http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/31ac4a7861dc1f12fb5b21b88efbedd8.PDF 70aa0fc713e9d2fca70d9aa0cc5bdf3a PDF Text Text SEAFARERS ^LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • • • Rage 3 �T|ir» tt, i«8f SiEAF4HVRS t^OG Voting Rights Legislation Advances To Conference WASHINGTON—Members of a joint Senate-House conference committee have been named to iron out differences in the Administration-backed voting rights bill 'which has passed both houses in slightly different versions. The bill, which is designed to wipe out discrimination at the polls, ranks high on the legislative in states where discriminatory to register with state authorities priority list of the AFL-CIO tests have been used to keep before coming to a iederal The proposed 30 percent oil import quota recently recommended by a special subcommittee of the President's Maritime Advisory Commit­ tee could be of great help In Improving American-flag shipping. Such a quota, if adopted by the Government, would aimply provide that 30 percent of all crude oil and petroleum prodoota imported Into this country be resmwed for American-flag sh^ There is an urgent need for the adoption such a recommendation. and the Johnson Adminstration. Negroes from the polls. It provides examiner. strong guarantees against intimi­ The American-flag tanker fleet has dwindled to an alarming point. While most sontbern Demo­ President Johnson praised the Tankers under the U.S. flag must seek grain cargo, which has an impact crats followed the advice of House for rejecting, Z48-171, the dation of voters and persons at­ Virginia's Representative Wfl- on other segments of the U.S.-flag merchant fleet, particularly the dry Republican substitute which, he tempting to register. cargo vessels, which would otherwise have a better chance to participate 11am M. Tuck, who expressed said, "would have seriously While the Senate bill finds that in the grain trade if they were not faced with the additional competition damaged and diluted the guaran­ poll taxes have been used'to dis­ the hope that all opponents of of tankers in that trade. voting rights legislation would tee of the right to vote." criminate and directs the Attorney vote for the GOP snbstltnte, Of the 123 million tons of crude and refined petroleum imported House Republican leaders shot General to challenge them in 20 of the southerners voted into the U.S. last year, American-flag tankers carried slightly more than court, the House bill would flatly back a statement attacking John­ both against the GOP anb- two percent. son's civil rights record as a sena- ban all poll taxes as a require­ stltute and for final passage ment for voting. This difference \or from Texas. But the President This situation, as the SIU has pointy out many times in the past, of the stronger bill. between the two bills is expected had the last word. requires Inunediate attention. The SIU has continuously fought for the Representative Hale B o g g s to be the thorniest problem for adoption of an oil quota, pointing out what could happen in a national He told a news conference (D.-La.), assistant majority leader, House and Senate conferees to that times have changed, his resolve. While poll taxes are pro­ brought the debate to a climax emergency when foreign-flag tankers would be diverted from U.S. foreign trade, thus preventing our nation's petroleum transportation responsibilities have changed hibited under the Constitution in when he rose to answer a colleague requirements from being met. In addition, we have shown that the "and I'm going to provide all federal elections, four states still from Louisiana who complained chief beneficiary of foreign-flag tanker paiiicipation in the import of the leadership that I can not­ levy them as a requirement for that his state was "maligned" by oil to the United States is the runaway ship operator. withstanding the fact that voting and local elections. the presumption in the bill that someone may point to a mis­ there has been discrimination. The runaway ship operators have attacked the proposed oil import take or a hundred mistakes The bill which was backed by quota, by maintaining that the proposed oil import quota would be "I wish I could say," he told a that I made in the past." the House GOP leadership had no hushed House, "that there has not discriminatory and that it would invite retaliation by .other nations The House bill is similar to the automatic "triggering" device for been discrimination. But unfortu­ against U.S. shipping. Senate bill in its provisions for appointment of federal registrars, nately it is not so." We have heard the hollow cry of discrimination by fdreign maritime federal examiners to register did not suspend literacy tests, and He told of areas of Louisiana nations before. And we've heard our o>^ State Department allege that required applicants to seek first voters and suspend literacy tests where only a handful of Negroes if U,S. shipping were favored, foreign nations would retaliate. In the are able to vote, and concluded: case of our nation's peteoleum transportation trade, the following facts "I shall support this bill because present a shocking picture: I believe the fundamental right to Fifty-five percent of Umted States oil and petroleum products are vote must be part of the great ex­ imported on the runaway Panamanian and Liberian-flag ships. periment in human progress under Norwegian-flag ships carry 17.8 percent of this country's total oil freedom which is America." imports and 17.3 percent of all U.S; imports. Remember, too, that U.S.Other voices from the South flag ships carry only 8.5 percent of this country's total foreign trade. were also raised for the bill. At the same time, Norwegian-fiag ships carry 42.7 percent of Norwegian The bill might be "drastic," The death of Adlai Stevenson "shocked and saddened" union trade,—and a considerable portion of the trade of other nations—or as critics charged. Representa­ members, AFL-CIO President George Meany said as he praised more than five times as much of their own national trade as Americantive Charles Weltner (D.-Ga.) Stevenson as "one of the great Americans of our generation" and flag ships do. Considering the trade only between the United States and said. But, he stressed, "the as "a true friend of workers everywhere." Norway, the figures are even more startling. American-flag vessels problem Is drastic, and the He noted that in the presidential campaigns of 1952 and 1956 carry only 1.9 percent of the trade between the United States and need Is drastic." "the labor movement clearly expressed its warm admiration and Norway, while Norwegian-flag vessels carry 82.1 percent of this trade, Before voting down the Republi­ or more than 40 times the amount carried by American vessels. affection" for Stevenson. can substitute bill, the House The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Meany said, "truly In view of all these facts, the SIU has stated before the Advisory amended it to Incorporate a poll believed in freedom and democracy; he had a complete hatred of tax ban identical to that in the Committee that it would be interesting to leam from the State Depart­ oppression and tyranny; he had a true love for his fellow man." Judiciary Committee bill—a move ment, for instance, just how much more a country like Norway could which lost the support (rf some retaliate against us. To say that the proposed oil import quota ought to From President Johnson and world leaders down to the man southerners from poll tax states. be scrapped, ps has been urged by its opponents, on the grounds that in the street came tributes to Stevenson. On the key vote, only 115 Re­ there might be some form of retaliation is sheer nonsense. The quota He imparted "nobility to public life," Johnson said, calling on publicans and 56 Democrats sup­ program remains a simple solution to a vital problem, the rejuvenation the nation to "weep for one who was a friend, who was a guide ported the substitute bill. It- was of the U.S.-flag tanker fleet to all mankind." opposed by 227 Democrats and 21 Republicans. AFL-CIO Mourns Stevenson's Death Meany Urges ICFTU Action In Fight For World Freedom AMSTERDAM—^Free world union delegates attending the Eighth World Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, held here recently, heard AFL-CIO President George Meany call"*" AFL-CIO delegetei to the Eighth Worlel Congress of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions In Amsterdam listen attentively to discussion in Amsteidam, Hollend. The American delegation included (l-r) James Suffridge, president, Retail Clerin; Joseph Keenan, president, Electrical Workers; Richard Walsh, president, Theatrical Stage Employees; Paul Hall, president, SlUNA; Hunter Wharton, president. Operating Engineers; Edward Carlough, president Sheet Metal Workers; A. Philip Randolph, president. Sleeping Car Porters; and Jay Lovestone, director, AFL-CIO International AfFairs Department. SlUNA president Hall, who is an AFL-CIO vice president, served on the Finance and Administration committee of the Eighth ICFTU Congress. upon the organization to free mankind from poA^rty and to free the more than one billion people livng imder dictatorship. SlUNA President Paul Hall, who Is an AFL-CIO "Vice President, at­ tended the ICFTU World Congress as a member of the delegation from the U.S. labor federation. Freedom A Necessity Speaking for North American workers, Meany said, "we firmly believe that any social system which Is maintained at the price of degrading human dignity and debasing living conditions is too costly from the human point of view." He told the leaders of labor organ­ izations from throughout the free world that "when the ICFTU helps woikers anywhere in the world to build effective free unions, we are making a definite contribution to world peace. Permanent peace can only come where men are free. Free unions are the hallmarks of a free society," Meany de­ clared. He said further "we must never forget that what unites us in this historic Congress is far stronger than that which may at one time or another divide us." The AFL-CIO delegation to the ICFTU Congress was headed by Meany and included AFL-CIO Vice Presidents Walter P. Reuther, Joseph D. Keenan, Paul L. Phillips, James A. Suffridge, Joseph Curran, A. Philip Randolph, Herman D. Renin, Richard F. Walsh, Paul Hall, Lee W. Minton and K^rl F. Feller. Also in ttie delegation were Hunter P. Wharton, president. Operating Engineers; Edward F. Carlough, president. Sheet Metal Workers; Max Greenberg, presi­ dent, Retail, Wholesale & Dept. Store Union; John McCartin, as­ sistant to the president. Plumbers 8t Pipe Fitters; Jay Lovestone, di­ rector, and Ernest Lee, assistant director, AFL-CIO Department of International Affairs. •I J y.i �ti, il^ House-Senate SlU Urges Govt. Action Conferees OK On Oil Import Quota Plan Medicare Draft To Aid U.S. Tanker Fleet WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Seafarers International Union of North Amer­ ica sharply challenged assertions by international oil company spokesmen that an House and Senate conferees have concluded work on a final draft of a medicare bill which will include social security oil import quota for American-flag merchant vessels would be discriminatory and benefits and nursing home benefits, a supplementary medic^ would invite retaliation by present oil import program, as American vessels can hardly b* Insurance program, and higher"^ foreign maritime nations. well as to members of the House said to constitute 'discrimination' monthly social security- pen­ cluding tips as wages for social Merchant Marine Committee, Sen­ against the flags of legitimate ma­ A proposal that 30% of ate Commerce security taxes. However, the com­ sions. Committee, Joint Approval of the final text of the medicare bill has already been announced by the conferees. Every indication points to a prompt ratification of the confer­ ence agreement by the Senate and the House, which would then send the bill to President Johnson for his signature by the end of next week. No major obstacle to final agree­ ment was expected in the wake of the bill's 68-21 passage by the Senate. It passed the House three months ago in slightly different form, 313-115 thus prompting the need for a conference committee to iron out the final draft. promise agreement stipulates that only the employees share of the tax would be payable. The em­ ployer will be exempt from pay­ ing half of the tax on tip earnings. Specialist costs Deleted While the final version of the bill is reported to conform in all fundamental aspects-to President Johnson recommendations, mem­ bers of the conference committee were said to have deleted from the bill an amendment adopted by the Senate which would have in­ cluded as part of the basic hospital insurance benefit, payment of physician specialist services nor­ mally billed by the hospital, such as a radiologist. The administra­ President Johnson hailed the tion and labor had strongly sup­ Senate action as "a great day for ported the adoption of this amend­ America." It means, he said, that ment. "older citizens will no longer have to fear that illness will wipe out The most direct attack on the their savings, eat up their income, health care program as the Senate and destroy lifelong hope of passed the bill was an amendment dignity and independence." proposed by Senator Carl T. Curtis (R.-Neb.) to kill the medicare sec­ Persons already on the social tions of the bill. It was decisively security retirement rolls are as­ beaten, 64-26. sured of a 7 percent increase in monthly benefits retroactive to Jan. The closest major vote was on 1, 1965. another Curtis amendment—to tie Conferees voted to provide part the deductible amount which each payment for an additional 30 days person must pay toward his hospi­ of hospital care after a patient ex­ tal expense to his previous year's hausts the 60 days allowed for each Income. Under the House and Sen­ Illness. The patient would pay $10 ate bills, there is a $40 deductible for each day of the extended care, for hospitalization. The attempt to with the government paying the set a "means test" for social se­ difference. The House bill had no curity hospital benefits was beaten, provision for more than 60 days of 52-40. hospitalization; the Senate bill had On final passage, 55 Democrats allowed unlimited hospitalization at and 18 Republicans voted for the the $10-a-day rate. Senate medicare billr 14 Republi­ Also included in the bill is a cans an seven Democrats were labor-supported provision for in­ opposed. I all crude oil and petroleum products imported into this country be reserved for American-flag ships was pre­ sented to the President's Mari­ time Advisory Committee at its last meeting on June 21 by a subcommittee consisting of Theo­ dore W. Kheel, New York City labor-management arbitrator; Lane Kirkland, executive assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany, and J. Paul St. Sure, president of the Pacific Maritime Association. The proposal had been attacked as discriminatory by Joseph Andreae, general manager of the marine department of the Hum­ ble Oil Company, which is the chief domestic affiliate of Stand­ ard Oil of New Jersey. Esso is the largest operator of runaway tankers which are owned or controlled by American inter­ ests but registered under the fiags of Panama,. Liberia, or Honduras. The SlU rebuttal was set forth in a statement sent on July 12 to ail members of the Maritime Ad­ visory Committee, which was cre­ ated by President Johnson a year ago to recommend solutions to the problems besetting the American maritime industry. The committee consists of Sec­ retary of C6mmerce John T. Con­ nor, chairman; Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz, and 15 nonGovernment representatives of maritime management, labor and the public. The SIU representa­ tive on the Committee is its inter­ national president, Paul Hall. Copies of the SIU statement were sent to the Department of the Interior, which administers the ritime nations." Economic Committee and other The SIU, in its presentation, also Government agencies. made the following points; The SIU noted in its statement • Runaway operators have that Panamanian and Liberian- frequently threatened to trans­ flag vessels, according to the latest fer their ships from runaway Maritime Administration statistics, flags to the flags of other for­ carry 55% of all of our imported eign countries, completely be­ oil and petroleum products, and yond the reach of American that the only legitimate maritime authorities. This, the SIU nation transporting a significant said, makes a mockery of the volume of these imports is Nor­ theory of "effective control" way, which carries 17.8%. Ameri­ which is supported by our de<? can-flag tankers carry only 2.3%. partments of State and De­ fense, and which holds that The SIU pointed out that these runaways will be avail­ American-flag ships now carry able to the United States in less than 2% of the trade be­ time of war or national emer­ tween the United States and gency. Norway, and none of the tanker cargoes moving be­ • The ability of the the run­ away operators to evade th« tween these two countries, 52% tax on corporate earn­ and declared that "in view of ings, paid by domestic Ameri­ these facts, it would be inter­ can companies, not only en­ esting to learn from the State ables these operators to es­ Department, for instance, just cape making a full and fair how much more a country like contribution to the American Norway could 'retaliate' economy, but gives them an against us." unwarranted competitive ad­ The State Department has con­ vantage over domestic ship sistently supported the position of operators and domestic oil the oil companies in holding that companies. an oil. quota for American-flag • Whereas American-flag ves­ vessels would invite discrimination sels reduce our balance of again American shipping. payments deficit by $1 biUion "The simple fact," the SIU de­ a year, the runaways help to clared, "is that an oil Import quota create a deficit of a billion aside possibly from Norway would a year in the petroleum fall primarily on those vessels trades, thus wiping out tho which are owned by Americans contributions of the Americanbut registered under spurious flags flag fleet in this area. in order to evade American wages, The SIU lu-ged in its statement working conditions, taxes and other legal obligations. Such ac­ that, in addition to advocating an tion against ships which are really (Continued on page 18) Major Cains Won In SIU Taxi Pact CHICAGO—^Taxi worker members of Democratic Union Organizing Committee Local 777 of the SIU-Transportation, Services and Allied Workers District, voted overwhelmingly to end their 23-day strike and • Striking taxi drivers and garage workers of DUOC Local 777 of the SlU-Transportation Serv­ ices and Allied Workers District picket outside Yellow Cab Company Garage No. 3 in Chicago in support of better wages and working conditions. DUOC members who work for the Checker and Yellow Cab companies recently voted to accept a new contract with important gains in commissions, wages and benefits. The new pact ended a 23-day walkout by the 6,000 taxi workers. return to work after winning a new three-year contract •with substantial gains in commis­ sions, pensions and medical bene­ fits. The 6,000 DUOC cab drivers and garage workers hit the bricks on June 26 in front of Yellow and Checker cab company garages when the owners refused to negoti­ ate a satisfactory contract. The cab union's new three-year contract pushes commissions for drivers up to a maximum of 47V^ percent and achieved an Important break-through on pensions, estab­ lishing payments of $82.50 per month for drivers and inside men. The new pension plan represents an increase of $45 per month over the old pension agreement. The two cab companies also agreed to contribute toward the establishment of a diagnostic clinic which will offer complete medical services to taxi workers and their dependents. DUOC members also gained a 50 percent increase in hospitalization benefits as well as major gains in sick pay, surgical and survivor benefits. The cost of the improved welfare program in the new contract will be paid for by the employers. The new agreement provides that garage workers will now work a reduced work week with no loss in pay. Other contract gains include breakdown pay on the basis of $17.50 a day and $17.^0 per day in accident pay. Drivers and Inside men will be eligible to collect all increases in commissions, wages and other pay­ ments retroactively to April 1 under the terms of the new con­ tract. Contract talks with the cab com­ panies began right after Local 777 overwhelmingly turned back a raiding attempt by the Teamsters Union. In an NLRB representa­ tion election in May, the SIUaffiliate whipped the Teamsters by a three-to-one margin. More than 5,000 cab workers took part in the election. �CJS'' Pac* Foar Sf;AFAREW9 hoc Union Pensions Awarded To 13 Veteran iViembers Bell Fuller Thirteen additional SIU veterans have joined the growing ranks of Seafarers whose retirement years are protected by a lifetime of $150 monthly pension checks. The thirteen additional pensioners are Samuel Tate, 63, Theodore Popa, 56, John Bridge, 61, Brougham Savage, 65, John >•S. Zee, 65, Vincente Remolar, Jersey with his wife Phoebe. He point, Virginia. He last sailed for 65, Gorden Bell, 58, Woodrow last sailed for the New York Cen­ the Pennsylvania- Railroad Com­ Tote Bridge Sovoge Zee pany. tral Bailroad. Zeller joined the RMR in the Zee joined the SIU Inland Boat­ Receiving best wishes for smooth sailing during his retire­ mens Union in the port of Chicago, Port of New York, sailing as a ment years Seafarer Vincente Remolar (left) accepts his first sailing as a member of the deck member of the-deck department. department. He and his wife Mary Born in New York, he Rves in Union pension check from SIU rep Ed Mooney at New York continue to make their home in headquarters. Remolar, who sailed in the steward depart­ Chicago. He last sailed for Hannah ment, last paid off the J^leo City (Sea-Land). He plans to Inland Waterways. retire on his SIU pension to his homo in New York. Remolar sailed as a member of the steward department after sign­ ing up with the SIU in the port of Savannah. A native of the sunny Phillipine Islands, he now makes his home in New York City with his wife Juliana. He last shipped out aboard the Azalea City. Montoya Bratkowski Bell joined the SIU in the port By Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atkmfic of Norfolk, sailing as a member of Brooklyn with his wife Catherine. the engine department. Born in He last sailed for the New York North Carolina, he still makes his Central Railroad. SIU Headquartem In Brooklyn was the scene last week of. a mass out­ home there in the city of MooreBrady sailed as a member of door raUy held by the New York Taxi Drivers' Organizing Committee.head. He last sailed aboard the the steward department after join­ The hackmen are engaged in an all out fight to have a union represent De Soto. ing the SIU in the port of Mobile, them. Seafarers are fully supporting the cabbies in their efforts to win Fuller signed on with the SIU Alabama. Born in Maryland, he decent wages and working conditions. The TDOC won a majority Railway Marine Region in the port now makes his home in Lake of the garages contested in an NLRB election held this week. of New York, sailing as a deck­ Charles, Louisiana with^ his wife The rally was a resounding success as a huge turnout of cabbies at­ hand. Born in Brooklyn, he con­ Dorothy. He last shipped out tended the meeting. tinues to make his home there with aboard the Cabins. New York his wife Alice. He last sailed for Montoya signed on with the SIU Shipping is exceptionally good in New York, with a shortage in all the Bush Terminal Railroad Com­ in the port of New York, shipping ratings. The outlook for the coming weeks is very favorable. Gerald pany. out as a member of the steward Graff has been making the rounds in the New York hall this week Callis sailed as a deckhand after department. Bom in the Phillljoining the RMR in the port of pines, he now lives in New Orleans. after paying off the Sohin Goodfellow. While working around the house, Gerry fell, through a storm window and injured his right wing. Norfolk. Born in Redart, Virginia, He last sailed aboard the Halcyon Israel Ramos and his old buddy Ramon Agular are both on the New he and his wife Mary now make Panther. York scene. Israel piled off the Beauregard and Ramon paid off the their home in the town of NewBratkowski sailed as a barge Bienville. Both are ready to take any good runs that hit the board. In captain after joining the SIU In­ to coUect his vacation money was T. Murphy." Murph is renewing old land Boatmens Union in the port acquaintances after getting off the Express Baltimore. of Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Boston Baltimore, he continues to make as a bosun. Angel Rosa says that Shipping is moving at a fair he's ready to go again. his home there with his wife clip in Boston and is expected to Margeret. Balltmore pickup iij the coming weeks. High on the list of oldtimers around Seafarers in Balitmore have the hall is 20-year Union man found that shipping is proceeding John Kulaa who last shipped out on the slow bell but is expected SIU Safety Director Joe Algina as a oiler aboard the Steel Navi­ to pick up some steam in the next participated in a four-day ses­ gator. John says those long trips (Continued on page 23) sion of the Labor Conference are okay, but this time he's going . which met in Puerto Rico recently to wait for a coast hugger. Also to discuss safety conditions both off the Steel Navigator is Midge on and off the job. An impressive McDonald, another 20-year SIU array of safety programs and de­ veteran. Midge, who sails as an July 23, '65 Vol. XXVII, No. 15 vices were studied and evaluated Official Publication of the SIUNA AB, is going to try to get on the Lakes & Inland Waters by the conference which included Island Boats for the summer so Atlantic, Gulf, District. AFL-CIO labor delegations from such wide­ that he can be near his family. Executive Board spread home bases as Canada, Everybody around the hall was PAUI, HAIJ,. President California, Colorado and Puerto glad to see that Kenny La Rose, a CAL TANNDI EAHL SHEPARD Rico. Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President 16-year man, is out of drydock and Al. KERR LINDSEV WILLIAMS anxious to get back to sea. Kenny The Seafarers International Vice-President last sailed aboard the Sea Pioneer ROB.Sec.-Treas. Union and the Puerto Rico Federa­ A. MATTHEWS AL TAHveR as OS. Vice-President tion of Labor sponsored the Con­ Vice-President HERBERT BRAND ference in conjunction with the PhUadelphia Director of Organizing and Puerto R i c a n Department of Publications The shipping situation in Phila­ Labor and other civic and labor managing Editor: MIKE POLLACK; Asst delphia is holding steady and organizations. Daniel 2Mler, member of NATHAN SKYER; Staff Writers: should be picking up in the next Editor: ROBERT ABONSOM. PETE CARMEN; RQBEM the SlU-Railway Marine The Conference passed a resolu­ couple of weeks. Old timer John HILCROM; Art Editor: BERNARD SEAMAN. Region, (right) sports a tion extending its congratulations Sriialler is telling everybody that to President Johnson for "his big smile as he receives his he's raring to go. John will'take dynamic safety program for first $150 SIU pension the first baker's job available. federal employees and for his check from SlU-RMR re­ Richard Slor just piled off the recognition of the role of labor Globe Progress after two years siid gional director G. PT unions in occupational safety." is now looking forward to taking Published biweekly ef the headquert«r McGinty. Zeller last sailed If** ^"•'••'••International Union, At Conference members also a vacation with his family. John . S"!*' Lakes and Inland Wateis as a deckhand for the New District# 67S Fourth Avenue, promised to support and cooperate Shannon reports that he's had Brooklyn, APL-CIO, NY, 11232. Tel. HVaclnth WtaS. York Central, and will with "all labor unions having some real good poker hands lately. Second class postage paid at the Post. ... oklyn, • spend his retirement years federal employee members," in He • swears that the Geheva is of-— Aug. 24. 