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The federation's Executive • Urged hearings by the Sen­ International Affairs Council said ending the 7 per­ ate Foreign Relations Committee On international affairs, the cent tax credit and/or an ex­ on the operations of the recent cess profits tax or a hike in the council: Tri-Continental Conference • Called for prompt and fav­ corporate tax rate would be sound economic policy as well as eco­ orable action on the President's among Communist elements in foreign aid request for $3.4 bil­ Havana so that constructive meas­ nomic justice. "The cost of the Viet Nam war lion and praised hi."; "new empha­ ures can be drawn "for defeating should not be absorbed by cut­ sis" on health, education and food and freedom in the Western ting back or freezing current lev­ production and planning the pro­ Hemisphere." els of federal expenditures or stunting the promised growth of essential programs," the council declared in a statement on the na­ tional economy. It stressed that "the poor should not be com­ pelled to bear the major burden of the conflict. . . ." ALBANY, N. Y.—Some 4,000 New York longshoremen, Sea­ In a companion statement on farers and other maritime and allied craft workers, staged a rally wage guidelines, the council as­ at the state capitol here March 15 calling for legislation to "democ­ sailed the policies of the Council ratize" the Bi-State Waterfront^ nual legislative council, the Port of Economic Advisers, terming Compact, the law that governs Council, headed by ILA Vicethem efforts to "shortchange workers." The guidepost policy the hiring and conditions of President Anthony Scotto, adopted its 1966 state legislative program. and the 3.2 percent figure for dock workers. The rally was held under the The Council, which represents wage increases, the council said, impose "the burden of the price auspices of the International more than 400,000 maritime and level on wage and salary earners, Longshoremen's Association New allied craft workers belonging to who do not set prices, while there York District Council and the 147 local unions in New York and is no effective guideline for prices Maritime Port Council of Greater New Jersey, will press for passage and no guidelines at all for profits New York Harbor, with which of a range of bills affecting work­ the ILA and other AFL-CIO un­ ers of affiliated unions and work­ and dividends." ers generally, and will oppose bills The CEA, it added "has clearly ions are affiliated. violated any standard of equity." SIU President Paul Hall ad­ it holds are harmful to worker's The council's economic policy dressed the rally and urged the welfare and to the community. statements and resolutions on in­ defeat of Governor Rockefeller Among the bills which will re­ ternational affairs highlighted the for his support of bills that in­ ceive priority in the Council's final sessions of the mid-winter crease the Waterfront Commis­ campaign for this year are those meeting here at the Americana sion's control over hiring prac­ that would: Hotel. Earlier the council mapped tices. A similar stand was taken • Set a $2.00-hourly minimum a stepped-up drive in 1966 to in­ by ILA President Teddy Gleason. wage throughout the state; crease the number of liberals in The rally was also addressed • Amend the Waterfront the House and Senate as the by Ray Corbett, president of the Commission Act; AFL-CIO's major objective, and New York State Federation of • Abolish lie detector tests in spelled out positions on repeal of Labor, and a number of state Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley legislators from both Democratic industry; the Communist threat to peace and Republican parties. • Improve welfare benefits of Act, minimum wage legislation A week earlier, at its second an­ fire fighters. fort Hoskm Arrives m hdia with fmrgmKy Wheat t 1 ; i ' si March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG BOMBAY—^The SlU-maimed Cities Service tanker Fort Hoskins steamed into Bombay recent­ ly, carrying as its cargo the fibrst shipload of the 1.5 million ton emergency American wheat supply to be shipped tmder P.L, 480. At doclaide ceremonies, Fi­ nance Minister S. K. Wankhede thanked die United States and the crew of the Fort Hoskins on behalf of the people of India for the timely aid in accelerating food shipments to meet the shcHrtage now prevalent in the country. The minister noted that India •was experiencing the worstdrought of the :l^t 50 years, with • six states in the country suffering ; f*om famine, "It is in this back­ ground," he saidi "at a time when we are, in trouble, that the peoplo of the United States have come forward to help us." The SlU-contracted tanker ar­ rived with 23,368 tons of wheat. She was the first of a fleet sched­ uled to arrive here vyith food grains until the end of March, The U.S. Consul-General, Mil arrival of SjU-contraetr?^^^; ^ ton C. Rewinkel, said in the dock- pockside ceremohy in Bdinbay m Hoskins With firsf of emergenfcy wheat supplies, side ceremony that the consign­ ment brought by the Fort Hoskins India and concern for the welfare shipping company officials, crev reiM-esented the harvest of 33,000 of the common man of this demo^' members and dockside workers. acr« 6f American wheatland. cratic nation." Rewinkel said that the presen This and the other shipments of The presentation was witnessed shipment of v>rheat would sufil lU.iS. food grains that would fol- by a large audience, including fop cient for the needs of the popula plpw, "is tangible evidence of officials of the Union Ministry of tipn of Bombay fot three weeks a f jAnferica's enduring friendship for Transport, the Bombay Port Trust : the,., current quota. ? 17 Report of Internationa^l President by Paul Hall The U. S. unemployment rate last month dropped to 3.7 percent, the lowest figure since November 1963. It was also the first time in nine years that the jobless rate dropped below 4 percent. This continuing decline in the jobless rate is encouraging, but should not lead to a false complacency. There are still over 3 million Ameri­ can workers who cannot find jobs. In addition, the 3.7 percent figure is an average. Within certain groups of our society the rate of jobless­ ness is much higher. The unemployment rate for non-white workers, for instance, remains at 7 percent, with one out of every 14 Negro workers unable to find a job. Among teenagers the jobless rate stands at 10.9 percent. In addition, the unemployment rate in many eco­ nomically depressed areas of the U. S. remains much higher than the national average would indicate. The overall decline in U. S. joblessness stems in part from the na­ tion's continuing economic growth. The vigor of this economic ex­ pansion—which has been going on for the past five years—can be noted from the fact that the jobless rate dropped in February, which is a month in which unemployment traditionally increases. Not all of the continuing drop in the jobless rate can be attributed to the nation's economic growth however. Much of the improvement has come about through social welfare programs initiated by the Ad­ ministration through its priority welfare programs—such as manpower retraining, aid to education, anti-poverty programs, and others. These are programs designed to revitalize entire depressed areas of our econ­ omy, break the cycle of poverty and ignorance in which too many Americans have been caught, and return these millions of Americans to productive, rewarding roles in our society. This is only one reason why it is imperative that no cutbacks are made in these Great Society programs. They have helped thousands of Americans acquire the skills and knowledge to find gainful and productive employment. In addition these programs serve as a spur to the economy by creating increased needs for goods and services which leads to further economic expansion and fuller employment. Instead of talking about cutbacks in Great Society programs, plans should he undertaken to expand them to encompass even more eco­ nomically depressed citizens. There is a moral, social and economic obligation to help these Americans reach a fuller utilization of their potential—for their own betterment and for the betterment of the entire nation. * Of * There are many magazines and other publications which come into millions of American homes under the guise of carrying factual, un­ biased reporting of events of national interest. Many of these publica­ tions do their best to maintain high standards of accuracy and, when an error in reporting is pointed out, are quick to acknowledge it and print a correction. Some publications however do not maintain these high ethical standards, either in factual reporting or in correcting an obvious mistake or blatant misrepresentation. One of the worst offenders of this type with regards to the American labor movement is the Reader's Digest, which has a long history of printing outright falsehoods and half truths in its regular attacks on the American trade-union movement and on Federal programs aimed at improving the condition of the underprivileged. In the latest ex­ ample of such anti-labor bias, the Digest compounded an "error" first printed in the pro-business magazine U. S. News & World Report. The original article in U. S. News indicated that under the 1965 basic steel contract, a steelworker would average $10,000 a year. The Steelworkers' union pointed out the error to U. S. News and sought a correction, making it clear that even when the wage provisions of the new contract became fully elective in 1968, workers in basic steel would average less than $7,000—based on 2,000 hours of work year­ ly—and that not all steelworkers are able to work as much as 2,000 hours yearly. In spite of authoritative documentation of the true facts supplied by the Steelworkers, U. S. News refused to print a correction or allow the Steelworkers a rebuttal. When the Reader's Digest decided to reprint the U. S. News article, a Digest researcher contacted the USWA Research Department to verify the facts. The USWA pointed out the errors in the original article, provided the true statistics and documented them. In spite of this the Digest reprint gave the original incorrect $10,000 figure and, as always, refused to print a correction or rebuttal and refused even to discuss the matter further. The Digest had spoken and the truth be damned.- 7 Sea Unions Draft Manning Poficy WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany met with the heads of six of the Federation's affiliated maritime unions to dis­ cuss policy in regard to manning scales on automated merchant ships. The meeting was held at ^ the AFL-CIO building March 9. national Union of North America, After a day-long meeting Presi­ Joseph Curran, president of the dent Meany appointed a drafting National Maritime Union, Jesse committee, which began working Calhoon, president of the Marine the next day, to put labor's views Engineers Beneficial Association, into language. He said that as Joseph Curran, president of the soon as the draft of the union's National Maritime Union, Lloyd proposal was completed he would Sheldon, president of the Masters, call another meeting of the six Mates and Pilots Association, Jo­ unidh officers. seph Glynn, secretary-treasurer of Attending the meeting with the Radio Officers Union, and Wil­ President Meany were Paul Hall, liam Steinberg, president of the president of the Seafarers Inter­ American, Radio Association. �March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG fwnier been ment trades ddl^esdels superior to,M^ #M ^ l&ted to four SlU-coiiifacted ste^imldp corapanies' ; d?d®d ^n cr turned in for credit i?^ tie U. S. Maritime Administi^tion, ^C'Vessels wi0 bd 1 Waterman Steamship Cotnpariy, the only one of the :<^erted into dry cargo and container :dd^> tonnagei^ ••^companies presently rm in fdieipi ttadd Im ad­ d; be nsed in domestic and fbtei^ ;servjce, vised the Federal ship agencf that it plans to use its ' The companies and the number of vessels allocated three ships to replace smaller/ 3-e^h wtK Waterman Steamship Corporation, thi-ee; The larger T-2 rankers have a liquidk bulk. cargo Hudson Waterways Corporation, seven; Seatand Serv­ . capacity of 16,350 tons and a speed of 16.2 knots, ice, Inc., two; and Transwestern Associates, one. while a C-2 type can carry only 9,200 tons of cargo at a speed of 15.5 knots. The sWi)s are bemg^made stedmsbip epmpanies under the terrhs of public Law 89-254 which Sea-I/ahd told the a that it planhed to convert ; was passed last October authoriziiif the Cf^ to Its two vessels into containersbips; tp be used in the ; "trade out" tankers for conversion into dry cargo ships • company's Alaska service. The conversion will cost an. or fpr operation on the Great Lakes. , ;. estimated $4 million to 55 miUion per Ship, and thd''; vessels will be capable ttansporting 325 containers of The measure represented an extension until 1970 of 35-foot length, '"/-f" ^^n earlier vessel exchange desigr^d td;; aid; unsubsidiijed ship line.? to Improve and upgrade The other two companies, HudsbprWaterways and ibetf fleet. Under the provisions of the law, the Govern-. Transwestern,' which are affiliated, declared that they Page Three intend to convert their Vessels into container shif an estimated cost of $1.7 million per vessel. After i work is completed/ the ships are to be cbartere# Seatrains Lines, another afflliato, for use in that V domestic services cm the coastwise and Puerto 1^ runs. Although the law made 25 tankers.^13 with lO.