http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/e7abcc926b5a29d298c1aa00a7512341.PDF 3d90f9eddfa7341ddda3ee44e4b1c559 PDF Text Text SEAFARERS*U>G OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT . AFL-CIO ""iiMtlwIiMi^T IMI ji iQ' rtijiT 'Iiirri m\\» SlU Backs Plan for Domestic Shipping Page 3 ... Louisiana State Fed Urges Fleet Build-Up Page 2 . . .' SlU Atlantic Fishermen Win Pension Plan I S~J;SS Pages 8-9 . . . i-' The Kingsport Strike—3 Years of Struggle -^4 I ' t*' •• J' r ' ' I; tii«I '• •', . N • I .V -5^3 till ioGdline painted dn the hulls dt ships In ffit^rnciftonaf cofiiinerce td indkdtB fhe ntdkimum depth df^ submdrgdncd ^ ts gding td be md^ed 36 years that the location of thd hi^prh^^ so fdhiiliar td lit ot f f i III e work ers will be changed, (Poge 3) >V 3 IPS �Page Two April 15, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Del Mar Wins Annual Delta Line Safety Award Report of International President by Paul Hall The SlU-manned Del Mar has been awarded the annual Delta Line Fleet -Safety Award. Talcing part in presentation ceremonies held recently aboard the vessel in New Orleans are (l-r, above): Del Mar chief engineer R. A. Love; Delta Safety Director Paul Pollatt; Del Mar master J, D. Kourian; Port Capt. E. R. Seamen: and Seafarers J. Procell, bosun; V. Romolo, chief steward and electrician Orlando Guerrero. j I SIUAtlantic Fishermen Win Pensions The fact that foreign-flag vessels are not required to meet the same safety standards as American-flag ships should be a matter of con­ tinuing concern to all Americans. The fiery destruction of the cruise liner Viking Princess under similar conditions as those causing the fire aboard the Yarmouth Castle has again prompted renewed demands for safety legislation—demands that the Seafarers International Union and other groups have been making continuously for many years. But disaster after disaster has brought little or no action toward protecting American citizens travelling on foreign-flag passenger vessels on the high seas. The response of Congress and the U. S. public has been one of indignation immediately following the disaster, an outcry which seems to last only a short while with no real action being taken. Then the foreign- and runaway-flag vessels are free to again endanger the lives of American citizens. The operators of these shabby vessels seem to regard a few more dollars in their pocket more highly than human life, and they have demonstrated that they have no intention of stepping up safety practices, unless forced to do so by law. The standards of the 1948 Safety of Life at Sea Convention does not bar the use of wood and flammable paints in many parts of the ship, while the American Maritime safety laws, adopted after the disastrous fire on the Morro Castle in 1934, require non-flammable materials and paint to be used virtually throughout the ship. Under the American standard of safety, the Viking Princess would have never been allowed to operate. Unless the protest against the unsafe standards are heeded, the lives of American citizens will continue to be jeopardized in foreign-flag firetraps, owned by ruthless operators. The SIU will not relax its demands until adequate safety standards are adopted to prevent the further loss of American lives. BOSTON—The SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic Fishermen's Union has won a new two-year agreement which for the first time provides pension coverage for approximately 500 Boston fishermen. The con­ • • » tract went into effect on April 1 after overwhelming membership ratification. Alarmed by the increasing losses to American shipping by the failure SIUNA Vice-President James ^ of the Federal Government to implement the Merchant Marine Act death benefits payable to survivors, The union maintained that this re­ Ackert, who heads the Atlantic of 1936, the legislatures of two states. New York and Michigan, have with the exact amounts to be de sponsibility rested with the boat Fishermen's Union, said that termined by actuaries administer­ owners. Under the old contract gone on record as calling for Congress to rigorously pursue the provi­ the newly-instituted pension plan ing the plans. the fishermen were required to pay sions of the Act. More and more people are coming to recognize that will cover the Boston fishermen a substantial part of the costs for Congress is letting down one of the most important segments of the The contract also orovidfs American economy. While other segments of our economy, such as who work on trawlers out of this radar and sounding machines. farming receive their share of subsidies, the U.S. merchant marine is port. The new agreement was "lumpers" who unload the vessels The new agreement provides reached after protracted negotia­ will now earn $22 a day for the that the boat owners, in the first being ignored. It is a measure of the growing concern over the problem when two tions with the Federated Boat first 