http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/a6acb93dc8d6a4af291e1748b1a858c7.PDF 7bac05addbf1558dab5dbeea9575efd1 PDF Text Text EB CT• AFL-CIO DE �March 4, 1966 Pqe.Two by Paul Hall The recent minority-bloc success in the Senate by which the filibuster was used to prevent the majority from voting on repeal of 14(b) of the .or Plaque for Meritorious Service in the Cause Port Council. MTO, at ceremonies held flt the Buono, Local 25, Operating Engineer.s~ J c and Vice-President of Port Council; urray .-...mr.o.. _ mond Williams, ILA Local 1248: L M. Jones_, llA 1Dai1 ILA Local 1458. Back row are (1-r}, J H. .unmmmn,... +ary-Treasurer and SIU Norfolk port agen+, MMoser, SIU Inland Boatmen's Union. JGarmatz OHers l'J Aa:IDIL Roads row). Peter llA local I 19 •dent; ti!Cllldlla ~pie11rcer, Ray- M.H. Boone. '-01JJ1CJ-I Secreand A. c. With an eye toward dispelling ''the atmosphere nf rlespajr in~:JS - om maritime program," Representative Edward A Garmatz (Dem..., House Merchant Marine & Fisheries Committee, has laid down tbe five and expanded maritime program. He laid down ~·-----------------------=--his formula for reviving the U. S. merchant marine at a meeting of the Propeller Club in Washington last week. Remarking that he was "tired of reading" the endless analysis of the lnteragency Maritime Task Force and the Maritime Advisory Committee, Representative Garmatz expressed confidence that President Johnson would take action to bolster the U. S. merchant marine. ''The picture is not entirely bleak," he said. Garmatz said he considered the following points to be essential for a new maritime program: 1. More vessels "must" be built for operation un<;Jer the U. S. flag. 2. A "realistic program" is needed for helping U. S.-flag bulk carriers and tankers. 3. "Government interference" with shipping should be minimized to give management the widest possible freedom to exercise its prerogatives. 4. Subsidies should be direct rather than indfrect. Jorda ./ Taft-Hartley Act was but one element in the battle waged by anti-labor forces which would keep American workers in the 19 so-called "rightto-work" states under the thumbs of the sweat-shoppers, union-busters and wage chiselers. All across the land the fight to keep 14(b) on the books was supported by a massive, heavily-financed propaganda barrage directed by professional promoters acting for those who are intent on preserving low wages. weak unions and the very least of social benefits. It was a smoothly coordinated campaign of union-busting empioyers and the right-wing hate-dispensers of every stripe. Their agents invaded communities throughout the nation and poured their "right-to-work" propaganda, including phony letters to the editor and canned editorials, to local newspapers and radio and television stations. And these media of information and opinion more often than not passed it on to the public without so much as a twinge of their consciences. As the AFL-CIO Executive Council declared last week, ''The propaganda barrage against 14(b) repeal, based on the most outrageous and infiammatory falsehoods, has misled thousands of well-meaning citizens. There was literally no place where most citizens outside the labor. movement could find an objective statement of the 14(b) issue or of the trade union position. The wells of information . . . were for the most part poisoned by . . . deliberate dishonesty." The determination of the American labor movement to carry on the fight against the "right-to-workers" and what they stand for was made crystal clear when it sounded the call for intensified political action and "an even greater united effort by the labor movement." • - ~ • • Actions of considerable importance to everyone in our nation as well as to the workers represented were taken at the recent meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department Executive Committee. The press and other information media devoted considerable attention to the MTIYs support for the boycott plans announced earlier by the ILA, SIU and NMU against ships trading with North Viet Nam. It is hard to believe that vessels who trade with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong, who are locked in combat with Americ~n forces and their allies, are permitted to come and go into U. S. ports bringing and hauling away commercial cargoes. lbe Departmenes Executive Board acted on a number of matters of importance to the American merchant marine. Included among these was a call for the creation of an independent federal maritime admin~tor. The . Department holds that an independent agency to ad1DJD1ster this country's maritime laws could focus greater attention on . ~e American merchant marine with the objective of revitalizing the mdustry.. ~ndeterre~ _by c~nfticts that exist under the present setup,. The Manbme Admimstration is but one of several branches of the Department of Commerce and consequently does not receive the atten. tion and consideration which this vital industry merits. The Maritime Trades Department is consequently going to press for the passage of legislation which would give maritime an independent agency whic~ is_ so essential to its improvement and effective operation. Another significant step taken by the MTD Board was the decision to set up a legislative committee. This will enable affiliates with an interest in maritime matters to coordinate their activities on the legislative front. This committee would also work in cooperation with the legislative department of the AFL-CIO and with COPE. It was the thinking of the ~d .~at greater impetus would be given to the legislative needs of ~e md1v~d~al organiza~ions within the MTD that would provide a vehicle_ for JOmt efforts with other AFL-CIO groups in seeking implementation of the AFL-CIO's American merchant marine policy. Of I ~ I ' ,_! ·- I �March 4, 1966 SE .4 F ..4 EK S L 0 G / Page Three ;;> MTD Bae s Boycott of Ships Trad·ng ith North Viet Nam BAL HARBO~ FL A..p~ent voted unanimously Tbe executive bo-ard of the 30-union AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Deoo F eb. 18 to support a boycott against ships of nations permitting trade with North Viet Nam. Plans for the boycott bad been announced earlier in the week by SIU President PaulHall,who head.s eldTD: ~-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ILA President Thomas _Gka- ,-essefs. the MID resolution point- makers and Iron Shipbuilders, said son, and NMU Pres~ Joseph ed out. ""but the State Department that the budget reduction by $51 Curran in a joint to President Johnson criticizine the Adm.inistration·s "'pUSS'Yf~_- in curbing trade with N "\Nam by ships of '"·gqiposedh" friend1y nations."' At a news conference followine: an AFL-CIO Executi\·e Cou:ncii session, Federation P residen George Meany to!d news ft"W1IRT'I"'""' that the hoycott .of- · ·_ dear with North Viet Nam as roposed by three AFl..-CIO maritime unions "makes a lot f ~expressed himself as in aJ1JJ sympathy with their app "in general agreement with attitude." In their wire, 1!be SIU, ILA NMU presidents declared t the three unions wouJd stage protest demonstrations in U S. ports against vesse'ls of nati m permitting trade with the en emy "puts blood money in the pockets of shipowners and ether :fiteas in so-caUed allied nations.... 1Dev said th'at "American seam and longshoremen are derennioed m take action to disoollra!!e the How of supplies" to North -Vi Nam and the V1et Cong. The Maritime Trades Department boycott resolurion said that "while America is engaged in military effort in Viet N:am . _ . foreign-flag sbips- mciudio:. rrnmy from the NATO conncries which the Defense Depanment has claimed we can rely-- kn-e been profiting from a rying American cargoes while a same time trading with mies of democracy.~· A number·of lbitts ha e been introduced in tbe Congress c.allin"° for positive action against ese bas steadfastly refused to lend its port to any of these bills." At a pres.s conference on Feb. ::!3. G leason, Hall and Curran said t strategy for the boycott was being developed but that it could begin at any moment. (Longmen refused to work the British flag Cunard liner Queen • fary when he arrived in New Yo · last week, but turned to after ompany officials assured them that none of Cunard s ships w-ould carry cargoes to North Viet Nam.) After the press conference Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz met 1rith G leason. Hall and Curran to • cuss the boycott plan. The AFL-CIO sea unions boycott plans came after the State Department revealed on Feb. 13 that ships carrying materials to . ·orth Viet Nam would be prohi ited from picking up American ai cargoes in U. S. ports which unions held ' was a slap on the wrist- that will not deter shipowners or their go emments from supplying the North Vietnamese. Blacklist Weak The first blacklist contained the names of five ships. three British, ne Cypriot and one Greek. Although barred from picking up L S. aid cargoes, the blacklisted "\CS5els were unrestricted in every odler respect which pointed up the mlio · contention that the ban was ineffective and weak. In another action taken at its IO-day me et in g the Maritime Tra es Department executive board called for prompt action by Presi ent Johnson and Congress m step up U. S. ship construction. Page G roton administrative direct of the Brotherhood of Boiler- million to $85 million for ship construction in 1967 will provide for only 13 ships, at a time when the nation's ship replacement program is already over 90 vessels I behind schedule. Groton said the advocates of ship construction abroad were "still working hard." MID President Hall pointed om that less than half of the approximately 1.000 deep sea reserve ships would be usable if the Viet Nam situation worsened He also questioned U . S. dependence on ships of nations in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, especially since some of them are currently trading with North Viet Nam. Other Board Actions The MTD Executive Board also took the following actions: · • Called for Federal legislation to impose "the same safety standards on foreign-flag cruise ships required of U . S.-fl.ag vessels." • Denounced Interior Department plans to build a fishing trawler in communist Poland. • Created a legislative committee to deal with pending legislation of concern to member unions. • Condemned the Interagency Maritime Task Force report and urged its rejection by the Administration and the Congress. The Board endorsed the Maritime Advisory Committee report and urged its implementation by the government. • Rejected all suggestions for building of U . S. ships abroad and urged a requirement that any Federal program for the Merchant Marine specify that all ships be built in American yards. - . I· r. L .I I. ( - 1,. -- - - - - -- - - - - - - AFL-CIO .Sets Goals for '66-- BAL llARBO~ FLA..-lnrensified and stFengtbened poti6cal to increase the number of liberals in House and Senate of the AFL-CIO emerged as a major ..,, for 1966. The stepped-up drive in the otf-year elections took shape against background of the failure to over; GOP-Dixiecrat filibuster blocking repeal f Section I ~ of the Taft-H.artJey Act, differences on the content of a minimum W3!~ bill,, opposition to "oneway" guidelines esigned to hold dow-n w-~ incr.eases, and economic and political problems. SIU Pries.. Hall attended the council meeting. The AFL-CIO E.xec:utire Council at its winter meeting in the Americana Hotel, spelled out the roach in i1s statement dealing with the I ~ repeal fihOu:ster. declaring: •'The liberals in the Home and Senate must be r.e-e1ected in the I %6 and their ranks · increased. This means an even greater united effort by the oxn1!1Dellt."" Pres. George Meany put the 1%6 effort in a framework of independent - n, telling reporters that the labor movement will make its own way politically and that it doesn't have to ~oady along behind"" any politicaJ party. Stressing that the labor men-anent is nonpartisan politically, Meany said. ""I don't buy tlhe idea that we have no place to go. Labor h:as Jlived through many administrations, he noted, where lhe Presiden1 did agree with blbor's °'!jectives but the unions tept fighting - - - . - - for their point of view. Assessing the filibuster against 14(b) repeal led by Senate GOP Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, the AFL-CIO president saio labor would give close scrutiny to the role of the Republican Party. Its record of liberalism is not good. he said, and while the GOP generally has an affirmative attitude on anything that big business wants, it takes a negative approach on anything that organized labor proposes. The Council also: • Urged prompt congressional action on minimum wage legislation as a "down-payment for America's working poor." • Spelled out labor's determination to continue the battle to win repeal of 14(b), certain that the repeal measure has the necessary support for passage if the Senate filibuster can be overcome. • Called for greater utilization of the 1964-65 Civil Rights Acts, more efficient enforcement and a greater degree of compliance by local communities. • Urged a "top priority" in Congress to "revitalize" the unemployment compensation system at the current session. • Supported a National Urban Leaguelabor program to enhance job and promotion opportunities for Negroes. Meany later described the program as a "very positive" approach and pledged full AFL-CIO cooperation. -- �SE.4F.4RERS LOG ex- I ::::: You can use a simpler return (Form 1040A), printed on a p h card, if: l. Your income was less than ro.ooo AND 2. It consisted of wages reported on withholding statements (Forms W-2) and not more than S200 total of other wages, interest. and dividends, AND 3. Instead of itemizing deductm you wish to use the tax table or to take the standard deduction which is generally the higher of: (a the I 0-percent standard dedw:tion-about IO percent of your income or the minimum standard deduction-and amount equal to S200 ($100 if married and filing separate return) plus SlOO for each exemption claimed on item 15 on the back of your Form 1040A. If your income is ~ than $5,you can choose to have the Imet:nal Revenue Service figure Yi tax for you. A hu.sband and wife may file a joint return Form 1 1 iA if their combined incomes not exceed these limits. DO~ USE FORM 1040A IF( l ) You wish to take any dedoct:ions for specific items,., such as unreimbursed employee expenses_ dl::!ti1ine _ You