1»12. with, hit wife, Catherine, in their efforts to achieve safety the best around. After getting ofl' I2f goals outlined by the President. , Brooklyn. . the Glohe Cjurier wh^re he sailed Fuller, 51, William G. Callis, 61, Daniel Zeller, 65, Paul Brady, 65, Calixto Montoya, 65, Zygmunt B. Bratkowski, 52. Tate joined the SIU in the port of Savannah, Georgia, sailing as Callis Brady a messman in the steward depart­ ment. Born in Morgantown, North Carolina, he still makes his home there with his wife Dora. He last sailed aboard the Kyska. Popa sailed as a bosun in the deck department after joining the SIU in the port of Philadelphia. Born in the state of Ohio, he now makes his home in Cleveland. He last shipped out aboard the Wild Ranger. Bridge signed on with the SIU Inland Boatmens Union in the port of Houston, Texas where^ he sailed as a member of the deck department. Born in Philadelphia, he now makes his home in Corpus Christi, Texas with his wife June. He last sailed for the G&H Towing Company. Savage sailed as a member of the deck department after joining the SIU Railway Marine Region in the port of New York. A native of Great Britain's Isle of Man, he now lives in Cliffside Park, New Cabbies Rally At N.Y. Hall Conference On Safety Held In Puerto Rico SEAFARERS LOG Seafarer Theodore Popa (left) receives his first $150 monthly pension check from SIU Cleveland port agent Stan Wares. A veteran member of the deck department, Popa is planning to retire to his home in Cleveland. His last ship was the Wild ^Ranger (Waterman). i\ AI I 'i 1:. i| �m ifM MTD Charges 8 Co's 'thwarf Contract Talks M rtf^nn SlEjlFAklERt ' SlU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid — June, 1965 CLAIMS AMOUNT PAID $ 67,626.44 Hospital Benefits 8395 78,982.45 33 The Maritime Trades Department, AFL-CIO, has charged that the efforts to resolve the Death Benefits 113,100.00 eurrent •collective bargaining dispute in maritime which has immobilized more than 100 Pension-Disability Benefits 754 vessels is "being thwarted by a handful of willful shipping company .officials, representing Maternity Benefits 8,582.06 44 Just eight companies, who^ 111,435.25 Dependent Benefits 863 have refused to conclude are affected. Hall urged the "eight ness to partieipate in such meet­ Optical Benefits 482 6,327.35 agreements with any of the companies involved in the current ings at any time. Out-Patient Benefits 4,114 32,912.00 maritime unions whose contracts dispute to sit down immediately "Certainly, no issue can bp re­ 1,412 •re now open for renegotiation." with the union representatives and solved unless there is an honest, Vacation Benefits 472,279.80 to stay with a discussion of the face-to-face meeting, across the MTD President Paul Hall said issues until they are resolved." table, of the parties involved.TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION In a statement forwarded from Sharp Contrast 16,097 $891,245.35 Amsterdam, Holland, where he had "The companies involved have BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... been attending the International The MTD president's statement attempted to cover their unwilling­ Confederation of Free Trade Un­ added: "The position of these ness to negotiate by charging that ion Congress as an AFL-CIO eight shipping companies is in one of the unions involved — the delegate, that "this situation is of sharp contrast to that of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ grave concern to the Maritime hundreds of other American ship­ ciation — has a fixed position on Trades Department which repre­ ping companies both subsidized three specific issues. The fact is sents hundreds of thousands of and unsubsidized, operating some that there are many issues In­ •workers who are dependent upon 700 passenger, dry cargo apd volved in the dispute between By Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer the maritime Industry for their tanker vessels from the Atlantic, MEBA and these companies and livelihoods." Gulf and Pacific Coast ports which the companies have refused to "It is of particular concern at have either concluded agreements negotiate on any of them. this time when a tripartite effort with all of the maritime unions This column reviews the various benefit programs for SIU members "These tactics of the ship­ on the part of maritime labor, whose contracts have been open, owners have created a climate of to help our brothers obtain those which they are eligible for without un. management and the government or else are in the process of distortion and confusion as to the is being made to find ways and negotiating such agreements while underlying causes of the dispute, necessary delay. We realize that the wide range of benefits available means of strengthening and im­ their vessels, meanwhile, remain and this distortion has been com­ under the SIU welfars program makes it hard for many of our members proving the American-flag mer­ free to sail. pounded by the National Maritime to keep track of specific plans. In response to many questions, we will chant fleet." the MTD president "The very nature of this situa­ Union "president who has publicly again review the maternity, hospital and optical benefits which are said. tion makes it obvious that this attacked MEBA as 'irresponsible.' provided for membership use. "It is most unfortunate that this totally unnecessary strike was pre­ This has encouraged the ship­ MATERNITY BENEFIT. Those seamen who have 90 days of seaeffort is being thwarted by a hand­ cipitated and is being perpetuated owner to maintain his adamant time in the calendar year prior to the birth of a child and one day's only because of the refusal of the position. ful of willful shipping company seatime in. the six months prior to the birth of a child, are eligible officials, representing just eight eight companies involved to nego­ "The eight companies involved companies who have refused to tiate the issues. under the Plan for a $200 maternity benefit when their wives give in this strike are not only all conclude agreements with any of "The simple fact is that these subsidized operators, but are birth, provided they present proper proof and claims within one year the maritime unions whose con­ eight companies have refused, among the largest beneficiaries of tracts are now open for renegotia­ despite the urgings of federal the government's subsidy program. of the birth. In those cases where there are multiple births (twins, tion." The eight companies are: medistion officials, even to meet As such they have a special re­ triplets, etc.), there is provision for an individual maternity bentfit of United States Lines, Lykes for meaningful discussions with sponsibility to attempt to resolve $200 for each child. Brothers, Moore-McCormack Lines, union representatives. During the the issues which are standing in For births occurring on and after August 1, 1962, delivery by ceasaGrace Lines, Farrell Lines, past several weeks, as a matter of the way of full operation of the rean section shall be reimbursed in accordance with the hospital and Bloomfield Steamship Company, fact, actual meetings between the American-flag fleet. If these offi­ surgical fee as specified in the Schedule of Dependents' Benefits. In Prudential Lines, and Gulf and management and union representa­ cials continue with their 'publicSouth American Steamship Com­ tives have totalled no more than be-damned' attitude, certainly addition, an applicant must present proof of marriage and a photo­ pany. a few hours, although the union their subsidization by public money static copy of the baby's birth certificate. The birth certificate must In behalf of the hundreds of representatives have on numerous might well be open to question contain the name of both parents. thousands of maritime workers who occassions indicated their readi­ and scrutiny." An eligible seaman's wife is en­ which is known as the In-H::3pital titled to the maternity benefit if Benefit. Each of these is dealt her husband dies during her preg­ with separately below. nancy, and may also claim the $I.OO-a-Day Hospital Benefit— maternity benefit if her husband is at sea at the time the child is Eligibility for this benefit requires born. A seaman is eligible for this one day's seatime in tlie ye.>r prior benefit only if the child is born in to admittance to the hospital. This the Continental United States or benefit has been in effect from its territories — Puerto Rico and the day that the Seafarers Welfare the Virgin Islands. Tlie only ex­ Plan came into existence. ception to this is Canada, which S.'S.OO-a-Day Hospital Benefit— is also covered under this benefit. The eligibility rule for this benefit Lastly, if an eligible seaman dies requires a seaman to have had 90 before his wife gives birth, the days of employment in the calen­ benefit shall be paid even though dar year prior to his admittance the child is born more than 90 days to the hospital, as well as one day's after the deceased employee's last employment in the six-month employment. period preceding his admission. He OPTICAL BENEFIT. Eligibility will then receive $3 GO per day for for this benefit is the same as the period of time that he is hos­ for the maternity benefit. The pro­ pitalized. gram provides for the following: $8.00-a-Day Hospital Benefit— A pre-election rally conducted by the New York Taxi Drivers Organizing Committee lAFLOne pair of eyeglasses every two This payment actually falls under CIO) was held at the SlU headquarters in Brooklyn last week. These photos show part of the years, except in cases requiring the S & A benefit program but is 600 New York cab drivers who heard speakers uge a "yes" vote for the TDOC. The AFLglasses more frequently due to paid in the hospital to the individ­ CIO unit scored an overwhelming victory in an NLRB election held this week. Among those pathological reasons, in which case ual. Many eligibles become con­ the additional glasses may be au­ fused and feel that this is an addressing the meeting were SlU rep Ed Mooney, Harry Van Arsdale, Jr., president of the thorized by the trustees. The un­ $8.00-a-day hospital in - patient New York City Central Labor Council; Michael Mann, AFL-CIO regional director; Michael derstanding is that the frames will benefit. Under the hospital benefit Sampson, Utility Workers president; Peter Ottley, President, Local 144, Building Service Em­ be those known as "Shell Ful- section of the Plan it is, but it ployes; and Chris Plunkett, TDOC director. Vue," with lenses of the required falls under the S & A rules. prescription. The cost of fancy A patient is entitled to tills frames, tri-focal lenses, sunglasses, and the like, shall be paid by the benefit during the time he or she eligible. The optical benefit is is a patient in any USPHS Hospi­ available and extended to eligible tal or an approved private hospital dependents under the same rules in the US, Puerto Rico, the Virgin as those governing the eligible sea­ Islands or Canada. This benefit is man. Safety glasses for dependent payable from the first day of hos­ children also may be provided, pitalization but not for a period to exceed 39 weeks. however. SlU Benefit Programs Outlined SlU Hosts N.Y. Taxi Union-Rally HOSPITAL BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLES: Eligibility for hospi­ tal benefits is the same as out­ lined above. The hospital benefit program is actually broken down into three items, consisting of a $1.00-a-day hospital benefit, a $3.00-a-day hospital benefit, and an $8.00-a-day hospital benefit. The hospital benefits of $1.00-aday and $3.00-a-day are paid to patients who qualify for as long a period as they remain a patient in the hospital, regardless of the length of stay. In some cases, par­ ticularly those of chronic illness, this period has extended for as long as seven and eight years. �Pa«» iHx Jair 2S, INi 5® A F AR E'R S L O « {Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only in the SlU Atlantic Gtdf Lakes and Inland Waters District.) July 3 to July 16, 1965 Total job calls during the past two weeks amounted to department benefited "most from the decline in reg­ 1^92 men, virtually unchanged from the preceding istrations because at the same time it was the only de­ partment to experienice a rise in the number of men period's total of 1,391. Class A and Class B men who shipped. The number of members answering deck shipped out during the past period totaled 1,186 men, and department calls remained steady, while engine depart­ thus represented a slight increase over the earlier period, ment jobs dropped slightly. when 1,176 Class A and Class B men shipped out. The seniority picture snowed little or no change from During the same two periods, registrations of Class A period to period. Class A men still account for 49%, and Class B men decreased by 980 seamen. As a result of the men shipped. Class Bjnen increased by 1% to the job situation brightened appreciably. 36% while Class C seamen dipped 1% and now account This decrease in new registrations along with the hold­ for 15% of the Seafarers shipped. ing of the high level of men shipped has helped to cut into A port by port analysis shows considerable variation the number of men registered on the beach. The overall in performance. New York and Houston, both of which figure for this category dropped from 3,539 to 3,522 sea­ have high levels of men shipped indicate little change men. Of this total, 1,412 were in the deck department, from last time. Mobile and Seattle shipping became 1.079 were in the Engine department and 1,031 in the tighter, while New Orleans and Wilmington took up the Steward department. slack. A department breakdown of registrations shows that Total Shioping-Activity rose again this period,'increas­ all three departments marked a decline when contrasted ing from 209 to 220. Sign-Ons increased by 9 rising from with the previous period. The Engine department rang 38 to 47. There were 3 more Pay-offs and 1 less In-transit up the sharnest dron which was followed bv the Deck than there were 2 weeks ago. and Steward departments in that order. The Steward Reqistered CLASS A TOTALS Boston I'ew York I'iiiladeiphia naltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa rTobile Orleans Touston Wilmington t-an Francisco Seattle TOTALS my _M. Port Bos NY Phil Bai Nor Jac Tarn Mob NO Hou Wil SP Sea TOTALS 1-8 1 4 0 0 0 0 1 2 1 6 e 6 3 ~24 DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTALS ALL 2 22 10 14 13 i 13 ' 5 1 1.5 ! .33 33 4 28 15 1 206 Shipped CLASS C 1 TOTAL Shipped GROUP GROUP CLASS GROUP1 3 Al.L A B 3 ALL 1 2 I 2 2 3 ALL 1 1> 3 1 0 2 0 1 3 0 1" 1 ' 2 0 2 8 11 19 56 30 3 56 1 15 14 30' 0 12 41 8 0 2 4 6 8 6 3 2 4 6 0 2 3 0 6 6 0 1 1 14 7 6 1 14 1 4 1 0 2 10 8 0 10 1 8 0 2 2 8 3 4 0 5 0 3 2 2 5 0 1 1 3 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 14 0 5 2 7, 0 7 3 -11 14 0 1 51 40 0 1 0 40 51! 3 18 21 20 27 4 2 7 37 17 37, 0 9 42 22 3 42 8 18 11 0 1 1 9 10 1 6 10 0 3 5 1 9 3 45 5 6 10 13 24 45 20 10 18 29 15 29 1 3 13 7 13 1 4 5 10, 0 2 1 10 5 1 154 27 1 269 25 89 77 "1 191i 1 27 41 1 69 269 191 CLASS B Registered Shipped CLASS A Shipped ClASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 Al.L 1 2 3 ALL 1 3 ALL 2 2 1 2 0 3 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0, 17 38 5 60 1 27 3 39 2 7 13 7 21 9 14 23 0 14 3 17 0 8 9 0 7 1 5 8, 9 16 0 1 6 13 4 23 1 7 16 1 8 io 3 14 0 8 2 lo! 2 8 1 10 0 11 0 8 1 2 1 3 1 4 3 7, 0 7 0 7 1 0 2 0 8 10 1 1 1 2 1 3 0 2 0 2 0 0 0. 0 0 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 2 15 2 19 0 5 8 3 3 5 3 9 10 0 13 1 6 20 1 27 3 17 5 25 13 20 16 41' 45 5 27 5 11 29 5 45 3 20 19 23 12 38 39 5 25 11 41 0 4 2 8 3 2 llj 6 3 6 3 12 3 7 2 3 1 7 19 3 29 3 15, 4 5 8 8 15 7 16 26 2 3 0 9 0 9 2 6 10 8 4 1 11 7 0 5 1 1 55 178 26 1 260 17 103 56 1 176 44 141 30 1 215 12 97 68 1 177 Registered CLASS A Battoa. 1 0 1 A Naw .Yaafc .... 17 4 20 43 Philadalpbia.. 5 4 8 17 iaitimora .... 4 3 '7 14 Narfolfc ...... 3 3 4 10 Jacksoavllla .. 0 0 11 11 Tam|M 0 0 4 4 3 •i 13 Naw Orlaaat.. 13 4' 10 8 31 Hauften 10 13 0 20 5 43 Saa Franchce. 2 5 4 4 15 SaaNia 1 1 4 4 TOTALS ... 49 47 104 220 Wiiaiinftea .. 7 Registered On The Beaeh CLASS A CLASS 8 GROUP GROUP C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 6 10 1 10 4 24 0 3 5 8 19 105 80 128 28 236 1 26 49 76 6 20 13 13 6 32 0 5 20 2s 1 21! 34 69 9 112 5 14 32 51 2 20 9 14 2 25 1 4 15 20 1 9 9 9 0 18 2 7 9 18 0 2 1 3 0 4 0 1 3 4 1 22 30 26 5 61 2 4 21 27 1 92 59 79 9 147 3 32 52 87 88 57 9 82 15 154 6 25 39 70 1 20 17 19 3 39 0 7 8 15 98 25 24 17 2 44 4 8 18 30 3 26 23 23 8 54 2 19 10 31 69 1 529 367 492 91 "l 950 26 156 280 1 462 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Poif Shipped CLASS B ped S A 1 OC GRO'ip GROUP o 1 3 ALL 1 3 2 4 .1 3 12 0 1 1 31 3.5 75 3 9 10 9 6 6 3 15 0 3 7 3 11 2 16 0 5 9 4 2 0 6 0 8 5 1 0 5 6 1 5 7 0 2 0 2 0 1 4 9 10 3 22 2 4 9 12 23 6 4.6 0 17 16 20 34 5 59 10 8 14 3 4 2 9 0 2 2 16 20 3 39. 4 11 13 3 10 5 18 0 8 7 114 lf5 46 1 20 ' 89 97 fmf Sifd la Off Oat Traai. TOTAL DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B 00 00 Port Boston New York ... Philadelphia . naitimore ... Norfolk .., •Tacksonville . Tampa Mobile TTew Orleans. T'ouston Wilmington '"-n Francisco Flattie Ship AcfiWfy TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beach CLASS A ClASS B GROUP CLASS GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL A 1 B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 1 0 2 1 0 2 3 5 9 16 1 2 2 1 4 0 2 11 39 9 23 11 73 51 96 12 159 8 44 45 971| 9 0 1 0 6 16 2 1 19 2 23 0 10 14 24 0 i! 14 0 1 10 1 25 12 72 6 90 3 27 19 49 0 1 2 J 102 7 3 20 6 16 2 24 1 10 7 18 0 2 2 3 4 4 9 1 8 0 9 2 8 3 13 0 0 1 1 1 3 1 5 1 3 0 4 0 1 1 2 0 1 3 13 2 9 3 25 8 18 32 0 6 5 7 12 0 7 11 45 4 41 11 97 24 64 10 98 5 34 37 76 0 4 8 12 41 39 12 92 14 73 2 89 5 39 41 85 0 0 7 0 0 11 0 18 9 7 4 20, 4 6 1 11 1 13 10 24 26 15 24 65 6 31 6 43i 3 7 14 24 1 0 1 2 7 10 2 19 7 3 39, 2 12 4 18 _ 1. 3 33 39 1 JIS 215 177 75 1 467 146~"445 55"| 646 34 205 194 1 433 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B GROUP GROUP 2 3 ALL 1 1 3 ALL' 1-s 2 0 2 0 3 1 0 1 2 0 10 4 19 37 0 1 8 9 7 5 2 4 11 1 0 5 6 0 6 9 24 1 9 0 11 12 0 3 0 1 4 0 1 5 6 0 1 2 1 4 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 4 10 0 0 6 6 0 7 19 14 41 3 0 39 42 3 7 8 8 29 4 ,4 12 20 1 1 2 1 4 1 0 3 4 1• 8 10 3 27 2 3 4 9 5 2 4 1 10 1 0 8 9 1 62 42 79 1 207 15 9 105 1 129 18 Registered CLASS A _ OROUF I 2 3 ALL 114 165 46 I 325 "56 178 26 1 260 ~86 42 79 I 267 256 385 151 j 792 GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 2 1 2 3 ALL 1 1 0 0 1 ""0 0 0 0 6 5 45 0 1 9 9 20 0 4 4 7 0 2 2 3 6 0 6 11 0 4 2 5 7, 6 0 4 1 1 2 1 1 3 4; 0 0 1 0 1 1> 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 7. 0 7 8 0 2 1 5 2 39- 47 42 6 11 10 18 27, 7 13 11 8 9 29 7 0 4 • 4' 7 0 3 2 1 6 7 1 31 0 10 6 10 4 _ 6 10 2 3 2 4 57 43 79 1 197 16 "^13 M 1 127 Registered CLASS B GROUP 12 3 ALf. 20 89 17 103 15 9 52 261 Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS A SHIPPED CLASS A Shipped CLASS C GROUP CLASS 1 2 3 ALL A B C 0 0 ~1 1 e 1 1 0 2 16 18 45 6 18 0 0 8 6 7 4 6 0 0 1 1 11 6 1 0 1 1 2 4 7 2 0 0 2 2 1 4 2 0 .0 0 0 2 , 1 0 0 0 1 1 8 7 1 0 0 1 1 42 47 1 2 1 16 19 29 27 19 0 0 0 0 . 7 4 0 5 0 15 20 31 7 20 0 0 1 1 10 6 1 7 4 61 1 72197 127 •72 SUMMARY GROUP I 2 3 ALL 97 | 206 88 154 27 | 269 56 | 176 44 141 30 | 215 105 { 129 75 43 79 | 197 258 1 511207 338 136 | 681 SHIPPED CLASS B TOTAL Shipped Registered On The Beaeh CLASS A CLASS B GROUP GROUP 1 ALL 1-8 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 3 7 1 2 1 2 1 0 3 2 69 24 SO 25 59 158 5 9 39 53 17 4 10 5 12 31 1 1 12 14 18 11 29 18 25 83 4 0 45 49 5 7 13 2 5 19 1 5 14 20 2 7 1 4 1 8 0 1 5 4 . 3 3 2 0 4 9 0 0 0 0 12 11 13 16 9 45 0 0 6 6 90 17 32 18 57 124 5 3 92 100 40 •22 22 75 12 96 5 14 38 57 7 2 6 11 5 20 1 0 3 4 ' 58 5 12 10 12 39 •4 4 5 13 7 2 11 34 4 17 14 5 25 34 396 101 213 129 230 1 673 31 42 285 1 358 1 SHIPPED CLASS C TOTAL Registered On The Beaeh SHIPPED CLASS A f CLASS I CLASS GROUP GROUP I GROUP 3 ALL A B C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 27 41 i 63 269 191 69 1 529 367 492 91 I 959 26 156 280 1 462 GROUP 123 ALL 25 89 77 | 191 12 97 68 | 177j 3 33 39 f 75 215 177 75 | 467 146 445 55 t 646 34 205 194 | 433 16 13 98 [ 127l 7- 4 61 [ 72197 1!^ 72 | 396 314 129~230 [ 673 'SI 42 285 | 358 53 199 243 j 495 ~3l 64 141 t 216 681 495 216 |1392 827 1066 376 |2269. 91 403 759 |1253 �Arir n. iNf By Lindsey WBIiams, Viee-President, Gulf Gulf Shipping Picture Bright \ Shipping has been booming in the gulf area as an increased number of payoffs has sent the statistics soaring. The outlook for the coming weeks is extremely favorable and ail rated men are urged to register. New Orleans Job calls have been hot and heavy in the port of New Orleans, and the forecast is for more of the same in coming weeks. On the beach after spending a long stretch on the Del Norte as steward, JaOt Cobb is spreading the news that he is going to just take it easy for a while on a well-earned vacation. Waiting for a long run after a short stay on the Colorado is George (Lucky) Neyrey. Lucky is telling all the boys around the hall that he wants a real long one. Also on the beach after a quick run on the Colorado is Frank Russo. August (Gus) Brosig is on the ailing list after a run as steward on the Del Valie. Gus is taking treatments for a bum leg. Seafarers around the hall were all sorry to learn that Irwin (Monk) Sherman is having trouble with his hip. Monk last sailed aboard the Del Sud. SIU Company Christens Huge Lakes Carrier CLEVELAND — The 501-foot J. A. W. Iglehart, the largest cement carrier on the Great Lakes was christened hero recently by the SIU-Great Lakes-contracted Huron Portland Cement Division of the National Gypsum Co. The new cement carrier is the latest and fastest addition to the Huron Portland Cement fleet. The Iglehart, a former tanker was converted by the American Shipbuilding Company of Chicago. During the remodeling, a new forward deckhouse, including a pilot house and passenger quarters was built. The tanker's midship deckhouse was removed and the aft deckhouse underwent exten­ sive remodeling. Unloading machinery was also installed under the cargo hold. The J. A. W. icpiehait, the largest cement carrier on the Great Lakes, awaits christening at ceremonies held recently in Cleveland. Operated by the SIU-Great Lakes Districtcontracted Huron Portland Cement Division of the National Gypsum Company, the huge vessel is named after a director of the parent corporation. Jane Purinton of Baltimore, granddaughter of J. A. W. Iglehart, stands ready to do the honors with the traditional bottle of champagne. Houston Shipping has been good in Houston and is expected to hold solid for the coming period. Old timer Homer Pashcall is glad to have his FFD and is ready and willing to ship anywhere. His last run was a fine trip Congressman Urges Bar To U.5. Ports to Bombay. India aboard the Penn^ Carrier. Homer sails in the en-' with his wife. Osborne M. Brooks gine department. SIU vet­ is registered for an engine room eran Sal Frank is down from berth after piling off the Maiden Rhode Island. Sal is bragging Creek with Ted 'Harris, and Lotus about the SIU welfare plan. He Stone. Seafarers around the hall says that he can renieniber the were wondering how come his days when a seaman had no pro­ billfold was so fat and Ozzie tection at all. Sal says that he's promptly satisfied their curiosity ready to ship to any port in his by proudly pulling out snapshots WASHINGTON—^Representative Paul Rogers (R.-Fla.) reports he is gaining support in usual deck rating. Mike (The Beard) Doherty is a welcome sight of his nine children. Oldtimer his fight to close United States ports to the ships of any nation that permits its merchant William F. (Dub) Simmons is wait­ around the hall after piling off the ing for a deck job after piling off fleet to transport supplies to Communist North Vietnam. In addition to introducing a bill Del Norte where he sailed as quar­ the Ocean Ulla where he sailed as termaster. Although he likes the AB. • Dub says that he'd like to get (HR 6154) that would ban"*" run to South America, right now a chance to drop by, Mississippi these vessels, the Florida con­ a boycott which would forbid the Hanoi government last April, operators of these ships from car­ Great Britain also stood at the top Mike is looking for a berth to and see his wife before shipping gressman is also calling upon rying government-generated car­ of the list at that time. India. Another welfare plan apos­ out. the State Department to declare goes. Hanoi Shuttle Service tle around the hall is Steve Kolina. His list showed that certain Angered by the loss of American Steve is proud and happy about fighting men in Vietnam who are British-flag ships were maintaining the plan. Now on the beach after Cure Seen For Water-Short Areas killed while attempting to elimi­ a kind of shuttle service between a good run to India, Steve says nate the Communist Viet Cong's Hong Kong and North Vietnamese that he is ready and raring to go again. overland transportation system, ports. One such freighter, the CarRogers has branded the mounting doss, was found to have made four MobUe U.S. death 'toll as "senseless" in voyages between Hong Kong and Shipping activity is fair in Mo­ the face of- the continued ocean Haiphong on the Gulf of Tonkin bile, but is expected to pick up movement of supplies by Free during the last five months. some steam in the next few weeks. World shipowners. Under these Rogers assailed the State De­ The Midlands and Trans Texas circumstances, the arrival of just partment announcement that Free are laid up in port. LOS ANGELES—^Reports that sea water can be desalted in­ one Free World ship with cargo World ship movements to North Lotus Stone is registered for a expensively through the use of atomic power are being studied for North Vietnam "is one too Vietnam had dropped by 20 per­ many," he declared recently. deck department job down here. cent in the first three months of hopefully by government officials in drought-stricken areas He last shipped as an AB aboard The Florida Republican now has 1965. The announcement also the Maiden Creek on her run to across the nation. While many the support of eight of his fellow stated that this traffic was respon­ India. Lotus is married and makes desalting processes are cur­ U.S., now in its seventh year of a congressmen in his struggle to se­ sible for only 17 percent of the crucial water shortage, was pre­ cure House passage of his bill. As non-strategic goods imported by his home in Mobile. He has been shipping out of the gulf area for rently in use, government of­ pared by the Bechtel Corporation, a member of the House Merchant the Hanoi government. The Con­ 25 years. Herman Wilkerson is ficials are especially Interested in one of the country's largest engi­ Marine Committee, Rogers has the gressman declared that these sup­ saying hello to a lot of old friends the use of atomic power to make neering firms. The U.S. Depart­ additional advantage of being able plies seemed far from insignificant after piling off the Norfolk where fresh water, since a U.S.