100,000 pounds of fish un­ vear of the contract, will take over Owners of Boston and New York. loaded, plus two dollars for every ffie cost of paying for radar of the largest states in the country in effect censure the Federal Gov­ Under the precedent - setting additional 10,000 pounds over that aboard the fishing vessels, and in ernment's laxity in giving the merchant marine the support it deserves agreement, the SIU fishermen will amount. the second year will assume the and needs. The two state legislatures took note of the fact that U. S. get an approximate 50 per cent in­ One of the issues in the contract costs of the sounding machines bottoms are now carrying substantially less than nine per cent of our own commerce, a point we of the SIU have been making for years. crease in their health and welfare- negotiations involved responsi­ used on fishing trips. In the struggle now in Viet Nam, our boys are depending on our hospitalization benefits. An in­ bility for buying of electronic Because of the union's firm posi­ crease was also negotiated in the equipment to increase the catch. tion in its contract demands, talks merchant marine to bring them supplies. Despite the arguments of were stalemated on several occa­ Secretary McNamara, the facts still remain that air power is not carrying the bulk of the supplies that keep American soldiers in the sions and federal and state media­ field in Viet Nam. And the 1936 Merchant Marine Act specifically tors were called into the nego­ calls for vessels to be constructed in the United States, flying the U. S. tiations. flag and manned by U. S. citizens. With this pact successfully con­ cluded. the SIU Atlantic Fisher­ men's Union will shortly reopen nesotiations in Gloucester cover­ MOBILE—Max Harrison, administrator of the Seafarers Wel­ ing another 350 fishermen in that fare Plan from its inception in 1950 until 1955 and president of port. the American Maritime Association until his resignation last Oct. / 31, died of a heart ailment in f v7 the Mobile Infirmary on April the Marine Engineers Beneficial 4 at the age of 51. He lived in Association, the Masters, Mates ALBANY, N.Y.—The Federal Government's failure to enforce and Pilots and the Radio Officers Mobile. Union. the Merchant Marine Act of 1935 and support and protect the Harrison be­ When the Seafarers Welfare American-flag merchant marine has come under fire from the gan his career Plan was established in 1950, the New York State Legislature. in the mari­ U.S. shipbuilding capacity is trustees of the plan named Harri­ The New Y'ork State body dwindling dangerously even time industry son as its first administrator. He has adopted a resolution con­ with the Wa­ also administered several other un­ The increasing need for demning the laxity of Federal though our worldwide responsi­ terman Steam­ ion welfare and pension plan. standardized safety regulations enforcement which has allowed bilities are increasing steadily. ship Company In urging that the Federal Gov­ In 1961, Harrison was elected for foreign-flag vessels operat­ the total of U.S. waterborne here. He went ernment strictly enforce the pro­ president of the American Mari­ ing out of American ports was foreign commerce carried on with the com­ visions of the 1935 Merchant time Association, a post he held pointed up recently in the burn­ American flag ships to drop to pany after Harrison Marine Act by every means at its until his resignation last October. ing of the Viking Princess while less than 9 percent. In addition, playing profes­ disposal, the New York legisla­ The AM A represented 75 shipping returning from a South American the resolution points out that the sional football following his grad­ tors point with alarm to the con­ companies operating some 400 cruise. U.S. merchant marine is being uation in 1938, from Auburn ships. tinuing growth of the Soviet mer­ Two persons were reported given less support and protection University where he played end chant fleet, which at its present Harrison was a familiar figure dead from the Miami-bound lux­ than is the practice in all other on the football team. He served rate of growth will dominate the in various capacities for Water­ to Seafarers, particularly in the ury liner in a disaster similar to maritime nations. Gulf ports and in New York. He that of the Yarmouth Castle sev­ Coming close on the heels of a world's oceans by 1970. man. For three years he directed addressed several of the SIU's in­ eral months before. Neither of the similar resolution passed by the Pointing out that the mainten­ labor relations for the Gulf Ship­ two ships were required to meet Michigan State Legislature, the ance and encouragement of a building Corporation, a Waterman ternational biennial conventions. Harrison is survived by his wife, American Maritime safety stand­ N.Y. resolution represents just one strong U.S.