wish to claim a retirement income credit. (3) Yoo wish to compute your tax under the head-of-household rates or to claim "surviving spouse" benefits. . (4) Yoo wish to claim any exclusion for wages or salary you received for a period while you were sick and this amount is shown on your Form W-2. (5) Yoo wish to claim credit for payments of estimated tax for the taxable year or for an overpayment from 1964. (6) Your wife (or husband) is - g a separate return on Form 1040 and itemizes her (or his) deductions. (7) You have a nonresident I alien mltus. HOW TO PAY The balance of tax shown to be due on your return must be paid in full with your return if it anrounts to SI o more. Make chects or money order payable to "'Internal Revenue Service." ROUNDING OFF TO WHOLE DOILARS The money items on your return and schedules may be shown · whole dollars. This means that you eliminate any amount less than SO cents, and increase amount from SO cents through 99 cads to the next higher dollar. still count as a deiiien<ileill ADVANTAGFS OF A JOINT RETURN. Generally it is advantageous for a married couple to file a joint return. There are benefits in figuring the tax on a joint return which often result in a Long-Trip Tax PnMlllDIS A major beef of seamen iaxes - are not withheld on earnings in the year: money, but in the year the pay ook For example, a seaman signed trip in September, 1965. payinj alf • Jammy have all the five months earnings appear slip and all the taxes Withheld in 1966. incmme his taxes in 1965. ew:n though ings might be Jess than thme in 1965. "1bere are ways to mwnimin: the • m For example, -While on the Jlbip in 1965~ doubtedly took, draws and may have EUt ancm.:nts - These can be reported as 1965 inc>eHe Unfortunately~ this raises -anodw:r coaq>&::atioa man who n;por11- these earninp in 1965 (withholding .saatement) aJVaing thml... Be WI all aDotments, draws and slops on the tu ~ and CSl'lllill why be doesn t have a W-2 for diem.. Fm--~ ..sim:e no ~ WI11 have been withheld on 1hcse earnings • will have to pay the .tun tax oo dim1 • his - - - . pen:ent·or upwards, drpeMing on his 1u hial:d.. The eamin~ will show up on 1lis 1966 W-2. then, on his 1966 :rdDm, wuul'1 ~ 10 aplain dial ICpOI1ed some of the eamiap ia 1965- and pBl ma ma them. Be would get a tax nfuod wwwdiagiy_ In essence, the ••nmo wau1d pay 1Da twice income and st a 1efaod a J1mr lala:. . tbe seaman some tax Jlli1DeY ill die . . . nm. · is- out«~ on some --be gm Munded. his hDMv far a This procedure_ would :ahiO ............. aty came I 2 wwwl to examine his nfu•us, Jilll:e die iln DijiUiitd would not jibe with the tola1s . . his W-2 :rm:-. - That raile 1he qt""'im, ii tis ••• eilae ii J ff • ...,... iM ---~ ... ft67 e Odwaai&. 1-· samg • minor and probablJ' 1llOl ~ue a II ...WQ.. .. lower tax than would result from separate returns. CHANGES IN MARJTAL STA TUS. If you are married at the end of 1965, you are considered married for the entire year. If you are divorced or legally separated on or before the end of 1964, you are considered single for the entire year. If your wife or husband died during 1965, you are considered married for the entire year. Generaily, a joint return may be filed for 1965 provided you have not remarried before the end of 1965. EXEMPTIONS. Each taxpayer is entitled to a personal exemption of $600 for himself., $600 for his wife, and additional $600 if he is over 65 and another $600 if he is blind. The exemptions for age and blindness apply also to a taxpayer's wife, and can also be claimed by both of them. • . In cases where a man's wife lives in -a foreign country, he can still claim the $600 exemption for her. In addition, a taxpayer can claim $600 for each child, parent, grandparent, brother, brother-inlaw, sister, sister-in-law, and each uncle, aunt, neph~ or niece dependent on him, if he provides more than one-half of 1'heir support during the calendar ydlr. 'The dependent must have less than $600 income and live in the u_s.. Canada, Panama or the Canal Zone. A cbild under 19, or a student over 19 can earn av~ $<iOO and • . . . of the SIJEPC>rl if a dependent to claim an exemption for that indMdual, provided 1he contributors file a declaration 1hat they will not claim the dependent that year. �O/tlti•ers easion Roster Gllildden. Sr., - _ ~­ 68., and Lee joined .the Union in Sm'imnah in 1939. He still mes ibf:r:e with his wife, Mary Frances.. their three children. lli .sa1Jea with the SIU in 1he deCk depanmenL Lee last sailed nn -fhe Sreel Age (Isthmian Lines). Afrer 5nlJr MIBdD!D are I ping Ont for 26 years, Lee :ls .gnm~ along to spend his rime at llmne There Savannah with his familv_ ~ W erldand joined the _daring New York and When ]re P...Iire it climaxed a lik of ov.er 2 }'eaI5 at sea_ He shipperl m 1he JlecK I deparnnent. WeillaruI's last vessel was the Tmm (Mobile T~ Co.). He was born :in _-~ and now lives wi1.h ills -wife.. c.arrie. in Sprin.gbill _,-\lab.ama. He will spend his :r=.iiremem :yeaE in Springhill. Barton was r etired on FciJnran· 1. 1966. He was bm:n :in -~ Orleans. La., and now Jives 1 Brooklyn. - y _ .Ilurron jaim:d I the Union in ew Orleans r 1?39 . . He shipr...d ol11in1he Bn1 gme aepartmem 2S AD airer. last ship ·w as the Atlas (Buibarik Brother .Bmton now Ji1ans spend-his retirement -vears 1n :a warm climate. ~ Jo Saiad has been shipping since 194 J_ He now lives in _ Tew York with his wife Con- and er daughter Ramona Bo in e Phili ine Islands in I _ I 8'93. his last ship was the Steel er <Isthmian). He was placed pension on February L 1966. He sailed with the deck departHis reti:remen time will be spen in _1ew York. Union - I I ·mmum Wage Economic Need !i::e::i~ :::i:r::c::L:I~ a:c~:::::!2· _ mmmmm ~oe, with "eved without ovastrai:niog ro a report y the Conference on 1 U. S. Foreign v Tracle Up, U. S._ Share Down Erickson was born :in 5ontb New Jersey: an k Amboy, was .:retired F.ebruary 1. 1 .after 43~nf in .CO:n1:m service in fha1 position 'ilDfi1 Ila:.. 31, 1965. Erickson lives in Xev.lD-~rr- ....,-~ JS ~ port, ew J ersey_ Be .and liis 1 -wife Sarah have ~ dmmhter: ~ Oaire Laugh1in. .Bmiher Bl:'idson will make hisreriremem ~ with his wife :in Keypm:t. fedairal law. It cires the unem_ · compensation program as example of sta e laws resulting from federal legislation. W ASHIXGTON - America's foreign trade increased in both ~and tODm:<>e during the first three quarters of 1965 according to the Maritime Administration. the amounts carried by Amerca:IH!a.2 '\'"essels ntinued to deshalply. There was a drop of almast SI I in the V3lue of cargoes carc:n:IDiimn riaL from - .500.000 in 1964 to S4.700Jl00 in 1965. and a tonh:s:i::::eil!' _ decline from 19.- 00.000 tons to I _ 00.000 t ns.. In the nation·s toral foreign ~B:Wf:ef=i:::;.g _ tra hovteTI7. tonnage showed • be an 11 million ron - increase over co11 esponding 1964 period, d its value increased by mil- I I 1965 reached I 32.400,000 tons. S9.600.000.000. The increased foreign trade was sed largely on imports. the reshows... In this category ton- increased J _ percent over I 964 and value rose 8 percent. &ports decreased sligbdy, by ~ than ooe-balf percent in value 1q>1ucnting a drop of about 3 pdt'Cllt in export wlume. �j SE.4.F.4.RERS LOG Page Six Two 'Missing Link' Channels Urged For U. S. Waterways A proposal that the Federal government ~ppropriate ~1.2 ?illion dollars to dredge two "missing link" channels m the American mland waterway sytem may be very close to happening. The two links that are needed ~·--------------­ to complete the waterway system waterway and that the combined are a 120-mile channel to connect traffic on the two channels should Cleveland with the Ohio River run over 9~milli on tons annually. and a link with the Tennessee and Wilkins pointed out, however, Tombigbee · rivers. The two con- that the Corps is traditionally necting channels would complete "ultra-conservative" in their estima 1,745-mile through waterway ates and that by the year 2000 from Cleveland to Mobile. the waterways should be carrying Under present conditions water- over 240 million tons. borne cargo must first move 740 Wilkins also pointed out that miles across Lakes Erie, Huron the Federal government should be and Michigan and then down the able to find the money to finance Illinois and Mississippi Rivers and the billion-dollar I 0-year project. then along the Gulf Intercoastal He said that the 123 billion per Waterway to get from Cleveland year that would be needed for the to Mobile. The new waterway project represented less than 5. would reduce the trip by about per cent of the total Federal out700 miles. lays on water resource developThe new optimism, according ment in 1965. to Glover Wilkins, administrator "The total I ~year outlay of of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Wa- $1.2 billion should be set in the terway Development Authority, is context of the $2 billion economy caused by the fact that the new the waterways will serve. The new channels account for only 20 per waterways need not increase Fedcent of the project and that if era) water resource expenditures. the government would appropri- Former projects will be coming ate the money the projects could to completion and outlays on be completed. h Wilkins stated that the Army them will taper off as t e new Corps of Engineers has given a ones get underway," Wilkins confavorable report on the proposed eluded. Question: Do you prefer long deepsea ·trips or short coastwise ones, and why? Ivan Buckley: I'm a deepsea man. I've tried them all and the only way to ship is across the ocean. I think the one thing I really like about the foreign trips is the chance a fellow has to see other lands. It gives you a chance to understand and appreciate other cultures besides the one you are familiar with. Yep, I've tried them all and for my money you can't beat a deepsea run. Arthur Sequeira: Give me the deep sea·. I never had a coaster and never want one. I was born in Singapore and every time I get a chance to go to that end of the world I always take advantage of it. The last time I was out I really had a good time and I really like getting out and seeing the world. On a deepsea trip you also have time to do a great deal of thinking. Robert J. Feeney: I'll take a coastwise trip every time. You have no language problem and in American ports you always know what to expect. On a coaster you have a bunch of guys who are pretty much alike and most of them are stable fellows. On coasters you also can get fresh milk and this is important to me because I sail in the steward department. I have taken a number of foreign March 4, 1966 February 12 to February 25, DECK DEPARTMENT Port Boston .......... New York ....... Philadelphia ..... Baltimore ........ Norfolk .. . ....... Jacksonville ...... Tampa ........... Mobile ........... New Orleans ..... Houston .......... Wilmington . ..... San Francisco ... . Seattle . . ........ . Totals . .. ........ TOT AL REGISTERED All Groups C1ass A Class B 3 58 13 13 23 7 2 20 25 47 21 26 14 272 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class<.; 1 63 6 27 5 1 3 1 21 68 4 25 18 243 0 20 7 8 5 0 2 7 22 29 10 12 12 134 0 21 3 3 8 1 0 3 7 35 8 19 0 19 3 1 1 0 0 0 0 13 12 10 23 11 120 81 NOW ON THE BEACH All G roubs Class A Class B 11 2 190 33 97 18 18 7 75 151 136 23 50 40 849 I I 53 15 44 13 .l J 10 8 .1 23 86 76 0 17 8 355 ... ENGINE DEPARTMENT Port Boston .. ...... .. New York ... .... Philadelphia Baltimore .. ..... . Norfolk .. . .... .. . Jacksonville .... .. Tampa .... .. .. . . Mobile ..... . . . ... New Orleans . . . . . H ouston .. . ...... Wilmington ...... San Francisco .. . . Seattle .......... Totals . ......... - ..... TOTAL REGISTERED All GrouPS Class A Class B 1 45 6 10 4 6 2 12 32 26 7 12 1 50 8 6 2 26 8 8 3 6 0 3 6 32 35 7 21 18 193 3 0 10 20 31 11 4 8 10 17( 133 TOTAL SHIPPED Al I Groups Class A Class B Class C 1 19 0 14 4 3 0 2 16 33 3 16 12 123 2 17 0 1 0 1 3 1 2 10 10 17 21 85 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 10 149 22 43 11 10 6 42 99 90 9 39 17 547 3 55 20 32 15 13 3 17 76 99 1 10 3 3 ~7 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Boston . ... ..... . N ew York ........ Philadelp hia ... .. Baltimor e .. . . . .. . N orfolk .. . .. . .. · · J acksonville .. . . . . Tampa . .... ..... Mobile ........... N ew Orlean s .. .. . Houston ... .. ... . W ilmington ... . .. San Francisco . .. . Seattle ..... . ... . Tot als . . . . . . . ... . . TOT-AL R E GISTERED All Groups Class A Cla ss B 1 33 3 11 1 0 4 16 29 29 5 21 0 5 5 5 3 0 0 7 19 18 4 1 9 76 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 38 2 13 5 0 0 4 31 1 7 0 15 7 0 1 1 0 7 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 8 15 30 8 NOW ON THE REACH All G rOUPS Class A Class B 7 128 24 51 10 4 11 .!. \ 2 17 10 26 14 7 5 21 95 41 0 9 6 253 54 jobs but I prefer coasters and have ·16 137 no difficulity in getting a coast22 15 73 wise job. 6 1 9 17 26 5 Earl Javins: I like deepsea runs 12 4 12 11 because you can really get away 150 72 73 546 164 from everything. Along with getting away from every t hing you can have a better time in the foreign ports and you make more money. When I get a ship I usually try to get one for Germany T he AFL-CIO Maritime T rades Department, at its quarterly executive board meeting February because you can really spend your 17 and 18, again' called on Federal Agencies-particularly th~ Sta_te and. Defe~ s.e departments-.to money there and it seems just renounce the theory of 'effective control," by which they rat1onahze their pos1t1on that American like the good old U.S.A. Erman Parodi Rienosa: I really owned and controlled ships reg- • Panama, Liberia, and Honduras American runaway operations exlike the long trips so I would istered under r una w a y fl ags and owned by U.S. citizens are naturally like for- would be available to the United supposed to be committed to the isted in the 1930's when one of the major oil companies moved a eign runs. The States in time of emergency. use of the U.S. Government in group of tankers to the German co a stwise trips The MTD, the SIU and other time of emergency. Runaway flag and later transferred them mean you have maritime groups have long con- ships flying the flags of other na- to Panamian registry prior to to get off every tested the validity of the so-called tions, which include Lebanon, World War II. The practice detwo or three days effective control theory. Haiti and Costa Rica, are not asveloped on a large scale after and you won't The question of just how "cf- sumed to be under U.S. effective the war's end and by 1965 the have a chance to fective" is the United States' well U.S. "effective control fleet" consave any money. advertised "effective control over control, however. of 267 tankers totalling sisted On the deepsea runaway-flag ships was also raised Owned By Oil Companies 9,200,000 deadweight tons, and trips you also get a chance to recently in hearings before the The majority of tankers in the 79 dry bulk carriers, totalling 2,visit such wonderful countries as House Committee on Merchant U.S. "effective control fleet" are 408,000 deadweight tons, not inIndia. I like that country because Marine and Fisheries. owned by the large American oil the people are poor and friendly. Representative Rogers of Flor- companies, while most American- cluding U.S. runaways over which the U.S. realizes that we You also get a chance to do a lot ida asked Maritime Adminisowned bulk carriers in this fleet of thinking on the offshore runs. have no control whatsoever. Most trator Nicholas Johnson, called to are held by successful commerof the vessels in this "fleet" are Thomas "Kid Candle" Dan- testify before the Committee, if cial ship operators. In both inmuch more modern and much beck: I'll take a deepsea run anyany thought had been given to stances, ships are registered unfaster than their U.S.