-sponsored ment of Interim, the Atomic En­ to sit in on the hearings when his when a count was made of the 191 he sailed as chief pumpman. When study estimates that seawater can ergy Commission and the Metro­ committee considers his own bill. Americans who were killed while he's not around the hall, Herman be converted at one-fifth of the politan Water District of Southern fighting the Viet Oong during the SIU Backs BUI California commissioned the study is spending all bis time with his normal cost. The Seafarer's International Un­ first six months of 1965. at a cost of $420,000. Southern wife in their Mobile home. He says The State Department has for­ According to the report, a $300 California was chosen for the ion of North America, the Interna­ that he stiU prefers tankers to mally accused Communist North tional Longshoremen's Association anything else. Herman is an en- million desalting plant built near study since it contains the largest and other maritime Industry Vietnam of directing and supply­ Los Angeles could provide 150 mil­ population living in an area which gineroom man who has been ship­ groups are supporting passage of ing the Viet Cong rebellion against ping on the Gulf for the last twenty lion gallons of fresh water per day is chronically short of water. Rogers' bill. Using a list of ships the legitimate government of for residents of the parched area years. Another long-time Gulf man UUlities Interested flying the flags of Free World na­ South Vietnam with men, arms is Charlie Wahl who is waiting for a at a cost of 22 cents per thousand Three large private utility com­ tions that have visited North Viet­ and other necessities. United States gallons. Experts from Southern steward's berth. Charlie last sailed panies have already made known nam, the ILA has pledged itself planes have been bombing North aboard the Transindia as chief California estimate that this would their interest to build a desalting to boycott these vessels should Vietnam for several months to be the cost that the ai-ea would cook. He's telling everybody about plant in conjunction with the they appear in any U.S. port from persuade the Hanoi government to his home in Fairhope, Alabama pay for drinking water piped in Southern California Metropolitan Maine to Texas. cease its assistance to the Comfrom its normal inland soiu-ces. where he lives with his parents. mimist insurgents operating in the Water District, following the rec­ Bringing the public and his fel­ He says that he hopes to get down Power By-Product ' southern part of the country. ommendations in the Bechtel low congressmen up to date on the there soon. The proposed plant would pro­ study. The utility concerns have growing trade of Free World ships Rogers asserts the recent intel­ The boys around the hall were duce enough water for the daily stated that they are ready to en­ with Red North Vietnam, Rogers ligence reports that work is almost all giving the glad hand to 25-year needs of 750,000 persons. The use gage in the project if the cost reported that 41 ships flying the completed on four missle launch­ Gulf sailor Theodore Harris who of controlled nuclear fission in the estimates in the study are actually flags of Western nations made 55 ing sites in the area of the Viet­ is off the Maiden Ch-eek after a desalting plant would generate borne out. trips to ports controlled by the namese port of Haiphong are evi­ voyage to India. Ted is waiting 1,800 megawatts of power, enough Hanoi government during the flrst dence 6f the importance the Com­ The estimated 150 million gal­ for a choice steward's job and electricity to satisfy the needs of five months of 1965. He asserted munists attach to the continued spending his spare time at home a city <4 2 million people. Since lons per day capacity of the pro­ that many of these ships were en­ availability of shipping. posed plant is regarded as highly only part of this immense power significant when compared to de- gaged in trade with Cuba during would be used ' in the desalting salinization facilities now in opera­ the Russian missile crisis in 1962. process, the report envisions that tion. The largest such plant, According to Rogers' lat^t stat­ the surplus could be used to gen­ which operates on conventional istics, vessels sailing under the erate electricity at a cost low non-nuclear fuels, produces 3.5 iNaooE British flag have continued to raough to compete with presently million gallons of fresh water per In order to assure accurate make the most calls to North Viet­ used fuels. day on the Caribbean island of nam of any Free World govern­ digests of shipboard meetings The report, which has aroused Aruba. The proposed Southern ment. When the Florida represen­ in the LOG, it is desirable that so much interest among govern­ California plant would produce tative first made public the list of the reports of shipboard meet­ ment officials in arid Southern nearly 50 times as much drinking ships flying the flags of Western ings be typed if at all possible California and the north eastern water. nations that had supplied the Report Progress On Barring Ships In North Vietnam Trade Atomic Power Held Key To Low-Cost DesaHing CHAN6»l6AmEgso/U ^iMMUmisrP Type Minutes When Possible �Pafe Eifht ^J^4F4RERS Jtdr XI. UW LOG NLRB Policy Shift Hits Runaway ffmp/oyer« Runaway Company Ordered To Bargain At New Plant The National Labor Relations Board, fashioning a new policy for "runaway" employers, has ordered a Miami swimsuit manufacturer to bargain with the union he tried to evade. The new ruling does not require the unions to show proof of a majority at the new location. The manufacturer was the order herein," it declared, "the The Garwin Corp. formerly made Garwin Corp., which closed its our union can reestablish its majority ladies and Junior swioisuits at a New York plant in 1963, dis­ at the Florida plant, the normal plant In Queens, N.Y. Its owners By Al Tonner, Vice President ond Fred Fornen, Secretory-Treosurer, Greot Lokes Lakes Reports Good Shipping Shipping remains good in the port of Detroit. Over the July 4tli holidays many requests came into headquarters for vacation reliefs creating a shortage of firemen and ABs. It is expected that after the hot spell has subsided there will be more normal shipping for rated men. As it is, we are still experiencing a shortage in certain key ratings. Negotiations are still going on with representatives of GLAMO.' From all appearances we expect no difficulty in arriving at a good settlement for the contract covering the next two years. The membership will be kept informed as negotiations proceed. charged its employees and hired contract bar rules shall apply. If formed a new corporation, S'Agaro, new workers in Miami, where it . . . the union is unable to rees­ Inc., which makes more than $400,does business as S'Agaro, Inc. tablish its majority, we shall deem 000 worth of swimsuits a year from The Ladies' Garment Workers any collective bargaining agree­ a new plant at Hialeah, Fla. Dur­ filed unfair labor practice charges ment resulting from our order to ing 1963, Garwin produced gar­ Chicago and an NLRB examiner ruled that bargain as a bar to a timely peti­ ments under its own name and un­ the firm had moved to deprive its tion . . . filed for a period of only der the labels Nettle Rosenstein, Shipping as usual Is at a peak with vacation relief requests coming New York employees of their one year from the date of execu­ Tall Girls and Costa del Sol, ac­ In. We are experiencing some difficulty in obtaining relief men in the cording to the examiner. rights and to avoid dealing with tion" of a new contract. rated capacities. Again we urge all members to upgrade their classifi­ the union. He issued an order, cations as soon as they have enough sailing time. Members are urged following customary NLRB prac­ to better themselves in their work and take advantage of the higher rated man's pay. tice, that S'Agaro would have to bargain when the union could "re­ Buffalo establish its representative status" This port, as well as Cleveland, witnessed the christening of a' Great at the Miami plant. Lakes vessel this past week. The Steamer Uhlmann Brothers, owned and operated by Kinsman Marine Transit Company, received the usual The ILGWU, objected, saying bottle of champagne. The cere--fthis would permit the firm to monies were attended by SIU rep­ reap the fruits of Its illegal ac­ shipping companies with the hold­ tivity. The board agreed with WASHINGTON—Seafarers who have regarded Antartica resentatives and various notables ing of two chrlstemng ceremoniw the union that the New York has the last natural refuge in a world saturated by the chemi­ from shipping and government in the Cleveland area during the circles. In a brief speech to those employees probably would not past moqth. First, the Steamer accept reinstatement at the Mi­ cals and pesticides which have changed man's environment In attendance, George Stein- Paul Tietjen, which is now desig­ brenner. President of Kinsman ami plant. so much since World War 11, Marine Transit Company, stressed nated as the flag ship of the Kins­ Besides, the NLRB declared, the are in for a rude shock. A sci­ DDT for years in odd corners of the fact that it would be greatly man fleet; second, the Steamer the world. He has previously re­ J* !*• W. Iglebart, which is now "continuing coercive effects" of entist recently returned from ported finding it in the waters of desirable to get more grain in the largest cement carrying vessel the firm's unfair labor practices American bottoms. This would "renders it highly probable that the globe's southem-moet contin­ both the northern Atlantic and Pa­ certainly tend to Improve the em­ on the Great Lakes, went through cific Oceans. christening ceremonies. Both the issuance of a conditional bar­ ent has announced that Antarctica ployment situation on the Buffalo its of these ships are manned by SIU gaining order will enable the re­ is no different than any other part Travel Exposure waterfront for many of the mari­ crews. spondents [management] to achieve of the world In bearing traces of Dr. George found there were no time unions, Steinbrenner said. their primary illegal objective— Shipping is still good in this traces of DDT in the snows of An­ Shipping from this poit remains DDT contamination. to escape bargaining." port; AB jobs moving at a very tarctica or in its invertebrate crea­ Dr. John L. George of the Penn­ tures, such as starfish, shellfish, good and we are always hopeful steady pace. We presently have a Abandoned Workers' Rights that more rated men will make good supply of entry ratings. All sylvania University reports that he etc. This raised the possibility that themselves available for shipping. entry ratings on the beach with On balance, the NLRB said, the rights of the new employees in has found traces of DDT in seals, the seals, fish and penguins con­ The Buffalo Maritime Trades sufficient sea time are urged to Miami should not take preference penguins and fish In the Antarctic taminated by the pesticide might Department Port Council is take Coast Guard exams and up­ have picked it up in their migra­ over the rights of the abandoned region .The questions arising in actively engaged in seeking a solu­ grade themselves. workers in New York. Therefore it the minds of Dr. George's scientific tions away from the continent. tion to the closing of the General Shipping remains good in this charged the examiner's recom­ colleagues were how did the pesti­ Research by Dr. George lends Mills plant and elevators here in port. We have had several short­ mended order to require the em­ cide get there since the continent support to this theory. According the port of Buffalo. ages of rated men in the deck and ployer to recognize and bargain is separated from other land to the scientist, DDT sprayed on with the union, on request, wher­ masses by hundreds of miles of crops washes into nearby streams It was recently reported in the engine departments due primarily Buffalo Evening News that the to the hot weather we have been ever the company locates. open ocean in addition to the fact and eventually finds its way to the American Steamship Company, experiencing as of late. Since the new employees have that there has never been any use sea. Here it is picked up plankton, identified with Boland & Corne­ Alpena a continuous- interest In their of DDT in the region's frozen the microscopic organisms living lius, plans a $2,000,000 expansion in the ocean, which are fed upon program of it's self-unloader fleet. As usual, shipping has been good working conditions and effective wastes. by various forms of marine Ufe. Adam E. Cornelius, President of in this port. Still short rated men. collective bargaining, the NLRB The National Science Foundation voted to approve a "minor re­ (NSF) gave Dr. George a grant to In the savage life of the undersea the American Steamship Com­ Shipping looks at this point very laxation" of its normal contract- help answer this riddle. The world, traces of DDT are passed on pany, ' said the self-unloaders bright and will undoubtedly re­ as one kind of sea creature debar rules. Pennsylvania University scientist voiu's another. In this way, the Detroit Edison, and Joseph Young main so until the end of the "If . . . upon compliance with has been studying appearances of poismi could end up at the bottom will be lengthened next winter season. to increase their carrying capacity of the world In Antarctica, far from per season by 300,000 tons each. Chairman of the Public Works Committee, Senator Patrick the usual track of man. SlU Veteran Receives Pension The Detroit Edison will receive McNamara (D-Mieh.) recently an­ While Dr. George's research a new 72 foot long mid-section at nounced the approval by Congress i^ows that sea life might be re­ the Eraser Shipyards in "Superior, of appropriation of $806,000 for sponsible for the spread of DDT to Wisconsin. The Joseph Young will the Alpena Harbor Navigation the unpopulated areas of the world, also receive a new mid-section to Improvement project. This has the NSF was quick to reassure the increase her length from 488 feet been a long awaited program which public that no danger was involved to 672 feet. American Steamship will undoubtedly mean additional in this process. Officials of the Company has in operation 13 self- employment for members of the agency say that all DDT residues unloaders. American operates the various maritime trade unions in that have been discovered have largest fleet of self-unloaders on the Alpena ^rea. the Great Lakes. been quite low. Duluth Shipping remains good in . the port of Duluth. ABs, firemen and Steel Recorder oilers jobs have been slow to fill. Firemen and AB registrations on Still Safest the board are few. All members Ship In Fleet are again advised to remain on The SlU-manned Steel Re­ board their vessel until their relief arrives. corder (Isthmian) made a clean sweep as it won its third Frank Sheehan has been around straight fleet safety award. the port of Duluth awaiting the Seafarers on the Recorder first permanent OS vacancy on a have won high praise for main­ salt water ship; If nothing comes taining the highes>t standards up on the board in the immediate of safety in the Isthmian fleet future, Frank will in ajl proba­ by capturing the semi-annual bility. grab a temporary entry award for the third time in a rating job on a Lakes carrier. row. The Recorder first won John Grant was recently re­ Ifiii the crown as safest ship in the leased from USPHS after being 25-vessel Isthmian fleet when confined for several weeks under­ SlU deck department veteran Charles Goldstein (right) going leg treatments. John is not it took the title for the last receives his first Union pension check and hearty congratu­ quite ready to ship out as yet due six months of 1963. SIU crewlations from SlU rep Al Santiago at New York headquarters. to the slow healing of his leg. members followed this victory up by winning the award for Brother Goldstein, who last sailed on the Robin Hood (Robin Cleveland IMdALflMlRB both halves of 1964. Lines), is planning to spend his retirement at his home in This port proved again that it is blS'/^A/S, \2i6iMtriMoiie Weehawken, N.J. tlie capital of the Great Lakes DDT Traces Found In Bleak Antarctic i rVRTC/CALL if ii -•r if !' �n.i-. .-u . " U ,. This salvaged necklace is valued at $30,000. The solid gold links of ornate petal design measure more than 70 inches in length. This recovered pile of silver pieces of eight was worth about 12'/] cents. ' In the background is a modern day treasure map of Florida. Diver examines objects he discovered along the keel of Captain Blight's legendary ship, The Bounty, scuttled in 1790. An oarlock and hull fittings turned up. This Spanish gold escudo ('heads' on rt., 'tails' on left) was part of $2 million Florida treasure find uncovered by stuba divers. ...V Diver brings up sledge hammers from ship believed sailing from England to Colonies in the early I700's. f.. I^'INM The GOLD RUSH T HE magic glitter of sunken treasure is luring hoards of scubadivers and other treasure-seekers to Florida's official "Treasure Coast"—a golden stretch of shore midway between Palm Beach and Cape Kennedy where shallow waters and far-flung reefs have combined to tear the bottoms out of countless vessels over the cen­ turies. Spurred on by a recent sal­ vage find of $1.6 million worth of 18th centui*y Spanish treasure, the modern-day "gold rush" has picked up so much momentum that the once lonely shore is crowded with hopeful beach combers and wouldbe salv."-e divers hungry for the "big score." Amateur treasure hunters abound. They rush off in all direc­ tions in a never-ending quest for a "new find," "an old map," and even "the bearded old beach hermit who knows the location of precious cargo, half eroded and buried in Atlantic sand and coral long ago." Predictablv, the amateurs are rare­ ly Successful. Most of the signifi­ cant finds have been made by sea­ soned professionals using the latest techniques and scientific equip­ ment. The Florida "Gold Rush" started back in 1928 when local fishermen dredged up three ancient cannons and a huge time-eroded anchor. Discovery came upon the heels of discovery, and the rush was on. Necklaces, rings, jewels and coins trickled and sometimes poured into the surrounding towns. Flocks of tourists swarmed into the surf, swimming, diving and even wading after treasure. Maps of suspicious origin began to appear—for a price. At one point, the city of Fort Pierce was flooded with counterfeit dou­ bloons, After the historic 1964 $1.6 million find, the traffic became so great that a Vast tourist industry sprang up along the newly-titled "Treasure Coast," f •>• r-i Mr 23, IMS Part of household and hardware cargo shipped te American Colonies over 200 years ago includes silverware and specs. The two-plastic-enclosed royal eight escudos at upper left are worth $10,000. In center, a clump of silver coins fused by ocean. At right, pieces of eight. �fac«.Tea, Ja|yJM,4tU SEAFARERS AFL-CiO Urges Hike In Jobless Insurance By Robert A. Matthews, WASHINGTON—The McCarthy-Mills bill now before Con­ QUESTION: What interesting Vice-President, Contracts, & Bill Hall, Headquarters Rep. gress will make the first major improvements in unemploy­ superstitions about the sea have We have received a number of interesting questions recently, one of ment insurance legislation since the system was enacted in which concerns the painting of quarters, another which calls for clarifi­ you come across in your sailing cation of grain loading procedures aboard tankers, and one which takes 1935, Ray Munts, assistant di--*rector of the AFL-CIO Depart­ gram to learn a skill for a new experience? • up tb« problem of dividing overtime. ment of Social Security, Job. Jimmle Heyllger: There are so In a recent inquiry from the ship's delegate aboard the Transhatteras, declared in a network radio The new bill, he continued, many sailing superstitions that I the following question is raised: interview. would in fact disqualify a really don't know jobless worker if he is referred to where to begin. Question: Please advise which department paints Engineer's quarters. The changes have been long Answer: It is the Deck Department's job or duty to paint out not only needed, Munts asserted, because training and refuses it. One of the'most the engineer's officer's quarters, but also the Captain's and Deck offi­ unemployment continues un­ As a further feature, Munts widely held be­ cer's quarters. usually high and the unemployed said, the McCarthy-Mills bill liefs is the one Reference: Standard Freightship Agreement, Article III, Section 34, and their families are currently would be extended to cover small about whistling which reads as follows: "Additional Work, (a) In all ports, members of denied adequate benefit pay­ businesses with one or more em­ on board bring­ ployees and workers In non-profit ing bad luck. An­ the Deck Department may be required to chip, sougee, scale, prime and ments. institutions, such as hospitals, other famous paint the vessel over the sides. "For a while after the program universities, and foundations. sailor .supersti­ was adopted," said Munts, "state (b) Overtime shall be paid when sailors are required, either in port tion is that sea­ The House Ways and Means or at sea, to chip, sougee, scale, prime or paint galley, pantry, saloon, programs were more or less of men are never supposed to shake Committee has scheduled hearings equal and good quality, but after living quarters, forecastles, lavatories and washrooms, which are not hands when parting. to start Aug. 2 on the AFL-CIO used by the Unlicensed Deck Department. This shall also apply to all the war, state legislatures did not supported Administration bill to raise the benefits commensurate t enclosed passageways with doors or bulkheads at both ends. with the increase in wage levels. extend and improve the unemploy­ Bert Winfield: There is a belief (c) Non-permanent transient or irregular foreign shore labor shall For example, today the typical ment compensation program. among seamen that if you don't not be employed to perform any of f — worker receives a benefit of less pay your "bills" the work in the licensed or un­ in lieu of the regular overtime than a third of his lost wage." in your last port, licensed quarters, store rooms, rate. you are sure to Would Hike Benefits passageways, galleys and mess have bad luck The next question, dealing with The new Administration-backed rooms, except in those instances for the rest of the division of wages of the chief legislation would require most where the Company uses estab­ the voyage. This cook has been sent in by Clarence states to pay higher weekly lished shore labor. Companies on superstition was Edwards, ship's delegate aboard amounts, with maximums raised in DETROIT — The St. Law­ regular trade routes who, prior to the Natalie. probably started steps until they reach two-thirds rence Seaway chalked up an June 7, 1954, used established by the "shop­ of the state's average weekly wage. Question: "The Captain has all-time record for tonnage shore labor in foreign ports may keepers" to make made the Chief Cook Steward and carried during the month of continue such practice. Munts, speaking on the AFLcertain that they says the wages of the Chief Cook CIO public service program Labor June, reports Joseph McCann, got their cash. I've heard that (d) At sea or in port, the deck is to be split between the Chief administrator of the water­ killing a seagull brings bad luck. department may be required to Cook, the Baker and the Third News Conference, heard on the way. Mutual Broadcasting System each sand and varnish all outside rails, Cook. Now, I am under the im­ J" 4" 4 week, noted that the new legisla­ A total of 5.7 million tons storm and screen doors. Perry Martin Petersen: The old­ pression that the Galley Man tion would also provide extended of cargo moved through the est superstition of them all is the We had a recent inquiry from a should share in this spilt of wages federal benefits for long-term seaway in June, as contrasted one about rats tanker carrying grain, which is as and not the Baker. Please advise jobless. Payments would continue to 5.3 million tons during May, leaving a sinking who should share in this spilt" of at the state weekly amount for up follows: 1964 when the previous record wages . . ." ship. I first heard to six additional months for was set. The seaway admini­ Question: As you know, the Sea­ that one from eligible jobless workers who Answer: Only those men who stration reports that the 14.3 farers are required to work around my grandfather exhaust their state benefits. perform the missing man's duties million tons of cargo moving the bridge area while the ship is who was a sea during the April-May-June The McCarthy-Mills bill, Munts at sea and on the iron "mike." would be allowed a division of captain on wood­ these monies. added, would also correct in­ period puts it almost 600,000 When we load grain, this ship en sailing bar­ tons a}iead of the same three Reference: Standard Freight- equities in some states. will come under the Freightship ques. I've also months in 1964. agreement. I would like to know ship Agreement, Article V, Sec­ "For example, we encourage heard that if a whether the Seafarers will be re­ tion 7, Paragraph (b): "If a vessel workers to look for jobs," he said. pelican sits on Traffic upbound through quired to work around the bridge sails without the full complement "The government makes surveys the rail it means nice weather. the seaway rose 35 percent to area under the Freightship Agree­ in the Steward Department as re­ of where jobs are available and more than 3 million tons in 4" 4" 4 ment or not, as on all freighters, quired by this agreement, then the encourages workers to go look for June over the previous period Louis N. Cirignano: Porpoises men who do the missing men's them. However, some states this is not permitted. in 1964. Downbound traffic always mean good luck for the work will receive, in addition to a actually reduce the worker's un­ failed to show an Increase Seafarer. This Answer: The Freightship Work­ division of wages of the missing employment benefits if he goes again, standing at 2.6 million belief dates back ing Rules will apply, therefore, the men, the overtime that the missing outside the state. If he leaves tons at the end of June. This to the torpedo man on the wheel will perform no men would normally have made on Ohio, where he has been drawing figure represented a 9.5 per­ days of World work on the bridge while on the a Saturday, Sunday or Holiday." a benefit of $43 and goes to West cent decrease which has been War II. Sailors wheel. Virginia, he may drop to as low caused by lower wheat ship­ Money Due learned. to love Reference: Standard Freightship ments this year. R. V. Robert Conrad—Disputed as $24." the purpoise be­ Retraining Aid Agreement, Article III, Section 7, Overtime; Readus R. Wheelington. cause this fish General cargo tonnage which reads as follows: "Men The AFL-CIO spokesman also kept the sharks rocketed to 818,000 tons in Hercules Victory — Disputed pointed out that some states cut Standing Sea Watches, (a) Men away from the June, over the 458,000 tons Overtime; Edward Jensen, Robert standing sea watches shall be paid off unemployment benefits when lifeboats after a recorded a year ago. overtime for Saturday, Sunday, Smith, George Stanley. a worker begins a retraining pro­ vessel had been sent to the bot­ and Holiday watches and for all Valiant Hope — Transportation: tom by German U-boats. work in excess of 8 hours between Thomas E. Hanson, Edward E. Ed4 4 4> midnight and midnight each day. inger, Donald Kershaw. John Karl: Many, many seamen No work except for the safe navi­ St. Lawrence — Subsistence: believe that whistling on board gation of the vessel is to be done Nicholas Sakellarides. brings bad luck. after 5 p.m. and before 8 a.m., Ames Victory — Transportation: Some sailors Monday through Friday, and on Ralph L. Jones. even believe that Saturdays, Sundays, and Holidays bringing women Niagara — Disputed Overtime — without payment of overtime. on board a ves­ Richard Heckman, Francis M. (b) If a man standing regular Greenwell. Lodgings: John Bensel is a sure way watch at sea or in port on Sat­ net, William Knapp, Warren Weiss. to court disaster. urdays, Sundays, and Holidays for Then there ars Natalie — Wages: James N. which, he receives overtime is re­ those that be­ Boone, Sptros D. Cassimis, Howard quired to work, he shall be paid lieve that the ap­ W. Gibbs, Joseph Ortigiierra, Frank overtime in addition to the over­ G. pearance of dol­ Valerie. time he receives for standing the phins or porpoises is a sign of Transorleans — Disputed Over­ regular sea watches on Saturdays, impending good fortune. Sundays, or Holidays with the fol­ time: Seymour Sikes. 