the Bear's path, waved flares to attract the attention of the ship. The alert crew spotted him and was able to alter course at the last minute, missing the boy by 10 feet. The SIUNA-affiliated International Union of Oil Workers here are stiil urging SIU and all other trade union members not to buy Standard Oil of California products and turn in their gasoline credit cards. The "Don't Buy Chevron" campaign was called when Standard of California refused employees the 4.5 percent benefit package won by the unions from majop firms in the 1964 round of contract negotiations and undertook other anti-union activities. The company is beginning to feel the pinch as the boycott gains momentum and all members are urged to lend their full support. San Francisco Shipping has been more than fair during the past several weeks, with the new Calmar crewing up4on the West Coast and the Young on the beach here for a little vaca­ Fascinated children of SIU Chicago taxi drivers line up to America coming out of lay-up after tion and rest. F. J.White was happy receive presents from Santa at the annual Christmas party 10 days. In addition, we sent 10 about finding an AB slot aboard the sponsored by the SIUNA-affiliated Democratic Union Or­ men to Honolulu to join the Na­ Young America. With White aboard ganizing Committee taxi Local 777. Over 2,500 Union mem­ tional Defender there. Ships signed the Young America was Steve bers and their children turned out for the affair, making it on this period were the Choctaw, Thayer. The high cost of living on Overseas Rose, and Wild Ranger. the beach helped J. Kearnes de­ the biggest and best Christmas party Local 777 ever held. The Steel Recorder, Marymar, San cide that it's time to ship out again Juan, Alamar, Geneva, San Fran­ in the first messman spot to come cisco, Steel Architect, Steel Rover, on the board. After enjoying a lit­ Seamar, Monticello, Mountpeller tle shore rest, oldtimer W. Cam­ Victory, Yaka, Losmar, Alcoa Mas­ eron decided he would take the ter and Robin Hood were all serv­ National Defender in Honolulu iced in transit. Payoffs this period and make a trip on her as cook & were limited to the Orion Hunter baker. in Honolulu, the Iberville and the Wilmington SAN DIEGO—Some 500 members of the AFL-CIO San Marine. Shipping activity was very good Diego Cab Driver's Union have voted unanimously to affiliate The coming period should see here for the last period, but the with the SIUNA-affiliated Transportation Services & Allied the Alcoa Marketer, Elizabethport, outlook for the coming period is Workers. The Yellow Cab> Fairport, Morning Light, Ames slow, with only four ships expect­ drivers initially approved the Diego Union is to be known as Victory, Natalie, Steel Artisan, ed in transit. In the last few weeks move at their regular Novem­ TS&AW Local 101. and Antinous in transit here. Other we had the Seamar, San Francis­ ber membership meeting. The San The Yellow Cab drivers were vessels we may be seeing in tran­ co, Overseas Joyce, Losmar, Mon­ orginally members of a California sit are the Steel Traveler, Steel ticello Victory, Mayflower, LongTeamsters local. In April, 1962, Maker, Steel Navigator, and pos­ view Victory and the Young Amer­ they bolted the Hoffa outfit and sibly the Longview Victory, Ocean ica in transit. The Yaka came in formed a directly chartered AFLfrom the Far East to pay off and Dinny, and the Marine. CIO Local Union. Once back in Oldtimer William Saltarez, who sign on here. the mainstream of the American All the guys on the beach Kere has been sailing as messman on the labor movement, they won a con­ (Continued on page 13) Far East runs for a while now, is. tract with the Yellow Cab Com­ pany—^the major cab company in San Diego. The decision to seek affiliation WASHINGTON — The Uru­ guayan government has decided to with the TS&AW District of the ask its Parliament to adopt a law SIU, according to a Local 101 "to promote and support the representative, was based on "the merchant marine fleet without need to grow; the need of the ex­ reliance on measures which dis­ tra support; and the access to the criminate against U.S.-flag vessels." organizing niachlnery that is In return, the U.S. has decided offered within the confines of a to hold off levying cash Mnalties strong, dynamic international against Uruguayan ships touching union." He said he and his Executive at U.S. ports. Board questioned a number of The penalties against Uruguayan vessels was ordered by the U.S. in AFL-CIO international Unions retaliation for a 10 percent tax about affiliation. "The TS&AW Uruguay has been levying on District of the SIU is the only certain of its imports, with its own Union which met the Local's needs flag ships exempt from the tax. on all counts," he said. The burden of the Uruguayan tax With over 500 members in their fell on American-flag vessels. In ranks, TS&AW Local 101 is the addition, imports brought into first (California local of the Uruguay on its own vessels would TS&AW District. The "100 series" be exempt from a 6 percent foreign of charter numbers has b^en set exchange transfer tax. aside for California drivers. After about 18 months of trying Allensworth was in Chicago last to persuade Uruguay to drop the November to study operations of discriminatory levies without any the TS&AW District, DUOC Local success, the Federal Maritime 777, and UIW Local 300. Commission decided to offset the Uruguayan charges against U.S. ships by making equal charges in U.S. ports against Uruguayan ships. Members of the SIUNA-affiliated international Union of Similar retaliatory action has Petroleum Workers hit the bricks in Oakland, Calif, to launch been taken by the U.S. before—in a "don't buy" campaign against filling stations and other 1959—forcing Ecuador to back off facilities owned by Standard Oil of California which markets on its intention to impose similar "Chevron" products. Petroleum Workers started picketing discriminatory levies agains.t U.S. after the company's refusal to grant employees the 4.5 per­ vessels. cent benefit package that other major companies agreed to The FMC did not say how the in 1964. Other unions participating in the "don't buy'^ drive Uruguayans would carry out their in other Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain states are the promised action, saying merely Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers and Steamfitters Local that they would keep the Uru­ guayan, situation "under review." 159. Coast Cabbies Join SIUNA Taxi Union SIUNA Oil Workers Hit Bricks Uruguay Bows, Kills Anti-U.S. Shipping Taxes Charles 'Johnstons I think the deck maintenance Job is the best one. He does not have to stand any night watch; most of his work is done during the day. On top of that, he is pretty much his own boss. Al­ though he does have quite a bit of responsibility and he has to be dependable. The pay is good, too. Joe Watson: The bosun has the best job. He is a responsible per­ son, and as a rule is a very good sailor. It is not easy to be­ come a bosun either. It takes six years to get that rating. Also the bosun has been in the Un­ ion long enough to know most of the contrast agreements with the companies, and knows the Union inside out. He is important. 4i 4" !• Hazel Johnson: I think that the best rating is either chief steward or bosun. They have it easier than the rest of the ratings. They are their own boss most of the time; they don't have to stand the night watches; and they have much more free time than most of the crew. They work hard, but they still have the best job aboard ship. 4 4 Nicholas Yrettos: The electrician has the best job aboard ship. He does most of his work during the day, except in an emergency or some special duty. Also, there is no steady rou­ tine that must be done every day. There is al­ ways some vari­ ety in his work, so it doesn't get monotonous. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Gordon Marbury: For a year inyear out job, the bosun has the best rating. The pay is good for a bosun, and he can get plenty of overtime. Besides that, he has plen­ ty of leisure time. Most important is the fact that the bosun's job very seldom set­ tles into a dull routine. There is always a variety of jobs to di. Bob Preston: I think any of the engine ratings are good ratings. For one thing, they are all step­ ping stones to a career as a ships engineer — which is my pri­ mary interest in sailing. Also, there is a great deal of satisfac­ tion in helping to keep so niuch machinery oper­ ating properly. i M �Jaai^ a, IIN'^4; ; SBAPARERS^ LOG By Fred Stewart & Ed Mooney Headquarters Representatives If " f e? :Ss (<l II [v Ht F) 50th Anniversary Of Seamen's Act This year marks the 50th anniversary of the signing of tUe Seamen's Act—long hailed as the dawn of a new day for seamen everywhere. It was on March 4, 1915, that President Wilson put his signature to the bill which has been passed by Houses of Congress after a long and bitter fight led by Senator Robert La Follette, Sr., of Wisconsin, and Andrew Furuseth, a legendary leader of American seamen. Officially the Seamen's Act is entitled "An Act to promote the wel­ fare of American seamen in the merchant marine of the United States: to abolish arrest and Imprisonment as penalty for desertion and to secure the abrogation of treaty provisions and relation thereto: and to promote safety at sea." As the title shows it was a comprehensive bill that dealt a final blow to the legal shackles on American seamen that caused them to be treated as indentured servants. Desertion Penalty Out The biggest item in the Seamen's Act was the final abolition of the desertion penalty. Before this,-f —— foreign seamen in American ports life-boats, and required that 65 and American seamen in ports out­ percent-of the deckhands be able side the U.S. could still be ar­ seamen. Other provisions on man­ rested and imprisoned for quitting ning called for 75 percent of the their ship. This gave the master a crew to be able to understand an tremendous hold on his men no order of the officers. matter how badly they were The Seamen's Act by itself did treated. Under the new law, sea­ not assure seamen of good condi­ men were in effect given the right that all other citizens held—that tions. It was the advent of strong of quitting a job when they didn't seamens unions like the SIU which assured them of the conditions like it. under which they work today. Per­ Other Provisions haps now that we have these But the 1915 Seamen's Act went rights it would be a good time to beyond that basic clause. It made recall the slogan of American sea­ general provision for shipboard men, as expressed by Andrew conditions of safety and comfort. Furuseth in 1917: "Seamen: Know your duties. Among other things, it called for Know your responsibilities. an increase in minimum foc'sle Know your rights. No calling space of from 72 to 120 cubic feet demands a higher mental and for each man—an area about five physical standard in the men feet square by five feet high. It employed. No calling has given also set up certain mindmum stor­ any better service to civiliza­ ing standards and called for pun­ tion and to humanity. No call­ ishment of officers guilty of beat­ ing has any right to higher ing the crew, holding the owner consideration or greater hon­ liable for letting an officer under charges to escape. or, none has given or is giving more important service in Another provision of the bill hit peace or war. In the days of the criihips by outlawing deduc­ chivalry the men of the sea tions from wages, for them. A nine had a right to and did partici­ hour day in port was also provided. pate in highest honors. In the interest of safety, spurred by the Titanic disaster, the Act "Sea power has at all times called for sufficient number of (Continued on page 15) U.S. Reliabilitation Benefits 1.5 Million Disabled Workers WASHINGTON—Over 1.5 million people have been re­ habilitated into useful jobs through the U.S. Vocational Re­ habilitation program since it began in 1920, Mary E. Switzer, commissioner of vocational re--*habition, said in an interview States as well, largely because of on Washington Reports to the the discoveries made by foreign People, AFL-CIO public service program. "During the past year, a record 120,000 were rehabiliated," Miss Switzer reported. "However, we still have to cut down the backlog of at least 2.5 million persons. And nearly 300,000 Americans become disabled every year." The program, she explained, "is •traditionally a federal-state opera­ tion . . . which has as its objective the locating of physically and mentally handicapped people . giving, them whatever they need in service, training, adjustment services, social service, and finally, placing them in jobs." The physically handicapped. Miss Switzer said, include the blind, the drthopedically handi­ capped, the paraplegics, the quadraplegics (those who have lost the use of all four limbs), the deaf, victims of mental illness or mental retardation, "any condition of mind or body that is a block to. employment." The program operates overseas through the use of counterpart funds, with not only the people overseas benefiting but the United scientists, she said. "For i n s t a n c e," said Miss Switzer, "in a sophisticated coun­ try like Israel, there are many scientists and much creative talent working out problems in heart disease and polio, and the problem of older workers." Training Pays Off Rehabilitatioi^ not only helps the person individually, "puts him back to work and off the relief rolls," she said, "but it also re­ turns dollars to the Treasury—tax dollars—seven or eight for one, so far as the federal investment is concerned. "Another very important aspect is the man hours of labor that are put into production and that in­ crease the Gross National Product, and the contributions of special skills that these people make, as teachers, engineers, and others who are in short supply." Employers also have been co­ operating, she reported. "They get a sense of satisfac­ tion, feel they are doing their part," she said, "and also, they get very well trained workers." Pare TUrteev Big Biz Price Fix Fines Erased By Gov't Taxmen Crime pays for big business, and Its a crying shame. Case in point: It is a crime to conspire to fix prices. The fact that something is against the law how­ ever, has never stopped some of our biggest companies from doing it if it means bigger profits. Three years ago, 29 • companies, including such ordinarily does so. It Implies that resulting from criminal convic­ giants as General Electric, something is very wrong either tions. Westinghouse, etc., were brought with our laws or our businessmen, All this amounts to a giveaway to court and fined nearly $2 mil­ or both. to end ail giveaways. The Govern­ lion and paid neariy $500 miliion In the original case for violation ment, in effect, is approving pricein damage and criminal suits for of the anti-trust laws three years fixing by allowing industry to robbing the American pubiic by ago, the 29 companies and 44 of deduct the cost of damage suits, fixing prices at artificiaily high their officials paid neariy $2 mil­ when they are caught, while at the levels. lion in fines. Seven corporation same time contending, with the So the companies were convicted officers served jail terms and 23 other side of its mouth, that such of a crime. They vioiated Federal were placed on probation. actions are iiicgai. Law; they robbed the American So illogical and inconsistent is "Shocking Indictment" public; they showed contempt for the whole situation that anti-trust A U.S. District Judge called the experts are up in arms over the the law of the land and its people. case "a shocking indictment" of a ruling and an inquiry into the But did they pay for it? Of course not! The Internal large segment of our economy. ruling is under consideration in Revenue Service ruled that the Attorney General Robert Kennedy two Congressional committees. companies can deduct half of the called the violations "so willful and There will undoubtedly be more amounts they paid out In damage flagrant that even more severe written on this situation in the fu­ and criminal suits from their in­ sentences would have been ap­ ture, and on the actions of the As it tiu-ns out come tax as "ordinary and neces­ propriate." though, since the working taxpay­ Congressional committees looking sary business expenses." In other ers are actually paying the fines, into it. Read ail these stories words, the Governnient is paying carefully and get all the enjoyment haif the fine for big business—some perhaps it is better that the mam­ you can out of them. The whole moth companies got off as lightly $250 million. affair is costing you plenty. as they did. My Crime—Your Fine Who says "the weed of crime In addition to the fines, the com­ And where does the Government panies were hit be the estimated bears bitter fruit?" For some the get the money to pay the fine? $500 million by their customers in weed of crime is green—^iike From the taxpayer of course. So triple-damage suits and settlements money. in effect, the person who was robbed is being forced to pay the fine for the robber. With the extra profits gained by their iilegai price-fixing, the fact that the Government is paying half the fine means that the companies not only are getting off scott-free, WASHINGTON—Vessels in the U.S. Navy fleet are navi­ but are probably making a neat gating with information received from three globe-circling profit on the whole deal. space satellites. The successful demonstration of the satelThe whole proceeding points up lite navigating system has-*-— the fact that several things are special significance for ocean­ 1965 issue of the LCXl. Under this rotten in the state of our business merchant vessels since system a ship would be able to and tax.setup. First of all, the fact going their naviators now will be able accurately learn its position at sea that the victim must pay the fine to receive accurate information on from a satellite, while a shore for the criminal in effect gives the their position at any time no tracking station would also com­ big business lawbreaker a free hand matter what the weather is. pute its location at the same time. to do as he pleases and damn the The revolutionary space naviga­ public interest. tion system got a thorough test Ordinary, Necessary Crime last year when three nuclearSecondly, it is a sad commentary powered naval ships used it on an (Continued from page 12) on the state, of big business when | around-the-world cruise. The a government agency can rule that nuclear task force, which con­ have been congratulating Woodrow fines for breaking the law are sisted of the aircraft carrier Johnson on the arrival of. his new "ordinary and necessary business Enterprise, the cruiser Long son, and they are puffing away expenses" of big business. It Beach and the frigate Bainbridge, happily on the cigars he's been means that it is necessary for big circled the globe without refueling handing out to all and sundry. business to break the law and it or resupply. Woody was thinking of shipping The new navigation system out, but as the time grew closer makes use of tliree small satellites he decided to wait it out—and is whose orbits are equally spaced glad he did! We also want to around the globe. The orbits are wish the best of luck to Warren designed to keep one spot on H. Woodhill, who will be under­ earth "in sight" at least every going surgei-y at the San Fran­ ,SVS!S|S*^^ 90 minutes or sooner. cisco USPHS hospital soon, and A specially-designed computer wish him a speedy recovery. Woodon a ship automatically zeros in hill has been registered on the on a circling satellite, computes beach here for the past few weeks its changing position, and then and was very eager to ship. Oldtypes out its information for use timer Harry "Popeye" Cronin is by the ship's navigator. spending his retirement near here Naval officials are so impressed and drops by the hall frequently by the satellite navigation sys­ to say hello and yak it up with old tem's accuracy that they feel It is shipmates. Cronin sings the praises even better than the "inertial of his SIU pension and says he's navigation system" which is used enjoying his retirement to the hilt. by this country's submarines. The Seattle Navy now plans to .install the During the last period we paid computers which receive the satellite signals on its Polaris off the Anchorage and the Seneca missile submarines where accurate and serviced the Calmar, Longview navigation is of the highest im­ Victory, Portmar, St. Lawrence portance. Plans for the installa­ and the Inger. Shipping looks fair­ tion of the computers are gmng ly good for the next period with ahead, even though their 300- the Fairport, Ames Victory, Robin pound weight poses a considerable Hood and Trustee expected to pay Gabriella Shapiro delicate­ problem for the already over­ off. On the beach and ready to ly hides her face from the ship right now are two oldtimers crowded submarines. Log photographer, as any J. Wilson and R. Carey. Each of the three orbiting young lady would when she satellites has a two-year life. Two is being weighed in public. of them are powered by solar A/6;(T T/Aie Gabriella, who. is the batteries, and the third by nuclear daughter of Seafarer Ber­ I'LL r/SK isotopes. nard Shapiro, posed during A more ambitious space naviga­ her physical examination tion plan, involving 24 satellite^, et'thd New York SlU cliniCi was reported in the January 8, Three Space Satellites Steer U.S. Navy Ships Padfie Coast Camera Shy �snA t A R E KB hoa Pare Fourteen 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 namei Ann Cifarelli, bom December 15, 1964, to the William J. Kaneo, 25, 1964, to the Arthur P. Leehs, 16, 1964, to the Angelo OifareUda, Camden, New Jersey. San Francisco, Calif. San Pablo, Calif. * * * is, ^ ^ ^ 4* 4 4 4 Christopher Wayne Powell, bom Betty Jo Stanley, bora Novem­ October 20, 1964, to the Elohard James Stubbert, born December ber 22, 1964, to the William M. 6, 1964, to the Robert P. Stubberts, M. Powells, Port Allen, La. Stanleys, Savannah, Ga. Worcester, Mass. is, is, is, William Kane, bora December is, is, is, Yuonno Lesh, born November 4 4 4 All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospitali USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Arthur S. Andarion David Ketchum Curtis Andarson Elmer Koch Edward H. Bayna Wliliam E. Lane Wallace J. Beeman Charles LoveU Georce -Bryan Harvey Newcomh Anthony Carrano Gerado Rivera Valentino Ferro John J. SchaUer Freldof FondUa Claude M. Sturgla George Graham Samuel Pate Arthur F. Heirs Paige C. Poomey CecU F. Kane James Norman Peavy, born July 11, 1964, to the Charles E. Peavys, The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported Simmesport, La. USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment Edwin Glaze Calvin J. Wilson 4 4 4 Robert L. Mays Charles W. White of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary Mlkade Olenchlk Paul L. Whitlow card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates) t Rebecca Newcomb, bom Sep­ USPHS HOSPITAL tember 8, 1964, to the Ralph H. JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA Orville Robert Holmes, 38: Benjamin Bailey, 84: Brother Newcombs, New Orleans, La. H. L. Grlzzard O. M. Ames Brother Holmes died Dec. 23, 1963, Bailey died July 27, 1964 in WilJ. C. Laseter H. S. Ness R. B. Pardo in New Orleans, liamsburgh Gen­ 4 4 4 La., of injuries eral Hospital, USPHS HOSPITAL Juan Gonzales, born November CHICAGO. ILLINOIS received in an ac­ Brooklyn. N. Y, Charles Hankal cident. A mem­ of natural causes. 10, 1964, to the Gilbert R. Gon­ zales, Galveston, Texas. USPHS HOSPITAL ber of the engine An SIU oldtimer, FRANKFORT. MICHIGAN department, h e he first joined in Glen Gilmore 4 4 4 joined the Union 1938 and sailed USPHS HOSPITAL Thomas Trehern, born Septem­ in New York in the steward SEATTLE. WASHINGTON PI in 1949. No benedepartment until ber 15, 1964, to the Thomas A. E. A. Alnsworth George King H. Hill lobert E. Broome U floiary was desig­ his retirement in Treherns, New Orleans, La. H. Keene nated. Place 1953.' He is sur­ USPHS HOSPITAL 4 4 4 burial is not known. vived by hfis wife, Mrs. Eva Bailey. NORFOLK. VIRGINIA is, is, is, Sovandus Sessoms He was buried in the Evergreen Dominick John Parris, bora Ernest C. BeU William H. Mason Harvey B. Tower December 3, 1964, to the John George Charles Henry, 66: Brother Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y. Moore George R. Williams Parris, Philadelphia, Pa. Henry died July 17, 1964, in the USPHS HOSPITAL t 4* 4" NEW ORLEANS. LOUISIANA Staten Island 4 4 4 George Everett Burleson, 50: Howard A. Berglne Harold L. Justice USPHS Hospital Joseph G. Carr Ivy P. Keller Pneumonia proved fatal to Brother of natural causes. Wayne Luman, born October 29, John R. Chatraw Robert L. Kinchen Burleson in the E. Cumberland Luke LeBlanc A member of the 1964, to the John R. Lumans, R. C. E. Cummings Roberto Lopez New Orleans SIU since he Alpena, Mich. Celestine De Souza Lawyer McGrew USPHS Hospital Antonio DlNlcola William Maas joined in 1939, Marshall Foster Phillip C. Mendoia on Aug. 5, 1964. 