-registered time because it bringing runaway ships "back" to der foreign flags so that they may but their availabilcounterparts, means more carry military cargoes to Viet- avoid U.S. taxes and exploit the money, more fu n nam. Johnson parried the ques- low standards of living of foreign ity to the U.S. under any circumand more and tion, but left little doubt that seamen. Runaway flags do not stances, including national emerbetter compan- MarAd and the Department of necessarily use crews from the na- gency, is questionable. ionship in foreign Defense have not discarded such tion whose flag they fly, but seek The SIU has long pointed out ports. On the last a possibility. out crewmembers of any nation- that in time of conflict a ship ship I was on we The question is: How much ality who will submit to poor owner cannot serve two masters hit all the really "control" does the U.S. have over working conditions and low -he is bound by the rules and good ports in the! runaway flags and is it really ..ef- wages. regulations under which Jiis ves. world: Yokohama, Hong Kong fective"? sel is registered. A recent ex.perRunaway shipping is not a new and Spain. If it were not for the Under the theory of "effective idea-it was practiced in both ience with the Mexican freighter Union and the chance they have control," which has long been the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. El Mexicano brought this point given me I would never have the supported by the State Depart- However, it is only- in modern home. The EI Mexicano had chance to see and do the things ment and the Defense Depart- times that U.S. runaways have been chartered to carry supplies I have in the past years. ment, ships flying the flags of reached significant proportions. (Continued on page JO) ·''- ~!' -1 - . ~ .. - ·l.... - - �Marda 4, 1966 1- -I ' / SE.4F .4RERS LOG O•Man, Takes ./ "You-Are Page Se.ea Too Fat!" The one man. one vote principle, digging in at the congressional and state legislative levels despite Sen. Everett Dirksen s detemiined diort to uproot it. also is taking bold dramatically at the county and municipaj Jeve1s. A lready, citizens in nearly 20 states. claiming to be under-represented in city or county governments.. have filed suits in comt to strike a ba1ance under the one many. one vote ruling. The consequence of these efforts could be widespread and significant,. affecting the balance of power in important local government units like city and county councils. school boards and even in special districts dealing with matters like sewage, snow removal and garbage collections. In cities especially, a change to one ~ one vote l'epresentation could have vital impact, bringing more political influence to minority and working class groups. And in counties, the voice of suburbanite would gain strength while the ·oice of ro:ral interests decline. Such changes could lead to be~ter city-nm welfare programs. better schools for youngsters in central city , be _ for urban dwellers, better parks and play areas, better transportation.. The Wall Street J ou I, in a lengthy article on !he ~ quotes one expert on local reapportionment as saying. ~e pressures of reapportionment are more likely to be in the direction of a higher level of local service and spending~ than in the direction of skinflint economy at the expense of needed services. As yet, the Supreme Court has not required o e man one vote application beyond the state and federal levels, though it is expected to do so eventua1ly. However, the Jomnal r eports, lower federal and state courts in N ew York. California, Michigan and WISCOBSin have ordered reapportionment of county or city voting districts. In California and Wisconsin, the state legislatures responded by pasisng laws requiring all county boards to redistrict. WISCOnsin has set an April deadline. ~, _, M eanwhile, Senator Everett Dirksen has shifted gears in his drive to knock down the Supreme Court one man. one vote ruling. The wheels are now turning for a massive, well-1inanced nationwide p ublic relations campaign to get p ublic sentiment behind Dirlrsen s proposed constitutional amendment to wreck the one man, one vote rule. The money is expected to come from powerful business and agricultural interests. D irksen's amendment fell short in a vote in the Senate last A~ but he is expected to bring it up again this year after the PR campaign has had a chance to build support. ILABOR BOUND-UP I Organized labor scored a major breakthrough in Simpson County, Mkmsippi, whe n the county's ~ industrial employer ~ the al'ea's first union contract after two year., of bitter opposition. The three-year agreement gives about 950 members of the International Brotherhood of E lectrical Workers, employed by the Universal Manufacturing Corp.. a total of 46 cents an hour in wage increases, three additional holidays. a vacation schedule and insurance protection. In addition fom discharged members of the local. ineluding President James Bird. were reinstated. - 4'lbe Building Senice Employcs of New Yodc have ndi&ed a new tlfte..year coldnld ~ 25,000 wOlkers in 2,480 otlice 8llc1 loft buildings an $11 wage increase. The agreement also provides pins in pension benefits. sic k p a y, health and welfare coverage, job definition, vacations and termination pay. The contract, ending three m onths of negotiations ~ tween BSEIU Local 32B and employers, went into diect on ratification by the union executive board. its n egotiating committee and employer-members of the Realty Advisory Board on Labor Relations, Inc. Under the renewal pact, building senrice workers will get wage boosts of $4 a week retroactive to Jan. I; an additional $3 one year later and another $4 on Jan. 1, 1968. It was agreed that . the union-industry welfare fund will provide additional hos- pitaliz.ation and surgical benefits. and will fiD in the gaps in the M edicare program by refunding the deductible portion of the hospitalization plan and by paying the $3 a month fee for supplementary medical benefits. - 4' - A special ~of die al&6atN Na6omd PosDI 1Jllioa ~ eWftsed a to wqe with die AFLCIO U • Federation of Postal Oerts. The rolk:aII vote for approval of the merger, climaxing a three-day convention in Washington. D. C., was 45,.901 to 3,4-86. The p~ posa1 must now be submitted to a mail membenhip referendum for final ratification.. NPU President Sidney A. Gildman said the referendum should be complete by mid-iMan:b.. B e predicted strong support for the meaga which would heal an eight-year division in postal clert ~ -~AliLCIO ••i as iacreased ..... daft al...,. . . .its. 1965, • Nm mi Lallor . . . . 6tms . . . . npodeL A&ates won S8.6 pen:ent of lhe e1ections in which they participated in the first half of 1965, and 57_s · percent in the sranl ~ Their pcn::entage of wins -was SS.7 in 1964"s latter half, SU in the first half, according to the NLRB n:conls. A report for the last half of l96S ~ that for electiom participated in by AFL-CIO unions, there lftre 109 681 eligi"ble members in units won by aftiliates.. -· ~~ (5~ LOG ' workers in the retail trades, restaurants, laundries, hotels and motels, hospitals and farm laborers. These are often among the most poorly paid in the nation and are entitled to the same protection In this climate, the organized American labor as other American workers who are covered under movement is pushing for a broad program of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In our presently expanding economy it is also social and economic legislation that will insure American workers of a fair share of the prosperity important not to forget our elderly citizens-who that they contributed to by such a large margin have no means of keeping up with the continually rising cost of living. Extended social security benthrough their unparalleled productivity. . While management is forced to let out its efits are needed if our elderly citizens are to be belt to accommodate another year of record prof- ensured of a secure, dignified retirement free from its--it reacts to labor's call for the adoption of poverty· These goals and much other sorely needed legnew minimum wage legislation, the extension of the unemployment compensation system and ex- islation is receiving the full support of the orpanded social security benefits-with the cry that ganized American labor movement. labor has enough already-labor is too fat. If the country and its workers are to enjoy the The need for pursuing these goals is clear. bounties brought about by the productivity of its Despite our booming economy, A War on Pov- workers, it will, as it has in the past, result from _ erty has been declared in this country in attempt the efforts of the organized labor movement. to aid the millions of Americans living in abject poverty. Never before in the nation's history has the business community enjoyed such record prosperity. Profits are booming and are abetted by rising prices. High on the priority list of the AFL-CIO is the elimination of poverty in the United States through the enactment of realistic and up-to-date minimum wage legislation. The present minimum wage of $1.25 an hour still leaves the. worker far below the administration's official "poverty level" income. While profits have zoomed astronomically, those workers without the benefit of union protection are still forced to labor for a wage that in no way reflects their skills and productivity. Another important AFL-CIO goal is the establishment of a modem up-to-date unemployment compensation system geared to the present day cost and standard of living. Vast inequities exist today in the administration of the unemployment compensation system and federal standards are needed to create a unified system incorporating increased and extended benefits. Minimum wage legislation must also be extended to cover more than 7 .5 million American workers not presently covered. These include S'IU Blood Bank When we're walking around feeling fit and enjoying each breath of fresh air, it's easy to forget that there may be rough weather ahead, as far as our health is concerned. If such rough weather ever does hit us, it's good to know there are resources available to aid recovery. A case in point is contained in the letter to the editor from Seafarer Manuel Rivas appearing on another page in this issue. Faced with the need for blood transfusions so that a badly-needed operation would not be delayed, Brother Rivas was able to draw the lifesaving fluid immediately from the SIU Blood Bank, which is sustained by contributions of SID men. The SIU Blood Bank is one of the most precious life-saving facilities available to Seafarers and their families. This might be a good time to remember the value of contributing to the bank. �SE.41'.4RERS LOG TO A he United States' victory in the War of 1812 against Great Britain signaled the beginning of a period of vast industrial growth for the n'ation, and of unimagined hardships for American worke~'S. Economic boons and busts followed one another rythmically. Each economic cycle, as it rolled across the land, ground the vast majority of American workers further down into poverty and despair. T ~ 2 of a fearure The Knights of St. Crispin was one of the e_arly national unions. A union of skilled shoemaken, it fought against encroachment of machines. Shown here are factory conditions against which it ·fought. It was a time when almost every attempt by desperate workers to better their condition was met and suppressed by force and violence. It was a time when giant corporations, vastly wea/Jhy and inhumanly callous, would hire thousands of armed thugs to break a strike. If these hired goons did not succeed in breaking fhe strikers' will, they often found themselves . faced with armed militia - dispatched to break the. strike by a government which had ears only for the demands of rich corporations. If even that failed the courts were 'lllways willing to issue injunctions making the walkouts iUegaJwhich then justified the jailing of the strike leaders and the eventual collapse of the strike. And all the while the press poured out a constant stream of invectjve against the workers and their legitimate aims. These years saw the "Long Strike" in the Pennsylvania coal fields and the "Great Strike" by railroad workers. the Homestead Strike and the Pul.lman. Strike -llll fJf which were viciously broken by an anti-labor combination of the corporations, the couits and the government. It was the heyday of the ''Pinkerton Fin/cs." It was the time of the "Baltimore Massacre" and the "Haymarket Square Massacre" of the workers. But it ·was also the period in which the infant American labor movement drew strength and grew-learned hard lessons and fought back against ~nse odds to carve out a place for American workers in the nation's future. T In winter of 1874 New Yorlc workers assembled in Tompkins Square to protest unemployment and starvation. As shown in picture, mounted police rode into crowd, breaking heads and trampling the workers. One of the most infamous of early union busten was James McParlan, • e.,.t of Pinkerton agency. Picture