4 4 4' Penn Carrier — Disputed Over­ lowing exceptions:' Jerry Zlnn: I can tell you from time: Earl Beamer, Walter Smith. personal experience that there is 1. Routine work for the safe Seatrain New York — Disputed no surer sign of navigation of the vessel. Lodging Allowance: Pedro Agtuca, bad luck than a 2. Cleaning quarters. Luis Cepeda, William Dooling, full moon. Every 3. Docking, undocking. James Gleason, Ruben Negron, time mother(c) If a man standing sea Pred Patersson, Earl Resmondo, moon shows her watches on Saturdays, Sundays, or Francisco Rodriguez, Alfonse Valfull face, I know Holidays is required to do long­ lejo. I'm in for trou­ Demonstrating their skills at assembltng sofas and couches, shore work, tank cleaning or han­ S. T. Elena Lisa—Transportation ble. It means bad Wilbur Pearman (left) and Calhoun Claxton (right), mem­ dle explosives during his watch, Differential: Byron C. Broadus, luck for the bers of the SlU United Industrial Workers, are pictured be shall not receive the regular Arnoldo Guevara (or Guenara), ship, bad luck working on the production line at the Haven Manufacturing overtime but he shall be paid the James W. Higgens, Anthony Nix, for me, and bad Company in Baltimore, Md. The UlW-contracted firm is a luck for everyone else. I'd rather overtime rate as specified in this WilUe E. Smith, John David Vidwell known, (ns^nufacturer.cf jofas and, convertible couche^, , > see paqk of, sharks. •. , , agreement for that type of work rine.. Seaway Sets Record For June Traffic SlU-UIW Members At Work �IHS ANTI-LABOR BILLS REVOKED—A package of bills repealing the harsh, union-busting provisions <rf the Hutchinson Act and providing collective bargaining rights for Michigan public employes has been passed by the Michigan House. One bill eliminates the Hutchinson Act provision that calls for imme­ diate firing and loss of benefits of any public employe who participates In a strike. The same bill grants public employes the right to organize into unions and to bargain collectively and requires public employers to recognize this right. Collective bargaining agreements between government agencies and public employe unions are also sanctioned in the bill. Another bill passed by the Michigan lawmakers authorizes the State Labor Mediation Board to conduct representation election for public employes and sets up a system of handling charges of unfair labor practices. A third measure would restore to state employes many of the political activities enjoyed by private industry employes which are now prohibited by order of the Civil Service Commission. The bill's chief sponsor, Repr^ntative Dominic Jacobetti (D-Mich.), called the measure "a citizen participation bill." The measure has the support of the Michigan State Employes Union, AFL-CIO. "We b^eve state employes should not be second class eitziens," said MSEU Director Robert C. Grosvenor. X. H. X IMPORTANT ELECTldN's National COPE Director Alexander E. Barkan this week urged union members to "give a dollar to COPE now to help re-elect our friends in Congress next year who have gone down the line for Great Society programs." Barkan said, "On roll call after roll call on key issues, the men and women whom union members' dollars helped elect to Congress in 1964 have voted for the welfare of working people and for progress for the nation." He cited the vote on. medicare la the House of Representatives as a prime example of how the COPE Dollar helps lead to liberal legislation. "Last year, we were able to elect 51 new liberals to the House. Medi­ care passed the House by only 48 votes. It doesn't take a slide rule to figure out that without the men and women our votes and dollars helped elect we wouldn't have medicare." U.S. maritime industry is still "kick­ The COPE Director warned that many of the liberal congressmen ing" today, despite the best efforts of run­ voting for these programs "will be vulnerable next year and will need away flag operators and their supporters in all the help working people can give them." Washington who have done their best" to cast the U.S. fleet completely adrift. Members of the International AssoclatiiMi of Machinists at AeroJet-Gieneral plants in Sacramento and Azusa, California won a threeyear, 51 cent per hour wage and benefit package recently, beating off a management attack on con­ tract gains won in past years. Aero­ jet-General employees voted to ac­ cept the new contract and end their strike after assurances that com­ pany "take-away" demands would be withdrawn. The new pact in­ cludes a 24-cent general wage in­ crease plus improvements in den­ tal, hospital, major medical insur­ ance, pension and retirement bene­ fits. The JAM also won the right to retain cost-of-living escalator clauses in the new agreement. of the state labor federation, re­ ported that these donations were in addition to the substantial con­ tributions by California unions to the annual Red Cross appeal in March. The California AFL-CIO began its flood relief drive in Jan­ uary after flood waters killed 24 state residents, injured 1,653 and left thousands homeless in the northern section of the state. XXX The establishment of the SIU's proposed oil import quota program would lead the way toward righting this situation and get­ ting the U.S.-flag merchant marine back on its feet. Recognizing the shot in the arm which an oil import quota program would mean to the sagging U.S. fleet, the runaway-flag operators, a majority of whom are the na­ tion's largest petroleum companies, are rely­ ing on their friends in various U.S. govern­ ment agencies to defeat the Union's proposed 30 percent quota on all crude oil and petro­ leum products. U.S. State Department officials, for in­ stance, have consistently echoed the oil com­ panies' line that the establishment of an oil quota for the U.S.-flag tanker fleet would only cause retaliatory discrimination by for­ eign governments. This argument is nothing but a clever smokescreen to defend the greedy operations of the runaway flag opera­ tors. The runaway operators register their ves­ sels under the flags of Panama, Liberia and Honduras to evade U.S. taxes, safety and working conditions. It is far from a coincid­ ence that Panamanian and Liherian flag ves- —"»nt all oil and petroleum imported into the U.S. As usual, the runaway-flag operators are looking after their own interests. The U.S. maritime industry, however, has learned not to be surprised at governmental policies which operate to its complete disad­ vantage. The dismal record of the Agri­ culture Department in granting waivers to foreign-flag vessels from the nation's cargo preference laws is all too plain. U.S. Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz has reappointed Assis­ tant Director Richard E. Shoe­ maker of the AFL-CIO Department of Social Security and Secretary Wilbur Daniels of the National Board of the Coat and Suit Indus­ try, as labor members of the Fed­ X jji • 4« eral Advisory Council on employee The national convention of the welfare and pension plans. American Veterans Committee has XXX urged Congress to repeal section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act. The Sealy mattresses, manufactured veterans' association charged that by the Empire State Bedding Co., using the umbrella of 14(b), states Inc., have been added to the "Un­ have passed "right-to-work" laws fair to Labor, Do Not Buy" list. which are intended to weaken the The Textile Workers Union of labor movement and which have America has asked all union mem­ the effect of^rkeeping wages lower bers to support a "don't buy" cam­ in the states which enact them. The paign. TWUA employees at the AVC declared that section 14(b) Albany, N.Y. plant of Empire Bed­ should be repealed to "restore full ding are in the third month of a freedom of collective bargaining in strike caused by management's in­ sistence that it be given the uni­ each of our 50 states." lateral right to change wages, hours ^ 5* Unions affiliated with the CaU- and other conditions of employ­ fornia AFL-CIO contributed $83,- ment. In addition to charging man­ 000 to a Red Cross flood relief agement with the refusal to bargain drive to assist survivors of the in good faith, the union also re­ disastrous floods which occurred ports Sealy has ueen recruiting In addition to this agency, the Defense In the state earlier this year. strike breakers in newsp^er ads, Dep&rtment icohtinues t(i deciicate itself to prontisidg '^rhianedt"'' jdbs'.' ' Thomas Pitts, secrctary-treasiirer' perpetuating the American maritime indus­ try's decline by making the myth of "effec­ tive control" of runaway vessels its official policy. There were no protests from Defense officials when runaway operators threatened recently to transfer their vessels from those of the "Pan-Lih-Hon" nations to countries completely beyond the reach of American authorities These threats serve to illustrate the mockery which "effective control" has become—a mockery which hears an ugly re­ semblance to blackmail by the runaways. In the face of statements such as these, how can the State and Defense departments continue to say that the vessels of runaway operators will be available to the U.S. in the event of a national emergency or outright war? The establishment of an oil import quota system would definitely require a change of attitude by the bureaucrats in Washington ITT ment agencies and departments which seem dedicated to defending the operations of the runaway companies would have to start de­ voting their efforts to upgrading our rapidly aging fleet. The SIU has urged the Government to support a four-point program which would reject Washington's toleration of the con­ tinued existence of the runaway fleet. The, program calls for the renouncing of the theory of "effective control," the imposition of corporate taxes on runaway operators which they now escape, and the use of the revenues from these taxes to rebuild the American-flag fleet. Last, but not least, the Union has asked that the runaway ship crews sliould have the opportunity to select the unions of their choice, a right guaranteed by U.S. law to every American working man. Adoption of this program would give evi­ dence that our Government was no longer discriminating in favor of the runaway opera­ tors at the expense of the country's own merchant marine; ' - -• » �Par* Twelva SEAFARERS LOG Canada SlU Mans New Ship July M, Xlfi Maritime Group Warns Of Soviet Fieet Buildup NEW YORK—^The American Maritime Association has dr« dared its concern over Russia's "burgeoning maritime strength" in comparison with the rapid deterioration of the United States' merchant fleet. — The AMA expressed its alarm status. Russia's seven-year plan for a 240 percent increase in in a report called "Growth of called tanker tonnage, and tliis goal was QUEBEC—A spanking naw Canadian-built bulk carrier, th* Don de Dieu, was christened here on June 9, and will shortly go into service es part of the SlU of Canada-contracted fleet. The Don de Dieu, built for the Papachristidis Company, Ltd., of Montreal, cost $7.5 million. The vessel displaces 26,375 deadweight tons and Is 730 feet from bow to stern. The shipbuilder was Vickers of Canada. Be­ cause the company could not construct the entire vessel at its Quebec facility, the bow sec­ tion had to be built at Lauzon, further down the river. The Don de Dieu is the sister ship of two other vessels built in the same manner, the Quebecois and the Montrealais. A tanker, the 42,000-ton Emerillon, was built for the Papachristidis inter­ ests several years ago. In all, Papachristidis has spent more than $32 million for new bottoms in recent years. The company now operates nearly 200,000 tons of shipping, with assured contracts for iron ore and grain cargoes in the American market. Ocean Science Studies Facing New Chaiienge the U.S.S.R, Foreign Trade Fleet." reached at the end of 1963. The The report tells the detailed AMA emphasized that these sta­ story of how the Soviet merchant tistics Illustrate the importance fleet has grown from Insignificance that the Russians attach to their In 1939 when It had only 354 ves­ maritime industry when drawing sels to Its imposing size of 1,746 up their national planning goals. ships today. Also included in the , 2 Ships Per Week study are the size, tonnage, pro­ In describing the Soviet ship, pulsion and design of the vessels ping build-up, the AMA points out within the Russian fleet. the Russians are commissioning U. S. Policy Needed merchant ships at the rate of two The Association warned the John­ or more per week. These ships in­ son Administration of the need clude the technological advances for the development of a national and designs which have been de­ shipping philosophy. In a letter to veloped by the Western nations, Secretary Connor, which accom­ the report declares. panied the report, the Association asserted that failure to buUd this In the all-important bulk carry­ philosophy will mean the emer­ ing segment of its fieet, the So­ gence of the Soviet Union as the viet Union fleet rose from 20 in "victor" in the race between the 1956 to 163 at the end of last year. European powers and Russia to The AMA also reports that freight­ gain control of the world's oceans. ers, which now make up the larg­ est part of the Russian merchant The AMA report predicts that fieet, number 780 with 327 more the Soviet tanker fleet will in­ under construction or on order MM crease five times from its present of May 1, 1965. By Cal Tanner, Executive Vice-President Navy Plan Detrimental To Maritime With American shipyards now running at approximately 55 percent capacity. It seems Ironic that the U.S. Navy recently submitted • WASHINGTON ^The startling discoveries made by oceanographers and technologists in plan to purchase $50 million of non-combatant naval ships from Eng­ recent years are now encountering a period of growing pains which call for much hard work land. The plan has already drawn sharp criticism from members of the' House of Representatives. to make the dreams of today actually turn into the realities of tomorrow. This capsule deIt seems even more ironic when we consider that the government scription of the state of ocean plans to close down the Brooklyn Navy Yard, supposedly because the ing address at the conference, science was made at the first oceans around the world that which was sponsored by the country has an excess of shipbuilding capacity. In other words, the conference on ocean science Marine Technology Society and would report on the height of and engineering held recently in Washington, B.C. Ocean science and technology was described as in an "awkward state" of knowledge by Dr. Harris B. Stewart, Jr., chief oceanographer for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, in the conclud- waves, water temperature, air U.S. Navy is now proposing the purchase of ships from a foreign temperature and humidity. power while the closing notice is being posted In the Brooklyn Navy Powered by radioactive isotopes, these bouys would l)roadcast their Yard, which has always been used for to build support ships and information to an overhead satel­ vessels. The ships built by the 9,600 men at the Brooklyn Navy Yard lite which would feed the data into have always been subject to the highest U.S. Inspection standards, a centrally located computer. The while in contrast, the U.S. would not have any effective control over speed with which this information inspection, procurement and bidding if the vessels were built out­ would be available would permit ships to choose their best courses, side the United Stats. saving valuable time and money. Edwin W. Hood, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America^ Way Behind Land charged recently that the action on the part of the Navy Department Not everything that was de­ As an example of this lag be­ demonstrated a complete lack of awareness of the plight of both tween scientific vision and hard scribed at the conference private and naval shipyards in this country. envisioned the future as rosy. practical utility. Dr. Stewart He reminded the Navy that its own chief of Naval Operations pointed to the absence of organized Some of the difficulties of deep data on the various stresses which water exploration were reported Admiral David McDonald had said in a 1964 speech that the U.S must underwater structures must with­ by Captain Jacques Oousteau, be vitally concerned with "preserving and maintaining our repository stand. In his opinion, marine famed • undersea explorer, and of trained manpower resources found in our shipyard facilities. engineering is "way behind any­ Commander Don Walsh, who was Hood declared that the British shipbuilding industry could not aboard the bathysphere Trieste thing that is on land." when it dropped into the deepest build better ships than those constructed in American yards. Ho added that "they have no experience with precise standards ot Examples of progress, both hole in the ocean. quality control and assurance reliability which U.S. shipyards are visionary and real, were exhibited Troubles Are Cubed required to maintain." and de.scribed throughout the Washington conference. One fas­ Costeau warned that there are Several members of the House of• Representatives including Rep­ cinating illustration was the sug­ definite limits beyond which man resentatives Emanuel Celler and Hugh L. Carey of New York and gestion that an atomic powered cannot go without the protection Representative Paul Rogers of Florida have attacked the Navy's plan submarine could swim with tuna of pressure gear when exploring Representative Carey demanded to know why this country seemed schools to learn where they go the ocean depths. Commander intent on giving this bonanza of jobs and contracts to British labor Walsh's wry warning on deepafter they leave coastal waters. The and business when the U.S. Shipbuilding industry desperately U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fish­ water explorations was that for needs this typefirms of work. . ^ every new step downward, the eries is now holding talks with the Electric Boat Division of the Gen­ scientist must multiply his dif­ f shipbuilders also drew eral Dynamics Corp. on building ficulties by three times. « Representative Celler because it would make the U.S. such a boat at a cost of $25 million. An example of the more practi­ balance of payments problem more difficult. In direct contravention to cal aspects of some of the exhibits Global Weather Data was what looked like a simple The conference heard plans for electrical cord and plug connec­ P^'oposal to build the vessels abroad a world-wide information center tion. This simple electrical con­ « to save money at the risk of an inferior product. This that would give a complete run­ nection turned out to have the mnttr? down on sea conditions and advantage of being able to operate iriotive IS essentially the same as the shipowner who registers his weather at any point on the globe. under water without electrocuting ships under a runaway flag. There are no U.S. laws to p^Slbirthese The weather center would depend or shocking the person Inserting fhruT'Jaritimi continued decline of » ^ maritime industry that jopardizes both the economic health on a vast system of bouys on or pulling the plug. of this country and the employment of its citizens. the American Society of Limnol ogy (fresh water science) and Oceanography. He emphasized that marine engineers will have many years of hard work to make the visionary discoveries of the marine scientists into t h e products, processes and services which will benefit man in his every day life. SfrLm tte U.S."'"''' "" •>""">« »' �.^1 flOr M, 1988 SEAFARERS LOG rv TMrtmt TO TELL THE TRUTH AFL-CIO President George Meany. in a recent article in the Virginia Law Weekly, spelled out the thinking behind the AFL-CIO'a decision to mount a campaign against the growing use of so-called lie detectors. Labor's primary objection, Meany pointed out. 'is to the invasion of privacy—a right of American citizens we believe to be most precious" and he cited the use of the lie detector as one of the many widte-spread and uncontrolled invasions of individual privacy" besetting the country. In addi­ tion, Meany emphasized) that labor has no faith in the accuracy of the machines or the competency of its operators. The AFL-CIO President also added that the labor movement historically and presently "is devoted to the protection of basic human rights and that its concern is not limited to union members alone." A full and com­ prehensive study of the abusive ways in which the lie detector is used and scientific opinion on its unreliability are presented in this special LOG feature. Ij:; i i ft I Expert opinion is pretty much unanimous on one aspect of the polygraph, or lie detector—^it's not reliable—not by a long shot. Says F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover—"It should be pointed out that the polygraph, often referred to as 'lie detector,' is not in fact such a device. This instrument is designed to record under proper stimuli emotional responses in the form of physi­ ological variations which may indicate and ac­ company deception. The F.B.I, feels that the poly­ graph technique is not sufficiently precise to per­ mit absolute judgments of deception or truth ..." The Warren Commission wrote—. . In evalu­ ating the polygraph, due consideration must be given to the fact that a physiological response may be caused by factors other than deception, such as fear, anxiety, neurosis, dislike and other emotions. There are no valid statistics as to the reliability of the polygraph . .." Yet each year, more and more U.S. employers are using these so-called lie detectors to screen both prospective employees and long-term em­ ployees as well. Employers have been using the results of these tests for many purposes—from thinning pro-union men from their staffs to de- S- * •: -. . * The undependablo lie detectors ere being used by employers in e continuing effort to screen out pro-union {ob applicants. nying employment to members of minority groups. In doing this, they feel they have the perfect out. What they say, in effect, is "go argue with the machine." Another fact in the case against the lie detector is that bodily reactions to emotion occur differently in different people and for different reasons. Even when a question is asked and a reaction noted by the machine, The AFL-CIO is mounting a drive aimed at there is no way to be sure that the reaction doing just that. As the anti-labor abuses inherent was triggered by tbe telling of a lie. The in­ in the use of these machines in hiring becomes dividual being tested may need his job badly increasingly apparent, the American labor move­ and fear that a "wrong" answer to any ques­ ment is taking measures to abolish their use tion could result in his being fired—or not through both legislative action and by means of hired at all. This nervousness would be collective bargaining agreements. enough to cause a reaction on the machine. WHAT IS A POLYGRAPH?—It is a machine Depending on the individual, a question may which detects and records bodily reactions. It touch on some disturbing incident of the far­ does not detect lies—^just bodily reactions—and away past, or from childhood perhaps, which this is an important point to remember. These would cause a response which the machine reactions include blood pressure, pulse, breathing could not tell from a lie. The machine meas­ rate and perspiration rate. Supporters of the poly­ ures responses, not lies, and is not a lie de­ graph contend that telling a lie will greatly ac­ tector but a response detector. tivate responses and by detecting this fact the In short, many things besides a lie will send machine will have detected a lie. Their thinking the machine into a fit resulting in the m-!aninggoes—1. Telling a lie causes the person to become less squiggles which some people insist they can emotionally upset. 2. This will bring about bodi­ "read." ly changes which will be detected by the ma­ Another point which must be accepted if the chine. 3. These physical reactions cannot be con­ trolled. 4. Therefore the machine is infallible results of the machine are to be relied upon is the belief that emotional reactions cannot be con­ and its use justified. trolled by the individual. If these reactions are In contradiction to this thinking, three Harvard controllable, if a person can keep himself from University professors wrote in an article titled reacting, then the lie detector is useless. Asked "Don't Trust the Lie Detector," — "In short, if the human nervous system is entirely auto­ there is nothing to document the claims of ac­ matic and therefore unable to be controlled at curacy or effectiveness (of the lie detector's abil­ will by the individual, a noted research scientist ity) ... has stated "I think it is so clear that it is not." The truth is that each of the claims made by Therefore the machine is in fact useless. the polygraph's supporters can be refuted scien­ Even if it were worth something, the machine tifically—as well as morally and legally. would be only as reliable as the people who op­ First of all. lying does not necessarily bring erate it—who must "read" and interpret" what about emotional reactions in the liar, while cer- the machine purports to "measure"—and for the tain "loaded questions" are very likely to cause (Continued on page 21) emotional upset in completely honest. Innocent persons. The pathological or "professional" liar for in­ stance, is not likely to show any response upon telling a lie. Either because he is mentally sick or simply has told so many lies that the act no longer means anything to him, he might as well be hooked up to a fire hydrant as a polygraph The subject must also, obviously, believe he is telling a lie for any emotional upset to take place. If he really believes, for instance, that he was born in 1928 when actually he was born in some other year, nothing will register. By the same token, the so-called infallible machine will give a clean bill of health to an insane per­ son who really "believes" that he is George Washington and commanded the American troops at Valley Forge. According to the machine, then, the pathological liar, the well-practiced liar or '.'Lie detector" measures pulse and breath rates. the totally insane person would be given a clean Experts have found the devices highly inaccurate biU of health. and unreliable. �JolrFf/lNI'^ SEAFAMEtiS XO0 ig«' Favrtcea' SlU-UIW Organizing Driva ly Frank Droiofc. West Coast RoprasentotKro 'Landmark' Decision For Calif. Court The Supreme Court of California has ruled here in a 6-1 deiflalon that workers who receive severance or dismissal pay under a nnlea contract are not disqualified for state unemployment insurance. Reversing a lower court ruling, the California Supreme Court found that the legislature intended to exclude severance and dismissal pay, as well as supplementary unemployment benefits, from consideration as wages when it amended the state law in 1959. The amendment was sponsored by the California AFL-CIO. Secretary-Treasurer Thomas L. Pitts of the state central body, called the decision a "landmark" in establishing the rights of laid-off workers. The decision culminated a 15-year battle by the Newspaper Guild and other unions in cooperation with the state federation. Striking machinists of the Aerojet General Corporation here have ratified a three-year contract by a vote of 2,220 to 906. The new ppet calls for a 24-cent an hour wage hike over the next three years and also provides for grievance procedures, seniority clauses and shop steward representation, which were the mSin obstacles toward ah early Stepping up its organizing drive in the Baltimore area, the SlU United Industrial Workers settlement of the strike. The machinists bargaining team had recom­ distributed organizing leaflets to employees at the Sheraton Manufacturing Company in Balti­ mended rejection of a previous contract proposal before the current ratification voting was held. •» more. Distributing the leaflets are UIW reps Warren Leader (left) and Jack Johns (center). Local No. 3 of the Operating En­ The organizing drive at Sheraton was a successful one as the employees chose the SlU United Austria, just paid off as chief cook gineers here also recently ratified aboard the Alcoa Master and plans . Industrial Workers as their bargaining agent in an NLRB election held recently. a new contract with Associated a vacation with his family beforo General Contractors. shipping again. He says that every San Francisco time he comes home it seems that Shipping has been extremely his little boy has grown three good in the Port of San Francisco inehes. Seattte during the past few weeks for all entry ratings in the three depart­ Shipping in the port of Seattle ments, and the future looks just has been fair and the next several as bright. Ships that paid off re­ weeks should bring quite an im­ SAN FRANCISCO—An undaunted explorer from this city has set out for a