4 4 4 he sailed in the James I. Gouldman Leon A. RainvlUe A memiber of the L. Gulce Luke B. Seariana steward depart­ Jeffery Cox, born November 4, Stanlon Cesar A. Guerra John A. Schultz Union since he ment. He is sur1964, to the Jimmy D. Coxs, DeLoss C. Harman Hamilton Seburn first joined in Otis J. Harden Chester J. Seymour V i v e d by his Amite, La. 1956, he sailed in friend, Ernest Aubusson. Burial was in the the deck depart­ 4 4 4 Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, ment. No bene­ Daniel Ellis, born November 1, ficiary was desig­ N.Y. 1964, to the Victor W. Ellis. Sault nated. He was buried in the Myrtle 4" 4" 4" Ste. Marie, Mich. Grove Cemetery, Escambia, Fla. Ward Valentine Hoskins, 66: George E. Willey 4 4 4 Heart failure was the cause of Your brother Azel A. Wllley 4" 4" 4 death of Brother William Arthur Hunt, 49: Broth­ Lisa Marie Kroll, bora October would like you to get in touch Hoskins on July er Hunt succumbed August 4, 1964, 16, 1964, to the Stanley Krolls, with him Immediately -at Charity Hospital, Ward 1113, New Orleans, 6, 1964, in the in Honolulu, Ha­ Luzerne, Pa. < hospital in Ash­ La. waii, of natural tabula, Ohio. A 4 4 4 4 4 4 causes. A mem­ member of the ber of the Union David Douglas Jane Marie Walls, born Decem­ Great Lakes Tug since 1943, he ber 8, 1964, to the Kirt Walls, New Robert L. Houck would like you and Dredge Re­ sailed in the Orleans, La. to contact him at the Florida State gion since he deck department. Hospital, Chatahoochee, Fla. joined in 1961, He is survived by 4 4 4 4 4 4 he sailed as oiler his mother, Mrs. Robert J. (Red) Morgan Corey McGinn, born December or fireman. Surviving is his wife, Jeanette Hunt. You are asked to get in touch Mrs. Ruth Hoskins. Burial was in Burial was in the 8, 1964, to the Robert J. McGinns, with your mother, Mrs. Beatrice the Chestnut Grove Cemetery, Hawaiian Memorial Park Ceme­ Onaway, Mich. M. Suthard, at 10841-61st Avenue Ashtabula, Ohio. tery, Honolulu, Hawaii. 4 4 4 North, Largo, Fla. 33542. 4" 4" Alvah F. Burris 60: Brother Burris succumbed to a respiratory ill­ ness in the Vet­ erans Hospital, Salsbury, N. C., on Aug. 22, 1964. A member of the SIU since 1945, he sailed in the engine depart­ ment until his re­ tirement in 1964. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Pearl Burris. Burial was in the Carolina Memorial Park Cemetery, Concord, N.C. 4* 4' . 4" 4" 4« 4 Jesus Fernandez, 76: Brother Fernandez died Aug. 6, 1964, in the Prospect Heights Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., of natural causes. A member of the deck department, he has been sail­ ing SIU since 1943. He is sur­ vived by his wife, Julia Fernandez. Burial was in the Greenwood Cem­ etery, Brooklyn, N.Y. 4 4 4 Jose Gonzales, 45; Brother Gon­ Charles Gordon Snodgrass, 59: zales died Aug. 17, 1964, while Heart disease proved fatal to aboard the LaBrother Snod­ Salle, of heart grass while he failure. A mem­ was aboard the ber of the SIU Pilot Rock, on since he joined Aug. 23, 1964. A in 1961, he sailed member of the in the deck de­ steward depart­ partment. He is ment, he joined survived by a the Union in brother and a 1947. He is sur­ wife. He was vived by his wife, buried in the Greenwood Oeme- Mrs. Trudy Ann Snodgrass. His ,place of burial is not known. teiy, Brooklyn, N.Y. James Martin Ketzner, born September 12, 1964, to the Francis X. Ketzners, Flushing, N.Y. 4 4 Simpson Pedro VUlahol Smallwood Carlie W. White W. Sommer 8. L. Whlttlngton Van Notter USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Emmett Avery Frank Maxet Glrdon BeU AI KarezewsU Wllllard Blumen Ivan Lelda Jose Castro David Meehan Leonard Cyprowskl Benito Mendez Isaac Miller Sal DlBeUa S. Mylonopoulos Robert DiUon Al Nelson John Drews Stanley Ostrom David Durward Max Fingerhut Winford Powell Stanley Friedman Winston Renny Angel Reyes Kenneth Galney James Shlber Albino Gomes Julius Swykert Julio Gonzalez Sol Vecchione Howard Hailey Frank Vfllacorte Burt Hanback E. L. Jennings George Warren Richard Waters Eric Johnson Carl Wayne Herbert Justice Thomas Love USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Gavan A. Gunter T. F. AUen. Jr. Jacob N, Linscomb H. L. CampbeU Bossle B. Fuller Frederlk Duveneel Israel Farhl Alfred PhUllps Ludolf Galles John Rawza N. J. Gremilion D. A. Rundblad Hugh C. Grove M. J. Stevens W. P. Gulllott Frank Tostl USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS Benjamin Delbler Abraham Mander Abe Gordon Max Olson Thomas Lehay Charles Young SAILORS SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen A. Gutierrez William Kenny Edwin Harriman PINE CREST HAVEN NURSING HOME COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Frank Martin U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHIGTON, D.C. WlUiam Thomson EAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL JACKSON. LOUISIANA Donald Sander touch with you and would like you to contact him, in care of George Brugen, 77 West 68th Street, Apt. 2S, New Jfprk,, Newjfox,]^. _ _ . IF WARS RECEIVING MORS THAN ONE COPY OF THE SAME UOG.. 4 Robert Marrero Your father is anxious to get in Aft-C/O Newscast (Continued from page 4) Morgan noted In his January 1 broadcast that what mattered most when the program began and what remains today the top priority is freedom of expression. "Even in an open society like ours," he told his audience, "free­ dom of speech can be and is victimized by a tyranny of fear, a conspiracy of greed, a plague of hypocrisy or simply by milktoasted meekness . . . "Something is added to the stature of the network to whose news saff I belong and to the leadership of the AFL-(jlO, whose sponsorship I proudly acknowl­ edge, by the veiy fact of their respective tolerance of public and sometimes loud criticism from this corner." AFL-CIO President George W. R. B. R. Daniel H. F. Meany described the decade of sponsorship as a happy association for organized labor and a reward­ ing one for the cause of progress in America. "We are proud to sponsor your broadcasts," he stated, "even when we disagree with you, for we strongly believe that through your nightly commentaries we are making a contribution to the general welfare, and that, after all, is the whole purpose of the labor movement." Among the awards received by Morgan have been the coveted Peabody Award for" the outstand­ ing radio news program, and twice a sinjilar honor from the National Association for Better Radio & TV. Other honors have been the Sidney Hillman Award, the DuPont Award and the Headliner Award. CUP ALL MAIL. -JgeiS. F/a3M ip/oes f —ANt>F3ETURN ' LABElSSOWe OVJADJOi �1 jraMaqr^tS.'iMi SEAFARERS LOG 'Hank' Mourned, Bartender At N.Y. Port O'Cali if SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Llndsey Willlarai AI Tanner Robert Hatthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey. Asent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 177 State St. Ed Riley. Agent ..... Richmond 2-0140 DETROn 10225 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 2606 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 Neira. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens. Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4tb Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 115 3rd St. Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent .. 022-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. . nhn Fay. Acting Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 350 Freemont St. Paul Gonsorchik. Agent . . DOuglas 2-4401 ^•"rank Drozak. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE PR .. 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 A'/, Delta Adds Two Carribean Ports Of Call NEW ORLEANS—Two new Caribbean ports-of-call have been added to the 1985 sailing schedules of SlU-contracted Delta Line's three passenger~cargo vessels. The Del Sud, Del Mar and Del Norte, which regularly sail between Gulf ports and the East Coast of South Ainerica will now stop at San Juan, Puerto Rico and La Guaira, Venezuela. The new sailing schedule lists 22 stops at each port during 1965. Shipboard (Continued from page 13) meant World power. Control over the sea has at all times brought independence and wealth. Sea power was always in the seamen. The vessels (the tools used) have been al­ tered and improved upon as experience and knowledge in­ creased. But the sea has rer mained unchanged through ali the ages. So also the seamen. The qualities of mind and body that were needed in the seamen of the earliest times are yet needed and there can be no real seamen where those qualities are not . . Atlantic (Continued from page 4) Christmas and New Years celebra­ tions here as he was holding down his solt on the Clairborne. He says he'll be here when Three Kings Day comes around though, and plans to spend some time with his family. Felix Aponte, who hails from Ponce, P.R., dropped by the hall recently to wish his friends "felicidades." He was bosun on the Florida State. Another Seafarer aboard the Florida State was Frank Mateo, an all around engine room man. "Abe" Aragones is presently tak­ ing a rest from his duties as chief steward aboard the Puerto Rico. Also around the haU are "Paco" Solis, Alfonso Rivera, Bob Lasso, Phil Rubish, and Harold MoVay. Keith Terpe. Hq. Rep Phone 723-8594 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Ted Babkowskl. Agent MAin 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff Giiiette. Agent 229-2788 WILMINGTON. CaUf 505 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne. Agent TErminal 4-2528 Great Lakes SECRETARY-TREASURER Fred J. Famen ASSISTANT 'SECKETARY-TREASimER Roy Boudreau ALPENA 127 River St. EL. 4-3616 BUFFALO. NY 735 Washington TL 3-9259 CHICAGO 9383 Ewlng Ave. So. Chicago, ni. SAginaw 1-0733 CLEVELAND 1420 West 25th St. MAin 1-5450 DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. RAndolph 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich.^ ........415 Main St. Mall Address: P.O. Box 287 ELgin 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 Finnerty BALTIMORE ....1216 E. Baltimore St. .EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St .Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUAR'PERS 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE, Jax ELgin 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St FRapklln 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEIANS 630 Jackson Ave. Tel 529-7546 NORFOLK 115 Third St. Tel. 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th St DEwey 6-3838 TAMPA S12 Harrison St. Tel. 229-2788 GREAT LAKES TUG & DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dredqe Workers Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Harold F. Yon BUFFALO 94 Henrietta Ave. Arthur MiUer, Agent TR 5-1536 CHICAGO 2300 N. KimbaU Trygve Varden. Agent ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St. Tom Gerrity, Agent 621-5450 DETROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. Lincoln Park, Mich. Ernest Demerse, Agent DU 2-7694 DULUTH 312 W. Second St. Norman Jolicoeur, Agent RAndolph 7-6222 SAULT STE. MARIE Address maU to Brimiey, Mich. Wayne Weston. Agent.. BRimiey 14-R 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St. CH 2-7751 Tug Firemen, Linemen, Oilers 8 Watchmen's Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tom Burns ASHTABULA, 0 1644 W. Third St. John Mero. Agent WOodman 4-8532 BUFFALO 18 Portland St. Tom Burns. Agent TA .3-7095 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing, S. Chicago Robert Affleck. Agent EBsex 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. AVenuo 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 .... MAin 6-4573 MILWAUKEE ... 2722 A. So. Shore Dr. Joseph Miller, Agent ..SHerman 4-6645 SAULT STE. MARIE ....1086 Maple St. Wra. J. Lackey. Agent ..MEUrose 2-8847 Rivers Section ST. LOUIS. MO 805 Del Mar L. J. Coivis. 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. McGinty ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS E. B. Pulver R. H. Avery BALTIMORE....1216 E. Baltimore St EAstern 7-4900 NORFOLK 115 Third St. 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4 th St. DEwey 6-3818 United Industrial Workers BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 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 ELgin 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 115 Third St. Phone 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA ......... 2604 S. 4th St. DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA •....••..••.•» a *312 Harrison St. Phone 229-2788 Seafarers who are regular customers of the New York Port O'Call were saddened re­ cently by the death of Henry "Hank" Maksymowics, 51, in the Veterans Hospital at Fort - Hamilton on Jan 6, 1965, after a two and a half month Illness. Born Oct. 16, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York, "Hank" lived in New York most of his life. He first appeared behind the Port O'Call bar eight years ago. Before coming to work for the SIU, he served 14 years in the Navy, A great friend of almost every Sea­ farer who entered the New York Port O'Call, his death has saddened many Union brothers in the SIU. During his stay in the hospital, he re­ ceived many cards and letters from friends in ali ports of the world. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and two children, John, 17, and Virginia, 12. He was given full military honors at his burial in the Pineiawn National Cemetery, Long Island, New York. SlU-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 Febrnary 8 Detroit February 12 Philadelphia ....February 9 Houston February 15 Baltimore February 10 New Orleans ...February 16 Mobile February 17 if West Coast SlU-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. Ail 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 Fehruairy IS February 24 January 22 March 22 March 24 February 26 4 $ where meetings are heia at 2 PM. The next meetings will be: Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Feb. 1-2 PM Alpena, BuSalo, Chicago, Regular membership meetings February 1—7 PM on the Great l.akes are held on the first and third Mondays of 4« 4- t each month in ail ports at 7 PM local time, except at Detroit, SIU inland Boatmen's Union Know Your Rights Regular membership meetings for IBU members are scheduled each month in various ports. The next meetings will be: PhUadelphia ...Feb. 9—5 PM BaUimore (licensed and nn(Licensed Feb. 10—5 PM Honston Feb. 15—5 PM Norfolk Feb. 11—7 PM N'Orleans . Feb, 16—5 PM Mobile . Feb. 17—5 PM FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the mumbership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are avtiilable at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. AU trust funds of the SIU AtlanUc. Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisi.ons of various trust fund agreements. Ali these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management RAILWAY MARINE REGION representatives and their alternates. AU expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. AU Regular membership meetings trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various for Railway Marine Region-IBU trust funds. members are scheduled each SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to month in the various ports at 10 know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avail­ AM and 8 PM., The next meetings able in aU Union hails. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union will be: and the shipOwnfers. notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified maU. Jersey City Feb. 15 return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Philadelphia Feb. 16 Earl Shepard. Chairman. Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1930. New York 4. N.Y. BaUimore Feb. 17 Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at aU times, •Norfolk Feb. 18 cither by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. GREAT LAKES TUG AND DREDGE CONTRACTS. Copies of aU SIU contracts are available in aU SIU halls. REGION These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and Regular membership meet­ Uve aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as weU as your obUgations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and In the proper manner. If. ings for Great Lakes Tug and at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, Dredge Region IBU memters are falls to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SiU port agent. scheduled each month in the vari­ EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally ous ports at 7:30 PM. The next refrained from publishing any article serving the poUtical purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub­ meetings will i/e: lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the Detroit Feb. 15 September. 1960. meetings in ail constitutional ports. The responsibility for Milwaukee Feb. 15 LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Chicago Feb. 16 Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among Its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. Buffalo .Feb. 16 PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any tSault Ste. Marie ... Feb. 17 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 Duluth Feb. 19 reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to Lorain Feb. 19 require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but (For meeting place, contaci Har­ feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. old Rutbsatz, 118 East Parish. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU pubUsheS Sandusky, Ohio). every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. AU members Cleveland .... Feb. 19 should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves Toledo Feb. 19 with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such Ashtabula Feb. 19 as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as aU other detaUs. then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. (For meeting place, contact John RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension Mero, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash­ benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, tabula, Ohio). including attendance at membership meetings. And like aU other SIU memhers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role In ss if ail rank-auU-fiie functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. || Because these oidtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of aUowing them to retain !§ United Industrial Workers their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. AU Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In employment || Regular membership meetings and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU || for UIW members are scheduled constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the .!.|i employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because |;ii each month at 7 PM in various of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels ii| ports. The next meetings will be: that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify—1| headquarters. lis New York February 8 SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights p Baltimoire February 10 of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and poUtical objectives which jJl Philadelphia ...February 9 wiU serve the best Interests of themselves, their famiUes and their Union, if To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was ^Houston Feb. 15 established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the li Mobile Feb. 17 funds through wiiich legislative and political activities are conducted Cor the benefit of the membership and the Union, New Orleans ...... Feb. 16 If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, ho should Immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by ceriltlcd mall, return receipt requested. • Meelings held at Laoor Tampla, Newport News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. t Meeting held at Galveston wharvts. �Vol. XXVH No. 2 SEAFARERSli^LOG Jan. 22 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO The Association ran into trouble In Louisiana, however. There the legislature became so aroused by its activities that it adopted a resolu­ tion asking the Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the outfit to learn how it was financed and just how it was spreading hate. The investigation was never made. Thugs, Scabs, Goons RIGHT WING GOAL VER SINCE there were unions in this country there have been people seeking to crush the E organization of workers. These groups have taken different forms, but almost all stressed the open shop. One of the most vicious open shop campaigns in history was the so-called American Plan, which hit the country after World War 1. At the head of this campaign the National Association of Manufacturers, James Karem, head of the VIA, was quoted as saying that his vigilantes would fight against the closed shop "and if the law refuses its aid, we will do it our own way, by strong-arm methods or any other way it takes." He announced that he planned to form units in 15 Southern states "to prevent labor unions from controlling the South as they do the North. With the passage of Taft-Hartley, little was heard of the CAA or the VIA, apparently because Taft-Hartley did their anti-union job for them. A review of this sort can obviously only skim the surface, but jumping to 1964—we can see that the same sort of extremist elements are in busi­ ness to push for the compulsory open shop today. "Danger On The Right" High Phrases—Low Goals As might be expected, the first thing the move­ in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and ment led to was widespread wage-cutting by em­ Texas. ployers—strong NAM supporters. Such high"Pass The Biscuits Pappy" sounding catch phrases as "right-towork," "free­ dom of choice," "voluntary unionism," and "equal Heading up the Christian-American Association opportunity" were first generally used at this was a former governor and U.S. Senator from Texas, W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits Pappy") O'Daniel. He appeared before a number of South­ ern legislatures asking for restrictive labor legis­ lation. The Christian-American Association, backed by a number of employers, first succeeded in getting a "right to work" constitutional amendment pro­ posal before the Florida legislature in 1941. In 1944 Florida became the first state to pass a "work" law. Extreme right-wing ^oups were active in push­ ing "right-to-work" drives in the South as early as 1941, six years before The Taft-Hartley Act with its Section 14(b) was passed by Congress. Florida Attorney General Tom Watson, in fact, threatened to import the VIA into Florida to en­ force that state's "work" law. At that time there was no John Birch Society, no Minutemen; and the Ku Klux Klan was at low ebb. But there were enough right-wing elements to go around, nevertheless. A number of proNazi groups were in existence, as well as antiSemetic, anti-Negro, antirunion racists of the Gerald L. K. Smith variety. Historically, these "v/ork" laws have been a gimmick of extreme right-wing groups, just as There was one other organization of the radical today they are supported and being actively pushed by the John Birchers and the Ku Klux right which took upon itself the campaign for socalled "right to work" laws. This was an obscure Klan. but well-financed group called the ChristianWith the American labor movement presently American Association. It worked particularly engaged in an all-out campaign for repeal of Sec­ tion 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which makes open shop or so-called "right-to-work" laws pos­ sible in the 20 states in which they exist, the close connection between these vicious, lunatic-fringe, right wing extremist groups and anti-union open shop legislation deserves some attention. time as part of the big-business, anti-labor propa­ ganda. The high phrases barely masked the real purpose of the American Plan—union busting, longer hours, less pay. The Association worked in Texas, Mississippi and Arkansas. It was successful in Arkansas in 1944, working through a front organization known as the Veterans Industrial Association. The VIA was made up largely of thugs who were used as strikebreakers, but it also lobbied for anti-labor legislation. The recently published book, "Danger on the Right," by Arnold Forster and Benjamin R. Ep­ stein, devotes space to the close tie-in between the radical right and the National Right to Work Commitee. The authors write; "One member of the Committee's board, Fred­ eric C. Fowler, has appeared on several occasions at meetings of Billy James Hargis' Christian Crusade. Glenn Green, who became a Committee vice president several years ago, was identified as an active member of the John Birch Society and formerly was associated with the National Education Program of Harding College where he produced the film. Communism on the Map. Another extreme right-wing group pushing for the Florida law was the Florida Voters for Con­ stitutional Government, a state unit of the Com­ mittee for a Constitutional Government. Edward A. Rumley, who had served a federal prison sen­ tence for conviction as a German agent in World War 1, was director of the national committee. "The Committee's first chairman, Edward Dillard, has been listed as a Birch endorser, and such Birch Society national council members as Robert Love and Fred Koch of Wichita, Kansas, have been active. Love was a main speaker at the 1961 National Seminar Committee, held in Chicago. Committee spokesmen have also participated in meetings staged by Kent and Phoebe Courtney, have written for Human Events and have ap­ peared on Manion Forum broadcasts." The Christian-American Association was ac­ cused of being anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic and antiNegro and it continually boasted of its power to get legislation like so-called "right to work" laws through state legislatures. The relationships between extreme rightwingers and the right-to-work forces are what make many unionists believe that the mandate of the voters against extremism should include elimination of Section 14(b). u 1 f, �r.rS*;/ f " ^• J 4" '•' ?