shows McParlan (kneeling) as he IWNll loyalty to Molly Maguires, wliich he was soon to betray. he growth of factories began with a vengeance in the United States when War of 1812 cut off our supplies of manufactured goods from Great Britain. As a direct result of the new factory system, on~ of the worst abuses of labor that ever existed took root o a large sca1e in the United States--cbild labor. By 1820 more than half the factory workers in the United States were between nine and ten years old. They worked an average 13-hour-day for as little as 33 cents a week. Economic exploitation of children, and later of young women, was a direct result ofi growth of factories. Skills was not necessary, cheap labOr meant bigger profits, and children or young women could be hired for much Jess than a worker, even unskilled, with a family to support. These working children received no education at all and remained totally illiterate. They toiled long, exhausting hours in dark, . dirty, unhealthy factories without rewanl 0r hope. And as more.and more children became ''Productive" by entering the labor market, more and more skilled aduh workers, with f~es and responsi"bilities, became unemployed. In additi~n to the competition of child labor, American workers suffered another serious blow in 1819 when the first of what was to prove a cycle of economic and financial depressions struck the nation. Unemployment, already widespread, became mass unemployment as bankruptcies shut factories, shops and stores ·· all over the ~tion. Hunger stalked the American worker. Those mills and factories that remained open sliced wages and increased working hours, kn.owing that their workers had to accept whatever was offered. r ~ T he depression, which did not end unitI 1822, wiped out. many trade unions. But as business picked up and · workers again found employment, labor unions were again formed with new :zeal In 1827 labor took a significant step. In that year the carpenters in Philadelphia. launched a strike for a 10-bour day. Facing bitter employer opposition and receiving no aid from other Philadelphia unions, the carpenters were d~ feated. B1;1t they recogni7.ed the ft.aw in organization which bad defeated them, and that same year the first central union council, the Mechanics Union of Trade Associations, was formed by the Philadelphia unions. It was the first city-wide labor organi:zation in the world and no longer would a striking union in Philadelphia stand alone against the bosses. At the same time another· "first step" was taken by Pliiladelpliia workets, wlien they formed the world's first political labor party-the Worldngmen's Party. The idea caught on and by 1834 spread to many cities, working politically for free public education for their children, the abolition of imprisonment for debt, the outlawing of child labor, the universal 10-bour day and other reforms. Attac\ed by the p~ as "anti-religious," ''unwashed rabble" and "dirty shirts," their rallies invaded and disrupted by goons hired by local politicians, their adherents fired from their jobs for supporting their platform, the various Workingmens' Parties r.emained active only a few years. In that short time however t,lteir success was astonishing. As a resuft of their efforts, imprisonment for debt was abolished and in 1834 the nation's first free public school system was set up in Pennsylvania. Meanwhile, the nation grew, opening new markets. Roads and waterway traffic pushed westward, and to these traditional modes of transportation wer.e added the new railroads. Gold strikes in the far west opened - new markets and demand for products grew faster and faster. To feed these demands for manUfactured items simple factories grew into huge industries. The Machine Age dawned with a ft.ood of · immigration which swelled the labor force and spelled new trouble for American workers. As industry grew more complex, with operations in many states, . the need for unions to organize on a nationwide, instead of a citywide basis, grew as well. The first of these was the National Typo,graphical Union, the first permanent national union, founded in 1852. Following the lead of the NTU, about 10 national unions Came into being between 1850 and 1860. · · ~ ._ - ,, ~ r _ - .- �SE.4.F.4.RERS LOG Pap Nine 1- , . ~~ In the mid-eighties, the entire community worked in the factories. Children accompanied their mothers and fathers to the plants where they worked from dawn to dusk. No special consideration was shown for the very old-men or women-or the very young worker. Overwhelming maiority of workers who came from the old world to America in quest of a better life traveled a road of endless poverty. Brought over by the boatload they soon confronted exploitation and disillusionment. F heavily-armed army called the Coal and Iron Police who did not hesitate to use whip, gun or club on any worker who complained about wages, hours or working conditions. rom 1861 to 1965 the nation was tom by the Civil War, which in more ways than one was brought about by the rapid industrialization going on in the United States. It was basically a conJlict of national interests between the industrial North and the Agararian South. _The primary issue of slavery, over which -, the war was fought, was itself produced by the introduction o( a machine, the · Cotton Gin, which made cotton a profita,ble crop and ·led to the southern Plantation System, with its dependence on vast number of enslaved .negro laborers. Until the -inventio,i of the Cot~on Gin in 1793 .. there were few negro slaves .in the U.S. _ ::- By, 1860 hpwever)· there ·were over 4 . miµion negro salves in the south, where "~otton was king." After the Civil War, cotton was dep~d and industriy was king. As industry _ .: was Jtjng the captains of industry who "controlled great wealth in concentrated : capital,, ruJed like feudal lords over a labor force swollen with immigrants from foreigii lands· and newly-freed negroes. La:bor was considered a commodity to be . bought as cheaply as possible ai:id discarded at will. As hugely wealthy indus. trialists became ever more powerful ' American workers were threatened with the loss of eyen those gains they had already made. Labor needed an organization through which action could be taken on a major national scale. For this purpose the National Labor Union was formed in 1866, the first nationwide federation of ·labor unions. The NLU did not last lonlt, mainly because it pinned its hopes for improving working conditions on political action instead of on militant trade unionism. By 1873 ·the NLU h~d disintegrated, but not before it had achieved two major goals-repeal of the Contract Labor Act of 1864 and the establishment of the 8-hour day for Federal employees. The Contract Labor Act was nothing but a return to the indenture systeni of colonial times, under which European workers were brought to the ,P.S. by American employers, pledging their. first ~ear's wag~s to repay transportation costs and fUrth~r _year's wages to repay their maintenance costs for the first year. This gave employers virtually free labor which they used to depress American workers' wages. T be 1870's began with the promise of -unparalleled prosperity for the United States. Big Business was booming, speculation was plunging wildly ahead, money ft.owed freely, fortunes were made overnight. The frenzied business activity had no real foundations however, and in 1873 the bubble burst, plunging the nation into another long depression, far worse than the depression of 1819. The "Panic of '73" left 4 million American workers jobless out of a total work force of only 38 million and brought on conditions which could only be described as chaos . . Men, women and children in industrial cities starved for lack of the few pennies to buy bread. The depression of 1873, which was to last for seven horhible years also signaled the beginning of ·- ·two• ·decades of ·an-out war waged by American capital against American labor. In city after city, gatherings of unemployed ·workers seeking jobs through which to earn money to buy food for their families were brutally broken up by clubswinging mounted police and militiamen. Men, women and children were trampled and beaten. Newspapers again jumped into the fray verbally, calling the unemployed workers "anarchists" and "foreign agitators." With so many unemployed, wealthy industrialists cut wages to the bone, and prepared to meet strikes by desperate workers with club-swinging goons, armed scabs, state militia, Federal troops, court injunctions and . a callous disregard for human suffering. · In 1874-75 the "Long Strike" paralyzed the Pennsylvania coal fields. To break the strike the mineowners brought in the most infamous of the union-busters -Allan Pinkerton. Pinkerton sent his own a~ent, James McPaFlan, as a labor spy to .ioin the strikers' union-the Workingmen's Benevolent Association-and destroy it from within. Violence flared frequently during the long, hitter strike, and when several mine foremen were shot. Although the union had nothing to do with the violence in spite of much · provocation, a secret organization of embittered miners, known as the "Molly Ma~es," waged a long war of terror. Pinkerton's spy managed to round up lying "witnesses" and hearsay evidence for a willing court to indict many of the "Mollies" and striking union's leaders. Convicted by the boss-oriented court, 10 men died on the gallows and 14 ·were sentenced to long jail terms. The "Long Striie" was broken and the names Pinkerton and McParlan became infamous. To ilisure future labor "peace," the mineowners pr~JDptly recruited a private, - n even larger strike was soon to break out in the railroad industry however. When the depression of 1873 hit the nation, railroad companies had seized the opportunity to .slash wages by 25 perce_nt although they continued te earn record profits. Then, in 1877, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad announced another wage cut of 10 percent. Faced with starvation wage~, -a B&O train ~w walked off th~ job. others followed tffiougbOOi the Whole system and soon the line was paralyzed. The so-called "Great Strike" was on. The railroad magnates reacted quickly. Although the walkout was completely peaceful, they demanded protection f« railroad property from the state capitals. State politicians, indebted to the hugely wealthy· railroad magnates for many things, responded quickly with 3.911ed militia. Instead of "protecting property," these armed militiamen were used to break up strike meetings-firing first into a meeting of strikers in Martinsburg, W. Va., leaving several dead strikers in their wake. Enraged non-striking townspeople attacked the militia in tum, destroyed rolling stock and telegraph wires and even ripped up tracks in their anger. Unjustified violence gave the strike momentum, and the strike spread from coast to coast. State militia flied on strikers again and again and the death toll climbed. Fmally many militiamen, disgusted by what they were called upon to do. deserted and ioined the workers' picketlines rather than fire on their fellow townsmen. The enraged railroad millionair~ screamed for Federal troops and the big businessoriented government of the time was quick to comply. Federal troops soon ·~arrived, enraging townspeople even more. In the infamous "Baltimore Massacre" troops shot down 10 strikers in cold blood. In one month over 100 American workers were shot dead and over 300 wounded by American soldiers. Confronted by the entire U.S. Army, the strikers were beaten and the "Great Strike" was broken. To prevent strikes in the future, state government built armories crammed with heavy weapons and militiamen in many towns. The railroads themselves hired armed hoodlums as "special police." A - The public school system as it is known today owes its brigins largely to the vigorous agitation of America's first labor movement, whose goal was free education for everyone. . .. - , �Pase Ten / Mareh 4, 1966 SE .4 F .4 RE RS L 0 G J U.1 Mertbant Fleet Detline Stirs lntreasing Congressional Contern W ASIDNGTON-Congressmen in both the House and the Senate have hit the deck recently to deplore Al Tanner, Vice-President and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer,Great Lakes Great Lakes members and their dependents have been taking full the continuing deterioration of the American-flag merchant fleet in the face of the accelerated growth of advantage of the free physical exams given at the new Toledo clinic. the merchant marine of the Soviet Union. Over fifty members and their dependents have received physical exams Senator Harrison Williams, Jr., (D-N. J.), who serves on the La- can ships are carrying only nine chartered by a United States Gov- to date. All members are reminded to take advantage of this additional ernment agency or private com- welfare benefit. Appointments and general information on the physical bor and Public Welfare Commit- percent of our exports." While Senator Williams was pany it means that gold must be exams can be obtained through • tee, and Representative Jack. Edwards (R-Ala.), a member of the pointing out the immense strategic paid out, adding to our payments all SIU halls. ward Garmatz of the House MerHouse Merchant Marine and and political advantage of a dom- deficit." chant Marine and Fisheries CQmDetroit During Edward's remarks, RepFisheries Committee, went on rec- inant merchant marine, Repremitiee, Pat Sullivan, Vice-PresiThe Peter Reiss was named the ord criticizing the current U. S. sentative Edwards was voicing his resentative Downing of Virginia winter run vessel in the Reiss fleet dent of the Buffalo Longshoremen, maritime policy which bas per- disapproval of our country's be- congratulated his colleague on and has been operating on the coal stated that: "any change in marimitted Soviet Russia to gain on ing forced to rely on foreign bot- pointing out how Russia is trying run between Toledo and Detroit time policy should include priority toms to transport vital supplies to to be the No. 1 maritime nation the United States. since December 20. It has been for the Great Lakes, especially in "The cold fact," said Repre- ·Viet Nam. "Aside from the ob- of the world "and will be in 1975 held up because of ice conditions the area of government subsidies." sentative Edwards, "is that we vious disadvantages," he said, if she continues at the present but should resume the run on Mr. Sullivan also pointed out the are allowing our once-proud Mer- "every time a foreign ship is pace." March 1 if ice conditions permit. fact that many foreign vessels chant Marine to sink in a sea of The crews for the steamers carrying grain to India employ confusion, neglect, lack of leaderIglehart and Crapo have been no- Chinese crews hired out of Hong ship and bureaucratic twaddle. tified to report to these vessels on Kong that could very well be sail"And what is worse," he conFebruary 21 in the steward and ing on vessels hitting Communist tinued, "we don't even have a. (Continued from page 6) cargo was shipped on a U.S.