^ horsepovvef diesefelectric power plants and 12 7,500 hor^owtd machinety-^--uyaii^^ to private afops, no bids for the lower-powered ships were recCiyi The Maritime Administration said that the allocatii the tankers was based on maximurn utilizationupgrading. The type of conversion, the future routes of the vessels and ffie extent to yVhich the domi^l tic fleet would be benefitted were tdso factors govi the allocation. All 13 ships which the cctfnpanies will take ov«r i presently laid up in Gqveramept Reserye Would Lump MAKAD, 10 Other Units in One Department AFL-CIO Council Backs President Seeks New Cabinet Post LBJ's Viet Nam Policy BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO Executive Council "unreservedly" endorsed President Johnson's policy of combatting Communist aggression in South Viet Nam while continuing "an active search for peace and gram outlined at the recent Hon­ freedom through negotiations." olulu conference of the American The council in a statement and South Vietnamese govern­ on the Viet Nam situation said it ments. "completely rejects all insinua­ The council noted that every­ tions and assertions" that the U.S. thing that has happened in the has been or is now opposed to Viet Nam crisis since the AFLfree elections in Viet Nam. CIO convention in December The Communists in Viet Nam, 1965 confirms the correctness of the council stressed, opposed free the federation's position. The elections in 1954 "as they do statement cited the U-S. efforts to now," proposing instead "all sorts secure an honorable settlement of prefabricated committees and and the rejection by the Commu­ so-called united front groups." nist governments of President The council asserted that the Johnson's efforts. objective is to defeat aggression in AFL-CIO President George South Viet Nam "and to prepare Meany, at a press conference, the ground for the holding of free noted that elections in Viet Nam elections which will enable the could not be free if there were South Vietnamese people to estab­ pre-conditions set up by outside lish a government of their own forces. In reply to a question as free choice." to "escalation" of the war in Viet It "heartily" welcomed the deci­ Nam, he said, "When you're in a sion by President Johnson to carry fight, ^ou fight as hard as neces­ out an extensive program of social sary." He noted that if bombing and economic reform in South the supply lines of Viet Cong is Viet Nam and strongly urged that escalation, it is something we must the "advice, assistance and partici­ do in terms of protecting the lives pation" of the Vietnamese Con­ of American troops and making federation of Labor (CVT) "he easier their job of defeating ag­ secured in carrying out" the pro­ gression. To Consoiidate Transport Agencies WASHINGTON—President Johnson has asked the Congress to establish a Department of Transportation which would consolidate the functions of 11 Federal units, including the Mari­ time Administration. The request for the new cabtion, investment and safety. The fore him the reports of his Mari­ inet-level department was con­ functions of rate setting and eco­ time Advisory Committee and the tained in the President's trans­ nomic regulation now performed Interagency Maritime Task Force. portation message released on by the Interstate Commerce Com­ Noting that these two reports dif­ March 2. The message said noth­ mission and the Civil Aeronautics fered widely and that they had ing that would indicate a new Board would remain where they been submitted only early this maritime policy. The emphasis are. year, Califano said the President in the special message was focused has not yet had time to devote to Includes Public Roads on traffic safety, including a call In addition to the Maritime Ad­ the problem he feels it deserves. for a $725-million, six-year high­ He said that it has taken two years way safety program with the ministration, the proposed Trans­ to develop the Department of establishment of Federal safety portation Department would in­ Transportation program. standards for new cars and trucks. clude in their entirety the Federal The chairman of the House Aviation Agency, the Coast Guard, In calling upon the Congress to the Bureau of Public Roads, and Merchant Marine Committee, "coordinate the executive func­ the Office of the Undersecretary Congressman Edward Garmatz, said that "references to the Mer­ tions of our transportation agen­ for Transportation. cies" in a single instrument, the Although the subsidy functions chant Marine and its problem in President recommended creation of the Maritime Administration the transportation message were of a department that would he would be transferred to the new disappointingly meager." The Committee Chairman said fifth largest in the cabinet with department, those of the Civil that it is his intention "to give the nearly 100,000 employees and an­ Aeronautics Board would not. nual expenditures of about $6 At a press briefing on the trans­ entire subject the most careful and billion. portation message, special presi­ constructive attention." The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Essentially, the functions that dential assistant Joseph Califano, Department noted that the Presi­ replied to a question concerning would be consolidated under the President's recommendations were the possibility of a new maritime dent's transportation message con­ those of transportation, promo­ policy, that the President has he- tained "no shred of a new na­ tional maritime policy." The Sea­ farers International Union has the message and its program under study. ILA's Gleason Honored In New Orleans £^ves 5 Ciihan licapees SAN JUAN, P. R.—The SlU-contracted New Yorker was re­ sponsible for saving the lives of five Cuban refugees who had drifted helplessly at sea when their disabled escape boat broke down shortly after they had fled the island under cover of night. he hid for three days in the sugar fields of Oriente Province in Cuba The rescue took place about before hoarding the escape boat. 10 miles off Key Santo Do­ He said that the farmers working mingo, near Cuba; and refer­ in the area brought him food and ring to the New Yorker and its water during the time he was in crew, a spokesman for the Cuban hiding. group said, "That ship was our Dissatisfied With Castro salvation. We could not have All of the refugees were unani­ lasted for another two hours." The young man's name, as mous in their dissatisfaction with well as those of his four com­ the Castro regime. Another of the panions, are being withheld be­ group, who said he was a con­ cause the five said they feared struction worker in Cuba, claimed reprisals against their families that his 300 pesos a month sal­ ary was "not even enough to pay due to their escape. "Also," the spokesman said, for food." A desperate father, attempting "we were seasick, tired and hun­ gry. The New Yorker crew has to free his son from service in been very kind to us, please let Castro's army, engineered the es­ cape and finally persuaded the that be known." The young man explained that three others to join them. Ntorch IS, 19M Vi»i. XXVUL 1^ . - Oadal i>t Uis SIONA Xtlantli!, Gulf,' & Inland Waters Distriet, AFL-CIO Bxettuiht Board PAUI, HAUL. Praiidcst CAI. TANNED E'AJU- SHSfAJu) Srr,e. Vieo-Pret, Vite-Preaident At. KERB X,]]«OSEY W}U.!AM« I Sitc.-'TTraM. Viee-Praaaimt Direttor of OrtfanMnff and PaHicaiiona NATHAN SKYEk Staff Writ^ra MEtviN PURVIS • WlK-MAM OAY E&VVIN F. FRANCIS td WuMkly at, KtQ Made Idsind Awaw Teddy Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen's Asso­ ciation (center), is presented with key to City of New Orleans and certificate of honorary membership by SlU Vice-President Lindsey Williams (left), acting in behalf of Mayor Victor Schiro. ILA VicePresident Clarence Henry looks on. Presentation took place at New Orleans SlU hall. Gleason was in the Crescent City to confer on boycott of ships trading with North Viet ham. atm Dhtritt. Art-CW. 675 FM»1* teaaUia. «.*. 11232. Tel. -- - • $«te«d tli» n^aie 'OSIKASTER'S ATTEXTiaSr F«f« �\ Page Four 6 More Seafarer OUtimers Added To SlU Roster of Union Pensioners Oxinio March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Dedicatoria Grahne Gladden Simpson Murphy The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area It's gratifying to know Seafarers are solidly behind the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department in their decision to support a boycott against ships of nations permitting trade with North Viet Nam. Plans for the boycott were announced earlier, by the SIU, ILA and the NMU. Shipping has been active in the port of New York over the past few weeks. Willie Wung was around the New York Hall recently look­ dry dock and ready to go is Wil­ ing for an Isthmian ship. I also liam Wildridge. Bill's last ship saw Manuel Rial up in the ship­ was the Steel Navigator and he's ping hall and he says that he's now ready to grab the first job to hit the board. ready to ship out right away. Philadelphia Also ready to go are Bosun Joe Wagner and H. Schultz who James D. Bergeria is fit for sails or oiler. duty and ready to go after being Norfolk in drydock for a while. Jim last Stephen Arales had to get off sailed on the Merthe Maiden Victory because of a rimac. death in the family. He'll be When John shipping out as soon as the nec­ "Champ" Matowessary arrangements are made. ski is on the beach Also off the Victory is Robert he really knows Wroton. He's on the beach hunt­ where to go. The ing up a buyer for his trailer. Bergeria Champ has just Old timer Wroton will be looking returned from getting some sun for another fireman's job. Sylvester Walsh whose last ves­ in Florida and now he's ready sel was the Duval is getting a little to ship out again. rest. Sylvester says that after be­ James Winters is another olding on a ship for a while a man timer ready to ship out again. needs a little rest. If the Duval Brother Winters has 18 years in sticks in port a few days, he says, the Union and his last ship was he may get back on because this the Venore. "is a very good liberty ship." Wilh'am Milliso is another Sea­ Boston farer off the Venore. He sails as Things have really picked up Bosun but was laid up for a while. in Boston and look pretty good Now Bill's fit for duty and is for the next pe­ spending a lot of time around the riod. The Maiden hall looking for a good ship and Victory was re­ a long trip. cently in port and PUERTO RICO signed or and paid There may be an increase in off. ship trade between Boston and John Chermeso, Puerto Rico in the next few years a 23 year SIU if talks between the Puerto Rican Chermeso veteran says he Trade Authority, the Mass. Port was real sorry to see his last ship, the Seamar, lay Authority, the World Trade Cen­ up because it was a "Floating ter and the officials of Sea Land work out. They have been meet­ Hotel." Six months in the Far East ing in San Juan in the last week. have convinced Francis Donovan San Juan bus drivers got the it's time to spend some time, with raise they deserve at the last mo­ his family and that's what the ment to avoid a strike. The new 25 year SIU veteran is doing sir.'..e agreement gives the men a lO^f he got off the Robin Trent. an hour raise at once, and an­ An oldtimer who's just out of other 8#f over the next two years. Six more SIU members have been added to the growing list of retired members who receive a pen­ sion check of $150 every month. The members who have been added to the retirement rolls are: Calixto Oxinio, Julian Dedica­ toria, Gunnar Grahne, Paul ^ Gladden, Sr., John Simpson and port of Philadelphia and sailed Philippines and currently makes as a chief cook in the steward his home in Philadelphia. He last William Murphy, Jr. Oxinio joined the SIU in the department. He is a native of the saw service on the Independent Towing Co. tug, Jupiter. Julian Dedicatoria is also a na­ tive of the Philippines and makes his home in Philadelphia where he lives with his wife. Dedica­ toria sailed in the steward de­ partment. His last vessel was the SlU-contracted ship Commander. by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gull Area Gunnar Grahne is a native of Tulane University's 17th annual Institute on Foreign Transporta­ Finland and joined the SIU in tion and Port Operations will be held March 21-25 on the Tulane New York. He now makes his campus featuring discussions of all phases of foreign and domestic home in Brooklyn with his wife shipping by land, sea and air. The principal highlight of the five-day and last saw service on the Seaconference will be a special program on "The American Merchant train Georgia where he sailed as Marine" to be held March 25, at bosun. NEW ORLEANS the University Center, site of the Tampa is now the home of After being on the Del Mar for 1966 institute. Paul Gladden, Sr. who last saw Speakers will be Nicholas John­ six months, Pete Valentine got off service on the SIU ship Our Lady son, maritime administrator of to work on his camp on Lake of Peace. He is a native of Ten­ the U. S. Department of Com­ Pontchartrain, repairing damages nessee who first joined the Union merce; Mrs. Helen Delich Bent- done by Hurricane Betsy so it in Mobile. Gladden was with the ley, maritime editor of the Balti­ would be in shape for the sum­ deck department during his stay more Sun; Paul Hall, president mer. Brother Valentine served in with the SIU. of the Seafarers International Un­ the deck department aboard the John Simpson joined the SIU ion of North America and presi­ Del Mar and reports that she was in Norfolk, Va. and sailed with dent of the AFL-CIO Maritime a good ship. Also on the beach the Union in the deck department. Trades Department; and Captain after two trips on the same ship He is a native Virginian who is John W. Clark, president of Delta is Boatswain Jack Procell. Jack currently living in Elkton, Mary­ says he will stay on the beach Steamship Lines. land. His last ship was the Del The Texas AFL-CIO held its awhile and help Pete work on his Norte. COPE convention in conjunction camp. Just off the Del Norte William Murphy first came where he served with the Arkansas, Louisiana, into the SIU in New York. He as FWT, William Mississippi and Texas area COPE is currently living in Philadelphia Tank is on the Conference in Houston March 3beach waiting for with his wife, Josefa. V/hile with 5. There were 685 delegates from another Delta the SIU, Murphy sailed in the Texas, in addition to several hunLine ship and steward department. His last ship dvwd from Arkansas, Louisiana would prefer the was the Venore. and Mississippi. Del Oro or one SIU Port Agents Paul Drozak of the newer of Houston and Buck Stephens of freighters. Wil­ New Orleans were among the Tank liam Evitt, who SIU delegates in attendance. One of the highlights of the got off the Madaket due to ill­ Conference was a question and ness, is now ready for the first answer period aimed at Senator electrician's slot to hit the board. Ralph Yarborough of Texas and He prefers a run to Viet Nam. Representative Henry B. Gon­ MOBILE HARIWJUR, reasserted its support of the right of state anc zalez of Texas. Yarborough and Shipping has been fairly good pocaJ government employes to organize unions and engage in collective bargaining and stressed the Gonzalez pledged their support to around the Mobile area with one Jdeveloping need for effective mediation and fact-finding procedures. labor's fight for an increase in ship laid up and the Roswell Vic­ I The Executive Council re- ^ minimum wages and its coverage Meany noted that the execu tory due to crew up in a couple jaflfirmed its long-held belief that to "tranquil relations" for public and the repeal of 14(b) of the of weeks. employes is through realistic and tive order setting up union rec­ Taft-Hartley Act. James V. McClantoc, who is |"the realistic vehicle for state effective mediation and fact-find­ ognition and other procedures in . . •' the federal government was an HOUSTON currently regis­ |and local government labor-man- ing, , |agement relations is "collective R. L. Couper, who is just off tered in group He said it would be a "bad important step in the "right direc the Bethflor where he served in one of the deck |bargarnirig.'' it warned that re­ idea" for Congress to legislate in tion" and urged cities and states the deck department, is back department, has pressive legislation prevents lea- terms of labor relations on the tp follow the same general ap­ around the hall. He says he's been shipping lonable negotiation and blocks state and local government level, proach. found a home there and drops out for the past the bargaining process. The council statement that it would be "reaching far Noting the growth of orgaiuza- down" for the federal government that "there is substantial evidence by to chat with his buddies every two years as bo­ 4 time he gets into port. R. Allen sun and is now tion among .state and local gov­ to become involved at that level. that such methods as unilatera has been on the beach since he on the beach. He ernment Workers, the cohhcil said He called for outright repeal of appeals procedures and compul­ got off the Globe Explorer and had to get off that the growth also of legisla­ New York State's Condon-Wadlin sory aroitration do not solve legi is enjoying being with his family. when the ship tion recognizing the right of Act, which imposes severe penal­ timate grievances of the affectec Brother Allen, a member of the was sold. Sago C. Hanks, a mem­ workers to organize and bargain ties on public workers who en­ Workers and add to the frustra deck department says he will soon ber of the engine