-flag merchant fleet is subsidiary. He was later pro­ the former Frances Green; three ards—even though they both were more example of the increasing of growing importance to the na­ moted to the same post in the sons. Dr. J. Max Jr. of Birming­ carrying American citizens. alarm being felt by responsible tional security of the United parent company. ham and Thomas Earl and Wil­ What made the Viking Princess, legislators from coast to coast over States, copies of the N.Y. Legis­ In 1949 Harrison opened his liam Paul, both of Mobile; four as well as the Yarmouth Castle the continuing deterioration of the lature resolution are being trans­ own labor relations firm in Mobile daughters, Mrs. Patricia Yost, and particularly susceptible to fire U.S. merchant fleet. mitted for action to the President representing a number of shipping the Misses Rosemary, Dianne and was the flammable wood and paint The New York legislators of the United States, to the Presi­ concerns, including Waterman. He Debbra Lynn, also of Mobile, and used in the vessels' construction point out that the active U.S. dent of the U.S. Senate and the sensed as chairman of the negoti­ a granddaughter. and decoration. Neither ship merchant marine today consists of Speaker of the House of Repre­ ating committee of Atlantic and Funeral services were held on would have been cleared for sail­ approximately 900 ships, which Gulf Steamship Companies in col­ April 6 in St. Mary's Roman Cath­ ing under American-flag safety is less than pre-World War II sentatives, and to each member of the New York delegation in Con­ lective bargaining with the SIU, olic Church in Mobile. standards. strength, and further notes that gress. Max Harrison Dies in Mobile; Was First Welfare Plan Head Viking Princess Couldn't Meet U.S. Safety Rules N. Y. Legislature to Congress: 'Enforce Marine Act of 1936' �April 15» 1966 Plimsoll Mark to Be Raised For First Time in 36 Years 1 - •a- is A move has been made that will raise the position of the Plimsoll mark on ships' hulls for the first time in 36 years. The Plimsoll mark—a familiar symbol to Seafarers and other maritime workers — is the name for the loadline mark whtich is conspicuously painted on a vessel's sides to indicate the legal maximum depth the ship can be submerged when engaged in interna­ tional commerce. The change in the position of the Plimsoll mark is the result of a new load-line agreement signed in London early this month by 60 maritime nations. It took five weeks of discussions by the member nations of the United Nations Inter-Govemmental Maritime Consulta­ tive Organization before final agreement was reached. Under the new convention—as international agreements of this nature are called—the Plimsoll mark will be raised by 10 to 20 per cent on tankers, ore carriers and bulk carriers of more than 328 feet. Ships that carry, dry cargo also will benefit by an increase of about 10 per cent, if they are fitted with watertight hatch covers. The new regulations will apply to all ships in the above cate­ gories that are built in the future and also to existing ships if they comply with certain safety regulations. The present regulations determining the position of the Plim­ soll mark were established in 1930. Before the new agreement becomes maritime law it must be ratified by each of the nations. (Editor's Note: The Plimsoll mark or line is named for Samuel Plimsoll, an Englishman who was bom in 1824 and died in 1898. Plimsoll was a reformer with a great interest in the welfare of sailors. He was especially concerned with the loss of crewmembers* lives on ships sunk at sea as a result of overloading, a practice which many British shipowners persisted in because if their vessels were lost at sea they profited handsomely from the insurance. As a member of Parliament from Derby from 186880, Plimsoll fought vigorously and successfully for the enact­ ment of a law limiting the loading of ships. As a result a load line was required to be marked on the hulls of aO British ves­ sels showing the depth to which the law allowed them to be submerged through loading. Other maritime nations followed suit and the Plimsoll mark became international law. Plimsoll, incidentally, was the author of a book entitled "Our Seamen," published in EMand in 1872.) ITF Plans Campaign Step-up Against Runaway Flag Ships The Seafarers and Dockers section of the International Trans­ port Workers Federation agreed at a meeting held in Hamburg, Germany to intensify its efforts in organizing crews sailing under the runaway flags of FanLib-"^ dents Cal Tanner and Earl (Bull) Hon nations. Shepard. Representing the SIUNA at The ITF sessions were held the conference were vice-presifrom March 28 to March 31. The resolution to intensify or­ ganizing efforts on PanLiHon April IS, 1966 V«i. XXVIilj No, 8 ships was made after a report pre­ sented by the Boycott Committee Ofitcisl PubiSeailnn of the SIUNA Atlxntie, GuJf, hakes & Inland Waters of the ITF. The committee was set up to deal with the so-called niatrict, AFL-CIO "flags of