-flag engine departments. No notices Chinese ports. government policy to deal with have been sent out for the deck Chicago the problem. Our Merchant Ma- to Vietnam in August of 1965. vessel manned by American seadepartment as yet. men. Chicago reports that remodelrine is drifting aimlessly without The Mexican Government, using The after end and galley crews ing of the new building is progresThe experience with the Greek a Mexican law forbidding ships a compass, and without a rudfor the steamer John J. Boland sing nicely. The new facility will freighter pointed up another Iongder." under Mexican registry from enhave been notified to report on house all SIU affiliates in the Chiheld SIU contention: that fortering a war zone, ordered the El Simultaneously, New Jersey March 1 and March 9th. cago area and will also house a Mexicano not to carry the mili- eign seamen cannot be depended Senator Williams pointed out that Buffalo clinic for all members and their tary cargo to Vietnam where it upon to act in the interest of the in less than ten years the Russians United States. All runaw:iy ships A report from the port of Buf- families. have moved from 12th to 7th was sorely needed. "effective consupposedly under place among maritime nations. All members are reminded to In order to protect its regis- trol" are manned by foreign sea- falo indicates that continued pressure by waterfront unions in Buf- ' register at any of the seven SIU "They are adding merchant tonEI Mexicano complied try, the . . ' \ nage at the rate of a million tons men, and so long as this situawith the Mexican Government's tion persists, the U.S. cannot falo is being put on Washington halls located in the Great Lakes due fo the shrinking American District for employment during a year," he said. "The Russian demand, and the cargo was refleet is already larger than the scheduled to go aboard a Greek count .on any control of runaway Flag fleet on the Great Lakes. Re- the 1966 season. Registration vessels at all. The SIU has also active American fleet. freighter, Stamatios E. Embiri- pointed to instances when foreign cently, in/ wire to Chairman Ed- starts March 1. "In startling contrast," the New cos. Despite the promise of a crew member.s have seized comJersey Democrat went on to say, $10,000 bonus, the crew of the mand of ships, which were then "our merchant fleet has declined Greek-flag freighter refused to effectively controlled by no nasharply in size. Today the Rus- sail with the Vietnam-bound tion. In time of emergency, the sian fleet carries the greatest part cargo. Finally, after much expen• U.S. can only depend· on crews of its foreign trade, while Ameri- sive loading and unloading, the consisting wholly of American citizens to meet national needs, LONDON-Faced with a storm of protest by American ship as American merchant seamen owners at a meeting here, British marine insurance underwriters did in World War II and Korea. have backed down from a proposal to apply new penalty insurance Another objection which the rates on all ships 20 years old• SIU has maintained against the or more. Had the new penalty cent of the normal insurance costs theory ·of "effective control" is rates gone through, 83 per cent for U. S.-flag ships. Had the prothat it depends upon the good of American-flag ships would test failed, it would have left only by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area will of the runaway-flag nations. have been under the new schedule, 150 American merchant vessels, In 1963 the Honduran govern- which would have raised the opThe cr~w of_the _Del Mar ran into some real good luck this trip, built since World War II, still as the ship arrived m New Orleans, February 17 and didn't have to ment was overthrown by its erational cost of these vessels so eligible for the current lower armed forces and the U.S. immesail until February 28. The crew was thus able to enjoy the carnival high that in some cases it would rates. The remainder of the nadiately suspended diplomatic reseason and was in port for Mardi Gras Day. no longer have been profitable to tion's aging ships, consisting of lations, and, in 1964, Panama operate them. The Louisiana State AFL-CIO and the Greater New Orleans. AFL350 dry cargo vessels engaged in CIO joined the Maritime Trades <.:•> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - broke off U. S. diplomatic relaliner trades and 400 tramp ships In a rush trip to London, tions with the support of Premier Council of New Orleans and viHouston and tankers, would have been Khrushchev. Obviously, the U.S. United States' maritime industry cinity in making known to the forced to pay the penalty rates. Charles Thomson Big is just Louisiana Congressional Delega- off the Henry and after a trip to has little control over vessels reg- representatives filed a strong proExperts in the maritime indusistered with foreign nations under test against the penalty rate, which tion their views towards the resIndia is on the beach celebrating such circumstances. try called the new penalty rates "a would have amounted to 100 per olution No. 217 passed unanai- . and getting ready for another critical threat to the American mously by the AFL-CIO conven- long one. Merchant Marine," speculating tion that calls for a strong exlifeboat Class No. 145 Graduates J. Moncrief has been idle for that at least one-third of the pected merchant marine. a few weeks and is waiting for United States' 900-ship merchant the right one to come along. He fleet would have been forced out New Orleans says he is not particular but wants of business by the new rates, if the Milton Beasley, whose last ship a long run to Brazil to sport his proposal by the British marine was the Olga, is new auto. underwriters had not been headed Mobile now on the beach off. looking for anFrank E. Parson, who was last The spokesmen for the U. S. other run. His on the Coe Victory, is currently maritime industry argued that a last trip lasted on the beach and looking for ' tremendous volume of business six months and another good run. He has been would have been diverted from had plenty of· shipping out of the Gulf Coast American-flag vessels had the new 1 overtime. Area for the last fifteen years. penalty rates been put into effect. Robert (Bobby) George M. One shipping man has already Foster, who made :Weldy and James noted that his company has lost Beasley his first trip in 14 B. Harrison who an important cargo consignment, months on the Ocean Anna is both make their because the insurance penalty now ready to go any place on home in Mobile would have increased the shipper's any ship as an AB. are currently bill by eight per cent. Thus, most looking for trips Im Brown is just got off the of the foreign merchant ·ships, in the engine Oceanic Wave where he was the which have kept abreast of the .; , dept. Steward for two and one-half times with their ship building proHudson Robert A. San- SIµ Lifeboat Class No. 145 . assembled for graduation picture after[I grams, would have stood to preyears. He is now ready to go any chez and Louie empt our nation's cargoes and place on any ship, as Steward, but successfully completing lifeboat training course at the Harry Lunde- profit E. Hudson who both make their by the new 'insurance .schedwould prefer a ship going to Viet berg School of Seamanship. Latest group of lifeboat ticket holders l ules .. homes in Mobile, have been memNam. bers of the SIU for a number of are (1-r, bottoro row): Henry Reed and Theodor Augustus. Middle American ship comp·anies are Frank West is now ready to go years . are looking for Steward 1 row: Antonie Trevino, T~rrance Kibler, Otho Babb and Harry Abr:·J' already losing many cargoes to to any place on any ship as Chief Department jobs shipping out of hamian. Back · rc:w: Archie Finney, Frank Haviland, Peter Mallozzi, newer ships sailed by foreign comCook. . the Gulf Coast, 9hatlts }~h~~~r.i,.!_aul._~ar_!y ~~ d instructor Arni e·ornsson, . · . petitors.• .. Myth of 'Effective Control' lns~rers Discard Rate HikeThreat To U. S. Cargo Fleet - . -- -- ........ --- -·~·---· • I~· �March 4, )JJ66 SE.4F.4RERS LOG Page Eleven -- \./ Community Level Program Proposed Aggressive Anti-Poverty Campaign Stressed for Organized Labor WASHINGTON-Organized labor has been urged to set up its community level anti-poverty activities lest the fruits of legislation be lost. Miles C. Stanley assistant to AFL-CIO President George Meany, made the appeal at a three-day Conference on Civil Rights for All ( ! ) • - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - People through Community Ac- people who opposed the bills while their consequent lack of qualification, held by the Electrical, Radio the AFL-CIO and its affiliates tions to fill increasingly complex & Machine Workers (JUE). Aim were working to get them through jobs in a world of steadily adof the program is to develop "com- Congress-"the chambers of com- vancing technology. munity stewards" to represent the merce, the boards of trade"-will "Opening the door doesn't mean poor, the unemployed, the unedu- take over. much," he said, "if a young Necated and the victims of discrim"The labor movement can make gro man or woman doesn't know ination, thus complementing the a take-over by special interests ex- where the door is or is distrustful work of shop stewards in the tremely difficult without becoming of going through it because of his plants. overly aggressive itself," he said. past experience." Stanley and other speakers "But my experience indicates the To implement properly the laws stressed the tie-in between civil labor movement has not been ag- that offer a future of hope to the rights and the war on poverty. gressive enough.'' poverty-stricken, Slaiman said, laEmphasizing that it is at the comAFL-CIO Civil Rights Director bor must not "leave the field to munity level that "this war must Donald Slaiman, who presided at businessmen, lawyers, politicians be fought and where it will be a forum on How Can Labor Fight or welfare workers," but must won," Stanley warned strongly Discrimination and Poverty in the learn how to make the programs against a let-down following la- Community, pointed to the "very work in city slums and "rural bor's successful fight for legisla- direct" relationship of poverty and Appalachias." tion. "And it's going to be pretty civil rights. rough to live up to what we have "AH our work will be forfeited," In spite of gains on the legisto do," Q.e added. he declared, "if we do not rise to lative front, Slaiman said, the inthe challenge of seeing that the come gap between minority groups IUE Pres. Paul Jennings told a laws we helped bring into being and the total population has start- conference dinner that the job of are implemented properly." Un- ed to widen after years of narrow- the active union leader is not only less organized labor acts "to make ing. This is due at least in part, to represent his members in the its greatest contribution" in the he went on, to educational defi- shop, but "to act as a steward for follow-up, he warned, the very ciencies of minority groups and the community." (Continued ·from page 4) wages. DEATH BENEFIT EXCLTJ. SION. If you receive pension payments as a beneficiary of a deceased employee, and the employee had received no retirement pension payment, you may be entitled to a death benefit exclusion of up to $5,000. GAMBLING GAINS. All net gains from gambling must be reported as income. However, if more was lost than gained during the year, the losses are not deductible, but simply cancel out the gains. INVESTMENT CREDIT. Form 3468 is to be used by a Seafarer claiming the investment credit. The credit is allowed for investment in tangible depreciable personal property used ·in business. The credit is an amount equal to 7 % of such investment and ap~ p:ied against your income tax. INCOME AVERAGING. A Seafarer who has an unusually large amount of taxable income for 1965 may be able to reduce the total amount of his tax by using the income averaging method. This method permits · a part of the usually large amount of taxable income to be taxed in lower brackets, resulting in a reduction of the over-an amount of tax due. The following items can be used as deductions against income (IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THE STANDARD DEDUCTION): CONTRIBUTIONS. A taxpayer can deduct up to 20 percent of gross income for contributions to charitable institutions, and an additional ten percent in con- tributrons to churches, hospitals and educational institutions. INTEREST. Interest paid to banks and individuals on loans, mortgages, etc., is deductible. TAXES. In general, you can deduct: personal property taxes, real estate taxes, state or local retail sales taxes, state gasoline taxes and state income taxes actually paid within the year. You cannot deduct: Federal excise taxes, Federal Social Security taxes, hunting and dog licenses, auto inspection fees, tags, drivers licenses, alcoholic beverage, cigarette and tobacco taxes, water taxes and taxes paid by you for another person. MEDICAL AND DENTAL EXPENSES. All expenses over three percent of adjusted gross income for doctor and dental bills, hospital bills, medical and hospital insurance, nurse care and similar costs can be deducted. Other such costs include such items· as eyeglasses, ambulance service, transportation to doctors' offices, rental of wheelchairs and similar equipment, hearing aids, artifical limbs and corrective devices. However, if the Seafarer is re- imbursed by the Seafarers Welfare Plan for any of these costs, such as family, hospital and surgical expenses, he cannot deduct the whole bill, only that part in excess of the benefits paid by the Plan. All expenses over one percent of adjusted gross income for drugs and medicine can be deducted. The deductible portion is then combined, with other medical and dental expenses which are subject