http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/d46fb22195eb7d35f436311f8a7311c4.PDF a647af34950fbcad4b2797568efc0845 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS LOG OFFICIAL ORQAMOr THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO St m �rac« Tm SEAFARERS AprU 39, 196S LOG Russian Merchant Fleet To Top U.S. Next Year By Paul Hall WASHINGTON—While the call of the SIU and all of maritime labor for a modern Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman is once more pushing Congress U.S. merchant fleet continues to go unheeded by the U.S. Government, the Soviet Union con­ to adopt measures which, if adopted, would in a few years leave the U.S. tinues to expand its merchant fleet with an unprecedented building program. with virtually no merchant marine and at the mercy of any foreign power which decided to start turning the screws on the U.S. interna­ Russia's merchant marine tionally. will surpass the American Secretary Freeman, is advocating dropping the 50-50 requirement merchant fleet in both ships that at least half of the American farm products sold to Soviet bloc and capacity by the middle of next nations must be carried in U.S. ships. Tq^justify this stand the year, the annual report of the Agriculture Department is pushing the plea that the 50-50 requirement Shipbuilders Council of America is curtailing the sale of such commodities to these countries by making has predicted. U.S. agricultural products non-competitive on the world market. CHEYENNE, Wyo.—The Wyoming Supreme Court threw "More Importantly," the out a key section of the state's "right-to-work" law by af­ This is an old Agriculture Department line which it drags up peri­ fleet wit be composed pre­ odically—apparently with the hope that someday this view will be firming the right of unions to maintain hiring halls and mistaken dominantly of new, efficient for the truth and adopted by Congress. As it has done in the secure jobs for their members. vessels, while the U.S. mer­ past and will continue to do in the future, the SIU has countered this the court said, "must yield to the chant marine will be composed In a three-to-one decision, supreme law of the land, which is distorted Agriculture Department view by placing the true facts before overwhelmlng:ly of obsolete the court granted an in­ the Uhited States Constitution, and the American public and the Congress, and by clarifying Freeman's ships in the 25-year-old junction asked for by the Inter­ the valid laws of the United States latest attempt to hoodwink the nation. bracket." national Brotherhood of Electrical made in pursuance thereof." The SIU has pointed out that it is not the high cost of American Since 1951, the Russian mer­ Workers, AFL-CIO, to prevent the shipping which is making our agricultural products un-competitive on chant marine has increased from Governor and county attorneys the world market, but the high cost of American agricultural products 432 ships of 1.8 million dead­ from enforcing the anti-hiring hall themselves. weight tons to 1,200 ships totaling section of the anti-labor law. Freeman is laying down a smoke-screen to obscure the fact that 8 million tons, according to the The IBEW's legal stand was the farmer is being paid huge sums in subsidies to support high prices report. In the same period, the for his products at home, and is then getting an additional subsidy to U.S.-flag fleet has been shrinking backed by two local chapters of enable him to sell abroad at the considerably lower World market steadily from 1,955 active ships the National Electrical Contractors prices. These agricultural subsidies amount to such a huge figure of 22.4 million tons in 1951 to only Association, an employer group. It annually that it is the height of cynicism and chicanery to try to obscure £00 vessels totaling 13.5 million .has been a long-standing practice in the building trades industry for that fact by making the American merchant marine the whipping boy A.S of November 1, 1964, the contractors to hire workers for our failure to compete on the world agricultural market—as the JERSEY CITY —Delegates to Agriculture Department has tried to do time after time after time. Soviets had 673. ships of 6,450,000 through their unions. the Special and Second Quadren­ deadweight tons being constructed The sole dissenting voice on the nial Convention of the Railway o- on order, compared with only 43 Artificial Boosts ocean-going merchant ships under court wanted to go even further Marine Region, Inland Boatmen's The truth is that after spending huge amounts of the taxpayer's construction or on order for the than his colleagues, as he support­ Union of the SIU-AGLIWD, have money to artificially boost the price of foodstuffs, which then costs ed the union's contention that the been elected in balloting conduct­ U.S. merchant marine. whole 'right-to-work' statute should ed on April 19, 1965 at the Union the taxpayer more of his hard earned money because he must buy his Crash Program daily bread at these inflated prices, the taxpayer is then hit again by be declared unconstitutional. halls in Jersey City, Philadelphia, having more of his tax dollar spent to subsidize the "farmer for "drop­ The report points out that be­ The stricken sectmn of the law Baltimore and Norfolk. There were ping" his prices to meet the world market. To explain all of this away, cause of the all-out crash building said: "No person is required to four candidates for the two dele­ Freeman then proceeds to attack his favorite patsy—the American p-ogram of the Russians' Soviet gate positions to these Conven­ merchant marine. shipyards cannot even handle all have any connection with, or be tions. recommended or approved by, or the naval and merchant ship To counter this dangerous nonsense doled out by the Agriculture The members of the Union, in orders which are coming in, and cleared through, any labor organi­ special membership meetings held Department, which would lead to the quick death of a proud and vital zation as a condition of employ­ 3 9 million tons of modern mer­ on April 21 in each port, acted on American industry, the SIU has proposed a plan which' would instead chant ships are being built in ment or continuation of employ­ and approved the final report of breathe new life into the maritime industry, bring down freight rates ment." yards outside Russia. the Polls and Tally committees— on American vessels without undermining the hard-won decent wage The court majority found While the Soviets continue to which is printed in its entirety on achieved by American seamen, and give U.S. products-manufactured as that the section conflicted with build merchant ships at an enor­ page 4 of this issue of the LOG. well as agricultural products—a better chance to compete in world the National Labor Relations mous rate, so few modern U. S. The IBU's Special and Second markets. Act's provision for exclusive flag merchant ships have been Quadrennial Convention will be The costs of shipping Government-generated cargoes could be sub­ representation. The court held constructed in recent years that held at 9:00 AM, Thursday, May stantially reduced by building new American-flag bulk carriers which that "when the exclusive repre­ 18 U.S. shipyards have closed 27, 1965 at the Gramercy Inn, 1616 would be able to carry these cargoes at lower rates than the aging sentative is a labor organiza­ down since 1955. As a result, the Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Wash­ tramps now in operation and still operate profitably. tion, a non-union employee is fast, modern Soviet fleet contrasts ington, D.C. In addition to the necessarily required to have U.S. Agencies Share Blame strongly with the U.S.-flag tramp RMR, delegates to the convention a connection with a labor fleet, which is composed mostly will represent the Atlantic, Gulf Much of the blame for the sad decline of the U.S. tramp fleet can organization." of small, slow, warbuilt Liberty and Great Lakes Tug and Dredge be laid at the door of the Agriculture Department, along with several and Victory ships. The state's "right-to-work" law. regions. other Government agencies. Federal agencies, particularly the Agricul­ ture Department, have consistently failed to administer the cargo pre­ ference laws which were designed to provide a proper share of Govern­ ment cargoes for tramp ships. The Agriculture Department has consist­ ently supported foreign trade missions and their ship brokers In their attempts to force American vessels out of the trade. In addition, the Government has failed to provide any meaningful assistance to the vital tramp fleet—other than through cargo preference, which has been constantly undercut and made a mockery by the Agriculture Department. As a result, the American tramp fleet is now made up almost en­ tirely of war built Liberty and Victory ships—small, slow, prone to breakdowns, uneconomical, obsolete. By contrast, foreign nations are building fast, modern bulk carriers to carry more goods, cheaper. This is what the U.S. needs—a tramp fleet of fast, modern bulk car­ riers. The U.S. Government however, has continued to take the short­ sighted view and has refused to provide building subsidies for these modem tramps. As a result our tramps are getting older, less able to compete, and the Governments cutting its ovm throat economically because the un-competitive nature of these vessels brings about higher and higher costs, in freight rates to perpetuate an obsolete, outmoded fleet unable to serve the nations economic or defense needs. Wyoming Supreme Court Backs Union Hiring Halls RMR Elects Convention Delegates l.i •a 'V I Ji f'il j: SIU Polls And Tally Committee At Headquarters Seafarer Kenneth Cann registers to east his balllot to elect delegates to the Twelfth Biennial SIllNA Convention, while Polls and Tally Committee members at headquarters [seated l-r) Ricky MoHfctf, Ed Starm and Bill Funk check out his book. The SlUNA Convention will take "' ' plhce in Washington, D.C. from May 26 through June I, 1965. New Ship Construction . The SIU Is pushing for the adoption of a Government policy which would bring about the construction of a new bulk carrier fleet which would bring dividends to the nation in the form of lower cargo prefer­ ence costs, wotild let us compete in world markets, and provide the nation with fast, modern tonnage to serve our best interests in peace and war. American tramp operators have filed plans for the building of new American-flag bulk carriers with the Maritime Administration—only to be met with the same penny-wise pound-foolish thinking which has for years dominated Government agencies entrusted with dhe preserva­ tion of U.S. maritime. It is high time for the Agriculture Department, with its fiscal chicanery to be put in its place, and for a realization on all levels of Government that in maritime as well as in anything else, constantly looking, backwards^or worse,, constantly walking around with your eyes closed entirely—Ipads to a bad fall. )fi . 4- i ,ir'! �. t, 9 -t T it c. ' )StjlFAk^'R'S Seafarer On Pension ttiG SlU Fights Agriculture Move To Scuttle 50-50 Cargo Preference Law WASHINGTON—^The SIU has sharply protested another effort by the Sec­ retary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman to undermine the 50-50 laws by attempt­ ing to end the requirement on the use of American-flag vessels in the export of farm products to Sovietis curtailing the sale of such American farmer, rather than the bloc countries. Under fed­ tions, American seaman, who is making commodities to these countries. eral regulations in effect Simiiar testimony had been given our farm commodities uncompeti­ Seafarer Luis Gonzalez (right) joined the growing ranks of SlU pensioners recently when he picked up and cashed his first regular monthly $150 SlU pension check. Gonzalez, shown above with SlU rep John Dwyer at New York headquarters, last sailed as a fireman aboard the Robin Gray. He will spend his retirement with his wife Savina at his home in New York. since the first wheat sales to Russia were negotiated hy the Kennedy Administration in 1963, at least half of these car­ goes must be carried in U.S. ships. Secretary Freeman recently told a subcommittee of the House Ap­ propriations Committee that the requirement on. the use of U.S.flag vessels, to carry half of our farm commodities to Soviet na- U.S. Tramp Fleet Needs Modern Bulk Carriers^ SIU Tells Congressmen WASHINGTON—The Seafarers International Union of North America told a subcomcommittee of the Joint Economic Committee recently that the costs to the Government of shipping Government-generated cargoes could be substantially reduced by building new American-flag bulk carriers which would be able to carry sels out of the field by forc­ new American-flag bulk car­ riers have been filed with the these at lower rates and still ing the rates on Government operate profitably. The Subcommittee on Federal Procurement and Regulation, head­ ed by Senator Paul H. Douglas of Illinois, has been holding hearings here on ocean freight rates In an attempt to determine if the Gov­ ernment is paying excessively high rates for Government-generated cargoes and if these rates have an inflationai-y impact on commercial rates. The SIU's statement was submitted for inclusion in the sub­ committee's record. SIU President Paul Hall later renewed the Union's call for mod­ ern bulk carriers in a speech be­ fore the Propeller Club of Wash­ ington, pointing out that the com­ petitive position of the nation's fleet would be vastly Improved by such a measure. The SIU asserted in Its state­ ment before the Congressional Committee that the rates of Amer­ ican-flag ships are not high, par­ ticularly for the tramp vessels which were intended by Congress to be the principal beneficiaries of the Cargo Preference Act. cargoes below the "fair and reasonable" levels established by the Maritime. Administra­ tion in 1957. These practices, the Sni said, have been con­ doned by the Department of Agriculture. • The failure of the Govern­ ment to provide—other than through cargo preference—any meaningful assistance to the tramp fleet. Mostly Warbuilt The SIU noted that, as a result of these Governmental policies, the American-flag tramp fleet now consists almost entirely of warbuilt Liberty and Victory ships which are small, slow and unable to compete effectively with the modern bulk carriers being built by our foreign rivals. Moreover, the SIU •'pointed out, these anti­ quated American ships are costly to repair and maintain and tliese costs, if the vessels are to remain operative, must bo compensated for in the rates. "Thus," said the SIU, "while the rates are not high, they are higher than they would be if the condi­ "If it were true that the rates tions we have described were not a are too high," the SIU pointed out, reality. "we would expect our tramp fleet "The tragic aspect of this situa­ to be prospering. On the contrary, as we know, our tramp fleet of dry tion," the SIU added, "is that our cargo vessels and independent Government, which through its tankers has been floundering in maritime policies has brought seas of bankruptcy, as well as ob­ about the near-demise of our tramp fleet, has now become the principal solescence." victim of its own actions. For not The SIU cited, as causes of the only is our Government now pay­ tramp fleet's decline, the follow­ ing rates that are higher than they ing: have to be, but it is paying these rates to perpetuate an antiquated • The failure of Federal and outmoded structure whose agencies to administer the ability to serve the cmnmercial and cargo preference laws so as to security needs of the nation has provide a proper share of Govbeen seriously curtailed, and which - ernment cargoes for tramp still cannot operate profitably, ships. even at the present rates." • The campaign of foreign The SIU noted that plans trade missions and their ship brokers to drive American ves­ for the building of at least ten Maritime Administration by American tramp ship opera­ tors, and that these plans have detailed, with data on opera­ tional costs, the manner in which these vessels could not only compete effectively for commercial cargoes, but carry Government cargoes at sub­ stantially reduced rates. The SIU added that operators who have submitted these plans have maintained that the savings accruing to the Government, from reduced cargo preference costs, would enable the Government to amortize the construction costs of these vessels in as little as three yeans, and that thereafter the Government could continue to enjoy the benefits of reduced rates without further costs, since these vessels could obtain enough commercial cargoes to remain profitable, even without heavy expenditures for operating sub­ sidies. "We believe," said the SIU, "that a vigorous and affirmative policy by the Government, to facilitate the construction of a new bulk carrier fleet, would not only pay dividends to the Government in the form of lower cargo prefer­ ence costs, but would restore our tramp fleet to a position in which, even while carrying cargo at lower rates, it could operate profitably." On the back page of this edition of the SEAFARERS LOG, a special feature ex­ plains the role of the United States Government and of organized labor in the Viet­ namese conflict. Every Sea­ farer and union member has a vital stake in knowing the issues that surround the Viet­ namese conflict. to a subcommittee of the Senate tive." Farm Supports Committee on Banking and Cur­ rency to the then Under Secretary The SIU noted that the Govern­ of Agriculture Charles S. Murphy. ment is now spending about $5 The SIU's criticism was voiced billion a year to support high in a letter, signed by SIUNA Presi­ prices for the farmer in the do­ dent Paul Hail, and sent to Secre­ mestic market, and then must pay tary Freeman today. Copies of the an additional subsidy, which also letter were sent to ail members goes into the farmer's pocket, to of the President's Maritime .A.dvis- enable the farmer' to sell in the ory Committee, which was created world market at considerably lower by President Johnson last June to prices. The SIU said it has been cost­ consider the problems of the Am­ erican-flag merchant fleet, as well ing the Government about $150 as to the chairmen of the House million a year to subsidize the ex­ Appropriations Committeee, House port of wheat abroad, as well as Merchant Marine Committee, $35 million a year to make rice House Agriculture Committee, Sen­ competitive, making a total cost of ate Commerce Committee and Sen­ $185 million a year for these two commodities alone. ate Agriculture Committee. The SIU noted that our cargo "That you should have ex­ preference program now costs the pressed such views before the taxpayer about $80 million a year, House Appropriations subcom­ and pointed out that the export mittee comes as no surprise to subsidies on wheat and rice alone us, since these have always are more than double that amount. been your views, as well as the views of the vested farm inter­ "It seems evident to us that ests to which your Department you, as well as Under Secre­ tary Murphy, have been athas always been a hand­ maiden." the SIU told the Sec­ . burden, to the American tax- , tempting to obscure the heavy retary. payer, of selling American "We do believe,' however, farm products abroad, by mak­ tb.at since you, as well as Sec­ ing the American merchant retary Murphy, have seen fit marine your whipping boy," to step up your attacks against the SIU declared. "The fact is the American-flag merchant that, even if no American sh.ips fleet in recent weeks, certain were used at all for these ex­ facts relating to the sale of ports, it would still cost the U.S. farm commodities abroad American taxpayer millions of should be clarified for the dollars a year to keep the Am­ record." erican farmer competitive in , world markets." Noting that both Freeman and The SIU noted that President Murphy had attempted to convey the impression that the cost of Johnson has recently proposed American-flag shipping is making eliminating export subsidies and our farm products uncompetitive shifting the burden of farm ex­ in world markets, the SIU asserted ports from the Government to the that "there is considerably more consumer, in the form of higher reason for believing that it is the (Continued on page 17) SIU Convention Delegates Elected NEW YORK—Delegates to the SIUNA convention from tha Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District have been elected in balloting conducted on April 19, 1965 in all ports. The elected delegates wilK represent the AGLIWD to the be representing deep sea Sea­ Twelfth Biennial Convention farers, tug and other inland water of the SIUNA which will be held from Wednesday, May 26 through Tuesday, June 1, 1965 at the Gramercy Inn, 1616 Rhode Island Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. There were 28 candidates for the 27 delegate positions. Delegates representing the more than 80,000 members of the 31 SIUNA affiliated unions will meet at the convention to act upon and discuss matters affecting the in­ ternational, the U.S. labor move­ ment, the maritime industry and crafts and industries represented by SIUNA affiliated unions. They will also decide future policies of the international and hear reports on union progress. Delegates to the convention will boatmen, railroad marine tug and dredgemen, fishermen, cannery workers and workers in the trans­ portation services and allied indus­ trial crafts. The membership of the A&G district, in special membership meetings on April 21, 1965 in all ports, acted on and approved the combined Polls and Tally Commit­ tee report—which is printed in its entirety on page 23 of this issue of the LOG. OLD Approves Nominees The final report of the Great Lakes District nominating com­ mittee was presented and ap­ proved at the regular membership meeting of the Great Lakes Dis­ trict on April 19, 1965. �•n.-« M. A*rU n, INI Pace Fa«r Call For U.5, Government Action SlU Fisherman Rap Japanese Bristol Bay Salmon Depletion SEATTLE—Angry members of SIUNA affiliated Alaska fishermen's unions, joined by deepsea Seafarers and other members of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, pic­ keted two Japanese-flag freighters here in protest against Japanese depletions of the precious Bristol Bay red"^ least 12 -million red salmon are der to rehabilitate the Bristol Bay salmon reserves. needed to reseed the Bristol Bay run," he said. Earlier, at a tense meeting spawning streams. Federal restric­ "Now," McKernan warned, 20 By Eari (Bull) Shepard, Vlee-Presldtnt. Atlanfle Seafarer Stars In TV Program Everyone in the New York Hall is proud of the new TV star of the SIU, Bill Burke, who, as many of you fellows know, was featured on the CBS television program "Eye On New York". The day after the program, everyone In ttie New York Hall was buzzing about Burke's appearance on the TV program, which told about the decline of the U. S. merchant marine. Some of the fellows who are at New York Hall waiting "to ship out in the Seattle SUP-SIU Hall, more tions bar fishing at points too near years of dedicated conservation ef­ the spawning areas. Additionally, include Tony Maiello, who's waiting for a chief cooks job, Jimmy fort "are in jeopardy." than 500 fishermen heard Repre­ fishing may only be done on a lew Duffy and C. B. Jennings who are holding down the hall waiting for In the most far-reaohing protest sentative Thomas Pelly (R.-Wash.), days within a given week. an electricians slot and Art Gilliland, who's waiting to ship out as measure called for. Senator War­ a member of the House Merchant ren G. Magnuson (D.-Wash.), 10 Million Loss deck maintenance. Marine and Fisheries Committee, chairman of the Senate Commerce man, shipped aboard the Marymar Boston call for a nation-wide demonstra­ The Americans expect to lose at Committee, asked for a boycott of on her maiden voyage but had to tion by fishermen to shock Con­ least 10 million salmon this season Japanese products. Longshoremen Shipping was slow in Boston get off to take care of some shoregress and the Administration into to the Japanese. The gill nets used respected the picket lines and the during the last two weeks, but is side business. Now he's watching by the Japanese are spread over Kings County (Seattle) Labor expected to pock up during the action. the board for the Portmar, a enormous areas — up to 4,000 Council also has given its com­ next period. favorite of his. George Johansen, secretary- square miles, according to fishery plete support to the fishermen. Holding down the hall here for Also waiting for the Portmar to treasurer of the Alaska Fisher­ officials—giving them not only an The policies of the U.S. State the first job is Charles Krause, a advantage but a position which al­ crew up is Lyle Williamson, who men's Union, told the assembled Department were also taken to 25-year SIU man who last shipped lows them to destroy the whole task by lawnwkers who addressed aboard the Puerto Rico. He just last sailed on the Mayflower as fishermen: salmon crop at will. fireman-watertender. the meeting. Diplomatic action received his ffd after three months "There is a danger not only of Ballard Browning got hung up Don McKernan, director of the was called for to solve the prob­ In dry dock. serious depletion, but that the United States Bureau of Commer­ lem, and Senator Magnuson rec­ in Marcellfl, Mexico for a week Fred Woodard spent two years with the rest of the St. Lawrence's United States will become depend­ cial Fisheries, concurred with the ommended that Cabinet rank of­ In the cause of science serving crew w|ien the ship had to put into ficials take part In the yearly fish­ ent upon a few of the exploiting feeling voiced by the SIUNA fish­ Bboard the Anton Bruun. After ermen that a "crisis point" had eries commission meetings instead tracking down every other fish in that port because of boiler trouble. nations for our fishery needs." Right now, he's looking to ship on of just leaving the job to techni­ been reached. "We have carefully the Indian Ocean, he now says a Calmar or Isthmian vessel. They also heard Representative regulated _our own fisheries in or­ cal experts, as is the custom. he's happy to be back home and Brock Adams (D.-Wash.) say he Norfolk with the faniily. would enlist the support of other Shipping is also slow in Virginia. Harold Taylor last shipped on lawmakers and propose legislation The future looks brighter, how­ the new Calmar as deck engineer barring further Japanese depreda­ before having to put into dry dock ever, with some coal-hauling ships tions in the fishing grounds. for two months. He's back in busi­ expected in soon. During the last ness again, however, and watching period there Was one payoff, two The long smouldering contro­ the board for a job on a coast- sign-ons and seven ships serviced in transit. versy centers around the red, or hugger. sockeye, salmon which spawn in Phil Hargis, who sails in the John Fancutt, a 25-year union streams around Alaska's Bristol" man who last shipped aboard the steward department, hated to get Bay. Japanese fishermen, using Cities Service Baltimore, is an­ off the Eagle Traveler, one of his other. Seafarer holding down the favorites. He heard that she was gill nets which are banned for hall for a coastwise trip. He says on her way to the Persian Gulf, U.S. fishermen, have been taking he likes to stay close to the family. however, and he is not willing to tremendous quantities of fish, in­ stray that far from home. Philadelphia HELD IN JERSEY CITY, APRIL 19, 1965 cluding at least two million imma­ Jerry Wood had to check off the ture salmon taken last fall at the We, the undersigned of the Polls and Tally Committee, duly elected Shipping was off during the last Eagle Traveler and into the hospi­ so-called 175th meridian absten­ at a Special Meeting on April 19, 1965 in the Port of Jersey City, period in Philadelphia, with just tal. He hopes to be ship-shape real two payoffs, three sign-ons and soon, however, and ready to ship tion line. submit the following report: five in transits to report. The ex­ again. Lucien Drew also got off Line Created in 1953 This Committee was elected as per the Instructions contained in the pectation for the next two weeks the Eagle Traveler to go Into dry dock. Now ffd again, he's trying The line, demarking the areas letter to the membership from G. P. McGinty, Regional Director, doted ia brighter, however. to catch the same ship. where Canada, Japan and the U.S. Louis Barcb, a 25-year SIU man, can properly take salmon, was es­ March 8, 1965. Thomas Stubbs was another dry had to pile off the Yorkmar be­ tablished in 1953 by the Interna­ We received from Headquarters offices of the Union, all of the files cause of a death in the family. He dock case here. He is now recover­ tional North Pacific Fisheries Con­ relative to the conduct of the election. From the files, we found signed ia now sitaying close to the hall so ing from a broken arm, which he vention. Under the agreement, he can catch the Petrochem, which suffered on the Globe Carrier Japan is supposed to confine its receipts for ballots No. 1 through No. 500, which had been issued is expected through here running during a storm at sea. fishing operations to the east of to the following Ports, as follows: coastwise. Puerto Rico the line. Port Ballots Issued John Anderson just got his ffd Shipping has been good here While the Japanese have taken and says he will take a first cook's during the last two weeks, with a JERSEY CITY 1 to 250 huge quantities of fish, American job going anywherer His' last ship total of' 23 ships contacted. The PHILADELPHIA 251 to 270 fishermen have been limited in Was the Sea Pioneer. outlook for the next period is even BALTIMORE 271 to 300 their catches by the fact that at brighter. On the P.R. labor front, Juan Lopen got off the Penmar NORFOLK 301 to 500 because of illness in the family. 