• 5^;iL 1 " ^v. '- • . • - ^y* a- BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE DEraiT ^» SlU ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT ELECTION 1965-1968 .• P.W^.'r ._v' . •i " �SEAFARERS LOG Itmuj, fH' MM SlU Constitution Rules On Elections The SW Constitution Rules on Elections teas run on pages 6 and 7 of the October 16 Seafarers Log Election Supplement. removed, paced near the roster sheet, and the member shall proceed to the voting site with the ballot. An ap­ propriate notation of the date and of the fact of voting shall be placed in the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsive for the establishment of a booth or other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. Article XIII Section 3. Balloting Procedure (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall Insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may contain general information and Instructive comments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most north­ erly port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shall be allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufficient to permit each member voting to write in as many names as there are offices and jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short state- • ment indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the Secretary-Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the preceding paragraph and shall be num­ bered consecutively, commencing with number 1. A suf­ ficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Fort. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the .Secretary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numi ers of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate records of the ballots sent him and shall inspect add count the ballots, when received, to insure that the c mount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform the amount and numbers listed by the SecretaryTreasurer as having been sent to that port. The Port / gent shall immediately execute and return to the Sec1 "tary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall ) :.ify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Dis­ crepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior IJ the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be for­ warded for ballots actually received. The SecretaryTreasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall at all times be availabe to any member for inspection of the same at the office of the SecretaryTreasurer. (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at port offices, aiiu snail be secrec. No s v-'C ...i-j of any voter, or other distinguishing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or members, as appropriate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, imm diatelv nrior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Committee of the port in which they are \ .ig. The voter's book number shall be placed upon the roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate) in t le space opposite the proper ballot number, and the member shall sign his name. The portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be J i (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold the ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of the election year and shall continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legally recognized in the city in which the port affected is located. If November 1st or December 31st falls on a holiday legally recognized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the balloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing, voting in all ports shall commence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:0ff~P.M., except that, on Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon Section 4. Polls Committees (a) Each port shall elect, prior to the beginning of the voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, con­ sisting of three full book members none of whom shall be a candidate, officer or an elected or appointed job holder. For the purpose of holding a meeting for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwithstanding the provisions of Article XXllI, Section 2, or any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shall constitute a quorum for each port, with the said meeting to be' held between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 A.M. with no notice thereof required. It shall be the obligation of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Committee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present during this time period. It shall be the responsibility of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purpose of elect­ ing the said Polls Committee is called, and that the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to the Secre­ tary-Treasurer. In no case shall voting take place unless a duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. (b) The duly elected Polls Committee shall collect all unused ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and files kept by the Port Agent. It shill then proceed to compare the serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and cor­ responding serial numbers on the roster, and then com­ pare the serial number and amounts of ballots used with the verification list, as corrected, and ascertain whether the unused ballots, both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between what appears on the verification list, as corrected, and the ballots used. If anv discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon snail be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such discrepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each member of the Committee may make what separate com­ ments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meeting. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall cause an investigation to be made forthwith. The results of such investigation shall be re­ ported to the membership as soon as completed, with recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A majority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Constitution, the Executive Board shall not make any determination in these matters. paragraph with regard to discrepancies shall be utilized in the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been lllegaly tampered with. (d) The Polls Committee shall permit full book mem­ bers only to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good order and decorum at the voting site and vicinity thereof. All members and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and decorum. ^ <e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularitis in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the following procedure shall be observed: At the end of each day's voting, the Polls Committee, in the presence of any member desiring to attend, pro­ vided he observes proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committee shall thereupon Sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or envelopes, with their book numbers next to their sig­ natures. The committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed in the envelope or envelopes dated for that day and voted in that Port. The Polls Committee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem ap­ propriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the Executive Board, official envelopes may be prepared for the puprpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying t. c foregoing inscribed thereon, in wh ch event these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Committee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall pre­ vent any member of a Polls Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided the comments are signed and dated by the member mak­ ing them. The envelope 6r envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Executive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wri'pper or envelope shall then be secu. ely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or registered mail, by the said Polls Committee, to the depository named in tit- pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall not be discharged from its duties until this mailing is accomplished and evidence of mail­ ing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evid uice shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing theni back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an envelope, across the flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope securely. In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall de­ liver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this Section 4,. any files that tl.ey may have re­ ceived, and all the stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. The Port Agent shall be responsi­ ble for the proper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release any of it until duly called for, and shall insure that no one Illegally tampers with the m.vterial placed in his custody. The remaining copy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the Polls Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or registered mail or delivered in person. 'f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve with­ ic) The Polls Committee shall also insure that the out compensation, except that the Port Agent shall com­ ballot box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall pensate each Polls Committee member v/ith a reasonable no1 be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. .sum for meals while serving or provide meals in lieu of TVie same, procedure as is se^i forth in the preceding, . •cash.,, : . ... , ., . �>/i m IMI Section 5. Ballot G>llarti6n, Tallying Procedure, Protests, And Special Votes (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to term­ inate, the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, de­ liver to headquarters, or mail to headquarters (by certi­ fied or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of the Committee that all ballots sent to the port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the committee shall forward to head­ quarters all stubs collected during the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by ail members of the committee, that all the stubs collected by the com­ mittee are enclosed therewith subject to the right of each member of the committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The said Polls Committee members shall not be discharged from their duties until the forwarding called for hereunder is acomplished and evidence of maiiing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. (b) All forwarding to headquarters called for under thir Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the address of headquarters. In the event a Polls Com­ mittee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifically set forth in Section 5 (a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the Union Tallying Committee, which will then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Com­ mittee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union Tally­ ing Committee to execute those functions. All certifications called for under this Article XIII shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, and belief of those required to make such certification. (c) The Union Tallying Conunittee shall consist 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Executive Board otherwise de­ termines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said month. No Officer, Headquarters Representative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be elegible for election to this Committee, except as provided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties hereinbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Com­ mittee shall be charged with the tallying of all the ballots an the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and recon­ ciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and. receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed ref­ erence to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The "Tallying ComHiittee shali be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at its discretion. The report shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these dis­ crepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, .without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pertinent details. The Tallying Committee is also charged with , the receipt and evaluation of written protests by any mem­ ber who claims an illegal denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests invalid, it shall dismiss the protest ard so inform the protesting member, by wire on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest valid, the com­ mittee shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms 'as SEAVAlkEttS'tOG are practical, effective and just, but which^ierms, in any event, shall include the provisions of Section 3 (c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5 (c), these terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Article. Protests may be made only in writing and must be received by the Union Tallying Committee during the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shall include a brief ^sum­ mary of each protest received, the name and book num­ ber of the protesting member, and a summary of the d'sposition of the said protest. The committee shall take all reasonable measures to adjust the course of its pro­ ceedings so as to enable the special vote set forth in this Section 5 (c) to be completed within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5 (c) shall have been duly completed and tallied (d) The members cf the Union Tallying Committee shall proceed to the port in which headquarters is lo­ cated, as soon as possible after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election year. Each mem­ ber of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located-shali be reimbursed for trans­ portation, meals, and lodging expense occasioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shali also be paid at the prevailing standby ijte of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quoruni thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository imme­ diately after the termination of balloting and to insure tneir safe custody during the course of the committee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation of the closing report and dis­ sents therefrom, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 15th immediately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and re­ count'is ordered pursuant to Section 5 (g) of this Article, tJie committee shall be reconstituted except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in sufficient copies to comply with the following require­ ments: two copies shall be sent by the committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting scheduled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, in the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or less from the close of this committee's proceedings, then at least five days prior to the next regular meeting. Whichever meeting applies shall be designated, by date, in the report and shall be referred to as the "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shail post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. This copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Elec­ tion Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5 (c) cf this Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accord­ ance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Report Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the clos­ ing report has been Issued by three or more members of tbo Union Tallying'Committee. Except for .the con- 8«mttneBt-^Pac« Tbree ' ti. gencies provided for In this Section 9 (f) the closing report shall be accepted as final. (g) A special vote ordered pfirsuant to Section 5 (f) must, take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the firegoing, and to the limits of the vote set by the mem­ bership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such port shall have the functions of the Tallying Committee as se forth in Section 5 (c), insofar as that Section deals with the terms of such special vote. The SecretaryTreasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immediately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Immediately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and communicate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining U, the special vote shall be forwarded to the SecretaryTreasurer, all in the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means practicable, but, in any case, so as to reach the Secretary-Treasurer in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this Section 5 (g). An accounting and certification, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report containing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule indicating, in detail how they affect the Unio.n Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in its closing report, "fhe form of the letter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shali be sent to each port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tallying Commit­ tee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modification. li ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report thereon by the .Union Tallying Committee, shail be similarly disposed of and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the membership-at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting. If such recheck and recount is ordered, the Union Tallying Committee shall be required to continue its proceedings cor­ respondingly. Section 6. Installation Into Office And The Job Of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent And Patrolman u) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and ac­ cepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and as­ sume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meeting, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meeting the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in "Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candidate cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply until the expira­ tion of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all elec­ tion records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law which directives shall be part of the eicctlon procedures of this Union. �Snwilemeafr—Pege Four SEAFARERS Jamnnr >2, IMS LOG Searetary-Treasurer's Report To The MemberMpt ADDITION TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN FORTHCOMING ELECTION OF OFFICERS EDITOR'S ISOTE: The **AddUion to Voting Procedures in Forthcoming' Election of Officers'* was carried in issues of the LOG published May 15 (pg' June 12 (pg. 8), June 26 (pg, 18)^ July 10 (pg. 18) and October 16, 1964, Supplement (pg. seven), (The followinir is the text of an excerpt from the Secretary-Treasurer's report to the regular member­ ship meeting at SIU headquarters on April 6 and again on May 4 entitled, "Forthcoming Election Of Officers—Additions To Voting Procedures." The re­ port was also forwarded to other constitutional ports for action at their meetings in April and May. The report was concurred in at all meetings.) Article XIII, Section 7 of our constitution reads as follows: "The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to the election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall he part of the election procedures of this ITnion." Therefore, in accordance with the above-mentioned section and^after consulting with and being advised by ccunsel, it is found that additions to our voting pro­ cedures for the election of officers are required by law. Therefore, under the powers delegated to me by our constitution, in the aforementioned section, I am setting up the following additions in our balloting procedure for cfficers. President's Pre-Balloting Report. Article X, Section 1, "The President," Sub-Section (e), provides that the President's Pre-Balloting Report shall bo submitted to the membership at the regular meeting in July of every election year. It is recommended to the membership in this connection that such Pre-Balloting Report be made both at the June and July meetings so as to give more than adequate notice to any prospective nominee for office. Provision for Nomination by Others. Article XIII, Section 1, "Nominations," proyides for self-nomination to office. In order to square any am­ biguity as to the meaning of this section, it is recom­ mended that a member may place his name in nomina­ tion or have his name placed in nomination by any other member and further, that in either event, such member nominated must comply with the provisions of the consti­ tution, as they are set forth, relating to the submission of cr^entials. This change is an amplification of the existing provisions of the constitution and should not be ccrstrued to be an alteration of same. Absentee Ballot. Article XIII, Sections 3 and 4, "Ballo^ting Pi-ocedures" and "Polls Committee," of the constitution, provide that balloting shall be manual in nature. It is now recom­ mended that the following absentee ballot procedure be presented to the membership upon advice of counsel as an amplification of such provisions: Full book members may request an al>sentee ballot un­ der the following circumstances, only. While such mem­ ber is employed on an American-flag merchant vessel which vessel's schedule does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is to take place during the voting period provided in Section 3 (g) of our constitution, in that event, the member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request r ust contain a designation as to the address to which such member wishes bis absentee ballot returned, luch request shall be received no later than 1S:00 PM on the fifteenth day of November of the election year and ahall be directed to the Secretary Treasurer at 67S Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 82, New York. Upon receipt of auch request, the procedures as established In Section 8 (d) of our constitution, shall not apply. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible! for determining whether such member is a member in good standing and further whether auch member has, in fact, voted previously. He shall send the processed ballot by Registered Mail-Return Receipt Requested to the address designated by such member in his absentee ballot request. The Secretary-Treasurer shall send to such member with his ballot, instructions for returning the ballot, which instructions must be complied with exactly. The Secretary-Treasurer shall further maintain a record showing the name, book number of the member, his ballot number and the date upon which such ballot wa.s sent, which information shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5 (c) of the Constitution. The member, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if such be the case, to the depository named In the President's Pre-Balloting Report. These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to midnight of December 31, 1964, and must be received by the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Re­ port, prior to January 10, 1965, regardless of when post­ marked, for them to be counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be maintained separately by such depository and shall then be turned over to the Union Tallying Com­ mittee, as provided in Section 5 (d) of Article XIII of the constitution. Text of President's Pre-Balloting Report EDITOR'S NOTE; The ''Text of Presdent's PreBalloting Report" was carried in issues of the LOG published June 12 (pg. 8), June 26 (pg. 18), and July 10, 1964 (pg. 18). The President's pre-balloting report, submitted in advance of this year's union elections in ac­ cordance v(^ith the requirement of the SIU Consti­ tution, is in the process of submission to the membership for its action at the July regular membership meetings in all constitutional ports. The report, which specifies the number of union officers that are to appear on the ballot, the re­ quirements for candidate eligibility and other balloting details, was adopted at the headquarters meeting of June 8, as recommended in the Secre­ tary-Treasurer's report below. The report will be submitted and acted on at the other regular mem­ bership meetings to be held this month. The text of the report follows; PRESIDENT'S PRE-BALLOTING REPORT Under the Constitution of our Union, the Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, Article X, Section 1 (c\ the President shall submit a pre-balloting report at the regular meeting in July of every election year. The Constitution of our Union also calls for seven (7) Con­ stitutional ports of the Union, which-are; New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston and Detroit. As your President, in consultation along with the Ex­ ecutive Board of the Union, a careful appraisal has been made as to what we feel will be the needs of the organiza­ tion in all the Constitutional ports, including the port of New York and Headquarters, for the coming term of office of the officers and other elected representatives of our Union. Since the Constitution provides for seven (7) Constitutional Ports it was felt that it was advisable to place on the ballot the elective jobs of those ports. Where necessary .the personnel for other than the Con­ stitutional Ports may be assigned as needed from those Constitutional Ports, where possible. As the membership is aware, it is necessary for the Union to keep abreast of the changes in the shifting of the job requirements of the companies with whom we have contracts, as well as in being prepared to meet the opportunities for ex­ pansion through the means of organizing. This will enable the Union to maintain maximum services to the member­ ship, and to meet the needs of the organization resulting Mr. Harold Bach from the changing character of the industry. Chairman of the Board As a result of the foregoing, it is the reconunendation Royal National Bank of New York of your President, in this, the Pre-Balloting Report, re­ 20 West 48th Street quired under Article X, Section 1 (e) of our Constitution, that the following offices be placed on the next refer­ New York, New York 11036 endum ballot of the Union for the election of the officers It will be the function of the depository to receive all and other elected representatives of the Seafarers Inter­ the envelopes delivered, or mailed in, as aforesaid, to national Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes safeguard them properly, in the bank, and to surrender and Inland Waters Districts. them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Com­ mittee in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5 (d), of HEADQUARTERS: our Union Constitution, on or about the first business 1 President day in January, 1965. Proof of authorization shall be a 1 Executive Vice-President certification by the Vice-President in charge of the Min-: 1 Secretary-Treasurer lites, Robert Matthews. The Union Tallying Committee 1 Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract shall be authorized to sign a receipt for the said en­ velopes. The depository shall be requested to certify that Enforcement all the envelopes received by the depository have been 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast properly safeguarded, have been surrendered only to the 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Guk Coast said Tallying Committee, and that no one, other than ap­ 1 Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland propriate bank personnel have had access to them. Waters The Polls Committee is especially urged to insure that whether delivered or mailed, the envelopes are properly 3 Headquarters Representatives addressed, properly stamped if mailed, and certified as NEW YORK: per the Constitution. 1 Agent It is the further recommendation of your President 10 Joint Patrolmen that, in addition to the regular Constitutional require­ ments, each candidate for office be requested to furnish 1HJLADELPHIA: a regulation passport picture of recent taking as well as a 1 Agent statement of not more than one hundred (100) words, 2 Joint Patrolmen giving a brief summary of his Union record and activities, such picture and statement to be run in the Seafarers BALTIMORE: Log just prior to the commencement of voting. This is 1 Agent to be done in accordance with previous membership ac­ 4 Joint Patrolmen tion to familiarize the membership with the names, faces MOBILE: and records of all candidates for offict:. As provided for in Article XIII, Section 1, nominations 1 Agent ' open on July 15th, 1964 and close August 15th, 1964. All 4 Joint Patrolmen documents required for eligibility of candidates for NEW ORLEANS Union office must reach Headquarters no earlier than 1 Agent July 15th, 1964 and no later than August 15th, 1964. Your President wishes to point out that this Pre4 Joint Patrolmen Balloting Report provides for one of the largest number HOUSTON: of elective posts to be placed on the ballot since the 1 Agent Inception of the Union. It is strongly recommended that 4 Joint Patrolmen the maximum number of qualified members, who feel they can be of assistance to the Union in an official DETROIT capacity, should submit their credentials. In this connec­ 1 Agent tion, the membership is reminded that the SecretaryYour President also recommends, pursuant to Article Treasurer, A1 Kerr, is available to assist them in properly X, Section 1 (e) and Article XIII, Section 4 (e) of the filing their credentials for nomination to Union office, if Union's Constitution, the depository to which the Polls they desire such assistance. Committee's shall deliver, or mail, by certified or reg­ Fraternally submitted, istered mail, the ballots after the close of each days Paul Hall voting in the coming Union election, be as follows: President Opening of Nominations: The opening of nominations was carried in the LOG issues of June 12, June 26, July 10, July 24, Sept. 18, Oct. 2, 1964. Closing of Nominations: The closing of nominations was carried in the LOG issues of June 12, July 10, July 24, Au-)ust 7, Sept. 18, Oct. 2, 1964. " �SEAF AHERS LOG SiawlemeatMPacc.flry t Election Procedures: 5IU Executive Board Minutes, Sept, 9, 1964 EDITORS NOTE: The "SIU Executive Board Minutes, of Sept. 9, 1964" were carried in the Oct. 16, 1964 LOG Supplement, (pg. 1). (The follomng executive hoard minutes were acted on and approved hy the membership at port meetings held on October 9, 1964.) The meeting was called to order at 3:00 P.M. by Paul Hall, President. PRESENT: Paul Hall, President; Robert A. Matthews, Vice-President; Earl Shepard, Vice-President; A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer; Lindsay Wiliams, Vice-President. ABSENT: Cal Tanner, Executive Vice-President; A1 Tanner, Vice-President. ALSO PRESENT: Herb Brand, Director of Organizing & .Publications; Howard Schulman, SIU General Counsel. The President announced that a quorum was present. He then stated that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss the 1964 general election, review the steps taken so far, and to determine whether the Executive Board wished to recommend any additional steps which would, in its collective judgment, be desirable to comply not merely with the letter, but also, with the intent, of the Constitution, the Secretary-Treasurer "Additions to the Voting Procedures" as has been concurred in by the membership, applicable law, and this Union's policy of full and fair treatment for all candidates. The President next stated that the General Counsel was present at his request. He asked the General Counsel if he was aware of the election steps taken to date. The General Counsel replied in the affirmative, that he and other members of his staff had checked the Credentials Committee report and supporting records, and the election material prepared and distributed. The General Counsel stated that, in his opinion, the Union was in strict compli­ ance with the Constitution and applicable law, including, in particular, the Landrum-Griffin Act, and that he now so formally advised the Executive Board. He stated further that, so far as law was concerned, one last affirmative step remained to be taken, that is, the mailing of the 15 day notice required by law, that the Union was aware of this, and was, in fact, in the process of preparing the same for mailing. He pointed out that this would have to be completed on or prior to October 15, 1964. The SecretaryTreasurer stated that this would be accomplished. The President then called for an open general discussion dealing with the purpose of the meeting, after which, the following was decided upon: RE: UNION GENERAL ELECTIONS, 1964 The Executive Board wishes to make the following report and recommendations to the membership, for the purpose of keeping the membership informed, effectuating the Union's policy of completely equal and fair treatment to all candidates, and rounding out the Union's compliance with law. Including the Landrum-Griffin Act. A. All steps required up to now to comply with Landrum-Griffin have been taken. There remains one step, the mailing of notices to the members, and recom­ mend this step be taken, in accordance with law, on or prior to October 15, 1964. It need hardly be noted, of course, that, both at regular meetings of the membership, and through the Seafarers Log, all details of the election have already been communicated. Insofar as our Consti­ tutional requirements regarding elections are concerned, not only are copies of the Constitution available at all ports, but also, the LOG prints the Constitution verbatim every six months. Every member, therefore, should be aware of these requirements. B. 1. The policy of the Union has been, and is, equal electioneering limits and facilities for all candidates. As usual, the Seafarerik Log will contain an election supple­ ment, which includes tlie biographical sketches of each candidate and his photo, together with a sample ballot with voting instructions. The usual distribution pattern will be followed. That is, it is sent to all contracted ves­ sels, is made available in substantial quantities, in ail Union halls, and is otherwise distributed. Candidates and members will, therefore, have available to them those materials for electioneering, or any other purpose. In addition to that, the Executive Board recorpmends the printing of this election supplement in enough copies so that there will be available to each candidate, at his request, 100 copies thereof, to be used for such purposes as the candidate may choose. It is felt that 100 copies for each candidate is reasonable. There must be obviously be some limit to the Union's ex­ penditures in this regard. To insure equal treatment for each candidate, copies of this special material shall be made available in each Union hall. The Port Agent shall deliver the amount requested (up to 100) to each candidate, obtain a receipt therefor, keep a record of the same, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr immediately. It will be the Secretary-Treasurer's duty to keep a central tally, and to replenish stocks of this material when, as, and if needed. 2. To insure good order and to further preserve the sec­ recy of the ballot, electioneering must not take place within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, the Union continues to insist on good order and decorum, which must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has been solicited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and recommendations thereon. In addition, the. member is required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr, at Headquarters, within 24 hours of the occurrence, by reg­ istered mail, return receipt requested, of the facts, which notification must be signed by the complainant, together with his book number. In that connection, the Executive Board recommends that the membership also adopt the rule that, in case any member has a complaint that any of the election and balloting procedures of this Union have been violated, the same procedure as above set forth shall be followed. While the members have already been notified, through the Log, as to notifications to the President in case of a claimed violation of any rights, it is recommended that the rule set forth herein be adopted with reference to the balloting and election procedures in this election, since Credentials Committee Report: The the Secretary-Treasurer, under the Constitution, is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with elections and referendums. The member's duty to report violations in tbis manner should be emphasized. If situa­ tions exist which call for corrective action, that action ought to be taken. It can't be taken if the responsible parties under the Constitution are not made aware of the facts. 3. Obviously, nothing in these recommendations is to be deemed to deprive any candidate or member of his con­ stitutional right to observe the conduct of the election, the tallying of ballots, and so on, provided he maintains proper decorum. 4. In accordance with established policy, the Union, its officers, the Log, and, indeed, the entire membership, should continue to encourage the utmost interest in the .election. The Executive Board urges the largest possible vote, and encourages the use of proper electioneering to further stimulate interest in the exercise of this important right. C. The Secretary-Treasurer states that, in compliance with law he has prepared a membership list, to be avail­ able for inspection by any and ail candidates. Again in accordance with law, the list is, and will be kept, available at Headquarters. While this is a valuable record, we rec­ ommend that the Secretary-Treasurer not be required to sit with whoever is inspecting the list, but that arrange­ ments be made for a rack and file committee of three (3) to be elected for that purpose. We further recommend that a proper receipt be obtained from the inspecting candidate. Finally, since many members object to the Union releasing their names and addresses, and since it has been a long term policy of the Union to respect these feelings on the part of the membership, we recommend that, while each candidate may have his inspection, no candidate shall -be allowed to make copies of the list or any part thereof. D. Without regard to the Executive Board's power under Article VII of the Constitution, the Executive Board specifically requests that the matters herein be brought to the attention of the membership and acted upon by them, by special meetings held in all ports, subject to the requirements of the Constitution, commencing on Friday, October 9, 1964, at 9:00 A.M. It is also recommended that these minutes if approved as aforesaid, be included in the Seafarers Log election supplement of 1964, be included in the notice, referred to above, to be mailed to the' membership in accordance with law, and, in addition, be prominently posted in the Union halls for the duration of the balloting. The Secretary-Treasurer was unanimously directed to take all steps necessary to effectuate the foregoing. ADJOURNMENT: Paul Hall, Chairman, then asked those assembled if there was any further business to come before the Board. There being no further business to be trans­ acted, it was then moved by Lindsey Williams and sec­ onded by Earl Shepard that this Board meeting stand adjourned. Carried by a unanimous vote of the Board. Meeting was then adjourned at 5:20 P.M. Fraternally submitted. Executive Board, SIUNA-AGLIWD By: /s/ A1 Kerr AL KERR, Secretary-Treasurer entire text of the Credentials Committee Report appeared on Pages 12, 13 in the October 2, 1964, issue of the LOG, The report was presented for action by the membership in the September membership meetings in all Constitutional ports. The membership in these September membership meetings accepted and concurred in the report and its recommendations without any dissenting votes in any port. ^ : •»' V'l �SEAF ARERS LOG , Sii^«ineiit<^Pa«ft fMz '.<:* ^ JapaiUT J2i>19fl^ Polls Committee Voting Guide in duplicate, the "Agent's Receipt word "CHALLENGE" alongside opes provided, for the mailing to order and to further preserve the secrecy of the ballot, electioneer­ From Polls Committee" — the One of the Committee should then the bank depository. ing must not itake place within original of which shall be mailed tear the stub from the ballot, and STEP NO. 5 25 feet of the polling place. In to the Secretary-Treasurer at thread the stub on a string pro­ The Committee should then any event, good order and de­ Headquarters at the end of the vided for that purpose, give the check to see if all Polls Commit­ corum must be preserved. Any day's voting in a roster envelope, ballot and one plain white envel tee members have signed all member whose ballot has been so­ sheets of the rosters. The dupli­ as provided for in Step No. 5 ope with no markings to the voter cate roster sheete for the day licited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact The Committee should then in In an attempt to help the herein. The duplicate copy shall struct the voter that after he should be given to the Port Agent, known to the Polls Committee, various Polls Committees in the be given to the Port Agent for the marks his ballot in the area pro and the originals of the rosters which shall record the complaint vided for same, he should then should be placed in the envelope in its report, as well as its find­ conduct of the General Election Port Election files. fold his ballot, place it in the provided for that purpose. In ad­ ings and recommendations there­ for the years 1965-1968, the follow­ STEP NO. 3 white envelope, seal it and not de­ dition, the Committee should be on. ing suggestions emphasize some of THE POLLS COMMITTEE posit it in the ballot box but re­ given the original of the minutes the steps to be taken each voting MUST NOT LET ANY BALLOTS form for the election of a Polls In connection with this, and as day of the voting period. In any BE CAST BEFORE 9:00 A.M. turn with it to the Committee. The Committee, with all the blank was adopted by membership ac­ Committee will then give the man event, the provisions of the Con­ Before letting any full book mem­ a brown envelope marked "CHAL­ spaces on the form filled in. The tion, any member who has a com­ stitution govern, and in the con­ ber vote, the Committee shall Polls Committee should put the plaint that any of the election and duct of your work you are to make sure that he has his dues LENGED BALLOT" and which originals of the rosters, the orig- balloting procedures of this Union also has lines for the man's name, determine your functions in ac­ paid through the Fourth Quarter book number, port and date. The ian copy of the "Agent's Receipt have been violated, the same pro­ cordance with the Constitution. of 1964, as well as his 1964 assess­ man, in the presence of the Com­ From Polls Committee," as well cedure as above shall be followed. ments BEFORE being allowed to mittee, shall place the white en­ as the original minutes of the STEP NO. 1 Obviously, none of this is to be Special Meeting for the election The election of a Polls Commit­ vote. There may be some excep­ velope into the brown envelope of the Polls Committee, in the en­ deemed to deprive any candidate tions based upon a man shipping and seal the same. The Commit­ tee composed of three (3) full book velope provided for that purpose. or member of his constitutional members, none of whom shall be a out, or other valid reason, for not tee will then fill in the man's THESE MUST BE MAILED TO rights to observe the conduct of paying dues. If you have any name, book number, port and candidate, officer, or an elected or the election, the tallying of ballots, HEADQUARTERS DAILY. appointed job-holder. Must be doubts as to whether or not a man date, and on the face of the en­ and so on, provided he maintains velope write the reason for the is eligible to vote, you should let elected between 8:00 A.M. and 9:00 STEP NO. 6 his proper decorum. challenge and the man will then him vote a challenged ballot in the A.M. of the voting day. CANNOT Before leaving the building to deposit the brown envelope into BE ELECTED AT ANY OTHER manner which is described in the SECRECY OF THE BALLOT the ballot box. The member should handle the mailing required by TIME. Five (5) full book members last paragraph of this Step No. 3. not MUST BE PRESERVED be given his book back, imtil the Constitution, the Polls Com­ constitute a quorum for this meet­ The Committee should then have such time as he has dropped his mittee shall lock all election ma­ ing. the man sign his own name to the brown envelope into the ballot terial in the ballot box. They shall STEP NO. 9 The attention of the Polls Com­ roster, and one of the Committee box. Before the man votes, one of place the key for the ballot box STEP NO. 2 mittee is directed to the provisions in the envelope provided for that should print the man's book num­ the Committee should stamp the The Port Agent shall turn over of the Constitution, in particular. to the elected Polls Committee the ber and ballot number on the date and the word "VOTED" in purpose and fill in all the spaces Sections 3, 4, 5 (a) and 5 (b) of on the outside thereof. Then the roster. One of the Committee the member's union book. port file containing the letter from envelope containing the key, as Article Xlll. The attention of the Headquarters showing the num­ should then tear the stub from the STEP NO. 4 well as the ballot box containing Polls Committee is also directed ballot, give the ballot to the man, bers of the ballots received from At the end of the day's voting, all of the election material, shall to the Executive Committee min­ and thread the stub on the string Headquarters, also containing the utes of September 9, 1964, which the Polls Committee shall open duplicate copies of the rosters for provided for that purpose. The the ballot box and count the num­ be turned over to the Port Agent have been previously publicized, by the Polls Committee. member should not be given back the previous days of voting, as after approval by the membership. ber of ballots from the box. They well as the stubs of the used his book until such time as he has should then compare the number STEP NO. 7 The full duties of the Polls Com­ dropped his ballot in the ballot ballots, the unused ballots, and of ballots against the number is­ The last action of the Polls mittees are set forth in the Con­ any other election material cf the box. Before the man votes, one of sued on the rosters for the day, Committee each day shall be the stitution. The present list of sug­ the Committee should stamp the Port. (The best place for all of this gestions is, obviously, not all in­ to see if all ballots issued were material is in the ballot box.) The date and the word "VOTED" in put in the ballot box. The day's mailing of the ballots to the bank clusive. depository, as well as mailing, the the member's Union book. Polls Committee should check all ballots cast should then be put rosters and minutes of the elec­ of the above to make sure that all Challenged Ballots. When a man in the envelope provided for that tion of the Polls Committee to STEP NO. 10 voting material is turned over to votes a challenged ballot, the Com­ purpose, and all blank spaces on All Polls Committees may con­ Headquarters. them by the Port Agent. tact Headquarters by teletype on mittee shall have the man sign the envelope should then be prop­ any questions relative to the con­ After having ascertained that all his own name to the roster, and erly filled in. After all blank STEP NO. 8 As has been the practice In the duct of the election. However, of the election material was found one of the Committee should place spaces are filled in, the envelope, to be correct and in good order, the man's book number and ballot or envelopes, should then be past, all candidates may campaign here too, the decision must be that the Polls Conunittee shall execute. number on the roster and the placed in the envelope or envel­ for office. However, to insure good of the Polls Committee. EDITOR'S NOTE: The "Polls Committee Voting Guide" was carried in the Oc­ tober 30, 1964, issue of the LOG (pg. 8). Beginning of Vote: Voting was begun In all Ports on November 2, 1964, and was carried in the Oct. 16, Oct. 30, Nov. 13, Nov. 27 and Dec. 25, 1964, issues of the LOG and the Jan. 8, 1965 issue of the LOG. Close of Voting: Voting was ended in all ports at the end of the day, December 31, and was carried in the Oct. 16, Oct. 30, Nov. 27 and Dec. 25, 1964 issues of the LOG and the Jan. a, 1965 issue of the LOG. Eleetion ot Tallying Committee: Election of two members of the Union from each Constitutional port to serve on the Tallying Committee as per the Constitution, was carried in the Oct. 16, Oct. 30, Nov. 27 and Dec. 25, 1964 issues of the LOG and the Jan. 8, 1965 issue of the LOG. �JvaHtur n, INI UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPOkT January 14, 1964 (To Be Read at "Election Report Meetings" of February, 1965) New York—February 8, 1965 Philadelphia—February 9, 1965 Baltimore—February 10, 1965 Detroit—February 15, 1965 