convenience" ships PAUL HAU,, president under the registry of Panama, Li­ , beria and the Honduras. A'wee. Vicif-Pres. Viee'President':- ^ Az. Kena LtMnaGv WnxiAS The Boycott Committee re­ S»e.'Tre»i. , VietS'PrteM ported to the ITF delegates that BoBacrt MATTHE-VV'S AX TANN VieS'Prosldtntt Vieg-PreBiie it had been successful in increas­ HBSBERV PKAND ing the number of PanLibHon Wreetsr of Orpanizing and vessels under collective bargain­ PubUeatwna ing agreement. Art Editor B POIXAOK During the course of the con­ AtrisPmt EdUsr ference, general discussions were, StolS Wr.trrs j held among thfe affiliated mari­ time unions concerning such items WtUXAM DAV ' as automation, safety, wages and working conditions. Another item on the agenda nkltilMt titwMly at saO M»*i lUtoi was a proposal made to move the secretariat from its present loca­ tion in London to Geneva, Switzerland. The proposal met with favorable reaction from most of the affiliated unions, but a final decision on the matter will be mad^ at a later date. . SEAFARERS LOG Page Tiiree SlU Ba€ks MAC Subcommittee Plan To Expand Domestic Shipping Fleet NEW YORK—The Seafarers International Union has urged implementation of a seven-point program to reinvigorate the domestic segment of the American merchant marine advanced by a three-man subcommittee of the President's Maritime Advisory Committee. The union's position was set tion and enabling them to establish members at their last (Nov. 30) forth in a letter sent by SIUNA tax-free construction reserve meeting. president Paul Hall, a member funds. Linking the report on domestic of the President's committee to • Provision for domestic op- shipping with the public members' Secretary of Commerce John T. Connor, the committee's chair­ ^erators to obtain reserve-fleet ves­ report, which dealt with U.S.sels, at low cost, on an interim flag merchant vessels engaged in man. basis until new capital is attracted Secretary Connor had requested to the industry and modern vessels the foreign trades, the SIU de­ clared that "we believe that the comments on a report on domes­ are built. recommendations of both of these tic shipping prepared by a sub­ • Recommends thait all do­ reports, if properly implemented, committee consisting of Thomas P. Guerin, general manager of the mestic shipping rates be under the would go far toward restoring the Portland Public Docks in Oregon; jurisdiction of one federal agency, American merchant marine to its J. Paul St. Sure, president of the operating under one set of rules, rightful place upon the seas." Pacific Maritime Association and and that a sound carrier certifica­ The public members' report was Lane Kirkland, executive assistant tion program be instituted. prepared by three members of the to AFL-CIO president George • Opposition to any change in President's panel representing the Meany. The subcommittee had the nation's cabotage laws and public—Professor James J. Healy been appointed by Secretary Con­ maintenance of laws reserving of Harvard University; Mr. Gue­ nor at the last meeting of the Ad­ domestic shipping for American- rin, and Theodore W. Kheel, New visory Committee on November flag vessels. York City labor-management me­ 30th. diator—and was adopted by the • Adoption of the subcommit­ The report on domestic shipping tee's proposal that domestic ship­ full Advisory Committee by an does not recommend direct sub­ ping should be entitled to the full 11-2 vote at its November 30th sidies to the domestic fleet but calls benefits of automated shipping. meeting. for a number of other measures to (The SIU, in its letter to Secretary The public members' report calls replace, expand and modernize Connor pointed out that there can essentially for increased Federal the existing fleet, bring economic be no realistic approach to the assistance in building up the stability into the industry, and at­ problems of automation unless de­ American-flag merchant marine to tract new capital to it. mands for the reduction of jobs a point where it will carry at least The three-man subcommittee per ship are accompanied by a pro­ 30% of this nation's waterborne proposed that the following steps gram looking for more ships and cargoes, and is in contradiction to a report prepared by a group of be taken to revitalize the U.S.