department, is "underlines the need for impar­ gage in strikes. tipns of both management anc be ready for a long trip on any just off the Brigham Victory on tial mediation facilities, contract Grilthe ^general proposition of labor," In addition to effective media­ Hudson Waterways ship. J. P. a trip to Saigon and Manila. He enforcement and methods of ; the right of public employes to strike, Meany said it would be tion and fact-finding, the counci Lamb of the stewards department, and his wife make their home in avoiding work stoppages," who is now on the beach, is an­ Pensacola, Florida. Alonzo W. AFL-CIO President George "wise" to limit this right in terms Mfiged • the use of impartial panels other one of those excellent cooks Morris is now registered in group told a press conference of firemen and law-enforcement with authority to make recom receiving a vote of thanks from one of the steward department that the problems of. governracnt officials, ppintih^^c^f :that the con- mendations for a settlement in . stitution of the Fire Fighters pro- handling dtsputes^lnvolyt his fellow Seafarers aboard the after getting off the Alcoa Mar­ keteer on a voyage to East Asia. Chilore. The Gulf Coast </<>,« • ' ' i,> * ., ,' (\ t i . r . I - f • i i �March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Seafarer Howell congratulates son, Lembhard-, at college graduation in 1958 (photo left). Flanked by mother and father, Lem poses with family after get­ ting degree at Lafayette (photo right). SlU SCHOLARSHIP i : 'Ciii-'i Seafarer Howell retired on SlU pen­ sionIn 1965 but visits Union often. Outstanding in high school, Howell won $6,000 SlU Scholarship in 1955. . Howell was commissioned an' en­ sign in USNR after his graduation. S ince 1953, when the first of the five annual 4year, $6,000 SIU Scholarships were awarded, 63 such awards have been granted. Forty of the scholarships have gone to the children of SIU mem­ bers, 23 have been awarded to Seafarers. SIU Scholarship winners who have graduated thus far have entered virtually every field, including medi­ cine, law, teaching, nursing, engineering and gov­ ernment. Lembhard Howell, the son of SIU member Cleve­ land Alexander Howell, was one of the scholarship winners in 1955. Today, a little more than 10 years later, he is an Assistant Attorney General in the State of Washington, a post to which he was re­ cently appointed. And last month he was elected president of the Washington State Young Democrats. Seafarer Howell, who retired on an SIU pension in October 1965, points with justifiable pride to his son's continuing achievements since his days in New York's Charles Evans Hughes High School. Young Howell, who was born in 1935 in Jamaica, British West Indies, was president of the high school's Gen­ eral Organization. He served on the staff of the stu­ dent newspaper and was a contributor to the Mathe­ matics and the Science Department publications. At graduation in 1954 he won the Dooley Gold Medal, the school's highest award, given for character and scholastic achievement. He also received the Horton Memorial Award for excellence in science, and three other citations. Young Howell used his SIU Scholarship to at­ tend Lafayette College in Easton, Pa., where he con­ sistently made the Dean's Honor List. He completed the four-year course in three years, graduating cum laude (with honors) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history. On graduation from college, Lem Howell was commissioned as an Ensign in the U. S. Naval Re­ serve in which rank he served as operations officer and navigator aboard the USS General Randall, a TAP-115, which operated out of the Brooklyn Army Base between New York and Bremerhaven, Ger­ many. Later he was assigned to the Commandant's Staff of the First Naval District, with headquarters in Boston. While on the Commandant's staff, Howell busied himself at night by attending first the Suffolk Law School, then the Boston College Law School. When he had completed his active duty, Lem Howell again ttlrned to the pursuit of his studies full time. He returned to New York where he at­ tended the New York University School of Law un­ der the SIU Scholarship Program. He obtained his law degree, then was admitted to the bar in July 1964. The scholarly son of Seafarer Howell was ready to step out and apply himself. Under a Ford Foun­ dation grant from the National Center for Educa­ tion in Politics he went to the State of Washington where ultimately his career in government and poli­ tics was to be launched. He served on the staff of the then Governor of the State of Washington, Al­ bert Rosellini, law clerked for pro-tem judges of the State Supreme Court, and worked in the State High­ way Department. Then Howell's appointment as an assistant to the State's Attorney General and his election as head of the Young Democrats. Lem Howell makes his home in Olympia, the state capital, with his wife Marjorie and their two daughters, Helen, 4, and Elizabeth, 8 months. He keeps in close touch with his dad and mother, Wilhelmine, who lives in New York. His brother, Grover, is a detective in the New York City police department. In one of his frequent visits to the Union hall in Brooklyn the other day. Seafarer Howell spoke pridefully of Lem's accomplishments, "He knows the importance of unions, too," he said. "And I taught him about the SIU." Brother Howell is very proud of his son. The SIU is, too. JJI^INNERS of the SIU Scholarships who will rr begin college in September 1966, will be an­ nounced in May. Selections are made by the SIU Scholarship College Advisory 'Committee on the ba­ sis of the applicants' high school records and Col­ lege Entrance Examination Board test results. The College Advisory Committee is composed of Edna M. New by. Assistant Dean, Douglas College for Women of Rutgers University; Elwood C. Kastner. Dean of Registration, New York University; E. D. Wilkinson, Research Associate, Howard Uni­ versity; Bernard Ireland, College Entrance Exami­ nation Board; Charles E. O'Connell, Director of Ad­ missions, University of Chicago, and Richard Keefe, Director of Admissions, St. Louis University. SIU Scholarships are open to qualified Seafarers who have a minimum of three years of seatime on SIU-contracted ships, and to children of Seafarers whose fathers meet the same seatime requirement. A t least one award is reserved for a Seafarer. Scholarship winners may attend the college of their choice for study in any field. �Page Six SEAFARERS Lifeboat Class No. 146 Graduates March 18, 1966 LOG IPISPATCHEBS REPORT February 26 to Morch II, 1966 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B 11 2 Boston 55 25 New York 10 Philadelphia 6 31 13 Baltimore Norfolk 17 12 Jacksonville ...... 5 4 Tampa 7 3 Mobile 18 12 New Orleans 32 17 Houston ...; 32 25 Wilmington 23 6 San Francisco 41 14 Seattle 13 13 Totals 295 152 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 5 2 26 54 13 9 13 1 24 18 2 11 11 6 8 0 4 3 3 3 6 0 16 31 11 1 36 41 16 9 5 11 28 19 22 16 7 5 250 167 82 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 14 1 185 54 35 11 89 49 18 25 13 12 11 8 73 28 133 85 132 60 36 0 66 20 32 21 844 367 ENGINE DEPARTMENT LIFEBOAT CLASS GBAJDUATdA/G PBS.e. Assembled for graduation picture after successfully completing life­ boat training course at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship is SlU Lifeboat Class No. 146. Included in the latest group of lifeboat ticketholders are (bottom row, l-r): James Elliot, Sy Satelli, Earl Chick, Mike Dunn and (kneeling) Ron Dernbach. Back row (l-r): Winston Baker, Richard Gallant, Warren Schoenhals and instructor Ami Bjornsson. TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A Class B 3 5 57 19 6 7 11 25 10 9 5 5 4 1 17 8 21 25 22 26 16 3 17 26 13 13 156 218 Port Boston ...'. New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Tot*"'"! TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 0 4 29 19 24 7 7 3 15 11 2 3 5 3 3 4 5 2 2 2 16 11 0 17 23 5 32 40 8 10 6 12 26 13 24 10 16 11 182 97 154 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 9 2 139 54 23 17 56 32 18 17 9 11 7 3 37 23 95 85 90 79 10 0 53 17 21 8 567 348 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Question: How much gear do you take with you when you go out to sea? Earl Williams: I usually take about four pairs of dress slacks and four dress shirts. For work clothes, I prefer a good pair of work shoes and the whites I wear in the steward de­ partment. Since the Seafarers Log library provides me with plenty of books the only reading material I take are some magazines. — Ben Suderland: I take two bags. In the small one I carry my work clothes, which consist of three work pants, four T-shirts and a couple of sweat shirts. In the other bag I usu­ ally carry a flash­ light, one suit, top coat, five dress shirts and about three pairs of dress pants. I don't take anything else because most of it is usually a burden. Steve Wolfrowski: I only tajfe one pair of work clothes and one pair of dress clothes. When I am on the coast runs I always take a radio. I don't have to take any reading with me because we have a Seafarers Log library on each ship. Sometimes I take a ra­ dio which I find to be one of the best ways to pass the time of day. Robert Roedel: I always take about one change of work clothes. If I am going to the Near Eastior some place like that I usually don't take much in the way of dress clothes. On my European trips, however, I always carry about two suits because I really like shore leave in those countries. — TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 0 3 New York 9 28 Philadelphia 3 4 Baltimore 17 18 Norfolk 9 11 Jacksonville 6 4 Tampa 1 0 Mobile 16 11 New Orleans 44 26 Houston 10 29 Wilmington ...... 3 5 San Francisco .... 21 6 Seattle 14 8 Totalis 194 112 SIGN LETTERS NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 2 125 21 4 25 30 42 14 14 6 10 8 5 22 54 104 133 81 31 0 13 47 8 10 21 261 571 U.S.-Flag Share Of Foreign Trade Drops As Military Duties Strain Merchant Fleet While the U.S.-flag fleet has been serving the nation by carrying supplies and men to Vietnam, foreign operators have been capturing even more of our scanty share of commercial cargoes. As a result, the proportion of our foreign trade carried on American bottoms dropped to a new low, 7.9 percent, in the first nine months ^ mercial demands. As usual, the & Co., a West Coast general of 1965. maritime industry is bearing the cargo forwarder for several major The immediate reason for the brunt of Uncle Sam's pinchpenny U.S. manufacturers: "Inevitably, some of our business will remain loss of cargoes to foreign-flag op­ attitude. erators is that increased military Hardest hit by the loss of reg­ with foreign carriers. We certain­ tonnage has forced American op­ ular customers to foreign oper­ ly can't hold the Americaq_ lines' erators to turn down commercial ators are the West Coast cargo responsible for increased military freight. However behind this sit­ liners. Transpacific liner cargoes shipping. However, we do have uation .is the Government's long­ have recently averaged nearly an obligation to the foreign car­ standing failure to provide a mod­ two-thirds military goods, more rier who looks after us in time ern merchant fleet large enough than double the amount a year of need. After all, we may need to meet both military and com- ago. Faced with the prospect of him again." Other shippers tell the same angry foreign customers, ship­ pers who usually send their car­ story—once the business goes to goes on these lines have been the foreign operator, it is likely forced to rely on foreign bottoms. to stay with him. Unquestionably, the first obli­ Although American lines are sail­ gation of the U.S. maritime in­ ing with full holds, they face the CASH BINEFITS AAIO. Jan. 1-Jon. 30, IMO day when the Vietnam crisis lets dustry is to meet the needs of the Number of Amounf up and they are unable to lure nation in time of crisis. The SIU, ' I along with other maritime unions, • back their former customers. "There is no question the com­ has long protested that our mer­ chant fleet is inadequate and jDeortl' s 11 34^934.94 mercial position of the (cargo) needs greater Government sup­ liners is deteriorating, and the iDuwbiiity Benefits » 122,400.00 foreign operators are reaping the port. Despite this conspicuous iMbternlty • :Betlr9ftt^^ 6,347.38 harvest," according to Eugene W. need, made even clearer by the CI ^Dependent Benefits 337 f9>888.65 Lukes of SlU-Contracted Isthmian loss- of cargoes to foreign oper­ * ! r^ir \ " ators because there is not sufficient ijO^tlceii Benefits , 28 675.92 Lines. "A customer lost this way bottoms to take care of both our ^Out-Potient Benefits ^726 ^ 42,052.00 is a tough customer to regain." Vietnam and commercial obliga­ Cargoes To Foreign Bottoms ^Summary (Welfare) 13,697 $323,699.20 tions, the Congress has been asked And the shippers agree—they ^«cotion;;;BeRij^t8: to appropriate less money to 1,418 493,669.19 will probably continue to give the build fewer ships than last year. business lost by American oper­ There is still no sign of a sound, •s Ai. WELFARE, VACATION ators to foreign-flag ships. Ac­ long-range Government policy to ITS PAID THIS PHIIOD 15,115 $8l7,368i39: cording to P. R. Amsden of Loretz foster our merchant marine. p. G. Wingfield: I take every­ thing I own. For winter gear I have a parka, three changes of work clothes and two pairs of work shoes. For sum­ mer gear I have shorts, T-shirts and a light rain coat. In the dress department I pre­ fer two sport coats, three slacks and a real good topcoat. I always take a radio with me. r ' rart, rS; For obvious reasons the LOG cannot print any letters or other conimunications sent by Seafarers unless the author signs his name. If circumstances justify, the LOG will withhold a signature on re­ quest. TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 6 3 0 37 9 5 7 3 5 13 6 11 6 0 6 1 3 0 0 3 1 7 0 13 34 16 0 16 19 21 2 4 4 27 7 43 6 6 8 97 174 87 7' : �March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Pmge Seven y [e- ' " "Aw—Take It Out of Your Piggy Bank!" yOf Liberal Coiigressmeii The more the record of the first session of the 89th Congress is re­ viewed, the more obvious one fact becomes; Election of 51 new lib­ erals to the House of Representatives in 1964 was what broke the log­ jam that had choked constructive congressional action for years. One other fact is obvious: Re-election of these 51 new liberals and other progressive candidates is labor's number one political goal for 1966. The new liberals on one issue after another have made good on their campaign promises to back progressive legislation. As the following listing shows it was their support that made the difference in passage of the flow of good laws Congress produced last year: • A move to hatchet the medicare bill was rejected by the House 236-191 on April 8, 1965. A switch of only 23 votes would have sent the bill back to committee and ruined it. Fifty of the new liberal con­ gressmen voted to save medicare. • The 14(B) repeal bill passed the House 221-203 on July 28, 1965. A switch of only 10 votes would have meant defeat of this legislation. Forty-eight of the new congressmen voted for repeal. • A motion to recommit the poverty bill was rejected by the House 227-178 on July 22, 1965. A switch of 25 votes would have buried the bill in committee. Forty-seven new congressmen voted to rescue it. • The Appalachia bill passed the House 257-165 on March 3, 1965. A switch of 47 votes would have meant defeat of this legislation. Fortynine new congressmen voted for it. • A motion to recommit the voting rights bill was rejected by the House 248-171 on July 9, 1965. A switch of 39 votes would have sent this bill back to committee. All 51 new Congressmen voted to save the voting rights bill. • An amendment to increase the Public Works authorization passed the House 196-194 on August 12, 1965. A switch of only 2 votes would have killed the increase. Thirty-two new congressmen voted for the bill. • A motion to recommit the housing bill was rejected by the House 208-202 on June 30, 1965. A switch of only 4 votes would have sent the bill back to committe. Forty-three new congressmen voted against crippling the bill. • A motion to recommit the conference report on the higher edu­ cation bill was rejected by the House 226-152 on October 20, 1965. A switch of 38 votes would have sent the bill back to conference. Fortyseven new congressmen voted against this effort to weaken the bill. IT'* /fc. ». V* » ft . 