to the normal three percent rule. Special Rule for Certain Persons 65 or over: The unreimbursed portion of the medical and dental expenses including medicine and drugs are deductible in full for the following persons: (a) The taxpayer and his wife if EITHER is 65 years of age or over; (b) A dependent who is 65 or over and who is the mother or father of the taxpayer or his wife. CARE OF CHILDREN AND OTHER DEPENDENTS. If deductions are itemized, a woman or a widower (including men who are divorced or legally separated under a decree and who have not remarried) or a husband whose wife is incapacitated or is institutionalized for at least 90 consecutive days or a shorter period if she dies, may deduct expenses paid, not to exceed a total of $600, for one dependent, or not to ex.ceed a total of $900 for two or more dependents for the care of: (a) dependent children under 13 years of age; Ol" (b) dependent persons (excluding husband or wife) physically by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative The maritime trades department at its last meeting reelected its officers. Morris Weisberger was elected president, Al Clem was named vice president and Stan Lore, secretary-treasurer. The San Diego port council meeting will be held on March 3 for the purpose of adopting a constitution. Peter McGavin, secretarytreasurer of the AFL-CIO Mari- ,••,_ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ __ time Trades Department, will be manpower and came in from the east on hand at the inauguration of officers for the new port council. coast to ship out. At present, Lester Balinger, is actHe was right ing as chairman until permanent about us needing officers are elected. help and we shipped him as a San Francisco bos'n on the Shipping continues to be very Robin Trent. A. good in all departments and all O. Roy came in ratings. Several ships were in for from New Or Little sign ons during the past week. leans and shipped Ships in for pay off this period as deck maintenance on the Transwere the Coe Victory, the Trans- hudson heading for India. He said hudson, the Rice Victory, the Cour he heard shipping was good but D'Alene and the Robin Trent. d-idn't know it was this good. Signing on for the period were the Pat Fox just paid off the NoCoe Victory, the Rice Victory, the berto Capay a few weeks ago and Oceanic Spray and the Cour is spending a leisurely vacation D'Alene. on the beach. After a few more Ed E. Luzier is just off the days on the beach he will be ready Cuba Victory as AB. Ed has been to grab the first oiler slot that in the union for comes along. He won't have any 19 years and plans trouble shipping as jobs are plento take it easy for tiful. a week or so and Paul Whitlow, ship's delegate then catch the first on the Transyork, dropped by the AB job that hits hall to say hello and picked up the board. F. some overtime sheets and logs for Miller was last on the Eagle Voyager the crew. fn transit were the San Franas AB. Miller has been on the beach cisco, the Summit, the Montpelier for awhile and now is ready to Victory and the Calmar. take the ,first ,Viet Nam run that Ships due in for the next period comes along. are the Whitehall, the Choctau, Vincente Lawsin was last on the the De Soto, the Fairport, the Norberto Capay. Vince spent 14 Wild Ranger and the Express Balmonths on this ship and plans to timore. get married and take it easy for On the beach we have F. LaRosa awhile before shipping out again . who was just paid off the Rice He thinks the vacation is one of Victory and says he had a nice the finest benefits the Union has .. trip. Seattle Wilmington Shipping continues to be exShipping activity has been booming here and the outlook for cellent on all ratings and all dethe coming two weeks is very partments. Most of the ships are good. We are short all ratings in going to Japan, Korea and Viet all departments. During the past Nam, although we still have the two week period we had three grain run to India which is movpay-offs, two sign-ons and six ing out of this area. Any member can choose his run from the Seships were in transit. M. T. Little said he heard we attle area. or mentally incapable of caring for themselves; if such care is to enable the taxpayer to be gainfully employed or to actively seek gainful employment. ALIMONY. Periodic payment of alimony to a wife in accord with a written agreement between them can be deducted. CASUALTY LOSSES. The reasonable value of all clothing and gear lost at sea due to storm, vessel damage, etc., for which the taxpayer is not otherwise compensated, can be deducted .as an expense. The same applies to fire loss or losses in auto accidents which are not compensated by insurance. These losses are limited to the amount in excess of $1 00 for each loss. WORK CLOTHES, TOOLS. The cost and cleaning of uniforms and work clothes which ordinarily cannot be used as dress wear can be deducted. This includes protective work shoes, gloves, caps, foul weather gear, clothing ruined by grease or paint, - plus tools bought for use on the job, or books and periodicals used in direct connection with work. UNION DUES. Dues and initiation fees paid to labor organizations and most union assessments can be deducted. PURCHASE OF U.S. SAVINGS BONDS. If you are entitled to a refund, you may apply it to the purchase of Series E. U.S. Savings Bonds. If you check the appropriate box you will be issued as many bonds as your refund will buy in multiples of $18.75 for each $25 face value bond. DECLARATION OF ESTIMATED TAX. The purpose of this declaration is to provide for current payment of taxes not collected through wit~holding, where a taxpayer may have a considerable amount of outs\de income. In such cases, a Seafarer should check the instructions on his tax return carefully, as the .. Declaration of Estimated Tax" also must be filed on or before April 15, 1966, --, ' ._,..... �- - -- - Two Seafarers Settle $LSD Debt At Surprise Meeting In Viet Nam When Seafarers get together around the Union Hall or at a strange table in some foreign port of call, they exchange stories and get to know each other, knowing all the while that paths are very unlikely to ever cross again. Most likely, they are shipping out on different vessels and will go their own • way. With Seafarers Eric Chit- ~ - - March 4, 1966 SI Member Raps 14(bJ a,epeal ..Defeat LETTERS To the Editor: To The Edi tox- . '• Union get to "ride free" on the benefits that we io the labor movement have fought so bard for. You don't find any of them turning back the salary increases the Union got for them ~ithet. Most of the time they are just hoping ro stay on good teJDl$ with the boss so they can get spe.cial favors. There's always a few with thick sku1Js that don't realize . only way for the working man to get the rights he deserves is 1o unioni~ and bargain collectively. · Myself and many oth~r Americans .are still pulliqg .for, the re~al of 14(b), al~ng with the · defeat of those senators who «:either don't think the :wQrking the -· Recalls Da Nang Chittenden, himself, recalls the Da Nang harbor, a horseshoeshaped affair which he describes as "lit up at night almost as if it were day." There, he went on to say, "is where the munitions, the ..... .· ammunition and the gasoline, is shipped in to the soldiers, and the flares and the tracer shells light up the sky all night Jong. One can · feel the rumble of the artillery that seem to fire all night long." "But this is the city," Weatherly puts in, "that was once called the 'Paris of the Orient,' when the French were there. N ow the piace just stinks. Garbage is allowed to sit in the streets and draw flies , and artillery is continuously being dragged up and down the oncebeautiful tree-lined avenues. Bars have been placed across the doors · and windows of the bars and restaurants to keep grenades from ~-- SEAFARER S LOG Page Twelve tenden of the deck department and Electrician Frank Weatherly it was _a different story. They got together in the hall in New York about four years ago, and Eric borrowed a dollar and a half from his fellow SIU member, and such was their last meeting for quite a while. Then, only last month, Brother Weatherly was at the Olympia Bar in Viet Nam, a place where Seafarers are accustomed to gather. It was quite a while before they'd be shipping out again, due to the backlog of ships yet . to be unloaded. Weatherly was sitting quietly at the bar, relaxing over beer and awaiting the time when his ship was due to weigh anchor and start home again. Meanwhile, Brother Chittenden walked in the front door, but ducked back long enough to reach in his pocket and pull out a dollar - ' and a half. When the old buddies met, Chittenden pulled out the money, as if he'd had it ready all the time and handed it over to his friend. All Weatherly could say was, "Good God, · Eric, you remembered that after four years!" ~ ~ -~, Seafarers Eric Chittenden and Frank Weatherly meet again by accident in front of the SIU Hall in Brooklyn after running across each other in Saigon some few months before. They met at the hall about four years ago, and their paths finally crossed again in Viet Nam. coming in." Between the times he is shipping out, Chittenden busies himself with many and varied activities. After paying off the Steel Traveler a while back, he took up flying and is now the proud owner of a private pilot's license. During his stay on the beach in Viet Nam , Chittenden took the opportunity to fly about the country on commercial airlines-from Saigon to Qui Nhon to Pleiku to Trang and back to Saigon. During his excursion around the country, Chittenden managed to talk to American Armed Forces men, who were serving their nation in varied capacities. One of his most moving experiences was a conversation with a GI who was recuperating from his wounds in an army hospital. ''The boy was shot in the side, his leg was tom up, and his face burnt, but never once did he cry or complain." Both Seafarers were noticeably distressed at the lack of facilities for seaman, not only in Saigon, but in pretty near an the ports they had been touching for the past several years. Too, both agreed that going ashore in the war-torn country was moderately safe-if one obeyed the rules of common sense. As Weatherly put it, "A man has to stay sober, keep his wits about him and know where he's going. In Saigon, money flows like lava, and there are plenty of people available who will help a man get rid of his wallet. I find this to be typical of any country where confusion has been created by war. With supplies and soldiers and freighters .. ~ coming in and out constantly, it's impossib.Ie to run a port city cJeanly and efficiently, and confusion is a very excellent cover for thieves and other illicit activities." Now there is a large backlog of ship!) waiting to be unloaded outside the Viet Nam harbor facilities, and although the two Seafarers were much in favor of the 100 % bonus they received while waiting, there's still the problem of passing the time. According to Brother Chittenden, there's a good bit of story-telling, some fishing, and he and another Seafarer actually took time for SCUBA diving off a small island in the bay. They went in a sma11 fishing boat with a two-cycle engine and didn't find out until the next day that the place was rumored to be teeming with Viet Cong. I· - r- ~ ' I - ;- Luckily, Chittenden and his friend just had a close call, for in one case while they were in Saigon a seaman reportedly disappeared and has never been heard from again, On iiDOther occasion, an SIU man was hit by snipers who were firing at U. S. soldiers in the boat just ahead of them. So now, with all this adventures behind him, Chittenden has re-ceived his passport and is planning a little vacation in England and Spain before shipping out again. c ' , 1 ~ - WELL, ~l(IPPER­ ITfs ER-E.R-ER- ,. ~ .. I ' "#< .. '~ Pe pe wi Se Sn wa �1 March 4, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Seafarer Finis Sunny Puerto Rita lantl 01 Warmth Anti Hospitality "Though I often get a few days' freedom in the port of San Juan," said Seafarer Joe Sarnicola, during a recent visit to the Log office. "I don't spend any time hanging around the city if I can help it. I rent a car and drive out to the nearby islands, away from the flashy attractions and the typical tourist traps. Since we're usu- • ally on the beach for two or about Puerto Rico, as if I were made the rounds of taking in the three days there, there's ample not a visitor, but just a part of historical sights of the city, such as EI Moro Castle. "It's like sometime to wander around and see the people." what the real Puerto Rico is like." Brother Sarnicola noted the dif- thing out of a Spanish storybook," Brother Sarncola, who ships out ferences between the way of life in he said. "There are gun slits, in the engine depaFtment, is strict- Puerto Rico as compared with dungeons and an old jail, which ly a coast-wise man, and for good the American style of living. He is open to the public to inspect. reasorl'. His two girls, Stacy, aged found that most of the natives get Then, of course, there are a num13 months, and Wendy, aged 4 by on a lot less of the material ber of ancient Catholic churches weeks, along with his wife Kath- things, sometimes the barest es- which I would consider worthleen, just make it nice to be able sentials, devoid of luxury, because while for anybody to see. Some to spend a little time around the of the lower income scale. "Peo- are still in good condition, and house whenever possible. pie living a good simple life," he most of those that are not are So Sarnicola is usually found said, "but every bit as happy as now being patched up. shipping out on Sea-land or Sea- people who live in the continental "On the whole," Sarnicola concluded, "I enjoy my visits to train Lines. He was last off the United States. "The majority of the people I Puerto Rico. Any Seafarer who Seatrain Texas, and has turned out to be an avid admirer of the came in contact with," Sarnicola takes care to avoid the waterfront scenery on Puerto Rican beaches. went on to say, "worked on shore joints where a man can get rolled, "The last time I was there," gangs, as stevedores and long- can have a good time there." . he said, "I trav- shoremen. Their diet is rather Although Sarnicola u s u a I 1 y eled around with much on the light side, because of found his way to the beaches when a shipmate 0 f the warm weather down there. there were a few days to spare