- more job opportunities.) Federal agency representatives, flag fleet: • Advocated that intercoastal called the Interagency Maritime • Replacement, expansion and operators be relieved of their bur­ Task Force, which recommends modernization of the present fleet. den of paying Panama Canal tolls. decreased Federal assistance and • Ships operators should be The SIU also stated that the re­ a smaller merchant marine, both guaranteed a reasonable return on port was a "worthy corrolary" of in terms of the number of ships their investment through govern­ the public members report which and in terms of the percentage of ment action giving domestic oper­ was adopted by a majority of the U.S. cargoes which these vessels ators faster write off of deprecia­ Maritime Advisory Committee would carry. Louisiana State Fed Votes Support Of Strong Merchant Marine Program NEW ORLEANS—The Louisiana AFL-CIO held its eleventh annual convention here from April 4-7, taking action on issues of importance to both maritime labor and the U. S. labor movement as a whole. SIU Vice-President Lindsey ^ take prompt and positive action goes generated by their govern­ Williams headed the Seafarers to restore the domestic fleet, par­ ment. delegation to the convention. ticularly by rejecting the domestic Supports Boycott The opening day session in­ shipping proposals of the Inter­ • Supported the boycott of cluded panel discussion on agency Task Force, by enacting ships trading with North Vietnam legislation which would permit "What's Wrong With Louisiana's by maritime unions because this domestic operators to establish Workmen's Compensation Laws," tax-free reserves for vessel replace­ trade with North Vietnam puts "Is A Sales Tax Fair to Every­ ment, and by reconstituting the one," "Is Property Tax Equaliza­ blood money in the pockets of ICC to provide for representation shipowners and other profiteers of tion Needed In Louisiana." of the shipping point of view. so-called allied nations. The re­ SIU Resolutions solution stated that further aid • Pointed out that the Viet­ During the course of the con­ vention, the AFL-CIO Maritime nam situation has clearly demon­ to the nations which are engaged Trades Department of New Or­ strated the inadequacy of the in aggression against the South and Vietnamese people and against the leans and the SIUNA submitted American merchant fleet urged the Defense Department U. S. and allied troops must be resolutions to the convention to officially acknowledge this in­ met by firm, direct and uncom­ which: adequacy and bend its efforts to­ • Called upon all departments ward the rebuilding and revitaliza- promising action by our country. of the federal government, in par­ tion of the fleet. The MTD and SIU resolutions ticular the departments of state were adopted unanimously. • Rejected any government and defense to renounce the theory Also attending the convention of "effective control" and espe­ plan for building ships abroad and urged.that any federal program were William L. Kircher, AFLcially urged the Defense Depart­ developed for the merchant mar­ CIO Director of Organizing, Mrs. ment to discount these runawayine must be based on the require­ Winthrop Rockefeller, president flag vessels in estimating the ade­ ment that all vessels under this of the National Association for quacy of the American-flag fleet for defense purposes. Legislation program must be built in Ameri­ Mental Health, U. Alexis John­ was also supported which would can yards. son, U.S. Deputy Under Secretary require, runaway ship operators to • Opposed all efforts to under­ of Political Affairs, Dr. George pay their fair share of American mine or eliminate the cargo pre­ Wakerlin, medical director of the taxes. ference requirement and supported American Heart Association and • Urged that appropriate offi­ all efforts to give American-flag Marshall T. Cappel, director of cials of the federal government vessels a greater share of the car­ Louisiana Civil Defense. �a i April IS, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Four To Aid American Fishermen J Congressman Urges U.S. Establish Territorial Limit of Twelve Miles The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atiantic Coast Area] NEW YORK—Along with SIU vice-president A1 Tanner I recently attended the meeting of the Seafarers section of the International Transportworkers Federation which was held in Hamburg. The em­ phasis at the meeting was the problem of runaway-flag shipping on which the ITF will step up its campaign to obtain contracts covering crewmembers on the PanLibHon fleet. Shipping is still boomirig here^ Ae1r>w%e:/> onH friYm ^ on the Atlantic Coast and from the Chief Steward. all indications it will continue to Juan Polo, who just paid off an 1 b o o m through­ Isthmian ship in New York, out the summer. dropped by the hall to say Guy De Barere "hello" to his friends. After a just got off the brief visit with his friends and Hurricane and family here he'll be ready for a will be spending chief cook's job on anything, go­ a month on the ing anywhere. beach. Brother CUfford Martin Philadelphia just got off the Vic D'India, who sails deck en­ DeBarere Azalea City and gineer, is around the hall and get­ will be looking for the first inter- ting ready to ship out again. coastal run that hits the boards. Chief Steward Elias P. Nava gave the hall a James McPhauI visit last week to say hello to will be ready to some old friends. He is on the go after spending Steel Seafarer. Ham K. Bere is a short time on looking for a coaster after a run the beach. His on the Steel Scientist. last ship was the Globe