remote sec- cently included the Transhudson, provement. Northwestern Victory, Topa Topa, We recently paid off the Pilot ion of Turkey to make another attempt to find the vessel belonging to history's most famous Choctaw, Whitehall and the Wele- Rock and signed on a new crew eafarer. John Libi, whose efforts to find Noah's Ark have brought him world-wide fame, ware. Ships that signed on recent­ aboard the Express Virginia. Inas embarked on his fifth ex--*^ ly included the Kidgefield "^^ictory, transit vessels were the Summit, edition to Mount Ararat to case of pneumonia on his previous tions this time to Inspecting three Choctaw, Morning Light and the Anchorage, Walter Rice and the corrals which have been mysteri­ Whitehall. Ships in transit in­ Seattle. nd the remains of the biblical expeditions. f sssel. According to the Old Testament, ously built 500 feet from the cluded the Penmar, San Francisco, Some of the oldtimers on the Libi's four previous experitions Noah's animal-laden ark was mountain's peak. He theorizes that Yorkmar and the Elizabethport. beach in Seattle include Louis L. Ships that are due for payoff in Meyers who sails as a chief cook !) find the ark in the wilds of beached on Mt. Ararat, following the stone fences which form the urkey have won numerous trib- the flood which God caused to corrals were erected either by the San Francisco shortly include the or steward. He had to get off his 1 tes to his persistence, even though cover the earth. Twentieth cen­ ark's inhabitants or their offspring Express Baltimore, Wild Ranger, last ship, the Cottonwood Creek, e has yet to achieve success, tury maps place the 16,946-foot Mt. to signify the place where the DeSoto, Columbia Victory, Iber­ in India, due to an illness. ville and the St. Artesian. [owever, the 69 year-old California Ararat in eastern Turkey, near vessel landed after the flood. Henry (Harry) Connolly, who xplorer hasn't let bad luck deter that country's border with the In order to find out if this theory M. Cross, a bosun off the Topa sails as baker, is another oldtimer im from his self-chosen mission, Soviet Union. is true, the expedition's workers Topa visited the San Francisco who's on the beach in Seattle. His 'o date, he has suffered falls from will have to excavate beneath ^ the Hall the other day aud said that he last trip was to India, aboard the Mysterious Corrals 12dges, been injured in an auto covering blanket of snow on the had a real good trip. J. W. Martine Wild Ranger, and he now plans to Libl reports that he wants to mountain and into the sandstone who just signed off the Transhud­ take it easy for a couple of weeks ccident, chased by wild bears and ' een put flat on his back by a devote the major part of his explora- imder it. Libi is hoping to uncover son said that he'd like to make and then take a bakers job going the ark's remains in the form some more trips on the ship before anywhere. He is a 22 year veteran of petrified wood. it heads for India with a load of of the SIU and would not change his life as a Seafarer^or any other One thing that may block these grain. plans is the destruction caused by A. S. Wang, third cook and H. profession. a mighty eruption which occurred Alexanderian, chief cook were when Mt. Ararat was a volcano. around the San Francisco Hall the Libl admits there is no hope of other day and said that they would finding the ark if the volcanic ex­ try out the Choctaw for a trip to plosion took place after Noah set Korea. C. C. Smith, who just Not too many years ago scuba-diving was the rage with welldown on the mountain. It is his signed off the Choctaw, said that heeled, sports-minded individuals. Then, as scuba-diving became opinion that the ark landed after we would like to make another increasingiy popular, they took up a new sport—^sky diving— OAKLAND — Crewthe eruption. for even greater thrills. Now, after the spectacular "space walks" trip to Korea aboard" the vessel. members of the SlU-Pacific of a Russian and an American astronaut, a new thrill sport is E. R. Ray, chief steward aboard Pays Own Way D i s t r i c t-manned Hawaiian being suggested—space diving. The California explorer expects the Natalie, just pulled in from Packer were reported all safe "New re-entry expandable foam materials will permit in­ to be on Mt. Ararat at the end of the Gulf after being laid up thcie. after the Matson freighter dividual emergency re-entry, if the space station or spacecraft July with his 25-man expedition. Wilmington suffered a collision as it was cannot be reached, before the portable life support system gives The group plans to establish a base loading military cargo in the Shipping activity has picked up out," a space scientist precamp at 3,000 feet and another in Wilmington during the last few ^)uter harbor of Oakland, dieted recently. What he is outpost at 7,000 feet. The $5,000 weeks and the outlook for the next Calif. suggesting is a fiery dive by cost the expedition is borne by two weeks looks good. /(01V4U.I the individual from outer Libi, ofhimself. The Packer suffered minor INBtVlS space—^bursting through the damage above the water line During the past several weeks last attempt to find Noah's AWA' earth's atmosphere from 50 arkLibi's when it was struck by the came to an impasse because we have had the Penmar. Steel freighter American Hunter. Artisan, San Francisco and Seamar or more miles up, blazing of an internal political upheaval Damage to the Hunter was in-transK, with the Antinous and like a meteoric fireball in Turkey. As a result of an un confined to a bent bow. No the Ocean Spray having paid off. against the star-studded successful attempt to overthrow injuries were reported as a night sky, to land—presum­ A good time was had by many the government, officials in Istan­ result of the collision. ably gently — on the green bul refused to permit the Call- Seafarers and members of SlUNA earth with the aid of a para­ This is the second time in fomian to travel to eastern Turkey, affiliates at a testimonial dinner chute, opened at the last the last four months th-t the and the expedition never even held here several weeks ago in minute. Packer encountered ba.. jick. reached Mt. Ararat. Libi hopes honor of Andrea Gomez, the re­ For the truly adept, the The Matson vessel was hit by that his year's mission will prove tired president of the SIUNAtime may come when be­ a salt barge near Pittsburg, affiliated Cannery Workers Union a success. Calif., last spring, suffering a neath his spacesuit the of the Pacific, Los Angeles. The long gash in its starboard side. sportsman will wear sky-diving gear, beneath which he will have testimonial dinner was given in his scuba gear all in place and ready for action. After his appreciation for the thirty years The American Hunter also flaming fireball entry into the atmosphere, he will quickly shed that Sister Gomez has devoted to made headlines six years ago his spacesuit and soar like a gull on fabric wings. Then, with the Cannery Workers and the la­ when she collided with the the sea rising rapidly beneath him, he will quickly shed the bor movement. Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth wings of the sky-diver, assume a perfect half-gainer position In New York harbor. The Augustin Morales is registered and plunge into the sea to swim • gracefully down the depths Hunter lost the "skin'' on the on the beach iii Wilmington and is inhabited only by the denizens of the deep. starboard side . of its "nose" anxious to ship out right away. He Foi- the dedicated sportsman, the door is now open wide. In that crash. said that he will take the first, steward's job that comes up. Ray ixplorer Starts Fifth Trip fo Find Noah's Ark Remains Astronaut 'Walks' Inspire New Sport-Space Diving Coast Seafarers All Safe After Oakland Crash Vom > I 11 '"I i �i — jidjt M, i»n SEAF4lt,KRS Fif• fi«Ma SEAFARERS PORTS OP THE WORLD The port of Le Havre, located at the mouth ofihe worldrenowned River Seine, is one of the most beautiful as well as one of the most busy harbors in France. A familiar stop to Seafarers on the North Atlantic and Northern Europe run, Le Havre lies almost directly across the English Channel from the active British port of Southampton. Among the SlU-contracted vessels which may be found leaving or taking on cargo in Le Havre on any work day are those of Waterman and Bloomfield Lines. The port is also a regular stop for large U.S. liners. Le Havre was founded in 1517, surviving as a center of trade imtil 1944, when the port was almost totally devastated during the Allied invasion of France. A new city — an acknowledged work of art—has risen above the rubble of the old, however. A spectacular attraction in the new city is the tunnel that rims between High and Low Towns. Leading north from the dock area is the Rue de Paris, one of the city's major arteries. At the top of the street is the Normandy Hotel, one of the best hostelries in town. Nearby is the main post office. South of the post office, on the op­ posite side of the Bassin du Commerce, is the Museum of Ancient Havre, containing artifacts of-the old city, many of them dating back to medieval times. To the north, in the area aroimd Rond Point, the city's main amusement area is located. Here are theatres, clubs and other entertainment attractions. The Graville Abbey, begun in the 11th century and now housing an archaeological museum, is worth visiting in the Rond Point section. Moving in a westerly direction across the city, the visitor will reach the Boulevard Albert I, which runs north along the coast. Fishing, boating and swimming are all available here during the summer months. The nicest restaurant in the area is Le Grand Large. The local drink in Le Havre is Calvados, a strong apple brandy. Cider is also popular with the local residents. Two of the best nightclubs are the Habana and the Europ' Cabaret, both located in the Cours de la Republique. The city has more than a dozen movie houses, many of which show English-language films. For those who have the time travel outside the town, Paris is only two hours away by train, and even closer is the beautiful fishing port of Fecamp, home of the famed liquer Benedictine. Further along the coast are high society sea resorts of TrouviUe and Deauville. For seagoing golfers, there is a good course at Octeville, about six miles from the heart of the city. Furled saiif at dusk are a familiar itgh't In the calm waters of Le Havre's golden harbor. Tomb of the Unknown Soldier remained Intact through War. The SlU-manned OcMii Evelyn (Ocean Transporta­ tion) Includes Le Havre on Its regular list of stops. Metropolitan Le Havre provides an impressive example of clean, modern architectural construction. The city has come a long way from the renaissance trading center originally built In 1517. �Sixteci itAFkktkB tbb Unionists Piay Key Roie In Anti-Poverty Program Housing Bill Moves Closer To Passage WASHINGTON—The Labor Advisory Council of the Office of Economic Opportunity has reported to OEO Director Sargent Shriver that 150 labor union representatives are par­ The Senate moved towards passage of the Admlnistration'i ticipating in 130 anti-poverty projects in 25 states. high-priority $6 billion housing bill after tiurning down a Republican attempt to kill a rent subsidy program for lowAdvisory Council Chairman^ more than 1,500 central body of­ grams which have been enlisting income families. ' David Sullivan and Miles C. ficers at 12 conferencet in major an increasing number of labor profit groups under FHA programs, Stanley, assistant to AFL-CIQ U.S. cities. A similar bill has alreadj representatives. would enable low-income families President George Meany, told been passed by the House Both Shriver and his deputy. Sullivan led a labor delegation Shriver that state and local cen­ The legislation would generate an to pay 25 percent of thir income tral bodies and other union groups which viewed a Community Action Jack Conway, hailed the success estimated 750,000 units of low-in­ for rent — with the government have acted on Meany's request for project in Washington, D.C., and of OEO in setting up procedures come housing over the next four paying the balance. Under the all-out involvement in the drive went to Camp Kilmer, N.J., for a and approving projects on a years—compared to less than 200,- Senate bill, up to 10 percent of on poverty but that more can be tour of an OEO job training "crash" basis in recent months. 000 units built under government the subsidy funds would be ear­ center where 900 young men are done. View Varied Program programs during the past four marked for housing for the elderly programs. being trained in living, health, Labor, said Sullivan, "will have recreation and work. The labor delegation met with years. An amendment by Senator John As in the House, the GOP cen­ to find ways to get more people neighborhood workers at a base­ Shriver told the union advisors ment in southeast Washington, and tered its fire on the new rent sub­ G. Tower (R-Tex.) to kill the rent and more activities involved in that iabor's interest and support at a credit union office in another sidy provision, designed to expand subsidy section was defeated 47the over-all poverty program." for the drive against poverty is neighborhood where the poverty the housing available to low in­ 40. Sullivan, president of the Build­ "absolutely essential" to its fighters have launched a program come families, many of whom are Both the House and Senate rent ing Service Employes, is one of the success. for consumer education, coopera­ on the end of long waiting lists subsidy provisions are limited to 11 union representatives named to Won't Admit Need tive buying, housing, social work for a limited number of public persons whose incomes are low the Council by Shriver last Decem­ He noted that in wars with services, legal aid, and ways to housing units. enough to qualify them for public ber 23. He was elected chairman The subsidy plan, which would housing. This is a departure from at the Council's first meeting military enemy, the will to win make use of the public welfare be limited to housing built by non- the original Administration pro­ January 29. Stanley was named by comes easily and naturally to unite system. posal to make rent subsidies avail­ Meany April 1 to help stimulate all groups of citizens but the drive able to moderate-income families labor involvement in the anti- against poverty has psychological difficulties because some Ameri­ who couldn't qualify for public poverty program. cans refuse to admit there is housing and couldn't afford ade­ All Out Support need for such a war. quate private housing. Sullivan and Stanley related Some Americans feel, perhaps Other portions of the Senate that, as Meany had testified before housing bill: the House Anti-Poverty sub­ subconsciously, that the existence By Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director committee, labor intends to sup­ of poverty indicates a weakness, Authorize 60,000 low-rent port "with all our vigor" the Ad­ and a failure on the part of the public housing units each year, ministration's plans to expand and American economic system, Shri­ with an estimated 35,000 to foe ver said. But labor, he added, has improve the program designed to As reported In HEALTH BULLETIN, Insufficient exercise and ten­ new construction and the balance help the 35 million citizens who long been enlisted in a war on sion are the most serious diseases afflicting today's Americans, accord' to be rehabilitated from existing poverty and is "psychologically live in poverty, and the 15 million attuned to participating enthusi­ ing to a back specialist who attended President John F. Kennedy. housing or leased from private on the edges of destitution. Dr. Hans Kraus, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Re­ owners. astically." Through the advisory group and e Provide FHA mortgage insur­ The poverty program. In its nine habilitation at New York University Medical Center, hopes Americans through its representation on the and their doctors will wake up to the serious health hazards caused ance for land development In sub­ months of existence, has com­ overall National Advisory Com­ by underexercise. After coming to this country from Vienna in 1938, divisions consistent with compre­ mittee, labor has been heavily in­ mitted 90 percent of the funds Dr. Kraus began his campaign to educate the medical profession about hensive area plans. made available by Congress for its volved in the relief of poverty the need for more physical activity. A few years ago, he wrote Hypo­ Limit the interest on direct •ince the OEO program's incep­ activities, the meeting was told. kinetic Diseases and later Therapeutic Exercise, two medical books housing loans for the elderly and tion. Progress reports were given on pointing out the role of exercise in the practice of medicine. handicapped and for displaced In addition, Sullivan declared, the work of the Job Corps, which Practicing what he preaches, the 59 year-old physician actively families to 3 percent, as compared AFL-CIO staff members imple­ seeks to help impoverished young participates in vigorous sports including mountain climbing, skiing with the present, 4 percent. people prepare themselves for mented labor's involvement in and running. He told Health Bulletin, "I haven't been keeping up • Extend the urban renewal pro­ action programs at meetings with jobs, and Community Action prowith my personal exercise program lately, so I tried the low-carbo­ gram for four years, with a $2.9 hydrate, high-polyunsaturate diet to control my weight and found billion authorization. it beneficial." Although on a relaxed exercise program, his schedule is stiil rigorous enough to embarrass young men balf his age. Prompted Provide matching grants to by an interest in exercise and sports, he and Jack Kelly sold the cities and towns for water and need for fitness to President Eisenhower in 1953. Later the President sewer facilities, up to $700 million appointed Him to the President's Council on Youth Fitness. over four years. Dr. Kraus feels physical fitness is getting nothing more than lip Subsidize the cost of rehabili­ The spread of majority rule and the end of rural domination service from the leaders of the American Health community. After tating homes of low-income fami­ years of appealing to the medical profession with only lukewarm lies in urban renewal areas to over legislatures mean farm workers soon will enjoy the same response, he decided to take his case to the public with a new book. save them from the bulldozer. labor and social welfare protection as other workers, Labor The Cause, Prevention and Treatment of Backache, Stress and Tension In other congressional develop­ (Simon and Schuster, $4.50). His niain point is that hypokinesia (under­ ments: Secretary W. Willard Wirtz told Congress as he urged a bill which would put an age limit exercise) plus tension can lead to emotional and physical problems. The House passed a rapidpassage of a legislative pro­ of 14 on work in agriculture out­ The back muscles are the first casualties of urban inactivity, but transit bill for the metropolitan side school hours and empower the lack of proper exercise also can cause ulcers, diabetes and heart gram to aid migrant labor. Washington area^inanced partly secretary of labor to ban hazardous disease, he says. by the federal government, partly Wirtz, testifying before a Senate farm work for children. Dr. Kraus disagrees with the idea that goif, football and little by the District of Columbia gov­ Labor subcommittee, expressed Ad­ "The hiring out to others of chil­ ministration support of a bill to end dren 10 to 13 years old, and even league baseball are good exercise. These sports either generate too ernment, and partly by a bond is­ child labor in agriculture and of younger, violates everything we be­ much tension, create risk of injury or don't provide enough exercise, sue. he believes. The book contains exercise diagrams and a novel calorie other bills aimed at providing sub­ In a letter to House members, lieve in," Wirtz declared. "The only stantially year-round work for farm reason this is permitted to go on is chart for weight watchers. Prepared by Dr. Jean Mayer,- Professor AFL-CIO Legislative Director An­ of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health, the chart shows laborers. that most people don't know or the number of calories used in performing various activities. Wrestling, drew J. Biemiller had given la­ He gave his personal backing for believe that it happens. It does." rowing and swimming require the most calories. The housewife gets bor's support for the program, terming it "essential" to meet the a farm minimum wage and coilecthe most benefit from polishing and the handyman's most vigorous transportation problems of the 400,000 Children tive bargaining rights for farm He pointed out that a special chore is sawing wood, according to the chart. Although stating that workers, explaining there was no Census Bureau survey in 1961 people should avoid starches and sugars. Dr. Kraus feels that physical nation's capital. He noted that the bill provided "assurance that the Administration position on these showed that nearly 400,000 chil­ exercise, and not diet, should be emphasized. rights and interests of existing issues at this time. dren, 10 to 13 years of age, were "Millions of government dollars are being spent for cardiovascular employees would be adequately "So far as the application of employed in farm work that year. disease research, but practitioners who want to solve a great part of protected." the labor laws is concerned," said On the proposal aimed at sta­ the solution to this problem by Increased exercise programs receive The Senate Judiciary Com­ Wirtz, "the exemptions of farm bilizing the employment of farm no support," Dr. Kraus told Health Bulletin. "In Russia, Eastern mittee put off for a week a show­ labor appear now to be largely workers, the secretary asserted Europe and West Germany, the government sets up physical recon­ down vote on the "Dirksen Amend­ an anachronistic carryover from that underlying the human prob­ ditioning institutes including 'night sanatoria' for the under-exercised ment"—^the proposal to change the the period of disproportionate lem of migirant families "wander­ citizen. Such a program should be part of President Johnson's cam­ Constitution to allow one house of political influence by rural vot­ ing hopelessly — and almost paign against heart disease and stroke," he said. a legislature to be apportioned on ers. helplessly" around the nation is Dr. Kraus says an over-concern with status is a prime reason for a basis other than population. "The national acceptance of the the economic fact that much the medical and educational professions' lack of interest in exercise. Chairman James Roosevelt principle of one man, one vote farm production requires labor 'The trend today is to surgery and research, therefore, doctors hesi­ (D-Calif.) told newsmen there is a foretells the end of the exclusion of only part of the year. tate about prescribing detailed exercise. Yet many neurological and "general consensus" In his House agricultural employment from the To develop "substantially year- orthopedic operations could be avoided if more exrcise were pre­ l^abor subcommittee that the min­ coverage of state and federal laws round work opportunities," he con­ scribed, Dr. Kraus explained. Physical educators in schools are also regarding minimum wages, health tinued, either year-round programs too concerned with status. "They would rather supervise games than imum wage should be increased in and sanitation, unemployment in- can be devised for those who fol­ conduct useful exercise sessions." The family physician or general J lending amendments to the Fair furance, workmen's compensation low the crops or industry could be practitioner can help cure hypokinesia by recommending exercise to Labor Standards Act. The sub­ committee held its first executive and collective bargaining." developed in farm areas to occupy his patients and informing the community of thajtroblems of under­ session on FLSA amendments after On child labor, Wirtz endorsed farm workers in the "off season." activity, Dr. Kraus concluded. completing public hearings. Exercise Important To Good Health Wirtz Urges Laws Aiding Farm Labor �BfSAFABERS. J^QG laly fl,.196B ^' ' - Par* SeventeeB By Fred Stewart & Ed Moeney Headquarters Representatives Thia month, the Seniority Uprradinr School will accept a new group of Class B Seafarers who v^h to upgrade themselves to Class A status. The training course, which was inaugurated by the Seafarers Appeals Board, is a move to assure the availability of qualified Seafarers to meet current manning needs in the face of the lessening availablity of Class A men due to retirement on pension, and longer vacation time on the beach. Among the many areas to be covered at the Upgrading school will be safety measures. For example, the Seafarer will be instructed on the danger of loose gear and equipment obstructions, slippery decks, the use of goggles, the use of electrical appliances, the effect that various solvents have on the body, the proper firefighting methods and many other important safety area. Above all, he will be taught the importance of good discipline. By this, we mean the ability to discipline himself in such a manner that he performs his functions on board ship in the best manner possible. Instruction on the proper use of the ship's gear will also b« an Im­ portant part of the upgrading course. In addition, the following areas will be stressed during the course of the training program: THE KNOWLEDGE OF CONTRACTS—This is a very important area for every Seafarer. A full knowledge of a Seafarer's rights aboard ship and the responsibilities which he must carry out is essential to the welfare of the Union and the individual Seafarer. HOW TO CONDUCT A UNION MEETING—T ie shipboard meeting must be conducted in the proper manner, in orde r to giv* each Seafarer • chance to express himself on any beefs he may have and also as a means to alert the union of any conditions aboard ship which may need immediate attention and correction. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SEAFARER—The union contract •pells out very clearly the responsibilities that the shipowner has to the Seafarer. It is also very important for the Seafarer to know what his responsibilities are as regards his job on board ship. STANDARD WOES'PROCEDURE—An understanding of the func­ tions of each job will be outlined at the upgrading course in order that every Seafarer taking the course will be able to perform his job in the best manner possible. The necessity for a seniority upgrading program as we explained before, is more important than ever. In addition to training for job proficiency, more and more is being done to encourage the Seafarer to qualify for advancement by special study and to pursue programs calculated to broaden his general outlook. Large-Size Ships Boost Panama Canai Receipts BALBOA, C. Z.