'tr .« •i. V m A $1 million fire which tem­ porarily disrupted operations at the Norwood Mills, Inc., fabric plant in Janesville, Wisconsin dur­ ing an organizing campaign did not burn out the employes' will to form a union. They voted for the Clothing Workers 124-97 in a National Labor Relations Board election. Company workers ap­ proached the ACWA last fall for help in organizing. The union was preparing to petition for an elec­ tion when a fire shut down the plant temporarily in December. Operations were resumed in that plant and an older one. So were organizing activities. The election was held among employes in both plants and contract proposals are being prepared to cover both. The successful campaign was con­ ducted with the aid of organizers from the ACWA and AFL-CIG regional staffs. — — Workers at the Adams Packing Association, Inc., one of Florida's largest shippers of fresh fruit and canned juices, voted for the Steelworkers after a rapid organizing campaign. The vote count by the National Labor Relations Board was 388-264. The Adams firm has plants where workers pack fresh fruit, citrus canned goods, concen­ trate and juices, and a pulp mill for cattle feed. It agreed to a con­ sent election among its 776 eligi­ ble workers. The National Labor Relations Board ruled that the Cumberland Shoe Corp. was guilty of unfair practices and violation of a court order to bargain on wages and working conditions when it re­ opened a closed plant without notifying the Boot & Shoe Work­ ers. The firm owned plants at Chapel Hill and Franklin, Tenn., and in 1964 decided to close the Chapel Hill plant on the ground that it was losing money. It had previously been found guilty of unfair practices by the NLRB and the judgment was affirmed by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The plant was fully closed by April 1. About October 5 the company reopened a boot-making department at Chapel Hill and be­ gan recalling the work force. It resumed full-scale operations about January 15, 1965. — — William C. Hushing, who re­ tired in 1956 as co-director of the AFL-CIO Department of Legisla­ tion, died at his home in Litch­ field, Illionis, after a heart attack. He was 82. A member of the Pattern Makers since 1910, he sparked the first union organiza­ tion in the Canal Zone, helping to establish the Central Labor Un­ ion and the Metal Trades Council in 1914. For many years he rep­ resented the interests of Canal Zone unions in Washington, and later joined the staff of the former AFL as an organizer. In 1932 he was appointed to the AFL Legis­ lative Committee, and in 1938 be­ came its chairman. He became codirector of the AFL-CIO Depart­ ment of Legislation upon the mer­ ger in 1955. The AFL-CIO has stated its strong oppo­ sition to any cutbacks or freezing of Great Society programs in the face of rising mili­ tary expenditures for Viet Nam. At its recent meeting the Executive Council called instead for an increase in corporate taxes to meet any future expansion of military needs. The reasons for this stand are clear. The Great Society progran s already in operation and planned for the future involve many long-overdue and much-needed social proj­ ects. Cutting back or eliminating such pro­ grams as the war on poverty, aid to educa­ tion and urban renewal would undennine or destroy many advances made in these areas in recent years and waste much money which has already been spent to forward these programs. In addition, cutting back or freezing ex­ penditures in these areas to meet the costs of the Viet Nam conflict would be placing the major burden of paying for increased military expenditures on the lowest income groups in our society—those who can afford it the least. By meeting these expenditures through higher corporate taxes however, and ending the 7 percent tax credit for business invest­ ment in new machinery or imposing an ex­ cess profits tax, the increased expenditures would be met by those who can best afford to do so. Big business profits are soaring, with many giant corporations showing record or nearrecord profits during 1965. Moreover, our economy is strong and expanding steadily. The gross national product is bigger than ever and increasing each year. Under these circumstances it is only right that the busi­ ness segment of our society, which has prof­ ited the most our nation's strength and free­ dom, should shoulder its fair share of the burden of maintaining and protecting that freedom. Taking a larger portion of the nation's defense costs out of big business profits in­ stead of cutting back social improvement programs would actually strengthen the na­ tional economy, on whose health continued business profits are based. Money spent on social programs is not stagnant money—as profits often are. It is plowed right back into the economy and continues to keep the wheels of business and industry moving. Raising the standard of living of millions of Americans through these social improvement programs creates an increased demand for goods and services, which is the condition in which business thrives. Money spent on social improvement programs is an invest­ ment from which the entire nation benefits. Paying for expanding military defense costs by raising corporate taxes would serve another important purpose. As the AFLCIO Executive Council noted, such a corpo­ rate tax rise would serve to dampen down the negative pressures on our economy aris­ ing out of skyrocketing profits. Unnatu­ rally high profits do not make for a strong economy. They do not lead to increased consumer buying power or to increased con­ sumer demand for goods and do not make for increased employment. In the end, sky­ rocketing profits, such as we have had for the last few years, are self defeating. In con­ trast, money spent on social improvement projects, such as the Great Society program, not only improves the lot of the millions of Americans who have been largely bypassed by the vast expansion of the U. S. economy in recent years, but will at the same time sustain and increase that expansion. m �P««e Eight ^asr, one of thJ , . ^ before The twie. But he is not aU 0'\ champions of SiZ iJ^'^ ^ "« author of one of >cc seamen, or as tZ published in^Zr"" "'""fc"' se7. Moih"^'" Fne^'^l-cok. the common sailor Sr^t ' ^^itten to Th T''^ technical7 The first edition came off fi! craft t^t a feur years afier Xt T' ast had become a best w// Before The he attention for the ffrvr #• focused pubthe man at sea. ^ ^ time on the hard lot of watches and 4n st<^ T' would seem tr^ h^ o® day on watch was o^v ^w 12 houts j toe Dana wrote, "but fa faS° '•« merchant vessels, all hand? ?r ?f "®arly all at work throughout the aft^ on deck and P'clock unta sundo^."^® from one « a great deal to be done ^ there fore making port or aft» mnnediately betardus. afo alerted the ill~naid n coaster and mariners to fPt^fact th7t oS'wJ^fiJf"'' "f Oamfs oosigned to help seamZu a the books •snored by sUpTZZ Ib'^ PcneZ^ courts and, becTusTZ tj and tZ •cnce by seamen ,he^;f^'"ce of their esis "TPie s. 'T'^e Seaman's Friend" ic X ttas age of steam and ^y^ypener in the vast amoimt nf t ~ ^''^otnation as to 1>"«i Of an aSTirJnWf A seaman worth K- of sail. ingcarT^f'or leadfag'^",^.' crew. He was not seekina tes^ therefore, when he danons fa "Xfa of which maf d^'moT"^"" "'' acter of a crew tL S? e "Pon the chartoast himself ti select aWe bLrild" "* able men. to explain ?o and respectfen^h of the voyage thev and the ?°thmg they will want and ^ required of them, an^^ho wi« have proper and sufficient f they Pro^ions for their coSrt """^^tions and mt t •S cats pa« and'Sh F^SdS: ""P^r welfare of the ^ P^Pn'arity con- ' reeo^uJ!. " "''""Od on somethiS™ to "tons for his me^ as^ nterested fa secuZglZ ton the^o^er would '"toastle and of the ®"ally be mC ^d comfort P «aman „, «10 »'« Myone wl,r^"L^™> ^'o $8. A "bTf wilderness. ' '® was a voice crying ia the Dams tSrra.:S'^^«|0 d^'"''«-«"S ^1,0^ camng «in o'y man ^«^entified idetttifirn himself ui oo paneis and ans whS'h"^ a^ AB^ When he signed on. as AB, OS or boy "^e man," savs n...„ ^hiisrepS^^^ better than ™ of inferior and dkai J^®ates." Everv upon the man nS>^® IJe I^PPy too *'•' and careft^.""® v^arerree. Tn "Two Yearn Bgafr,.. I iow ti cSJJ amarin^ mazing! Dana tefl. sriC'^tai'Si's: d then stovring ' ^ , �March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine 4', ICT Hmi*. ; •/ i,:; ^ :^•' > •- i-^ 1 - ' i/:" This old drawing shows seamen in process of "signing contracts" or articles in the U. S. Shipping Commis­ sioner's ofRce. Office was created in 1872 to pro- them into the hold, wedging them in so tight that the caulking almost came out from between the vessel's planks. The men sang constantly at this hot, dusty, muscle-pulling work. "A song," wrote Dana, "is as necessary to sail­ ors as a drum and fife to soldiers. Many a time, when a thing goes heavy, with one fellow yohoing a lively tune like 'Heave, to the girls!' or 'Nancy, Ho!' has put life and strength into every arm." Dana admired the ability of the sailorman to laugh and sing under the hard conditions of his labor-filled life. In "Two Years Before The Mast" and "The Seaman's Friend", he became an ardent champiQ|iL pf ai5,tetter way of life fpr the man who went ; to sea, an effort which has all but been forgotten in the chronicle of American labor. The last chapter of "Two Years Before The Mast" is devoted to Dana's ideas on how the lot of sailors could be improved. These ideas may seem quaint now in the light of 20th cen­ tury social progress, but remember that Dana was writing more than 100 years ago, long be­ fore the beginnings of effective organized labor in this or any other country. Remember, too, that Dana was a Boston pa­ trician, hardly the sort one would expect to find championing the cause of common seamen. Dana pointed out that there were ample laws on the books to protect the sailor from inhuman treatment and exploitation, but that courts and juries largely ignored them. O n long voyages, he said, "there are many cases of outrageous cruelty on record, enough to make one heart-sick, and almost disgusted with the sight of man; and many, many i [ more which have never come to light, and never «, /! will be known till the sea give up its dead." For the first time, a book on the sea had tOm away all the romance and adventure to reveal the a stark drudgery, danger and cruelty of a sailor's life. r * "Two Years Before The Mast" was a revela­ w tion to those who had always considered the sail­ * 'f! or a simple minded fellow who spent his spare time doing hornpipes aboard ship and getting * tP ••*: drui^ on shore. I Dana ended his book with these words: "I will take the liberty on parting with my reader, who has gone down with us to the ocean, and 'laid his hand upon its mane', to commend to his kind wishes and to the benefit of his efforts, that class of men with whom, for a time, my lot was cast. I wish rather to do this, since I feel as. that whatever attention this book may gtiin, and whatever favor it may find, I shall owe almost entirely to that interest in the sea and those who follow it, which is so easily excited in us all." y 4 vide some Federal protection against abuses suffered by seamen. Commissioners were placed in every port but did nothing about shipboard conditions. From Dana's 'Seaman's Manual' S EAFARING persons before the mast are divided into three classes—able seamen, or­ dinary seamen, and boys or green hands. And it may be remarked here that all green hands in the merchant service are termed boys, and rated as such, whatever may be their age or size. Brutal flogging of seamen was often resorted to by ship captains to keep crew members in line. Dana effectively exposed cruelties suffered by seafarers. In the ordinary day's work, the boys are taught to draw and knot yarns, make spunyard, foxes, sennit, etc., and are employed in passing a ball or otherwise assisting the able seamen in their jobs. Slushing masts, sweeping and clearing up decks, holding the log-reel, coiling up rigging, and loos­ ing and furling the light sails, are duties that are invariably put upon the boys or green hands. They stand their watches like the rest, are called with all hands, go aloft to reef and furl, and work when­ ever and wherever the men do, the only difference being in the kind of work upon which they are put. T HE CREWS are not rated by the officers after they get to sea, but, both in the merchant service and in the navy, each man rates him­ self when he ships. The shipping articles, in the merchant service, are prepared for so many of each class, and a man puts his name down and contracts for the wages and duty of a seaman, ordinary seaman, or boy, at Ms pleasure. NotwithstandSg this license, there are very few in­ stances of its being abused; for every man knows that if he is found incompetent to perform the duty he contracts for, his wages cannot only be reduced to the grade for wMch he is fitted, but that something additional will be deducted for the deception practiced upon all concerned, and for the loss of service and the numerous difficulties incurred, in case the fraud is not discovered until the vessel has got to sea. But still, more than this, the rest of the crew consider it a fraud upon themselves; as they are thus deprived of a man of the class the vessel required, which makes her short-handed for the voyage, and increases the duty put upon them­ selves. If , for instance, the articles provide for six able seamen, the men expect as many; and if one of the six turns out not to be a seaman, and is put on inferior work, the duties which would commonly be done by six seamen will fall upon the five. The difficulty is felt still more in the watches, as,, in the case I have supposed, there would be in one watch only two able seamen instead of three; and if the delinquent was not a capable hebnsman, the increased duty at the wheel alone would be of itself, a serious evil. Dana wrote that "when a thing goes heavy" aboard ship, music and song often "put life and strength into every arm." Here crew weighs anchor to tune. •' r-;. • •• Despite danger, drudgery and cruelty of the sea­ man's life, the sea always attracted men and boys looking for adventure. In 1840, an AB got about $12 a month, an OS about $10, and a "boy" $8. "gr-.,: *5-"..-:, m �Page Ten SEAFARERS March 18, 1966 LOG J ^^oFTarmou^Kl^lasiWflfeYnve^gaflon f.