Houston—February 15, 1965 New Orleans—February 16, 1965 Mobile— February 17, 1965 W E, the undersigned Union Tallying Committee, duly elected at Special Meetings on December 28th, 1964 in the seven (7) constitutional ports, two (2) from each port, submit the following report and recommendations: On January 4th, 1965, at 9:00 AM, wa met with A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer. He gave each Committee member a copy of the Union Constitution and suggested that we read those sections of our Con­ stitution dealing with the Union Tally­ ing Committee in detail. The Committee then took over one complete room on the first deck of our Headquarters building as the place in which we would do our v/ork while in. session. In compliance with Article XIII, Sec­ tion 5 (d) of our Union Constitution, we elected from among ourselves, Douglas Claussen, C-339, as Chairman of the Committee. We then received from the Headquar­ ters offices of the Union, all of the files relative to the conduct of the^election. From the files, we found signed receipts for ballots, #1 through #7300, which had been issued to the following ports, as follows: PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Detroit San Juan SanDletteat—Vaf* <8«^/ seAFAktki 104 BALLOTS ISSUED v.... 1— 100 101—1600 1601—1900 1901—2700 2701—2800 - 2801—^2900 2901—3000 3001—3100 3101—3900 3901—5200 5201-^000 6001—6200 6201—660O 6601—6900 6901—7000 7001—7300 A full quorum picked up the ballots from the Royal National Bank of New York, located at 1212 Avenue of the Americas, New York City, as per the Constitution. (See correspondence an­ nexed, showing official documents ex­ changed.) The Committee then checked the nun>bers on the stubs received from the various ports, and these numbers, when checked against the numbers on the stubs of all ballots printed and issued and ready for voting, were found to coin­ cide, port by port, with the exception of the Port of Wilmington, California, which will be dealt with later in this report. Your Committee then checked the dates of the voting rosters and com­ pared them against the minutes of the special meetings for the election of the Polls Committees in the various ports. We found in every instance that a Polls Committee had been elected on each day in which voting was conducted in the various ports. Where no Polls Committee could be elected, no voting took place, as is re­ quired by our Constitution. We note that on the last day of voting in Boston, Norfolk, Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Detroit and San Juan, no Polls Commit­ tee could be elected. In these cases, as per the Constitution, the Port Agent took over the duties of the Polls Com­ mittee. We checked the unused ballots that were on hand in Headquarters offices that had not been issued. The stubs on these unused ballots were numbered 7301 through 10,000, a total of 2700 bal­ lots. Your Committee then checked the un­ used ballots that were returned from the various ports, including the Port of New York, which are listed as follows: PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk .... Jacksonville* Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattie Detroit San Juan ;... UNUSED - BALLOTS 45— 100 1478—1600 1867—1900 2346—2700 2799—2800 2825—2900 2958—3000 3051—3100 3535—3900 4891—5200 5910—6000 6160—6200 6557—6600 6775—6900 6901—7000 7124—7300 The above unused ballots, when com­ bined with the unused ballots in Head­ quarters and the stubs of the used bal­ lots in all ports, compares equally in number with the amount printed by the printer for the Union. The Committee has seen a bill from the printer, "The Rand Press, Inc.," who printed thjc ballots that were used in the conduct of our Union Election for the Election of 1965-1968 Officers of the Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District. The bill states that they had printed 10,000 bal­ lots for the Union, numbered from 1 to 10,000; in addition to which, they had printed 100 blank sample ballots. The Committee has checked the elec­ tion files, maintained by Headquarters offices as per the Union Constitution, and has found signed receipts from the following ports for the following amount of sample ballots, broken down, as fol­ lows: PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk .; Jacksonville Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Detroit Puerto Rico ' Total BALLOTS 5 10 5 10 5 5 3 5 10 10 10 5 5 5 2 5 100 We, the Committee, have checked the files of Headquarters offices and have seen signed receipts by the various Port Agents for the official ballots that had been sent to them by Headquarters Offices. We have checked these signed receipts and the serial numbers on them against the loose stubs received, and against the stubs still attached to the unused ballots. Seven-thousand three hundred (7,300) official ballots were sent to all ports; the stubs on them bearing serial numbers one (1) through seven-thousand three hundred (7,300). We received back, stubs (including the onfes on the unused ballots) numbered one (1) through seven-thousand three hundred (7,300), with the exception of stubs #6082 and #6138 which will be dealt with later in this report. The following is a breakdown of the ballots that were sent to the ports by Headquarters as well as a breakdown of the unused ballots returned to Head­ quarters, ballots used and total ballots cast: PORT Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville •Miami Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Detroit San Juan Mail Ballots .- BALLOTS BALLOTS RECEIVED UNUSED FROM BALLOTS AND BALLOTS HEADQUARTERS USED RETURNED CAST 44 1_ 44 45— 100 1— 100 101—1600 101—1477 1478—1600 1344 1601—1900 1601—1866 1867—1900 266 1901—2700 1901—2345 2346—2700 443 98 2701—2800 2701—2798 2799—2800 24 2801—^2900 2801—2824 2825—2900 57 2901—3000 2901—2957 2958—3000 50 3001—3100 3001—3050—3051—3100 3101—3900 3101—3534 3535—3900 434 3901—5200 3901—4890 4891—S^nO 990 5201—6000 5201—5909 5910—6000 709 6001—6600 6001—6159 6160—6200 159 6201—6900 6201—6556 6557—6600 356 6601—6900 6601—6774 6775—6900 174 -None6901—7000 -06901—7000 7001—7300 7001—7123 7124—7300 123 23 TOTAL VOTES CAST IN ALL PORTS AND BY MAIL •• 5296 •This figure includes the ballots that were voided by the Union Tallying Committee, The Committee would also like to bring to the attention of the membership the fact that some write-ins that ap­ peared illegible or on defaced ballots will not be included in this report. The reason for this is that some ballots con­ taining write-ins happened to be voided because the ballots on which they were written was illegally defaced or illegible. The following correspondence was handled by the Union Tallying Com­ mittee: October 19, 1964 Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Attention of Miss Alice Goodman Re: Balloting Procedure Gentlemen: Listed below are the 16 ports from which balloting envelopes will be mailed to your office: Boston, Massachusetts Brooklyn, New York Philadelphia, Pennslyvania Baltimore, Maryland Norfolk, Virginia Jacksonville, Florida Miami, Florida Tampa, Florida Mobile, Alabama New Orleans, Louisiana Houston, Texas Wilmington, California San Francisco, California Seattle, Washington Detroit, Michigan Santurce, Puerto Rico (San Juan) As has been done in the past, it is requested that you telephone the Union office to make a report as to what was received each day. For this purpose, telephone HYacinth 9-6600 and give the information to either Marion Raymond or Charles Paz. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA — AGLIWD /s/ Robert A. Matthews Vice President AK:mrm October 19, 1964 Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York -10036 Attention of Mr. R. Harold Bach Re: Depository for Ballots Gentlemen: In accordance with the recommenda­ tion contained in the President's PreBalioting Report, complying with Ar­ ticle X, Section 1 (e) of the Union's Constitution, which was adopted by the membership at their regular member­ ship meetings held in June and July in the Consti):utional Ports of the Union, the Royal National Bank of New York, 1212 Ayenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036, once again has been designated as depository for ballots in connection with a referendum to be conducted with respect to the Election of Officers under the Union's Constitu­ tion. The referendum period will be from November 2, 1964 through December 31, 1964, both inclusive, Sundays and Holidays excepted. The balloting procedure outlined in the Union's present Constitution will be followed, and based upon your previ= ously having acted as depository, you are familiar with this procedure. The Polls Committee will deliver or send to you by Certified or Registered Mail, the ballots after the close of each day's voting. It will be the function of the depository to accept all envelopes delivered or mailed in, to safeguard them in the bank and to surrender them only to the duly authorized Union Tallying Committee, in accordance with Articie XIII, Section 5 (d) of the Union's Con­ stitution, which will be on or about the second day of January, 1965. Proof of authorization shall be a certification by the Secretary-Treasurer Mr. A1 Kerr. The Union Tallying Committee shall be authorized to sign a receipt for these envelopes. The depository shall be requested to certify that aii of these envelopes were properly safeguarded, were surrendered only to the Union Tallying Committee and that no one, other than the appro­ priate bank personnel has had access to these envelopes. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA — AGLIWD /s/ Robert A. Matthews Vice President RAM/mrm November 18, 1964 Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036 Re: Balloting Procedures Attention: Miss Alice Goodman Gentlemen: In addition to the sixteen (16) Ports from which balloting envelopes are l»eing mailed to your office and as was outlined in our letter of October 19, 1964, you will possibly receive thirtythree (33) ballot envelopes from the in­ dividuals listed below: Hans Barg ^ Wong Kong Charles Jennings Alfred Porcarl Willy F. Manthey John Novak OHo R. Hoepner Harry Schuiz Martin Sierra James W. Ouffy Alfred Hanstvedt Luis R. Williams Osborne R. Williams Joseph E. Henault Samona Suliman Charles Lord George J. Moloney Herman Fruge Dametres Mastranfonlt Agulino Gonzales E. Willis Arnle C. Cobb S. M. Brian Price Wllloughby T. F. Johnson Edward D. Adams L. A. Williams A. Euseblo C. L. NIckerson James F. Davis K. Lynch Jacob J. Levin Fritzbeck A. Stephen It is requested that these ballot en­ velopes be handled in the same man­ ner as you are presently doing with the ballot envelopes that are received from the various Ports. That is, as the ballot envelope is received each day, they should be reported to either Marion Raymond or Charles Paz by telephoning HY 9-6600. Thanking you in advance for your continued cooperation, I remain, Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA — AGLIWD /s/ A1 Kerr Secretary-Treasurer AK:CP:es January 5, 1963 Mr. R. Harold Bach, Chairman of the Board Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York Dear Mr. Bach: As Secretary-Treasurer of Seafarers International Union of North AmericaAtlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, in charge of the Minutes thereof, I herewith certify that, in accordance with the Constitution of this Union, the membership has duly elected the following to constitute the ^I �Sapplement—Page Eight UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPORT ballot in the envelope than was Indi­ cated as having been issued on the ros­ ter. However, in place of the ballot that was missing was a statement from the New York Polls Committee for the day, which read as follows: (Continued) Union Tallying Committee for the 1964 election: M. Garza E. Morris C. Moss W. Walsh A. Stephens, Jr. T, Garrity J. Doris G. Litchfield C. Leader A. Perini J. Naylor D. Parker H. Butts D. Claussen Article XIII, Section 5 (d) states in part: "The Union Tallying Commit­ tee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own proceaures. Decisions as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid If made, by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in at­ tendance, which quorum is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tally­ ing Committee, but no less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immediately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of the Commit­ tee's proceedings." In accordance therewith, the Union has authorized that any nine (9) or more of the above accept delivery of, and sign a receipt for, all of the envelopes which have been mailed to you under the course of the said election. It is hereby requested that you cer­ tify that all the envelopes received by you have been properly safeguarded in your vault; that you have surrendered them to the said Union Tallying Com­ mittee, and that no one other than ap­ propriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes. Very truly yours, SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA-ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WA­ TERS DISTRICT, AFL-CIO By /s/ A1 Kerr A1 Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer Witness: /s/ Robert A. Matthews Robert A. Matthews, Vice-President January 5, 1965 Mr. R. Harold Bach, Chairman of the Board Royal National Bank of New York 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York Dear Mr. Bach: The undersigned members of the Un­ ion Tallying Committee, acting under and pursuant to Article XllI, Section 5 (d) of the Constitution of the Seafar­ ers International Union of North Amer­ ica-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Wa­ ters District, acknowledge receipt of the envelopes sent to you from the various ports for the election held during 1964, and delivered this day to us. A Perini C. Moss .i G. Litchfield D. L. Parker J. A. Naylor D. Claussen H. B, Butts E. Morris M. B. Garza i: I JaniuiT Xt, IMS SEAFARERS LOG ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK 1212 Avenue of the Americas New York, N, Y. 10036 January 5, 1965 Seafarers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District 675 Fourth Ave. Brooklyn, New York 11232 Gentlemen: This is to certify that all the envel­ opes received by this institution ad­ dressed to Mr. R. Harold Bach, Chair­ man of the Board, Royal National Bank of New York, in the name of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District, AFL-CIO, have been properly safeguarded in our vaults. We have today surrendered the above mentioned envelopes to the Union Tal­ lying Committee. No one other than ap­ propriate bank personnel has had access to the said envelopes contained in our vaults. Very truly yours. ROYAL NATIONAL BANK OF NEW YORK /s/ Herbert D. Bacher Executive Vice-President Witnessed: /s/ Patrick T. Corcoran During the conduction of the election for officers just concluded, there were seven hundred and eighty-one (781) pos­ sible voting days. Of the seven hundred and eight.v-one (781) possible voting days, there were ballots cast on four hundred and eighty (480) days. Of the remaining three hundred and one (301) voting days, there were two hundred and eighty-three (283) days on which it was not possible to get a quorum for the election of a Polls Committee, there­ fore no voting could be conducted. On twenty (20) days, there was a quorum and a Polls Committee elected, however, no votes were cast on those twenty (20) days. Needless to say, since so many of the Union's membership has served on Polls Committee, there are many days when a Polls Committee is elected that no votes are cast as all of the members on the beach in that particular port have already voted or are not eligible to vote. In addition, we also know that there are many times when it is not possible to have a quorum to elect a Polls Com­ mittee, as a result of which no votes can be cast that day at all. "Comments and Recommendations Pur­ suant to Article XIII, Section 5 (c) of the Union Constitution*' During the period of time in which the Union Tallying Committee was in operation, several discrepancies on the conduct of the election have occurred, but none of which would change the outcome of any job on the ballot. How­ ever, for the benefit of the membership, we are listing them. Port by Port, as follows: BOSTON: On November 25, 1964, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Boston allowed a member to vote who was not in good standing. As a result of this error, this committee, the Union Tallying Commit­ tee, has voided the day's votes that were cast in the Port. NEW YORK: On Noven^ber 6, 1964, the New York Polls Committee issued ballot number 523 to E. Albarran, showing his book number as A-96, when it should have been A-92. This same date, the com­ mittee also issued ballot number 554 to H. C. Justice, showing his book number as T-336, when it should have been J-336. Also under the date of December 30, 1964, the Polls Committee issued ballot number 1440 to D." Mejias, showing his book number as N-563, when it should have been M-563. Your committee has counted these days ballots as valid bal­ lots cast in the port for the various days, as the errors made were only a transpo­ sition of numbers or an incorrect letter designation. The Union Tallying Committee in opening the envelopes containing the ballots from the various ports found that in the envelope for 'the Port of New York for the date of December 11, 1964, that the number of ballots issued for the day, according to the roster, did not correspond with the number of bal­ lots in the envelope. There was one less ' the port had failed to indicate on the certification of the envelope containing the ballots, the port and the date. The Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this omission of the Jacksonville Polls Committee, has counted this day's bal­ lots as valid ballots cast in the port for the day. "At the close of voting 12/11/64, we removed the ballots from the box and counted fourteen (14) bal­ lots. The voting roster indicated that fifteen (15) ballots were issued 12/11/64. In addition we found in the ballot box the attached piece of election campaign literature en­ titled, "KEEP YOUR UNION STRONG—VOTE FOR," which had been marked by the unknown in­ dividual involved as if it was the of­ ficial ballot. The official ballot was not found in the box, and presum­ ably was retained by said individual in his possession." The piece of election campaign litera­ ture referred to in the committee's fore­ going slaleiuent was attached to their statement. Your Union Tallying "Committee has no way of knowing exactly what hap­ pened to the missing ballot. This com­ mittee could assume, as the Polls Com­ mittee did, for the Port of New York for December 11, 1964, that the missing 'ballot had been retained by said indi­ vidual. However, this would strictly be an assumption on the part of your Un­ ion Tallying Committee and In order to keep the records straight we have listed the ballot of this date in the Port of New York on our official tally sheets as a missing ballot. It was felt that this was the proper manner in which it should be handled, as a missing ballot, since it does not effect the remaining ballots that were cast that day in any manner. PHILADELPHIA: On November 24, 1964, the Philadel­ phia Polls Committee issued ballot num­ ber 1720 to J. Marrero, showing his book number as M-1649, when it should have been M-1049. On November 28, 1964, the Philadelphia Polls Committee issued ballot number 1740 to D. Rood, showing his book number as B-162, when it should have been R-162. On November 30. 1964, the Philadelphia Polls Com­ mittee issued ballot number 1750 to Fred Miller, showing his book number as W-441, when it should have been M-441. Your committee has counted these days ballots as valid ballots cast , in the port for the various days, as the errors made were only a transposition of num­ bers or an incorrect letter designation. On December 9, 1964, and on Decem­ ber 15, 1964, the Polls Committee for the Port of Philadelphia allowed a mem­ ber to vote that was not in good stand­ ing. As a result, this committee, your Union Tallying Committee, has voided these days votes that were cast in the port. BALTIMORE: On the following dates, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Baltimore issued ballot numbers to the following men, showing the book number on the roster incorrectly. Those men so shown on the roster are as follows, with the date the ballot was issued, the number of the ballot that was given to the man, the book number as shown on the roster and the book number as it should have been: Date 11/ 2/64 11/ 3/64 11/ 9/64 11/13/64 11/25/64 12/ 2/64 12/ 5/64 12/ 9/64 12/31/64 Ballot Number 1941 1964 2064 2095 2148 2179 2201 2221 2345 MIAMI: On November 6, 1964, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Miami allowed a member to vote that was not in good standing. As a result of this error, this committee, the Union Tallying Com­ mittee, has voided the day's votes that were cast in the port. TAMPA: On November 19, 1964, the New Or­ leans Pollr. Committee issued ballot number 4390 to R. Tindell, T-40 who cast a ballot that day in ^the Port of New Orleans. On November 30, 1964, in the Port of Tampa the Tampa Polls Com­ mittee issued R. Tindell, T-40 ballot number 3044 and he cast that ballot in the Port of Tampa that day. The only reason that your Union Tallying Com­ mittee can think of to account for'this happening is that possibly the New Or­ leans Polls Committee failed to stamp the member's book indicating that he had already voted. In any event, your Union Tallying Committee has voided the days votes that were cast in the Port of Tampa on November 30, 1964, as this was the date on which the record indicates that Brother Tindell voted for the second time. MOBILE: On November 2, 1964, the Mobile Polls Committee issued ballot number 3109 to C. Nail, showihg his book num­ ber as N-108, when it should have been N-104. On November 5, 1964, the Mobile Polls Committee issued ballot number 3193 to A. Howard, showing his book number as H-995, when it should have been H-295. On November 28, 1964, the Mobile Polls Committee issued ballot number 3367 to W. Tatum, Jr., showing his book number as M-177, when it should have been T-177. On December 16, 1964, the Mobile Polls Committee issued ballot number 3470 to C. Pierce, showing his book number as P-306, when it should have been P-206. Your com­ mittee, the Union Tallying Committee, has counted these days ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port for these days, as the errors nvade were only transposi­ tions of numbers or incorrect letter des­ ignations. Your Union Tallying Committee in opening the envelopes containing the ballots for the various ports found that in the envelope for the Port of Mobile , for the date of November 12, 1964, that the envelope containing the ballots only had two of the Polls Committee's signa­ tures and book numbers instead of the three that it should have had. However, in checking the minutes of the Election of a Polls Committee for the Port of Mo­ bile for November 12, we found that a three-man committee was elected and that all of the roster sheets for the day con­ tained these three men's names and book numbers and that the agent's re­ ceipt for that date contained the three men's names and book numbers. We can, therefore, assume that the missing name and book number from the en­ velope containing the ballots was due to an oversight on the part of the Polls Your committee has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the port for the various days, as the errors made were only a transposition of nunvber or an incorrect letter designation. JACKSONVILLE: The Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various envelopes of bal­ lots received from the ports, found that in the Port of Jacksonville, on Decem­ ber 14, 1964, the Polls Committee for Book Number On Roster A-526 B-65 E-17 G-1061 V-297 C-250 A-334 A-649 W-336 Correct Book Number L-526 V-67 F-17 G-661 P-297 G-250 T-334 P-649 W-366 Committee at the closing of the day's balloting. Your Union Tallying Commit­ tee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of Mobile for the day of November 12, 1964. Your Union Tallying Committee, how­ ever, found that in the Port of Mobile •n the ballot certification envelope for the date of November 14, 1964, the Pons Committee for the day neglected to fill in on this envelope, the name of the port. However, your Union Tallying Man's Name A. Lores V. Villacion J. Farrow R. Gorvan V. Pold E. Gherman A. Telan A. Pulles H. Williams �JaitmdT St, 19M SEAFARERS CommiUe* haa counted the day's ballots for the Port of Mobile for the date of November 14, 1964, as valid ballots cast in the port for that day. NEW ORLEANS On the following dates, the Polls Committee for the Port of New Orleans Issued ballot numbers to the following men, showing the book number on the roster incorrectly. Those men so shown on the roster are as follows, with the date the ballot was issued, the number of the ballot that was given to the man, book number as shown on the roster and the book number as it should have been: i Ballot Number 4150 4244 4408 4478 