mine, Juan Feli- Fish , rice, beans and chicken are in Puerto, he didn't ignore the ciano, who has a few of items usually found on sights and advantages in the city quite a few rela- their table. of San Juan. Occasionally, he tives on the is- · "All in all," Brother Sarnicola ,gets around to taking in a bullland. We wan- concluded, "I found the people fight , although they don't kill the dered around, en- very helpful, warm and friendly. bull in Puerto Rico like they do joying the sights My shipmate's friends and rela- in Spain and Mexico, and a lot of Sarnicola and swimming in tives acted as if they had known the fighters are imported from the the coastal areas, and went to visit me all my life. They opened their outside. "Too," he observed, "I find it kind of artificial, when they his relatives. It really made me home to me." Also, the young Seafarer has file down the bull's horns. feel that I was learning something FINAL DEPARTURES Arthur Cash, 57: Brother Cash died of a prolonged heart aliment in Los Angeles. He joined the Union in 1961 in the port of Wilmington, California and was a seaman his life. He was buried in the Wilmington cemetery. Brothr ~ er Cash is survived by a brother, Wilbur L. Cash of Ikmulgee, Oklahoma. all Roscoe Milton, 63: Brother Milton died in November of last " year of heart trouble. He was • born in Thomasville, Georgia and lived his later life in Mobile, Alabama. He joined the Union over 20 years ago in Norfolk, Virginia. Brother Milton is survived by his wife who also lives in Mobile, Alabama. Organizing Drives Recalled by SIU Pensioner Edward Rydon, 47: Brother Rydon died of a liver ailment in New Orleans last year. A member of the deck department, he joined the Union over 20 years ago in the port of New York. He was a resident of Hitchcock, Texas and was buried in that town. He was a native of Boston and sailed with the SIU as bosun. He is survived by his wife who lives in Hitchcock, Texas. Vito Comerico, 60: Brother Comerico succumbed to pneumonia in Norfolk, Virginia. He was a member of the SIU for the last 9 years and sailed in the steward department. He joined the Union " in his native Norfolk. He was buried in Norfolk and named his son and daughter as his beneficiarys. Pensioned old-timer Daniel J. Gorman (right) recounts his union experiences, including past organizing drives in which he was active, with He~dquarters Representative . Leon Hall (left) and Welfare Services Director Al Bernstein. Brother Gorman, who now lives at Snug Harbor, L9n9 Island, was on the first ship to pass through the waterlocks of the 'Panama Canal. · William Oswinkle, 52: Brother Oswinkle died in Galveston rec;_ently of a respiratory disorder that had kept him down for an extended time. His last ship was the Cabins, on which he sailed in the steward depart- ment. He joined the Union in 1943 in the port of New York. He is survived by his son William Oswinkle, Jr., and was buried in Essex, ·Maryland. Page Thirteen PERSONALS John A. Dunne Please contact your brother by mail at 4866 Camelia St., New Orleans, La. Evit Ardoin and Pablo Pacheco Checks are being held for you in the Baltimore SIU office. Paul Aubain Please contact Mrs. E. T. Barnett at 12002 Anchick, Houston, Texas as soon as you can. William E. Odum Please contact Mrs. Tessie Odum at 7119 Avenue 0, Houston 11, Texas. Friends of Manuel Vegas Brother Vegas would like to keep in touch with all of his old buddies in the engine department now that he is retired at 18 Woodrow Drive, St. Augustine; Florida. He wants his friends to simply drop him a card to let him know how they're getting along. J. T. Hagan Please contact Mrs. J. T . Hagan at 21 Kitchell Ave., Wharton, New Jersey. -w- -w- -w- John Rudolph Important! Your wife would like you to write her immediately. -w- Murray Davis Please phone your wife immediately. -w- Joe Kirk The luggage you left accidentally in your hotel room in Seattle is being held by A. L. Smith at his residence at 4456 Winthrop Street, Spokane, Washington. --w-- Lenwood E. Wilson Please contact Mrs. Lenwood E. Wilson, 640 E. Union Street, Jacksonville, Florida. --w- --w---w --w-- Income tax refund checks are being held at the SUP Building, 450 Harrison St., San Francisco 5, California for the fol.lowing Seafarers: Andre W. Deriger, Potenciano Paculba and Hans J. L. Pederson. -w- Kenneth B. Emery Please contact George J. Garzotte, I 040 Maison Blanche Building, New Orleans, Louisiana. --w-- Rafael Evans Please contact Julio Evans at Puerto Real Box 447, Fajardo, Puerto Rico. --w Luigi Antonio Gaudino Please contact your family immediately. Also contact Angelo G . Faraci at 25 Main St. , East Rochester, New York. --w-- James H. Achord Please contact Mrs. Henry Achord, Route 1 Box 221, Varnado, Louisiana. John Godwin Please contact your mother at 224 McRae St. , Atmore, Ala. James Dhein Please contact Mrs. Hugo Dhein, 132 Stewart St., Clintonville, Wisconsin. Miguel Louis Medina Please· contact M . Medina, Jr., at 56 William St., East Orange, N. J. John R. Blow Has been under the weather lately and would like to hear from all his old SIU buddies who know his address in Jacksonville, Florida. Gear Being Held Isthmian Lines is holding gear at company offices at Erie Basin for the following Seafarers: J. Masakianm, Steel Flyer; Gilbert Wilson, Steel Director; P. Konis, Steel Artisan; P. Martinovich, Steel Fabricator; Wm. T. Farrell, Steel Rover; Wm. Fitzpatrick, Steel Advocate; J . Martakos, Steel Advocate; Harrin Macip, Steel Seafarer; Ray Mcnally, Steel Age; Antonia Lipari, Steel Age; Bagio Di Mento, Steel Age; George Hall, Steel Surveyor. Seafarers Silva, L.areen, Sawyer and Cavan also have . gear at the Isthmian Lines Brooklyn warehouse. --w- -ww-- .Henry S. Cavanaugh Please contact Ggorge J. Garzotto at once. --w-- Checks are being held for the following members at the dispatcher's counter of "the SIU hall in New York: Eugene R. Hall, Frederick Merinerth, Jose Montalvo, J. Ross and Hugh Wells. --w-- --w-- �. Brother Uses Time Spent In Drytlotk For Interesting Hobby anti Business . March 4, 1966 SEAFARE RS LOG Page Fourteen "'" What happens when an injury puts a Seafarer in the hospital for an extended period of time? Some people would just lull away their time and have nothing to show for the· period. For · seafarer George Flood, however, the six months spent in the USPHS Staten Island Hospital were well spent because he found a way to keep busy and • make money at the same time. While in the hospital with a back injury he sustained aboard ship, Brother Flood found he had a great deal of time with nothing to do. To solve this problem he decided to take up one .of the crafts taught to patients in USPHS hospitals. "I was really in a fit over what I could do with myself while in the hospital. I have always worked, especially with my hands, and the idea of just sitting around not doing anything was really frightening to me," Brother F lood stated. In the hospital's craftshop Brother Flood came across the old craft of fancy needle work. Under the guidance of Mrs. Webber, the director of the craft shop, Brother Seafarer George Flood proudly displays examples of his handiwork Flood learned how to work with which he brough•t along to the SIU Hall in Brooklyn to show to his the needle and thread and create fellow Seafarers. Brother Flood learned to work with the needle and pictures on black felt. thread while he was laid up in the hospital. "I really think that working with needle and thread is good for When he first started to do the er Flood for the pictures are wool, an old Seafarer like myself. In needle work it took him about a yarn, black velvet and plenty of the old days when we were un- week to finish a picture. Now it time. Another ingredient that is der sail the seafarer was probably takes less than two days. He uses indispenable in fancy needle work the best sewer around. Even today his own colors and bis pictures is patience. Without it, according to Brother Flood, you just you can find some oldtimers who range from flags to kittens Brother Flood plans to continue cannot do the work. can sew as good as any seam"When I first started to make stress." his avocation and help suppliThe pictures sell for 12 dollars ment his retirement money and the pictures I had someone sell them for me because I thought and, according to Brother Flood, keep busy at the same time. sell quite well. He usually brings Brother Flood sews the pictures they would be hard to sell, but two or three pictures with him to around designs he buys and then since then I have discovered that they really sell themselves and I the hall just in case some Seafarer puts frames around the finished is interested in purchasing art. pictures. Materials used by Broth- have no problem." Julie Ann Welch, born November l 7, 1965, to the Leroy Welchs, Groves, Texas. --4-- Esther ·Mae Cooley, born November 2, 1965, to the Benjamin F. Cooleys, Citronelle, A1a. Anne Marie Amora, born December 20, 1965, to the Felix P. Amoras, San Francisco, California. --4-David Evans, born December 15, 1965, to the George Evans, Newark, New Jersey. --4-- --4-- Robin Hornberger, born October 20, 1965, to the Robert Hornbergers, Elysberg, Pa. --4-- Kevin Maskell, born December 10, 1965, to the Elmer Meskells, Alpena, Mich . Samantha D' Amico, born January 2, 1966, to the Charles D'Amicos, Jr. , Houston, Texas. . Lisa Ann Gray, born November 15, 1965, to the Jack W. Grays, Seattle, Washington. --Ji-- Joseph Michael Grasso, born November 18, 1965, to the Basil Grassos, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. --4-Kevin Joseph Anderson, born December 27, 1965, to the Donald V. Andersons, Manistique, Mich. --4-- --w-- --w-- --w---w-- --w-- Indian Summer -4- . . • J 4 .- . • J ' --4-- Gwen Susan Lopez, born December 18, 1965, to the Manuel Lopezs, Chicago, III. JAMES L. TUCKER reports from the Del Sud that everything is going along well on the trip and that all beefs from the voyage have been settled. Edward A vrard was ·elected to serve as ship's delegate for the voyage, which will include San l••;~--------------------------Julie Marie Howard, born NoJuan, Barbados and Rio. The ship thanks from the crew for doing ship's delegate at the beginning of is scheduled to be back in New Or- such a good job. According to voyage 161, reports meeting secre- vember 17, 1965, to the Danny leans by April. the crew they never failed to come tary J.P. Fitzgerald. According to Howards, Jeffersonville, Indiana. through with a sumptuous meal. the crew, it was one of the Good food goes a long way in smoothest trips they had been on Che Chan Ho, born October L. S. Johnny Johnston, ship's keeping all hands happy. in a long time, and are looking 11, 1965, to the Yung KongHos, delegate abroad the Del Sud, reforward to a good voyage on 162. San Francisco, Calif. ports that the Smooth sailing from Philadelcrew hated to Joseph Bernard Lovett, born phia and Pittsburgh has resulted in leave New OrNovember 10, 1965, to the Wil1 no beefs from the ._,. leans the day beliam Lovetts, New York, N. Y. men of G eneva fl fore Chri s tmas (U.S. Steel) Secrebut that the old tary Clyde L. Van saying "Ships and Lola Ann Trail, born NovemEpps says the ship Tides Wait For ber 22, 1965, to the Junior B. bas been ~etting No Man" applied Trails, Cleveland, Ohfo. its mail regtilarly in their case. The Johnston and everything is crew at the first O.K. According meeting, the day after Christmas, LOG-A-RHYTHM to meeting chairvoted to extend a vote of thanks, Van Epps man Richard and a job well done, to the stewHemey the ship will end its to the steward department. voyage with a payoff and sign on By Roy Lee Hinson in Baltimore. Good news has arrived from Now, 'tis season's end. Indian Summer is here, E.W. Cox aboard the Cities ServThe Great Spirit has come to erase all fear; ice ship Bradford. From Kazmin Lynch, meeting Nature's beautiful world is read, golden and brown, -. . .... \ An amplifier for chairman, aboard the Iberville Dead leaves are fa/line from trees to the ground. the T.V. set has (Waterman) The red and brown faces are painted so neat, arrived and the comes word there They choose the chieftain, then honor his seat. crew can now get has · been no disA I/ people will gather from far and near plenty of teleputed overtime. To come hear their chief, both prophet and seer. . ... , vision watching After leaving YoWise council is given to the children of men, time. A. Johns, " kohama the men A . villain is dispersed for mistreating his kin. meeting chair,.,. are happy about The chiefs are cited for their wisdom and duty, man, reports that t drawing overtime The squaws are chosen "for their charm and beauty. Cox no one has any pay with 14 days Work is now finished, nature must rest, beefs and that the trip is running Fitzgerald in Cam Rahn Bay The sun withdraws from the beautiful West. quite well. The steward departand 31 days in There is nothing on earth that has fear of death, ,,._ .. ment was given a big round of Ohinon. A. R. Guidry was elected For all things are kissed by nature's breath. -4- --w-- Lisa Pickett, born November 5, 1965, to the Robert Picketts, Houston, Texas. -- 4 -- Tracy Lee Barton, born December 13, 1965, to the Rodney Bartons, Houston, Texas. ) Ii- --w-- Stephanie Faye Santos, born September 24, 1965, to the Robert Santos, Galveston, Texas. Donna Fahriou, born January 2, 1966, to the Vincent Fahrious, Bayonne, New Jersey. ... ~ --4-- Cynthia Kilby, born December 2, 1965, to the Burl Kilbys, Baltimore, Maryland. -4- --w-- Jacky Ann Pierce, born October 4, 1965, to the George L. Pierces, Manitowoc, Wisc. N. Y. -4- Leslie Rachael Childr~ born October 17, 1965, to the Fuller Childress, Fairhope, Alabama. Anna Mae Workman, born October 25, 1965, to the Homer Workmans, New Orleans, Louisiana. Shawn Kevin Clifford, born November 17, 1965, to the Michael J. Cliffords, Buffalo, .. ,. --w-- --w-- --4-- P..BNN V.&.NGUABD -('Pean Sblppiq), F@riF,r ~lrman l . . S. llellae; Seetetan; . meiUii Nel9911. Bblp ~ 9hori t'hrte aie11. , No beef• ~ 117 ~nt •c!elepta, Bl'other Echr&rcl1 DavtdlOn waa 'elected to aerve a Dew" ilhlp1a deleP,te.: Vof.e of ~ ~ded to B~her ;s. ' 8. l(eRae, .lonlll!l' iblp'1 del~Wl ,... · .... ':·· Ym ·(W~~i:nu.r,. ~ll,af'.r­ m,_n, •Donalo A.ltt ~~. Donilo ,Alt No aNN!fi 'l'!IVO~ bJ' d~t deleJ wu. ptes. · Brothel' .. F. ,·C. Ta~ J"r. elec~ w, Mr.ve u ~"'° ~fp~~J!p_;;.. :Vote of ~nice to~be ~~--~~ . aaADJ'OR.D"lS°L,AND (Oftt• Sirvloe), Febi-~· lh-Chairnlan, A. Johll•· aeet"etai.!:Y. E. ·w. Oox. Brother J. W, ir11m. wait eleeui!l to serve aa abtp'a~ delesatci. ·s.12.