£ Board Of Inquiry Suggests The Pacific Goast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative WAsiaiNGTON -The burning and sinking of the cruise ship Yarmouth Castle, a disaster which resulted in the loss of 90 lives, has spurred the U. S. Coast Guard Board of Inquiry to make a series of recommendations regarding stepped-up safety measures for runaway-flag vessels. One of the recommendations, which is presently being imple­ mately arrived at the scene failed them to comply with U.S. safety to take positive and firm action to standards. mented, urges that the United A separate resolution urged organize the crew to isolate and States move to have the 1960 combat the fire or to awaken and legislation to extend the jurisdic­ Safety of Life at Sea Convention evacuate passengers in the area." tion of the NLRB to cover the upgraded to cease exempting older The Board also charged the crews of runaway-flag vessels in and runaway-flag ships from hav­ ship's master. Captain Byron American commerce. ing to comply with the latest The charges will be forwarded Voutsinas with "negligence, aban­ safety standards. donment of command responsi­ to the Government of Panama, The Coast Guard Board of In­ bility and an overall failure to under whose registry the Yar­ quiry decided that the Yarmouth approach and cope" with the mouth Castle sailed. No Ameri­ Castle fire originated in Room 610 disaster. can agency has jurisdiction for on the main deck in what was The Yarmouth Castle was the punishing the ship's crew for negli­ originally a toilet but was virtually gence, since the disaster occurred empty at the time save for "a former American-flag ship Evan­ on the high seas. number of combustible" items geline, launched in Philadelphia such as mattresses, discarded bulk­ in 1927. She was manned by the head paneling and broken chairs. SIU for many years while operat­ ing under the house flag of the The Board attributed the source Eastern Steamship Corp., before of ignition to one or a combina­ transferring to foreign-flag regis­ tion of either a malfunctioning try. lighting circuit, sparks entering The AFL-CIO 1965 Conven­ the room through natural ventila­ tion, held shortly after the Yar­ tion ducts during the blowing of mouth Castle sinking, passed a boiler tubes or unintentional or resolution calling for continued careless acts of persons entering efforts to alert Congress and the ROME — Ship-bound seamen the room. public to the need for protecting on all parts of the globe received The fire was not discovered the passengers and crews from promptly, the board declared, say­ hazardous conditions such as ex­ the benefit of 8,550 medical ing that the "proximate cause of isted on the Yarmouth Castle. The messages relating to treatment the debacle was failure of early resolution called on Congress to ranging from aching stomachs to detection of the fire in a ship with enact pending legislation to re­ acute cases of appendicitis, ac­ combustible materials in her struc­ serve cruise operations out of U.S. cording to the annual report of the International Radio Medical ture." ports to American-flag vessels, un­ Center. "The master and the ship's offi­ less unavailable, and to regulate The CIRM, short for Centro cers," they added, "who were any participation of foreign-flag Internazionale Radio Medico, searching for the fire and ulti­ vessels in these trades by requiring makes its headquarters in Rome Medical Radio Network Aids Ailing Seamen The Great Lakes by A! Tanner, Vice-President and Fred Farnen,Secretary-Treasurer,Great Lakes The St. Lawrence Seaway will open not later than April 15, and the Welland Canal and the Sault Ste. Marie Canals are scheduled to get into swing on April 4, if the weather permits. U. S. Seaway officials i have been predicting that another cargo record will be established this season, with the total of bulk and general cargo rising to something like 47 million tons. With expectations of Great Lakes shipping running at a new high, jobs are expected to be plentiful for the entire season. Cargo record predictions spell out increased work opportunities for members of the SIU Great Lakes District; and with the increased emphasis on shipping ore and other commodities by water, it looks like a good year for jobs and shipping. Great Lakes District members are urged to be on hand when the jobs start hitting the board in the Great Lakes region. The SlU-Inland Boatmen's Union contracted Dunbar & Sullivan Dredging Company has bought the dredging and marine construction end of Merritt, Chapman and Scott. Although the purchase was a cash transaction, the price wqs not disclosed. The Maritime Administration, under the new modified "ship trade-in program," has recently allocated 13 mission-type T-2 tankers to four non-subsidized coast operators. The new law allows the non-subsidized operators to swap in their old vessels for government ships presently in the U. S. reserve fleet. However, coastal operators are required to convert these tankers to any other type of carriage than liquid petro­ leum. Great Lakes operators can obtain the same type vessel for any use they choose; but so far, none haVe come forward to do so. Cleveland Registration has begun in this port on March 1; and from the Indications of men showing up to register, both book and non-book, it looks like we will be in fairly good shape to crew the seven ships presently laid up in the port. After a stretch of good weather, we were hit by a new cold wave, with snow enough for everybody. The LCA Ice Committee is already beginning to meet and check out the weather conditions on the lakes. This means only one thing— that the various companies are anxious to get an early start, because of the increased demand for ore and other commodities. and has been aiding ill seamen for the past 31 years by its unique methods. Suppose a seaman is taken ill when his vessel is on the high seas, and there is no physician aboard the ship. With the cooperation of the nearest country participating in the program, the vessel radios in the patient's symptoms in de­ tail, and this information in turn is transmitted to the CIRM head­ quarters in Rome. There doctors confer and radio their instructions back to the country where the message originated and in turn this medical advice is relayed back to the vessel. And the aids to seamen have not been confined to directions sent by radio. The service has carried on risky rescue operations in the open sea for the removal, by aircraft or helicopter, of sick or injured seamen aboard ships at sea. Dr. Guido Guida, the Sicilian physician who was responsible for the founding of the CIRM, re­ ported that during 1965 his or­ ganization collaborated with the United States Coast Guard and English and Spanish rescue serv­ ices in saving the lives of ill mer­ chant seamen. "The mercy mis­ sions," he noted, "extended to treating 1,047 sea-stranded pa­ tients and making 86 air-sea res­ cues of sailors and inhabitants of small Mediterranean islands." Another important part of last year's accomplishments that Dr. Guida noted was the research by the CIRM studies sections. The study section issued a paper on the psycho-pathology of seamen, based on extensive research by the ships' doctors of many seagoing nations. The newly formed San Diego Maritime trades Department Port Council received its charter, adopted its constitution and elected officers at ceremonies held on Thursday, March 3, 1966. Seventeen locals have already affiliated with the new San Diego Port Council. Guests at the ceremonies in which the charter was issued to the Port Council included Tom Randall, ^ coordinator for the California the Gulf and East Coasts out here. During the last period we have Maritime Trades Department; the Mayflower pay off and sign Robert Sherrill, port official of the on. We also had the Overseas SlUNA affiliated Marine Fireman Joyce signed on and the Anniston and Watertenders, Steve Edney, victory pay off. There were nine president of the SIUNA-affiliated ships in transit during this period. West Coast Cannery Workers Un­ Ed Lane, one of our local ion-Terminal Island and R. R. pensioners, was around the hall Richardson of the San Diego La­ recently. He is finding it difficult bor Council. to lay around on the beach when San Francisco there is so much shipping activity Shipping continues to be very going on. Woody Johnson is presently on good in all departments in this area. We had the Rachael V. the beach here and looking out Steel Flyer, Brigham Victory and a Bosun's job, preferably on an the Steel Vendor in for pay offs intercoastal run. He may break down is view of all the shipping this past period. Ships signing on were the Steel activity and settle for a Far East. Flyer, Iberville, and the Robin Seattle Trent. In transit we have the Shipping continues to boom in Whitehall, Steel Traveler, Hast- the Pacific Northwest, and any Anna and the member has his choice of job and Ponce. Ships due run. in for the next Pay offs this last period in­ period are the cluded the Hastings, Hudson, Alice Brown, San Overseas Rose, Oceanic Wave Juan, Carroll Vic­ and the Express Baltimore. tory, Portmar, On the beach Maquez, Del Al­ we have Charles ba, Fairport and Tatro Ries, Jr. who last the Pecos. shipped on the E. Tatro just pulled in from Seattle as a wiper. the Gulf because he heard ship­ Charlie had to get ping was active. We shipped off due to injury, him immediately on the Steel and is now fit for Vendor heading for Viet Nam duty and ready to Ries and the Far East. go. He is waiting Wilmington for another wipers job on the Shipping activity continues to Alaska run. Charlie has been in boom in this area and we are the union for nine years and likes short all ratings. We would be the gains won in the time-off Jiappy to see more members from clause. msTBSissa- Shfi In Viet Buiyuii WASHINGTON—The president of SlU-contracted Delta Ship Lines, Captain J. W. Clark, warned Congress recently that the U.S. merchant fleet is unable to handle both the demands of the war in Viet Nam and ordinary commercial trading and is los­ a year, and the fiscal 1967 bud­ ing $10,000 a month in com­ get request is for only 13 ships. As a result, he declared, the mercial cargoes as a result. Testifying before the House ship replacement program is 98 Merchant Marine Committee in vessels behind schedule. Commenting further on the sad the capacity of chairman of the Committee of American Steam­ state of the U.S. Merchant Ma­ ship Lines (CASL), Captain rine, Captain Clark said that the Clark blamed the lack of ships government-owned. World War on the government's failure to Il-built mothball fleet is in poor provide the money for the 25- condition. "The reserve fleet ships ship-a-year construction program that were but a few years old at instituted in 1956 and on the ob­ the outbreak of Korean hostili­ solete and undependable vessels ties are approaching the end of their useful lives," he pointed out. in the national reserve fleets. "While our sealift capacity "The frequent breakdowns at might be adequate for the current sea following reactivation clearly emergency in Viet Nam," he indicate that these over-age ves­ pointed out, "our sealift capacity sels cannot be considered reli­ will certainly be inadequate if the able." conflict expands—unless we com­ Captain Clark also warned the pletely abandon our commercial House Committee on the grow­ trade routes." ing threat of Russian domination Referring to the government's of the oceans. He stated that failure to implement its construc­ only a strong and effective mer­ tion program, Captain Clark chant marine will enable us to noted that for the past ten years, avoid being "completely at the the government has supplied mercy of Communist-dominated money for only 16 or 17 ships shipping." �-.3 March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG Aged Citizens Need Social Security Hike To the Editor: It takes all hands pulling together to make a ship safe and that seems to be the situation aboard the SlU-contracted Del Mar (Delta Lines) which has won safety awards now for three years run­ ning. Outgoing ship's delegate, Charles S. Bialack, was given a vote of thanks by the crew. Brother Bialack —-——— has resigned to Alfred Hirsch has been elected Roy Fuster, Jr. says that the give some other ship's delegate for the long trip crew of the Tamara Guilden member a chance in store for the (Transport Com­ to serve. He was Steel Seafarer mercial) wished happy to say "No (Isthmian). This the $175 in their beefs from any is the kind of movie fund had department and trip most Seafar­ already been in­ $ 10 7 in the ers like. The crew vested before put­ movie fund." is looking ahead Roque ting in at the to visits to the In­ The head waiter, port of Gibral­ dian ports of Ramon R. Roque has been do­ tar where there Massawa, Ethio­ ing a great job. The new dele­ was no shore Hand Rogg pia, Bombay, gate from the engine depart­ leave. "It's been ment is Joseph V. Whalen, Jr. and Calcutta, before returning to a long trip and most of the men New York for payoff, reports will be glad to get back to the W. M. Hand. Brother Hirsch has U.S.A. and the payoff, but, there O. C. Bailey, Jr. reports that an experienced crew of Seafar­ hasn't been any big beefs," said its really been a long trip for ers backing him up. ship's delegate Edward J. Rogg. the crew of the John C, (Atlan­ Where did all the money come tic Carriers.) The crew signed on from? That's the question of SeaSeafarers aboard the Del Valle farers on the (Delta) are another SIU crew that last August. Rot­ Seatrain Louisi­ terdam was their has been getting ana when they last port and a their eats the discovered that good one but way they like their ship's fund JelFery Helsler 'em. Ray Casa­ Bailey totaled $171.38. nova says there says the men are Doing laundry is was a vote of anxiously wait­ more pleasant thanks to the ing for the payoff back home in since the wash steward's depart­ the good old U.S.A. when the room has been ment for a job ship puts in at the port of New Cleary painted. It really York. Casanova well done. "Christmas din­ picks up the ship. P. J. Cleary says everyone has been helping ner was great; everyone had a The chowhounds on the An­ to keep it clean. It has been a feast." Things are going smooth drew Jackson have gotten the good voyage and everything is enough in all departments so that good word from going O.K. with no beefs. Frank when meeting chairman Ramon Chief Cook Law­ Naklicki reports the ship is head­ Ferrera said, "Now's the time to rence Albert Mit­ ing for its payoff at Edgewater, blow your tops," no one had a chell who must New Jersey. beef! be doing something right. "Don't take it if you can't eat that much," says the Chief Cook. MltcheU "Their eyes are Emilio Pardo higger than their stomachs." The Clifford W. Emanuel food is so good that the men are Please contact the National Please contact your wife at 149 ordering everything on the menu Goldsmith Avenue, Newark, New Catholic Welfare Conference at and then can't eat that much Jersey. 