570 workers represented by the We, the Committee, have checked the files of Headquarters offices He says he is real thankful about Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, and have seen signed receipts by the various agents for the official the SIU Welfare Plan and is happy AFL-CIO are striking the Common-, Apr. 30, 1965 Vol. XXVII, No. 9 ballots that had been sent to them by Headquarters offices. In addition With the benefits his family has wealth oil refinery. The union is Official Publication of the SIUNA been receiving because of the seeking an improved hospitaliza­ Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes & Inland Waters to the above, this Committee, in accordance with the letter of March 8, illness. tion plan, increased vacations, ad­ District, AFL-CIO 1965 previously referred to, has received from Ports of Philadelphia, , Harry Celkos limped off the ditional holidays, better cafeteria Executive Board Baltimore and Norfolk telegrams from the Polls and Tally Committees Portiqar in Los Angeles after faeilities and safety clothing for PAUL HALL, President CAL TANNEB EAHL SHEPARD of these Ports, giving the official tally of the ballots cast in their Ports. breaking his leg. He's back in workers. Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President An island-wide drive is on to This Committee has made these tallies a part of this official tallying shape, however, and is keeping Al. KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS organize barbers. About 75 percent close to the hall to catch one of the Sec.-Treas. Vice-President committee's report, as follows: of the tonsorial specialists in new Calmar ships. ROB. A. MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President Puerto Rico are expected to be Votes Baltimore enrolled. HERBERT BRAND Name Book No. Received Elected Director of .Organizing and Shipping slowed somewhat dur­ Jose Ramos, chief steward on 1. Joseph J. Fadde F-20000 9 Publications ing the last period but is expected the Sedtrain Texas, drops by the Managing Editor: MIKE POLLACK; Asst. 2. John A. Forsythe.... F-20033 95 • to rebound quickly. In the last two Editor: NATHAN SKYER; Staff Writers: weeks, there were six payoffs, hall on his days off to say hello to 3. Dennis M. Lee L-20054 93 • ROBERT ARONSON, PETE CARMEN; ROBERT MILGROM; Art Editor: BERNARD SEAMAN. eight sign-ons and 13 ships serv­ his many friends. Sorry to report 4. James P. Waters.... W-20000 7 iced in transit. The Warm Springs that Antonio Ibarra is in the hos­ NO VOTES 0 was the last payoff, and she will be pital after being hit by a ear on his way back to the Bienville. going into layup for 12 days. VOIDS 2 Paul Calebaugh has been doing DATED: April 19, 1965 In local labor news. Seafarers a fine job as Captain and Mate are helping AFL-CIO Newspaper •Denotes Elected aboard Porto Rico Lighterage towPublished biweekly at the headquarters Guild members to man the picket THOMAS P. WONDALSKI W-20022 of the Seafarers International Union, At­ lines at the Baltimore Sunpapers. boats ever since he picked up his lantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters 'Name) (Book No.) District, AFL-CIO, *75 Fourth Avenue, The competing Hearst newspapers mate's ticket under the SIU's up­ Brooklyn, klyi NY, 11232. Tel. HYacinth 9-«600. WALTER R. MIELNICKI M-20002 closed down in "sympathy" with grading program. Zcnon Rivera, Second class postage> pa aid at the Post dyi • Ofhce in Brooklyn,' NY, under the Acl (Name) (Book No.) the Sunpapers, locking out their one of the SIU's bsst bosuns, has of Aug. 24, 1912. been working aboard the Island employees. EDWARD DUFFY D-20049 Queen, vrhich operates between (Name) (Book No.) Robert Raymer, a 15-year union Fajarda and the Virgin Islands. Polls And Tally Committee Report Of The Railway Marine Region, Inland Boatmen's Union SEAFARERS LOG I ii M •< 11•: f i 1- I" 4 !.i I ft 1^3 ^ii 'it �AprUM, INS SEAFARERS'LOG I T Pace FIT* ^ SlU-UIW Menibers At Work SlU-UIW members (l-r) Willie White, and Michael Gadinski talk things over with Union rep Charley Heard at UlW-contracted Edward L Durham, Inc. in Brooklyn, which makes canvas products. UIW member Steward Stein stands behind the business end of a fork lift at Di Mattina Supply, in Brooklyn. Edward L. Durham, Inc., Di Matina Supply Co., and Acme Canvas and Rope are among the many SIU, Unit­ ed Industrial Workers - contracted companies in the New York area. On recent visits to these plants, the LOG pho'tographer took many pictures of SIU-UIW members at work produc­ ing canvas and rope products which are in use all over the U.S. and on many SlU-contracted vessels all over the world. These high-quality, Un­ ion-made products are in demand hecause of the fine workmanship built into them by the SIU-UIW members pictured here and many others. The products made in these plants range from bright colored awnings for stores, to plain heavy-duty tarpaulins for trucks and shipboard use. Operating the big fork lift at Di Mattina Supply is UIW member Bobby Stein. Here UIW member Ruron D. Jean-Babtiste of UlW-contracted Edward L. Durham, Inc. sews an awning. Jack Saunder (left) ... _ big canvas at Willie White Acme Canvas and Rope Company in Brooklyn. Canvas in the photo is presently in use at the Gas Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. Birth and Death of aVolcanic Island N early November of 1963, a vessel sailing near the Arctic Circle off the coast of Iceland recorded an unusual phenomena. The normally frigid water surrounding the ship was strangely warm. This fact was duly entered in the ship's log, but the cause of this strange occurance remained a mystery. I Several days later the reason became apparent. Fishermen discovered a cloud of steam rising from the ocean, and investigating further, discovered that much solid matter had"*" Another vessel actually bene­ in a mammoth jigsaw puzzle. the earth were once one big con­ marks — although most soon already been thrust up to the fited from a similar occurrence, The original line where they disappeared. tinent which was split apart long surface of the water, the however. A South African polar were joined would now lie Etna started this way in the ago by internal stress and have supply ship was trapped by pack midway down the Atlantic smaller particles of which Mediterranean, and Vesuvius was been drifting apart ever sinceOcean directiy beneath where ice for 10 days off the coast of 'floating' on the plastic inner were still floating about. originally also a volcano on the layers of the planet. This drift Antarctica and it looked as if she the new island was formed. floor of the sea. Christmas Island would be trapped for a long while. Volcanic action was giving in the Indian Ocean is the summit creates weak spots in the earth's Something Going On However a vast submarine erup­ birth to the first new European of a volcanic mountain which grew crust, according to the theory, When such volcanic action takes island of the 20th Century. from the floor of the ocean 14,000 which at times allows the molten place in a portion of the ocean tion somewhere in the area just at that time churned up huge rock of the Inner earth to escape Soon a 20,0()0-foot column of feet down. However, unless such where the water is extremely swells which broke up the ice in the form of these undersea smoke and ashes was rising from islands are capped with a thick deep, an actual island is seldom pack and allowed the vessel to the sea. Later red-hot blocks of flow of hard volcanic lava they volcanos. formed. The fact that something escape. As evidence of the con­ lava a yard across were being don't last very long. Wave action Is going on is usually noticeable tinental drift theory, scientists hurled above the waves. Some of and natural erosion soon washes Iwo Jima Is One only because the surface of the point to the fact that many of these blocks were as big as a Grey­ away loose volcanic dust and ash. The Atlantic and old world sea is greatly agitated, huge vol­ the earth's continents—such as hound bus. The surface of the sea Graham's Reef in the Mediter­ umes of steam escape and shoals Mediterranean are not the only North and South America and for miles around was agitated, and ranean between Sicily and the of dead fish often float to the areas of such activity. The Pacific Europe and Africa—would fit volcanic dust fell as much as 20 coast of Africa is the remains of a surface along with floating bits of is also highly active. Perhaps the together nicely if moved to­ miles away. similar volcanic island which whose volcanic dust, ashes and pumice. Pacific volcanic island gether once more like pieces didn't last very long above the Pumice is rock, which has cooled name is most familiar to many 500,000 Tons An Hour sea's surface. The eruption began quickly from a molten state form­ Americans is Iwo Jima, which When the undersea disturbance in water 600 feet deep, and soon ing billions of gas bubbles within reaches 2,348 feet above the sea. reached its peak it was pouring formed an island which rose 200 it. Because It Is so shot through Fujiyama would be such an island out a fantastic amouut of matter. feet above the sea. However with these gas cavities a huge if it rose fr^om the sea floor in­ Geologis'ts estimated that 500,000 within three months the sea had block of pumice Is extremely light stead of inland Japan. tons of lava alone was being worn down the loose ash and and a man can easily lift a piece In 1960 a new volcanic island ejected every hour. When the hot cinders to a shoal. of pumice several times his own which didn't last very long was re­ lava hit the cold water deep Like An Iceberg size. It is so light it will float on ported by an airline pilot off New beneath the seia gigantic steamthe surface of the sea. Like an iceberg, the vast bulk Guinea and many submerged vol­ generated explosions ripped to of these volcanic islands at sea canoes have been found and re­ Usually these eruptions and the surface, churning up huge cannot be seen. The island Is really corded by research vessels. An is­ disruptions of the sea are a waves. just the top, or crater, of a moun­ land, dubbed Urania, was discov­ headache to seafarers who By the beginning of Decem­ tain which rises from its broad ered in February 1946, 250 miles have the misfortune to be in ber, 1963, the Isiand—or more base deep beneath the sea. Christ­ south of Tokyo. It built up quick­ the area at the time. A Brit­ accurateiy the rim of the mas Island, for instance, is merely ly to two cones rising 50 feet ish ice patrol ship had much volcano, had grown to over 400 the top of a mountain—a mountain above the sea and was at first ex­ of her machinery put out of feet in one spot. which is actually over 14,000 feet pected to become a second Iwo action some years ago by an high—although most of this Is Jima. But by the next February underwater eruption when Whether or not this new bit hidden under water. Urania was gone — washed com­ small pieces of pumice stone of land will remain Is open to pletely away by wave action — and volcanic ash were sucked Many of these undersea volcanic doubt. Scientists give It a 50-50 leaving only a submerged shoal in by her water intakes, clog­ eruptions are related by geologists chance at survival. Undersea creating white breakers to mark ging the vessel's evaporators, volcanic action Is not un­ to the process of continental drift. the spot of the birth, short life turho-generaton^ and other common and some have re­ The ' theory Of continental drift machinery. and death of a volcanic island. mained as permanent land­ holds that all the land masses of �SEAFAREHS April L9G {Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only in the SlU Atlantic Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters District} April 10-April 23 The shipping situation picked up somewhat during the last reporting period, returning to more normal levels after the steep decline which took place as the huge backlog brought about by the Longshoremen's strike was cleared from the docks. A total of 1,205 Seafarers an­ swered job calls, compared to 1,190 in the previous two weeks. New Orleans experienced a big comeback in shipping, while Houston, Norfolk, New York and Boston all reg­ istered increases to varying degrees. Seafarers found the job calls off the previous pace in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Tampa and Mobile. On the West Coast, shipping was up, with Seattle show­ ing the biggest gain and Wilmington and San Francisco up slightly. Although the pace of shipping picked up somewhat, registration dropped slightly to 1,106 from the 1,194 figure reached during the previous period. At the same time, the number of Seafarers registered on the beach dropped to 3,666 from 3,874 in the prior two werfts. The departmental job breakdown changed slightly from the general pattern it has held in recent weeks. Deck department job calls continued to be strong and showed an increase. Calls for engine department personnel were down slightly however, while steward department calls retained their previous level. . The seniority picture showed no serious changes from the last period's job situation. Seafarers holding Class A books accounted for 54 percent of the total number of job calls, compared to 57 percent in the prior two weeks. Class B shipping rose slightly to 35 percent from la^t week's 32 percent while Class C men made up 11 percent of the total—the same as in the previous period. Shipping activity was down slightly over the previous period with 47 payoffs, 43 sign-ons and 122 intransit visits. Ship Adivify J'!'* £ Pay SM la Offfr Om Trani. TOTAL Bettoa ...... 1 New York.... It PhiloMpMa 2 Baltimora .... B Norfolk r 0 B 7 ' 17 2 B i 13 2 S 33 8 7 B 13 10 7 7 B 8 9 10 27 28 7 13 10 43 122 I. ^ A 42 TB 27 Jaeiuoavllla .. BO Tompa 1 1 Mobile 3 2 NowOrleon*.. A 10 Houttoe 4 4 Wilminytoa ..0 0 Soe Fraacisce. 13 Soonle 4 1 TOTOLS ... 47 u ' r ' 1 212 DECK DEPARTMENT Regisfered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York.... Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk . ... Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans. Houston Wilmington Pan Francisco Seattle TOTALS GROUP 1 2 0 4 21 32 5 6 7 21 3 2 2 3 0 1 5 7 22 18 10 21 3 4 4 11 2 14 84 144 Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 0 4 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 2 62 4 31 15 56 9 34 7 9 18 13 0 13 2 4 3 7 1 8 4 30 4 10 10 18 2 24; 6 10 2 0 5 0 0 1i 5 5 0 10 1 0 5 1 0 3 4: 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 1! 1 16 2 4 4 5 11 2 13 1 2 9 3 43 2 8 22 55 I 32 24 24 7 40 0 18 10 28- 19 75 9 46 10 3 3 2 9; 0 2 5. 3 2 8 4 19 3 7 13 5 2 3 4 11 19 0 6 14 3 7 3 3 10 5 86 151 1 267 70 168 276i 16 82 1 39 1 39 Shipped CLASS C GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 17 0 0 3 3 2 3 6 11 1 3 5 1 1 1 0 -2 0 0 0 » 6 7 1 0 45 0 20 25 10 21 33 2 0 2 3 5 6 2 2 10 8 10 0 2 57 82 1 148 9 TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A1 CTASS 8 GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 3 ALL 1 2 2 S ALL 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 5 16 22 1 6 5 1 12 0 1 3 4 56 17 77 100 144 32 276 10 4 38 64 112 1 0 0 1 13 17 19 3 1 20 7 46 0 9 12 21 0 1 1 2 18 31 33 11 2 53 7 93 4 17 23 44 0 2 3 5 10 5 5 20 12 11 2 25 0 3 10 13 0 0 1 1 0 2 3 2 1 8 2 12 2 3 14 9 0 0 5 5 1 0 5 6 4 3 8 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 13 7 20 41 0 32 6 79 4 34 8 22 0 0 3 3 55 45 3 103 79 66 5 150 3 45 83 131 0 0 1 1 75 33 1 109| 64 79 20 163 3 42 30 75 0 0 1 1 8 5 1 14 15 11 1 27 1 8 4 13 2 0 6 11 4 10 6 27, 18 25 11 6 51 2 19 8 2 10 8 20 14 10 20 44 19 23 46 0 9 4 12 21 6 14 29 1 49 276 148 49 1 473 411 491 96 1 908 31 202 278 1 511 ENGINE DEPARTMENT CLASS B Registered Regisfered CLASS A Boston New York...., Philadelphia . Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile Vew Orleans. Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle "GROUP GROUP GROUP3 ALL 123 ALL 1 2 1 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 45 2 27 8 30 18 26 11 2 13 0 8 2 9 1 13 2 24 1 6 5 3 19 2 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 9 1 14 1 5 3 7 9 46 10 32 .. 10 43 5 30 23 18 32 7 26 21 10 3 20 1 14 4 1 1 7 2 2 0 3 2 7 4 7 3 2 2 4 8l 2 10 13 5 7 5 17 1 12 4 f^ALS 43 132 21 I 196 15 Port Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A 3 ALL I 37 12 9 3 1 1 8 44 2 38 5 4 2 11 0 17 2 ShippedCLASS C TOTAL Shipped 84 62 | 167i 4 22 16 r V i I Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS 8 GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 123 ALL 123 ALL ABC ALL 12 3 ALL 123 ALL 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 6 2 9 0 2 1 3 8 18 13 39 1 3 4 37 39 80 51 115 10 176 11 61 56 128 0 3 2 5 0 2 2 12 5 19 4 30 39 0 7 14 21 0 8 0 4 1 3 9 8 20 8 41 53 0 19 24 43 0 3 0 1 2 2 3 3 8 4 16 22 0 12 3 15 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 3 1 3 4 1 9 5 15 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 2 1 5 0 3 1 0 1 5 0 2 1 0 5 0 8 13 15 21 39 1 14 19 34 21 17 1 39| 0 3 39 4 44 87 35 73 10 118 12 64 64 140 3 20 15 38; a 4 4 38 38 80 32 62 5 105 10 58 52 120 0 2 4! 1 2 2 4 4 12 7 4 15 3 25 1 6 4 11 6 2 10 0 2 1 6 11 27 3 10 19 5 27 0 3 4 7 8 1 13 2 4 11 17 4 13 11 41 7 18 2 27 1 6 3 10 89 58 | 162 42 127 17 | 186 21 9 'r II i'l 19 42 186 167 42 | 395 170 428 51 | 649 37 262 249 | 648 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Regisfered CLASS A Pott Bos NY Phil Bai Nor Jac Tam Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea TOTALS 1-8 1 4 0 1 1 0 0 5 6 1 0 5 3 27 Regisfered CLASS B GROUP GROUP • 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 1-8 2 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 18 7 9 17 41 2 11 2 14 1 4 14 1 9 0 1 2 1 0 12 2 15 4 14 1 0 10 2 6 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 10 1 25 0 7 9 1 10 36 2 33 5 4 16 3 28 3 10 10 24 2 16 7 0 14 3 0 1 4 0 0 3 3 1 11 2 6 24 1 0 2 4 2 2 11 1 -3 2 3 6 3 2 11 3 68 26 81 [202 15 14 82 1 111 29 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS 4 GROUP 3 ALL 1 2 0 0 0 0 40 7 17 9 6 0 1 4 16 5 2 8 8 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 3 14 6 21 46 11 13 16 47 0 3 2 0 1 2 4 9| I3I 4 3 3 53 37 75 1 194 GROUP 3 ALL 2 1 0 2 0 2 8 9 0 1 0 0 1 1 10 0 1 9 0 5 5 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 6 6 0 0 30 0 1 29 16 0 16 0 0 2 0 2 5, 0 0 5 3 12 17 2. 5 95 1 104) 4 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS 8 GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL A B C ALL 1-8 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 8 ALL 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 4 2 5 0 2 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 5 5 40 62 41 70 207 6 5 9 54' 34 11 39 56 0 0 2 2 6 13 5 31 2 9 1 2 9 4 0 8 10 0 0 5 5 16 68 1 24 10 5 31 12 5 27 2 22 25 0 1 3 4 8 13 1 5 3 4 3 4 0 12 13 I'l 3 0 0 2 2 0 5 2 3, 1 2 2 0 1 2 1 3 6 0 0 0 0. 0 0 3 6 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 6 68 4 6 0 12 15 19 12 22 3 17 24 0 0 1 1 46 30 77 24 39 17 61 141 9 1 7 97 113 0 0 3 3 47 16 3 66 10 39 17 26 92 7 9 37 53 0 0 2 7 3 6 16 1 2 3 2 2 2 5 6 4 11 2 0 2 4 9 5 18 12 8 3 8 31 0 4 1 4 5 0 1 10 17 11 18 2 11 13 7 3 41 2 6 4 16 22 2 2 35 1 39 194 104 39 1 337 124 222' 117 246 1 709 , 35 45 261 1 841 i lij .#1 C' * n & f' SUMMARY Regisfered CLASS A DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTAIS GROUP 123 ALL - 84 144 39 I 267 , _43_132_21J f96 95 26 8i rj02 222 302 m J 665 Regisfered CLASS B SHIPPED CLASS A GROUP 1 2 3 ALL SHIPPED CLASS C SHIPPED CLASS 8 GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 123 ALL 16 70 82 168 86 151 39 276 9 57 82 I 148 15 89 58 162 42 127 17 _186 21 84 62 I 167 15 14 82 111 82 37 75 I 194 4 5 95T"104 46 173 222 441 210 315 131 J 656 34 146 239 i 419 TOTAL SHIPPED Regisfered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS 8 CLASS GROUP GROUP 123 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 6 14 29 I 49 276 148 49 473,411 491 96 1 908 4 22 16 I 42 186 167 "42 395 170 428 51 649; 2 35 I 39 194 104 39 337 346 117 246 | 709, 12 GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 31 202 278 | 511 37 262 249 I 548 35" 45 261 I 341 38 80 I 130 656 419 130 11205 927 1036 393 |2266 103 509 788 jfAOO 'W > �Ji y r» '•n Aifil MriNS Latest HMR Peneiener i ? i $ t SEAWdREnS . -rvn.—K I Plf« SCTM LOG Eight Seafarer Veterans Join SIU Pension Ranks The Seafarers Welfare Plan Board of Trustees has approved eight more SIU veterans for pension benefits. The eight, all members of the SIU Atlantic and Gulf and Great Lakes Districts, join the growing list of Seafarers enjoying the benefits of lifetime, monthly pen­ sion checks of $150. The new pensioners are mins, 65; Thomas M. Wabolis, 66; Detroit, Michigan. He last sailed Glenn H. Gumming, 65; and William D. Rinehart, 66. as a wheelsman aboard the T. J. Lawrence M. Schroeder, 41; Philip Cummlng C. Mendoza, 66; James T. May, 68; and sails as James H. Fort, 66; John D. Cum- gan shipping hand aboard SIU Of Canada Raps Lax Ship Laws SIU Railway Marine Region fugman John J. Miller (left) picked up his first regular $150 monthly pension check at the New York hall recently from RMR regional director G. P. McGinty. Miller, who makes his home in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his- wife Eleanor, worked as a deckhand aboard N.Y. Central RR Tug. No. 18. He is looking forward now fo taking it easy and enjoying a nice, quiet retirement. By Cal Tanner, Executive Vice-President Foreign Shippers Withhold Data MONTREAL—The SIU of Can­ ada has charged in - a letter to Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson that peacetime merchant sailing in Canada is more dangerous to life and limb than was World War II soldiering. The letter was sent to Canada's chief executive in support of a public inquiry into safety condi­ tions on merchant ships in Cana­ dian waters. Pressure for an in­ quiry increased sharply here after a recent collision in the St. Law­ rence River in which three sailors were killed and eleven injured. The Canadian SIU said that its studies had shown that the colli­ sion was not an isolated incident, and that sailing was the naost haz­ ardous occupation in the- country. "In World War II," the union said. "Canadian casualties were 8.57 percent of the fighting force. SIU crewmembers suffered in 1961, for instance, casualties amounting to 9.34 percent." "Fatalities over a ten year pe­ riod," the SIU letter continued, "show that shipping fatalities av­ erage five times higher than in­ dustry in general." The union reijorted that it has not yet receiveii a reply from Pearson. Cumming Schroeder a member vessel of the old Great Lakes fleet. He has been with his last employer, Wyandotte Trans­ portation Company, for many years. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Cumming now makes his home in Dearborn, Michigan. He and his wife, Dena, plan to travel out to Cummins Foit the west coast and visit his nieces. The Cummings have one son and tive of Oklahoma, he now lives' two grandchildren. in San Bernardino, California, with his sister, Rosa. He last sailed aboard the Long Lines. Wabolis joined the SIU in the port of New York, sailing for years as a member of the steward department. A native of Lithuania, he now makes his home in the Bronx with his wife, Frieda. Wa­ bolis last shipped aboard the De­ troit. Mendoza Rinehart signed up with the Schroeder joined the SIU in SIU in the port of New York. He the port of New York. He sailed sailed many years in the engine for years as a member of the deck department, last shipping out on board the Keva Ideal. A native of Pennsylvania, he now makes his permanent home in Maryland. Mendoza signed on with the SIU in the Port of Baltimore and has dished up many a bowl of chow as a member of the steward department. A native of the Phillipine Islands, he is at present a Rinehort Wobolis resident of Baltimore and last sailed aboard the A. J. Mercury. department, his last voyage as May, an SIU oldtimer, joins his deck engineer aboard the John B. brother on the Seafarers pension Waterman. He was born in Penn­ list. A native of the Scottish High­ sylvania, where he now makes his lands, he now makes his home in home. For nearly two years, the Federal Maritime Commission, under Ad­ miral John Harllee, has been making what best would be described as a half-hearted effort to xet sixteen major steamship conferences to produce information on how they set rates on freight entering and leaving the United States. The FMC was coaxed into trying to secure the information by American exporters and ship operators who charged, with good reason, that the conferences were discriminating against U.S. exports. In other words, the conferences—made up predominantly of Western European and Japanese ship owners, along with a few U.S. companies—were accused of charging more for the same goods leaving the States than they were charging for that which was coming in. This situation, obviously, favored European manufacturers and, most important to us, European shippers. The issues, naturally, were complex and too involved for anyone but an economist to fully understand. The facts outlined above, however, were the basis of the problem. Since such an unfair-looking situation could not be publicly tolerated by jthe FMC, which is charged with the protection and fostering of the U.S.flag fleet, the agency began to complain to the conferences. Litigation was threatened and the conflict dragged on. The steamship conferences were determined to keep their books closed, and the U.S. was not willing to "antagonize" its allies in order-t to force their compliance. After by dragging it out and smother­ innumerable meetings, here, in ing it in technicalities and paper Paris and at the UN, a compromise work. Most important, the com­ formula was reached. It was the promise does not seem likely to U.S., however, who did all the change the freight rate situation Two so-called right-to-work orcompromising. ganizations, the "National Right to one iota. Under the "compromise," eight The only fact the long contro­ Work Committee" and "Oklahoof the sixteen conferences finally versy has made clear is that the mans for the Right to Work" have agreed to make some rate-making U.S. government is still less than deceived employers into believing information available to the FMC. ready to accept its responsibility, that contributions to their organi­ The "information" they chose to laid down in the merchant marine zations may be tax deductible, ac­ release, though, was not the kind act of 1936, to maintain and en­ cording to Thomas E. Harris, the that was going to implicate them courage a healthy and viable Associate General Counsel of the in any wrong-doing. Further, they American-flag maritime fleet. AFL-CIO. were not to give the information While many individuals, and even Harris said that the National directly to the U.S., but were to a few agencies in Government are Right to Work Committee has dispense it piecemeal through a willing to meet this obligation, been deceptively telling employers whole series of intermediary others, it appears, are not. It is that "the National Right-to-Work agencies. They would turn it over not that they oppose our mer­ Committee is a tax exempt organi­ to their respective governments chant fleet—^thouglh a few do for zation under section 501 (c) (4) of who would then make it available narrow, selfish reasons—^but that the Internal Revenue Code. While to a special committee of the they do not realize Its importance, this does not in itself, make your Organization for Economic Co­ as opposed to the importance of contribution to the Committee tax operation and Development. The their own particular interests. deductible, it may be claimed as a OECD would then pass it on to Also, certain foreign Interests necessary business expense if It the United States. But that was seem to count more in Washing­ has a business related purpose." not all: the information made ton than does the U.S. merchant After consultation with the In­ available only covers the year marine. ternal Revenue Service, Harris 1963. Presumably, if the FMC It seems clear that the State said that he had been advised that wants to check into rate-setting procedures for other years it will Department thi^w its wei^t into contributions to these organiza­ the rate-information - conttoversy tions are not deductible under any' have to go through the same long, to make sure that no forei^ toes circumstances; and that neither the involved process. got stepped on inadvertantly. This Netiohal Right-to-Work Committee - . What, then,' has U.S, ahipping is what we mean when we say; nor Oklahomans for the Right-to^ •<-" .J- gained by this so-called compro- that other, non-U.S. interests Work iiave "qualified 'as ad drgani^ . -mise?. Ji^ effect,, nothing. The -seem, JiO: .count men '«Hne in sation, contributions 'to drhlch may 1 the, K^ifiistiqMdiD^ ,vJ . , v ^ ?'v; ^\ 'Right-To-Work' Groups Deceive Contributors is an SIU oldtimer McCarthy. a wheelman. He be­ Fort joined the SIU in the Port out in 1926, as a deck of New York and has been sail­ the steamer Norway, ing ever since as a messman and member of the steward's depart­ ment. A native of Pennsylvania, he still makes his home there. He last signed off the Ames "Vic­ tory. Cummins signed on with the SIU in the Port of Boston from where he shipped out as a* member of the engine department. A na- The Flyaway Lifeboat— Latest In Sea Survival Floating clusters of brightly colored orange balloons, hovering Just above the ocean's surface, may soon denote the presence of a shipwrecked survivor waiting to be picked up. It seems that two ex-servicemen have invented an all-purpose, super survival-kit that can do just about anything. It's amphibious. It's ambidexterous. It floats, it swims, it flies . . . For example, if caught in a disaster, simply step into the basic device—a pair of coveralls that will keep you afloat temporarily. When the suit's compressed air store is released, it expands Into a water-borne capsule. When you want to go aloft, just press, the helium control mechanism, which inflates a series of balloons to lift the craft from the surface. To insure that you don't escape the notice of searching rescue planes, in addition to the 27-foot spread of glaring orange bal­ loons, a small float at the end of a line releases a quantity of colored dye on to the water. The apparatus also includes control devices, so that you can steer your vehicle through sea and air and regulate your altitude when aloft. In ordinary life, "Super-Raft" is a small, mild-mannered, col­ lapsible package, easily stored aboard any vessel. But come an emergency—it's a bird, it's a plane, it's a humdinger of a Ufesaver. David S. Cooper, one of the kit's co-inventors, first conceived his wonder-gadget while a Na;\or pilot, in Korea. He felt that new survival .equipment was needed to protect against shares, high seas.and ice, equipment that would: make the survivor more visible ithan "a tiny^ dot on the water.',' , , �. V \ ;i A ^ SEAFARERS Bght Atli tM April M, 1M6 LOG Union Volunteers Aid Disaster Areas By Frank Drozok, West Coast Representatlv* SlU Fishermen Fight Salmon Depletion SlUNA fishermen in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest are fuming: about the raw deal ihey are getting from the Japanese and even their own government officials on the Bristol Bay red salmon problem. While fishermen are limited in the amounts they can catch to insure the survival of the red salmon (the most expensive type of salmon), the Japanese have been virtually fishing the sea dry. They have taken millions of immature fish, endangering future catches. Meanwhile, the American fishermen are expecting to net a disastrously small catch despite the fact that a record number of fish are running. Federal officials have been sitting on their hands so far. The State Department, fearful of antagonizing the Japanese, has so far refused to take any action in tbe matter. At a meeting in the SUP-SIU Hall in Seattle, however, lawmakers urged SlU Alaska fishermen to take action to "shock" the Administration and the Congress into doing something about the problem. Representative Brock Adams (D.