—The Panama Canal reported that its toll receipts climbed 7.4 percent during the 1965 fiscal year which ended June 30 as more king-size commercial ihips transited the waterway. Vessels using* the canal had an average in­ enues, ai compared to the $62.5 crease in size of 7 percent and million received in 1664. carried 8.4 percent more cargo than in the previous year. Several canal officials assert that these figures demonstrate the waterway is not yet obsolete, al­ though they admit that a bigger canal at sea level will eventually have to be built. The number of merchant ships using the canal also rose in fiscal 1965, increasing to 11,834 over 11,- TAMPA — This city still wears 808 the previous year. In addition, the crown as Florida'a foremost as 284 U.S. government-operated ships an additional 2.3 million tons of and 83 vessels classified ^ "free cargo moved across ite piers dur­ transits" transited during 1965, ing 1964, according to official making a grand total of 12,201 figures. hulls that passed throug the "Big Statistics released by the city's Ditch." port authority show that 16,540,732 Marks Fourth Year tons of cargo moved through the The canal authorities report that port. Imports aocounted for 8.9 1965 marked the fourth year in a million tons of the total, and ex­ row that more than 11,000 mer­ ports were 7.5 million tons. Barge chant vessels used the waterway. traffic registered a substantial in­ These officials point out that every crease during the year, rising by year the Panama Canal handles 400,000 to 2.2 million tons. more and bigger ships which pass Port officials are optimistic over through the waterway at a faster Tampa's future since construc­ rate of speed. Even when shipping tion is proceeding on a liquid phos­ was heavier than usual in March phoric acid terminal, the first such and Aprfl and one of the water­ facility in the nation. Barges will way's two lanes was undergoing bring acid to the new $500,000 ter­ repairs, the officials say there were minal which is located at Kreher only minor delays. Terminals, a 60 acre industrial site Since canal tolls are based on owned by the port authority. Con­ the load potential of a vessel struction of a 500,000 gallon tank rather than actual cargo, the larger for storing caustic soda is planned size of the ships is reflected in at the terminal. This chemical will also be shipped by barge. the $67.1 million collected. .in1 1 irev^ . ! ! i. 1 ! . ' , Tampa Keeps Florida Title As Top Port Two Russian fishing trawlers from the large Soviet fleet operating on the Georges Bank, hunt for fish schools off Cape Cod. The Russian fishing fleet, which is giving New England fisher­ men serious competition, consists of larger, newer and more modern vessels than those operated by the U.S. fishermen. SlUNA-affiliated fishing unions have protested the presence of the Russian fleet in the waters traditionally fished by Americans. New England Fishermen Blast Size Of Soviet Herring Catch BOSTON—New England-based fishermen, who have long protested the invasion of the Soviet fishing fleet into traditional U.S. fishing grounds off Cape Cod, have asserted that their catches are suffering because of the huge numbers of herring taken by the Russians each year. In voicing their protests,"^ representatives of the SIUNA- The Russians are reportedly American fishing grounds is the training program the Soviets are affiliated Atlantic Fishermen's pouring $320 million per year into operating for Cuban fishermen. their deep sea fishing fleet. Amer­ Union and New Bedford Fisher­ According to a recent treaty be­ ican experts estimate that the men's Union, explain that their tween the Kremlin and Havana, the Soviets hauled in an approximate catches are diminishing because Russians are using Havana as a catch of 1,679,093 metric tons dur­ the fish that they hunt for feed on base of operations for a portion of ing the 1963 fishing season in the the herring schools which are be­ coming rapidly scarcer. The New North Atlantic. This figure repre­ their fishing fleet. about four times the total In return, the Soviet trawlers England fishermen generally set sents catch of fishermen that year. provide on-the-job training for a their nets for cod, haddock, sole, These areU.S. a few of the reasons number of Cubans. Russian traw­ black-backed flounder, pollack, why the Soviet Union is now lers operating under this arrange­ yellow tail and wolf fish. ranked as the fourth among the ment have been seen not only in These fish, U.S. fishermen point fishing nations of the world, be­ the Gulf of Mexico, but also at out, feed on the herring taken in hind Japan, Peru and Communist Georges Bank and the Grand such large numbers by their Soviet China. Banks. American fishermen say counterparts. In addition to her­ they expect Cuban fishing boat* Red Age Advantage ring, the Russians also concentrate to also start operating in these One of the major reasons the on whiting and red and silver areas in the future. Russian fishing fleet is so strong hake. is its relative youth. Most of the Home Waters Depleted Red trawlers seen off North Amer­ U.S. fishermen angrily comment ica are b<»tween five and ten that the Russians Jsegan their in­ years of age. The typical American cursions into the Georges and boat, by comparison is 40 to 50 Grand Banks in the North Atlantic, years old and is made of wood. The only after they over-fished their Soviets use modern steel construc­ traditional grounds in the Caspian, tion on their craft, and, as noted Black and Baltic Seas. Since the previously, often equip them with two famous North Atlantic fishing complete processing plants. grounds are in international Another distribing element of UNITED NATIONS. New York waters, any nation can fish them. (the Russian invasion of North —Landlocked nations have a right An idea of the extent and effi­ to have access to the open sea, an ciency of the Russian operations international convention composed Hawser Heaver in the two areas can be seen in of 62 countries declared here on the almost complete absence of July 8. sea gulls around the Red fleet. When ratified by a sufficient Normally, the gulls are attracted number of countries, the principle by the remains which are dumped of "free access" will provide the overboard after the catch Is pro­ basis for bilateral treaties between cessed, however, the Soviet vessels states and will give a welcome are so efficient that nothing Is left boost to the promotion of freer for the birds to feed upon. trade. Officials of the U.S. Navy and The principle of "free access" the Bureau of Commercial Fisher­ was adopted by the convention by ies who keep tabs on the Soviet a 46 to 0 vote, with seven nations flshlng operations, estimate that abstaining for various reasons. The the Russian fleet has 43 stern United States voted in favor of trawlers, 94 side trawlers, which the principle and is expected to are slightly smaller; 10 base or initial the convention in the near "mother" ships with facilities for future. processing and refrigeration, and The first three nations to ratify a tanker which supplies water and were Laos, Afghanistan and Yugo­ fuel. slavia. The first two are land­ Floating Factories locked, and the last is a so-called "transit" nation, through which The Russians are using trawlers cargoes to and from landlocked of the Pushkin class in their oper­ European nations are shipped. Taking dead aim with a ations off Cape Cod which are equipped to both catch and process The convention is most im­ hawser, SlU-Railway Ma­ the fish they fake. These floating mediately expected to help the rine Region member Harry trade of 21 landlocked nations, factories carry a crew of 100, and Joyea (left), gets ready to most of which are in Africa. To are equipped to can and render heave a line to Frank Stew­ be fully implemented, the conven­ fish, using the remains to make fish ard, waiting on the deck of tion will require approval by the meal as a substitute feed for ani­ New Haven Railtug Translegislative bodies of the signatory mals. Their processing plants can nations. (, fer No. 23. . freeze, 50. tons , pf fish in 24 hours. UN Convention Affirms Right Of Sea Access �naiiieai jMc M. mt SEAPAREMS Channel Tunnel Backers Company Spy Plan Misfires; Predict Project Success NLRB Orders New Election y.:afs-1 -•xr-'.w LONDON—Plans for a 32-imle tunnel across the English channel are ready to move off the drawing boards and into the hands of construction contractors. While the idea of a tunnel under the stormy channel between England and France has topped up countless times during the last 150 years, •fsupporters of the project are ments of the two countries really which calls for boring .three tubes confident that digging can be­ want the tunnel link will foe forth­ through, the rock beneath the WASHINGTON — An electronic firm's high-powered anti­ union campaign, which included planting a spy in the ladies' rest room and the organization of a "freedom" committee that made anti-labor signs out of-*company materials, backfired out of IndiaDa when union mem­ coming in the near future. The channel parallel to each other. The gin in the very near future. recwitly when the National bers discovered her double-dealing. Channel Study Group intends to two outside tubes, which would be The chief difficulties which have Labor Relations Board used these barred work on the tunnel project in the past have been doubts about strength of the rock structure be­ neath the channel floor, political differences between the two coun­ tries and the always-present prob­ lem of money. Substantial progress in all three of these problem areas has moved planning for the tun­ nel to the actual work stage. An extensive geological survey has proven that a tunnel beneath the channel is definitely feasible. The English and French govern­ ments put up $5 million for the survey which was conducted by the Channel Tunnel Study Group, a combination of U.S., French and British companies. Favorable Report Using two converted landing craft and several drilling plat­ forms, the geologists obtained core samples from the roc^ beneath the channel bed. Scientists attached to the project were impressed with the results of these borings and seismic tests which have shown the rock to be fairly free of fissures or cracks. Despite the fact that France's President Charles DeGaulle re­ buffed England when she tried to enter the European Common Mar­ ket, the French are giving active cooperation to the tunnel project. The English, who have been beset by severe financial problems, are aiso enthusiastic about the idea. Although there have been pro­ tests in the past that Great Britain's comfortable isolation from the Continent would be dis­ turbed by the easy access provided by a channel tunnel, there have been few outcries from the British public on the subject. Upcoming Decision Proof of whether the govern- Oil Imports (Continued from page 3) oil import quota, the Maritime Advisory Committee recoimmended to the appropriate Government officials the following actions: 1. A declaration by the Presi­ dent that the existence of an American -owned runaway - flag fleet is inconsistent with the pur­ poses expressed in the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 and Inimical to the American-flag merchant marine. 2. Renunciation by the Depart­ ments of Defense and State of the concept of "effective control." 3. Passage of legislation subject­ ing American runaway operators to the same corporate taxes now paid by domestic American com­ panies, with the increased Federal revenues _to be used for building new American-flag vessels, partic­ ularly bulk carriers. 4. Appropriate steps to provide the National Labor Relations Board with definitive jurisdiction over runaway-flag vessels in Amer­ ican commerce, so that the crews of these vessels would have the opportunity to be represented in collective bargaining by the union of their choice. BALVMORS place its formal report in the hands of lawmakers in London and Paris by the end of this year or early 1966. If the two parliaments give the go-ahead, the first con­ struction contracts are expected to be let shortly after the decision. Financial problems connected with the project haven't appeared to have fazed its supporters. Both countries are expected to chip in to help raise the necessary $400 million for the construction of the tunnel. Private bankers have also indicated they are ready to help. The survey work has served to show the feasibility of the various plans of what form the channel link should actually take. The idea of a bridge across the waterway, for instance, has just about ruled out, while a proposed dam clear across the straits has been almost completely ignored. Tunnel Wins Out Although engineers on the proj­ ect face extremely difficult prob­ lems, they have settled on a plan 21-feet in diameter, would foe used to carry traffic. A smaller middle tube would handle drainage and service equipment. The smaller central tube would also serve as a pilot tunnel in the actual construc­ tion to give engineers a chance to find cracks in the rock structure and other unknown problems. The tunnel planners propose to use special electric trains to han­ dle traffic through the tubes. These trains would be capable of carrying cars, trucks, passengers and rail freight cars. In planning for a tunnel drilled out of the rock beneath the chan­ nel, the project engineers dis­ carded the popular proposal of a tube laid on the floor of the water­ way. In rejecting this idea, the engineers cited the difficulties presented by sabotage, damage by passing ships and the problem of cutting a path through the numer­ ous wrecks of vessels that have been claimed by the treacherous winds and tides of the channel. By SIDNEY MARGOLIUS Price Of Baked Goods Going Up You can expect a pound loaf of bread soon may cost you 2 cents more—a price hike of over 9 per cent—as the combined result of a new wheat bill now moving through Congress, and bakers' plans to capitalize on this bill. Other baked goods also will cost more soon. The bill itself, by reducing the present Govern­ ment subsidy on the price of wheat, will increase the price' of the flour going into a pound of bread by just about two-thirds of a cent. But the flourmilling-and bread-baling industry has warned that the price will go up 2 cents. That's about three times the increased cost of the flour. The Cooperative League of the U. S. A., which includes both consumer and farm groups, supports the increase in* the price of wheat as helping to stabilize farm income. But the League says there is no reason for bakers to raise the price of bread more than a cent a loaf, and not even that much for other baked goods, according to David Angevine, its information director. The National Farmers Union asserts that the milling and baking industries are fighting the wheat bill because they want to put the blame on the Ad­ ministration for the coming increase in bread prices. You're in the middle of this battte over the price of wheat. Even a penny increase in the price of bread wQl be a burden on working families in this year of rising food prices. A two-cent hike can mean an extra cost of about $23 a year for a working family with several children. Thus the pending bread price hike will wipe out almost half the estimated savings to moderate-in­ come families of the recent reductions in excise taxes. (The Treasury Department figures that the excise tax cut will save families an average of about $57 a year.) In considering the new wheat bill. Congress has an opportunity, if it acts on it, to help both con­ sumers and farmers by investigating what makes a loaf of bread cost so much when the ingredients are so relatively cheap. Angevine points out tiiat the average one^ound loaf of bread sellis for 2V/t cents, but the value of the wheat in it is just about 2V2 cents. Ten years ago, when the average pound loaf sold for 14V^ cents, the farmer still got 2V^ cents for the wheat. Today consumers are paying 7 cents more, while the farmer is getting apia-oximately the same return for his wheat. The worst feature of the new bill may be that it gives the baking industry a chance to raise prices facts to throw out the results of a representation election. An NLRB board examiner said these incidents constituted illegal inter­ ference with a 1963 election lost by the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers at Sarkes Tarbian, Inc., a big TV and radio parts manufacturer In Bloomington, Ind. Reversing his own previous rulings in the face of new evidence submitted by the IBEW, Trial Examiner Phil Saunders listed these further findings of miscon­ duct; • A woman employer who helped the union sign new mem­ bers, offered to switch her allegi­ ance and reported regularly to management officials on union activities. Management paid for an un­ listed telephone installed in the female spy's home, instructed her to report regularly to company officials and paid her $743 to move • Another woman worker testi­ fied that she was instructed by management to lurk in the ladies* room, listening and reporting em­ ployee conversations. • The same worker told of re­ porting to Vice President Mary Tarzian, wife of the company presi­ dent, that "all of us girls" are "using an awfully lot of material from the tool crib" to make anti-" union signs and that Mrs. Tarzian replied: "That's all right. You use any­ thing you need." (The witness added: "Which we did." 'Most Endowed' WoilKer Management denied that the pre. tended union supporter was given unusual consideration, but the examiner declared that she was "undoubtedly the most endowed and unique employee" in company history. Further company denials he called "ridiculous and untrue." As to the check that management gave its double-agent when she prepared • to move to the West Coast, Saunders said the "so-called loan was nothing more than com­ pensation" for her spying on the union. The evidence, the examiner said, adds up to the fact that Sarkes Tarzian management unlawfully Interfered with employee rights. The election should be set aside and a new one held, he recom­ mended. A protest against activities of the company labor consnUant in the spy case was filed with Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz by IBEW President Gordon M. Free­ man. Wlrtz said he would withhold an investigation until completion of the NLRB proceedings. again Significantly, there were no decreases In the price of bread when flour prices declined in If Congress and the Adrntatstnttoii doa't try to do something useful about suggesting ways the baking industry can reduce its present Mtb selilnr expeMes, you'll have to be your own mice poUeenien. Within the limits available, this means trying to make every penny spent for bread, other baked goods and flour, bring home full value. Most families don't. A leading bakery corporation recently reported that the average supermarket shopper spends just three seconds buying her baked goods. That's not enough time even to glance at the net weight on the wrapper, to see if the loaf is a "balloon" loaf, which looks bigger than it weighs, or a regular loaf. More Bread for Your Money First step in getting your money's worth in bread is to dieck the net weight. So-called "balloon bread" is a one-pound loaf baked in a IVi-pound pan so it puffs up and looks big. In a few states, balloon bread FORT FIERCE, Fla.—A mysteri­ is not permitted or must be plainly labeled such, ous pear-shaped object, moving but in most places, you won't know unless you look. along quickly at a constant rate Next step is to buy the simplest forai of bread. of speed, has been detected at the Extension home economists have pointed out that bottom of the Gulf Stream off the you can pay as little as 21 cents a pound for ordinary coast of Florida by a marine sci­ bread (even less in some cities), 30 cents for special entist preparing for a full-scale breads and as much as 50 to 70 cents for party-sUced underwater expedition beneath the rye and rolls. full length of the warm water Special types of bread sometimes claimed to have cnrrent. extra nutrition or special "health" properties, actu­ In telling how he sighted the ally differ only superficially from ordinary bread. strange object from a one-man Government authorities have found. In buying crackers too, the price per pound goes submarine. Dr. Dmitirl Rebikoff up inordinately for simple ^a crackers, as against reported that although it gave off those with glazed coatings, or small additions such no signals, he was able to photo­ as sesame seeds. Ordinary saltines cost 31 cents a graph it, The success of Dr. Rebipound; glazed round crackers, 41; thin sesame, 69, koff's camera vvork is not yet known. He suggested that the fastexperts point out. You save further by buying supermarkets private- moving object could- have been brand breads. The.big markets are kind of cagey about run by a robot pilot. the way they price their own brands of bread. They The marine scientist observed manage to stay within two or three cents of the the mysterious phenomenon wfaUe advertised brands, raising their prices along with gathering data for Dr. Jacques Picthe national brand bakers. StUl, the savings are a card who plans an underwater good 10 to 15 per cent of the cost of this basic, often- exploration expedition of the Gulf bought food Item. Stream from Florida to Newfound Fourth way to save is to buy the larger sizes. In land and the Continental Shelf. a few cases this writer has found the same brand of Piccard, who Is the son of famed bread costing the same per oimce as between one- ocean scientist Auguste Piccard, in­ pound and two-pound loaves. But often you can tends to drift along the bottom of save about eight per cent of th# cost by buying the the Gulf Stream in a specially two-pound loat j constructed observation submarine. Scientist Spots Mystery Object In Gulf Stream 1 �jmui'nm sWAPA itEk'9' e rmgm IMIffy IMmt On LOO MnU AM S^gfaeeew Ifaime. evgtat ai eiwlk laao* at th» SEAFABEHS LOG «r» mafited evevjr twa waein to aH SIU ahlp* as we&: as to •UiBeraus diibs, bara aaif ot^ overseas spots where Seafarers ffOBfvegato «diara^ Vm proeedfso fn maOlag the LOG favotves ealliaff alt SIO steansUp compaaies for the itineraries of their Aips. Oft the hesiiv of the Infomation supplied by the sMp operetar, fmur copies of toe LOG, and minutes forms are thai ahr•Milied te the agenf to the next pert StndlwiT, the seamenls elUba get various quantities of LOGs at every mat^g;. The LOG is not to ny club wben a Seafbrcr sequests it by notMying the LOG office that 9eaf«ers con­ gregate there; As always the tJnion would iihe to hear promptly team SFUi ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not dcBvexed so that the Union can maintain a day-to-diay check on the accuracy of its mailing lists. TRANSHARTPORO (HudMO Water­ way), June 20 — Clnirman, Frank Cainaf Saeratery, i; Calhaum Brother J. Bryant was elected' to serve as ship's delegate; Beefs, concerning ice-water fountains squared away prior to sailing Some disputed OT Ini deck and' engine departments. Discussion on sign-on. procedures. DEL SANTOS (Delta), May 3»— Chaiimen, John T> Rottinson;. Seerataiy, Herman MiaUte; New ship's detegate to be ellsctadl $9 Irr ship's fundi No beefs reported by depart­ ment deiiagatBS. Mbtlorr made to write letter to Uiiion ra new contract and proposed merger with NMU. PENN TRANSPORTER (Penn Navi­ gation), June 9 — Chairman, W. R. Simpaan; Secretary, R. E. Ayers. No JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waiarman), Juna 20—Cftatrman, ft E. CRanmii; Saeratary, W. M. Morse; Sonra napainr have been taken care ot buk-^dbnie stili remain to bo done. Mr beefh were reported' by department dele­ gates. A new ship's deiegato was elected. TAMARA CUILOEN (Trans|mrt. Commerciat), Juna 20 — CttatmMm, K, Gahagan; Secretary, "Duka" Bardnsr. Brother W. Powell was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beete were reported by department dele­ gates. Patrolman to be informed about having emergMicy spare parte put aboard ship for air-conditionIng repairs. Also to have fiesit water tanks 'cleaned and cemented while ship is in drydock at Mobile^ at the end of this voyage; GLOBE TRAVELER (Maritime Over­ seas), June 17—Chairman, L. KarEBSheimtr; Secrsteiy, Frank Van Ousen. $3.07 In ship's fund. No beefs reported. Brother L. Hargeshelmer was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Vote of thanks to the steward department. beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate to see the mate about medical chest being ade­ quately stocked and checked by patrolman. It was suggested that the ship be fumigated. Also that a firstaid kit be placed in galley. ALAMAR (Caimar), June S—Chair­ man, Wm. J. Smith; S e c r e t» r y, Chanes N. Ratcliir. Everything Is running smoothly except for some disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments which will be taken up with patrolman. Medical supplies ere Inadequate. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Over­ seas), May 9 — Chaiitnan, Tom Mar;tineau; Secretary, Stantey Schuyler. Brother Leo Wilis was elected t* serve as ship's delegate. Everything is running smoothly. $50 in ship's fund. OVERSEAS ROSE (Maritime Oversea^, June 2fr-Chairman; Lee WHISi Secretary, Stanley F. Schuyler. Dis­ puted OT in deck- and engine de­ partments, otherwise everything Is running smoothly. Port side gangway to be repaired; Vote of thanks to the steward department. LA SALLE (Waterman), Juna 28 — Chairman, Leo J. WeMi; Secretary, Leo J; Gomes. Everything is running smoothly. No beefs and no disputed OT reported. Brother Leo J. Gomes was re-elected to serve as stiip's delegate, and was extended a vote of thanks for a job well done. Vote of thanks to the steward department. HUDSON (Victory Transport), June 9—Chairman, Fred l^num; Secretary, N. Robert Weissman. One man was hospitalized In Honolulu. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates, and everybody Is happy. The Bosun called It a good trip and helped retain as many of the crew as possible. Vote of thanks to the steward department. The crew aiso expressed appreciation to tha crew's messman, Hamed, STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), July 4 —Chairman, Fred Shaia; Secretary, R. Morgan. $22.31 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine depart­ ment. Motion to have petreiman look Into probiwn of insufficient medical supplies. ALCOA MASTER (Alcaa), July 4 — Chairman, John Cantreii; Secretary, Robert Goldy. Deiaysxt sailing beef to be taken up with patrolman, other­ wise no beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), -July 5—Chairman, A. Palino; Secre­ COLUMBfA VICTIUtV (Columbia), tary, H. R. Oombrowski, $28 In ship's June 19—Chairman, DOnaM Nalson; fund. Repairs taken care of. New medicine cabinets to be ordered. No Secretary, Francesco Fraone. One man hospitalized In Southampton, beefs reported by department deleEngland. Vote of thanks to the stew­ gaes. Brother James Balmy was aiecbard departmmt for doing » good job ed to serve as new ship's delegate; even though they are short handed-. and treasurer. Vote of thanks to the departing ship's del<igate, Brother A. PONCE (Sea-Land), Juna 27—Chair­ Quinn. man, J; M. Fosterr. Saeratery, J. R. Ut» Ship's delegate reported that STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), June everything Is r u n n I rrg smoothly. 27—Chairman, None; Secretary, None. Ship's fund will be made up from No- beefs or disputed OT reported voluntary contributions. Members by deinrtmcnt delegates, aboard decldeff to postpone voting on acceptance of new retirement MAOAKET (imrtarman), June 9t — plan until mora Information concern­ Chainirait, Thomas Litest Jr.; Sacrm^ ing szmie Is received from New York «ir]^ Cae A; Scliwandfc Dtsputed OT hall; in deck and steward dapartmants; AND THEBEfe A BLUE SAF'FACeO SKY SPARROW- When it's chow time on the high seas, members of the SIU stewards departments— bakersr cooks, mesaxien, know that they have one of the most demanding clienteles in the world to please. The skills of the galley staffa are known and appreciated the world over. The foUowing steward • departments,, earning the he says. "There is no doubt that by Ship's meeting chairman praise of their fellow crew- when the men keep cool, every­ Clarence Mantoie ot the W. E. members, nave been given this period's Seafarer's Ck>ldea Galley Award of Honor for chow and service above and beyond the call of duty: incer (R^rnold's Metal Com­ pany), Lee Angeles (Sea-Land), Steel nyer (Isthmdan), Monarck the Seas (Sea-Land), Hudson (Victory Transport), La SaHe (Waterman Steamship), Globe Traveltev (Maritime Overseas), Robin Kirk (Bobin Lines), Transboy (Waterman Steamship), Hud­ son (Victory Steamship), and the Oceanic eioud, (Transworld). t 4- t steel Scientist (Isthmian) Ship's delegate William H. Harrell re­ ports that from now on Dinner wiU be a "full dress" affair aboard the vessel. "I'm not saying that the boys have to wear white tie and tails," announces Brother Harrell. Horrell "What I am say­ ing is that members of the crew have decided that everyone must be properly and neatly dressed when using the messhall. Seafarers sailing aboard the Steel Scientist are all agreed that SIU standards must be lived up to in all phases of a voyage." 