201 Park Avenue South, New much food. Brother Mitchell has York, N. Y. gained more problems to deal — 4/ — 4/ — with than the mess. Cesar A. Pena James H. Achord J. T. Hagan reports Mitchell has been re­ Please contact Mrs. Henry elected as the ship's delegate. Please contact Mrs. J. T. Ha­ Achord, Route 1, Box 221 in gan at 21 Kitchell Ave., Wharton, Varnado, Louisiana. New Jersey. E. Bates has purchased ten new Seafarer D. Lamb would like chairs for deck use but the to get in contact with some of his Brothers aboard Income Tax Checks old seafaring buddies like Oliver the Norina (Wall Myers, Clifford Brown, Bob BotStreet Traders) Income tax refund checks are have hardly had being held at the SUP Building, tomley and Danny Fitzpatrick. time to sit down 450 Harrison St., San Francisco His address is 20 South Ave., in them before 5, California for the following Leigh Lanes, England. they found them- Seafarers: Andre W. Deringer, selves putting Potenciano Paculba and Hans J. Evit Ardoln and Pablo Pacheco Checks are being held for you into Burnside, L. Pederson. in the Baltimore SIU office. La. in order to Bates proceed to Hous­ ^1> John Naeole ton, Texas for an early payoff. Richard A. Quinn Brother J. G. Edwards writes Please contact John C. Brazil, At­ Please contact your mother at torney, at 80 Wall Street, New that the SIU patrolman will take care of the details of the cur­ 188 Columbus Ave., Buffalo, York City, immediately. Impor­ N. Y. as soon as you can. tant that he hears from you. tailed trip at the payoff. PERSONALS r- I have personally seen many many elderly couples who are living off social security benefits and have hardly enough money to pay for rent and groceries, and so I'm glad to see that the AFL-CIO has taken a firm stand for the extension of these bene­ fits. It's not at all hard to see why our older citizens, no longer able to go out and make a liv­ ing, need increased benefits to keep up with the increased cost of living. The money that comes in monthly from the social secu­ rity program may be constant, but the money it costs simply to survive is rising every day. Not that I would criticize the system of social security itself. It's probably one of the best programs to come out of FDR's New Deal. But just because we have made progress in the past is a poor reason to stop now when we are on the.fringes of a program that would guaran­ tee each American citizen free­ dom from want. Now that we are so close to such a program, there is all the more reason to step up our progress in this di­ rection. It goes without saying that the amount of money it took to live on 20 years ago just won't do now—if a family is to preserve its dignity. My hat goes off to the efforts of the SIU and the AFL-CIO in their fight for improved social security benefits. Pedro Rames Thanks Jacksonville SIU For Blood Gift To the Editor: I want to thank William Mor­ ris and Jack at the Jacksonville SIU hall for donating blood to my mother, Mrs. Estelle Mathis. She went under surgery in the St. Luke's hospital and is now doing fine. She will be 84 years old in June. I thank the Lord to be a part of such a wonderful Union. Sincerely, Clyde J. Laseter Log Reader Enjoys Feature Dear Sir: I have just finished and very much enjoyed part I of your new feature, "The story of American Labor." It was in­ formative, well-written, and in­ teresting. I feel the feature has contributed a great deal in un­ derstanding the true nature of the labor movement. With this kind of writing you have done a great service to both your paper and to the en­ tire labor movement. Again, my sincere thanks for a really great article and I will certainly be looking forward to future in­ stallments in future issues. J. K. Hillstrom The BdlteB Vr, - T,,- r III Welfare Plan Gives Peace of Mind To the Editor: I would like to take this op­ portunity to congratulate the Union on their fine welfare pro­ gram. I read in the last issue of the LOG where the Union has spent $65.2 million in welfare and vacation plans. It gives me a great deal of pride to be part of a union that has such a pro­ gram. I myself have benefitted from the welfare program when I was laid up in the hospital last year. If it were not for the welfare benefits that I received I am sure that I would not have had the peace of mind that is necessary to regain my health. I also re­ ceived some blood during this trying period which I also un­ derstand was part of the wel­ fare program. On the last trip before I got sick there was a fellow who had just reached 65 and was mak­ ing his last haul before he would be eligible for his SIU pension. After talking over the various plans with him and my other fellow shipmates I have de­ cided that the SIU has one of the finest union pension plans. After reading about the vari­ ous SIU welfare plans and see­ ing them in action it makes me proud to be a member of the SIU and to know that our union is doing so much for its mem­ bers. J(An T. Ford Zettemaii Killed in Plane Crash i Near Seatde SEATTLE—Seafarer Stan Zettertnan was killed when the 1929 Travelair plane he was piloting crashed near Ellensburg recently. Three ranchers near Tanum Ridge, 15 miles southwest of El­ lensburg, said they saw the fabriccovered plane go iato a spin and crash into the ridge. A helicoptcapilot, Vernon Mitchell, located The wreckage and took Zetterman's body to Ellensburg. Officials at the Kittitas County jAiipoit said Zettennan had Istopped there to inquire about sweathar conditions over the icadc Mouhiains; They said he was told that flying was not good lalthpugh there was no rain or Jsnow falling at the time, and he had taken off at abopt 2:30 p.m. j The late Seafarer was ffflrtying iithe craft from Clarkstod to fesa^uah where it was ustd by the iSeattle Sky oigan* lizatiom The plane yras owned by linn Emedck of Seattle. 'ill �SEAFARERS Page Twelve March 18, 1966 LOG Come And Get If! Seafarer Makes India His 'Home Away From Home' "Pete's one of the best cooks in the Union," said a friend, as Brooklyn Hall. Then a few other Seafarers ambled over, shook old times. Chief Steward Pete Gon- ^ zales, a native of Tampa, Flor­ ida, who has shipped out with the SIU since 1940, was back around the Hall enjoying his va­ cation — much deserved leisure time, since he just got back after a long trip on the Steel Director. And it was an enjoyable period of his life. Brother Gonzales de­ clared. He was in and out of India so often that he finally gave up and rented an apartment in Calcutta to use when the Steel Director stopped for a while in that port. Chief Cook Pete Gonzales not "I've heard so many people call only feels pride in his expertly India an unpleasant place to visit," prepared food but also in the he said, "but I couldn't disagree gold watch he is now holding in more. It's hard for me to recall a his hand over the watch display place that I have enjoyed more. at the Sea Chest. The gold When a man is in a foreign port watch he is holding was a gift fairly regularly, and moves around from his brother, a physician. meeting the people, he gets to feel at home there. Well, that's exactly how I feel about the country. I been holding up pretty well in find it a beautiful place and look every port I've hit." On Gonzales' last run, he hit forward to shipping back there in such ports as Beruit, Alexandria, the next month or so." Jibouti, Alicante and various Interesting City places in Pakistan, and enjoyed them all—still making his headBrother Gonzales' apartment auarters at the Kami Mansion in was on Park Street in Calcutta Calcutta. "It's a devil of a nice and, though he admits that he has certain "interests" in the city aside city," he repeated, "everything an from sightseeing, he didn't elabo­ American could want is right rate further on the point. But he there, if he knows where to look did remark on the friendliness of for it. A favorite place of mine is the Issaic Bar, which is very the people. well known among travelers. They "Granted," he said, "there's a have a good band playing in an lot of poverty in the country, their American atmosphere; it's all airliving standards are far below conditioned and they serve excel­ that of the United States, but it lent meals." doesn't detract from the quality Gift from Brother of the people. They are warm and Brother Gonzales has on his humble and have treated me very well. Many times I have walked arm a watch that, in itself, tells a down the streets there, at four and story: it was a gift from one of five in the morning, with enough bis two brothers, both of them money in my pocket to make me doctors and living in Key West, Florida. In his pocket is a bill of worth robbing, and I never had sale for the watch, just in case he the slightest bit of trouble. Maybe has trouble with the customs. "I those who run into trouble there do hereby sell," the document have just been going to the wrong read, "one 18-carat gold Rolex places. But I really just don't watch to my brother, Pete, for know. Maybe, it's simply a mat­ the sum of one dollar." Gonzales takes great pride in ter of luck, although mine has Which Piece To Move Is The Problem he greeted his old friend in the hands and sat down to talk over this timepiece, considering it a testimony to the opportunities that life offers in this country. "I remember how in the old days," he recalled, "my brothers used to walk four miles to school; they literally didn't have the dime for carfare. Then one of them came up to New York to visit, and I got him a job in a factory. That was before the days of unions, and he received the grand sum of $12 a week and came home with his hands bleeding; but that $12 a week gave him the money for the books which he almost ate up as soon as he got them. And now he's a doctor. As for me, well, I guess I just always loved the sea." Brother Gonzales cooks at sea, and he cooks for his own enjoy­ ment when he's on the beach. He started out as chef and sauce cook at the New York Athletic Club, then moved on to cooking on SIU shins. "I especially remember," an­ other one of his friends said, "that Snanish dish vou used to fix. What was it called?" "Arroz paella," Gonzales said. "In it were pimentoes, garlic, shrimp, clams, mussels, onions, preen pepners. chicken, oregano, all cooked with rice and good Spanish olive oil." "One of the best dishes I've ever tasted," the friend said. "How exactly did you cook it?" "Well." Brother Gonzales said, "there's many ways to prepare arroz paella. Everybody's got his own ideas, and mine I guess I'll just keep as a secret." JOHN B. WATERMAN (Watei-man)S February 6-^GhairmBn, J. Misakian ; Secsi Vetary, W. E, Morse, Ship's delegate refj jjorted that every thinjr is runningl STioothly. No beefs renorted. Motion, mad^ that deck engineer be moved njidshipsf iVote of thanks to Brother E. Mi.SBkin| ship's delegate, for a job well doncg He was re-elected. , , . -I ALCOA COMMANDER (Alcoa), Feb­ ruary 15—Chairman, Lee R.. EcVhoff| Secretary; 'Burcl J. Loftin, Jr. Sbip'ifi Idelegate reported that there were no beefs; All onestions were settled an« taken care of during the vpyaee. Every* thing is running smoothly. FatrolmaA to be contacted regarding a larger wateg? gooler. Vote of thanks to the baker, Hiji Harris, for a Job well done.—also, t^ 'the messmen for their services. J I; PLORIDIAN (South Atlantic), Febru| ary 27—Chainnan, Charles Henning: Sec*' retary, Francisco Alvarez. No beefs re§ ported by department delegates. BrotheiS .Francisco Alvarez was elected to served as shipaRidelegate,' DIGEST of SIU Seafarers S. T. Deloach and Henry Connell (from left to right) serve up lunch on the Robin Goodtellow tor shipmates waiting to sign foreign articles. On the day's menu was country style steak, along with a wide variety of vegetables plus all the other fixings of an SIU meal. SIU ARRIVALS ' feOBIN L6CKSLEY (Moorc-McCi *:^ack), February 6—-Chairman, , Eiigeni Flowers: Secretary. Luther Oadson Few hours disputed OT in engine depart'liient. Brother Frank Myatt was clectet^ :to serve as ship's delegate. Motion madaj ;that when thearew of any vessel work:| largo, they should be paid the same, frate of pay that the longshoremen ecive In.; the .'home ;port.:.6f Vsai4:-vessel.| Seafarers Ray Dirkson and Willie Smith concentrate on a chess in the Brooklyn SIU Hall, while Eddie Arnold looks on. Seafarers are members of the engine department and enjoy a little quiet relaxation around the Hall from time game of All three seem to to time. ^'' EXPRESS VIHGINt^:; (Marina'^daWi pfers), ";No-.date*-G-hairman.;'Lee J; Har* #ey; Secretary,:: .'^Gregory,-VF;. Gannon. ;|ir'other Roy 'CorPi>.;:..P'e» ,'elected; to, -serve mVsilp''^ '",delegate.'--No.beefa;.reported-* by teparimen't. detegatea,. Crew .'ISgrles'ted to natives out of quarters. . E8 VlCTORFTvictory Carriers), ary 28—Chairman. Stephen Fulij -f'.-Sceteti^.-.'i PaulFrapeoi-.^SPThe'fcale?' or 'n deck and engine depafbT t irtmwt Real -Rga SIV efew on . SM, Alicia Anne Marks, bom No­ vember 9, 1965, to the Albert F. Marks, Toledo, Ohio. Cynthia Marie Kistler, bom February 7, 1966, to the Charles A. Kistlers, Kirbyville, Tex. Austin Manuel Cajlao, bom November 15, 1965, to the Philip Cajiaos, New Orleans, La. ^ Hugh Lee Prewitt, born No­ vember 3, 1965, to the Hugh L. Prewitts, Port Neches, Texas. John Friedrich Reed, born Jan­ uary 13, 1966, to the Guy O. Reeds, Frankford, Mich. <|> Lisa Lorraine Cooley, bom February 1, 1966, to the Alvin Cooleys, Leakesville, Mississippi. i Raymond Wilson, bom No­ vember 7, 1965, to the Raymond C. Wilsons, Seymour, Mo. ^ Stephanie Lee Williams, born November 10, 1965, to the Wal­ ter H. Williams, Gretna, La. John Formich, born October 24, 1965, to the Fred Formichs, Millville, N. J. <|> Cynthia Ann Lopez, bom No­ vember 14, 1965, to the Roberto Lopezs, Metairie, La. Shona Smith, born November 5, 1965, to the Robroy Smiths, Philadelphia, Pa. ^ Michelle Conley, born Decem­ ber 14, 1965, to the Gerald Conleys, Atco, N. J. Laurie Anne Lonergan, bom December 27, 1965, to the Mi­ chael P. Lonergans, Metaire, La. \3> — Michael and Martin Paylor, born December 10, 1965, to the Frank Paylors, Houston, Texas. — 4/ — Hobart Kirkwood, born August MEETINGS - 1 1, 1965, to the Hobart Kirkwoods, Jacksonville, Fla. • f' <I> Cintha Ann Brown, bom Augu.st 27, 1965, to the Charles C. Browns, Texas City, Texas. John Aaron Stoudenmire, bom December 3, 1965, to the Dallgs Stoudenmires, Wilmington, North Carolina. Rebecca Dee "Vincent, born De- ' cember 30, 1965, to the Joseph Vincents, Vinton, La. Mary Elizabeth Thurhy, bom February 11, 1966, to the Harry Thursby, Paducah, Ky. — <i> — Pamela Diann Evans, born No­ vember 22, 1965, to the F. W. Evans, Freeport, Fla. Joseph Scott, born Decmber 19, 1965, to the Robert Lee Scotts, Mobile, Ala. — 4/ — Leslie McFarland, born Janu­ ary 13, 1966, to the Leslie D. Mc- Fariands, Petoskey, Mich. ^ Jack Albert Buchanan, bom . February 2, 1966, to the J. L. Bucliaiians. Sandusky, Ohio. <1> Freddy Woods, boi.i December 7, 1965, to the George Woods, Galveston, Texas. —^ F — Gregory Joseph Fugleman, born . November 14, 1965, to the J. Fnglemans, Detroit, Mich. John Potter, Jr., born Septem­ ber 23, 1965, to the John N. Pot­ ters, Belhaven, N. C. — — Phyllis Mcintosh, born Septem­ ber 11,1965, to the Earl N. McIntoshes, Lorain, Ohio. Cantrille Smith, born Decem­ ber 31, 1965, to the Clarence " Smiths, Sr., New Orleans, La. ^ Alvin Reece, Jr., born October 4, 1965, to the Alvin S. Recces, New Orleans, La. ber 22, 1965, to the Jimmy M. Smiths, Pasadena, Texas. Sidney Anderson, bom January 22, 1966, to the Sidney Ander­ sons, New Orleans, La. i Gia Carol Smith, born Decem­ ^ Randal! Keith Bostic, born No­ vember 11, 1965, to the Jesse R. Bostics, Jacksboro, Tenn; i -i -:(i 4/ T if 7l Dewey Gillikin, Uorn October 20, 1965, to the Dewey Gillikins, Brooklyn, New York, . v �J If March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Those So-Called 'Good Old Days' Not So Good, Seafarer Declares "I can remember back in the good old days when you were lucky to get a ship and when you did get one you could expect to receive a whopping sum of $30 for a voyage." These were the comments made by Brother Abe Parkman, a seaman for over 45 years and member of the SIU since 1947, as he reminisced ^ deal. I joined the SIU and have again he was taking deepsea runs over his life as a Seafarer. never regretted it." but now prefers the coasters be­ Parkman first went to sea in When he started shipping out cause he can spend more time at 1922 in the deck department and, his home in New Haven. He said; except for a 10 year period, has "You really can't be.at the SIU. GENEVA (U.S. STKET.). January;' been shipping out ever since. so—Chairman, Richard Heffley; Secre-| This union has one of the best lary, Clyde t,. Van iSpps. Vessel will pay| "My first trip to Rouen, France, oft reputations in the entire labor and aign on In Baltimore. One man; was really a wonderful experi­ missed ship in Philadelphia. Some di3-| movement in this country." puted OT in engine department. Discus-; ence and I can still remember sion shout getting timers on washing) Parkman plans to keep sailing machine. going up the river with the SIU until he will be eli­ SEATBAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain),; gible for the SIU pension. He be­ and seeing the January 23—Chairman. Boy Pappas;; French country­ S<;cretary. Frank Naklicki. $88.80 inj lieves that the pension and other and $64,02 in ship's fund. A fewi side for the first Soda welfare benefits are the greatest hours disputed OT In steward depart-l time. It was such ment. Several lockers should be checked. things the union has and is look­ a beautiful sight STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Feb-I ing forward to a long and happy 7—Chairman, Richard Charroin;| that I can remem­ ruary retirement. Secretary, Jack Caftey. Brother John W.