$8 bl shlp'~_!u!1d after' bui!Dlr ampltfter (Qr TV. aoiue · dfaJl\ltAl.d O'J' ln deck d~e.at. Dfaeuatona reirarclblS heat on ahlp l0naahoiemen'a holYat i i ~ pa, .a;;f , U11ion takln1r aome acttoa oD :re~t plap. . ' . I' I DEL CAMPO (MllalaSJPpl); ' :J~b~ 21J..:.:!6bairman, .Juan .ll·' c. Oiui&~: • . taey, 'lUebal'il G. 'Jlal'tl~ez. Some mfllO bee/If .to be ·taken , up with bOardJns. lbolmari . . Motton made to eltaft · tbe l'etlreml!llt plan tcio 20 7ean bl .the 1Jlll0n. Shi.J>. . •bOuld · be fumlPt.ed tor -rats. an t oUheii. "Vo~of tbanlra atencled. 'tc> the tew&l'd depal'~ent fur ~ job .eU do,ne. DIGEST of SIU SHIP MEETINGS ·1·''" . ,. �March 4, 1966 t- SEA.FA.HERS LOO. PIN ANClAL REPORTS. 'nle con•tltution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf Lakes and Inland Waters Diltrfct makes •peclflc provlBlon fur B&feiruardlnir the iiiembenblp'a money and Union flnanCeB. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and flle audltlnir committee elected by the membership. All Union record• are available at SIU headquarters In Brooklyn. · TRUST FUNDS. All trust fund• of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lake. and Inland ,Watera District are admlnlBtered In accordance with the provlalona of varloUB truat iund agreements. All these airreementa specify 'that th(: tru•tees In charire of these fundB shall equally consist of union and manairement repreaent::.t.lvea and their alternates. All expenditure. and disbursements of trust funds art: m.'d~ Ollly upon approval by a majority of the trUBteea. All trust fund financial recor. .;!- al'l? available at the he:i.dquarters of the various trUBt funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shlpplnir riirhts and seniority are iJrotected exclusively by the contracts between the Union. and the sblpownens. Get to know your sbipplnir rlgbta. Coples of theee contracts are posted and available In all Union balls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rlirhta aa contained In the contl')lcta between the Union and the •hipowners, notify the Seaf:1rers Appeals Board by certified mall, return receipt requeeted. ~""he proper addreee for this la: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Batt.ery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts aa referred to are available to you at all times, either by writinir directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Coples of all SIU contracts are available In all SIU halls. The.e contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and In the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union oftlclal, In your opinion, falls to protect your contract rights properly, contact the nearest SIU port airent. . EDITORIAL POLICY-SEAFAKERS LOG. The LOG baa traditionally refrained from publlahlnir any article aervlnir the political purJ>0114!11 of any Individual In the Union, officer or member. It bu also refrained from publlahlnir articles deemed harmful to the Union or Its collective membership. Thia established policy has been reaffirmed by membenblp action at the_ September, 1960, meetlnp in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy la vested in an editorial board which conslats of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from· amonir Its ranks, one individual to carry out tbla responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONU:S. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity In the SIU unleu ••· official Union receipt la irfven for aame. Under no clrcumetancea 1hould· &DJ' member pay any mane,. for any reason unless he la irfven such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such paym.ent be made without aupplylnir a receipt, or If a member I• required to make s payment and la given an official receipt, but teele that he should not have been required to make such payment, thil should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. ·The· SIU pub.llahes every six months In the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of . Its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union hsU.. All membera ahoold obtain copies of thie c0natltution eo u to familiarize themselves with Its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer ii attemptinir to deprive you of any constitutional rlirht or obligation b'Y any methodB such u dealing with charges, trlale, etc., u well as sll other detaile, then the member eo affected should Immediately notify beadquartera. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU memben drawlnir dlaablllty-penslon benefits have_,,}wa:ra been encouraired to contb1•1e their union activities, lncludlnir sttendance at membenhip meetlnira. And like all other SIU memben at these Union meetinp, they are encouraired to take an active role In all rank-and-flle functions, including servl::e on rank-and-ftle commltt.eea. Because these oldtlmen cannot take shipboard employment, the membenhlp baa reaffirmed the long-standing Union policy of allowlnir them to retain their irood standing throuirh the waivlnir of tbefr dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are iruaranteed equal rights In employment and u members ot the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth In the SIU constitution and In the contracta which the Union baa neirotlated with the employers. Consequently, no Seafarer may be· dlacriminated airal1111t because of race, creed, color, national or geoirrapblc ortirin. If any member feela that he la denied the equal rtirhts to which .be la .entitled, he .ahl>Uld notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the .basic riirhts of Sl!llfaren.1_. ~ the rtirht to pursue leirfalative and political objectives which will serve the I>e.t bilerat8"'oCthemiielvee: their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives-; the Seafarers Political Activity Donation wu established. Donations to SPAD are entirely volltntary and constitute the funda tbrouirh which legislative and ·political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. It at •111' time a Seafarer feell that &DJ' of the 11boTe rlchta han been Tlolated, or that he hu bHn denied hla -8tltatlonal rhrht of to Union records or information, he ahoald lmmedtate!J' notlfJ' SIU President Paal Hall at headqaarteu b,. certlled aall, retam reeefpt reciuested. .... SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New York .Mar. 7-2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 8-2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Mar. 9-2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 11-2:30 p.m. U:ouston ... Mar. 14-2:30 p.m. New Orleans Mar. 15-2:30 p.m. Mobile . ... Mar. 16-2:30 p.m. p.m. Wilmington Mar. 21-2 San Francisco Mar. 23-2 p.m. p.m. Seattle ..... Mar. 25-2 Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit ....... Mar. Alpena ....... Mar. Buffalo ....... Mar. Chicago ...... Mar. Cleveland .... Mar. Duluth ....... Mar. Frankfurt ..... Mar. 7-2 p.m. 7-7 p.m. 7-7 p.m. 7-7 p.m. 7-7 p.m. 7-7 p.m. 7-7 p.m. * held at Labor Temple, Newheld at Labor Temple Sault Mich. ' held at Galveston whanes. DIRECTORY of UNIONSLLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Detroit .... Mar.14-7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .Mar.14-7:30 p.m. Chicago .... Mar.15-7:30 p.m. Buffalo .... Mar. 16-7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Mar. 15-7:30 p.m. Duluth .... Mar.18-7:30 p.m. Oeveland .. Mar.18-7:30 p.m. Toledo .... Mar.18-7:30 p.m. SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Philadelphia .. Mar. 8-5 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) .. Mar. 9-5 p.m. Houston ...... Mar. 14-5 p.m. Norfolk ...... Mar.10-5 p.m. New Orleans .. Mar.15-5 p.m. Mobile ....... Mar.16-5 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New York .... Mar. 7-7 p.m. Baltimore ..... Mar. 9-7 p.m. Philadelphia .·.Mar. 8-7 p.m. I • Mfftinir port News. t Meetinir Ste. Marie, Meetinir Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Jersey City Mar. 14-10 a.m. & Philadelphia Mar.15-10 a.m. & Baltimore Mar. 16-10 a.m. & *Norfolk Mar. 17-10 a.m. & SHI :f:Houston ..... Mar. 14-7 p.m. Mobile ... .... Mar.16-7 p.m. New Orleans .. Mar.15-7 p.m. VICE PRESIDENTS Earl Shepard Lindsey Williams Al Tanner Robert Matthews Railway Marine Region of SIU PqeFUteen HEADQUARTERS ..... 675 4th Ave., Bklyn . HY 9-6600 ALPENA, Mich. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 River St. EL 4-3616 BALTIMORE, MD •. ... 1216 E. Baltimore Sit. EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1n State St. RI 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y. . ... . . 735 Washingtton St. TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, Ill. 9383 Ewing Ave. SA 1-0733 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich •. . 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn . . . ..... .. . 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich. . . . . . . . . P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. EL 7·2441 HOUSTON, Tex. . . . . . . . . . . 5804 Canal St. WA 8·3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . ..... 2608 Pearl St. EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J • .... 99 Montgomery St. HE 3-0104 MOBILE, Ala. . ..... I South Lawrence St. HE2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, _La .... . 630 Jackson Ave . Tel. 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va • ... . .. . . ... ...... 115 3rd St. Tel. 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa ... . ...... 2604 S. 4th St. DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex . ...... 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R •... 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 723.9594 SEATTLE, Wash • ........ . 2505 First Avenue MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo •.... . ... .. .... 805 Del Mar CE-1-1434 TAMPA, Fla . ..... .... ..... 312 Harrison Sit. Tel. 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif.. .. 505 N. Marine Ave . TE 4-2523 Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boycott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions involved, and will be amended from time to time.) ''Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) -JJEastern Air Lines (Flight Engineers) -JJH. I. Siegel "IDS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) -JJSears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) -JJStitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) -JJJ. R. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) -JJKingsport Pr~ "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) -JJJamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) -JJEmpire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) -JJWhite Furniture Co. United Furniture Workers of America) -w- Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes • • • Jannan, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, W. L. Douglas, Flagg Brothers, Kingston, Davidson. (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) ~· - -JJTyson's Poultry, Inc. Rock Cornish Tyson's Pride Manor House-Safeway Wishbone-Kroger Comish Game-Armour and A & P's SuperRight Comish Game Hen (Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of N. America) _,.J �·.' Vol. XXVlll No. 5 SEAl'AR Rs. :11~ .LOG #O'tNI ~.:_ _ I ~~T'~ .. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- · --------------------------------------- OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERN.ATIQNAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO \NI E . I· March 31, 1966 is a most important date for all persons 65 years of age or older. March 31, 1966 is the deadline for registration for the benefits under the Medicare program. Everyone who wiU be 65 or over on next JuJy l wiJI have paid-up hospital insurance under Medicare-but to get coverage of their doctor bills and other medical expenses when the program starts in JuJy they must sign up by March 31 for these suppJementary benefits which cost onJy $3.00 a month. Here Are the Simple Details: All i}ersons 65 or over whether they are working or on pension retirement-and whether or not they were covered under the Social Security or railroad retirement program-are eligible for coverage. - . ... . - I - 1•- What Happens If They Don't: Those who don't sign up by March 31 will have to wait at least two years to get this protection. The next enrollment period isn't until the end of 1967 and coverage won't become effective unti1 July 1968. What To Do: - l:. j-· Anyone over 65 who has not received a Medicare enrollment application in the mail or who has mislaid his application should get in touch with the nearest Social Security office at once. Younger people with wives, husbands, parents and other relations, union brothers or sisters, 65 or over, should remind these older persons to sign up! I • t· .. r , . . . .'.f . IF YOUjP .. ""' I , AFL-CIO President George Meany has urged. the entire labor movement to do everything in its power to make sure that a1I union members 65 or over and their fam- · ilies enroll for medical benefits ·Under Social Security ~fore Mar. 31. "It would he a 1ngedy · H _die Medicare program for which the · ~O fought so long and hard should faD short of hs o~es because ifs intended .he.ilelaHes , are unaware of the fads," Meany ~ ..... . I. S OR OVER REGISTER NOVV I 0 s p E NTARY BE f.1, • Fl S U DER MEDICARE � 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 March 4, 1966 Description An account of the resource Headlines: STOP TRADE WITH NORTH VIETNAM – THE MARITIME UNIONS BOYCOTT GARMATZ OFFERS PLAN TO EXPAND FLEET JORDAN REELECTED PRESIDENT OF MARINE FIREMEN’S UNION MTD BACKS BOYCOTT OF SHIPS TRADING WITH NORTH VIETNAM INCOME TAX GUIDE FOR SEAFARERS $2-AN-HOUR MINIMUM WAGE CALLED MORAL, ECONOMIC NEED TWO ‘MISSING LINK’ CHANNELS URGED FOR U.S. WATERWAYS ONE MAN, ONE VOTE RULE TAKES ROOT NATIONWIDE THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR – ALL THIS HAPPENED: PART 2 U.S. MERCHANT FLEET DECLINE STIRS INCREASING CONGRESSIONAL CONCERN AGGRESSIVE ANTI-POVERTY CAMPAIGN STRESSED FOR ORGANIZED LABOR TWO SEAFARERS SETTLE $1.50 DEBT AT SURPRISE MEETING IN VIETNAM SEAFARER FINDS SUNNY PUERTO RICO LAND OF WARMTH AND HOSPITALITY REGISTER NOW FOR MEDICARE 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 03/04/1966 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. XXVIII, No. 5  1966 Periodicals Seafarers Log