Carrier. Norfolk Harry Rost has George Forrest came into town been around the Rost last week to take advantage of hall lately and the good shipping here. We put was a Bos'n on the Globe Prog­ him right on the Transartlc. Jo­ ress the last time out. seph Robertson, who was last on Baltimore the Hanover, is now registered and waiting for a ship. Elbert Shipping has been good. With Winslow is waiting for his clinic the Venore and the Losmar due card and hopes to get an AB job to crew up in the next ten days, for the summer on one of the coal plus the possibility of the Alamar boats going to Holland. signing on a crew, it all adds up to good prospects for the coming Boston period. We've had three payoffs Shipping has been a little slow and two sign-ons in the last two in this area but every indication weeks and there are 13 ships in is that it will pick up in the com­ transit. ing weeks. Clarence R. Brockett has been Thomas Fleming is in drydock in drydock since he got off the at present and will grab the first Calmar in Seattle with blood poi­ AB job that is put on the board. soning in his right hand. Clarence Elmer Grose is also waiting for said that he's feeling fine now a good steward department job and expects to be ready to ship to come up. again around the end of the month. Puerto Rico Old-timer Robert M. Moore Shipping is good from this port has gotten off the Waller Rice and Azalea City was back on and said that he plans to stay on Island run last week after a short the beach for a couple of months absence. Johnny Johnson was and then he'll be ready to take holding down the Bos'n job on any run. WASHINGTON—A bill to extend the territorial limit of the United States from three to 12 miles has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Hastings Keith (R., Mass.). The measure, if enacted, would establish that the nation had exclusive fishing rights out to a 12-mile limit by claiming a zone nine other countries to operate within our fishing industry." miles beyond our present threeKeith pointed out that, while our waters, the more "customary" mile territorial sea. in former years there were rela­ will their presence become," he "We should not handicap our tively few foreign vessels using said, "until, through international fishermen," Representative Keith this stretch of water and interfer­ usage, we are forced to consider said, "by refusing to them the ing with our fishermen, recent de­ their presence as 'traditional'." same protection given to foreign velopments in ocean-going vessels Congressman Keith explained fleets by their governments. This and "factory" ships by other coun­ that as the world population ex­ proposal is another step in our tries have radically changed the plosion continues, the demand for efforts to improve the fortunes of picture. "The longer we allow fish products will eventually ex­ ceed the supply unless the country takes steps now to prevent the "fishing out" of large, productive areas. Keith also noted the growing competition from Russia, coupled with the fact that they are en­ croaching in our waters^ more and by Lindsay Williams, Vice-President, Gu/f Area more each year. "Last June hun­ The Louisiana AFL-CIO held its 1966 convention in New Orleans dreds of Russian ships were found from April 4 to the 7th. The convention was unique due to panel operating off Cape Cod," he said. discussions being held during the afternoon session. Some of the panel discussions centered around such topics as: "What's wrong with Lousiana's workmen's compensation laws?" "Is a sales tax fair to everyone?" "Is property tax equalization ^ who wants to ship out has been needed in Louisiana?' able to find a spot. The SIU and the Maritime Claude Webb who is currently Trades Department of greater registered group one deck depart­ New Orleans also submitted reso­ ment is on the beach. He was on lutions to the convention to con­ the LaSalle for a couple of years sider. Some of these topics were: and has been sailing out of the The question of runaway-flag WASHINGTON—Five AFLGulf Area for the ships; government action to re­ CIO maritime unions have last twenty years. store the domestic fleet; a resolu­ launched a campaign to gain pas­ Brother A. J. tion declaring the inadequacy of sage of legislation which would Melanson, who the American merchant fleet to was last on the bring the vacation provisions for meet our needs in Viet Nam and Ocean Ulla as an seamen on government vessels up a resolution supporting all efforts oiler, is looking to the level that has been estab­ to give American-flag vessels a for another good lished for union seamen sailing on greater share of U, S. generated trip. He makes privately-owned vessels. cargoes. The five unions—including the Hiiiton his home in Tam­ New Orleans pa, Florida with Seafarers International Union, the John Luther has his wife. National Maritime Union, the just come back Also coming in after a long Marine Engineers Beneficial As­ from a