-Wash.) said- he realized that the Japanese were our main ally in the Pacific, but that we should expect more from our friends than the seeming wanton destruction of the livelihood of thousands of Americans. In other news of the Pacific Northwest area, the port of Coos Bay, Oregon, retained its status as the world's largest lumber shipping port. During 1964, 773 million board feet of lumber passed through Coos Bay—620.7 million board feet Capay. The latter, just out of a to domestic markets and the short layup, is in the process of When natural or other disasters strike at the U.S. or anywhere else in the world, the American balance of 152.3 million board feet signing on for a run to Saigon. Sign-ons included the Falrport, trade union movement is quick to donate time and money to aid the victims and stem the tide to foreign markets. Cue Victory and Longvlew Victory. of destruction. Above, members of Fire Fighters Local 338 and Red Cross workers dig into San Francisco In transits were the Yorkmar, the rubble of an Elkhart, Indiana building levelled by tornadoes on Palm Sunday. Many Robin King, Elizabetbport, Steel Shipping has been good in the trapped by tornadoes which struck several midwest towns were saved by such quick action. Bay Area for nearly all ratings and FlyeV, Steel Apprentice, Wllmar. Union member volunteers are also hard at work shoring up levies and evacuating victims of entry ratings. The only soft spots Eagle Voyager and Ocean Anna. flood-threatened cities in Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri, where the Mississippi River were for bosuns and chief stew­ During the coming period, the has gone on one of worst spring rampages in history. Worldwide, AFL-CIO disaster aid has ards. Pay-offs in the last period Ocean Dinny and Ocean Evelyn are were the Cue Victory and Norberto expected to pay off here, and gone recently to earthquake victims in Chile and to famine-threatened areas in Brazil. about 11 ships will be passing through the port. Michael Rossi, an SIU oldtimer, just shipped as deck maintenance aboard the C. S. Longlines in Honolulu. Joining him on the cable layer was Darold A. Hubbard and Donald Bautell. By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer Members just pulling into San WASHINGTON—The Senate has opened debate on a bill Francisco and waiting to ship out again include E. N. Cronin, who designed to overcome once and for all voting restrictions used sails in the steward department; to deny the ballot to large numbers of southern Negroes. This column reviews the various benefit programs for SIU members and J. L. Pagan, another steward to help our brothers obtain' those which they are eligible for without un­ just off the Norberto Capay. A solid bipartisan majority to pass the 1964 Civil Rights necessary delay. We realize that the wide range of benefits available was pledged to support the Act. There are currently eleven SIU under the SIU welfare program makes it hard for many of our members members in the USPHS Hospital legislation which President to keep track of specific plans. In response to many questions, we will The voting rights bill pro­ again review the • maternity, hospital and optical benefits which are here. One, Wincenty Gontarski, Johnson urged last monlh in a vides that federal "examiners" keeps wishing he was back in his provided for membership use. would 1: J appointed to register personal appearance before a joint hometown of Baltimore. voters In states and localities MATERNITY BENEFIT. Those seamen who have 90 days of seasession of Congress, televised to Wilmington using literacy tests or other lime in the calendar year prior to the birth of a child and one day's the nation. restrictive voting qualifica­ seatime in the six months prior to the birth of a child, are eligible Shipping was good during the The heart of the bill is a provi­ tions if . . . under the Plan for a $200 maternity benefit when their wives give birth, last period, with a good number sion for appointment of federal vot­ • Less than 50 percent of the provided they present proper proof and claims within one year of the of jobs coming in from San Fran­ ing officials to register Negroes in voting age population—excluding birth. In those cases where there are multiple births (twins, triplets, cisco and Seattle on the Manhattan, areas where discriminatory tests servicemen and aliens—actually etc.), there is provision for an individual maternity benefit of $200 for Rio Grande, Long Lines and have been used to keep them from Elizabethport. In transit ships dur­ voted in the 1964 presidential each child. registering. For births occurring on and after August 1, 1962, delivery by ceasa- ing the last two weeks were the election. rean section shall be reimbursed in accordance with the hospital and Elizabethport, Fairport, Wilmar, Despite the overwhelming sup­ • More than 20 percent of the surgical fee as specified in the Schedule of Dependents' Benefits. In Steel Apprentice, Robin Kirk, Floport for voting rights legislation, addition an applicant must present proof of marriage and a photo­ mar, San Francisco, Robin Hood the Senate was divided several potential voters are non-white. static copy of the baby's birth certificate. The birth certificate must and Eagle Voyager. Six in transit ways on details of the bill. Federal Guarantee ships are due in the next period. contain the names of both parents, -f Generally Satisfied Federal intervention would be An eligible seaman's wife is en­ Richard McCoonell paid off the A bipartisan liberal bloc, while automatic unless the state proved titled to the maternity benefit if derstanding is that the frames will bosun's job on the San Francisco be those known as "Shell Fulgenerally satisfied with the bill to the satisfaction of a three- her husband dies during her preg­ after serving on her for five reported by the Senate Judiciary judge federal court in Washington, nancy, and may also claim the Vue," with lenses of the required months. He says he will vacation prescription. The cost of fancy Committee, would like to see some D.C., that it did not discriminate. maternity benefit if her husband of its provisions strengthened. Once covered, a state or locality is at sea at the time the child is frames, tri-focal lenses, sunglasses, for a while in the southern sun before shipping out On the other hand. Senate Repub­ could remove itself from coverage born. A seaman is eligible for this and the like, shall be paid by the California again. eligible. The optical benefit is if 60 percent of its citizens became lican leader Everett McKinley benefit only if the child is born in available and extended to eligible Frank Feld paid off the blackDirksen (111.), who played an in­ registered and it convinced a the Continental United States or dependents under the same rules gang oh the Flomar after seven federal court that it was not dis­ strumental role in shaping the its territories — Puerto Rico and as those governing the eligible months. Frank, who lives in the original Administration bill, has criminating, or by a five-year the Virgin Islands. The only ex­ seaman. Safety glasses for de­ San Diego a'rea, will try to get in a record of non-discriminaition and voiced strong opposition to por­ ception to this is Canada, which pendent children also may be pro­ little fishing before shipping again. court approval. tions of the committee bill, par­ is also covered under this benefit. vided, however. ticularly a section outlawing all Where literacy tests are not John Ratliff has been taking it Lastly, if an eligible seaman dies state poll taxes. employed, but other means HOSPITAL BENEFITS FOR easy on the beach for a few weeks, before his wife gives birth, the are keeping Negroes from Dirksen suggested that the bill benefit shall be paid even though ELIGIBLES. Eligibility for hos­ but is registered to ship again in registering and voting, federal might pass the Senate in two weeks the child is born more than 90 days pital benefits is the same as out­ the first cook or baker's job that registrars would be appointed if some "cQncessions" were made after the deceased employee's last lined above. The hospital benefit shows up. His last ship was the under these circumstances: program is actually broken down Alcoa Master, where he put in by "my liberal friends." Senator employment. into three items, consisting of a three months. Philip A. Hart (D-Mioh.), floor • If, on the basis of a census OPTICAL BENEFIT. Eligibility manager for the bill, said he was taken at the request of the At­ for this benefit is the same as $1.06-a-day hospital benefit, a Seattle "not prepared to offer any con­ torney General, it is determined for the maternity benefit. The pro­ $3.00-a-day hospital benefit,- and Shipping remains good in cessions" which might weaken tJje thgt less than 25 percent of a gram provides for the following: an $8.00-a-day hospital benefit, Seattle, where It's been booming which is known as the In-Hospital racial group is registered. bill. One pair of eyeglasses every two Benefit. Each of , these 'is dealt since the end of the eas't coa.st senate Majority Leader, Mite • If . a federal court, hearing a years, except in cases requiring with separately below. ^ longshore beef. Payoffs in the last Maasfdeld (Mont.) saw passage 9uit_ by the Attorney General glasses more frequently due to period were the Ocean Spray, Ex$I.OO-a-bay Hospital: Beneflt~ pr^a Virginia. Manhattan and likely after less than' -a ihbhth of chargihg denial of thb right to pathological reasons, in -v/hich case debate^as • c(wn)pared-^'With"''jnore' votd,- 'determanes ' thait ' federal the • additional glasses ntay^ be au­ Eligibili^ for .this beneftt requires Marine; In transit' ships werfr the tbaa three mont^ the Senate-took registrars should be iappointed. ' thorized by the trustees: The un­ (Continued on ilage 12) : Siunmlt, Anchorage and Seattte. (1 '4 Senate Opens Debate On Voting Rights Bill )'1 I IF li SlU Benefit Programs Outlined I; •>a f I, Ill , J) 0/ r/ J �Afffll M. IfM SEAFARERS LOG r»M» NlM ••'MSKK.'- _ • • their messages. Ten thou­ chandise. When last seen does the merchant marine. AST thy bread upon the before starvation did them sand miles is perhaps the they were headed slowly Studies of ocean currents are ^waters for it shall re­ in. turn in many days," the A rescue similar to the record—held by a bottle re­ out to sea—so keep your helping to prevent pollution of the world's beaches. An Scriptures preach. If the Lennie mutiny is recorded on leased during a Scottish An­ eyes open! Ohio high school science class bread is cast forth in a tightly the Yangtze River in 1935— tarctic expedition in 1903. Official 'Uncorker' corked bottle with a note in and again a bottled message Cast adrift near Tierra del Several men have earned even got off its own experi­ several languages giving de­ was the bringer of aid. Pirates Fuego at the tip of South their livings in England by ment recently by talking the tailed mailing instructions and captured a Chinese vessel on America, the message was re­ filling the royal post of "Un­ captain of a merchant ship offering"a reward for its re­ the River, intending to hold trieved in 1952. in New Zea­ corker of Ocean Bottles." This into releasing some bottles turn, there Is a very good the passengers and crew for land. they had prepared, when his post was first established by chance that it will come back, ransom. One of the crewNo matter how long or how Queen Elizabeth I in the year ship reached mid-ocean. Con­ although it may take many members, however, had the far it travels, the best way to sidering the normal speed of 1560, after a fisherman opened ocean bottles, however, the years. presence of mind to get a bot­ assure that a bottle message a bottle he foimd on a Dover Seafaring men—and others tle overboard with a plea for will be answered, if it is found, beach addressed to the Queen. class will have been long grad­ —have been casting bottled help before he was captured. is to offer, some sort of reward The bottle contained a mes­ uated before the first repliea messages into the sea since the Fortunately fbr all concerned for its return. Usually a small sage from one of Her Majes­ roll in. first bottles were produced. —except the pirates—a gun­ sum of money is sufficient. ty's spies telling her that the Uplifting the world by Queen Elizabeth I of. Britaint boat downriver picked up the But other rewards have been Dutch had captured the island means of sea-borne poetry was had an official "Uncorker of bottle and sped to the scene. used. of Novaya Zemlya from the the idea of the English poet Ocean Bottles." Religious men Law and order was swiftly re­ They Promised Booze Russians. The post of "Un­ Percy B. Shelly. Being a poet. have cast verses from the stored, with loud rejoicing In 1936, to publicize the Irish corker of Ocean Bottles" was Shelly outlined his idea in a Bible into the sea to spur the worthy of a Gilbert & Sulli­ Sweepstakes, the organizing kept filled for almost two cen­ poem called, appropriately, religious interest of the finder. van operetta. committee chartered a ship to turies, until it was finally "On Launching some Bottles Shipwrecked or marooned sea­ Through Storm And Time drop thousands of bottles off abolished by King George III. filled with knowledge into the men have cast' bottled SOS Bottled messages are noted the coasts of England and Bristol Channel." The poem messages into the sea—some for their longevity—^if not for Wales. Raised letters on the A shark proved to be the began— of which were answered in their swift delivery. Provid­ fish-shaped bottles said "Irish "mailman" for one bottled Vessel of heavenly medicine/ may the breeze the nick-of-time to save a life. ing they remain tightly corked Sweep. Good Luck." Inside message. An Italian fisher­ Benjamin Franklin was a sci­ :and are not smashed to smith­ was a circular promoting the man in the Gulf of Genoa Auspicious waft your dark green forms to shore ... entific bottle-caster;, bottles ereens against a rocky coast, Sweepstakes and a truly in­ caught the shark, and inside was a bottle the fish had cast by the Irish Sweepstakes they seem to be timeless. Whether or not Shelly ever teresting reward. The finder organizers promised the find­ A message cast into the sea was "entitled to a bottle of swallowed. Inside that was a actually got off any poem in ers filled bottles in return; in 1750 in mid-Atlantic telling whatever drink he or she message from a French sea­ this manner is not known. and the English poet. Shelly of a tragic fire at sea which chooses at the local hostelry, man, stating that he was drift­ Spiritual Messages ing helplessly in a small boat consumed a British vessel, was and an invitation to drink to and asking that his family be Others bent on reforming recovered several years ago in good luck in the Irish Sweep­ notified of his fate. Jamaica, West Indies—well stakes." Wartime action at sea often over 200 years later! A simi­ Over seventy claims for leads hopeless men to cast lar example is that of a Japa­ the promised booze came in messages of despair or pleas nese seaman who set out with almost immediately from En­ for help into the sea. Some his shipmates on a treasure glish and Welsh beachcombers boys in Maine not too long ago thought of reforming the hunt in 1784. They were ship­ —many of whom figured found some wreckage identi­ world with poem-filled bot­ wrecked and died of starva­ they'd never had it so good. fied as belonging to the USS tion on a remote coral reef in For weeks afterward beaches Beatty, a destroyer torpedoed the world launch religious tles. the Pacific. But before dy­ were reported "black with in 1943. In the wreckage was messages in bottles. Near the Rescue By Bottle Several rescues are on rec­ ing he carved a complete people" searching for the a bottle containing a message, outbreak of WW II, a re­ formed alcoholic in the state ord due to messages found in account of their troubles on lucky bottles. In 1938, one of for help. bottles. In 1895 the crew of thin strips of wood which was these bottles released in 1936 Ben Franklin—^Bottle Caster of Washington began sending the Canadian vessel Lennie sealed in a bottle and cast turned up at Rockaway Beach, Most bottles cast adrift to­ out religious texts by bottle. mutinied in the Bay of Biscay. adrift. The message was New York, where a stroller day are for scientific purposes. He chose empty beer, wine After murdering all the offi­ found in 1936—152 years later! plucked it from the sand. His After WW II, many bottles and whisky bottles to carry cers they decided to sail for But the story does not end "local hostelry" happened to were dispatched to check up his spiritual messages. In all, Greece. One officer was there. The message was found be Jack Demsey's restaurant on where undetonated float­ he claims some 1,400 replies spared, however, to serve as by a fisherman on an isolated in New York, where he ing mines might have drifted to the roughly 15,000 bottles navigator. Telling the mutin­ Japanese beach—^in the same turned in the bottle and got so that "safe" zones could be he cast adrift. Most of the replies promised repentance ous crew they were approach­ remote village where the sea­ his booze. The latest re­ established for shipping. man who sent the message corded recovery of one of by the finders. ing Spain, he skirted close to had been born! The first scientific bot­ the French coast and managed The Irish Christian Endea­ tle-caster in America vor Union prefers sauce bot­ Actually, the chances of somehow to drop several SOS was probably Benjamin tles as the carriers of biblical a bottled message being messages overboard in bottles. Franklin, who surmised texts because, they feel, these found and returned to the One was found a few hours that the reason ships took bottles are tougher and more later, the, proper authorities sender are improving all longer to reach America likely to sur\'ive at sea. At the time—as nations grow were notified, and a French from England than they the height of its activity the naval vessel soon had the mu­ and more and more did to reach England from beaches lose their "re­ tineers in irons. group cast some 1,000 bottle mote" status. For instance, these bottles was in 1954, in America lay in the cur­ messages a month and re­ On another occasion, a rent of the Gulf Stream. ceived ' about 250 replies SIU member James Bal- England. vessel bound for Australia He checked his theory by monthly. The bottles they mey casts messages adrift Anyone who wants picked up a' bottled, mes­ dispatching sealed bottles cast afloat near Belfast, Ire­ as a hobby. He estimates somet hing for nothing sage on the high seas re­ in the Atlantic. that he has "sent" about land have reached as far as should still keep his counting the predicament fifty messages in this Bottles, pkstic disk^ Wood­ Mexico and Newfoundland. eyes on the sea, because of six shipwrecked sea­ manner and has already in 1958 a large Sydney, en and metal cases are all One of the most popular scrip­ men marooned on a Idnely received n'ne replies. A u s t r a 1 i a department used in these scientific sur­ tural texts they sent out "was, and desolate' Pacific, ,isAlthough it can take thent a store released ' ia large veys of obean curi^ents. Com- ' naturally, "Cast thy .bread land.: Alt®''j'??g jil*.® J. i ship sped tp the island long, . time to do it, bottles, . number of bottles contain- meycial iisRermeix naturally •upoii the waters for ,it shall often fravel rpilong ^way iWith|. ,l}Wefit.,froni^tjje^§. 8tiud^,a^ • -tHi P �Apra U, lf98 Pare Tea SlU-UIW Wins Two New Pacts In Philly By Robert A. Matthews, PHILADELPHIA—The SIU United Industrial Workers QUESTION: if you had a year Vice-President, Contracts, & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. Union has nailed down two new contracts here and negotia­ off and all the money you need­ A couple of letters on the subject of money draws in foreign ports tions are continuing at three more plants. The new gains are have ed, how would you spend it? reached the Contract Department recently. One of those request­ part of a long range organiz--*ing a clarfication on the subject was from the Ship's Delegate on board ing drive by the SIU-UIW in the Powerhouse division of Rohm the Robin Trent. His question was: Edward Odum: I would first & Haas, a chemical company, this area. help my family and all those I Question: "According to the Freightship Agreement, Article II, Sec­ where the UIW recently won an The first time SIU-UIW pacts already signed cover Emdur Metal Products and the Nutex Corporation of America, both of which came under the Union ban­ ner after the SIU-UIW won Na­ tional Labor Relations Board elec­ tions at the shops. Emdur employs about 40 people who manufacture picture frames, clocks and other decora­ tive household accessories. Three-Year Pact The new contract there pro­ vides for a sizeable hourly pay in­ crease spread over a three-year period, 20 cents of which went in­ to effect immediately. Additional holidays, health and welfare pro­ tection and other benefits round­ ed out the gains obtained for workers at this concern. Nutex employs about a dozen workers who manufacture adver­ tising specialties and novelty products. Their first contract pro­ vided for a 25-cent package in­ crease, an additional holiday, im­ proved vacation schedule and a health and welfare program. Meanwhile, negotiations have gotten underway for workers in Standard Oil Beef Won By SIU Oil Union May 22 Designated Maritime Day WASHINGTON — May 22 has been designated Na­ tional Maritime Day and President Lyndon B. John­ son-has called upon the na­ tion to honor the American merchant marine on that day in recognition of the vital role played by merchant sea­ men and the maritime in­ dustry in the n a t i o n's economy. "International commerce and the ships which make it possible have contributed immeasurably to America's greatness," Johnson noted. "The sea and ships are an integral part of this coun­ try's past, present, and future." "In war and peace mer­ chant seamen have served us well ... to carry people and goods between nations in peaceful commerce or. if need be, to carry the men and equipment needed to protect our interests and our friends overseas." Noting the vital role played by maritime in the well-being of the entire na­ tion, the President maue several observations which might well be heeded by more than one agency of the U.S. Government — partic­ ularly the Agriculture De­ partment, and the Maritime Administration. The Presi­ dent noted: "We must be ever mindful of the state of our merchant fleet. A balanced, economical and efficient merchant fleet, manned by well-trained and skilled seamen, is a vital na­ tional resource . . . Our fleet must ultimately be supported by Americans who ship their cargo on American ships." 10-- p; NLRB election. A rank-and-file negotiating committee was elected to assist in the bargaining talks. Varied Plants Rohm & Haas is a major chemi­ cal producer, with plants in dif­ ferent parts of the country. It em­ ploys some 25 workers at its loca­ tion here. Contract discussions are also proceeding at the J. A. Donnelly Company and the Colonial Beef Company, two companies where the SIU-UIW won recognition as bargaining representative on the basis of card checks. Plant com­ mittees are active ln,the talks at both locations. Previous Contract The Donnelly operation Is a division of Fox Iron Works, where the SIU-UIW has had a contract for a number of years. It is a steel fabricating concern. The SIU-UIW has also just petitioned the NLRB for an elec­ tion at Spiegel's, a nationwide mail order chain. Philadelphia is the Eastern regional office for Spiegel's, which 'has its main plant in Chicago. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — The SIUNA-afflliated International Un­ ion of Peiroleum Workers has won its beef with Standard Oil of California. Settlement has been reached on a new contract cover­ ing some 4,000 workers in Cali­ fornia, Utah and Alaska, and the union has ended its successful boy­ cott against Standard Oil of Cali­ fornia products. Boycott Success The successful boycott was in­ itiated last November. It won the support of the labor movement across the nation. The boycott was in large part responsible for the gains made by the Standard Oil workers. Those gains include: A cent hourly wage in­ crease for journeymen mechanics, a new vacation schedule allowing an extra week of vacation for workers with at least five years seniority, and a percent across the board wage boost. With the one-year agreement signed, lUPW will turn its atten­ tion to a drive for general wage adjustments In the oil industry. The drive is expected to get under­ way by summer. YOUCM'XSFBAV^ UP IF yOU'RE MOT THERE Vbciff l/AIIOAf ItoSiAARyfJ ' tion 2, Money Draws In Foreign Ports, money shall be given to the crew every five (5) days except Saturdays and Sundays. ShaU five (5) days waiting time include Saturdays and Sundays as part of the five (5) day waiting period?" Answer: Yes, Saturdays and Sundays are to be included when count­ ing five (5) days between each crew advance. As stated in the Agree­ ment, the Master will not be required to piit out a draw, on Saturday or Sunday. Therefore, if the five (5) day period ends on a Saturday, you will not be entitled to a draw until Monday. Reference: Standard Freightship Agreement, Article II, Section 28: "Money Draws In Foreign Ports. Monies tendered for draws in for­ eign ports shall be in United States currency failing which, traveler's checks shall be issued at the Company's expense. When American money is aboard, crew advances shall be put out the day before arrival in port. Upon request the Unlicensed Personnel shall be granted advances at least once every five days, except on Emess J. Lichtensen, William Lo­ Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays, gan, Robert Smith, George Stanley. while the vessel is in port. Such S. S. Valiant Hope—Transporta­ advances shall be made available to tion Checks, Thomas E. Bewley, the crew not later than 4 p.m." The following request .for a Edward E. Edinger, Thomas E. clarification was received from the Hanson, Donald Kershaw. S. S. St. Lawrence—Subsistence Ship's Delegate on board the Niagara: due ex-crewmembers, Nicholas SaQuestion: Called Back To Shift kellarides. Ship On A Weekend. A call back S. S. Ames Victory—Transporta­ to shift ship was posted on the tion Checks, Ralph L. Jones. board for 3 p.m. on Sunday. Some S. S. Seatrain New Jersey—^Dis­ of the Seafarers were working o.t. puted Overtime, George Doest. that day cleaning holds prior to S. S. Niagara—Disputed Over­ loading grain. Nov as the ship had not actually shifted until after time, Richard Heckman, Francis M. 5 p.m., the men continued their Greenwell. work until 5 p.m. These men put Lodging Dispute, John Bennett, in for overtime covering their work Norlin Berry, Joseph Cayou, Harn' in the holds plus the four (4) hour Dean, Clarence L. Jones, William call back time from 3 p.m. which Knapp, Steve Oparenovich, Jr., created an overlap of two (2) hours Warren Weiss. in overtime. S. S. Natalie—Checks covering The Mate contends this is pyramiding overtime and disputed one day's wages, Jamese R. Boone, overtime for the men who were Spiros D. Cassimis, Howard W. working at the time. He says that Gibbs, Alfred D. Kirkconnel, Jose only the men who were off duty at Ortiguerra, Frank G. Valerie, Althe time and who were actually doph Vante. called back, are entitled to the S. S. Transorleans — Disputed four (4) hours time, that is Overtime, Seymour Sikes. allowable. S. S. Penn Carrier—Disputed Problem: Are the men who were Overtime, Earl Beamer, Walter working prior to the posted call Smith. back entitled to the four (4) hours Alcoa Steamship Company has In addition to the time they they notified this department that checks worked In the holds from 3 p.m. are being held for the following to 5 p.m. Seafarers, which can be received Answer: No. The men who were by writing to the company at 17 working overtime are not entitled Battery Place, New York 4, New to the four (4) hour minimum for York, Attn: Paymaster. shifting sihip as they were already Earl J. Brennan, Hans K. Berg, working and were not actually Elmer E. Campo, Mario Carrasco, called back. Alfred S. Deagro, Jr., Earl J. DeReference: Standard Freightship ahgelo, Luther H. Dodson, Stefan Agreement, Article III, Call Back Goscinski, Murray J. Garland, To Shift Or Haul Vessel,—Section 17, paragraph (a), last paragraph: Numa J. Gremillion, E. B. Hardcastle, Bernard C. Jordan, Robert "On Saturdays, Sundays and K. James, H. G. Martiniere, John Holidays, the men shall receive a Medevesky, James D. Ott, Rafael minimum of four (4) hours call M. Pereira, William H. Padgett, back. They may be turned to one Arthur M. Redmond, Biliie L. Ray, or more times without the pay­ Alderman L. Scott, Thomas H. ment of overtime and additional Stevens, John L. Smith, Harold W. overtime except where the time Sweet, Cornelius Smith, Melvin E. exceeds four (4) hours in which Thomas, J. F. Wunderlich. case they would be paid for time actually worked. The contract department is hold­ ing checks for the following Sea­ As a result of instructions farers, and they can be received from an insurance represen­ by notifying this department in tative covering the Union for writing. possible' theft or forgery of vacation payments to mem­ R. V. Robert Conrad—^Disputed bers, a change in the method Overtime, Readus R. Wheelington of payment of SIU vacation (IBU). benefits has become neces­ S. T. Manhattan—Disputed Over­ sary. All payments will now time—Wage Differential for Tank have to be made at an office Cleaning, L. Harvey. of the Union and proper iden­ tification must be given at the S. S. Hercules Victory—^Disputed same time. Overtime, Murray Carrol, Edward Jensen, William A. LaughUn, Vacation Pay know who are in need. Then I would travel down to those depressed areas and make sure that enough schools were built to give the kids a decent start in life. Next, I would construct houses, as many as were needed to guarantee every­ one an adequate standard of living —something that all men need and have a right to. 4" 4 3^ John Rymanz; First of all, I don't want to travel. I get enough travel­ ling in while I'm working. What I would like to do is take the )year off and spend it with my kids. I have five, and' what with ship­ ping out and all, I just don't spend the time I'd like to with my family. In the summer, I'd take them all swimming. In the winter we'd go sleigh-riding and ice-skating. And for once, I wouldn't have to worry about the bills. t 4" 4" Israel Ramos: I would take a pleasure cruise around the world. Only, this time, I wouldn't be work­ ing. I would very much like to visit the ports I saw in my youth. Espe­ cially those in the Far East—Shang­ hai, Yokohama, Singapore. It would • be one long year's holiday, sort of a bus­ man's holiday, if you know what I mean. Just like stepping on board a big seafaring bus and leaving the driving to the crew. 4" 41 .4' Dewey Gillikin: I would hop a ship and head straight for PuertoRico. There I would lounge on the beach, drink­ ing in the beauty of the country along with my rum - and - Coca C5olas. During the day I would take in the sun on the beach. At night, I would take in the local hot spots. By becoming friendly with the Latin American beauties, I would finally learn to speak fluent Spanish. Can you think of a better way? 4" 4" Tony Sparrow: Are you kidding? I don't care how much money you have, by the time Uncle Sam, is through with you you won't have a dime to your name. If you don't work your­ self to death, they tax you to death. After taxes, if I happen to have a few cents left, maybe I'll buy myself a cigar or a pack of chewing gum. If the government slips up and I'm left with a sizable chunk of cash, I'll stash It in the bank. . . , •;r 1.3' .• .• 5 >i", ill .; ') J At 1'--^ 17^ u /I 17 •IJ i �" *.-4 SEAFARERS Ajpril If. Uto LOG "Hey, Orville! That Ain't Hay! " Repeal of a 44-word clause in the Taft-Hartley Act is one of the prime legislative goals set by organized labor. This clause, Section 14-B, reads: "Nothing in this Aot shall be construed as authorizing the execution or application of agreements requiring membership in a labor organization as a condition of employment in any State or Terri­ tory in which such execution or application is prohibited by State or Territorial law." This clause permits States to enact so-called "Rightto-Work laws" which forbid union shop agreements under which work­ ers are required to join a union as a condition of keeping their job. President Johnson condemned 14-B in his State of the Union address and the AFL-CIO has pledged itself to repeal of this anti-labor clause. t J' i> The ties between key officers and staff members of the anti-labor National Right to Work Committee and many right-wing extremist organizations are well-known but often difficult to pin down. Some specific examples of these dual allegiances follow. After each name is the individual's standing in the Right to Work Committee, followed by his tie with the right-wing extremists. • E. S. Dillard, founder; an endorser of the John Birch Society, • William Taylor Harrison, 1960 incorporator: President, Council for Individual Freedom, an Indiana extremist organization. • Glen A. Green, former director of information; former chief assistant to George S. Benson, president of Harding College, the "West Point" of the right wing. • Theodore J. Hamilton, membership and contributions; former public relations director for National Labor-Management Foundation. • Rev. Howard E. Mather, executive committee; director of Christian Freedom Foundation. • Dr. Frederick C. Fowler, advisory committee member; Christian Crusade speaker, director of Christian Freedom Foundation. • Howard F. Brown, director; former director. National LaborManagement Foundation. • Father John E. Coogan, S.J., director; frequent contributor to Human Events. • Charles E. Daniel, director; member American Good Government Society's committee on electoral college reform. • Eugene B. Germany, director; fundraiser for Americans for Con­ stitutional Action, endorser Manion Forum and endorser Committee for Equal Anti-Trust Protection. - : The American Institute Tor Free Labor Development has agreed to establish a resident training center in Georgetown, British Guiana, at the request of the British Guiana Trade Union Council. The institute will open in^ay with the first resident course expected for June and July. It will .be preceeded by a series of week-end and three-day seminars in -all parts of the coun­ try, offering instruction in trade union fundamentals, to provide candidates for the resident school. A second course will be held in October-November, with at least four courses and more than a score of seminars projected for 1966. for the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1917, and rose to the post of yardmaster. He became the union's general chairman on that railroad in IL35, and in 1957 was named assistant president. Since 1958 he has served also as a member of the National Railroad Adjustment "Board. 4> 4> 4> The Chicago AFL-CIO has pre­ sented two honor students with $500 John Fitqiatrick Memorial Awards. President William A. Lee of the central body presented the awards to Miss Geraldine E. Wroblewski, 18, who attends the Chicago Circle Branch of the Uni­ S' ^ i. versity of Illinois, and Alfred'P. Gardner <?at) Jackson, former Hainisch, 18, who is studying elec­ newspaperman, government of­ trical engineering at the Illinois ficial and fighter for the underdog, Institute of Technology. died in Washington, D.C. on April 4 4 17 at the age of 68. As a news­ A new on-the-job training divi­ paperman for the Boston Globe. Jackson took up the cause of Nicola sion of program development in Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two the Labor Department's Bureau of immigrant" Italian anarchists con­ Apprenticeship Training is to be victed of robbery and murder, headed up by Henry R. Przelomski, convinced that the two men had a veteran of 18 years in the U.S. been tried primarily for their civil service. The division will political beliefs. In spite of his direct the promotion, development efforts, the two were electrocuted and servicing of on-the-job train­ in 1927. Jackson served in the De­ ing programs under the Manpower partment of Agriculture in early Development and Training Act. 4 4 4 New Deal years until he was forced A strike averting agreement be­ out by conservative farm interests. He worked later for the former tween the Glass Bottle Blowers CIO and the Southern Tenant and the glass container industry was reached after intensive nego­ Farmers Union. tiations in Atlantic City. The new 4. R.W. Wacbowiak of TQledo, Ohio contract contains a 50-cent pack­ has been ninned president of the age of benefit improvements and Railroad Yardmasters by the long-sought work rules operation­ union's, executive board. He suc­ al safeguards.. The new pact cov­ ceeds the- iate Milton G. Schoch, ers'8,000 machine operators em­ ' who died March 2S. Wachowlak, 63,- ployed by 26 tnaniifacturers in "76 got his first job as a stenographe'r iilairts'across thfe i-oantry. In testimony before the House Appropri­ ations Committee recently, Secretary of Agri­ culture Orville Freeman advocated a pro­ gram that, if enacted, would deal a serious blow to the American Merchant Marine. Freeman told the committee that the 50-50 requirement on the use of U.S. flag vessels to carry half of our farm commodities to the Soviet nations, is curtailing the sale of such commodities to these countries. Just three days earlier, similar testimony had been given to a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Banking and Currency by former Under Secretary of Agriculture Charles S. Murphy, who was recently named by President Johnson as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board. As can be expected Freeman and the Agriculture Department had attempted to convey the impression that the cost of Ameri­ can-flag shipping is making our farm prod­ ucts uncompetitive in the world markets. A dollars and cents comparision between the cost of subsidizing the American farmer and farm prices and the cost to the Govern­ ment of administering the Cargo Preference Program exposes the misleading and distort­ ed position that the Secretary of Agricul­ ture has chosen to take. The U.S. Gov­ ernment is now spending about $5 billion a year to support high prices for the farmer in the domestic market, and then must dole out an additional subsidy, which also goes into the farmers pocket, to enable the farmer to sell in the world market at considerably lower prices. In addition, it has been costing the Govern­ ment about $150 million a year to subsidize the export of wheat abroad, as well as $35 million a year to make rice competitive, mak­ ing a total cost of $185 million a year for these commodities alone. To administer to the Cargo Preference pro­ gram, it now costs the taypayer about $80 niillion a year-^the export subsidies on wheat, and rice alone accounting for more than double that amount.' ' '' ' ^ This is not the first time that Secretary of Agriculture Freeman has attempted to scuttle the 50-50 Law and deprive U.S. flag­ ships of cargo that they are legally entitled to. The American Merchant Marine can expect further attacks from Secretary of Agriculture Freeman. But the SIU and the rest of Maritime labor will not relent in its fight to insure the American-flag fleet of the cargo that it is entitled by law to carry in its holds. Anything Goes It is a well known fact, that the officers and staff members of many Right To Work committees have close ties with various rightwing extremist groups. Just as a leopard can't change its spots at will, these Right To Work committees carry the same tactics of lies and deceit into their anti-labor opera­ tions which characterizes the functioning of right-wing extremist groups in the U.S. The latest deceit uncovered by the AFLCIO is the fact that these Right To Work committees often claim that contributions to these organizations by the employer are tax deductible. As it turns out, this is just an­ other of the many falsehoods which the.se anti-labor committees are trying to foist oif as the truth. To check out this particular claim by sev­ eral Right To Work groups, AFL-CIO Asso­ ciate General Counsel Thomas E. Harris con­ sulted with the Internal Revenue Department to set the record straight. As it turns out, the Right To Work Groups making this claim were ageiin lying in their teeth. The AFLCIO was advised by Internal Revenue that contributions to these organizations are not deductible in any circumstances. This will probably not stop them from continuing: to make this, false claim however. Groups like this are blind to the truth, blind to reason, and capable of any tactic to achieve their ends. The best way to counter th^ir insidious propaganda is to hit them with the truth at every opportunity. �Pac* TwelfS SEAFARERS April St, 1N5 LOG Trawlers Seek Fish, Milifary Information Soviet Trawlers i*pse Double Danger, Navy Scientist Warns WASHINGTON—A top U.S. Navy oceanographer has warned against the growing double-edged threat from Soviet trawlers—some fishing for fish and others for military information—in all of the world's oceans. The Soviets have done a Admiral said, "send back neat job of combining fishing avoid detection. Meanwhile, the Soviets are build­ constant data of prime military with espionage so that the ing up their fishing industry and value for the whole world's latter pays for the former, Rear Admiral Denys Knoll told the na­ tional convention of the Navy League. He said the ocreangraphic information collected by the Rus­ sians improves the accuracy of their torpedoes and helps red subs using it to penetrate the new na­ tions of Africa and Asia, the oceanographer said. The Russians are now landing 20,000 tons of fresh frozen fish yearly in Ghana, 24,000 tons in Nigeria and similar amounts in the' Congo, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Building Fish Fieets The Russians are also building up modern fishing industries for Cuba, Egypt, Somalia, Zanzibar and Brazil. With their full-scale invasion of the world's fishing grounds, the Soviets have managed to supplant the United States as the second greatest fishing power in the world. "Russian fishing fieets and fishery research vessels," the oceans, gathered as a normal part of their exploratory and industrial activities." These operations are financed by the fishing itself, he said. For similar types of informa tion, the United States relies on warships, survey ships, buoys and random freighters. He urged the whole of the U.S. merchant and fishing fleet be used to collect the information. He also asked for the rejuvena tion" of the "sick" U.S. merchant and fishing fleets through modern ization and expansion. "We are clearly In a position to contain the Russian threat," he said, adding that we must seriously attack our maritime problems to do so. By Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area New Delta Lines Pier Opens The SIU-Gontracted Del Sud (Delta Lines) found herself Involved in a whole batch of "firsts" recently. She was the first ship to use the spanking new Galvez Street Wharf, which will become the New Orleans headquarters of Delta Lines, and ceremonies onboard noted the occasion. Then she was loaded up with the millionth pound of meat to move through the Port of New Orleans for the same customer—a dealer in Bridgetown, Barbados. After getting underway, she became the first ship with passengers onboard to use the new Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet seaway. As the fellows onboard say, the Dei Sud is really second to none. Not all Seafarers may find the new Delta Lines dock as convenient as the old. It is six miles from the Hall, whereas the old facility was only two miles away. Just off the Del Sud is Phil "Pappy" O'Connor. It's not because he couldn't take all the ceremonies, however. "Pappy" came ashore so he could visit with relatives in Chicago and California. Norman Dubois dropped by the Hall last week to cast his ballot for delegates to the SIUNA convention. Norman is a candidate himself. He just missed pensioners Alton "Ding Dong" Beli and Charles "Juke Box" Jeffers, also in to vote. The latter two were looking for the candidates who were buying cof--f SlU-manned vessels are partners fee for the crowd. sailing out of Texas ports in 1945 in a project aimed at broadening Others on the beach here in­ and got his book in the Isthmian the role played by American mer­ clude oldtimers Louis "Baldy" drive. Last aboard the Alcoa Ma­ chant shipping in oceanographic Bollinger, Maurice "Frenchy" riner, he is now watching the research. / Duet and Julius Smythe and his board for the first job. On his time Project Neptune-Pacific, a joint running mate Vincent "Fitz" Fitz­ off. Chuck likes nothing better effort between SIU Pacific Dis­ gerald. than to go squirrel hunting. trict-contracted American Mail Mobile Thomas C. Ballard, who started Lines and scientific groups, was sailing out of Mobile in 1944, was launched last fall. The shipping here for the next two weeks looks fair, with about last aboard the Sacramento on a At that time, the cargo-liner 15 to 18 ships due to hit the port long trip that took in Yugoslavia Java Mail sailed to the Orient via for in transits or payoffs. Other­ and India. Only on the beach since the North Pacific with a scientific wise, five ships are currently laid April 2, he is rarin' to get back team equipped to collect various BALTIMORE—Uniform maximum depths for all seaports, up in this port, with little expec­ out to sea again. types of data essential to an under­ to be applied on an international basis, was proposed recently tation in the near future of cargo standing of the world's oceans. As a result of that successful by Joseph L. Stanton, executive director of the Maryland or crewing. The only cargoes available now are grains. The five voyage a number of privately- Port Authority. in layup are the Transtexas, Transon that side. But it is costing owned American merchant vessels Stanton made his remarks the United States many mil­ hartford. Monticello Victory, Ocean (Continued from page 8) may soon be assisting in the col­ Ulla and Mayflower. lions of dollars to keep up lection of oceanographic informa­ after reporting on a 42 foot one day's seatime in the year prior channel that will extend to Balti­ with their desires to be able tion. Deck department oldtimers on to admittance to the hospital. This more from Cape Henry—a job to reflect cheaper costs over the beach in Mobile include Guil­ benefit has been in effect from Dr. William 1. Aron, of General which has been underway since here." ford R. Scott, who last sailed on the. day that the Seafarers Welfare Motors Defense Research Labora­ 1948 and is now nearing comple­ tories, one of the groups partici­ tion. He also announced that pre­ He said the uniformity and the Our Lady of Peace, and James Plan came into existence. pating in the experiment, summed liminary plans have been made to standardization of channel depths W. "Jaybird" Fleming, who had $3.00-a-Day Hospital Benefit— up the goals and possibilities of get a 45 foot channel for Balti­ would be brought up at the .up­ to get off the Ocean Ulla when she The eligibility rule for this benefit the program. He said: coming International Association laid up here. Both men make their requires a seaman to have had 90 more. of Ports and Harbors in London. home in the Mobile area. days of employment in the calen­ "If we were to use the American Stanton in his remarks said that merchant fleet for gathering data, C. J. Beck, an oldtimer who has dar year prior to his admittance Consideration of a new 45-foot it has to be done on a virtually steps should be taken internation­ depth at Baltimore is being been sailing the Gulf for the last to the hospital, as well as one day's ally to set a maximum depth for spurred by a request from local twenty years, was last aboard the employment in the six-month non-interference basis. all seaports to halt a growing coal interests after the Hampton Jefferson City Victory. Now look­ period preceding his admission. He "One of the ground rules of our program was that we were not to problem—brought about by the Roads area was approved for a ing for a run to his liking, he pre­ will then receive $3.00 per day for interfere in any 'way with normal demands of foreign shippers—of 45-foot channel. The Roads is a fers sailing as a chief electrician. the period of time that he is hos­ pitalized. ship operations. We were not to one port competing with the strong competitor of Baltimore Frank F. Gomes, registered in other for trade by offering even $8.00-a-Day Hospital Benefit— for coal loadings as well as other the engine department here, was ask the ship to slow down, not to bulk cargoes. ask the ship to alter course. We greater channel depths. last aboard the Del Mundo. Then This payment actually fails under used the ship's equipment, but "European Interests," the A limitation on channel depths the ILA beef came along and he the S & A benefit program but is basically on a non-interference ' Maryland Port Authority's ex­ in the U.S. was first^advocated in sat it out on the beach. After the paid in the hospital to the individ­ basis." ecutive director said, "are the House Pubiic Works Commit­ strike, he claimed his job but was ual. Many eligibles become con­ Doctor Aron, chief scientist on building bigger ships, ranging tee in order to keep the Federal injured just before the trip began. fused and feel that this is an hospital in-patient the trip, announced that plans to up tor 95,000 tons, to carry Government from spending mil­ Now he's waiting for the best job $8.00-a-day benefit. Under the hospital benefit use the so-called "ships of oppor­ to come down the board. this dry bulk cargo in order lions simply to satisfy foreign ship section of the Plan it is; but it tunity" were practical. to save a dollar or so per ton owners. Charles Perkins, now registered falls under the S & A rules. here in Group 1 steward depart­ A patient is entitled to this ment, spent a happy year on the benefit during the time he or she Monticello Victory until she laid is a patient in any USPHS Hospi­ up for lack of cargo. On the beach tal or an approved private hospital now, he's spending time with his in the US, Puerto Rico, the Virgin family. Islands or Canada. This benefit is Harold W. Lawrence, known to payable from the first day of hos­ his friends as "Tadpole," was last pitalization but not for a period to aboard the Alcoa Conimander. He exceed 39 weeks. decided to pile off her when she The hospital benefits of $1.00-aheaded up to the east coast. day and .S3.00-a-day are paid to Harold says he's strictly a Gulf patients who qualify for as long a sailor. period as they lemain a patient in Houston the hospital, regardless of the Shipping has been fair in Hous­ length of stay. In some cases, par­ ton during the last two weeks. The ticularly those of chronic illness, outlook for the coming period is this period has extended for as bright. long as seven and eight years. James H. Maxey, a 20-year SIU man now registered here, usually ships as a bosun or AB. His last ship was the Transorleans, and he piled off her in Yorktown, Vir­ In order to assure accurate ginia. While waiting for a ship go­ digests of shipboard meetings While waiting in the St. Louis SIU hail for some deck department slots, Seafarers (l-r) Ben ing just about anywhere, Jim is In the LOG, it is desirable that Barnett, Jerry Finley, Cari Hughes and Gene Ramey, helped pass the time by engaging in some using his beach time to get in the reports of shipboard meet­ hot checker games. Although it looks like three against one, Hughes and Ramey are just some hunting and fishing. ings be typed if at all possible , . offering advice while Barnett and Finley battle it out. C. E. "Chuck" James started Merchant Ships Aid Sea Study Harbor Depth Standards Sought By Port Official /; Benefits Keeping A Jump Ahead Type Minutes When Possible - k lii I l- « Vl ; T i* / t;' I �SEAPARERS April M. 1968 Lakes Death Benefit LOG raf TbirUvm Foreign Ship Croups Still Stall FMC Data Request WASHINGTON—A trickle of rate-making information has begun to flow into the offices of the Federal Maritime Commission from four of the foreign steamship conferences which have managed to keep their books closed to the U.S. for the last two years. After interminable negoti­ ations, eight of the conferences will turn the Information over to information on the ten major com­ agreed to supply the data—^by their own governments, which in modities moving in eacn particu­ ii Mrs. Shirley Mead, daughter of SiU Great Lakes Tug & Dredge member Andrew Mattson, receives $4,000 SIU death benefit check from regional director Bob Jones in Detroit, on isehalf of her mother. Brother Mattson's widow, who was ill at the time. Mattson was last employed by Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Corp. By Al Tanner, Vice President and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer, Great Lakes Lakes Season In Full Swing '\ V L' ?f s I^ In our last report we mentioned that ice conditions were hampering; the opening; of the Great Lakes, but at last the season is now in full operation. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened on schedule April 8th, but only a handful of vessels were in transit. The first salt water ship througrh w:;s the Norwegian freighter, Medicine Hat. Lake Superior is now open to navigation, thanks to the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter, Mackinaw. This sturdy vessel led a convoy of ore car­ riers into the Duluth Harbor on Easter Sunday morning which marked the official opening of the season for that port. Detroit Shipping is booming and we are having difficulty in filling rated jobs. Able seamen and firemen are at a premium, with choice jobs hanging on the open board. Anyone wishing to make a full season will not have to wait if they come to Detroit. Activity is stirring down at the Bob-Lo docks, and it looks like the "ice cream boats" will soon be fitting out. The Ste. Clair was shifted over to the Lorain, Ohio Ship Yard last week for repairs. On the Colombia, old timers Blackie Avedlsian and Lloyd McGrew, are back on the job performing their usual expert canvas work. Duluth ^ The Engine Department of the has been exceptionally busy with James Davidson is fitting out and fitouts since we have been crewing we have been clearing these men the J. B. Ford, E. L. Ford, Paul as they report to the Hall, We Tietjen, Uhlmann, C. S. Robinson, have been shipping some men to C. C. West, Niagara Mohawk, ports such as Manitowoc and Stur­ Peckinpaugh, and the Philip Minch geon Bay for the past couple of since the lath of April. All of these weeks. Members not on callback fitouts have just almut cleaned our lists are patiently waiting for jobs Hall of men, and we ask that any rated men who wish to ship come in the Hall. Easter Sunday marked the offi­ to Buffalo. ALPENA cial opening of the season in the Port of Duluth. Six vessels led by . The J. B. Ford, Huron Cement the United States Coast Guard Company, crewed up April 17th, Cutter, Mackinaw, entered the and is now on the run. Shipping harbor, has been very good in this port, but We are short of rated men. It Frankfort looks as if this is going to be a The crew of the Ann Arbor #5 banner year for shipping, with was paid off last Saturday due to several ships already in transit in the flood conditions in Minnesota Alpena, Stoneport, and Calcite. and Wisconsin. CLEVELAND The MV Viking is expected to In the first week of fitting out take her sea trials on April 20th. ships that were laid up in this port, If all goes well, the vessel will the Registration Board was com­ leave the Eraser Nelson Shipyard pletely cleaned off, and with one in Superior, Wisconsin, for Frank­ more ship to crew up, it looks like fort on April 23rd. The rest of the a tight squeeze to get Jhis one go­ crew will go aboard when she ar­ ing. Rated men in this port—as it rives in Frankfort. The crew will seems in every port—are now work a 20 and 8 schedule. getting to be a rare thing. Even Buffalo rated men among the Non-Priority The annual exodus of ships from Cards are now almost gone, and Winter berths in Buffalo to start a this is only the start of the season. new navigation season got under­ CHICAGO way on Monday, April 19th. The Shipping in Chicago, like all J. B. Ford, owned by Huron Port­ other Lakes ports, has been land Cement Company, was as­ terrific, with no let up in sight. sisted by the Coast Guard Cutters, Gartland's newly acquired Chicago KAW and Ojibwa. Trader has completed her fitout The season opened one week and is now activ-!ly engaged in the later tjian last year, and this port ore and grain trade. a nearly hopeless, round-about route—so that the FMC could de­ termine whether they were discrim­ inating against American-made ex­ port goods by charging higher rates on outgoing products than are paid on similar imports to the U.S. Still Stalling The fact that some information was beginning to come in at a drag­ ging pace was offset by the fact that the conferences also used the occasion to ask for more time to supply the data. An FMC spokesman said, how­ ever, that they now have enough data to make "a beginning of the analysis" which the Joint Econo­ mic Committee of Congress urged upon the commission nearly two years ago. There is still no exact idea when the data made available .would be physically delivered to the FMC. According the agreed upon pro­ cedure, the foreign conferences turn will pass tiiem on to a spe­ cial panel of the Organization for Eiconomic Cooperation and Devel­ opment. The OECD will then send them to the U.S. The final agreement was reached last month. The 16 conferences in­ volved were directed to submit ag­ gregated commodity and revenue lar trade, plus comparable infor­ mation on additional commodities to be selected. The information will only cover 1963, with the conse­ quent danger that if the FMC wants data from other years, it will have to go through the same involved and time consuming pro­ cedures. Winter Snows Up Lakes Water Levels Thanks to heavy winter snows, Great Lakes water levels, which dipped to record or near-record lows last year, will recover some needed inches this year. "The general outlook for the levels of the Great Lakes in neers announced. 1965 is a little better than in But according to the engineers' 1964," the Army Corps of Engi- Lake Survey Office, despite im­ provements on some of the lakes this year, all, except Lake Superior, are e.xpected to remain below their ten-year averages. In comparison with last year. Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron and St. Clair are expected to be up slightly, Erie is expected to re­ main the same, and Ontario will bo down slightly. EFORE the coming of coal and bunker oil, the fuels which ran the sailing ships most efficiently were said to be blood, Lakes Levels sweat and rum. More often than not, it was a combination of Lake Superior, whose Soo Locks all three. For the past 400 years rum has been associated far insured near-normal levels last and wide with sailing men. year, will reach its seasonal high The association—not always a happy one—began on the island in September, rising about one of Jamaica. Rum was the local elixir when the British first inch higher than in 1965. settled the island. It became the favorite of the landed gentry Lakes Michigan and Huron, and the seafaring commoners, the former enjoying what was which set new lows each month left of the liquid after its long and hazardous transport to last year, will peak in July, up England by the latter. about six inches above last year's Rum did not come to be served up daily on old sailing ships high. by the pressures of the ordinary sailors, however. It was intro­ Lake St. Clair will attain its duced to fill a specific need by an Admiral Blake. Before rum, seasonal high in mid-summer, the liquid ration on most ships consisted of water, beer or wine. rising about two inches above last Set in wooden casks on leaky vessels, none of three could en­ years highest level. dure a long, rough ocean journey. The water tended to become Lake Erie will hit its crest in brackish and the beer and wine tended to sour. either June or July, at levels con­ Staying Power sistent with those of last year. Rum was discovered to have extraordinary staying power. Lake Ontario, due to reach its It was near impossible to pollute and bettered its flavor with seasonal high in June, is expected age. It was formally introduced by the Admiralty as an alter­ to drop about three inches lower native to beer in 1731. The issue was one-half pint of rum per than in 1964. day. As an alternative to rum, a sailor could have one pint of wine daily. Admiral Vernon, who was given to wearing Grogram coats, so that he was called "old grog," was the man who first watered the sailors' rum. He gave as his reason the assertion "that the drinking of the seamen's allowance of neat rum In drams, and often at once, affected their morals and their health and many lives were shortened in conse­ quence of it." And so came the term "grog." The boycott by ILA Atlantic The mixture consisted of one part 80 proof rum and three and Gulf longshoremen of ships parts water—not a weak drink. Still, the intemperate peoale that trade with Cuba Is spreading who used to bother the sailors about temperance campaigned to many South American coun­ even against watered rum. Over the long run, the drys won tries. their victory. The rum ration aboard British ships was reduced The Inter-American Regional to one-eighth of a pint per day; aboard U.S. ships it was non­ Labor Organization (ORIT) has existent. organized a permanent boycott A Cure-All committee with headquarters in While it did exist, however, seamen used it for more than Washington to co-ordinate the drinking. Many believed it was a cure-all and acted occordingly. program. Some rubbed«it into their whiskers to improve the texture and Andrew McLellan, AFL-CIO sheen of the tufts. Bald-headed mariners rubbed it into their Latin American affairs chief, who scalps in an effort to grow hair. A few mixed it with their heads the committee, said; "Ships pipe tobacco because they believed it improved the fiavor of of nations persisting in trading a smoke. with Cuba can expect to face Merchant sailors, forbidden from imbibing aboard ship, get eventual boycotts at the docks in their drinking pleasure ashore. And the favorite among them all hemisphere nations, including no longer appears to be rum. The sugary nectar has been taken the U.S." over by grandmothers fashioning fruitcakes and those who travel The number of ships presently to the tropical resorts. Gone are the days when sailors sang blacklisted for trading with Cuba out "yo ho ho and a bottle of rum." Not only is the rum gone; is 237, the latest additions being but so is the singing. Today's life aboard ship is more likely the Lebanese-flag Maria Despina to include a record player and a bottle of coke. and the Finnish-flag Margrethe Paulin. Rum, Once Important At Sea, Now Nothing But A Memory B Cuba Trade Ship Boycoft May Spread �Page FonrienB $36 Million Requested For Lakes Projects President Johnson, in a budget submitted to Congress in late January, has recommended that $36.7 million be set aside for water resources projects in the Great Lakes basin. The proposed funds would be used for construc­ tion, planning and study projects to be conducted under the auspices of the Corps of Engineers. Of a total of $35.5 million allocated to construction projects, the largest amount has been ear­ marked for the 1 ew lock at Soo Canal. The leading port area in terms of designated funds is Calumet River and Harbor where channel improvements and removal of three bridges total $7 million. Rehabilita­ tion work on breakwaters, etc. at eight harbors totals about $3.5 million. Recommendations for four ad­ vanced engineering and design planning projects — navigation and flood control—total $259,000. Funds to be used for general in­ vestigations amount to $417,000 for 16 studies. In addition, $599,000 was des­ ignated for four comprehensive £ rveys and special studies. Inc'.uded in this group are two river basins—Grand (Michigan) $265,000 and Genesee (New York) $154,000 —the Lake Erie-Ontario Waterway (Ail-American Canal) $100,000 and Great Lakes water levels $80,000. rt» 'SSAFARERS ' ton r* ''-.T'• April Sf, im Lifeboat Class 132 Proves Seaworthy Engineer Corps Approves N.Y. Harbor Work GAAPUAT/m Ami- Zf. Proud graduates of Class 132 wear broad grins after completing all requirements for their Coast Guard lifeboat tickets. Members of 132 are (l-r, front) Hans Skottene; Mario Marcelino; Donald R. Buccos; Heriberto Vosquez; (rear, l-r) Ernest Nichols; John W. Martinez; Joseph Power; instructor Ami B{ornsson. WASHINGTON — The 'Army Corps of Engineers has asked Congress to approve a federal project for the expansion and im­ provement of three underde­ veloped sections of New York harbor. , An Engineers spokesman recom­ mended that the Senate Public Works Committee approve $44.8 million for the widening and deep­ ening of anchorages at Upper and Lower Red Hook Flats and Gravesend Bay. A member of the Port of New York Authority also testified in favor of the improvements. The need for the expanded anchorage facilities was laid to the sharp increase in tonnage moving through the harbor. In 1933, the port handled 85.5 million short tons of cargo; the 1963 total was 154.7 million short tons. Increased use of larger tanker and dry cargo ships has added to the congestion. The project called for by the Army Engineers would provide 25 anchorage spaces able to accomo­ date vessels with drafts up to 42 feet and lengths up to 800 feet. The Port Authority also asked the Senate panel to consider a $2.5 million project for the widening of the Kill Van Hull entrance channel of Upper New York Bay. if'i -f Labor Urged To Assume Major Role In Education NEW YORK—Labor and civil riglits groups must be permitted to play a major role in the planning of the nation's educational programs in order to solve the problems of the dis­ advantaged child, a group of educators have been told here. The call for greater com­ Action in Education," called by of the disadvantaged. Then he munity group participation in the newly formed Coordinating warned: improving the nation's schools Council on Education for the Dis­ "This battle for educational By Fred Stewart & Ed Mooney Headquarters Representatives Good Feeding Takes Planning Good feeding aboard ship is not an accident. Though primarily the responsibility of the steward department, it takes the right spirit and the proper amount of work of every crew member aboard to see to it that the food is not only tasty and nourishing, but prepared under the best possible conditions. Recognizing this problem, the SIU established its first Food Pro­ was made by Dr. Francis A. J. advantaged. Attending the session opportunity will be fought out gram in 1954. Its purpose was to assist members of the steward were 100 representatives of school wherever it is necessary: In the department in better food preparation and service and encourage lanni, director of the Division of systems and community groups. schools, if We can; in the streets, practices aimed at the elimination of waste and unsanitary conditions. Education Research of the U.S lanni called the conference a Office of Education and by Ben "beginning dialogue betwen lead­ if we must. Experience has made The second food program—the one in operation today—was begun it clear that our people shall, in­ jamin F. McLaurin, an officer of ers of education departments and deed, overcome." in 1958. It was carefully developed into what is now a full-fledged Food and Sanitation Department. The duty of all representatives of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car civil rights, labor and community The Coordinating Council on the program is to assist all steward department members in any organizations," and said it was Porters. evidence of "new definitions" in Education for the Disadvantaged way possible that will enable them to provide a better quality and They were the principal speak­ the education field. was founded earlier this year with better prepared meal to all SIU members. the backing of the trade union and ers at a day-long conference on The chief method of carrying out those aims is through the Steward The government official declared "Closing the Gap; Knowledge and that improving the quality of U.S. civil rights groups. It plans to Recertification Program. Stewards taking part in the program are establish a center to collect, ana­ education requires "an enormous lyze, evaluate and disseminate data taught the most modern and efficient methods of food stowage, prepa­ amount of research" which, he on research and experimentation ration, service and waste elimination. Among the most important said "must involve . . . the lay in the education field so it can be items in the curriculum of the training program are: • Proper stowage of food stocks groups as well as the professional used to accelerate the upgrading • Preservation of perishable foods groups." of all education, including the edu­ • Care of items in the dry store room Stressing the same point, Mc­ cation of the disadvantaged. • Care of flour, sugar and similar items . Laurin, chairman of the Coordi­ The councils' National Board of nating Council on Education for • Proper methods of stowage of fresh vegetables and frozen vege­ includes AFL-CIO the Disadvantaged, charged that Sponsors tables < some educators "stand in the -President George Meany, David • Proper methods of stowage of meat and poultry schoolhouse door," denying access Dubinsky, President of the ILGWU; • Proper methods of stowag:e of dairy products and eggs A. Philip Randolph, President of to interested citizen groups which • Proper methods of stowage of fish and seafoods seek to bring about a change in the Sleeping Car Porters; Anthony • Menu planning and food preparation American education. He compared Scotto, ILA Vice President; David Tiiiewicz Southard this posture to Alabama Governor L. Sullivan, President of the Build­ • Conduct becoming to a good steward ing Service Employees Union; and • Requisitions and inventory control The photos were incorrectly George Wallace's famous "school- SIU President Paul Hall. house-door" stand in defiance of • Temperature control and refrigeration placed in a story on page 4 of the desegregation orders. • Safety in the galley April 2 LOG entitled "SIU-IBU McLaurin said the teachers Menu planning, a key part of a steward's work, has been simpli­ Tugman Rescues Shipmate—^But were acting to protect a "selffied to a great extent by the Basic Seven Food Chart. The Chart is In Vain." Captain John Southard, interest," while Wallace was moti­ a complete and graphic guide to the types of food that should be who died - of injuria' sustained vated by a defiance of the Federal INCLOPe eaten daily for health and good nourishment. It specifies the amount -When he fell from th^ SIU-IBU tug gqveynment. But, he said, the re­ of each required daily by a working Seafarer. sults wpre the same: "denial of Triton, arid Henry'TrielW^-^ Scores of stewards have already graduated from the Steward Rehiimfn rights." heroic attempts to res«ne Southard certification Program. Returning to their respective ships, knowledge jGiven the oportunity, he said, of the best and most efficient methods of operating their department wero in vain, are. plctpred, j^ve. labor and clvih rights groups can in harid; the-graduates have already made great headway in im­ help* shape education'to the meed proving the food aboard SlU<-contracted~ vessels: . I'' Correction miiONGADOREasOfU ^LOSiMUmLBrf ff wj �SEAF AKER9 too SEAFARERS PORTS OF THE WORLD < Rotferdam harbor—from total devastion to Europe's busiest and most modern In 20 years Canals, like,the Schie River Canal above, speed the movement of goods in the city and provide a Venetian setting. The ultra-modern face of rebuilt Rotterdam extends even to the wall of the police station, pictured above. Rotterdam is the premier port of Europe and a hub of commerce for the six nations of the Common Market. In a qiiick 20 years, it was transformed from a gutted shell to one of the most modern cities in the world. It is the em­ bodiment of the postwar European success story. On May 14, 1940, Rotterdam was leveled by Nazi bombers. Huge areas were pounded into rubble and thousands died in the barbaric raid. At the war's end, the job of rebuilding was begun. Today, it is nearly completed. Ships from eveiy seagoing nation in the world can be found along the River Maas wharves of the port. Americanflag vessels iare no exception. The ships of the Waterman Line, among many other SlU-contracted vessels, are regular visitors to Rotterdam. The deep sea wharves lie on the south side of the river, while the center of the city is located on the north side. Water taxis maintain constant service between the two areas. 'The water taxi terminus in the city is at the Willemsplein Landing stage. From there it is only a short tram ride to the heart of town. The center of Rotterdam is distinguished by the fact that no auto traffic is allowed on the main shopping streets— the Lijnbaan and the Coolsingel. These avenues are com­ pletely given over to pedestrian traffic.. The shops that line them offer a tremendous selection of consumer goods, nearly all of traditional Dutch high quality. Further down > the Coolsingel stands the town hall, one of the few pre-war buildings still standing. Two famous pieces of sculpture were erected near the town hall to mark the tragic history of the city—"Monu­ ment for a Devested City" by Ossip Zadkine and the excit­ ing "Construction" by Naum Gabo. "The small part of Old Rotterdam that remains is worth visiting. The old church in the Delfshaven area at 22 Aelbrechtskolk was the scene of the last services held bv the Pilgrims before their journey to the New World via Plym­ outh, England. The city also has a fine array of museums that include the works of the famed Old Fleniish and Dutch masters. An especially spectacular sight in Rotterdam is the Euromast, a streamlined 383-foot tower built to mark Holland's contribution to the European community. Atop the mast is a fine restaurant. From it a visitor can see the entire city and the harbor. Since Holland is such a compact country, a Seafarer with just a little free time might be able to visit some of the na­ tion's other major and interesting cities. The Hague, the capital of Holland, is a beautiful and historic town. It is only 15 miles from Rotterdam. Amsterdam, Holland's big­ gest city, is only 55 miles away. :V This was Rotterdam after the Nazis got through with it. The city was subjected to one of the most devesting Jfli;-, fajds.qf \Yorld Ih- . . This Dutch Reformed Church in the Delfshaven section of Rotterdam witnessed the last services J of the Pilgrims before they sailed to .America., x :: ••• The Modeket (Waterman) has made many calls on Rotterdam, as have dozens of other ships of I • the Sl.U-contracte^ merchant fifet.,..,., . �SEAFARERS Ticker A-OK Predict Big Boost In US, Work Force WASHINGTON—The U.S. labor force will grow by an ad­ ditional nine million workers, increasing to a total of 86 mil­ lion workers in the next six years, according to an estimate of the Bureau of Labor Statis--*tics of the Department of show up among men 25 and over and 5ti million of this growth will Labor. The BLS e.stimate projects an­ other large increase of some 15 million additional persons from 1970 to 1980. This estimated growth would raise the total labor force to 101 million workers. Most of the future growth is ex­ pected to result from the greatly expanding population of working age. The rest is accounted for by increases in the proportion of adult women who will be working. Only 2 million of the 9 million labor force increase projected for the next 6 years will be men 25 years and over. But, almost 4V^ million will be young workers un­ der 25 years of age, bringing their total in the 1970 labor force to 20 million. Adult women may account for 2Vi million of the expansion. Many of the additional young workers and women will be work­ ing part-time because of school and home responsibilities. Between 1970 and 1980 the pat­ tern of changes will be somewhat different. The number of young workers will continue to increase but much less sharply—possibly 3.7 million over thp 10-year period. The largest gain, 7 million, will European Shipyards Seek Aid BRUSSELS, Belgium—The ship­ building nations of the European Common Market are beginning to register the same complaints voiced by U.S. shipbuilders in re­ cent years. Their beef is against foreign competition — mainly Japanese—and their remedy for the problem is increased subsidies. The Common Market's execu­ tive commission, after a "pro­ found" study of the threat posed by the Japanese shipbuilders, called upon the governments of the six member nations to increase their shipbuilding subsidies to a level of at least ten percent. The Common Market study showed that the Japanese enjoy at least a ten percent advantage over European shipbuilders. At first, the Europeans thought they could meet the problem through import duties on Japanese-built ships bought by European operators. This proposal was rejected, since it was felt that any increase in tariffs would drive the operators to runaway-flag nations. Commenting on the maritime construction industry in the United States, Edwin M. Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America, v/arned against propo.snls that would allow subsidized U.S.flag vessels to be built in foreign shipyards. Shprthanded? If a crewmember quits while - a ship is in port, delegates are asked to contact the hall immediately for .a replace­ ment. Fast action on,'their part ' will keep all jobs aboard sjlip filled at all times and biintfnatie the cHahce bf the' ship '' 'sailing 'shbrt'haiicfed'.'' be in the age group 25 to 34. Adult women workers may add 4^ mil­ lion to their numbers, about the same rate as in the earlier period. The recently increased compe­ tition for jobs among the inexperi­ enced young workers has con­ tributed to the high unemployment rates of teenagers, the Bureau of Labor Statistics believes. The competition will continue to in­ crease and it will be difficult for many young workers to find Jobs in an economy where there has been little expansion in demand for unskilled workers. This under­ scores the need for more educa­ tion and better training in order to provide workers with the skills that are in demand. Seafarer Robert Perry was at the New York SlU elinie re­ cently getting his regular physical checkup when the LOG photographer snapped the above picture. Perry last sailed in the engine department aboard the Eagle Traveler (Sea Transport). High Food Prices During May We're coming info a period of high food prices, especially for meats. The Dun & Bradstreet whole­ sale food index recently hit Its highest level for the year. This is a sign that further retail increases lie just ahead, and a warning to moderate-income families to look for lower cost alternatives to some of the high-priced items. The Government's long-delayed inquiry into food prices may be starting just in time to help restrain these costs. The National Commission on Food Marketing is expected to begin hearings in May, with rising retail profit margins the first area of inquiry. If you don't have to eat. May otherwise is a good shopping month, with buying opportunities available in sheets and other linens at the May White Sales, and in women's clothing at the PostEaster clearances. Other May sales that give you a chance to anticipate needs include the annual reduction on tires, curtains and TV sets. Depart­ ment-store sales this month also offer specials on soaps and toiletries. Most moderate-income families of four or five persons, with after-tax income of $400 to $600 a month, need to keep their food bills within 25-30 per cent of income, if they are to have enough money for other needs. This is just for family food, not for soaps, paper goods, beer or other non­ food items usually bought at supermarkets. Larger families have to allot a bigger slice of income. Adjustments need to be inade for different-size families. The USDA suggests adding 10 per ceiit to the total for two-person families', and 9 pet cent ,Jor a three-person family, but reducing the total by 5 per cent for a five-person family, and 10 per cent for six or more persons. For example, for a family of five. Including a child of six, girl of 10 and bOy of 13, total month­ ly food cost under the low-cost plan would be approximately $130. Reducing by 5 per cent cuts this to $123.50. These costs do not Include meals out other than those brought from home, and some families may need or want to make further adjustments for this expense. Government studies indicate that expen­ ditures for meals outside are usually about twice the cost of preparing the same meal at home. We usually get some irritated letters from har­ ried housewives when we publish such low-cost food budgets. Sometimes this is because they in­ clude expenditures other than food in their esti­ mates of food expenses. Admittedly, a budget of a dollar a day per person or less does require both the most careful management, nutritional knowledge and family cooperation. Some house­ wives, however, say they can do even better than the figures we publish. Here are planning and buying policies that can help: 1. Use the plentiful foods as much as you can. The USDA plentiful foods list for May is one of the shortest in years, another indication of the food price trend. The money-saving technique is to use the month's real bargains such as eggs and cheese not only by themselves but in casseroles, omelets and other combinations with meats to con­ serve your use of meat in this period of high prices. U.S. Agriculture Department Home economists recently revised their estimated costs of food plans at two price levels—low and medium. The lowcost plan allows less than $1 a day for food, which calls for careful meal planning and shopping. The department also devised a special "economy plan" which it recently priced at less than 70 cents a 2. Use the school lunch program. Usually you day per person. But a food budget this meager is nutritionally risky and should not be attempted can't prepare an equivalent bag lunch at the price. If your school hasn't got the lunch program, PTA's for longer than short periods. and community organizations ought to make this Here are monthly costs of the two food plans at recent prices, for children and adults of different a first objective. It costs 31 cents at wholesale ages, to help you work out a target food budget prices to prepare the average school lunch for which which the kids pay an average of 27. The for your own family. USDA Food & Home Notes reports that 17 million Low-cost Moderate youngsters do use the low-cost lunch program, but Plan Cost Plan 'another 17 milllion could but don't, and 6V6 million are in schools without facilities. Children under 1 year .. $12.60 $15.50 20.80 1-3 years 16.00 3. Use the specials. This department has sug25.10 3-6 years 19.00 • gested this technique before, and several surveys 30.30 6-9 years ,,. .. 