4 4 4 Seafarers sailing the Transbay (Waterman Steam.ship) partook in a give and take fouod-table type discussion recently. The subject of the debate was the coffee-break period and, according to delegate M. W. Roberto the hoys had a lot of good suggestions. Suggestions were made as to the needs of those members of the crew who wanted tea instead of Java. The point was also raised that now that summer is on the scene, more cold drinks ought to be served during the coffee-break time. "All and all it was a very satisfactory meet­ ing," Brother Roberto says. 4 4 4 Resourceful Seafarers are doing their best in an all out struggle to beat the heat of summer sailing. The latest report from the front lines of this struggle comes from BiU Padgett ship's delegate aboard the M V Tamara Giillden (Transport Com­ PcMigett mercial). "T h e crew has decided that all doors and ports will be kept dosed so that we win receive the maximum benefits from the air-conditioning system that services the vessel," thing proceeds more smoothly," Fftegerald (Gartland). According declares Brother Padgett. to Brother Mandrie, the erew aboard the W. E. Fitzgerald has 4 4 4 voted to chip in 25-cents per man Ship^s delegate Rodel^ Lane on every pay day to. cover the ot the Hftdaoi* (Victory Transport) costs of phone calls. "I just know reports that ttie bos'n was so im­ that's going to make the women pressed with ttie efforts of the happy," Brother Mandrie smiles. crew that he issued a special state­ "And what's more," he says, "it's ment of praise for them. "The unannounced." bos'n called it a 'fine trip'" reports 4 4 4 Brother Lane, "and he said that Martin F. Larson, ship's dele­ he hoped that the entire crew would remain with the vessel." gate aboard the Alcoa Voyager (Alcoa) has a lot Stewards delegate Harry Dean o f compliments I^ses along another vote of for the SIU crew praise, this one by the entire crew. aboard the ship. "The crew was very appredative "I would espec­ of the efforts made 1^ Brother ially like to com­ Hamed, the crew's messman," says mend Thomas A. delegate Dean. "He did a really Lukas, our ship's bang-up job in the true SIU galley reporter," con­ tradition." Deck delegate D. M. tinues Brother Masses passes along one sadder Larson. The job LorsoN bit of news, reporting that one of he did taking the crew took sick and had to be care of Union business was terrific hospitalized in Honolulu. as was the job he did carrying out 4 4 4 his duties as a seaman. Safety is always a matter of 4 4 4 grave concern to Seafarers and Summer is just starting to play the men who sail havoc with sun-weary SIU crews. under the SIU However, as banner are among usual. Seafarers the most safety- are proving conscious on the worthy ' of the seas. Time and challenge and time again, SIU are coming up crews have with some inwalked off with g e n i 0 u s and coveted safety time - honored awards. In this means of put­ Morris tradition, crew- ting heat prob­ Berry members aboard the Oceanic Cloud lems on ice. One (Trans World Marine) have agreed sure and pleasant device for keep­ to form a safety committee that ing cool when summer puts the will meet once a month to discuss heat on is the one requested by safety measures and procedures crewmembers sailing aboard the to be implemented during the Transerie (Hudson Waterways). voyage. Ship's delegate Edward W. According to ships delegate N. Morris says that he is confident M. Berry, the boys are anxiously that the committee will be 100 per awaiting the installation of the cent successful. "Safety counts," new ice cream freezer that they says Brother Morris. "And," he recently asked for. "Did you ever insists, "we aim to guarantee that watch kids in the summer?" asks SIU standards are met." Brother Berry. "They've always 4 4 4 got an ice cream pop stuck in Deck delegate Robert Callahan their mouth. No kidding, those passes along the sad news that kids know what's good. You know Brother Hal Ellis died on May 28 the old saying about 'out of the and his body was sent back to the mouths of babes'." states from San Juan. The crew sent radio-grams about Brother Ellis' death to his family and to headquarters. "The hoys also con­ tributed $25 to purchase a funeral A reminder from SIU head­ wreath," Brother Callahan says. Brother Leroy Rinker, ship's quarters cautions all Seafarers movie director, reports that the leaving their ships to contact movie projector and inverter are the hall in ample time to allow t»ck and in ship shape condition. the Union to dispatch a replace­ "The boys are all looking forward ment. Failure to give notice be­ to returning to some fine film fore paying off may cause r de­ viewing," he says. layed sailing, force the ^ip to sail short Of the manning re­ 4 4 4 Girls in SIU ports all over the quirements and needlessly mako world will he rushing home to sit the work tougher for your ship­ by theh: telephones when they mates. learn ot ttie announcement made Quitting Ship? Notify Union HMMM...NE\/BB SAW ONE OF TMOSE gEFORE.,.. �Seafarer Receives Response iTo Bottles Cast Into Ocean ' July m, im S^AF A RER S VOG" Paf* Twenty Something Fishy Seafarer Lenny Zintz, currently sailing as an AB aboard the Chatam, finally met with success when he recently received a reply after fifteen fruitless years of launching bottled messages upon the high seas. Seafaring men and others have been casting bottled notes upon the waters for centuries, 'For more than fifteen years cial, Oman. Oman is a little inand none but this very special now I have been putting notes into depent state occupying the south­ breed of man knows the ex­ eastern part of the Arabian Penin­ citement that an answer brings. "I can't tell you how absolutely thrilled I was," says Brother Zintz. "There is no comparison I can use that appropriately communicates my feelings. I guess the closest I can come is to say it's like find­ ing a treasured childhood posses­ sion that you thought was lost forever many, Zintz many years ago. And then suddenly, there it is, right in your hand." Actually, Brother Zintz never dreamed that any of his carefully corked and floated messages would ever be found or answered. He was as shocked as he was pleased when someone finally did discover one of his missives and replied to him. sealed bottles and tossing them into the sea," he says. "To tell the truth, I never once really believed that I would actually receive an answer. Still, with a little prayer, I would toss several bottles from every vessel I sailed upon, no mat­ ter what waters we were in. Maybe the Good Lord heard my prayers because they were finally answered and someone responded to one of the notes." Got Word In NOLA Zintz was on the beach in New Orleans when he learned • of his good fortune. "I piled off the Manhattan in Portland April 4th and then came to New Orleans to visit my mom for Mother's Day. It was a long trip io New Orleans and I was plenty tired. But I woke up fast when I found a letter waiting for me from a British soldier attached to the Trucial, Oman Scouts in Tru- LOG-A-RHYTHM; The Ripening Life Of Man By Roy Lee Hinson Out of the home came forth a son. Entering the race where others have run. Learning, accepting, refusing the truth. In infancy, childhood even in youth. Living on earth which Heaven affords. Enticed by armies with flashing swords. Listening to flattering constructive remarks, Sitting, lounging around- in the parks. At the sounding of trumpets of young manhood. Accepting his place where others have stood. Succeeding, and failing where others did fail. He trod and blazed a brand new trail. Leading a life where others are free. Leaving a trail that others can see. Never to know what he has done. Except through the mirror, his own dear son. What wrong he did or good he rendered. Who he blessed or who he hindered. What he did he cannot see. Except through those whom he set free. The ripening life is man's life, A life or words can entice. Some people whom he knew long before. Or clay he marred or things he tore. The things he made and words he wrote. Are like a tiny beam or moat. They are casting power upon the sea. Or like the foam upon the lea. He is an heir of the free. Once in his possession is the key. His every good and bad is hid. All he can see is what others did. sula. It has been a British protec­ torate since the nineteenth century. It is best known for its dates and its riding camels which are con­ sidered to be among the finest in the world. Corporal John White, who is serving there, found my bottle on the beach between the villages of Sharjah and Dubai. He picked it up on April 13, 1965. I had dropped the bottle into the sea November 22, 1963 from off the Steel Voyager. That gives it 18 months and a few days sea time be­ fore it was discovered. It was quite a thrill and quite a surprise to re­ ceive an answer after all those years." Improved Odds In truth, there is no reason for Brother Zintz to be so surprised that his note received a reply. The chances of a bottle message being found and answered or returned to its owner are being improved all the time. As nations grow, and more and more beaches lose their "remote" status, the odds of some­ one picking up a launched bottle shorten every day. For example, SIU member James Balmy who also casts messages adrift as a hobby, estimates that of all the bottles he has thrown over the side, as many as 20 per cent have received re­ plies. Brother Balmy, a veteran member of the engine department who has been sailing with the SIU since 1951, has been tossing at least three bottled messages over the side of every ship he has sailed upon since he began shipping out. He isn't particular about the type of bottles in which he floats his messages, so long as they're glass, sealed and bouyant. The note in­ side the bottle states his name, home address, position of the ship, date, time and a request that the finder send him a postcard telling him where and when the bottle was found. For the benefit of some of his more cynical crewmates. Balmy an­ nounces that of the fifty bottles he has thrown overboard, he has re­ ceived nine answering cards In return. His latest success occurred when he was aboard the Transglobe bound from Bremerhaven to New York. Bottled Help Not all bottled messages have been sent out of curiosity or in pur­ suance of a hobby. There are many cases on record where shipwrecked sailors have been rescued and their lives saved by rescue crews re­ sponding to a bottled SOS message. As for Seafarer Zintz, he plans continue casting his bottles upon the waters for a long, long time to come. "I first started in 1950," he says, "when I enlisted In the Navy. I guess I'm really hooked by now because I've been doing it ever since and expect to keep right on. I even Intend to start up a corre­ spondence with John White and maybe someday we'll even get to meet. Who knows . . ." Zintz joined the SIU in 1958 and since then has been sailing as an AB out of his home port in New Orleans. "The SIU is tops with me," he says. "Bottle-tossing is my hobby, but the SIU is my livelihood and my life." Fish were really jumping for Seafarer S. C. Hanks over the July 4 weekend. Using live shrimp for bait, brother Hanks netted the above string of 84 (count 'em) flounder while casting his lines upon the waters of Florida's Escambria River. "Come on down," says the happy Seafarer. SEAMAR (Calmar), July 4—Chair, man, J. Long; Secretary, M. Herring. Brother R. Maldonaldo was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. INGER (Reynolds Metals), July 2— Chairman, R. D. Schwarz; Secretary, H. E. Newberry. Ship's delegate re­ ported that this was a smooth trip. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Vote of thanks to the steward department. TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Commercial), June B—Chairman, Billia Padgett; Secretary, M. Beaching. Beef concerning the mate and captain to be taken up with patrolman. Some disputed OT In deck and engine de­ partments. GLOBE EXPLORER (Maritime Over­ seas), June 6—Chairman, S. Krawczynski; Secretary, John R. Talbot. No beefs reported by department delegates. TRANSYORK (Hudson Waterways), July 4—Chairman, Harry Limbaugh; Secretary, Leon D. Lucas. OT beef for being restricted to the ship In Cape Saint John, to be taken up with patrolman. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), June 30— Chairman, L. A. Williams; Secretary, T. A. Lucas. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate extended a vote of thanks to a new member of the Union, T. A. Lucas, who did a fine job of taking care of Union business. EAGLE VOYAGER (United Maritime), June 8—Chairman, H. E. Bates; Sec­ retary, J. Head. No beefs reported by department delegates. ' Brother Marco Mora was elected to serve as ship's delegate. YAKA (Waterman), June 23—Chair­ man, Oick Ware, Jr.; Secretary, R. LaBombard. Minor beefs and disputed OT In deck department to be straight­ ened out. The matter of Inadequate slop chest and medical supplies to be taken up with patrolman. Also have patrolman clarify penalty cargo pay for crew, and to clarify restric­ tion to the ship in Casablanca.. NEVA WEST (Bloomfield), July 5— Chairman, James C. Dial; Secretary, W. R. Geis. Disputed OT in engine department. To see patrolman about new washing machine. Renew or re­ pair screen doors main deck passage­ way. Paint recreation hall. GLOBE CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), July 4—Chairman, E. Abualyi Secretary, J. McPhaul; Everything is going along smoothly with no beefs. Brother F. Clarke was elected to serve as ship's delegate for next voy­ age. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin Lines), June 27—Chairman, Emil Gretsky; Secretary, Luther Gadson.. Brother Stephen Bergeria was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Every­ thing Is in ship-shape condition. No beefs and no disputed OT. YORK (American Bulk Carriers), June 27—Chairman, Seymour Hein* fling; Secretary, Al Doud. $1.06 In ship's fund. Disputed OT In deck and- engine departments. One man hospitalized In Aden, and re oined ship In Suez. Beef regarding nadequate launch service In Aden, and poor mall service to crew, to bo turned over to boarding patrolman. Resolution signed by crewmembers was sent to Washington, regarding the closing of USPHS hospitals. FLORIDA STATE (Everglades), July 3—Chairman, V. C. Smith; Secretary, Ben Prager. $ii in ship's fund. Ship's delegate reported tbat all Is In order. No beefs reported by department delegates. DEL NORTE (Delta), June 30 — Chairman, Robert Callahan; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. No beefs were reported by department delegates. $244.60 in ship's fund and $88.38 In movie fund. Brother Stanley Wright was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), June 13— Chairman, George R. Stanley; Secre­ tary, R. Weaver. $14.50 In ship's fund. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks to the engine department. Brother George Stanley for his donation to the ship's fund, and to the steward department. LOS ANGELES (Sea-Land), July 4— Chairman, Leo Bruce; Secretary, S. M. Simos. $4 in ship's fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck department to be brought to the attention of the patrolman. Vote of thanks to the steward department for good food and service. PENN TRANSPORTER (Penn NaviRation), June 5 — Chairman, W. R. Simpson; Secretary, R. Ayus. Ship's delegate informed crew that he will ask headquarters to contact company in regard to expediting mall delivery. No beefs reported ,tay department delegates. Ship's delegate to see the mate about the medicine chest being adequately stocked and checked by patrolman. It was suggested that ship be fumigated. �m '.v.i.. • ..'•, mn S E A W d KEiR^Ei E OKG* The Lie Defector Seafarer Discovers Gifts '-To Tell The Truth? May Take Strange Forms (Continued from page 13) most p^ Uiese operators have been demopstrated to be highly lacking The first installment of Seafarer William Calefato'9 colorful tale appeared in the July 9 issue of the LOG. In skil^ training and motivation. The truth is that the field is shot In this second and concluding installment. Brother Calefato relates his further adventures among the hidian longshoremen of Bahgnavar. through with "quack" operatm-s who, with little or no training or experience, buy , a .polygraph machine and set up shop. For a fee, Seafarer William Calefato, whom the native Indian longshoremen had re-named Taign, many are more than glad to find an employee or prospective employee was getting a first hand education in the working habits and living conditions of the ordinary "guilty" or "not guilty" according to the Boss's wishes. The Boss's Indian citizen. As he watched them pursue their daily tasks aboard the Rachel V in Bahvnawishes are often based on whether the employee being tested is pro or gar, he came more and more * to understand their way of I anti-union, a member of a minority group, etc. Many of these machines are being used by departments of the U.S. Government to screen employees, as well as by American business. Half of these departments and agencies require the operator to have no mm-e than a high school diploma and some special training ranging from a five-day course of training to a seven-week course, depend­ ing on the specific federal agency involved. However noted scientists, all well-versed in the operation of these machines, have testified that minimum requirements should be a college degree, six months' training in the use of the polygraph, plus six months of closely-supervised Internship. Other experts feel that even this much training would prove worthless unless a complete grounding in psychiatry is Included. Still others feel the polygraph is worthless no matter how much train­ ing the operator brings to this task. On legal and moral grounds the polygraph or lie detector takes its biggest shellacking from all sides. On moral and legal grounds the use of these machines for any purpose is indefensible. Their results are not accepted by the court and there is wide agree­ ment that the use of these machines violates the constitutional rights of the individual—specifically the Fourth Amendment, which guarantees "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searchers and seizures . . ." and the Fifth Amendment which guarantees that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself." However the constitutional guarantees protect only against action by the government or someone acting by authority of the government. They also apply only to forced testimony and to the seizure of evidence, while persons submitting to lie detector tests are asked to give their consent. This consent is the employer's ace in the hole. Does the job seeker or the employee without a union to protect him have any choice but to consent? If he does not consent to take the test he will be summarily eliminated from consideration for the job or fired If he is already an employee. Thus the Boss has a tool and an excuse for eliminating the pro-union employee, the veteran employee with senior­ ity, etc. This is why, in spite of their demonstrated unreliability, the use of these machines is increasing constantly. Just as one rotten apple will infect a whole barrel-full, the use of these un-American, undemocratic and un-constitutional polygraph ma­ chines has already begun to eat away at the foundations of our free­ dom and society in a manner resembling the tactics in a police state. The operators of these lie detector machines are themselves guilty of vast amounts of secrecy and deceit, which they claim is "necessary" to conduct their "business." The'first deceit they employ is by spreading the lie that the poly­ graph is "infallible." This is carefully calcuated to strike fear into the heart of the pubic concerning the powers of the machine—and fear itself is a danger to the democratic process. Next, unknown to the subject, the operators of these polygraph machines are trained to covertly observe his actions and to report them secretly to the examiner—^who must largely rely on the informa­ tion supplied by this "spy" because his machine, in actuality, can tell him very little. As if this were not enough, the rooms in which the examinations are given are often supplied with a "two-way" mirror, through which the subject can be observed without his knowledge and further spied upon by hidden microphones. The subject is also often ordered to inform on any of his fellow workers whom he even suspects of wrong­ doing, and is threatened that if he does not inform on them, the machine will trip him up even in his silence. A.11 this, of course, represents pure police state tactics. If all this Is to be allowed,, why not injections of truth-serums? The answer is aimple. None'^ of this must be allowed to continue. The AFL-CIO has blasted the use of polygraphs along with other spying devices. In virtually every case where a unionmember has been dismissed for no other proof than the fact that the machine took a dislike to him, the NLRB has supported the union stand and re-instated the worker. The AFL-CIO has been instrumental in getting four states—Alaska, California, Massachasetts and Oregon—to pass legislation outlawing the use of poly­ graphs in all private employment and (with the exception of Cali­ fornia) public employment. Several other states,- under strong AFL-CIO pressure, are currently considering similar legislation. The American labor movement will continue to press for legislation in other states. Summarizing the position of the entire AFL-CIO on this subject, the Executive Council said recently—"Neither the Government nor private employers^ should be pemitted to engage in this sort of police state surveillance of the lives of individual citizens," not only because such devices are unreliable but "because they infringe on the funda­ mental rights of American citizens." life. Then came the inevitable problem of conununication between people who wanted to make friends but did not speak one another's lan­ guage. They solved the problem through the time honored gestures of pantomime. When one of the old Indian men pointed to his palm, the Seafarer knew he wanted some tobacco. When the request was granted, the old man put the tobacco carefully into a. pouch which was tucked into the folds of his flowing robe. From another pouch he pinched a generous portion of hi; own tobacco and handed it to the Seafarer. The decks of the Rachel V are crowded with native Indian Among some Indians, the above scene has other meanings. The first longshoremen. The Indians, who ate and slept on deck of the gesture indicated, in the language ship, got along famously with the SlU crew. of native custom, that the Amer­ ican had lots of tobacco and was of these features, Taign suspected time in a soft, musical voice and willing to share it with his Indian that the unexpected meeting was with a very slight smile. brethren. The fundamental signif­ one of some importance. Taign was taken back. Here h* icance of the gesture was that the Suddenly, a second native moved was being offered a gift from peo­ American Seafarer had what In­ swiftly forward. In his hand was a ple so poor that all American dians call "an open heart." similar dagger. The fiast cook held standards of poverty had no rele­ The message spread like wild­ out his palm and asked jokingly: vance. Like many others, he did fire among the native longshore­ "One rupee? One rupee? No? Five not fully understand the poor of other nations and was often too rupee?" men that there quick to judge them all as beggers. was a seaman on But his eyes were downcast, as And now the poorest of the poor board who had if he regretted having asked a price were offering him gifts. good tobacco and for his weapon. In the midst of Taign came out of his revery as was not adverse this activity, a silent man stood a cook said something to the in­ to passing it watching from the shadows. He out. Thereafter, looked like an acrobat dressed for terpreter who then spoke to Taign. "We know how kind you have it was not un­ a pageant. He stood as still as a usual for curious statue with his arms folded. Two been to many of us," he said. "We and picturesque earings glittered like eyes in the know how generous you have been characters to apfirelight beneath the cocked angle' Hamir and the group of cooks Calefa^ p e a r suddenly of the spangled fez on his head. that he worked with were under and mysteriously at the Seafarer's His face was expressionless and his the illusion that most of the crew side. eyes motionless. He glided toward resented these gifts of friendship. An oiler once jokingly shouted, Then, one day, suddenly they the Seafarer. His English was "Don't keep these guys around perfect. stopped asking for tobacco. While looking for handouts. No wonder the Seafarer wondered about the "We do not take out our daggers the steward has to keep everything silence, he sensed that someone for any small reason," he said nearby was watching. He turned to softly. "Sometimes for ceremony," locked up tighter than the win­ dows in Davy Jones' locker." look. There was a native standing he paused, "and sometimes for Unfortunately, the natives must beside him staring steadily and in­ blood. Our religion and traditions tently, deep in concentration like decree it so. Tonight," he paused have taken these jokes seriously a" hypnotist. The man nodded, again and smiled. "Tonight, it was and when Taign did not appear for a few days, Hamir informed his beckoning' with robed arm. for ceremony. Those two," he elders that the crew had doubt­ pointed, "only mean to honor you lessly handcuffed him in the brig "Taign, come," he said. by drawing their daggers." or beaten him very badly for hav­ Without realizing why, Taign, as "Then what the heck is all the ing given things away. In fact, the natives called the Seafarer, fol­ lowed'the strange native. Embers yelling about rupees for?" Taign that was how Taign himself joked with any of the natives who asked from dj'ing fires threw eerie wanted to know. him for anything. He would peer shadows across the deck and over "Hah!" the Indian grinned. "A natives that squatted motionless in mistake. He wanted to make it a with niock caution over his shoul­ the flickering light. As Taign gift to you. A gift of honor, you der and communicate in stage passed, faces half hidden in robes might say. You did not accept im­ whispers that it was "very, very were touclied by brief flame All mediately. And to us, that means dangerous." Then he would pre­ tend that he was afraid the cap­ eyes were fixed unwaveringly refusal." tain or the steward would put him upon him. The interpreter was staring. His under arrest. The natives took this One cook who seemed influential eyes were small and very dark. seriously because not too long be­ among the rest sat near the puzzled Expressionless, they shone darkly, fore, the British and French mer­ crewman, a hand darting swiftly reflecting the . flickering ships chant marine did keep their erring from the folds of his robe. In it lights. Nearly all the longshore­ crewmembers in brigs. was a dagger. The Indian was smil­ men wore golden, jeweled ear­ The night that the last of the ing, his eyes silent. No one spoke. rings, each one seemingly different cargo was discharged and all the All acted as if they were waiting and each with its own significance. for the seaman to react. The blade Not a single native would answer natives were leaving the ship, someone was at Taign's porthole was only inches from his face. questions about the jewelry and all calling in a frightened voice. Finally the Indian nodded as if were equally disturbed when curi­ "Taign. Taign." to say "take it." osity about them was displayed by Later an AB came and said: At first glance it looked like an an interested foreigner. "where the heck wei-e you? That The interpreter blinked one eye kid and all those people were Ordinary weapon. But there was something strange and mysterious and nodded toward a small boy. looking for you. Looked like the about it. The metal was forged It was the little boy named Hamir. kid had a round package for you. bright and hard. The point was like The crew knew him as the ubi­ I think it was onevof those' bread a needle. The edge honed to a thin, quitous elf who wasn't there—but cakes. Hey, what was this all razor sharpness. There were no was everywhere. Hamir handed about?" ornaments on it, but the shape was Taign a small bundle. It contained It wasn't an easy question to somehow peculiar, reminiscent of a a large package of sandlewood in­ answer. All that Taign could re­ scimiter. The blade was set into cense, cookies and cigarettes. member were a pair of dark, mys­ a small handle that was typical of "Please accept this," said the terious eyes and two fMhirig Asiatic swords and knives. In light colorful man wiUi the fez, this daggers. •« *•. �mif iM. tm ilBAFklkklks iPweniyJiit* BUT ASOEOVASMB and All of the following SIU families have received maternity benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan, plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's namet Beatrice Toonr, born June 4, Taml Jackson, born June 8, 196S, Jamie Thomas, born May 14, 1965, to the Jamie Thomas, Pensa- to the Bobby Jacksons, New 1965, to the Jack Youngs, Bay City, Mich. Orleans, La. cola, Florida. 