four trip on the Ocean Ulla was group- sociation, the Masters Mates and month trip to Viet one steward Wiley Hinton. Wiley Pilots and the Radio Officers Nam on the Bel­ makes his home in Lucedale, Mis­ Union—met at SIU headquarters gium Victory. He sissippi and has been shipping out here early this month to coordi­ said it was a good of the Gulf Area most of the time. nate their efforts in bringing about trip with plenty passage of the legislation (HR of overtime. He 3002) by Congress. Luther ships engine room Participating in the joint fiveand will be ready union meeting were SIUNA viceto go after a short time on the president Frank Drozak, Joe Leal, beach. secretary-treasurer of the SIUNAFelix Jaroncinski is on the affiliated Military Sea Transporta­ Discussing U, S. Merchant Marine beach looking for a Hudson Wa­ tion Union, Bernard Winstock of terways ship. Felix said he really the MEBA, Pat King of the MMP, had an interesting time last year Pete Bocker of the NMU and Joe when the Manhattan went to Glynn of the ROU. Russia. Meetings were also held with Congressman Frank Morrison (DHouston Members of the SIU United La.) who introduced the Bill. Activity in the Houston area is Industrial Workers and the SIU The bill, if enacted, would ex­ very good and many activities are Inland Boatmen's Union will cast empt merchant seaman on gov­ going on. The last meeting of the their ballots in June in the fourth ernment vessels from coverage West Gulf ports council of the regular election of officers in the under the "Annual and Sick Maritime Trades Department Atlantic and Gulf regions of the Leave Act of 1951." This would adopted a resolution condemning UIW and IBU. then enable them to receive the the Teamsters Union for raiding Balloting for UIW and IBU same leave benefits as seamen in the Brewery Workers. The fol­ members in Atlantic and Gulf re­ lowing night the same resolution gions will be held on June Union private industry. Prior to the pasage of the "An­ was adopted by the Harris County meeting dates in each respective nual and Sick Leave Act of 1951" Central Labor Council. city where meetings are held from seamen employed on government Politics is getting very hot here 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and also the day ships had their compensation de­ for the May 1 primaries and to after the meeting from 7 p. m. termined by the "Classification add some coal to the fire, the to 9 p. m. In addition, mail bal­ Act of 1949." Representatives of organized labor participated in Tulane Univer­ Maritime Trades Department is lots are being sent out for the con­ The Act specifically excluded sity's recent annual Transportation Institute. Above, SIU President supporting Jim Clark, candidate venience of the members in cities seaman from its coverage and •Paul Hall addresses session on problems of American merchant for the State Legislature from Dis­ where the constitution makes no stated that "officers and members marine. Left to right are Charles Logan, chairman of the merchant trict 24. provisions for members to vote of crews of vessels . . . compensa­ marine panel: Hall; Ray Murdock, executive director of the Andrew in person. Mobile tion shall be- fixed and adjusted F-uruseth Maritime Research Foundation and panel moderator, and All members should familiarize from time to time as nearly as is Mrs, Helen Delich Bentley, maritime editor of the Baltimore Sun, We have had quite a number of oldtimers in to see us and it themselves with the provisions of consistent with the public interest who with Capt. John Clark, president of Delta Steamship Lines, com­ is always good to see your old the constitution regarding voting in accordance with prevailing pleted the panel. Other union representatives present included ILA friends come back to visit. Ship­ and election procedures in ad­ rates and practices in the mari­ vice-presidents Clarence Henry, Al Chittenden, "Hoppy" Hopkinspn ping has been good and anybody vance of actual balloting. time industry." and Ralph Massey, all of whom are from the Gulf Coast area. The Gulf Coast Five Sea Unions Urge Raising of MSTS Vacations IBU. UIW Votes Set For June �April IS, 1966 Page Five SEAFARERS LOG Sche^y^ Industries Yields To Union Solidarity The Great Lakes by Al Tanner, Vice-President and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer,6reat Lakes m U'r:'- Warmer weather and generally ice-free conditions in navigation chan­ nels has prompted St. Lawrence Seaway officials to open the shipping season on April 1. This is the earliest opening since the seaway was completed in 1959. A new all time in cargo tonnage is anticipated, with a predicted total of 47 million tons of bulk and general cargo expected to move through the seaway dur-"®*^ not take into consideration even ing the 1966 season. the minimum requirements in­ The SIU's Great Lakes District, volving work on watch, general recently played host to three rep­ maintenance as well as health