22.60 show the savings are substantial. The USDA sur­ 34.70 Girls, 9-12 years 26.00 veys in two North Carolina cities showed food costs 38.10 12-15 years . 28.60 could be cut 10 per cent for a family of four by 39.00 15-20 years 29.90 shopping for the specials. They found especially 35.50 Boys, 9-12 years .. 26.40 large savings on meats. For example, in one city 42.00 12-15 years 30.80 chuck roast was sale-priced by supermarkets on 47.20 15-20 years 36.00 20 weekends in one year. If you bought five pounds 3'T) Wom»o. "0-35 years 26 "0 on each of these sale weekends, you would have 34.20 35-55 years 26.00 spent $39.30, the USDA Farm Index points out. 55-75 years 22.10 29.80 But if you bought the same meat on the weekend 41.60 Pregnant ... 32.50 after the sale, you would have spent $62.30. . 41."0 Men, 20-35 years . 30.80 ' ' 35-55 years . . . V. .. 28.60 33.10 Siniilariy, a survey by the New York State Ex­ ' "*55-75-years ..... , ^;. 26.00 35.10 tension' Service found "saVirigs of 20 per cent or T'hbrfe coists •assum0r'four:''T>ersoiiy'int'lhe - family. jnofe were possiblej by taking advantage of Sipecl ..'idsia CffD April tf. 1MB LOG SlU-UIW Wins Wage Hike At Brookiyn Piant NEW YORK—A new three-year contract calling for wage bikes and increased welfare benefits has been won by the SIU United In­ dustrial Workers Union for mem­ bers employed at the Kimberly Division of Standard Building Products in Brooklyn, N.Y. Th new pact, which has, been ratified by Kimberly employees, calls for wage increases in each of the next three years and a boost in w^are benefits retroactive to October 1, 1964. The company IS engaged in the manufacture of cabinets and van­ ities from aluminum, Masonite, Formica and laminates. The new Kimberly Division pact is one of several contract re-nego­ tiations conducted recently by the UIW. Nw pacts won wages and benefit boosts for UIW members recently at four New York area companies—Highway Trailer, Wi­ ser Smith Metal Products, Milo Components and Academy Heat Treating and Plating. In addition, a stepped up organ­ izing campaign in Philadelphia succeeded recently in winning an NLRB representation election in the Powerhouse division of the Rohm and Haas Corporation, a major chemical producer with plants across the nation. New Type Of Life Preserver Now Official There will be a new look in safety fashions aboard Amer­ ican merchant ships starting May 26. The Coast Guard Merchant Marine Council has decided that life preservers made of cork or balsa wood will not be officially approved life-saving gear after that date. All new life jackets must be constructed of either Kapok, plas­ tic foam or fibrous glass. The old cork and balsa wood preservers were adjudged by the Coast Guard to be incapable of keeping an unconscious, drowning person afioat. The switchover will not be im­ mediate, however. The Coast Guard will permit the continued use of cork and balsa vests already in use, so long as they are in serv­ iceable condition. On all vessels constructed after the May 26 deadline, the use of kapok, foam or fiber jackets will be mandatory. Seafarers may get a look at an­ other new life-saving device, pro­ viding the Coast Guard approves it. A small, propane, radiant-gas heater that can be lighted after submersion has been submitted for consideration to the CG. It weighs less than two pounds and can keep a man comfortable for 10 hours in freezing temperatures. Shipboard rumor has It that the new heaters "look well" with the new life-jackets. Maybe: matching sets will be offered for the sea­ farer who likes to look sharp. .•wl f 1 li>i1 % A / hi 1 I 7^. CALLBIUUALLf „v. J �.TTr?i .".t. lit-x:* A I April M. Utt SEAFARERS Johnson Urges Congress Grant $150 Million For Sea Research ty Joseph B. Loc|He, MD, Medical Director Dry Cleaning Solvent Can Be Harmful r­ Thi­ LOG Coin-operated dry cleaners are causing a bit of a stir among some public health authorities. Reason for the concern is the cleaning solvent used, perchlorethylene, which, produces vapc.s, readily absorbed .through the lungs and to a lesser extent through the skin and gastrojintestinal tract. Inhalation can cause headache, lightheadedness and Unconsciousness if exposure is long enough and in a closed area. ExIreme exposure can cause death. Inhalation poses a special threat to coin-op customers who carry garjments home in a closed car. Heavy garments seem to be the worst liazard. "Polyurethane and similar foam items seemingly present un­ usual solvent-carryout problems with all machines," Michigan's Depart>nent of Health has written in its publication Occupational Healtlx Automatic "machines in the state carry the statement: "WARNING: JSome fabrics retain cleaning solvent odor longer than others. Breathing Ihis solvent can be harmful. If odor persists, call attendant. Do not place dry-cleaning articles in car-f until odor-free." Most states are car. (The cleaning machine had not as well protected as Michigan, been out of order.) Her children which has some of the strictest were "overcome" by the fumes. regulations of the coin-op business They recovered completely. In in the country. another incident recently, a 20 The director of Indiana's Divi­ year old Monroe, Michigan, girl sion of Industrial Hygiene suggests opened a commercial shop (not that people should not patronize coin-operated) at 4:30 A.M. Two establishments if they find a "def­ gallons of perchlorethylene had inite odor" remaining in their leaked on the floor. She was found clothes. J. Fred Kepler, who is dead two hours later. currently writing an article on the In a case reported from New subject for a state health depart­ Jersey to Mr. Soet, one of two re­ ment publication, says, "So far as pairmen servicing the area behind I'm concerned, if you can smell the automatic machines was overcome odor in the air, or if the odor is by fumes and died. The area be­ on the clothes, there's too much hind the machines is not open to present. You -don't have to be a the public. scientist to tell this. Some ma­ A suit over the death of a 16 chines are definitely better than year old boy has not yet come to others at removing solvent," he trial in St. Joseph, Missouri. The told Health Bulletin. The National boy's family blames his death on Automatic Laundry and Cleaning fumes from a sleeping bag cleaned Council speaks for coin-operated at a coin-operated establishment. establishments. The council's exec­ The boy was found unconscious utive secretary. Ward Gill, told in the morning, after sleeping all Health Bulletin that "There is ab­ night in the bag. Ward Gill, lawyer solutely no evidence of a death or representing the boy's family, an injury caused by perohlorethyl- states the bag did not go through ene." He pointed out that per­ the dry cycle properly. The fluid chlorethylene had been experi­ remaining was so strong it burned mented with as an anestihetic, but the boy's tennis shoes and blue the concentrations used were far jeans. higher than those found in cloth­ Automatic cleaners have been a ing. Asked if the council recom­ financial boon to many families. mends any warnings on the ma­ chines, he said no, but "We do Public health officials are asking suggest that if there is an odor, for more care in their use, not less the customer should let the gar­ use, as reported by HEALTH BUL­ LETIN. ment air." Several cases of side effects have been reported which seem to be related to perchlorethylene. Several were reported by John Soet, of the Michigan Bureau of Occupational Health. In one inci dent in 1962, a St. Joseph woman carried wet clothes home in her WASHINGTON—President Johnson has placed a request for almost $150 million before Congress to be used for ocean research. Although the amount is only slightly higher than last year's request, it is primarily focused on actual research projects, as the U.S. oceanographic research fleet building program is already vir­ ination of the sea could provide craft. man with methods of controlling tually complete. "This first nuclear - powered The U.S. is "looking forward to a period where our invest­ ment In ocean research may bear fruit in terms of faster and more comfortable trans­ portation, more highly de­ veloped exploitation of our marine mineral and fisheries resources, increased pollution control, more accurate predic­ tion of storms and tides that endanger life and property, and the strengthening of our national defense," the Presi­ dent said. Three major efforts will benefit from this year's appropriation: • Scientific exploration — seek­ ing answers to the "how" and "why" of ocean phenomena. • Geographic exploration—a try at describing the seas by finding the answers to the "what"""where" and "when" of the ocean's fea­ tures. • Ocean development—the ap­ plication of scientific know - how and engineering technology to ex­ ploitation of the seas. Outlook Changing Traditionally looked upon as a means of transporting goods ^nd as barriers to invasion, the world's oceans, which cover about 70 per­ cent of the planet, are now in­ creasingly looked upon as a vast source of natural resources and for the tremendous cloak of military concealment which they can pro­ vide. The sea's huge and virtually un­ tapped resources include food to maintain the earth's rapidly ex­ panding population and minerals to feed growing industries. In the purely scientific realm, the seas are clues to the origin of the earth itself and possibly the universe. Increased exploration and exam­ climate and reducing the dangers of natural disasters such as hurri­ canes, earthquakes, tornados, etc. J^ore and more, national defense is also tied to an ever expanding knowledge of what goes on deep beneath the ocean's waves. President Johnson also an­ nounced that the government has started work on a nuclear-powered craft to explore ocean depths, hunt for new sources of raw materials, and pave the way for deep-sea mining. The vehicle is expected to have much more freedom of movemet, to be able to dive much deeper, and to stay down considerably longer than any present undersea Group Named To Study Sea-Level Canal Route WASHINGTON—A five-man commission has been named by President Johnson to study the feasibility of and select the most suitable site for the construction of a sea level canal between the Atlantic and 4Pacific to replace or augment der consideration for the new the present lock-type canal canal. One would involve con­ through Panama. The U.S. began investigating possibilities for a new canal last year and no concrete decisions have so far been announced. No decision has been made yet on whether the sea-level canal would be dug with nuclear or con­ ventional explosives, whether It would be controlled by the U.S. -alone or through an international arrangement, or whether construc­ tion would be financed soley by the U.S. or through an international compact. Four possible sites are un- Labor-Sponsored Newscaster Wins Award 50-50 Law vehicle will be capable of opera­ tion . . . over an ocean-floor area several times that of the United States," the White House said. In addition, the U.S. Navy has ordered a study to determine new and more effective salvaging tech­ niques. The program will focus upon the specific problems involved in surfacing large hulls from great depths. This will include studies of collapsible pontoons, special welding, lighting,' cut­ ting and manipulating tools, as well as a novel research project to evaluate the feasibility of various "sea-hut" models from which the divers will work. (Continued from page 3) prices for such staple foodstuffs as bread, flour and rice. The SIU said that these propo­ sals would push the cost to the American public, of supporting the farmer, up by some $300 million a year. At the same time, the union noted, the cost to Agriculture of using U.S.-flag ships will be re­ duced by some $50 million annu­ ally as the result of a new legal requirement which obligates Agri­ culture to pay only the dollar dif­ ferential between American and foreign-flag ship rates, rath.er than the total cost of American-flag shipping, as it was fornterly re­ quired to do. "In view of this, your call for The George Polk Memorial Award for radio reporting has been presented to Edward J*. Morgan the elimination of U. S.-flag ship­ ping can be characterized only as (second from left), whose ABC broadcasts are sponsored each week night by the AFL-CIO. effrontery," the SIU said, "and Morgan received his plaque at a luncheon in New'York from Mrs. Adelaide Roe Polk, mother causes us to renew ^ our reiromof the correspondent slain in Greece, in whose memory the award is given. At the same luendation, which we made to the luncheon, Samiiel F. Marshall fsecond from right), formerly with the Cleveland Plain Pealef Piresident's Maritime, A d v i s o r y> newspaper end presently-associate editor of the Communication Workers of America News, . Cnnunittee last Novmiiibec, tha'tiyod ,be • replaced^ as Beerataty • Of * Agiir -received, tbe^community services award from, pr* Gordo.n H.oyie jriglif),, for hi* work in ••• Cleveland. :culturft;"'' , version of the present locktype canal through central Panama. This could be done by reworking the Gaillard Cut, formerly known as the Cluebra Cut, and would involve closing tb« canal to traffic for only 12 days. Other sites under considera­ tion are a 60 - mile route through eastern Panama; a 102-mile route across northern Colombia, and a 140-mile stretch across Nicaragua and Costa Rica. No definite decision on the route for the new canal will be made for some time howe\er, it has been pointed out, because it will take time to complete engineering sur­ veys at the four sites so a techni­ cal decision can be made. At the same time, the U.S. would have to reach preliminary agreements on survey rights and operational pro­ cedures with the various naticns involved. Technical, political and legal feasibility must be estab­ lished before a definite choice of. site can be made. Difficulties concerning U.S. rights in the Panama Canal Zona arose during 1963 and led to antiU.S. rioting in Panama with a sub­ sequent break in diplomatic rela­ tions between the two nations. Diplomatic relations were later re­ sumed, but much bad feeling has remained. In addition to the political dif­ ficulties over the old canal, it has been dear for some time that the Panama Canal, opened in 1914, is becoming obsolete. It cannot handle modem vessels such as the giant supertankers and ore car­ riers, nor can it handle modern warships like the latest aircraft carriers. It has also been pointed out that the present lock-type canal would 'be highly vulnerable in time of war because bombing or sabotage by the enemy could easily put it out of action. A sea level canal would be much less vulnera­ ble, and could accommodate ships of any lien^b.' �SEAFARERS Avrtl M, 19M LOG Ships Of The Future To Be Speedsters Senate Group Plans For Migratory Woilters WASHINGTON—A broad program to help speed the inte­ gration of the migrant farm worker into the nation's eco­ nomic, political and social life as well as guaranteeing his right to organize was ad--*vanced by the Senate Sub­ In other areas the subcommittee committee on Migratory recommended: Action in the marketplace offers a method for trade unionists to as­ sist each other in their campaign for decent wages and better con­ ditions. Seafarers and tnelr families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produf-d under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) WASHINGTON—Merchant ships traveling at 100 knots an hour may be the one of the solutions to the continuing decline of the U.S. as a maritime power, according to a Maritime Ad­ ministration researcher. however, a number of such In an address before the are craft already afloat, like tha U.S. Society of Automotive Engi­ Navy hydrofoil Highpoint and tha neers here, James A. Hlggins of Maritime Administration's own Labor in its report to the Senate. • Coverage of migrant farm the MA'S office of research and hydrofoil Denison. development said that "surface ef­ "The migratory worker lives workers by unemployment insur­ fect craft" which skim over the and works under conditions that ance laws, "or alternative methods wave-tops, circumventing drag must be recognized for what they of meeting the problem" such as and friction, may provide a bright are—a national disgrace," said federal grants to states to supple­ future^ for the U.S.-flag fleet. Subcommittee Chairman Harrison ment state funds. A. Williams, Jr. (D-N.J.), in a • Narrowing of the present U.S.-flag shipping is Indeed in foreword. federal restriction on child labor need of some type of maritime magic. In the days of sailing ships, Though "solid' progress" has outside school hours to ban em­ this country moved 74 percent of been made since the subcommittee ployment of children in farm work "Lee" brand tires was established five years ago, he tha may be dangerous or detri­ (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum its oceanborne cargo in its own ships. By 1866, this figure was wrote, "decades have left a stock­ mental to their health. & Plastic Workers) down to 32 percent. Today, It is pile of misery and deprivation." The railroad full-crew law in • A study of the feasibility of Programs have offered "antidotes federal workmen's compensation less than ten percent. New York state has been upheld for specific ailments," he con­ laws covering farm workers, in According to the MA research­ by a state Supreme Court Justice Eastern Alt Lines tinued. but "the root causes of the view of the continued lack of er, the potential for reversing this in a comprehensive 50-page deci­ (Flight Engineers) misery remain almost untouched" coverage at the state level and the trend appears to lie in "surface sion. and are based in the faot that the interstate nature of recruiting and Iihe railroads, seeking to cut 3) J" J" effect crafts"—^vessels of 100 to average migrant farm worker earns employment. crews to what rail unions regard 10,000 tons gross tons that can H. I. Siegel only $675 a year. race across the ocean at speeds as an unsafe limit, had argued • Availability of public welfare "flIS" brand men's clothes The subcommittee, hailing ex­ of 30-40 knots in 30-foot waves, that the law was unconstitutional. piration of legislation permitting assistance to the migratory farm (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 70 knots in eight-foot seas and Under its provisions, freight trains the importation of Mexican family "on the basis of need with­ of more than 25 oars are required 100 knots on smooth water. 3^ 3^ ft" braceros for farm work, noted that out regard to the question of to have a full six man crew—inAccent On Speed most foreign laborers work under residence." cluifing an engineer, conductor and Sears, Roebuck Company Moving at least five times fast­ three brakemen. contracts providing benefits more Retail stores & products er than most modern cargo ships, favorable than those generally (Retail Clerks) The rail unions, who argued for the surface effect ships—so named given domestic workers. It con­ the law, cited increased accident because they glide on, or just tinued: 3> t t figures since the fireman was elim­ above the water—could compete "The domestic agricultural Stitzel-Weller Distilleries with air cargo planes. Although inated from the crew of many worker has been largely excluded "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" not quite as fast as aircraft, the trains. No automated machinery from those social advances which SES vessels can deliver contain­ can match the alertness and judg­ "Cabin Still," "W. L. Weller" the rest of the nation takes for Bourbon whiskeys erized cargo four times as cheaply. ment essential to the safe main­ granted — the minimum wage, tenance of fast rail travel, the un­ (Distillery Workers) Before the "magic carpets" can. ions said. adequate child labor protection, be launched on a mass level, much unemployment insurance, full 3> 3> 3^ detail engineering and cost anal­ workmen's compensation and social NEW YORK—The Military Sea ysis must he performed. There security coverage, and federally Transportation Service is spurring J. R. Simplot Potato Co. protected rights to organize and increased activity on the ship Frozen potato products bargain collectively. charter market with increased (Grain Millers) calls for vessels to carry military Special Problems " In addition, he is subjected to cargoes. MSTS officials report that special problems in the areas of the government shipping agency Kingsport Press housing and sanitation, transporta­ has chartered nine cargo carriers "World Book," "Chlldcraft" for extended voyages in recent tion, education, health and child (Printing Pressmen) care, voting requirements, job weeks. (Typographers, Bookbinders) UNITED NATIONS — The The nine freighters under MSTS placement and job instability. Be­ (Machinists, Stereotypers) world's fisheries industry set an cause of residence requirements, charter primarily operate in the all-time record for income and the migrant fsmily frequently can­ tramp market. The MiSTS charters 3> 3^ size of catch during 1963, the lat­ not even obtain public welfare are for two to six months, with an est year for which figure's have Jamestown Sterling Corp. option for renewal for periods assistance in times of need." been made available by the UN's Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. ranging from 12 or 24 months. The subcommittee said an Food and Agricultural Organiza­ Furniture and Bedding The nine ships are scheduled to agricultural minimum wage should tion. (United Furniture Workers) be provided by amendiment of the start loading cargoes from March That part of the catch which Fair Labor Standards Act, increas­ 30 to May 29. Most of the vessels entered the international market ing it over the years until the liiini- will load from West Coast ter­ was valued at $1.7 billion, $89 minals, although some will deliver mum in industry is matched. The miillion higher than the figure for piece rate system should be pre­ cargoes to the Pacific side of Pana­ the previous year. The total catch served, it added, and. employers, ma. The charter rates are from was 46.4 million metric tons (2,204 sharecroppers and their immediate $2,685 to $3,300 per day. lbs.), a rise of 1.1 million metric families should be exempted from U.S. maritime observers report tons over 1062. the minimum wage requirement. the cargo carriers will probably Peru supplanted Japan as the Kjiotty jurisdiction problems that may arise from the ex­ world's The National Labor Relations sail for ports in Southeast Asia. leading fishing nation, ac­ Act should cover migrant farm According to these reports, in­ panding science of underwater sea exploration has prompted cording to the report. Red China workers and give them the right creasing military commitments of the establishment of a unique Law of the Sea Institue by the ranked in third place, the Soviet to unionize, the committee main­ the U.S. in the area make the University of Rhode Island. : Union was fourth and the United tained, with considertion given to chartering of vessels necssary, assist in the education of students States was fifth. Peruvian the possibility of "new concepts since the Navy tonnage could not Milking the worlds water­ and the public, and publish papers catch has Increased The tremendously which may be more suitable to a meet the stepped up transportation ways has always had enor­ and synopsis of the proceedings." over the past 15 years. In 1963, mobile, seasonal agricultural labor requirements. The MSTS has ndt mous money-making potential. As Dr. Alexander added that the In­ it reached a record 6.9 million force than those afforded by the announced the destinations of the scientists gradually discover novel stitute would 'icontribuite to the tons, a share higher than the catch present federal labor laws." chartered ships. means of opening the seas to com­ solution of some of the pressing of the previous leader, Japan. mercial exploitation, an increasing problems of international rights in The bulk of the Peruvian catch amount of legal infighting by the oceans and seas of the world." is composed of anchoveta, a small global sea-powers seeking jurisdic­ One of the "tangled issues" on fish which swims in huge schools tion is to be expected. Within the the agenda is determing how far off the Peruvian coast. Anchoveta nexit decade, experts predict that off shore a nation's boundries ex­ are reduced to fishmeal and used geological and mineralogical re­ tend. Some countries Claim three for oils or animal feeds. search alone will generate a new: miles, others six, twelve or even Between them, Peru and Japan industry that could gross at least two hundred miles. have accounted for a third of the 50 million dollars a year. world's total fish catch. Japan's Dr. John A. Knauss, dean of the^ Also to be studied are long position has continued to slide in Rhode Island University's Gradu-; standing fishing rights quarels, the recent years, however, as her local ate School of Oceanography.' ,use of ocean areas for nuclear and waters become more polluted and along with Dr. licwis M. Alexan­ missle testing grounds and similar other nations join in the competi­ tion. der, co-founder of the Institute, legal questions. "The sea is getting smaller," Dr. said that besides acting as an in­ Third-ranking Red China re­ strument to further the commer­ Alexander stated, "and all these ported a 1963 catch of five mil­ cial ouMvi^ion -qf the ocean, the .topics require cohttnual research lion tons. The Soviet catoh was aiin of the' new ochool is to "bring and analysiis in the light •et both •four millioa tons, and the U.S. together, InforniaMon -on .the. law- ohanging tecluKfiogy and ohanging catxdi was 2-7 oiilUon tons. Nor­ of the sea, preside .Jor rex- natienal .and international teway, Canada, ^South Africa and ; ,, qhangq of id^ .ai^d.; Infiorni^tion, terests." , 'Spala, 't • N.Y. Court OKs Full Crew Railroad Law MSTS Spurs Increased Ship Charter Calls Worldwide c •i fl Fish Catch Hits Record Exploitation Of The Oceans Poses Knotty Legal Problems I I li ik !f| :li1 n i •H ••3 i-i �SEAFARERS L0G IndianSammer Brother Alexander PuUes, a 40-year veteran of the sea, dropped by the Baltimore hall to reminisce the other day. Shipping out since 1925, he has manned the decks of just about every type of sea-going craft. In the early days of his career, he sailed the freight-bearing, three-masted schooners that plied the waves between the notified of his daughter's death. has proved inadequate to supply the demands of overheated sea­ Baltic and North Seas. A few The family responded with a letter men. W. W. Worthington an­ The sunny port of Madras India provides the b.ackdrop for these three smiling Steel Maker (Isthmian) crewmates. 'The Seafarers took time out from their pleasurable stay to pose for this photo. Everything's going great, they report. The climate's congenial and so are the girls. They are (l-r) Willioin F. Duffy;, Jim Jehuson, and Jim Hand. DEL ORO (Mississippi), April 4— Chairman, Edward J. Rivieret Seore* tary, Claude A. Bankston. $15.25 In ship's fund. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly. Brother John Rankin was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Motion made to contact patrolman about get­ ting a clock for engine department. Constitution, that assessment split dues from 1st quarter to 2nd quarter in order for some to be able to meet the requirement. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), April 18—Chairman, Barney Speegle; Sec­ retary, Mike Toner. $26.38 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in steward department. No beefs reported. COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), March 31 — Chairman, HUDSON (Victory Transport), March Charles Rice; Secretary, R. McCul- 27—Chairman, R. Olsson; Secretary, loch. Brother E. J. Zebrowski was T. Lane. No beefs reported. It was elected to serve as ship's delegate. recommended that a new washing No beefs reported by department machine be placed aboard ship, since delegates. there is only one for the entire crew. vRIDGEFIELD VICTORY (Columbia Steamship), April 10—Chairman, F. E. TRANSERIE (Hudson Waterways), April 15—Chairman, N. Berry. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Department delegates re­ ported no disputed OT. Only steward department is to pick up mail on arrival in port. Keep messroom clean at all times. Give steward list of who needs a new mattress. STEEL DESIGNER (Isthmian), April 10—Chairman, Alfred H. Anderson; Secretary. William M. Hand. Depart­ ment delegates reported no disputed OT. Engine delegate reported one man missed ship, but was replaced in New York. Ship's delegate reported everything O.K. Crew asked not to Taylor; Secretary, J. B. Bazor. Ship's overheat the washing machine by delegate reported that everything is washing clothes too long. O.K. No disputed OT. One man missed ship in Galveston. Brother J. TOPA; TOPA (Waterman Steamship), Jeffcoat was elected to serve as new April 10—Chairman, B. Tippens; Sec­ ship's delegate. retary, F. Serway. Captain commends crew for very excellent and good voy­ ROBERT D. CONRAD (Maritime Op­ age and expresses special apprecia­ erations), March 2—Chairman, L. B. tion for job done by steward depart­ Lafoc; Secretary, J. C. Inglessis. ment and all other departments. De­ Ship's delegate requested steward de­ partment delegates reported no dis­ partment to clean messroom tables puted OT. A vote of thanks to ship's more often. Some disputed OT in delegate Brother Colbert R. Myric each department. Vote of thanks to for Job well done. the steward department for a job vrell done. LA FITTE (Waterman), April 4 — Chairman, W. Sibley; Secretary, R. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), April Ridgeway. Ship's delegate reported 18—Chairman, Walter Nash; Secre­ that there are no beefs and all is tary, John A. Maslow. Ship's delegate O.K. No disputed OT reported by de­ reported everything O.K. No disputed partment delegates. Motion made OT reported. that a better slop chest be put on board for next trip. Brother J. MisaRACHEL V (Rachel), April 10—Chair­ kian was elected to serve as new man, J. Grimes; Secretary, A. Reasko. ship's delegate. Brother Kelso was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities by department delegates. Vote of Service Tankers), March ID—Chair­ thanks extended to all delegates for man, William Morris, Jr.; Secretary, their cooperation. L. Wheeler. Brother E. Douget was elected to serve as new ship's dele­ WARM SPRINGS (Columbia), April gate. No disputed OT reported by 17—Chairman, James Sumpter; Secre­ department delegates. Motion made tary, Gilbert Trosclair. $11.50 in ship's that alt S.I.U. ships be air condi­ fund. Disputed OT reported in each tioned. department. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), April PENN SAILOR (Penn Shipping), 4—Chairman, Jack Nelson; Secretary, March 4—Chairman, Durrell L. Mc- Bill Stark. Ship's delegate reported Corvay; Secretary, J. P. Baliday. Ship's that one man missed ship in Charles­ delegate reported that everything is ton, otherwise everything Is O.K. No running smoothly except for a few disputed OT reported by department minor beefs. Motion that negotiating delegates. Do not overload washing committee draw up a special agree­ machine. Brothers asked to keep li­ ment for retirement not exceeding 65 brary circulating. Radiator In Deck years. Also, an amendment to the shower leaks. years later, he found himself deckside, aboard an icebreaker, in the very same waters. "Those days were plenty rough," he mused. I sure wouldn't want to go back." He shipped abroad the Isthnuian Lines, join­ ing the SIU in 1952. "It's abso­ lutely the best union for sea­ men." Brother Pulles insists. Pulles "And don't forget the welfare and medical benefits, they come in handy." t t of thanks. A wreath and message of condolence were also sent to the family of H. Augins when his brother passed away. Brother Augins thanked members per­ sonally. 4i 4" 4" "I used to be a 97 pound weak­ ling," claims an anonymous deck­ hand aboard the Kysha. (Water­ man), "but after shipping out on this vessel, no bully in his right mind is going to mess with me. The chow was so good t h a't I gained 80 pounds Lowderback of solid muscle. "Go ahead," he challenged, flexing his well-fed biceps, "just try kicking sand in my face." Ship's delegate B. H. Lowderback, who related the above conversation, refuses to vouch for a single word. "But honest," he says, "the food was great and ditto the stewards, galley gang and messmen." nounces that the crew has re­ quested a new ice-cuber. 4 4 4 Seafarers are among the world's greatest food experts. A vote of full-bellied satisfaction from a shipfull of Seafarers is worth a five-star Duncan Hines rating to any galley crew. The stewards and mess staffs aboard the following vessels have been awarded the Seafarers Stamp of Approval for Excellence of Chow and Service Beyond the Call of Duty: Transhudson (Hudson Waterways), ML Vernon Victory (Victory Carriers), Steel Fabricator (Isthmian), San Francisco (Sea Land). Back in the days when merchant seamen were doing their bit to help win World War II, veteran newsman Walter Winchell used to begin bis ndghtly radio broadcasts with an unforgettable salute to "Mr. and Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea." Winchell was confident that seafarers all over the world would receive his signal loud and clear. Perhaps to justify 4 4 4" WW's confidence, even if only in Have you ever heard seafarers memory, meeting chairman Charles Johnson reports that members of complain that the food was too tasty, the roasts the crew on board the San Fran­ too juicy, the cisco (Sea Land) have asked that side dishes too the ship's radio antena receive expertly pre­ some necessary attention and re­ pared? Well, an­ pair. Johnson notes that a ship's nounces G. E. radio communications system ts a Wheat, that's the matter of utmost importance to all way it is on on board, and the apparatus should board the Al­ be kept in tip-top shape, coa Mariner (Al­ i coa). The boys Wheat If you want to know how the are all up in cracker crumbles on board the Del Mundo arms because the food is so good (Delta), the man that five minutes after it's served, to see is ship's crewmen are lining up to get delegate William heaping plates of seconds. Dinner J. Mcchan. Ac- is a race, with the largest sec­ cO'rding to broth­ ond portions going to the er Meehan, there swift. "Not only that," moaned is nothing as brother Wheat, pointing to his ex­ soggy as a stale tended mid-section, "just take a saltine. Unfresh look at this. I gained at least 15 sea biscuits hit pounds this voyage. The other Meehan belly-bottom like members of the crew sympathized a rusty old anchor in a typhoon. contentedly patting their own bulg­ And if you think keeping crackers ing bellies. The galley staff ad­ crisp and crunohy is an easy job, mitted, in the spirit of honesty and you have another think coming. fair-play, that the complaints of For example, did you know that the crew about the excellence of crackers require light to stay the meals was justified. 4 4 4 fresh? Well, they do, and the cracker jack crew aboard the Del Speaking of wind, it gets awfully Mundo has requested that a 25- cold and blustery on the flying watter be kept burning In the deck watches aboard the Steel pantry crackerbox 24 hours-a-day. Executive (Isthmian Lines). Star Wells, Ship's Delegate, reports Meeting secretary Tom Gordon that the crew has requested that of the Steel Recorder (Isthmian) a wind dodger be installed to reports that Seafarers responded protect the men standing lookout. .444 with their traditional warmth and Crew membeirs sailing the Westfraternity when double tragedy struck the crew. A wreath and em Hunter (Western Agency) like message of sympathy were sent to to keep cool under all conditions. the family of brother Bill Davis Unfortunately, the ice-cuiber pres­ after he left ship upon being ently in service aboard the ship 4 4 4 Cleanliness is next to godliness, but in this modern age of tech­ nology and au­ tomation, clean­ liness sometimes leads to compli­ cations. Brother P. Piascib, meet­ ing chairman of the Del Campo (Delta) claims that his mates are probably the Piasccik cleanest crew to sail the seven seas. "We keep the washing machines turning full blast," he boasts, "and that's the rub. Those washing machines are spinning so hot and heavy that the agitators are in danger of burning out, and we have to take special care to insure that the washers are kept full of water at all times to relieve the strain on the machines." Oldtimers will re­ member the days when washes were put through the wringer by hand, and all the strain was on the arms and shoulders. In those days the only thing that burned out was the patience of seafarers. 4 4 4 William D. Sherar, Ship's Dele­ gate on the Ocean Pioneer (Pio­ neer Tankers) relays a special vote of thanks forwarded by the erew to Union Headquarters in appre­ ciation for quick action taken to resolve a restricted to ship beef in Bahrein. Brother Sherar also informs us that the men asked that launch service be pro­ vided for crew members return­ ing to the ship. Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this address as­ sures speedy transmission on all messages and faster service for the men involved. WHATSAMm£l2, WiMkpf I AlUrsy-A/umiN' uecn.tio! IT'S ME XCAt^r SWiM/ff �PW Twentj SEAFARERS Fast Turnaround Hurts Seafarer Artist's Style April 99, lies Bombay Buddies Novel Idea Won Seafarer Safety Award Seafarer Joseph C. Furton is, admittedly, no threat to Picasso, but he likes to paint. In fact, he's turned out some of his best canvasses aboard ship. Water colors, of course. The trouble is, IS, there just^ doesn't seem to be enough pension and medica'l benefits are time to paint anymore. tops. I'm proud to belong." Shorter Trips Brother Furton prefers to sail "For one thing," brother Furton aboard dry cargo freighters rather says, "the modern trips are than tankers. shorter. And to tell the truth," "I like the dry cargo vessels," he he admits with a grin, "I guess I insists. There's more to do at sea just don't have the patience I and you get a longer stay in port, used to have." something all sailing men These days he spends most of appreciate." his leisure time at sea reading. Australia is one of the few ports that Furton has never visited, but "We now have he's aiming to correct that in due excellent libraries time. aboard ship," Furton declares. "The places that interest me "There is a wide most," he says, "are the places I've enough selection never seen. I like to make new of books to satisfy ports. You get tired of seeing the Off the SS Steel Maker and talcing it easy on a good stay every taste. Read­ same old places over and over ing is like sailing. in Bombay are ll-r) Vernon Hopkins, A.B., Melville McKinagain. There are always ney, D.D.M., and a Seafarer known to all of his shipmates "In that sense," Furton says, "I new things to Furton as Pop The Firemen." The boys claim that Bombay is among suppose that the seaman and the learn and new the best of ports. They have been spending their hours tak­ places to discover. Every book Is artist are alike. The ports are ing the sun and seeing the sights. Quite a few of their SIU like shipping out to a country always greener on the other side i you've never seen before. I think of the sea." brothers are also enjoying a short stay in the Eastern port. that's one of the reasons that sea­ farers are among the world's LOG-A-RHYTHM: AFOUNDRIA (Waterman Steamship), heaviest readers. The some spirit March 14—Chairman, Jack 0. Ken­ of adventure is a strong element nedy: Secretary, Frank A. Radzvila. of both experiences." Ship's delegate reported everything O.K. Deck department reported soma But once an artist, always an disputed OT. Engine department re­ ported some disputed OT. Steward artist, and brother Furton hasn't By Henri Percikow department reported everything O.K. hung up his brush. He's just Since a time when shadows changed locales. LOS ^NGELES (Sea-Land), April 16 Marked the circle of the day. — Chairman, Leo Bruce; Secretary, "I do my painting at home now, There were men who shunned S. M. Simos. Ship's delegate reported all repairs have been taken care of. he says, "in Grosse Point, Michi­ Breaking of bread Vote of thanks to the steward de­ gan. Painting seems to help me From common harvest. partment for a job well done. Vote of thanks to deck and engine de­ relax. I do it just for the fun of partments for doing such a fine job. the thing. I don't try to sell any of Today they glance at life In port and at sea bunks should be my work." Along a door-manned street. made all the time. No beefs reported by the department delegates. The Dreaming, they rush. A bosun, brother Furton has crew should have use of the recrea­ To climb a silken rung. tion room as there is no cne using been sailing since 1943, the year it now. And so escape their working brothers. he joined the SIU. SEAMAR (Calmar), April 14—Chair­ SIU Is A-O.K. Hitched to glamor highways man, James Long; Secretary, George "The Union is A-O.K. with me," Litchfield. Ship's delegate reported Spun onto dead-end roads. everything O.K. Some disputed OT in he says. "It protects the seaman The wreckage of their years is strewn. deck department. Engine department while he's sailing and takes care of Behind the danger cordon and steward department reported no disputed OT. him when he's ready to retire. The They are now but masks of death. Delusions National Defender Cook's Corner C.S. MIAMI (Cities Service), April 15 — Chairman, A. Capote; Secretary, Jack Bentz. Ship needs new fans for deck department. Ship's delegate re­ ported beef about preparation of food. Department delegates reported no disputed OT. Brother Jack Bentz was elected to serve as nevy ship's delegate. Vote of thanks to resigning ship's delegate. Brother Myred, for job well done. The fact that every Seafarer (ran contribute something to shipboard safety by just using his Imagi­ nation was point­ ed out recently by Seafarer Wal­ ter Karlak. Karlak, who was waiting to ship out at New York, told a LOG reporter of an Koriok Incident a few years back when one of the A.B.s aboard the Steel Worker came up with a novel safety device that was put into service on the vessel. "By welding extra stanchions to the gangway at a 45-degree angle," Karlak said, "and tying a cargo net from the side of the ship com­ pletely under the gangway, any member of the crew who falls will be safeguarded against serious injury, prevented by the net from hitting the dock. "This device won the thoughtful A.B. a Safety Award of $250," ac­ cording to Seafarer Karlak. I there are no beefs and all is O.K. No disputed OT reported by department delegates. Brother l-ving Bickford was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. f DEL NORTE (Delta), April 9—Chair­ man, Robert Callahan; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Shio's delegate reported that a vote of thanks should be given to the first engineer for taking care of repairs needed. No disputed OT re­ ported by department delegates. Brother Peter Gonzalez was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. 1 s\ COTTONWOOD CREEK (Bulk Carriers), April 13—Chairman, R. Stough; Secretary, R. Keefe. No disputed OT reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate reported that there are no beefs and all is O.K. ATLAS (A. L. Burbank), April 2 — Chairman. A. Hirsch; Secretary, K. Lynch. New refrigerator requested by crew members. No beefs reported by department delegates. Brother A. Hirsch re-elected to serve as ship's delegate. STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), March 11 — Chairman, H. Curran; Secretary, E. A. Anderson. No disputed OT re­ ported by department delegates. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), March 28—Chairman, L. Reinchuck; Secre- v.; DEL AIRES (Delta), April 4—Chair­ man, Earl F. Sedlock; Secretary, B. G. Williams. Brother Bobbie G. Williams was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Department delegates reported no disputed OT and everything run­ ning smooth. Repair list taken care of. PENN VANGUARD (Penn Shipping), March 29—Chairman, P. D. Zellner; Secretary, R. Danilson. Ship's dele­ gate reported everything O.K. De­ partment delegates reported no beefs or OT. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well done. TRANSBAY (Hudson Waterways), March 19—Chairman, W. A. Wallace; Secretary, L. B. Moore. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Brother John Maher was elected to serve as ship's delegate; Discussion on rusty water. Drains in galley to be fixed. Discussion on safety of re­ pairs to aft winch. It was recom­ mended that the hole in deck over storeroom be repaired immediately. BETHTEX (Bethlehem Steel), April 11—Chairman, R. Ridgway; Secretary, C. Gill. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Motion made that the 90-day minimum vacation plan be dropped to a 10-day minimum, payable on demand. Vacation check when men are off ship during a strike. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department for a job well done. William Cameron. 2'nd cook aboard the National Defender, snapped this picture of his smiling messmates. Standing L-R: Ernest Colbert Jr., saloon messman; Edward (Bubber) Webbs, 3'd cook; Lauri Edstroms, chief cook; Emil Gomei, crew pantryman: Kneeling: Homer Ringo, Steward; Joseph Hllllord, crew messman. The steward department contingent said that teamwork Is the most important factor in turning out good chow and they praised the SlU's Steward Recertification Program for keeping them informed on the latest steward department procedures. WILMAR (Calmar), April 11—Chair­ man, T. A. Jackson; Secretary, j. O'Toole. Brother J. T. Eller was elect­ ed to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), April 10—Chairman, R. Byrd; Secretary, R. Bullock. Ship's delegate reported that 11 tary, J. G. Lakwyk. New ship's dele­ gate was elected to serve No beefs or OT reported by department delegates. Steward department requested crew to keep messhall tables and pantry clean at night. /li YORK (American Bulk Carriers), April IS—Chairman, Seymour A. Heinfling; Secretary, Alvin U Dodd. No disputed OT reported by department delegates. Motion made that letter regarding room and meal allowances be sent to Headquarters. It was sugfested by the steward department that the crew be more conservative with the coffee, and not waste so much. n t n 9 GLOBE CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), April 11—Chairman, J. Floodi Secretary, M. Phaul. Department dele­ gates reported no beefs. Deck delegate reported some disputed OT. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. n ADVOCATE (isthmian), April N. Ellis; Secretary, ElUemire. Ship's delegate re' ported everything running smoth. DaputeToV reported no disn "n SPITFIRE (American Bulk Carriers), April n—Chairman, H. s. Christensen; Secretary, Jos Timlin. Ship's delegate reported galley range to be to be fixed 8a"ey- Department deiegafes rerunning smoothly. Hot water urn for crews mess re­ quested for tea and coffee. m t I �\W' A»rU S«. 19«5 strike Aid Brings Thanks To the Editor: We are happy to inform you that District 65'8 strike against Bloomingdale's has been brought to a successful con­ clusion. As a result of this strike and the support that the SIU gave to it, the 3,700 striking Bloom­ ingdale's workers obtained wage increases, improved job security, additional sick leave. - . . / ' i,;? All letters to the editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. and many other gains under the terms of the new contract. On behalf of the officers of our Union and the Bloomingdale's workers, we wish to ex­ press our sincere appreciation to the SIU and its members for the assistance rendered during this all important struggle against the powerful Bloom­ ingdale's Company, which is part of a federated chain. Your support and the know­ ledge that the SIU supported us in the strike vras a big factor in bringing it to a successful conclusion. Frank Brown Vice President District 65 RWDSU i 4" ' 4" perfectly all rlf^t, and then sent me home. My leg con­ tinued to cause me severe pain, however. So 1 decided to seek the aid of the SIU Clinic. There, the X-rays told a dif­ ferent story. Thanks to the care and attention of the SIU medi­ cal staff, a serious facture was discovered. I was immediately driven to a specialist to receive the proper medical attention. I would like to extend my heartfelt thanks to the SIU, the clinic and the union's medical personnel for saving my leg. Dominick Venezia 4 4 4> Seafarer Praises Welfare Plan To' the Editor: I find it mighty hard to find words to show my appreciation to the SIU for having such a wonderful Welfare Plan. The Welfare Plan was so prompt in paying the medical bill that I recently ran up and I would just like to say that 1 appreciate it very much. As an oldtiiher, I remember many years ago when the SIU was on Beaver Street, and one of the union representatives said to me, "Frank, what do~ you think about the Union hav­ ing a Welfare Plan," and I said it would be good but did not believe it could happen. Well it certainly did happen and what a great thing it was for all Seafarers to know that they had the Welfare Plan standing behind them. Once again I would like to thank the SIU. Fraternally, James F. Barrett 4 4 4 Pension Benefits Bring Thanks To the Editor: Just a few short lines to let you know of my deep and sin­ cere appreciation for the SIU To the Editor: pension checks that are guaran­ While on the beach in New teeing the security of my retire­ Every month, York recently, I had the bad ment years. luck to be injured by a cab. promptly, the $150 checks ar­ I went immediately to a private rive at my home. And I have hospital and informed them the additional security of being that my leg had been seriously assured that they will continue injured in the accident. They to do so for the rest of my life. took X-rays, told me I was S.Adler Seafarer Lauds SIU Clinic Holding The Bag ru0"f^^'- SIU Men Recall Sea Tragedies Caused By Nazi Killer U-Boats Seafarer John Michailis—a seasoned veteran of World War II shipping, and an active participant in many a peacetime rescue operation—has seen more than his share of both man-made and naturally caused sea-tragedies. According to brother Michailis, the human variety is, by far, the most^" deadly. carried him below. But it was no and a German, who spoke perfect use. Too late. He must have been English, asked for our captain. "Believe me," he declares, dead by the time he hit the deck. When they learned that the cap­ "old lady Ocean is no match for man when it comes to destruction. The sea has many tricks up her sleeve, but man outkills them all. Kilter's Barracuda "Take those steel-jaoketed barra­ cuda," he says, referring to Nazi Germany's deadly fleet of World War II submarines. "I remember shipping out as an oiler aboard the old Alcoa Guide during the early years of the war. We were sitting just off the North Carolina Coast, enjoying pleasant weather and calm ^eas. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, A German U-boat sur­ faced and bore down on us, guns blazing. "Our vessel was totally helpless, unprotected by either armorplating or weapons. All we could do was scurry for cover as shells dropped all around us. A Scream Of Fain "Then I heard a short, sharp scream of pain from one of the crew. I stood helpless as the schrapnel-torn body of the helms- Poor kid, he couldn't have been more than eighteen. Laconia Disaster "Now, I've seen my share of n a tu r a 1 catostrophes at sea," brother Michailis continues. "I was aboard the Halycon Panther a few years ago when the Greek freighter Laconia burned to a charred hulk. We manned the lifeboats, hunting for survivors. Our boat picked three dead bodies out of the water, two of them women who died of exposure. But that was an acci­ dent. This U-boat thing, though. I've never experienced anything like it. It was just plain murder." Seafarer Walter P. Adams adds a heartfelt a-men to brother Michailis' horror of submarines. And no wonder. He still remem­ bers that ill-fated week In 1942 when his ship was sunk by a Ger­ man U-boat and he spent seven agonizing days in a drifting life­ boat. "Back in those days," he recalls, "the war was plenty hot. I was one of the crew naanning the American freighter Thomas Mc­ Kay. About two days out of Trini­ dad, at seven-thirty in the morn­ ing, the German submarine at­ tacked without warning. "I was in the galley, preparing to serve breakafst, when suddenly —BAM—the torpedo hit and the McKay started down, but fast. "We took to the lifeboats and Adams Michailis went over the side. A few seconds man fell from the wheelhouse to later, the McKay was gone. the deck. "I'll never forget the way that "For a second it was like a dream, sub pulled alongside our lifeboat. with everything taking place in slow motion. "It was a young kid who had signed on the previous week. "We picked the boy up and tain was not aboard, the German's took off, leaving us to drift with our wounded. "Four of the crew were killed on deck by the attack, and one of our wounded died in the raft. We had to bury him at sea. "Shwt of food and water, we drifted for seven nightmarish days before finally washing ashore in the Virgin Islands. There we spent four more days layed up in a hospital, recovering from the ef­ fects of shock and exposure. Freighter Bombed "You know," Brother Adams re­ called, "I had another close call with the Huns back in 1943. My freighter, -the Benjamin Wilson, was bombed by German aircraft. But I was luckier that time. The freighter was moored at London, and I had just gone ashore. "I'll tell you one thing," Adams declared, "I sure was glad when the war ended." Quitting Ship? Notify Union A reminder from SIU head-' quarters cautions all Seafarers leaving their ships to contact the hall in ample time to allow the Union to dispatch a replace­ ment. Failure to give notice be­ fore paying off may cause a de­ layed sailing, force the ship to sail short of the manning re­ quirements and needlessly make the work tougher for your ship­ mates. Passengers' Poem Lauds SIU Chow Good food, like a beautiful woman, spurs men on to achieve works of poetic wonder. Inspired by the chow dished out aboard the Robin Gray, the creative passen­ gers composed the following Ode to The Robin Gray Steward Department: The Del Norte's new ship's delegate, Peter Gonzalez receives "Briefcase of Ship's Business" from former delegate Robert Callahan. Gonzalez, a reefer utility man, appeared a little wary during the presentation ceremonies. "I hope that I'm not going to 'get the business' " he quipped. Brother Cal­ lahan smiled end kept mum, refusing further comment. "I have absolutely nothing to say for publication," he declared, "I'm not letting the cat out of the bag." The passengers on the Robin Gray, Who feast and feast from day to day. Wish it known that our daily cuisine. Is of quality fit to please the Queen. The menus are varied and tastily served. The proof is that none of us eats like a bird. To the regular joy of our day to day "eats" a Special delight vms yester­ day's pizza. To our chef we say "thanks" forever and always. For we're still in your care for about fourteen more days. Bos'n Carlfon Moore secures one of the Steel Executive's two > giant lifeboats. Each of the 28-foot long boats has a 90Q-' : cubic-foot capacity and can hold 70 passengers. Asked if; > he had ever manned one by necessity, Moore replied, "never,- * and I hope I'll never have to. I'm quite content just slap­ ping a second coat of paint on her right here at Lambert's point." Moore, formerly of Portsmouth, said that the crew will work on the second lifeboat at the next port. New York. Each lifeboat can hold the ships' eqtire crew should anything prevent the launching of the other. In addition, each boat is equipped with eighty feet of cable, which permits lowering from the boat dock to the water. �^hAFARtkS 'too Pac* Tw^niy-TW* All of the following SlU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Regina Pitre, born February 20, ary 27, 1965, to the Zane Nether1965, to the Raymond Pitres, Mar- tons, Blackshear, Ga. rero. La. 4 4" 4" Lisa Garzone, born February 2, 3< t Pamela Ann Slone, born Decem­ 1965, to the Pasquale Garzones, ber 12, 1964, to the Louie Slones, Staten Island, N.Y. Berwick, La. 4 4 4 Stephen James Martin, born De­ t 3» 4" James M. Kelly, born February cember 2, 1964, to the James A. 15, 1965, to the James Keliys, Martins, New Orleans, La. Lakewood, Ohio. 4 4 4 Veronica J. Suliivan, born Feb­ 4 4> 4James Lindsey Netherton, Janu­ ruary 21, 1965, to the James E. Sullivans, So. Toms River, New Jersey. 