4534 4711 4733 Date 11/ 9/64 11/10/64 11/20/64 11/24/64 11/30/64 12/14/64 12/15/64 Man's Name J. Digrazia G. Flint E. Mishanski K. Jones H. Nelli L. Fontenot H. Petersen The Committee has counted these days' ballots as valid ballots cast In the port for the various days, as the errors made were only a transposition of num­ ber or an incorrect letter designation. On November 12, 1964, the New Or­ leans Polls Committee issued ballot #4275 to T. Wright, W-624, who cast a ballot that day in the Port of New Or­ leans. On December 11, 1964, in the Port of New Orleans, New Orleans Polls Committee issued T. Wright, W-624 bal­ lot #4699 and he cast that ballot in the Port of New Orleans that day. Your Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's votes that were cast in the Port of New Orleans on December 11, 1964, as this was the date on which the record indicates that Brother Wright voted for the second time. On November 28, 1964, the New Or­ leans Polls Committee issued ballot #4526 to C. Garfin, G-499, who cast a~ ballot that day in the Port of New Or­ leans. On December 19, 1964, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued C. Garfin, G-499 ballot #4786 and he cast that ballot in the Port of New Orleans that da.v. Your Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's votes that were cast in the Port of New Orleans on De­ cember 19, 1964, as this was the date on which the record indicates that Brother Garfin voted for the second time. On November 9, 1964, the New Or­ leans Polls Committee issued ballot #4164 to L. Bumatay, B-325, who cast his ballot that day in the Port of New Orleans. On December 28, 1964, the New Orleans Polls Committee issued L. Bumatay, B-325, ballot #4834 and he cast that ballot in the Port of New Or­ leans that day. Your Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's votes that were cast in the Port of New Or­ leans on December 28, 1964, as this was the date on which the record indicates that Brother Bumatay voted for the second time. HOUSTON On November 6, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5333 to H. Bates, showing his book num­ ber as C-248. A check of the record shows that his nanoe is actually H. Gates with book number C-284. Under date of November 7, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5366 to D. Hightovver, showing his book number as H-507, when it should have been H-503. On November 17, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5476 to L. Moore, showing his book number as L-1299, when it should have been Mj-1299. On November 18, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5512 to P. Turner showing his book number as T-205, when it should have been T-207. On November 25, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5571 to W. Tillman, showing his book number as J-456, when it should have been T-456. On December 7, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee Issued ballot number 5694 to B. McGowan, showing his book number as M-1341, when it should have been M-1351. On December 8, 1964, the Houston Polls Committee issued ballot number 5715 to G. Martinez, showing his book number as M-1206 when it should have been M-1208. V Your Committee, the Union Tallying Committee, has counted these days' bal­ lots as valid ballots cast in the port for the various days as the errors made were only transpositions of nunobers, in­ correct letter designations or incorrect speiling of a name. Your Union Tallying Committee in opening the envelopes containing the ballots in the various ports found that in the envelope for the Port of Houston for date of December 1, 1964, the num­ ber of ballots contained therein was 19. However, in checking the receipt for the day, we found that twenty ballots Book Number On Roster G-132 F-107 M-1055 J-226 H-128 F-488 P-753 Correct Book Number D-132 F-102 M-1035 , J-228 N-128 F-486 P-573 had been issued by the Polls Committee In the Port of Houston. It was the intention of your com­ mittee to show one ballot missing for the Port of Houston for the date of De­ cember 1. However, upon opening the envelope containing ballots for the Port of Houston for the date of December 2, we found that it contained 12 ballots and when checking the roster for the day, we found that only 11 balolts had been issued for this date in the Port of Houston. Contained in this same envelope was a statement from the Polls Committee for the Port of Houston for December 2, which was also the same Polls Com­ mittee that had served on December 1. The following is a statement contained in the ballot envelope December 2, re­ ferred to above: "We the committee in the Port of Houston, Texas on the date of 12-1-64;'on this date we voted 20 ballots. These ballots were pack­ aged and sent to New York. Then on the day of 12-2-64 the same men was elected to the balloting com­ mittee and on opening ballot box we found a marked ballot we missed packaging on the date of 12-1-64. I "We now add this ballot and let­ ter to package of ballots dated 12-2-64. We the committee regret this mistake." Based on the foregoing statement, signed by the Polls Committee, in the Port of Houston for the date of Decem­ ber 2, 1964, which was also the same Polls Committee that served on the date of December 1, 1964, your Union Tally­ ing Committee has counted the day's ballots for both December 1 and De­ cember 2 in the Port of Houston as valid ballots cast In that port for those days., WILMINGTON On November 23, 1964, the Wilming­ ton Polls Committee issued ballot num­ ber 6092 to Joseph Rioux, showing his book number as B-79, when it should have been R-79. Your committee has counted this day's ballots as valid bal­ lots cast in the port for the day, as the error made was only an incorrect book number on the roster. On the folowing dates, the Polls Com­ mittee for the Port of Wilmington al­ lowed members to vote that were not in good standing; November 4, 1964 : November 16, 1964 December 1, 1964 As a result of the aforementioned errors, this committee, the Union Tally­ ing Committee, has voided the votes that were cast in the port for the days abovementioned. The Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various envelopes of bal­ lots received from the ports, found that in the Port of Wilmington, on November 11, 1964, thalt the Polls Committee for the port had failed to indicate on the certification of the envelope containing the ballots, the port and date. On De­ cember 22, 1964, the Polls Committee for the Port of Wilmington had also Sa^emeni—Pace Wnc LOG UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPORT (Continued) failed to indicate on the certification of the envelope containing the ballots, the port and date." Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of these omissions of the Wilmington Polls Committees, has counted these days ballots as valid ballots cast in the port for those days. Your Union Tallying Committee, In checking the envelopes that were mailed from the ports to the bank, found that the Polls Committee in the Port of Wilmington, on December 16, 1964, failed to indicate on the envelope being mailed to the bank, the date that should have been contained thereon. The Union Tallying Committee fur­ ther found that in checking the rosters for the Port of Wilmington on Decem­ ber 16th, that they had Issued six (6) ballots, two (2) of, which had been is­ sued to J. Sanfilippo, S-929, alongside of which of one on the roster they had written the word "Void." When opening the envelopes containing the ballots for the Port of Wilmington for this date, we found one ballot that was marked "Void," to which was attached stub #6131, by the means of a staple, which stub was also marked "Void." Since the envelope containing the ballots cast and the roster contained no report from the Polls Conomittee for the Port of Wil­ mington for the day as to why Brother Sanfilippo had been issued two ballots and one of them marked "Void" on the roster, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's ballots of Decem­ ber 16, 1964 for the Port of Wilmington, California. The Union Tallying Committee found that in checking the roster for the Port of Wilmington on December 31, 1964, that they had issued three (3) ballots; two (2) of which had been issued to Ray J. Kroupa, K-288, alongside of which of one on the roster they had written the word "Void." When open­ ing the envelope containing the ballots for the Port of Wilmington for this date, we found one (1) ballot that was marked "Void," to which was attached stub #6157, which stub was also marked "Void." Since the envelope containing the ballots cast and the roster contained no report from the Polls Committee for the Port of Wilmington for the day, as to why Brother Kroupa had been issued two (2) ballots and one (1) of them marked "Void" on the roster, the Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's ballots of December 31, 1964, for the Port of Wilmington, California. The Union Tallying Committee, in checking the various envelopes that were mailed to the bank depository found that in the Port of Wilmington, on De­ cember 26, 1964, that the Polls Com­ mittee for the port had indicated on the outside of the envelope that was mailed to the bank, the date of December 24th. However, upon opening the envelope and checking the certification on the envelope contained therein in which was the ballots for the port, we found the date of December 26, 1964. Your Union Tallying Convmittee, in spite of this error of the Wilmington Polls Commit­ tee, has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the port for that date. Earlier in this report your Committee had indicated that it would deal later in the report with the matter of stubs of ballots from the Port of Wilmington, Caiifornia. Your Committee, in check­ ing the stubs of the ballots for the Port of Wilmington, California, had found that four (4) stubs: #6082, #6131, #6138 and #6157 were missing. However, in the foregoing part of this report we have accounted for stubs #6131 and #6157, thereby leaving only stubs #6082 and #6138 as still missing. In checking the roster for the Port of Wilmington, California, we find that stub #6082 had been contained on a ballot that was issued on November 8, 1964 to Vernon White, W-673. In tallying the ballots for the port for the day, we found that three (3) ballots had been cast, which was a number equal to the amount that had been issued for the day in the port. In checking the roster for the Port of Wilmington, we find that stub #6138 had been contained on a ballot that was issued on December 19. 1964, to Thomas Price, P-560. In tallying the ballots for the Port for the day, we found that only one (1) ballot had been cast, which was a number equal to the amount that had been issued for the day in the port. Your Union Tallying Committee, in spite of this discrepancy of the two (2) missing stubs, has counted these two days' ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of Wilmington, California for the two (2) days. SAN FRANCISCO On November 7, 1964, the San Fran­ cisco Polls Committee issued ballot number 6287 to C. Lawson, showing his book number as N-1 when it should have been L-1. On November 21,1964, the San Francisco Polls Committee issued ballot number 6402 to Stanley Buzelski, showing his book number as B-1671, when it should have been B-671. On November 24, 1964, the San Francisco Polls Committee issued ballot number 6419 to F. Ellis showing his book number as F-179, when it should have been E-179. On December 2, 1964, the San Franvcisco Polls Committee issued ballot number 6460 to W. Layton, showing his book number as L-299, when it should have been L-290. Your committee has counted these days ballots as valid bal­ lots cast in the port for the various days, as errors made were only a trans­ position of nun^bers or an incorrect let­ ter designation. We, the Union Tallying Committee, find that in the Port of San Francisco on the date of November 13, 1964, that T. Moriarity, M-646, was issued ballot number 6342 and that the Polls Com­ mittee by a statement signed by them that date issued another ballot to T. Moriarity, M-646, it being ballot num­ ber 6343 because the brother claimed he made a mistake in voting and wished to have ballot number 6342 voided and received a new ballot in its place. Your Union Tallying Committee understands that it is possible for a member to make a mistake in marking his ballot whereby he will vote for a candidate for which it was not his intention to vote for. In checking the ballots in this election we found it necessary to void several bal­ lots which indicated thereon that the member so voting the ballot had evi­ dently made a similar mistake, since there were indications of attempted erasures. However, in each of those cases those ballots were carried on our tally sheets as void ballots. It is the feeling of this committee that in Brother Moriority's case, the ballot on which he claimed he made a mistake" in casting his vote, should have been the only is­ sued to him. By the issuance of a sec­ ond ballot to him. in our opinion, it is equivalent to his having voted twice in the same election. Therefore, your Union Tallying Committee has voided the day's ballots in the Port of San Francisco for the date of November 13, 1964. SEATTLE Your Union Tallying Committee in checking the roster of November 9, 1964 for the Port of Seattle found that the Polls Committee for that date had failed to issue the ballots in numerical order. In issuing the ballots they issued Eugene Dore, D-326 ballot number 6659 when they should have issued number 6658. Ballot number 6658 was issued to J. G. Crage, C-902, who actually re­ ceived his ballot after Brother Dore. However, since the issuance of this bal­ lot out of order by the Polls Committee was immediately caught by them and a correction made on the roster for that �JUttirjr SEAFARERS LOG Snppleaitnt^Paff* Tea' UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE'S REPORT (Continued) day, your Union Tallying CcHnmittee has counted the day's ballots for November 9, 1964 for the Port of Seattle as valid ballots cast in the port for that day. SAN JUAN The Union Tailying Committee, in checking the various envelopes of bal­ lots received for the ports, found that in the Port of San Juan on November 5, 1964 the Polls Committee for the port had failed to indicate on the cer­ tification of the envelope containing ballots, the port and date. The Union Tallying Committee in spite of this omission of the San Juan Polls Com­ mittee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the port for the day. Your Union Taliying Committee in opening the envelope containing the ballots for the various ports found that in the envelope for the Port of San Juan for the date of November 30, 1964, that the certification on the envelope containing the ballots only had two of the Polls Committee's signatures and book number instead of the three that it should have had. However in check­ ing the minutes of the election of a Polls Committee for the Port of San Juan for November 30, found that a three-man committee was elected and that all of the roster sheets for the day cintained these three men's names and book numbers and that the agent's reesipt for that date contained the three men's names and book numbers. We can, therefore, assume that the missing name and book number from the enveiooe containing the baliots was due to an oversight on the part of the Polls Com­ mittee at the closing of the day's ballot­ ing. Your Union Tallying Committee has counted this day's ballots as valid ballots cast in the Port of San Juan for the day of November 30, 1964. Mail Ballots Under the, "Additions to Voting Pro­ cedures," that was set up by our Sec­ retary-Treasurer under the authority granted to him by Article XIII, Section 7 of our Constitution, and approved by the Executive Board and the member­ ship, he made provision for voting in the General Election by maih The, "Additions to Voting Procedures," re­ quirements for mail ballots, as on Ab­ sentee Ballots were, as follows; "Full book members may request an absentee ballot under the follow­ ing circumstances, only. While such member is employed on an Ameri­ can-flag merchant vessel which ves­ sel's schedule does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is to take place during the voting period provided in Section 3 (g) of our constitution, in that event, the member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by Registered or Certified Mail or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such request is made, if such be the case. Such request must contain a designation as to the ad­ dress to which such member wishes his absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be received no later than 12:00 p.m. on the fifteenth day of November of the election year and shall be directed to the Secre­ tary-Treasurer at 675 Fourth Ave­ nue, Brookiyn 32, New York. Upon receipt of such request, the proce­ dures as established in Section 3 (d) of our constitution, shall not apply. "The Secretary-Treasurer shall be responsible for determining whether such member is a member in good standing and further wheth­ er such member, has, in fact, voted previously. He shall send the proc­ essed ballot by Registered MailReturn Receipt Requested to the . address designated by such member in his absentee ballot request. The Secretary-Treasurer shall send to such member with his ballot, in­ structions for returning the ballot, which instructions must be com­ plied with exactly. The SecretaryTreasurer shall further maintain a record showing the name, book number of the naember, his ballot number and the date upon which such ballot was sent, which infor­ mation shall be turned over to the Union Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with Article XIII, Section 5 (d) of the constitu­ tion. The member, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Registred or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, if such be the case, to the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Re­ port. "These absentee ballots must be post-marked prior to midnight of December 31, 1964, and must. be received by the depository named in the President's Pre-Balloting Re­ port, prior to January 10, 1965, re­ gardless of when post-marked, for them to be counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be main­ tained separately by such deposi­ tory and shall then be turned over to the Union Taliying Committee, as provided in Section 5 (d) of Article XIII of the constitution." The following are the names of the members who requested, were entitled to, and were sent Absentee Ballots: Namo Book Adams. Edward O A-473 Berg, Hans B-1154 Brian. S. M. B-949 Cobb, Arnle C .,.€-771 Davis, James F D-321 Du«y. James W D-P31 Eusebio, A ; E-186 Fruge, Herman F-233 Gonzales, AguiUno G-718 Hanstvedt, Alfred H-36 Henault, Joseph E H-342 Hoepner, Otto R H-224 Jennings, Charles J-333 Johnson. T. F ,1-276 Kong, Wong .K-374 Levin, Jacob J L-462 Lord. Charles L-354 Lynch, K L-688 Maloney, George J M-930 Manthey, WUly F M-169 Mastrantonis, Demetres .. M-1263 Nickerson, C. L. N-196 Novak, John ....N-32 Porcarl, Alfred P-52a Sohulz, Harry S-94 Sierra, Martin ..S-88 Stephen, Fritzbeck A. ...S-958 Suliman, Samong S-536 WilUams, L. A W-1K9 Williams, Louis H. W-37 Williams, Osborne R. ....W-78 WUIis, E W-687 Willoughby, Price W-15 Ballot Nvmijor 812 787 809 808 816 796 814 804 806 797 800 793 789 811 788 818 802 817 803 791 SOS 815 792 790 794 795 810 801 813 798 799 807 810 Our tally of these mail baliots is given on our master tally sheets for the whole election. It should be pointed out to the, mem­ bership that the ballots used for the mail ballots were a part of those that had been issued to the Port of New York. That out of the thirty-three (33) mail ballots sent out, only twenty-three (23) of them were returned. This ac­ counts for the discrepancy of the ten (10) ballots that are shown in the re­ port as having been issued, but are not accounted for in the total number of ballots cast. There were members who had re­ quested mail ballots, to whom none were sent, since they didn't meet the qualifications for voting by mail. These members were, as follows, along with an explanation of why they were not en­ titled to vote by mail: Yakymac, Paul, Y-39 requested a mail ballot under the date of October 19, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on November 17, 1964, because he was not on a vessel as called for in the, "Additions to the Voting Proce­ dures." Martoncsik, Louis, M-205 requested a mail ballot, which requst was received on November 9, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on November 17, 1964, because he was not on a ves­ sel as called for in, "Additions to Vot­ ing Procedures." Knowles, Ralph R., K-358 requested a mail ballot under date of October 30, 1964, which request was received on November 4, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on November 17, 1964, because he was not on a vessel as called for in the, "Additions to Vot­ ing Procedures." Hirsch, AI, - H-811 requested a mail ballot under date of November 7, 1964, which request was received on Novem­ ber 18, 1964. • His request for a mail ballot was denied on November 23, 1964, because his request was not in compliance with the provisions con­ tained in the, "Additions to Voting Pro­ cedures," which states that all requests, ". . .shall be received not later than 12:00 p.m. on the fifteenth (15) day of November of the election year, and shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer. . ." Rogera, Burton A., R-730 requested a mail ballot under date of November 14, 1964 which request was receivd on No­ vember 23, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on November 23, 1964 because his request was not in compliance with the provisions con­ tained in the, "Additions to Voting Pro­ cedures," which states that ail requests, ". . . shall be received not later than 12:00 p.m. on the fifteenth (15) day of November of the election year, and shall be directed to the Secretary-Treas­ urer . . ." Schoenbom, WiKired G., S-241 re­ quested a mail ballot in an undated let­ ter, postmarked November 28, 1964, which was received December 1, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on December 1, 1964 because his request was not in compliance with the provi­ sion contained in the, "Additions to Vot­ ing Procedures," which states that all requests, ". , . shall be received not later than 12:00 p.m. on the fifteenth (15) day of November of the election year, and shall be directed to the SecretaryTreasurer . . ." Scott, William E., 8-754 requested a mail ballot under date of December 16, 1964, which was received December 22, 1964. His request for a mail ballot was denied on December 22, 1964 because his request was not in compliance with the provision contained in the, "Addi­ tions to Voting Procedures," which states that all requests, ". . . shall be received not later than 12:00 p.m. on th fifteenth (15) day of November of the election year, and shall be directed to the Secretary-Treasurer . . ." All requests for Absentee or Mail Bal­ lots and decisions as to whether the member met the requirements for such a ballot was handled by the Polls Com­ mittee at Headquarters. CHALLENGED BALLOTS Under the, "Additions to Voting Pro­ cedures," that was set-up by our Sec­ retary-Treasurer under the authority granted to him by Article XIII, Section 7 of our Constitution, and approved by the Executive Board and the member­ ship, he made provisions for the voting of challenged ballots, which challenge could be determined by the Union Tally­ ing Committee. There were eleven (11) challenged ballots cast and in view of the fact that such eleven ballots would not change the results of the vote for any office or job, your committee de­ cided not to pass upon the challenge and open them up. The eleven chal­ lenged ballots are, as follows: Name Book Number Webb. Leon J W-675 Montoya, Caupto M-541 Frazler, Dorn F-328 O'Connell Lawrence E. ..0-161 Rossi, Michael R-7 Wells, Leo J W-387 Diaz, C. M D-91 Williams, L. R W-37 Williams, Osborne R. ..W-78 Brian, S. M B-949 Levin, J. J L-462 Port Of Challenge New Orleans New Orleans Houston Houston San Francisco San Francisco San Juan, P.R. Absentee Ballot Absentee Ballot Absentee Ballot Absentee Ballot CONCLUSION In addition to the previous votes voided by your committee in the prior part of this report, 280 votes were voided in the various ports as a result of a member being allowed to vote that was not in good standing. As one oX its closing actions this Union Tallying Comj mittee added together all of the votes that had been voided from the various ports, for one reason or another,, and they totalled 349 votes. You can readily see by comparing the number of voided ballots against the final tally of ballots that is annexed to and made part of this report, that the INT voided ballots would not have changed the outcome of any Joto on the ballot. This committee finds that the protest of Bernard Toner, T-28, is the only JH-Otest by one of our members, written or otherwise, with respect to the conduct of the election. Your committee has sent the following letter to Bernard Toner, in reference to his