< ber it as if it was Keisoe was elected to serve as ship's dele-, $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and^ yesterday. Park- gate. no disputed OT reported by department; delegates. Ship should be fumigated for) man commented. roaches. Vote of thanks to the steward; Parkman "I can remem­ department. ber the depression too," Brother RIO GRANDE (Oriental Exporters). January .18—Chairman, A. H. Reasko ! Parkman went on to comment. Secretary, G. lothrop. Brother Reasko Charles B. Bennett, 66: Brother "In those socalled "good old days" was elected to serve as ship's delegate. 1 ! No beefs reported by department dc!c-[ before the seaman had a union i gates. Everything is running smoothly. | Bennett died of leukemia on Feb­ in ship's fund. Vote of thanks toj you had to go to the company ;I $32.00 ruary 2 in Jack­ the stctvard department for a job well; hiring office and try your luck. i done. sonville, Florida. You were lucky to get a ship and He had shipped ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa). February 3-rChairman, Henry W. Milker; Secre­ when you did get one you worked i tary, as a cook and Thomas Sanchez, $120.00 in ship's ^ for wages that were less than fund. Some disputed OT in engine de­ messman since partment. Brother Henry W. Miller wae 1937. He joined what some of these poor fellows elected to serve as new ship's delegate. get on runaway-flag vessels today. the Union in 1942 TRANSORLEANS (Hudson Water­ and received a When someone says that the good ways). January 16—Chairman, David P. Sykes; Secretary, Boyd H. Amsherry. disability pension old days were better, I can only M. Brother Alijert Ringnette was elected to : serve as new ship's delegate,.No beefs because of arteri­ laugh at him." reported by department, delegates. Grew osclerosis, and heart disease since "During the depression the December, 1961. He is survived communists were very much in by his wife, Cassie, and their evidence on the waterfront, as daughter, Charlene B. Quina. He they were trying to infiltrate some was buried in Waycross, Ga., at of the unions that were trying to the Evergreen Cemetery. organize the maritime industry. In the late 1930's, Brother Park^ man stopped going to sea and got Johnnie Monroe Jordan, 56: a job with the Remington Arms Brother Jordan joined the Union Company in his home town of in Mobile in New Haven, Conn. When the 1944. He shipped war came he was drafted. How­ with the engine ever his Army service did not last department. He long for word came down that . {Cliairmah, Wallace P. Anderson; , John W. Parker. No beefs reported! died of lung can­ all draftees over 36 were to be |t»ryi yby department delegates. Motion madis• ithat (the look into the matter od cer in Mobile on let out of the service. After his linsuflielentUnion mattresaeB on board. TTuvse? January 3. Sur­ short stay in the Army, Parkman aboard are not inner-spring. Vote of viving are his went back to work in the arms thanks to the steward department. TRANSHARTFORD (Htidson Wat wife, Annie, and factory in New Haven. In 1947 ways), January 30—Chairman, their four chil­ he ioined the SIU and has been Mason; Secretary, T. Morris. No beef] reported by department delegates, dren, Alice Elaine, Eddie Earl, at sea ever since. requteted to keep ship cimn. Sn Wayman Monroe and Annie Beamount of disputed OT, "In 1947 I reconsidered going < - back to sea and looked for a un­ nita. Mrs. Jordan lives in PriiVOUNG AMERICA (Waterman)! anuary 2»—Chairman. K. Ryan; Seer% chard, Alabama. Brother Jordan ion that would give you a straight ary, A. Bobby. Disputed OT in engin# was buried in Mobile's Wolf Ridge ,, epartment. Motion made that alli fjwatches in port, between 6 P.M. and. Cemetery. A.M. shall be paid at OT rate.. Vote of; Page Thirteen Recalls Union Organizing Drive S.' .1 Baker Martin Sondergeld shows his wife, Leta, a precision model of an SlU-contracted Isthmian ship, which was organized by the SIU after one of the toughest organizing drives in the history of the union. Brother Sondergeld dropped by the Hall while enjoying his SIU vacation benefits. FINAL DEPARTURES .i i % LOG-A-RHYTHM: a The Changing World'' By Linda Mustakas In the vastness of this changing world Of which each man is part The threat of war is in the air And fear is in the heart. What conquest now does man desire? The lives of fellow men— To make captive of each child— That no man should befriend? How blind has power made the eyes Which now behold no peace The fate of man may soon demand That life on earth shall cease. V . Daniel Waite Hill, 58: A cere­ bral edema claimed the life of Brother Hill while at his home port of Baltimore, Md. He joined the Un­ ion in Baltimore and shipped wtih the steward de­ partment. He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Wini­ fred Hill Lovejoy, and her son, who live in Hollywood, Florida. He was cremated at the Loudon Park Crematory, Baltimore, Md. ^l> John G. Brady, 54: A heart at­ tack in the port of Alicante, Spain, last November took the life of the Mississippi born Chief Elec­ trician. Brother Brady is survived by his wife, Do­ rothy, and their three children, ' " John G. Brady, III, Dorothy Julia and Mrs. Mikiel Brady Shaffer. Brady joined the Union in Mobile in 1944 and made his home in Northport, Miss. His body was buried at sea on December 4, 1965, following services held aboard ship. Teddy Brumlield, 23: On No­ vember 27, 1965, Brother Brumfield died in Pontiac, Michigan. He was buried in the Brumfield Ce­ metery in Harts, West Virginia. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Mae Brumfield, and his father, Tom Brumfield, who live in Harts. Brother Brumfield shipped first with the deck department, then later as a wiper in the engine de­ partment. He joined the Union in Detroit in 1963. •if Alfred LeQuesne, 62: Brother LeQuesne passed away in the USPHS, in De­ troit, Michigan, on January 11 from a heart at­ tack. The veteran of two wars was buried in the Lakeview Ceme­ tery, Cleveland, Ohio. He is sur­ vived by his mother, Mrs. Agnes Smith of Cleveland, and his wife, Thelma. Brother LeQuesne joined the Union in 1960 in Cleveland. He was a Wheelsman. • thanks extended to the steward del iSment. , BRIUHAM VICTORY (Bldomfleld): January 31—Chairman, Ted ChiHhski| Secretary, Paul Parsons. Motion made t^ report to headquarters that on the Jis! rionth trip ship received no LOGS, ho; orta or communications from the UnS ion. Vote of thanks extended to:' thft pteward department. • 'S Seafarers Relax Over Card Game in Brooklyn Hail %EL RIO (Delta), February 6—Chalrl nan, Albert MiteheH; Secretary, Alberf UitefaeH. No beefs Reported by departfS ncnt delegates; Everytl)ing is runnlntg ;nsoothIy. . . ^(CANTIGNY (Cities •Service: Tankers)! '•'ebruary 26—Chairman, Wm, Morrisi Ir. ; Secretary, A, Hebert, Disputed OT iif fc department. Ship should be fumil for roaches. Suggestion made tha| ;he ship's delegate see about getting , ys painted or at least sougeed| pecially side of black gang, •SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (SeatrBinil February 20—Chairman, P. J. Clearyf cretary. Frank Naklicki. Everything igoing along well except for some bitted OT, in ship's fund. I'HtKBL SEAFARER (Isthmian), Janu.| |hy 2---0h«iman, Alfred Hirsch; Secre >ry, W. M, Hand. IJiost -of the repair Jv«ne taken; care bf; Tlie other will E ioiiapJeted In ehipyard, Brother Alfred [Urscn '.was elehl^ to serve as ship's f-ittHN -e- -^AithinHev^arrieiralte Ja^ (-sBailey .1 Secretary, illMr-'Ih' .hfep's' fund , • in-: enki [feClnt'irman, Seafarers B. Gairna, M, Makatangy, C. V. Rayes and W. Tube enjoy a hand or two of cards at the Union Hall in Brooklyn. Standing over the game is Brother Joo Standin. While waiting for ships, SIU Brothers find the Brooklyn hall a good place to gather and renew old friendships. �March 18, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fourteen UNFAIR TO LABOR FINANCIAL REPORTS. The conetitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safetrnarding; the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by tbe membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AOantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are adnM'nistered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union balls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), Feb I PECOS (Oriental Exporters')* Pehruaiy it—Chairman, R. L. O'Briep; Seei^tariy, ; ruary 13—Chairman, A. Maldonado; SecE. C. Candill. Motion made to have ship = retary, F. Omega- 36.91 in ship's fund No disputed ,0T reported by department fumigated upon arrival in -States; No hefifs reported by departiaent driegates. delegates. Motion made that the Coin. pany provide iee-cnbo machine. Motion Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate for a ijdb well done; Also a vote rf! thanTts pertaining to Article n. Section 13; Gen­ io^.thei.Steward;". • eral Rules, sflibmitted to Robert Matthews, SASTINGS' (Waterman), February IS -Chabman, Roy Evans} Secretary, ;• J. fVelis. H^t beef to be taken ,ap with patrolman. .Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of thanks to the stew­ ard, deptartmcnt. Good crew and delciatrii. "—otb trip. • • ; VALLE (Delia), '.F^uary: Alhi; Jhafrman, Ramon.: Ferircra; / Secretary, .Bos' Casanova, No beefs reporteill erytbing: Is running smoothly. Vote: of thanks to the steward department-fear a. ;fcb welt -done. Christmas . dinner -was. pbbve.average, and everyone had a fedst. • <}> M :SEA.Ti£AiN:NEW JElSSEY' (Scatrain) February :19—CKa?rman> Carios Diaa:" Secretary, Charles Cantw^; Disputed OT in each department. • Headquarters ^ntaoted regarding in; engine rooni. DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS •; MABGiSBEPBHOWN"" (BloomOrid), -"Crv;;"Tro^Iair. in >. {vtn4, Ko baefft reported by departnit»nt was elects to aorye sblp^a ddejr&tee -—. ^ ^ FAIRISLE (Panoceanle), January 21 Chairman,'. -.V;.' -'DougTas';;; ..SectaryNone; Crew wdnld, like Uhion to check on mail service to Vietnam, Also would like cJarificatloh on TirbeiOF V "Qausfc Disputed reported'; tn;;i;eaeb;vdep8i:t>''' ment. PENN GABKIEB. .(Penn), .NO dateChairman, Bi; : Secretary. ; " T. Scfattltz. No; bedfs reported by depart­ ment delegates^-Brother R M. Ellis was ririited - Wl serve, ,as;-*^ .••;:--»Et.;VALLE.'rDe)ta).,.February .13r-| Chairman!, R; ;-Feriera; Secretary,' ;Rayl Casanova, Everything is running smooth-" ly with no'beefs- Little diaputed OF in! engine department. Vote of thanks to- thej steward department for a job well done. .Christmak..Dinner was above average. : TAMABA GtriLDBN (TranspCrt Com­ mercial),; January 4—Chairman, H. Con­ nolly; Secretary. Roy Foster, Jr. Some (.disputed, DF: in'' deck ..dcamrihient.; - NORlNA;! (Wall; Street Tradefs')-,;january ^Z—^CKaitntBh, E. Bates; SeCr^ry, J. G. Edwards. $1.76 in ship's fund. ; Crew ssked; te; ;cd»t''teute to^! b^ up fund again. Some disputed OT in engfaie ' department; Motion made that the Agent be aboard ship at payoff, whether, it be Siimslde, Louisiana or Houston, Texas. Vote of thanks e.xtended to the steward department, for a;. job well done.. Stew­ ard reciprOteited iby thanking all depart­ ments; for (thete understanding and co(.;• opcration'.dnring'. tl»e .long, hot' weekSvat sen. No commonications and, no LOGS received duriitg the entire voyage. '•. (.8g!':BLATTE".TBUlk).'' Januaty 22-;Chairman, O. P. Oakley; Secretary; Wnfc E. Scott. Ship should be fumigated com­ pletely for rats. Overhead room vents, and blOWer8 ;tp' hp!'FUt in working eopditi^^^ Fresh •water tanks should be cleaned ; due to rusty water, ;• Sample. of water ,.;k«pt;--'td. !(lte;!ahOwn to patrolman. Some disputed OX in each department. FORT HOSKINS (Cities Service), Jan­ uary 134-4Cl»ainnan, Arthur Boturo; Sec­ retary, None. Brother M. J. GalHer was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Did not riecetee'communications or (LOGS In foreign- ports. ' • •;;;-DEL!';M0^E; (Delta), February 22Chairman. Frank • Sullivan; ''Secretaf,v,: i .•.•STEEtK-FABRICAFOR (Isthmian), Alberto Gi Skpeneda. Ship's delwnbe Te^J February 6—(Chairman., 'W. M. Wallace; ported that the ship is running Smoothly ' Secrelaryl P. B. Pandjaitiiri. Ghief elec­ ,, with no,;b«efs<--.$2.i)0. in shipts- .fu.nd. .M<y ' trician failed to-join. ship in New York. ; tion .inadc 'that any work done in ship's Brother W. J. Miles was elected to serve ' cargo holes .sliould be paid at regular las ship's delegate. Dispute®OF on cdaStiongshoremen's rate of pay-instead; of !wiae,.;;tr)p;:atjlI;..pendteg.(iSome;,4i»P!atea;;. the 62 cent# an- hour. Vote of thanks to •, OT on foreign voyage in deck and enthe steward'.denartraent, ship's delegate. m I Editor, I SEAFARERS LOG, I 675 Fourth Ave., I Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I I I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my I name on your mailing list. (Prinf Information) I I NAME I I STREET ADDRESS I CITY STATE ZIP I TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old subscriber and have a change I of address, please give your former address below: I I ADDRESS I CITY .... STATE ZIP..... I 1 I I I I ' j I I I I | I I I I PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in tbe SBAFAREIRS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS, All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, tbe Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and tbe Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hail at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. Schedule of Membership Meetings SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New York, N. Y. ... Apr. 4—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Apr. 5—2:30 p.m. Baltimore .. Apr. 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit . . Apr. 8—2:30 p.m. Houston ...Apr. 11—2:30p.m. New Orieans Apr. 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Apr. 