4 4 4 Cynthia Charlene Conner, born November 30, 1964, to. the Charlie C. Conners, Houston, Texas. 4 4 4 David Durham, born March 7, 1965, to the Garth Durhams, Chickasaw, Ala. 4 4 4 Jakie Faircloth, born January 12, 1965, to the Jakie Faircloths, New Orleans, La. The deatha of the following Seafarers have been reported 4 4 4 to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment James Harris, born March 3, of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary 1965, to the James Harris, Salis­ bury, North Carolina. card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates) i Tonnes Hofve, 40: Brother Hofve was reported missing at sea on Oct. 22, 1960, from aboard the Orion Planet, near Trondheim, Norway. A mem­ ber of the SIU since 1952, he sailed in the steward depart­ ment. He is sur­ vived by his sis­ ter, Ingaborg Maland. 4 4 4 James Billy Dyess, 31: Brother Dyess died July 25, 1964, of acci­ dental causes, in New Orleans, La. A member of the deck department, he joined the Un­ ion in 1951. He is survived by his ex - wife, Mrs. Norma Ruth Dyess. Burial was in the Lake Lawn Park Cemetery, New Orleans. La. John Carey Hawk, 23: Brother Hawk died Dec. 23, 1964, in San Francisco, of in­ juries received in an accident. A member of the SIU since 1958, he sailed in the engine depart­ ment. John Hawk, the father of the deceased, was named ad­ ministrator of his estate. Burial was in the Olivet Memorial Park Cemetery, Colma, Calif. 4 4.4 Vernon Joseph Hall, 41: An ab­ dominal ailment proved fatal to Brother Hall on Dec. 2, 1964, while he was aboard the Mar­ garet Brown in Karachi, Pakis­ tan. A noember of the steward de­ partment, he joined the SIU in 1939. He is sur­ vived by bis wife, Mrs. Larleitta 4 4 4 George C. Truesdale, 57: Brother C. Hall. Burial was in Mobile, Ala. Truesdale succumbed to a stomach 4 4 4 ailment in Jack­ Francis W. Cahill, 59: Brother sonville, Fla., on Cahill died of a heart ailment on Nov. 12, 1964. A Nov. 19, 1964, in member of the Cleveland, Ohio. Union since 1948, A member of the he sailed in the SIU-Great Lakes deck department. Tug and Dredge H i s wife, Mrs. Region since Rosamond Ar1961, he sailed lene Truesdale, as a deckhand. survives. He was He is survived by buried in the Evergreen Ceme­ his brother, John tery, Jacksonville, Fla. Cahill. Burial 4 4 4 was in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Tully Robertson, 72: Brother Cleveland, Ohio. Robertson died Nov. 10, 1964, in 4 4 4 Dallas, Texas, of Grover Cleveland Maddox, 53: natural causes. Brother Maddox died Dec. 3, 1964, A member of the in Duval, Fla. of Union since 1939, a lung ailment. he sailed in the A member of the steward depart­ SIU since he ment until he rejoined in 1951, he tired in 1957. sailed in the deck Surviving is his department. He wife, Mrs. Mattie is survived by his Jo Robertson. Burial' was in the Forest Lawn brother, Martin G. Maddox. Bur­ Cemetery, Dallas, Texas. ial was in Rock 4 4 4 Nelson John Wood, 64: Heart Hill, S. C. 4 4 4 disease proved fatal to Brother Benjamin Licado, 53: Brother Wood on Dec. 1, 1964, While at Licado succumbed to a heart at­ home in Brook­ tack March 14, lyn, N.Y. A mem­ 1965 aboard the ber of the SIU Alcoa Master in Newark, New since he joined Jersey. A mem­ in 1946, he sailed ber of the Union in the steward since 1955, Bro­ department untii ther Licado sail­ his retirement in ed in the stew­ 1963. His daugh­ ards department. ter, Mrs. Audrey McGovern, sur­ He is survived vives. He was cremated at the Fresh Pond Cemetery, Middle Vil­ by his wife, Beatrice. Brother Licado was buried in Maryland. lage, N.Y. 4 4 4 Michael Weekley, born July 18, 1964, to the Joseph E. Weekleys, Biloxi, Miss. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Amy Frances La Porte, born February 15, 1965, to the James La Portes, Detroit, Mich. Kevin Michael Drake, born No­ vember 27, 1964, to the Donald Drakes, Saginaw, Mich. ' Xprli 'Mi MIBB All hospitalized Seafarers would appreciate mail and visits whenever possible. The following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Serafin Lopez Ahmed Ahmed Conway Beard M. Martsangelos W. Bechllvanis Gerald McCarthy Warren Mclntyra Robert Burton David McKlnley Michael Cekot George Meltzer Dan Covaney David Collins Norway Morris Al Nelson Thomas Cox Otto Niessner G. Crabtree Frank O'Brien James Cronin E. Cuenca NIkodem Olen Fernando Dacanay Aniceto Pedro Vincent Qulnn Daniel Doheny Julio Quinonez Leahman Denton E. Reyes Domlnick Fois Henry Richardson Stanley Friedman Robert Roedel Robert Gabel Joe Saxton James Gillian A. Scaturro Julio Gonzalez Charles Haymond \ Warren Smith Henry Stanczak Grant Johnson George Trapelai Al KarczewskI Samuel White Lawrence Kehoa Jack Woods W. Kowalczyk James Xldlas Robert KuczynskI James Lewis -I USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA Earl J. Adams C. E. Cummlngs Aleck Lee Alford F. P. Daugherty Stanley Barras Harry D. Emmett Joseph P. Barraco Marshall Foster Howard A. Berglne Luis Franco Clayton Frost 0. L. Blackman James E. Gamble C. W. Breedlane M. L. Gomino John P. Brooks Joseph Carr Stanlon L. Grice Eric Gromberg Jack B. Cheramie Wade B. Howell J. C. Childress Walter Harris Mallory Coffey Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic. Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management representatives and their alternates. Ail expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and avail­ able in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this Is: Earl Shepard. Chairman. Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1930. New York 4. N.Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you al all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available In all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If. at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOO has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from pub­ lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective mehibership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and Is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU mem­ bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are -cjearly set forth in the SIU constitntion and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic osigin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best Interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAO are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If St any time s Seafarer feels that any of the sbeve rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, he should Immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at. headquarters by certltlsd mall, return receipt requested. GeralC G. Raynal Leon M. Hinson James Reean Timothy R. Holt Sam Robinson Frank F. James P. I. Scanlan Wm. E. Kennedy Richard A. Kinney Shelby SIzemora Daniel W. Sommers Percy J. LIbby Wllber Sorenson Lawyer McGrew William H. Todd Lonnio McKenna Thomas A. Trehern Ethel Messonnler Gregoria Troche Andrew MIe Angel J. Urti C. Nixon Joseph Vanacor F. H. Nobles John Ward Carl J. Palmquist Anthony J. Zanca V. P. Pizzltolo USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND S. Messina Joseph B. Arceo Joseph E. Caunder William Nickel Frank Ortiz Antonio Carrano James Pendergrass Richard Carter William Sargent N. J. Duhadaway Clyde Van Epps Philip Jeffers Justice P. Hughes Luther E. ZatorskI Eric Johnson USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Greidia C. Ingram John Armstead Marion Luksa Basilio Boschi Benjamin Brinkley Hertford B. Rica Ralph V. Twiddy A. J. Jarvis H. C. Willingham Charles A. Jarvis USPHS HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE. FLORIDA A. N. Kitchings F. Marvin Rose, Jr. R. B. Pardo H. A. Simons C. E. Lee, Jr. USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS Gene Adkins Augustus Hickey Lawrence Campbell John Keegan USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Charles Cornitius Leonard A. Polk Harry G. Reynolds John H. Edgerton Dave E. Roberts R. Fontana Wm. C. Scruggs Edw. Kocanowski Waitus Lockerman Frank Taylor James L. Ward Walter McDonald A. Nelson James E. Walker Gustavo Osuna E. C. Yeamans USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIFORNIA Felix P. Amora V. V. Gontarski Alexander Di Brodie Pablo R. OJera Lawrence Bartlett H. K. Shellenberger Edison R. Brown Simeon Vergara S. Escobar Patrick C. White G. W. Fournier Francis J. White USPHS HOSPITAL CHICAGO. ILLINOIS Harold Carroll Harold Murphy Ray Kersten D. R. H. F. USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON L Bryant B. G. Garrino W. Bunner H. I. Nichols McCullough H. D. Silverstein X. Donovan B. Spear USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT, MICHIGAN Francis McGuire Leroy Axline Thomas McGuire Ralph Bocco William May Comer Burney Viola Hull James Meadows Joseph Jarvis Fred Stansfield Nicholas Telegadas Kenneth Kane Earl J. Theisen Herbert Kangers Clarence Troy Elmer Koch George Koehler John Waterman Ben Williams Richard Kujawa Ray Wimsett Clarence Lenhart USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH. TEXAS B. Deibler Abraham Mander • Abe Gordon Max Olson Thomas Lehay H i?5 SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Daniel Gorman Thomas Isaksen A. Gutierrez William Kenny Edwin Harriman Harry MacDonald USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TENNESSEE Paul Lacey James' McGee ' V U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON. D.C. William Thomson VA HOSPITAL LONG BEACH. CALIFORNIA R. Arsenault Robert VA HOSPITAL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Asbahr VA HOSPITAL WEST HAVEN. CONNECTICUT Paul Kolesnick I VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON. TEXAS Thomas Manion VA HOSPITAL HINES, ILLINOI? Oscar Kvaas PINE CREST HAVEN NURSING HOME COVINGTON, LOUISIANA Frank Martin CAMARILLO STATE HOSPITAL CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA David Taylor PENNINSULAR GENERAL HOSPITAL SALISBURY, MARYLAND Richard Savage i �.VIprn M. ISSI SEAFARERS hj4 liirector UNION MLLS SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters HEADQUARTERS 10225 W. Jefferson Av. River Rouge 18 Mich. VInewoed 3-4741 PRESIDENT Paul Hal) EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Llndaey WllUams Al Tanner Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Bill Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey. Agent EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 177 State St. Ed Riley. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROn 10225 W. .leffersoii Aye. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS .... 675 4th Ave., Bklyn HVaclnth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAInut 8-3207 JACKSUNVlLLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax William Morris, Agent ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Nelra, Agent HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 529-7546 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaointh 9-6600 NORFOLK . 115 3rd St. Cordon Spencer.- Acting Agent .622-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 8. 4th St. . 'in Fay. Acting Agent DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 350 Frcemont St. Paul Gonsorchik, Agent TtOuglas 2-4401 ''•snk Drozak. West Coast Rep. SANTURCE PR . 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep. Phone 723-8594 SEATTLE 2505 lat Ave. Ted Babkowskl, Agent MAin 3-4334 TAMPA 312 Harrison St. Jeff Gillette, Agent 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne, Agent TErminal 4-2528 NATIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Matthews GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR Pat Flnnerty BALTIMORE ....1216 £. BalUmore St •EAstern 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State SI .Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYaclntb 9-6800 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAInut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St.. SE. Jax ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W Flagler St FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave Tel soQ.vaaa PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th St Tel. 622-1892-rNORFOLK 115 Third St. DEwey 6-3838 TAMPA 312 H.arnson St Tel. 229-2788 Great Lakes I SECRETARY-TREASURER Fred J. Farnen ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER Roy Boudreau ALPENA 127 River St. EL. 4-3616 BUFFALO, NY ;....733 Washington TL 3-9259 CHICAGO 9383 Ewing Ave, So. Chicago, ni. SAglnaw 1-0733 CLEVELAND 1420 West 25th St. MAln 1-5450 DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St. RAndolph 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich 415 Main St. MaU Address; P.O. Box 287 ELgln 7-2441 inland Boatmen's Union GREAT lAKES TUG S DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Drodze Workers Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Richard L. Tillman BUFFALO 94 Henrietta Ave. Arthur Miller, Agent TR 6-1536 CHICAGO 2300 N. KlmbaU Trygve Varden, Agent —ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND ..... 1420 W. 25th St. Tom Gerrlty, Agent 621-5450 DETROIT 1570 Liberty Ave. Lincoln Park, Mich. Ernest Demerse, Agent ... DU 2-7694 DULUTH 312 W. Second St. RAndolph 7-6222 SAULT STE. MARIE Address mall to Brlmley, Mich. Wayne Weston, Agent. .BRlmley 14-H 5 TOLEDO 423 Central St. CH 2-7751 PW« Tirea^-llim LaC Foreign Payoff? Leave Clean Ship Seafarers are reminded that when they leave a ship after articles expire in a foreign port, the obligation to leave a clean ship for the next crew is the same as in any Stateside port. Attention to details of housekeeping and efforts to leave quarters, messrooms and other working spaces clean will be appreciated by the new crew when it comes aboard. 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 Muple St. Wm. J. Lackey, Agent . MEIrose 2'8847 Rivers Ssctien ST. LOUIS, MO 805 Del Mar L. J. Colvis, Agent CE 1-1434 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 7th St Arthur Bendheim, Agent RAIIWAY 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. Baltimuie St EAstprn Z.snri,. NORFOLK PHILADELPHIA 115 Third St. 622-1892-3 2604 S 4 th St. DEwey 6-3818 United Industrial Workers BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstern 7-4900 278 State St. Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5304 Canal St. Tug Ftfemen, linemen, WAInut 8-3207 Oilers A Watchmen's Section JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St. SE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR ELgln 3-0987 Tom Bums MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. ASHTABULA, 0 1644 W. Third St. FRanklin 7-3564 John Mero, Agent WOodman 4-8532 MOBILE ...1 S. Lawrence St. BUFFALO 18 Portland St. HEmlock 2-1754 Tom Burns, Agent TA 3-7095 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. CHICAGO 9383 Ewlng, S. Chicago Phone 529-7546 Robert Affleck, Agent ESsex 5-9570 NORFOLK lis Third St. CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St. Phone 622-1892-3 W. Hearns, Pro-Tem Agent MA 1-5450 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. DETROIT-TOLEDO 12948 Edison St. DEwey 6-3818 Max Tobin, Agent Southgate, Mich. TAMPA 312 Harrison St. AVenue 44)071 Phone 229-2788 BOSTON John Edward Misakian Robert L. Evans Please contact McCutcheon & You are requested to contact your mother at the following ad­ Groshong, Esgs., Immediately re­ dress: Mrs. R. L. Evans Sr., Onan- garding your case. cock, Virginia, R.I., Box 204. ZZZ t) t> t> Charles Ingles Hampson Julian Booth Please contact your wife imme­ You are asked to contact Mr. diately at 3114 Sipp Ave., MedA. C. Olsen at 1616 S.E. 4'th ford. Long Island. Court, Deerfield Beach, Florida. Z. t. z- Neil D. Matthey It is most urgent that you con­ tact your wife as soon as possible. ^ z. t. Benigno Regueira You are asked to contact your wife or daughter regarding your property. Anyone knowing the where-abouts of the above-named is asked to contact Mrs. C. Abad, 69 Avon Place, Vineland, N.J. ^ Z Ji- RICHARD P, MOTTRAM A request has been received that you get in touch with Dorothy I. Dube, Welfare Department Di­ rector, Town Hall, Amesbury, Massachusetts. $ Ralph Hampson Please contact Helen, regarding your daughter. Z Z Z Weaver Manning You are asked to contact Eugene Kohl at 117 Ivan Court, Brooklyn 29, New York. ZZZ Income Tax Refunds Checks for the following men are being held by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP building, 450 Har­ rison Street, San Francisco 5, Calif. Raymond H. Aiken, Alexander Ansaldo, Paul Arthofer, Oirtha S. Bushold, Eigll E. Hjehn, James Lear, Potenciano Paculba. Ring LostEnter Octopus, Ring Found Once upon a time, off the golden shores of Spain, Navy En­ sign Raymond T. Michelini dropped his Cardinal Hayes High School graduation ring over the side of the Destroyer Joseph P. Kennedy. Meanwhile, in a hole at the bot­ tom of the sea, lived a greedy eight-armed, bottom-combing oc­ topus that had a nasty habit of grabbing everything in sight and swallowing it. Long Trip Home Fortunately for Michelini, the octopus was slain by Francisco Gonzales Hernandez of Hulva, Spain. When Hernandez cut the beast open, lo and behold, he dis­ covered a golden ring in the crea­ ture's belly—the very one lost by Michelini months before. Seeing the inscription "Cardinal Hayes" engraved upon the ring, Hernandez was led to believe that it belonged to a Catholic Cardi­ nal. He turned It over to a priest, who wrote the U. S. Embassy in Madrid for help in finding the ring's owner. POLLS AND TALLY COMMinEE REPORT FOR 1965 SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA CONVENTION DELEGATES h 1'^ Held in New York, AprU 19, 1965 We, the undersigned, of the Polls and Tally Committee of Headquarters and Port of New York, duly elected at a Special Meeting on April 19, 1965, in the Port of New. York, submit the following report: This Commitee was elected as per the instructions con­ tained In the letter to the membership from Paul Hall, President, dated March 8, 1965. We received from Headquarters offices of the Union, all of the files relative to the conduct of the election for 1965 Convention Delegates. From the files, we found signed receipts for ballots 1-2225, which had been issued to the following ports, as follows: Ballots Issued Port From To BOSTON 1 50 NEW YORK 51 350 PHILADELPHIA 351 450 BALTIMORE 451 650 NORFOLK 651 700 JACKSONVILLE 701 750 MIAMI .' 751 800 TAMPA -801 850 MOBILE 851 1150 NEW ORLEANS 1151 1550 HOUSTON 1551 1850 WILMINGTON ..... 1851 1900 SAN FRANCISCO 1901 2000 SEATTLE 2001 2100 DETROIT 2101 2125 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 2126 2225 We, the Committee, have checked the files of Head­ quarters offices and have seen signed receipts by the various Port Agents for the official ballots that had been sent tp them by Headquarters offices. This Committee in checking the election files main­ tained by Headquarters offices, has found signed receipts from the following ports for the following amount of sample ballots, broken down as follows: Port Ballots BOSTON : 3 NEW YORK 3 PHILADELPHIA 3 BALTIMORE 3 NORFOLK 3 JACKSONVILLE 3 MIAMI 3 TAMPA 3 MOBILE 3 NEW ORLEANS 3 HOUSTON 3 WILMINGTON 3 SAN FRANCISCO 3 SEATTLE 3 DETROIT 3 SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO 3 TOTAL 48 This committee has checked the files of Headquarters offices and have seen signed receipts by the various Port Agents for the sample ballots that had been sent to them by Headquarters offices. In addition to the above, this Committee, in accordance with the letter of March 8, 1965 previously referred to, has received from the various Ports of the Union, tele­ grams from the Polls and Tally Committee of these Ports giving the official tally of the ballots cast in their Port. This Committee has made these tallies a part of this offi­ cial Tally Committee's Report, as follows: Name BookNumber Votes 1. Cole, John C-8 67 2. Dacken, George D-26 658'* S.Dickey, Rex D-6 , 668'* 4 Di Giorgio, Joseph D-2 670* - 5. Drozak, .Frank D-22 670'* 6. Drozak, Paul D-180 673"* D-475 664'* 7. Du Bois, Norman W. 8. Erazo, Ernesto V. E-34 661"* 9. Fay, John F-363 663* H-125 666* 10. Hall, Leon H-1 691* 11. Hall, Paul 12. Hall, William H-272 675* 13. Jenkins, William J-78 656* 14. Kastina, Anthony K-5 656* K-7 680* 15. Kerr, Al M-20 667* 16. McAuley, E. B. 17. Matthews, Robert M-1 678* 18. Mongelli, Frank M-1111 6G6* 19. Mooney, Edward M-7 677* 20. Neira, Louis N-1 669* 21. Shepard, Earl S-2 679* 22. Spencer, Gordon S-1162 650* 23. Stewart, Freddie S-8 665* 24. Tanner, Al T-12 663* 25. Tanner, Cal T-l 670* 26. Terpe, Keith T-3 667* 27. Williams, Lindsey J. W-1 677* 28. Zubovich, Steven Z-13 651* NO VOTES: 851 VOIDS: 594 TOTAL VOTES: 19,548 •Denotes Elected This Committee recommends concurrence with this re­ port and that the Secretary-Treasurer advise all elected delegates as to date and place of the Convention. Fraternally submitted, DATE: April 20, 1965 : WILLIAM FUNK F-289 V (Name) (Book No.) EDGAR STARNS S-728 (Name) i (Book No.) RICKY MOTIKA M-134 (Name) (Book No,) ^ �SEAFARERS^LOG April 30 1965 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ^OT since the Korean War, has there been a controversy that has provoked such diver­ gent views as the present strife in Vietnam. The Vietnamese War, which bears resemblance to the Korean conflict before it, has divided segments of the American public over such issues as direct military intervention on for­ eign soil, the appropriate extent of U.S. com­ mitment, isolation versus involvement, and the motivations determining American participa­ tion. Respected and eminent figures, including people with liberal views, are to be found on both sides of the issue. Congressmen like Sena­ tor Wayne Morse, Senator Ernest Gruening, and Senator Frank Church have questioned, and opposed the U.S. role in South Vietnam. On the other hand, prominent Americans like Senator Paul Douglas and Economist John Ken­ neth Gailbraith, and Senator Thomas Dodd fully support the Administration policy. Perhaps the responsible opposition to official U.S. policy in Vietnam is best expressed by Senator Frank Church who recently declared: "Our reason for being in the Orient is not that of fashioning Asian governments. It is not Communism, as such, which accounts for our presence in the Far East, but rather the con­ tainment of Peiping. This can best be accornplished if China is ringed with stable, indepen­ dent governments, which refuse to be the pawn of Chinese ambition. As Yugoslavia has proved in Europe vis-a-vis Russia, even a Communist government can play such a role. "It would be to our advantage, then, to seek an international agreement for the neutraliza­ tion of the whole great region that used to be French Indo-China." At the same time, it appears that Senator Thomas J. Dodd speaks for a majority of the American people when he says: "Our withdrawal from Viet Nam ... will require more money, far more men, and far more American blood than we are today investing in the defense of Vietnam. What is more, it would involve a far greater risk of the major escalation that we seek to avoid," Security Involved Senator Dodd has also pointed out that "we are in Vietnam because our security and the secu­ rity of the entire free world demands that a firm line be drawn against the further advance of Communist Imperialism—in Asia, in Africa, in Latin America and in Europe. We are in Viet­ nam because it is our national interest to assist The Pros and Cons of VIET NAM The Labor Viewpoint every nation, large and small, which is . seeking to defend itself against Communist subversion, infiltration and aggression." President Johnson clarified the aims and posi­ tion of the U.S. in Vietnam when in a recent nationwide speech, he announced that the United States is ready and willing to enter into unconditional peace negotiations, wherever and whenever the Communists are willing to do so. In the same speech, he offered billions of of dollars to build where it could provide all men in that area with the means of living in security and dignity. The president also emphasized that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam would not lead to an end of armed hostil­ ities. Pointing out that the conflict in South Vietnam is not a national struggle for liberation, hut rather an attempt at con­ quest by the Communist North, Johnson declared that any pull-out on the part of the United States could only serve to in­ crease the pace of the war and assure a Communist take-over. In addition, the President noted that while the Communist-provoked escalation of the war has caused many Americans to criticize the government for stepping up its operations against military installations, those same critics have been silent about the casualties suffered by American servicemen and South Vietnamese civilians. Labor Backs U.S. Bole Labor backs the U.S. role in Vietnam, sup­ porting a policy which has as its goal the safe­ guarding of that nation's independence and democratic institutions. Union members rec­ ognize the interdependence of free trade union movements everywhere. As it did in the early days of World War II, when many were calling for non-intervention and isolation, organized labor still retains its frontline position In the fight against totalitarianism. Under Commun­ ism, as under Fascism, where there is neither the right to organize or the right to strike, workers and their unions can only exist in servitude. The AFL-CIO, at the March meeting of its Executive Council reaffirmed its support of President Johnson's policy in Viet Nam and explained the real significance of the Viet­ namese struggle. The council took the follow­ ing position: "The war waged by the Vietcong gue­ rillas is not a local isolated war waged in some far distant jungle country. This war is of the greatest concern to the American people and the entire free world. If the Communists are allowed to seize South Vietnam, the position of the democratic forces would be dangerously undermined not only is Southeast Asia hut throughout the world. The Communist aggressors would then he encouraged and emboldened to resort to still further attacks and world peace would he accutely imperilled." ti I AFL-CIO President George Meany further clarified labor's stake in Vietnam, declaring: "Organized labor in our country has stead­ fastly opposed appeasement of all aggressorsMussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung and Khrushchev alike. In continuation of this policy we have time and again supported Presi­ dent Johnson's firm rejection of all proposals to appease the aggressors against the people of South Vietnam. "The people of South Vietnam, Berlin and every other area in the shadow of terror of Communist aggression can draw en­ couragement and strength from the Presi­ dent's timely assurance that the United States 'will always oppose the effort of one nation to conquer another nation.' We share the President's realization that this course must he pursued 'because our own security is at stake'." American workers, like all others concerned' with the preservation of democratic institu­ tions, have a vital stake in the preserva­ tion of freedom for the Vietnamese people and their right of self-determination. Should the coQamunists succeed it will mean the suppres­ sion of the freedom of the Vietnamese people, including the right to free trade unionism and and all that it guarantees. The suppression of the rights of individuals anywhere, as in Vietnam, would serve to under­ mine the security of all free people. i 1'1^ I w li . 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. 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Title A name given to the resource April 30, 1965 Description An account of the resource Headlines: RUSSIAN MERCHANT FLEET TO TOP U.S. NEXT YEAR WYOMING SUPREME COURT BACKS UNION HIRING HALLS SIU FIGHTS AGRICULTURE MOVE TO SCUTTLE 50-50 CARGO PREFERENCE LAW SIU FISHERMAN RAP JAPANESE BRISTOL BAY SALMON DEPLETION POLLS AND TALLY COMMITTEE REPORT OF THE RAILWAY MARINE REGION, INLAND BOATMEN’S UNION BIRTH AND DEATH OF A VOLCANIC ISLAND SIU-UIW WINS TWO NEW PACTS IN PHILLY SOVIET TRAWLERS POSE DOUBLE DANGER, NAVY SCIENTIST WARNS HARBOR DEPTH STANDARDS SOUGHT BY PORT OFFICIAL FOREIGN SHIP GROUPS STILL STALL FMC DATA REQUEST ROTTERDAM – SEAFARERS PORTS OF THE WORLD JOHNSON URGES CONGRESS GRNAT $150 MILLION FOR SEA RESEARCH SENATE GROUP PLANS AID FOR MIGRATORY WORKERS EXPLOITATION OF THE OCEANS POSES KNOTTY LEGAL PROBLEMS THE PROS AND CONS OF VIETNAM – THE LABOR VIEWPOINT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04/30/1965 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. XXVII, No. 9 1965 Periodicals Seafarers Log