protest: January 14, 1965 Mr. Bernard Toner 35753 Charles Street Newark, California 94560 Dear Sir and Brother: Under the terms of our Constitution, this Committee has no authority to eval­ uate complaints of the type described in your letter of January 9, 1965. However, under the rules and pro­ cedure set up by the membership, com­ plaints of the nature made by you are handled by the Secretary-Treasurer. We enclose a copy of a Report by the Secretary-Treasurer on "Election Com­ plaints" during Eiection of 1965-1968 Officers and Job Holders of the Sea­ farers International Union of North America, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and In­ land Waters District. Fraternally yours. Seafarers International Union of North America—AGLIWD DOUGLAS CLAUSSEN, C-339, Chairman Union Tallying Committee REGISTERED MAIL RETURN RECEIPT REQUESTED Editors Note: Full reference to thb matter is contained in the report by the Secretary-Treasurer on "Election Com­ plaints'' which follows this report. Your committee finds that the ballot­ ing took place in strict accordance with the Constitution, and that what errors were made, were all of no importance, and of no measurable effect and could not influence the voting results and were dealt with in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution. It is, of course, impossible to tally write-in votes that are illegible or where the ballot has been defaced. Therefore, in the case of write-ins that are illegi­ ble or when they appear on defaced ballots, this Committee has carried such ballots under the heading of void bal­ lots, in which category they properly belong. We recommend that the proce­ dure on write-ins followed by this Com­ mittee be upheld, inasmuch as it is im­ possible to count write-ins' votes where the name written in is illegible or a voter defaces the ballot. If a man wants to write in a name, he ought to do so clearly, if he wants his write-in to be effective, and he must be careful not to place illegal marks on the ballot. This Committee feels very strongly on this point. The official tally of this Committee Is annexted to this report and made a part of it. Subject to the appropriate action of the membership at the "Elec­ tion Report" meetings, it represents the basis for the action called for in Section 6, Article XIII, of the Constitution. Dated: January 14, 1965. George Litchfield L-170 Elected in the Port of Baltimore Walter J. Walsh W236 Elected in the Port of Baltimore Aide Perlnl P-83 Elected in the Port of New York Cecil Leader L-6 Elected in the Port of New York Edward W. Morris M-135g Elected in the Port of Detroit Manuel Garza G-631 Elected in the Port of Detroit James Doris D-3 Elected in the Port of Phiiadelphia Charles Moss M-502 Elected in the Port of Philadelphia Thomas D. Garrity G-298 ' Elected in the Port of New Orleans Ashton L. Stephens S-318 Elected in the Port of New Orleans H. B. Butts B-395 Elected in the Port of Houston Douglas Claussen C-339 Elected in the Port of Houston James Naylor N-6 Elected in the Port of Mobile Dalphin L. Parker P-g4 Elected in the Port of Mobile �Jnufy M, Utti SEAFARERS'LOa fa]wl«pMi--Par« Qeyra Report By The Secretary-Treasurer On "Election Complaints" duringr "ELECTION OF 1965-1968 OFFICERS AND JOB HOLDERS OF THE SEA­ FARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA-ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES, AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT" Under the terms of our Constitution and the rules adopted by the Executive Board and approved by the membership, complaints concerning the conduct of the Union election and balloting pro­ cedure are to be sent to the SecretaryTreasurer, and the Secretary-Treasurer is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with such election. The office of your Secretary-Treasurer has received two communications from Brother Bernard Toner, T-28, a candi­ date for New York Joint Patrolman and I am reporting as to the action taken and my recommendations in connection with such action. On November 22nd, there was re­ ceived a letter from Brother Toner which was dated November 19, 1964 and postmarked November 20, 1964 at Fre­ mont, California. A copy of this letter is as follows: "Dear Sir and Brother, This letter is a protest of the elec­ tion now in progress. In regards to the balloting now going on in all ports, I am aware of the proper prwedure according to the constitution and I have wit­ nessed several violations since I arrived in San Francisco. I'm sure you know of the exist­ ence of the printed form available to voters with the names of candi­ dates, exclusive of many names that appear on the ballot. I've seen it and my name along with many others are among the missing. The form carries a union label and is probably available in all ports. This seems to me to be a vio­ lation, as we the missing candidates don't have the same opportunity to campaign on so large a scale, as finances and the method of distribu­ tion are not available to us. I witnessed Paul Gonsorchik, Walter Reidy, and one of the ballot­ ing committee passin.g them out. The man on the committee also made the statement "There are a bunch of running that the union would rather not have in office." I would like to know who ordered the printing of the forms, who de­ cided what names to go on them, and mostly who paid for them out of what funds? Fraternally yours, Bernard Toner T-28 Candidate for New York Joint Patrolman (Signed) Bernard Toner November 19, 1964" By letter dated November 24, 1964, I replied to Brother Toner and a copy of that letter is as follows: "November 24, 1964 Mr. Bernard Toner, T-28 36753 Charles Street Newark, California • 94560 Dear Sir and Brother: Your letter dated November 19, 1964, has been turned over to the undersigned for reply. The alleged incident .vou refer to, I assume, occurred in San Fran­ cisco on November 19, 1964, the date of your letter. Your corre­ spondence as well as this reply will be turned over to the Union Tally­ ing Committee at the time of their convening. As to your inquiry about a printed form, who decided what names to go on them, and who paid for them out of what funds, please be ad­ vised that the Union has not or­ dered the printing of any forms or paid for such, other than for the official ballots which contain the names of all candidates, together with the standard material, such as roster sheets, envelopes, etc. Cam­ paign material or forms, if any, as distinguished from the official elec­ tion material, are prepared and paid for solely by candidates. Fraternally yours. Seafarers International Union of North America-AGLIWD (Signed) A1 Kerr. Secretary-Treasurer" On January 13, the Tallying Commit­ tee received Brotfier Toner's letter dated January 9, 1965. A copy of that letter is as follows: "January 9, 1965 "Dear Sirs: In November 1 sent a written pro­ test of the balloting and what I con­ sider violations of the proper pro­ cedure, to Paul Hall. He turned it over to A1 Kerr and 1 was informed that all protests are handled by the tallying committee. When 1 sent in my credentials for the New York patrolman job, I signed them the way 1 wanted them printed in the "LOG," and to appear on the ballot, which was Bernard (Mike) Toner. Other candidates names appeared by the names they are commonly known as, but mine appeared sim­ ply as Bernard Toner. 1 have been asked a number of times by former shipmates why 1 didn't have "Mike" on the ballot, as that is what 1 am known as mostly, and due to some­ one's oversight have probably lost quite a number of votes because of it. In the event you haven't received my earlier letter it contained the following; 1. The printed form which was available may have influenced voters. "2. The fact that the form was available in all ports, and the same method of distributing campaign material was not available to all of us. 1 saw Paul Gonsorchik pass it out within ten feet of the ballot box. I saw Walter Reidy, whose name isn't on the ballot, pass one across the counter, also less than twenty-five feet from the box. 1 was also present when one of the ballot committee handed one to a member that inquired as to the purpose of it, and was told "there are a bunch of running that the union would rather not have in office." This man has since shipped on the "Alcoa Marketer" as Steward and I believe his name is Depaulier. 3. The way my name appeared on the ballot as explained earlier in this protest. 4. I would like to know also when these members whose names ap­ peared on the foitn ordered them printed, where they were printed, who paid for them and out of what funds. 5. Since the names not mentioned on the form are active seamen and their time ashore is limited to short periods at different times, no oppor­ tunity to meet and plan a large cam­ paign to compete with something like this is possible. Thereby limit­ ing equal rights. Fraternally, Bernard (Mike) Toner T-28 Candidate for patrolman (Signed) Bernard Toner P.S. The above violations are the only ones I am aware of, but if you will investigate further I feel you will find others." The tallying Committee has advised Brother Toner that under the terms of our Constitution the Committee has no authority to evaluate complaints of the type described In his letter of January 9, 1965. The Committee's reply to ^Brother Toner is contained in their re­ port. The Minutes of the Executive Board of September 9, 1964, approved and adopted by the membership, provides, in part, as follows: "2. To insure good order and to further preserve the secrecy of the ballot, electioneering must not take place within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, the Union con­ tinues to insist on good order and decorum, which must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has been solicited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and recom­ mendations thereon. In addition, the member is required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer, Al Kerr, at Headquarters, within 24 hours of the occurrence, by registered mail, return receipt requested, of the facts, which notification must be signed by the complainant, together with his book number. In that connection, the Executive Board reccommends that the mem­ bership also adopt the rule that, in case any member has a complaint that any of the election and ballot­ ing procedures of this Union have been violated, the same procedure as above set forth shall be followed. While the members have already been notified, through the LOG, as to notifications to the President in case of a claimed violation of any rights, it is recommended that the rule set forth herein be adopted with reference to the balloting and election procedures in this election, since the Secretary-Treasurer, un­ der the Constitution, is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with elections and referendums. The member's duty to report violations in this manner should be emphasized. If situations exist which call for corrective ac­ tion, tliat action ought to be taken.. It can't be taken if the responsible parties under the Constitution are not made aware of the facts." As a result of the above quoted rule, I am making my report and recommen­ dation as to the contents of Brother Toner's letter. Brother Toner's letter of January 9th is, in part, a repetition of his original letter of November 19, 1964 and insofar as the reply letter to him of November 24th applies to mat­ ters contained in his letter of January 9, 1965, the same reply is incorporated in this report; particularly with respect to his inquiry about campaign material and the furnishing of the same. In essence. Brother Toner's letter of Janu­ ary 9, 1965, setting forth matters which have not been previously replied to, consist of two areas: the first one is the absence of his nickname, "Mike," ap­ pearing on the ballot; and, the second, his claim of a violation of the no elec­ tioneering rule in designated areas. As to the first item—the absence of his nickname, "Mike," on the ballot—I wish to point out that, as we all know, the sample ballot was distributed long prior to the commencement of the elec­ tion. At no time did Brother Toner make any complaint about the absence of his nickname appearing with his name upon the ballot. Furthermore, at no time did Brother Toner ever request that his nickname, "Mike," appear alongside of his regular name upon the baiiot, and the first complaint received from him is after the election is over. Furthermore, in his letter of November 19, 1964, he signs it as ''Bernard Toner, T-28, Candidate for New York Joint Patrolman," without any reference to the nickname, "Mike." It Is clear that his complaint is an afterthought and there is no basis for such complaint. I further wish to point out that in the sections of the Executive Board Minutes mentioned above, at no time did Brother Toner follow the procedure of a com­ plaint in connection with the failure to have his nickname, "Mike," appear alongside of his name upon the ballot. In view of all of this, I find that there is no basis to Brother Toner's complaint as to the failure of his nickname to appear upon the ballot and 1 so recom­ mend to the membership for their action. With respect to the other area of Brother Toner's complaint in his letter of January 9, 1965 concerning violation of the no electioneering in prohibited areas, 1 have the following comments and recommendation to make. 1 refer again to the rules adopted by the Execu­ tive Board and the membership concern­ ing this subject of electioneering or soliciting votes within the prohibited areas, which is set forth above. It is first provided that any member whose ballot has been so solicited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact known to the local Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and rec­ ommendations thereon. The record shows that no member has made any complaint to any Polls Committee, nor do the reports of any Polls Committee contain a record of any such complaint, finding or recommendation. The rules further provide that the member is re­ quired to notify the Secretary-Treasurer at Headquarters within 24 hours after the occurrence. No member whose vote has been allegedly solicited in the pro­ hibited area has so notified the Office of Secretary-Treasurer. The above rules further provide that if any member has a complaint as to any of the election and balloting procedures to the effect that they have been violated, that the same procedure as set forth with respect to an individual member be followed. 1 as­ sumed that Brother Toner's letter of January 9, 1965 was intended to come within this latter rule. 1 wish to point out that, aside from the complaint re­ ceived from Brother Toner which alleges conduct only in the Port of San Fran­ cisco, no other letter has been received from any member complaining about an alleged violation of the no solicitation or electioneering in prohibited areas from that port, or any other port. In view of the fact that no member has filed any complaint, either with any of the local Polls Committees, the Presi­ dent or the Office of the SecretaryTreasurer, concerning an alleged viola­ tion of the no solicitation rule in pro­ hibited areas, and Brother Toner's letter does not complain about his ballot being so solicited, but merely a state­ ment that somebody else's ballot w.as so solicited—without even identifying the member or membqrs so solicited— he has not set forth sufficient evidence to warrant the finding that the conduct complained of was so engaged in. As a result of this situation, it appears to the Secretary-Treasurer that Brother Toner is engaged in a "fishing expedi­ tion" and this is backed up by his post­ script in his letter of January 9, 1965, in which he requests a further investiga­ tion based upon his "feeling" that other violations will be found. Brother Toner's complaint deals solely with balloting conducted in the Port of San Francisco and 1 wish to point out to the membership that if all the ballots cast and counted from the Port of San Francisco were not counted—the results of the election would still not be changed. For all of the above reasons, 1 have determined that there is no basis to Brother Toner's complaint of violation of the election procedures in accordance with the Union's Constitution and rules adopted by the membership. 1, there­ fore, so recommend to the membership for their action. Submitted by, Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer �Supgleiiieiit-^Pacs Twdv* SEAFARERS Jammrrift, ms LOG OFFICIAL TALLY SHEET FOR ELECTION OF 1965-1968 OFFICERS •DENOTES THAT MAN WAS ELECTED MAIL BALLOT PrAldent John Cole, C-8 Paul Hall, H-1 William John Smith, S-60 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals BALT. NORP. JAX. Mil AMI TAMPA MOBILI N.o. HOUS. WILM. S.P. SBAT. DIT. SAN JUAN Totals 15 203 37 2 9 0 0 0 266 42 357 11 13 21 0 1 0 445 3 83 0 12 0 0 0 0 98 1 22 1 0 0 0 0 0 24 2 52 0 0 2 0 1 0 57 0 48 2 0 0 0 0 0 50 15 404 2 0 13 0 0 0 434 52 901 7 5 23 0 0 2 990 52 623 8 21 2 0 1 2 709 10 142 1 2 4 0 0 0 159 55 239 21 3 35 0 1 ^ 2 356 35 116 15 1 6 0 1 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 327 88 4,598* 115 1 13 75' 163 11 0 1 6 0 11 1 123 5,296 18 1 0 0 0 4 23 43 1 0 0 0 0 44 1,236 88 15 1 4 0 1,344 255 4 5 0 2 0 266 394 41 9 0 1 0 445 98 1 1 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 57 0 0 0 0 0 57 48 2 0 0 0 0 50 389 43 2 0 0 0 434 774 203 10 0 1 2 990 676 25 5 0 1 2 709 155 1 2 0 1 0 159 316 24 9 0 5 2 356 163 9 1 0 1 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 95 22 5 0 0 1 123 4,739* 465 64 1 16 11 5,296 18 1 0 0 0 4 23 41 1,243 81 3 0 17 0 1 0 2 0 0 44 1,344 254 5 5 0 2 0 266 387 48 8 0 2 0 445 97 0 1 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 56 1 0 0 0 0 57 46 4 0 0 0 0 50 386 46 2 0 0 0 434 769 208 9 0 2 2 990 678 22 6 0 1 2 709 156 1 2 0 0 0 159 320 23 10 0 1 2 356 165 8 1 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 97 20 5 0 0 1 123 4,737* 471 66 1 10 11 5,296 18 1 0 0 0 4 23 42 2 0 0 0 0 44 1,239 86 15 1 3 0 1,344 255 5 4 .0 2 266 392 45 8 0 0 0 445 97 0 1 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 56 1 0 0 0 0 57 48 2 0 0 0 0 50 386 45 3 0 0 0 434 764 214 9 0 1 2 990 677 26 4 0 0 2 709 156 1 2 0 0 0 159 319 24 10 0 1 2 356 169 3 1 0 1 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 4,736* 26 481 59 2 0 1 8 0 1 11 123 5,296 18 1 0 0 0 4 23 40 4 0 0 0 0 44 1,246 77 15 1 5 0 1,344 250 10 4 0 2 0 266 400 31 8 0 6 0 445 97 0 1 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 57 0 0 0 0 0 57 48 2 0 0 0 0 50 397 35 2 0 0 0 434 786 192 7 0 3 2 990 670 30 6 0 1 2 709 155 2 2 0 0 0 159 320 23 9 0 2 2 356 160 12 1 0 1 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 26 2 0 0 1 123 4,762* 445 57 1 20 11 5,296 4 13 1 1 0 0 4 23 6 35 1 2 0 0 0 44 49 1,249 9 35 1 1 0 1,344 25 230 1 10 0 0 U 266 59 324 43 19 0 0 0 445 7 83 0 8 0 0 0 98 1 23 0 0 0 0 0 24 2 54 0 1 0 0 0 57 3 40 2 5 0 0 0 50 18 401 9 6 0 0 0 434 52 895 18 23 0 0 2 990 52 624 14 17 0 0 2 709 9 146 0 4 0 0 0 159 75 246 12 20 0 1 2 356 43 123 5 3 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 63 23 9 0 0 1 123 432 4,549* 138 163 1 2 11 5,296 Vice-President in Charge of The Lakes and Inland Waters A1 Tanner, T-12 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 18 0 1 0 0 42 2 0 0 0 0 44 1,195 131 13 1 4 0 1,344 253 6 5 0 2 0 266 388 50 7 0 0 0 445 97 0 1 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 54 3 0 0 0 0 57 46 4 0 0 0 0 50 379 51 4 0 0 0 434 748 230 9 0 1 2 990 666 35 6 0 0 2 709 152 5 2 0 0 0 159 309 36 8 0 1 2 356 160 14 0 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 90 4,621* 28 595 4 60 0 1 0 8 1 11 123 5,296 Headquarters Representatives William Hall, H-272 Thomas (Curley) Liles, Jr., L-230... Edward (Eddie) Mooney, M-7 Frederick (Freddie) Stewart, S-8... No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 14 11 14 13 2 3 0 0 12 69 40 1,238 125 9 37 L224 38 1,177 8 121 141 0 3 0 3 0 0 0 132 4,032 234 48 241 225 14 35 0 1 0 798 334 122 342 293 - 169 75 0 0 '0 1,335 80 16 84 79 2 33 0 0 0 294 24 4 23 21 0 0 0 0 0 72 53 5 52 50 8 3 0 0 0 171 45 7 42 40 13 3 0 0 0 150 369 44 368 342 140 39 0 0 0 1,302 843 640 177 108 860' 633 763 614 53 242 76 73 0 0 3 0 6 6 2,970 2,127 145 22 145 135 12 18 0 0 0 477 269 114 262 262 92 63 0 0 6 1,068 137 70 132 132 34 17 0 0 0 522 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 4,541* 26 908 81 4,540* 63 4,247* 92 1,002 27 606 0 3 1 8 3 33 369 15,888 New York Port Agent Joseph (Joe) DiGiorgio, D-2 ....... No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 17 2 0 0 0 4 23 1,203 120 12 1 8 0 1,344 226 35 3 0 2 0 266 309 128 7 0 1 0 445 96 1 - 1 0 0 0 98 22 2 0 0 0 0 24 49 8 0 0 0 0 57 40 10 0 0 0 0 50 317 116 1 0 0 0 434 654 324 8 0 2 2 990 621 81 4 0 1 2 709 140 17 2 0 0 0 159 280 67 5 0 2 2 356 128 43 2 0 1 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 83 4,222* 35 996 4 49 0 1 0 17 1 11 123 5,296 297 210 26 1,117 12 304 25 1,214 236 14 115 162 36 8 6 317 228 33 1,103 12 89 133 20 3 5 229 203 26 1,103 16 242 203 25 1,110 14 223 204 24 1,120 11 279 227 26 1,170 13 242 215 24 1,079 8 132 26 . 65 4 8 108 209 28 9 10 219 30 117 9 10 82 119 4 27 5 76 123 26 6 8 271 209 26 1,122 14 127 ' 36 • 75 3 5 289 226 26 1,135 16 650 195 45 35 1 380 730 90 230 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 40 2,660 4,450S 830,, 440 .13,440, 79 83 14 78 12 68 69 70 73 71 7 20 19 11 12 78 10 80 6 120 0 0 0 980 22 23 4 22 4 22 22 18 23 21 1 4 4 0 2 19 1 20 8 0 0 0 0 45 48 13 38 8 37 42 32 42 34 3 8 17 7 5 43 8 43 47 50 0 0 0 41 40 336 352 34 332 28 324 329 321 342 318 25 37 35 24 24 338 30 330 521 260 0 0 0 757 744 182 680 157 631 641 614 744 647 109 235 210 132 121 713 123 725 1,158 550 0 ' 7 20 598 618 105 614 62 565 573 554 622 582 61 132 125 78 67 619 83 640 118 250 0 4 20 129 134 30 121 18 118 121 116 133 130 15 25 30 16 13 121 20 124 16 160 0 0 0 1,590 236 240 106 224 63 173 183 185 262 227 66 110 101 79 82 224 110 242 324 300 0 3 20 3,560 135 120 56 106 37 75 90 75 121 103 31 79 57 39 35 115 60 113 163 130 0 0 0 1.740 ; ., Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement Robert A. Matthews, M-1 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals . Vice-President in Charge of The Atlantic Coast Earl (Bull) Shepard, S-2 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals , Vice-President in Charge of The Gulf Coast James L. (Jimmie) Tucker, T-22 Lindsay J. Williams, W-1 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals New York Joint Patrolman Theodore (Ted) Babkowski, B-1 Angus (Red) Campbell, C-217 Warren H. Cassidy, C-724 ... John Fay, F-363 Vincent Genco, G-79 Luige lovino, I-ll Pasquale (Pat) Marinelli, M-462 Frank Mongelli, M-1111 E. B. (Mac) McAuley, M-20 ... George McCartney, M-948 ... Fred George Oestman, 0-41 . George (Frenchy) Ruf, R-1 Charles J. Scofield, S-186 Charles Stambul, S-578 Lorence E. Taylor, T-79 Keith Terpe, T-3 Bernard Toner, T-28 Steven (Steve) Zubovich, Z-13 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged , Totals . ...... i-v: 23 Srf, 37 7 0 0 0 0 44 t) 2^9 f V 9 39 7 30 35 33 37 34 1 9 8 3 4 34 2 37 37 60 0 0 0 500 -*ll o 30 4 39 1,265 9 0 1 1 37 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 44 1,344 Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr, K-7 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals j ! PHILA. 2 18 0 1 0 0 0 4 23 Executive Vice-President Cal Tanner, T-1 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals ^ BOSTON N.Y. 0• 0 53 4,093* 0 92 4,287* 0 29 909 0 54 4,001* 0 16 662 0 50 3,670* 0 56 3,755* 0 47 3,647* 0 52 4,166* 0 50 3,785* 0 23 577 0 28 1,051 0 33 1,024 0 14 640 0 17 621 0 61 4,007* 0 20 713 0 52 4,098* - 0 292 3,616 0 180 3,490 0 0 10 0 1 28 0 10 110 -0 1,239 , 52,960 1 �jMtmm Ui MM SupHlOTcnt—Page Tbbleem. SEAFARERS IOC \ OFFICIAL TALLY SHEET FOR ELECTION OF 1965-1968 OFFICERS •DENOTES THAT MAN WAS ELECTED Philadelphia A«ent Frank Drozak, D-22 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals MAIL BALLOT BOSTON N.Y. PHILA. BALT. NORF. JAX. MIAMI TAMPA MOBILl N. o. HOUS. WILM. t. F. SEAT. DET. SAN JUAN Totals / 4,482» 730 48 1 24 11 5,296 18 1 0 0 0 4 23 41 1,182 2 141 0 10 0 1 1 10 0 0 44 1,344 242 11 7 0 6 0 266 368 72 5 0 0 0 445 98 0 0 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 52 5 0 0 0 0 57 45 5 0 0 0 0 50 374 59 1 0 0 0 434 689 287 10 0 2 2 990 656 48 2 0 1 2 709 152 5 2 0 0 0 159 307 38 6 0 3 2 356 153 20 1 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 81 36 4 0 1 1 123 Philadelphia Joint Patrolman Willdam R. Davies, D-178 Belarmino (Bennie) Gonzalez, G-4.. Leon Hall, Jr., H-125 Edward Kresz, K-315 No Votes Void's rr. Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 8 11 12 3 0 4 0 0 8 46 8 29 31 9 7 4 0 0 0 88 152 1,160 1,126 110 71 65 2 2 0 2.688 49 198 183 72 6 18 0 6 0 532 122 274 262 87 115 30 0 0 0 890 19 80 77 10 0 10 0 0 0 196 3 21 20 3 1 0 0 0 0 48 3 54 43 4 8 2 0 0 0 114 7 41 38 4 10 0 0 0 0 100 40 350 352 20 94 12 0 0 0 868 171 749 689 129 182 56 0 0 4 1,980 97 592 577 86 46 16 0 0 4 1,418 21 129 126 18 6 18 0 0 0 318 106 221 206 78 58 38 0 1 4 712 79 98 78 52 35 6 0 0 0 348 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26 911 60 4,067* 48 3,868* 701 16 72 711 301 22 2 0 9 0 22 2 246 10,592 Baltimore Agent RexTord (Rex) JJickey, D-0 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 19 0 0 0 0 4 23 41 2 0 0 1 0 44 1,184 143 12 1 4 0 1,344 2.52 11 2 0 1 0 266 386 52 4 0 3 0 445 93 3 2 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 54 3 0 0 0 0 57 47 3 0 0 0 0 50 365 69 0 0 0 0 434 730 253 5 0 0 2 990 655 50 2 0 0 2 709 151 6 2 0 0 0 159 311 37 5 0 1 2 356 158 15 1 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 43 3 0 0 1 123 Baltimore Joint Patrolman W. Paul Gonsorehik, G-2 Eli Hanover, H-313 Tony Kastina, K-5 Benjamin Wilson, W-217 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 18 19 18 19 2 0 0 0 16 92 42 41 41 40 12 0 0 0 0 176 1,176 1,170 1,151 1,138 690 42 4 5 0 5,376 254 255 255 254 26 16 0 4 0 1,064 401 407 405 408 134 20 0 5 0 1,780 98 98 98 98 0 0 0 0 0 392 24 24 24 24 0 0 0 0 0 96 56 53 53 51 15 0 0 0 0 228 47 46 45 44 17 0 0 1 0 200 379 376 374 375 228 4 0 0 0 1,736 731 649 646 712 645 714 644 717 1,032 203 40 40 0. 0 6 1 8 8 3,960 2,836 154 154 154 154 11 8 0 1 0 636 318 293 290 299 180 33 0 3 8 1,424 156 154 153 154 72 6 0 1 0 696 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 4,583* 79 4,527* 80 4,500* 73 4,402* 159 2,781 225 16 4 0 28 1 44 4 492 21,184 Mobile Agent Frederick H. Johnson, J-44 Louis (Blackie) Neira, N-1 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 7 12 0 0 0 0 4 23 12 30 2 0 0 0 0 44 103 1,194 15 27 1 4 0 1,344 40 221 3 2 0 0 0 266 122 263 46 14 0 0 0 445 15 73 0 10 0 0 0 98 2 7 48 22 0 1 0' 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 57 24 6 44 0 0 0 0 0 50 25 395 8 6 0 0 0 434 180 780 7 21 0 0 2 990 115 578 2 11 0 1 2 709 19 134 0 6 0 0 0 159 122 196 19 16 0 1 2 356 76 86 9 3 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 28 60 25 9 0 0 1 123 18 18 18 18 4 0 0 0 16 92 40 41 40 40 15 0 0 0 0 176 1,129 1,170 1,159 1,136 729 46 4 3 0 5,376 368 256 2.55. 367 2.56 368 365 255 283 28 28 12 0 0 1 2 0 0 1,064 1,780 98 98 98 98 0 0 0 0 0 392 24 24 24 24 0 0 0 0 0 96 56 57 57 56 2 0 0 0 0 228 46 46 46 44 17 0 0 1 0 200 397 397 397 393 148 4 0 0 0 1,736 738 741 736 728 973 32 0 4 8 3,960 665 663 655 662 142 40 0 1 8 2,836 155 155 155 155 8 8 0 0 0 636 311 307 295 301 173 28 0 1 8 1,420 157 153 155 156 71 4 0 0 0 696 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Orleans Agent C. J. (Buck) Stephens, S-4 No Votes Void's Missing <• Write In's Challenged Totals 16 3 0 0 0 4 23 37 7 0 0 0 0 44 1,153 177 8 1 5 0 1,344 248 13 3 0 2 0 266 361 79 5 0 0 0 445 97 1 0 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 48 8 0 0 1 0 57 44 6 0 0 0 0 50 359 74 1 0 0 0 434 849 130 6 0 3 2 990 658 46 2 0 1 2 709 151 6 2 0 0 0 159 309 39 6 0 0 2 356 154 19 1 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 80 40 2 0 0 1 123 New Orleans Joint Patrolman A. E. (Jerry) Cunningham, C-718 Henry B. Donnelly, D-324 Thomas E. Gould, G-267 Louis Guarino, G'520 Andrew A. G. McCloskey, M-P50 .,. Herman M. Troxclair, T-4 Paul Warren, W-3 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 13 6 15 11 5 10 12 0 4 0 0 16 92 10 6 32 27 8 31 34 28 0 0 0 0 176 184 186 1,208 1,115 182 1,106 1,172 103 114 4 2 0 5,373 43 45 234 222 47 218 220 18 16 0 1 0 1,064 134 119 295 267 107 253 283 241 81 0 0 0 1,780 15 15 80 74 10 74 82 2 40 0 0 0 392 18 4 17 5 22 42 39 19 3 12 20 43 47 23 0 . 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96 228 11 8 37 36 6 33 28 17 24 0 0 0 200 46 41 358 346 33 360 337 171 44 0 0 0 1,736 171 146 841 777 122 869 750 162 112 0 2 8 3,960 122 106 633 588 97 589 599 50 44 0 0 8 2,836 21 22 141 125 28 134 129 0 36 0 0 0 636 133 114 235 211 105 201 223 130 64 0 0 8 1,424 77 69 132 89 55 92 100 62 20 0 0 0 696 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40 1,042 940 35 54 4,359* 60 4,006* 843 23 40 4,073* 48 4,087* 160 1,154 627 28 4 0 5 0 44 4 492 21,184 Houston Agent Paul Drozak, D-180 No Votes ; Void's Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 15 4 0 0 0 4 23 40 4 0 0 0 0 44 1,18.5 144 6 1 8 0 1,344 239 22 3 0 2 0 266 372 65 8 0 0 0 445 98 0 0 0 0 0 98 24 0 0 0 0 0 24 52 5 0 0 0 0 57 48 2 0 0 0 0 50 372 58 2 0 0 0 434 736 . 684 18 247 4 4 0 0 1 1 2 2 990 709 155 2 2 0 0 0 159 314 32 4 0 4 2 356 144 28 2 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 82 38 1 0 1 1 123 Houston Joint Patrolman Martin J. (Marty) Breithoff, B-2 William J. Doak, D-262 Roan Lightfoot, L-565 Oscar M. Raynor, R-520 R. F. (Mickey) Wilburn, W-6 ... No Votes Void's .. Missing Write In's Challenged Totals 17 13 17 8 14 3 4 0 0 16 92 38 1,227 252 248 34 1,250 222 29 1,196 231 , 70 11 36 1,194 228 25 20 . 155 116 16 8 0 0 4 0 - 3 3 0 0 0 1,064 176 5,376 333 342 310 155 306 246 88 0 0 0 1,780 89 91 81 20 91 0 20 0 0 0 392 24 24 23 3 22 0 0 0 0 0 96 53 52 52 20 46 5 0 0 0 0 228 47 43 43 9 39 19 0 0 0 0 200 375 373 357 54 362 171 44 0 0 0 1,736 865 835 801 246 810 291 96 0 8 8 3,960 663 653 632 108 661 40 68 0 3 8 2,836 147 142 133 38 137 7 32 0 0 0 636 311 264 251 149 238 125 77 0 1 8 1,424 153 139 127 90 114 53 20 0 0 0 696 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 76 4,670* 71 4,574* 57 4.331* 45 1.257 54 4,352* 153 1,313 621 32 4 0 0 18 44 4 492 21,184 Bstroit Agent Frank (Scottie) Aubusson, A-8 No Votes Void's ^lissing .. Write In's Challenged Totals 18 1 0 0 0 4 28 377 63 5 0 0 0 445 97 1 0 0 0 0 98 23 1 0 0 0 0 24 47 3 0 0 0 0 60 372 61 1 0 0 0 434 728 256 3 0 1 2 990 652 51 4 0 0 2 709 153 4 2 0 0 0 159 313 35 5 0 1 2 356 154 17 3 0 0 0 174 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 94 27 1 0 0 1 123 Mobile Joint Patrolman Harold J. Fischer, F-1 Robert Jordan, J-1 Leo P. Marsh, M-9 William J. (Red) Morris, M-4 No Votes Void's Missing Write In's Challenged ; Totals . 41 3 0 0 D 0 44 1,167 170 4 1 2 0 1,344 249 14 2 0 1 0 266 53 4 0 0 0 0 57 ' a 0 0 4,546* 690 38 1 10 11 5,296 879 4,136* 137 126 1 6 11 5,296 81 4,539* 88 4,580* 79 4,538* 76 4,507* 156 2,749 210 8 0 4 13 0 44 * 4 492 21,184 4,588* 648 36 1 12 11 5,296 4,562* 669 36 1 17 11 5,296 4,538* 711 30 i 5 11 5,296 �' ?? Snwlemeni—ite* yowteni IffS SEAtARERB LOO HEADQUARTERS TALLYmO COMMITTEE'S BREAKDOWN OF WRITE-INS NAME OP CANDIDATE BOOK NUMBER Rnv'^^llilSi'fiflN MAIL JOB Algina Not given .. . President .., 0 Josei>h Kalata Not given .. , President 0 Seaweed Sam Not given.. • President 0 F. J. Kendrick K-250 President 0 William Slusser Not given.. President 0 Earl H. Gater ."Not given .. . President 0 William Smith Not given .. . Executive Vice President ... 0 J. W. Allen Not given .. . Executive Vice President ... 0 John Cole C-8 , Executive Vice President ... 6 John Doe Not given . Executive Vice President ... 0 Peter Drews Not given . Executive Vice President ... 0 George R. Stanley ... .Not given . Executive Vice President ... 6 Baldy Babkoskl B-1 Executive Vice President ... 0 Martin J. BreithoflE .. .B-2 Executive Vice President ... 0 William Slusser Not given . Executive Vice President ... 0 Luke Ciamboli Not given , . Executive Vice President ... 0 Frank Sylvia S-164 Executive Vice President ... 0 Eli Hanover Not given . . Executive Vice President ...- 0 John Cole C-8 . Secretary-Treasurer 0 John Doe Not given .Secretary-TreasuTCT ....... 0 W. J. Smith S-60 .... Secretary-Treasurer ....... 0 George McCartney ... Not given .Secretary-Treasurer ....... 0 Eli Hanover Not given . Secretary-Treasurm: 0 Joe Blow Not given . Secretary-Treasurer 0 Scotty Rosse Not given . Secretary-Treasurer 0 E. B. McAuley M-20 . Secretary-Treasiffer 0 William Slusser ; Not given , .Secretary-Treasurer 0 Cliff Wilson .Not given ... V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 John Cole C-8 . ... V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 John Doe Not given .. .V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 J. P. Brennan B-396 ... V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 Vincent Monte Not given ... V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 William Slusser Not given ...V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 William J. Smith S-60 V.P. Charge of Contracts 0 Clifford E. Hasz H-293 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Frank Aubusson Not given .. .V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Red Dean Not given ...V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 John Cole C-8 . ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 John Doe Not given ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 J. P. Brennan B-396 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Paul Hall H-1 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Eli Hanover H-313 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 William J. Smith ....S-60 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 W. W. Reid R-339 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Charles Scofield Not given ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Bill Dickey Not given ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 R. Thracher Not given ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Frank Pasyluk Not given ... V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 D. R. Reynolds .R-430 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 William Slusser Not given .. .V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 Frenchy Ruff R-1 V.P. Charge Atl. Coast . 0 John Cole C-8 V.P. of Gulf Coast 0 William Slusser Not given ...V.P. of Gulf Coast 0 Bill Hall Not given ...V.P. of Lakes 0 Pete Drews Not given .. .V.P. of Lakes 0 John Cole C-8 . V.P. of Lakes 0 John Doe Not given .. .V.P. of Lakes ....' 0 J. P. Brennan B-396 V.P. of Lakes 0 Paul Hall H-1 V.P. of Lakes ...... ... 0 Richard Schemm Not given ... V.P. of Lakes 0 William Slusser Not given ... V.P. of Lakes 0 Larence Taylor Not given . .Headquarters Rep. 0 John Cole C-8 Headquarters Rep. 0 John Doe Not given . . Headquarters Rep 0 Angus Campbell Not given . .Headquarters Rep 0 Joe Blow Not given . . Headquarters Rep 0 Manuel Cotty Not given . .Headquarters Rep. 0 Aldo P. Perini P-83 .New York Port Agent ..;... 0 Bill Hall H-272 New York Port Agent ...... 0 Eugene Dokin Not given . .New York Port Agent ; 0 Oscar M. Raynor Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 Tom Gool .Notgiven . .New York Port Agent 0 Angus Campbell .....C-21'7. ... New York Port Agent 0 John Cole .C-8. New York Port Agent 0 John Doe Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 J. P. Brennan .B-396 New York Port Agent 0 John Fay Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 Joe Blow Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 Geraid McCarthy Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 James Tucker T-22 .. .. New York Port Agent 0 Kieth Terpe Not given . .New York Port Agent 0 W. P. Gonsorck G-2 .New York Port Agent ...... 0 Stafford McCormick . .M-1073 ... N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Babe Miller Not given . .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Augustus Hickey H-305 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman ...... 0 Jose P. Revera R-264 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 9 Andrew Mazorck M-462 N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Leon Hall Not given . .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 John Cole C-8 . . N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 John Doe Not given . • N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 J. P. Brennan B-396 N.Y. Joint Patrolman ..] 0 Paul HaU H-1 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 William Hall H-272 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 John Sovick S-1169 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Van Whitney .W-ll N.Y. Joint Patrolman ...... 0 Eugene Dokin D-9 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Erasmus S. Arroyo . ^. Not given . • N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 B. L. Lanes Not given . • N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Jimmy Bartlett Not given . .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Leo Bruce ........... B-158 E. Jimanez J-32 .N.Y. Joint Patrolman . ^ 0 Ray O'Dowd Not given . • N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 , N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 Terrance J. White .... W-588 Jim Wilson ;. Not given. .N.Y. Joint Patrolman 0 0 L. A. Ramirez Not given . .N.Y. Joint Patrolman . Phila. Port Agent 0 William Smith S-60 Phila. Port Agent 0 Oscar Kirs K-432.. 0 Bennie Gonzalez ..... Not given . • Phila. Port Agent Phila. Port Agent 0 Frank Aubusson A-8 Phila. Port Agent 0 Edward Kresz K-315 0 Honest A1 Whitmer ... Not given . .Phila. Port Agent 0 Charles Stansbury Not given . .Phila. Port Agent 0 Paul Drozak Not given. .Phila. Port Agent Phila. Port Agent 0 John Cole C-8 0 John Doe Not given . .Phila. Port Agent BOfT. N.Y. PHILA. BALT. 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MIAMI TAMPA MOB'I N.O. HOUB. WILM. I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 b 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 b b 0 b b b 0 9 0 b 9 9 9 9 b 9 0 0 9 9 0 b b b b 0 b b b 0 9 b 0 b 9 b 0 b b b b b b 9 b b 0 b b 9 b b Q 9 b 9 b b b b 0 b 0 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 0 b b b b b 0 9 I I i 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 0 b 9 9 0 9 9 9 b b b 9 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 0 b b 0 b 0 b b b b 0 b b 0 b b b b b b b b b b 0 b b b b b b b b 0 b b b b b b b b b b 0 9 9 9 0 0 9 0 0 9 0 0 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 9 9 0 9 0 0 b 0 9 9 b b 9 b b 0 b b 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 b 9 0 b 9 b b b 9 0 9 b 0 b b b b b b 0 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 0 b b b b b b 0 b 9 0 0 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 0 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 b 9 9 b 9 9 b b b 9 9 0 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 9 b b b b 9 b b b b b b b b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 0 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 0 9 9 9 • 1 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 1 1 9 0 9 9 9 9 0 0 9 0 9 1 9 9 9 0 1 1 1 9 9 0 9 9 9 b b b b 1 1 9 9 b 0 0 9 9 b 0 b b b b b b 2 2 1 1 1 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 ' 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 0 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 b - 9 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 0 9 0 9 0 b b b b 1 b b b b b b b b 0 0 b b b b 1 1 b b b 1 1 b b b b b b b b b b 9 b b 9 b b 9 b b b 0 9 b b b b b b b b b b 9 b b b b b b b b 0 b b b b b b b b 0 9 b b b b b •.p. 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 1 9 9. 9 9 1 1 1 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 b 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 1 b 1 9 9 b b b 9 9 1 9 b b 1 b b 9 9 b 9 b 1 9 9 9 9 b b b 1 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 1 1 1 b b b 6 b 0 b b b b b BEAT. DIT. 9 I I 0 9 1 9 9 9 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 1 9 0 b 9 9 9 0 9 b 9 b 9 9 9 9 1 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 0 9 0 0 b 1 9 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 b b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 b 9 b 1 b b 9 b b b b b b 9 9 b b b 0 0 9 b 0 b b b b b b b b b b b b b b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 b 9 b 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 b b 9 b b 9 b b 9 b b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 b 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 0 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 b 9 9 9 9 9 b b 9 9 b 9 9 b 9 9 1 9 9 b 9 9 9 b b 9 9 �JIPW INI Sapplenieiii—^Page Fitteen SEAFARERS LOG HEADQUARTERS TALLYING COMMITTEE'S BREAKDOWN OF WRITE-INS NAM! or CANOIOATI NUMBIR _ JOB FOR WHICH RBCEIVED WRITE IN MAIL •08T. N.Y. PHILA. BALT. NORF. L, Ctardner Not given .. .Phdla. Port Agent BiU Porter .Notgiven.. .Phdla. Port Agent John Fay given .. .Phdla. Port Agent Micael Sovkh Notgiven .. . Phdla. Port AgentJohn Pierce P-469 . Phdla. Port Agent Joe Blow Not given .. .Phdla. Port Agent J. Air Not given .. .Phdla. Port Agent C. G, McLellan M-697 Phdla. Port Agent George Ruff .Phdla. Port Agent Joseph Meyerchek .... Not given .. .Phdla. Port Agent WilMam Sluaeer Notgiven .. .Phdla. Port Agent William R. Davles .... Not given .. .Phdla. Port Agent John Oole C-8 . Phdla. Joint Patrolman John Doe Notgiven .Phila. Joint Patrolman Joe Air Notgiven .. .Phdla. Joint Patrolman J. P. Brennan B-396 . Phila. Joint Patrolman William Slusser Not given .. .Phila. Joint Patrolman Ed Riley Not given ,. .Baltimore Port Agent ...... John Sovich S-1169 .Baltimore Port Agent John Kennedy Not given .. .Baltimore Port Agent John Cole C-8 . Baltimore Port Agent John Doe Not given ,, .Baltimore Port Agent Tony Kastina .K-5 -Baltimore Pprt Agent Eli Hanover H-313 .Baltimore Port Agent Paul Hall H-1 .Baltimore Port Agent William Slusser Not given .. • BaRimore Port Agent Joseph S. Hilton H-85 .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Larence Taylor Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. John Cole , C-8 Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. John Doe I Notgiven.. . Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Mickey Mouse Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Paul Hall H-1 • Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Walter Cressman Not given ., .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Ward Messinger M-615 Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. John Fay F-363 . Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. E. B. McAuley M-20. , Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. R. R. Nay N-231 .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Rex Dickey Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Vic O'Brien Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Joe Blow Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Ed Blow Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. George Blow Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. W. Bobaleck Not given ...Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Nils Peck Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. J. D. Jones Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. W. MacArthur M-1089 .... Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. C. Scofield Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Dave Nunn Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Carrol J. Quinnt Not given .. .Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Tom Connell Notgiven.. . Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. Chester Hegbart Not given .. . Baltimore Joint Patrolman.. William H. Rhone ... Not given .. . Mobile Port Agent Harvey Mesford Not given .. .Mobile Port Agent Mobile Port Agent John Cole C-8 'John Doe Notgiven.. .Mobile Port Agent Willie Sutton Not given .. .Mobile Port Agent Bernard Tonen Not given .. .Mobile Port Agent ,... Clyde Garner Not given .. .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Mobile Joint Patrolman.... John Cole .C-8 John Doe .Notgiven.. .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Paul Hall H-1 Albert Lima Notgiven.. .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Joe Blow Not given .. .Mobile Joint Patrolpaan.... Ed Blow , Notgiven.. .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Carl Pierce ..Notgiven.. .Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Adolph Eichmainn ... Not given .. .Mobile Joint Patrolman,... W. S. Daniel Not given .. . Mobile Joint Patrolman.... Chester Hegbart Not given .. . Mobile Joint Patrolman.... New Orleans Port Agent... Richard B. Comstock. .C-256 Papl Warren Not given .. .New Orleans Port Agent... Roy D. Yotter Not given .. New Orleans Port Agent... New Orleans Port Agent... John Cole C-8 John Doe Notgiven.. .New Orleans Port Agent... .New Orleans Port Agent... J. P. Brennan B-396 New Orleans Port Agent... Paul Hall H-1 Seaweed Sam Not given .. New Orleans Port Agent... Robert Jordan Not given .. New Orleans Port Agent... Joe Blow Notgiven.. New Orleans Port Agent... Jimmy Ahern Not given .. .New Orleans Port Agent... Adolph Eichmann' ... Not given .. .New Orleans Port Agent... N. O. Joint Patrolman John Cole C-8 John Doe Not given .. . N. O. Joint Patrolman N. O. Joint Patrolman L. J. Williams W-1 N. O. Joint Patrolman J. P. Thrasher T-187 Houston Port Agent John R. Hansen H-666 Charlie Kimbal ..... Not given .. Houston Port Agent Houston Port Agent Martin Breithoff B-2 Babe Miller Not given .. .Houston Port Agent Breithoff .... .... Not given .. .Houston Port Agent Houston Port Agent Cole C-8 John Doe Not given .. .Houston Port Agent G. Ruf Not given .. Houston Port Agent Houston Port Agent J. P. Brennan B-396 .Houston Port Agent Paul Hall H-1 Houston Port Agent Harold Fisher F-1 Houston Port Agent T. D. Wilson W-451 Houston Port Agent.... Keith Terpe T-3 J. J. Morrison Not given .. Houston Port Agent Houston Port Agent Thomas Liles L-230 Houston Port Agent Oscar M. Raynor R-520 Houston Joint Patrolman... William Red Morris.. M-4 Houston Joint Patrolman..., John Cole C-8 John Doe Not given .. Houston Joint Patrolman... Houston Joint Patrolman... J. P. Brennan B-396 Houston Joint Patrolman... Paul Hall H-1 Houston Joint Patrolman... Jim Batson B-213 Houston Joint Patrolman... H. Hunt H-405 Joe Blow Notgiven .. Houston Joint Patrolman... Ed Blow Not given .. Houston Joint Patrolman... S. R. Mehringer ....M-1129 Houston Joint Patrolman... Earl Shepard S-2 — Houston Joint Patrolman... N. Davis, Not given .. Houston Joint Patrolman... Detroit Port Agent Cole C-8 John Doe Not given .. Detroit Port Agent J. P. Brennan B-396 Detroit Port Agent Joe Blow Notgiven.. .Detroit Port Agent William Slusser ..... Not given .. 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WILM. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 d 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B B B B 6 B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 0 B B 6 6 B 0 6 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 6 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B 8 B B B 6 B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 0 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 6 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 6 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 6 B 0 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 0 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 0 B B B B B B B B 6 B 6 0 1 1 B B B B 6 B B B B B B B 6 B B B B B 6 B 6 B B 6 B B 0 B 6 . 6 B 1 1 1 1 1 1 B 8 B B 6 B B B B B B B B B B B B 1 1 1 1 B B B B B B B B B B B 1 1 1 B B B 1 1 B B B 0 B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B B 3 3 1 1 B 0 B B B 0 1 B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 B B 6 6 0 B 6 0 B B 6 0 0 B B B fl 0 B B B B 6 6 fl 0 8 B 0 B fl 0 B 1 fl B 0 B B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B B fl B B B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B 1 1 B B B 0 B B fl 0 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 0 B B B 0 B B B B 0 0 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B fl B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 0 B 8.F. B B B 0 B 0 B B 1 1 1 B B B B B 1 B 0 0 0 0 0 B 6 1 B B 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 fl B 0 B 0 B 0 B B B B 1 1 1 B B B 0 B B B 1 B B B fl B fl B B fl 1 B B fl B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B B B B B B B 1 1 1 B B B B B B B B B B B B 1 B B B U 1 SEAT. DET. JUAN B B B B B B B B B B B B B B fl B B 0 0 B B 0 0 B 0 B 6 B 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 fl 0 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 B 0 B 0 fl 1 0 0 0 B 0 0 B 0 fl B B 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 0 0 0 0 B 0 B 0 0 0 B B B B B B B B 0 B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B fl fl 0 B B B B 0 0 0 B B B 9 B B B 0 B B B B B 6 B B B B B B B fl 0 B B B B 0 B B B B 0 B B B B B B 0 B 0 0 B fl B 0 0 0 0 B 0 0 0 0 B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B B 0 d fl 0 fl 0 B B 0 B 0 B 6 B 0 0 B fl B B fl B 0 B B 6 B B B B B 0 B B B 0 B B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fl 0 0 0 0 0 0 B fl B 0 B 0 0 0 B 0 0 B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fl B B B 0 B B B B 1 B B 0 B B B fl B B fl B B 0 B B B B 0 B B fl B fl 0 B B B B fl B fl B B 0 0 0 0 B 0 B B B 0 B B B B B B fl B B B B B B B 0 B B 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B Total Votei Ra �L:'i:.Li-'ii: .t^".«•••'; •: � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource January22, 1965 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL-CIO URGES CONGRESS PASS STRONG LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM REPORT NO SEAFARERS HURT AS SIU SHIP, TANKER HIT NEW YORK LONGSHOREMEN VOTE APPROVAL OF NEW CONTRACT NEW PENNMAR COMPLETED, MAIDEN VOYAGE DUE SOON ELEVEN VETERAN SIU MEN ON LATEST PENSION LIST BALLOTING PROCEDURES AND UNION TALLYING COMMITTEE REPORT MARITIME LABOR COMMITTEE BLASTS U.S. SHIPPING POLICY AFL-CIO HAILS FIRST DECADE OF MORGAN NEWS BROADCASTS THE SAME OLD SHOUT – NOW AGAINST MEDICARE! BIG BIZ PRICE FIX FINES ERASED BY GOV’T TAXMEN OPEN SHOP RIGHT WING GOAL Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/22/1965 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. 28 1965 Periodicals Seafarers Log