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington Mar. 21—2 p.m. San Francisco Mar. 23—2 p.m. Seattle .... Mar. 25—2 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit .. Alpena .. Buffalo .. Chicago . Cleveland Dninth . . Frankfurt . Mar. .Mar. .Mar. . Mar. .Mar. .Mar. .Mar. 21—7 p.m. 21—7p.m. 21—^7p.m. 21—7 p.m. 21—7 p.m. 21—^7p.m. 21—7 p.m. tHonston Mobile .New Orleans * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. $ Meeting held at Galveston wharves. SIM ^ & Inland V/atefs Inland Boahnen's Union . UnitoicT Iridusfrial Workers PRESIDENT' P«u1 HaU - Detroit .. . .Apr. 11—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .Apr. 11—7:30p.m. Chicago .. . Apr. 12—7:30 p.m. Buffalo ... .Apr. 13—7:30 p.m. tSanIt Ste. Marie Apr. 14—7:30 p.m. Dninth . .. .Mar. 18—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .Mar. 18—7:30p.m. Toledo . .. .Mar. 18—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Philadelphia .. Apr. 5—5 p.m. Houston Apr. 11—5 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) .Apr. 6—5p.m. Norfolk Apr. 7—5 p.m. New Orleans .. Apr. 12—5 p.m. Mobile Apr. 13—5 p.m. Railway Marine Region Jersey City Apr. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Philadelphia Apr. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Apr. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Apr. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New York .... Apr. 4—1 p.m. Baltimore Apr. 6—7 p.m. Philadelphia .,, Apr. 5—1 p.m. ^ H. 1. Siege! "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) SHtzel-Weller DistiUeries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. WeBer Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) J. R. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) Cal Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS , Undsay Kqberf Mafthem SEC«Er4(RX''"fF*SiJRER • jW-'Kar-f Jamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) , :! EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDEN) Earl Shafiaid W Tanner "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) UNION .. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Apr. 11—^7 p.m. April 13—7 p.m. .Apr. 12—1 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott 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 in­ volved, and will he amended from time to time.) * .. •iEAOGUARTERS,.. .',475' 4+h Ave., BUyr HY f-m MPENA, Mich 127 R'ver S( EL 4.361 3ALTIM0RE. MD 1216 E. Balbmora SI EA 7-490 i.d^TON, Man (77 State Si Rt2ai4 lOEFAtO, N.Y.-735 VYashinqton Si • TL 3-«5 3HICAS0, III. ..V 9383 Ewlnq Ave SA. 1-073 It-EVELANDi Ohio .)420 W. 2Sih Si MA I .'545 )ETROIT, Mich. .. 10225 W. Jeffcwn Ave VI 3-474 lUlUTH, Minn 3»2 W. Ind.St ... , RA,2ft'l FRANKFORT. Mich. P.O. So*'Iff '• V."IQUSTON, Tax. . ..,- ... SSd4 Cenal'iSt WA 8.32ff ACKSON'YILLE. F|« 2608r .Peart, St , EL 3-0981 EftSET CITY. N.J. ... 99 Montgome^^S^ liOBILE, Ala. I So-uth lawrcnce' St HE 2-175lEVy QFLEANS, U. • 636 Jecktbn Ave Tel. 529.7S4( DE 6-38 ARTHUR. Tc* - .. !34B Seventh St Wi\. " Tel. 723-8524 -Walk.'.,:2S»5 Firri Avenue . fM 3 433i Me '...BOS Del Ma, Calif. .-.SOS N. Marine A ,, ' Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) <I> White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ' Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Woric Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestwortb, W. L. Douglas, Flagg Brothers, Kingston, Davidson. Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Tyson's Poultry, Inc. Rock Cornish Tyson's Pride Manor House-Safeway Wishbone-Kroger Cornish Game-Armour and A & P's SuperRight Cornish Game Hen Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of N, America) •a �March 18, 1966 r i • t V he unbridled anti-union violence of the 1870's as exemplified in the bloody sup­ pression of the "lA)ng Strike" in the coal­ fields and the "Great Strike" on the nation's railroads, the "Molly Maguire" huzngings and the "Baltimore Massacre" of railroad workers, set the tone of the labor-management struggle \ in the United States for years to come. Power­ ful corporations grew increasingly callous in destroying workers' organizations, making in­ creasing use of state and federal governments and troops, state and federal courts and the local and national press to suppress the legiti­ mate aims of labor. Much strife still lay ahead, such as the "Haymarket Square Massacre" of workers in Chicago, the bloody "Homestead Strike" against the Carnegie Steel Corporation in Pennsylvmia, and the famous "Pullman Strike" against the Pullman railroad car com­ pany. Labor progress during this period was slow —but steady. American labor organizations faced increasingly bitter and powerful opposi­ tion. At the same time they stfll had many untraveled pathways to explore in the search for the dignity of labor. At times these paths led to a dead end, at other times labor took what proved to be wrong turnings. Gradually however, labor organizations grew and labor action became more and more effective. The years ahead were to see the rise of the Knights 1 of Labor, the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations —•which were destined to combine into the present-day AFL-CIO. W hile the giant corporations—often aided by the government, the courts and the press — were suppressing American workers in the coalfields, the railroad indus­ try and elsewhere, a' new labor organization, first formed secretly in 1869 by PhUadelpUa tailors, was gaining strength and growing'^ membership—the l^ights of Labor. The' Knights incorporated a new idea into American trade unionism. It was not organ­ ized on a craft basis. Membership was open to every worker, skilled or unskilled, male or female, white or negro. The motto of the Knights of Labor was "An injury to one is the concern of all", meaning every worker had an obligation to support every other worker in redressing his grievances. Unfortunately however, the Knights of Labor did not stick to this ideal of militant trade unionism—turn­ ing instead to vague panaceas of social re­ form to improve the worker's lot. However under the banner of "An injury to one is the concern of all!", and singing the militant song of the Knights— "Storm the fort, ye knights of labor. Battle for your cause: Equal rights for every neighbor Down with tyrant laws!" Pace Fifteen SEAFARERS LOG THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR American workers flocked to the Knights of Labor in unprecedented numbers. By 1885 the Knights could boast several hundred thou­ sand members. The high point of the Knights of Labor's influence came in that same year. I n 1884 another cycle of economic depres­ sion hit the United States—although not as serious or as long-lasting as previous de­ pressions had been. American industrialists however, as usual seized the opportunity to slash wages to the bone. Strikes broke out spontaneously among rank-and-file members to which the Knights had to give unwilling sup­ port. Surprisingly (for the times), many of these strikes ended victoriously for the work­ ers, including a walkout against the Wabash Railroad which threatened Jay Gould's Union ' Pacific Railroad. These victories were to prove temporary however, serving only to harden the resolve of American industrialists to destroy labor by any means necessary. Just ^ Qng .year after this high point the Knights of L^bor was to be destroyed—another victim of the infamous "Haymarket Square Massacre." Aroused by soaring business profits in which they did not share despite long and ex­ hausting shifts in the nation's factories, more and more American workers had begun call­ ing for the "eight-hour day." Hopes for lead­ ership in achieving the eight-hour day led more than 600,000 workers to join the Kniglits of Labor. The first test of the new campaign came in 1886 in Chicago when over 60,0CK) workers walked ofl! the job on May 1 to dem­ onstrate for their cause. The city's big business­ men acted predictably—the Knights of Labor did not. When the walkout began, Chicago's meat packer industrialists immediately called on the friendly police force to crack down hard on the dght-hour-day demonstrators. The police complied with swinging nightsticks—turning . peaceful parades into free-for-all riots. Out* side the McCormick Harvester Works plant a workers' rally was in progress. Suddenly the plant's gates flew open and out charged armed scabs, Pinkerton finks and other assorted thugs who attacked the assembled workers. Chicago police who were on hand fired into the work­ ers, killing six and wounding 20, The next night several thousand workers assembled at Haymarket Square to protest this anti-labor violence. They were to be addressed by sev­ eral noted anarchist speakers. It was raining and the crowd was down to about 500 list­ eners when suddenly there was an explosion. Someone had set off a bomb at the back of the Square. The police immediately opened fire on the assembled workers. Some armed workers returned the fire. Eleven were killed and about 200 wounded in Haymarket Square that night. C hicago's big industrialists wanted the hides of the pro-labor anarchists and the police complied by arresting eight anar­ chist leaders—^several who were on the speak­ ers' stand when the bomb was thrown. There was no proof that they were involved with the bombing, but the jury was packed against them and local newspapers screamed daily for a guilty verdict. Five were sentenced to die on the gallows and three received life sentences. Big business followed up immediately with a violent anti-labor campaign which cost labor most of the gains it had already won. The Knights of Labor, which had remained pas­ sive during these and subsequent attacks on its own members, was repudiated by Ameri­ can workers. Its place was taken by a new or­ ganization—the American Federation of Labor —organized in 1886 and led by Samuel Gompers. The AFL was a return to craft unionism, limiting membership to skilled workers organ­ ized in craft unions. But within these limits, it rejected panaceas and future Utopias and vowed instead to fight for immediate gains "by negotiation if possible, by direct action tf necessary." "We are fighting," announced one of Gomper's aides, "only for immediate ob­ jects—objects that can be realized in a few years." A fair day's wage for a fair day's work was the goal. "We don't want pie in the sky!" explained an AFL union leader. Gompers quickly got the AFL on a soimd financid footing to assure survival through a long strike or economic depression. AFL offi­ cials were full-time professionals—experts at organizing a plant, a strike or a boycott, ne­ gotiating a contract or settling disputes. The AFL preferred to win demands through nego­ tiation but did not shun strikes—always keep­ ing in mind that the strike was labor's ulti­ mate weapon. ' t\ ^I ..r- 'm rf?l A �>r SEAFARERSiXOG MARCH 18 1966 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION « ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT > AFL-CIO mm. Hot And Heavy ShelUng Hits Shipping To H»"®* I 4hA AFlrCIO Maritime in its acrnunt _of _the «na^ Newspaper Support of Maritime Unions .Boycott MOMS, AU. nUBS RE0I5TR the Associ mmm "aniese Comniuiiisi u Viet / is aimerf ""'"'"'g L'.S. ports v,:'i""S United States. ^ WW^ filLE the United States is fighting PT in support of South Viet Nam's freedom, vessels of some of the democracies have continued to supply Hanoi. Plans for the boycott of ships trading with North Viet Nam which was an­ nounced by three AFL-CIO unions—the International Longshoremen's Associa­ tion, the Seafarers International Union of North America, and the National Mari­ time Union—and support for which was voted by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades .Department, has stirred considerable faI vorabie comment across the nation. f A sampling of the editorial support of the boycott appears on this page. ""•'^nce froa,!,'; f^l^ade luii^j^. "®" ivcrii" Maritime Boycott May Be Pr"!^ 'does not want to This newspaper is not in the habit « r-- > ries by blacklist- *\Th^fth"eSrwnsidered ing their ships." ; that me one ucm :^r>iCHESTES, N.a UNION liADBl BIIUNGS, MONT. mmmtQ oiaan ^Maritime unions meeting in Other «it^f Je I Maritime unions [night be a good i of the ; International naruoi. ssociation has )f all foreign shii I at tho if OUT » .oains*' *'l,.;pbon« ' of allied natic North Viet N no nool^'®* ?woat "•; L'eihn.- ...;., '.titroe decadoe .. boycott wo ports to si J^taiiir France, Nor Greece and other nati tinue to deliver hundrS cargo • ^^yfooting Good Move by Moriti he threatened hnvrn+i The boycott I>IT bv •>.« the AHrCIO Maritime IVades DepartNe!ihfr®!"Sf trading with North Viet Nam should be a welcome move by the administration since it brings the issue to a head without "ATeciiy inv Washington. Union . . other western trade with Hanoi is not a complete remedy. Communist ship­ ping will continue to deliver the eee.1- S«f »»" made out'oflh "° "f lions are sheri . ® Plie.s to the Comm ^ .A» , , \. r Head Unrest-uwe^ .„T(iicb ^.ve rfandttn^®y vrntert a n ad-. in » "v, „ at evcT^^^. monefliNiSJgetj ORAND RAHDS. MR ,1 eBorls to our jties of Last month 10 of the 14 free world ^ps arriving at North Viet Nam were. British. In February of^a.^^^^v of the 18 -A that e •»... A •r»-» "Wever, ouje m cott cuv^ trade .,%. c ^"fo this breach hnv ^ Charles «• 3gain. This time howe ">4 the battle alone -1 ev ®eeii| the um° "f the American 080^®"' ^°'' hoycott.« Tbe executive bZ f '"''"'y ''A Paj tment of the AFLSIQ pan. «Jbon workers in M 1 % ' nobce that it is " ife umons T ^•Ps of foreign „3®«f '° 'nvoke a boyj T^s notice was served ne ^orth This is What thHe^ JobISHBCmU, INO. ¥m-\ J raws ,tt;";Viwrf ; ie»»» icb •W BIOFORO, NASI nANfSAR&TOlEgl /Of poweti^y Vio»/ day-,' r-em-Tl^® deno,.-. ^ove 9c *L ^ •INM . . e EJIterlNiR - • '«• V. .1.. AVI. wk a forthright standi against tecognlUon of ie USSB, toreseelng the tragic result tl^ ^mr M /o J'® 'n"° *»•' V""®- '°']dslide ^tVieSea ^ 'er/t/m. a '^;A iP • m Crjaa ^ b. -"'oka-, "bist/os ,'ooa ^Os ' *!*' '*ef A^? to .^Uto/Ai ii""' '«< ^"<1 fn, I^ " ha'tpccJo'^oaiyoon > ,/°' U 'P' toll *tbey 'dO'luSl '"I p, ^ tit I. k^f VJ ufm aiflUated unions, served notice ti toreign naUons trsding with North Viet Mrved on Fresideot J< in. telegrwnrigned by Thomas W.G1 president of the international Um| Association: Joseph Curran, pn men's Assodatloi -of ih. National National Maritime Unloo; ant ii(jentMthe Seafarers Inl— ...ret/ve for 7n. rs^ ».•: Emptying The Harbor .o'tsirrsa.'-us^ S?=-.C.trri MlMHmYi RA. ^ AattA ^ '''•Kfe of^ Shipping To North Viet Nam *ba Free world shipping to North Viet Nam Is denounco 49 R^. Charlss E. Chamberlain of Mieblgaii as an "In- tata ^ tad ' liable situation" from a United States stan^poInL .. ^P*tob(w "> His remarks to this effect were occasioned by an ISihmiate^ ketlon of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades DqMrbnent. He said the "actloa Taken .'. . by the Hnltimc r>-—-A—"t of the AFLdO in propofinc n.bey- RHfi^s^ Rtoaitlnns jeMeh nermH any of Hi ieriiiirir a.. sr, Wl i- � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 18, 1966 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL-CIO: “TAX CORPORATE PROFITS, NOT SOCIAL PROGRAMS!” 13 T-2’S GO TO FOUR SIU CO’S THE PRESIDENT’S TRANSPORTATION MESSAGE ONE SIU SCHOLARSHIP A SEAMAN’S LIFE 100 YEARS AGO THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR – ALL THIS HAPPENED: PART 3 N.Y. PORT COUNCIL CAMPAIGNS TO AMEND BI-STATE COMPACT AFL-CIO COUNCIL BACKS LBJ’S VIETNAM POLICY PRESIDENT SEEKS NEW CABINET POST TO CONSOLIDATE TRANSPORT AGENCIES FOUR ON, FOUR OFF – THE SEAMEAN’S LIFE ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO C.G. BOARD OF INQUIRY SUGGESTS NEW SAFETY RULES FOR RUNAWAYS NEWSPAPER SUPPORT OF MARITIME UNIONS BOYCOTT 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 03/18/1966 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. 6 1966 Periodicals Seafarers Log