4 4 4 4 4 4 i" 4" 4" Veronica Ann Freeman, bom Michael Palumbo, born May 7, Loretta Boone, born April 10, 1965, to the Bartolomeo Palumbos, April 2, 1965, to the Richard F. 1965, to the William H. Boones, Freemans, Cottagevllle, S.C. Union City, New Jersey. Pasadena, Texas. 4" 4" 4" •William Steven Male, born Feb­ ruary 23, 1965, to the Norman Males, Alpena, Michigan. 4i 3^ Jason Andrew Werda, born May 4, 1965, to the John Werdas, Alpe­ na, Michigan. 4i 4' Nora Jean Lofton, born June 2, 1965, to the Jack Loftons, Chicka­ saw, Alabama. 3^ 4" 4" 3ji 4 4' Billy Gondzar, born December 18, 1964, to the Stanley Gondzars, Baltimore, Md. Russell Meyers, born May 1, 1965, to the Russell Meyers, Mobile ,Ala. 4 4 4 4 4 4 Nancy Anderson, bom June 8, 1965, to the William Andersons, Todd Lee Martini, born June 14, Pittsburgh, Pa. 1965, to the Leo A. Martinis, Ridge4 4 4 wood, New Jersey. Jeffrey Wayne Willis, born March 4 4 4 27, 1965, to the Perley Willis, Sul­ Susan Ottofaro, born March 30, phur, La. 1965, to the Domenic Ottofaros, 4 4 4 Pamela Dawn Clifford, born May Newport News, Va. 31, 1965, to the Robert Cliffords, 4 4 4 Trenton, Mich. Margaret Ann Monahan, bom 4 4 4 June 24, 1965, to the Harry MonaBrian Keith Boyer, born June 0, hans, Jersey City, New Jersey. 1965, to the Stanley Boyers, Clay4 4 4 mont, Delaware. Vlcki Lynn Seidenstricker, born 4 4 4 Edwin Kruse, bom February 13, March 26, 1965, to the William J. 1965, to the Edwin Kruses, Alpena, Seidenstrickers, Baltimore, Mary­ land. Michigan. 4 4 4 The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported Franklin Dewey Shaw, born May to the Seafarers Welfare Plan (any apparent delay in payment 12, 1965, to the Charles Shaws, of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of beneficiary Toms Brook, Va. card or necessary litigation for the disposition of estates) t Concepcion Rodriguez Rivera, 49: Brother Rivera died of heart failure May 8, 1965 at the San Juan, Puerto Rico USPHS Hospital. A member of the Union since 1948, he sailed as a firemanwatertender in the engine de­ partment. He is survived by his wife Yolanda. Place of burial was in Puerto Rico. 4 4 4 Donald Augustine Ruddy, 51: Bronchial pneumonia proved fatal to Brother Ruddy May 16, 1965 at his home in San Fran­ cisco, California. A member of the Union since 1955, he sailed as a steward. He is survied by his wife Mary. Place of burial was Gates of Heaven Cemetery, Mt. Pleasant, New York. 4 4 4 Julio Colon Gonzalez, 65: Brother Gonzalez died of natural causes June 7, 1965 at the St a ten Is­ land USPHS Hospital. A member of the Union since 1944, he sailed as a member of the engine de­ partment. He is survived by his niece Ana M. Melendez. Place of burial was the Evergreen Ceme­ tery, Brooklyn, New York. 4 4 4 Arthur Felix Saboorln, 61: Brother Sabourin died of pneu­ monia June 2, 1965 at the Gal­ veston USPHS Hospital. A member of the Union since 1964, he sailed as an FWT in the engine department. No beneficiary was designated. Place of burial was South Park Cemetery, Houston, Texas. 4 4 4 George F. Fahey, 61: Brother Vincent Do Paul Becker, 68: Fahey died of natural causes May Brother Becker succumbed to a 17, 1965 at St. heart attack June Mary's Hospital, 1, 1965 at the Hoboken, New Galveston USPHS Jersey. A mem­ Hospital. A ber of the Union member of the since 1963, he steward depart­ sailed in the ment he joined deck depart­ the SIU in 1950. ment. He is sur­ He is survived vived by his sis­ by his wife Mar­ ter Florence Dil­ garet. Place of lon. Place of burial was Hoboken burial was Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Cemetery, N. Bergen, New Jersey. Dickinson, Texas. 4 4 4 Herman Davis Carney, 62: Heart failure proved fatal to Brother Carney May 21, 1965 in Colly Township, North Carolina. A member of the steward department, he joined the Union in 1947. He is survived by his wife Lillie Mae. He was buried in Marshburn Ceme­ tery, North Carolina. 4 4 4 Fred Leroy Travis, 63: Brother Travis died of heart disease May 21, 1965, at his home in the Bronx, New York. A member of the Union since 1941, he sailed in the en­ gine department. He Is survived by his wife Pearl. Place of burial was the Forest Lawn Ceme­ tery, Buffalo, New York. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, LakM & Inland Waters PRESIDENT Paul HaU ^ EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard ' Dindaey WlUlama A1 Tanner Robert Matthawa SECRBFARY-TREASURER A1 Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES BUI HaU Ed Mooney Fred Stewart BALTIMORE UlS E. Baltimore St. Rex Dickey, Agent EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 177 State St. Ed RUey. Agent Richmond 2-0140 DETROn 10229 W. Jefferson Ave. VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS ....679 4th Ave., Bklyn HYacinth 0-6600 HOUSTON 6804 Canal St. Paul Drozak. Agent WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. 2608 Pearl St.. SE.. Jax wmiam MorrU, Agent ......ELgin 3C987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Ben Gonzales, Agent FRankUn 7-3964 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Louis Neira. Agent HEmlock 2-1794 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. Buck Stephens, Agent Tel. 929-7946 NEW YORK 679 4th Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 119 3rd St. Gordon Spencer, Acting Agent ..622-1892 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. John Fay, Actiiw Agent . DEwey 6-3818 SAN FRANCISCO 890 Freemont St. Paul Gonsorchlk, Agent ..DOuglas 2-4401 Frank Drozak. West Coast Rep. . SANTURCB PR ..1313 Fernande* Juneos Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Rep Phone 723-8904 Know Your Rights FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic^ Gulf. Lakei ana Inland Wateri District makes specific provision fop safeguarding the membership's money anc^ 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 headquartera 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 representative, and their alternates. AU expenditures and disbursements ot trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. AR trust fund financial records are availabl. at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPINO RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority ar, 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 la 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 malL return receipt requested. The proper address for this Is: Earl Shepard. Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suit, 1930, New York 4, N.Y. Pull copies of contracts as referred to are available to you «t aU time,, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarer, Anpeals Board. CONTRACTt. Cople, of all SIU contract, are available In all SIU haU,. 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. U, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official. In your opinion, falls to protect your contract rights properly, contact tho nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOO. The LOO has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the poUtlcal purposes of any Individual In the Union, officer or memher. It has also refrained from pub­ lishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or Its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings In all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy U vested In an editorial hoard which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among It, ranks, one individual to carry out thl, responsibility. PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to he paid to anyone in any official capacity In tho SIU unless an official Union receipt Is given for tame. Under no circumstance should any memher pay any money for any reason unless ho Is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or If a member 1, required to make a payment and It given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, thl, should Immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU pubUshe, every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of Its constitu­ tion. In addition, copies are available In aU Union halls. AU member, 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 aU other detaUs. then the member so affected should Immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing dlsablUty-pensIon benefits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities. Including attendance at membership meetings. And like aU other SIU mem­ bers at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in aU rank-and-fila 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. AU Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights In employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth In the SIU constitution and In the contracts which the Uiiion has negotiated with the employers. ConsequenUy, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he Is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, be should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers Is the right to pursue legislative and poUtieal objectives which wlU serve the best Interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was estahUshed. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and poUtlcal activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If ,f any tim, • Seafarer feels that any of th, abev, right, hav, b,,n violated, or-that h, has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or Information, ho should Immediately notify SIU Frosldont Paul Hall at haadquartara by cartlflqd mall, return receipt raquattad. SEATTLE ISOB M AT*. Tad BahkowakL Agent MAln 8-4^ TAMPA 818 Barrlaon St Jeff GlUetto, Agent 828^88 WUUmNOTON, CaUf 908 N. Marine Ave. Frank Boyne, Agent ....TErmlnal 4-2928 Great Lakes SECRETARY-TREASURER Fred J. Famen ASSISTANT SECRETARY-TREASURER Roy Boudrean ALPENA 127 Rlvar St EL. 4-3618 BUFFALO. NY 738 Waahington TL 3-9299 CHICAGO 8383 Ewing Ave. So. Chicago, Ul. SAglnaw 1-0733 CLEVELAND 1420 Weit 29th St MAin 1-9490 DULUTH 312 W. 2nd St RAndolpb 2-4110 FRANKFORT. Mich 419 Main St. MaU Addresa: P.O. Box 287 ELgln 7-2441 HEADQUARTERS 10229 W. Jefferson Av. River Rougo IB Mich. VInewood 3-4741 Inland Boatmen's Union NATIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Matthews GREAT LAKES AREA DIRECTOR A1 Tanner BALTIMORB ....1216 E. Baltimoro St .EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St .Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 079 4Ui Ave., Brooklyn HYacinth 0-6600 HOUSTON 9804 Canal St WAlnut 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. 529-7546 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S 4th St Tel. 622-1892-3 NORFOLK 113 Third St. DEwey 6-3038 TAMPA 312 Harrison St Tel. 239-2788 GREAT LAKES TUG I DREDGE REGION REGIONAL DIRECTOR Robert Jones Dradga Workara Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Richard L. TlUman BUFFALO 94 benrletta Ave. Arthur MUler, Agent TR 9-1538 CHICAGO 2300 N. KlmhaU Trygve Varden, Agent ....ALbany 2-1154 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 29th St Tom Gerrlty, Agent 621-9450 DETROIT 2308 Hubbard St. Harold Yon, Agent TA 9-9723 DULUTH 309 W. 9th St. Paul Greco, Agent RA 2-3732 SAULT STE. MARIE Address maU to Brlmley, Mich. Wayne Weston, Agent..BRlmley 14-R 9 TOLEDO 423 Central St. LesUe WlUard, Agent 243-6659 Tug Firemen, Linemen, OlUra S Watchmen's Section ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Tom Burns ASHTABULA, 0 1644 W. Third St. John Mero. Agent WOodman 4-8532 BUFFALO 18 PortUnd St Tom Burns, Agent TA 3-7099 CHICAGO 9363 Ewlng, S. Chicago Robert Affleck. Agent ESsex 5-9570 CLEVELAND 1420 W. 25th St W. Hearns, Pro-Tern Agont MA 1-9490 DETROIT-TOLEDO 12948 Edison St Byron Kelly, Agent 14599 Regina, Allentown Park. Mich. 386-6264 DULUTH Box No. 68 South Range, Wis. Ray Thomson, Agent EXport 4-4383 LORAIN, 0 118 E. ParUh St. Sandusky, Ohio Harpld Ruthsatz, Agent ....HAln 6-4573 MILWAUKEE ....2722 A. So. Shore Dr. Joseph MiUer, Agent ..SHerman 4-6643 SAULT STE. MARIE 219 Brady St. John Bernard, Agent MESrose 2-8963 TOLEDO 2706 106th St. Owen Cone, Agent RA 6-4823 Rivera Saclion ST. LOUIS, MO 809 Del Mar L. J. Colvls, Agent ,..CE 1-1434 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 7th St Arthur Bendheim, Agent RAILWAY MARINE REGION HEADQUARTERS ....99 Montgomery St. Jersey City 2. NJ HEoderson 3-0104 REGIONAL DIRECTOR G. P. MoGlnty ASSISTANT REGIONAL DIRECTORS E. B. Pulver R. H. Avery BALTIMORE....1216 X. Baltimore St EAstem 7-4900 NORFOLK lis Third St 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St. DEwey 6-3818 United. Industrial Workers BALTIMORE ..1216 E. Baltimore St. EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 276 State St. Richmond 2-0140 HEADQUARTERS 678 4th Ave- Brooklyiv HYacinth 9-6600 HOUSTON 5804 Canal St. WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE . 2608 Pearl St. SE . ELgln 3-0987 MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. FRankUn 7-3564 MOBILE 1 S. Lawrence St. HEmlock 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS . 630 Jackson Ave. Phone 929-7548 NORFOLK 119 Third St. Phone 622-1892-3 PHILADELPHIA . ; .2604 S. 4th St. DEwey 6-3818 TAMPA ..312 Harrison St. Phone 229-2788 �Jqly ¥»$• l^cBtjr-Tln* I mw Sdledublrf Memjb^^ All hospitalized Seafarers w^dd a^redato mail and visits whenever possible. Tho following is the latest available list of SIU men in the hospital: SIU-AGLIWD Meetings Regular membership meetings for members of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Seafarers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by tele­ gram (be sure to Include registration number). The. next SIU _ meetings will be: New York Philadelphia Baltimore ...Aug. 2 Aug. 3 Aug. 4 MobUe S) Detroit Houston New Orleans Aug. 11 Aug. 13 Aug. 9 Aug. 10 t West Coast SIU-AGLIWD Meetings SIU headquarters has issued the following schedule for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, San Francisco and Seattle, or who are due to return from the Far East, All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in accord with an Executive Board resolution adopted in December, 1961. Meet­ ings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. Wilmington Aug. 16 San Francisco Aug. 18 GREAT Great Lakes SIU Meetings Reguiar membership meetings on the Great lakes are held on the first and third Mondays of each month in all ports at 7 PM local time, except at Detroit, where meetings are held at 2 PM. The next meetings will be: Detroit Aug. 2—2 P.M. Alpena, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Duluth, Frankfort, Aug. 2—7 P.M. Seattle Aug. 20 LAKES TUG AND REGION DREDGE Regular membership meet­ ings for Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region IBU memlers are scheduled each month in the vari­ ous ports at 7:30 PM, The next meetings will ue: Detroit Aug. Milwaukee Aug. Chicago Aug. Buffalo Aug. tSault Ste. Marie ,.. Aug. Duluth.. Aug. 9.. 9 10 11 12 13 (For pieeting place, contaci Har­ old Ruthsatz, 118 Ease Parish. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Sandusky, Ohio), Regular membership meetings Cleveland Aug. 13 for IBU members are scheduled Toledo Aug. 13 each month in various ports. The Ashtabula Aug. 13 next meetings will be: (For meeting place, contact John Phila Aug. 3—5 PJ«. Mero, 1644 West 3rd Street, Ash­ Baltimore (licensed and un­ tabula, Ohio), licensed ,, .Aug. 4—5 P.M. 4 4 4^ Houston Aug. 9—5 P.M. Norfolk Aug. 5—5 P.M. United Industrial Workers N'Orleans ...Aug. 10—5 P.M. Regular membership meetings Mobile Aug. 11^5 P.M. for UIW members are scheduled each month at 7 PM in various RAILWAY MARINl REGION ports. The next meetings will be: Regular membership meetings New York Aug. 2 for Railway Ma.T-ine Region-IBU Baltimore Aug. 4 members are scheduled each Philadelphia Aug. 3 month in the various ports at 10 ^Houston... Aug. 9 AM and 8 PM, The next meetings MobUe Aug. 11 will be: New Orleans Aug. 10 Jersey City .Aug. 9 * Meetlngi held eT Laoer Temple, New-' Philadelphia. Aug. 10 pert Newf. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Baltimore Aug. 11 Ite, Maria, Mich, *Norfolk .Aug. 12 t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. it 4" it USPHS HOSPITAL JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA D. H. Brazell B. W. Pierce J. H. Morris USPHS HOSPITAL NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA John E. Adams Lawyer McGrew Stanley J. Barras Robbie Maas M. P, Belanger R. A. Medicug Houston C. Bell Cleon Mixon Ardell Burkett W. O. Moncrief Byrd O, Buzbee F. H. Nobles Clarence A. Christ Clarence Osborne Mallory J. Coffey Eddie A. Patingo Alien Collins, Jr. B. E. Pemell A. E, Cunningham G. E. Richardson C. E. Cummings Robert B, Rickcr Adrain Ease David A. Rogers Jack T. Fillingim R. M. Rutledge Marshal E. Foster Patrick I. Scanlan W. R. Gammons T. L. Simonds J. G. Goutreaux James Singletary George Gierczic Ernest Smallwood H, H. Hickman Sam Stanley Hughey Hodges Arthur Strong J. R. Holladay James J. Swank O, J. Kendrick Harold W. Sweet Joseph F. Lae Joe H, Weems J, W, McFarlni Marion C, Wells USPHS HOSPITAL SEATTLE, WASHINGTON Max Acosta G, D, Marbuiy T. W, Carter George Milo M. C. Gibby Eddy B, Pascua John S. Hauser Lyn O. Sears William G. Kelly Henry Presto Charles W. Lane B. Spear A. Loguidis USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Ruel G. Barr Francis X. Keelan S. 0. Cassimis Pablo R, Diem E, W. Christenserf Carios L. ^ Charles R, Gilbert Ding H. Woo USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON, TEXAS Joe B. Black James O, Thomas Charles Copeman J. R. Thompson Joe T. Eder Paul Tullis Hugh Grove Bernard Turk G. W. Jones James T, Walker Joseph Pratreck Edw, C, Yeamans Thomas E, Smith - ' Do NOT BUY Seafarers and tbeir families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are prodi""f 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.) "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) 4 MONTHS If any SIU ship has no library or needs a new supply of books, contact any SIU hall. YOUR SIU SHIP'S LIBRARY 4 Eastern Alt Lines (Flight Engineers) i Si H. I. Siege! "mS" brand men's elothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 4 4 4 sears. Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (ReteU Clerks) 4 EVERY 4 4 4 Stitzel-WeUer DistiUeries "Old Fitzgerald." "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," «W. L. Weller" Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Si Si 4 J. B. SImplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) 4 4 4 Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) ' (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) 4 4 4 Jamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) 4 4 4 Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) 4 4 4 Pepsi Cola Company (Soft Drink Workers, Local 812) USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA Leslie B. Bryant Egbert C. Palmer Homer Cross Prescott Spinney H, M, Fentress John E. Thomas Clarence J. Hobbs USPHS HOSPITAL DETROIT, MICHIGAN Thaer Ahmea Saleh A. Oudeif Comer Burney James Pardue Walter Duffy John Patterson Anselm Kenny John Small Joseph R. Lambert H. E. Thilhom Lucian Lorenzi Clarence Troy Otto Miller Milton Waldrop USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Vernon Anderson G. P, Marcotte E. V. Balfaloukat C. Melpignariu J, Bergeria G. Miller H. Burgesser A. Niineberg R, Burton Val Elbert C. Coumas Kurt E. Olson D. Couvaney Julio Quinonez Jeff Davis James A. Ray R. Donovan A. Scaturro A. 0. Echevarria Olav Seim N. V, Eriksson A. Seraga Dominick Fois H. R. Sojak Jason GIbbs T. Torres L. Hertzog M. Velez Alfred Hirsch R, E. Waterfield W. Hunneycutt U. Weems James Lewis J. E. Williams M. Loretto J. Wirtas John Lynch USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND Sidney Berger Bobby Mangold R. W. Collins Andy C. Noah Allen Cooper James Portway N. Douglias James W. Puckett N. J. Duhadaway Harry Reynolds John F. French -Andrew Sammons Claude Garnett Wm. J. Stormer Norman Jackson Paul Strickland Eric Johnson John Sypniewski Evan Kays N. Psaousahls L. J .Konigkremer John J. Yendral R. McCulloch A. E. Zielinski VA HOSPITAL ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN Robert Asbahr USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Benjamin Oeibler Abraham Mander Abe Gordon Max Olson Thomas Lehay SAILORS' SNUG HARBOR STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Daniel Gorman William Kenny A. Gutierrez Harry MacDonald Edwin Harriman U.S. SOLDIERS HOME HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, D.C, William Thomson VA HOSPITAL HOUSTON, TEXAS Thomas Manion VA HOSPITAL WEST HAVEN, CONN. Paul Kolesnick VA HOSPITAL HINES, ILLINOIS Oscar Kvaas VA HOSPITAL LONG BEACH, CALIF. R. Arsenault . Dallas Robertson net Wagstaff at Route 2, Box 330, You are requested to contact Burgaw, North Carolina, Walter H. Stovall at 25 South 4 4 4 Street, New York City. Charles Buchanan 4 4 4 You are requested to contact S. Foucistzortzakis your wife Rosa at 1104 Park Ave­ Please contact Bob Milgrom at nue, Hoboken, New Jersey, the Seafarer's LOG office, 675 4 4 4 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. Larry Haig 4 4 4 You are requested to contact Charles Skldmore your brother John C, Haig at 23 You are asked to contact your Old Mill Road, Mount Hogarth, mother Mrs, Thomas Skidmore at New Jersey. P.O, Box 3*^2, East Paltka. 4 4 4 Florida, T. Siegal 4 4 4 You are asked to contact your Paige A. Mitchell You are requested to contact father Douglas at 193 2nd Avenue, Mr, A, H, Dewees, 2832 East New Ycrk City. 4 4 4 Grand Boulevard, Detroit 11, P. Bertone Michigan. You are asked to contact M, 4 4 4 Pece regarding a message of per­ W. M. WagstaffYou are asked to contact Ben- sonal importance. Atlantic Coast Column (Continued from page 4) few weeks. Michael Duco is prais­ Crowder. Clarence is real proud ing—the new Calmar to all who of his new buggy and will use it will listen. On his last run Mike throughout his present vacation. caught one of the largest fish in Ralph McDaries is exchanging the Gulf of Mexico — a giant greetings and news with his bud­ dolphin. The crew was enjoying dies around tlie hall. Ralph is real swell fish dinners for the rest of sad about having to pile off the the voyage. Registered and waiting Robin Hood which he claims is the to ship Sea-Land is Walter (Cue- finest ship afloat. Puerto Rico ball) Szczepanek. Walter, whose last trip was aboard the Bethflor, The Cities Service Company has says that he will also consider an announced that it will build a ore run, near or far. The boys petrochemical plant in Puerto Rico around the Balitmore Hall are if the government will grant it a giying the glad hand to Joe Ryan permit to import 32,000 barrels of who they are always glad to see. oil per day and send 16,000 bar­ Joe is holding out for an Isthmian rels of gasoline to the mainland. or far East run after piling off The Puerto Rican chapter of the his last floating hotel the Steel American Newspaper Guild has Maker. Old-timer Pete Mistrctta is won an election in the mechanical spreading it around that he is department of the newspaper El waiting to ship Calmar or on any Mundo. The Guild defeated the far east run. Pete is off the Teamsters in the election by a vote Seamar. of 93 to 33. Norfolk Seafarers in Puerto Rico were Shipping has been very good glad to see the MV Floridian chalk in all departments and the outlook up her 150th trip between Miami is for an even better job situation and San Juan. One of our real old time stew­ in the coming weeks. American Bulk has a ship in the yard being ards, Mario Farulla, is telling converted and it will be taking everybody how badly he felt about on a full crew pretty soon. Bullard having to leave the Floridian be­ Jackson, an SIU veteran of 24 cause of a broken arm. The Flori­ years, is registered and looking dian is one of Mario's favorite to " catch something headed for ships, carrying a fine crew and the Far East. He last shipped officer's staff. Jose. Suarez said aboard the Globe Progress. Cruis­ goodbye to all his friends in the ing the streets of Norfolk in his hall and caught a fireman's berth brand new Oldsmobile is Clarence on the Ponce. �Vol. XXVII No. IS SEAFARERS«LOG July St ml OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE BEAFARERi INTERNATIONAL UNION e ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERf DltTRICT • ARL-OlO •1 • i' • • I «r|iiI HE AFL-CIO has done more good for more JL Jpeople than any other group in America* It helps everyone — young, old and middle-aged* That is my conception of an organization working in the public interest.'* President Lyndon B. Johnson HE AFL-CIO has never limited it's concern, solely to the members of organized labor. It is also con­ cerned with improving the welfare of all U.S. citizens whether they be union members or not. It's horizons are unlimited and it's goal is a better way of life for all the people of the United States. President Johnson took recognition of the AFLCIO's fight for a better standard of living for all the American people in remarks made at the White House during ceremonies marking the signing of the Older Citizens Act. The President, in his remarks at the ceremony, credited the AFLCIO with "doing more good for more people than any other group in America. It helps everyone— young, old and middle-aged. That is my conception of an organization working in the public interest." » The Older Citizens Act, or the Fogarty-McNamara Bill, creates an Administration of Aging in the Department of Health Education and Welfare and authorizes $17.5 milion in federal funds to promote T -i cooperative efforts toward enriching the retirement years of elderly citizens. In a short time, another bill to aid our senior citizens, the Medicare Bill, will become a reality. With it's signing into law, the burden of medical expenses that our aged must now bear will be considerably eased. These measures will not solve all the problems that beset the aged, but they do show a recognition by the government for action in this vital area. The problems of the aged, the problem of unemployment, the problem of poverty, the problem of disease: these are all areas that require prompt attention by the Government in the form of mean­ ingful legislation that will conquer these scourges that afflict a great many citizens in this country. The role that organized labor hat played in supporting important welfare legislation is a matter of record. It has demonstrated the contribution of the labor movement to the continuing effort to ensure a better way of life for all Americant. President Johnson greets AFL-CIO Social Secu­ rity Director Nelson H. Cruilcshanic at White House ceremony after the President signed bill to aid older citizens. . -t i, , ^ ... � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource July 23, 1965 Description An account of the resource Headlines: FOREIGN FLAG SHIPPING 97.7% OF U.S. OIL IMPORTS – WHOSE FAULT IS THIS? VOTING RIGHTS LEGISLATION ADVANCES TO CONFERENCE MEANY URGES ICFTU ACTION IN FIGHT FOR WORLD FREEDOM AFL-CIO MOURNS STEVENSON’S DEATH SIU URGES GOVT’ ACTION ON OIL IMPORT QUOTA PLAN TO AID U.S. TANKER FLEET HOUSE-SENATE CONFEREES OK MEDICARE DRAFT MTD CHARGES 8 CO’S ‘THWART’ CONTRACT TALKS REPORT PROGRESS ON BARRING SHIPS IN NORTH VIETNAM TRADE ATOMIC POWER HELD KEY TO LOW-COST DESALTING DDT TRACES FOUND IN BLEAK ANTARCTIC THE GOLD RUSH AT DAVY JONES’ AFL-CIO URGES HIKE IN JOBLESS INSURANCE MARITIME GROUP WARNS OF SOVIET FLEET BUILDUP OCEAN SCIENCE STUDIES FACING NEW CHALLENGE EXPLORER STARTS FIFTH TRIP TO FIND NOAH’S ARK REMAINS SEAFARERS PORTS OF THE WORLD – LE HAVRE UNIONISTS PLAY KEY ROLE IN ANTI-POVERTY PROGRAM NEW ENGLAND FISHERMEN BLAST SIZE OF SOVIET HERRING CATCH COMPANY SPY PLAN MISFIRES; NLRB ORDERS NEW ELECTION 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 07/23/1965 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. 15 1965 Periodicals Seafarers Log