and resentatives of the "All Japanese safety. Seamens Union." Captain NabaAfter taking a strike vote sama, vice president of the union, throughout the Great Lakes area, along with two of his staff, are the Marine Engineers Beneficial touring the United States under a Association of the AFL-CIO was government-sponsored, reciprocal successful in signing new con­ educational program. The Japan­ tracts with several Lake operators, ese group was in the Detroit and including Pittsburgh. Great Lakes Toledo area for five days, during District SlU-contracted compan­ which time they were briefed on ies that have also signed to date the structure of the SIU on such are Poland, Reiss, Tomlinson and matters as contract grievance pro­ Buckeye. Meetings are scheduled cedures, seniority and rotary ship­ with the balance of the compan­ ping. Officials of the Maritime ies over the next few weeks. Trades Department, along with After "wintering" in Viet Nam, representatives of affiliated organ­ Vern Battering, Larry Buldoc and izations, turned out in the Toledo Scottie Quinlivah have returned area to welcome Captain Naba- to their home ports in the Great sama and his delegation in behalf Lakes. The boys had been aboard of their respective organizations. the SlU-contracted John C. The The Japanese group's itinerary vessel, operated by the Atlantic also included Chicago, New Or­ Carriers Corporation, had been leans and several West Coast ports carrying military cargoes to the before their return to Japan. Far £ast for the past nine months, The SIU's Great Lakes District hitting 47 ports during the trip. recently rapped recommendations The Steamer F. E. House has put forth by various Great Lakes been purchased by the Kinsman operators concerning a proposed Transit Corporation and renamed reduction of crews on various the Kinsman Independent. The Lakes vessels which are already vessel is 585 feet in length with automated or are scheduled to be 18 hatches and an iron deckhand automated. The SIU, in a state­ and is capable of carrying a 13,ment before the Office of Marine 384-ton load. The Kinsman In­ Inspection of the United States dependent will fit out in the port Coast Guard, said that the recom­ of Duluth in late April, bringing mendations for cutting engine the total number of vessels oper­ room crews on these vessels did ated by the company to nine. Grape Strikers Win Breakthrough As Giant Grower OK's Bargaining LOS ANGELES—A major breakthrough on the farm labor battlefront in California came April 6 when Schenley Industries Corp. agreed to begin negotiations for a collective bargaining contract with the striking grape workers in Delano. It was the first break in the'®' toward eventual union organiza­ NFWA. We look forward to the seven-month-old dispute which tion of all workers on large cor­ day when this movement is part has pitted several of the giants porate farms. Schenley owns about of the great mainstream of or­ of California's $3.8 billion agri­ 3,500 acres of vineyards in the ganized labor, the AFL-CIO. The cultural industry against a handful Delano area out of the 4'7,000 needs of the farm workers, so long of destitute farm workers. forgotten, demand the total acres involved in the dispute. And it came as demands for Sidney Korshak, attorney for strength and solidarity of all of legislation, both state and na­ Schenley Industries, signed the organized labor. tional, were mounting to give col­ agreement for the company and "I want to also commend the lective bargaining rights to agri­ Cesar Chavez, director of the wonderful labor movement of cultural workers after the nation's NFWA, signed for the union. California. The great and con­ attention was focused on their Kircher signed as a witness. tinued leadership and support of plight. The AFL-CIO Agricultural the State AFL-CIO under Tom The union recognition agree­ Workers Organizing Committee, Pitts and the Los Angeles County ment specifying the National Farm jointly conducted the strike in Federation of Labor under Bill Workers Association as the bar­ Delano with NFWA. The Schen­ Bassett have been invaluable in gaining agent for some 400 Schen­ ley Workers were members of this accomplishment," Kircher ley grape workers in Kern and the independent union. At the continued. Tulare counties was signed at the press conference Chavez indicated "The Schenley Corporation is Los Angeles County Federation that talks were underway with to be congratulated for its for­ the national AFL-CIO for even­ of Labor headquarters. tual affiliation of NFWA with the ward-looking posture in this mat­ Week of Discussions federation. He said also the agree­ ter. In a sense they have become It was the culmination of a ment ended the NFWA boycott a pioneer in the breakthrough against the last frontier in this week of discussions with Schenley against Schenley products. nation where workers are still executives and key union leaders, Comments Favorable denied the right to organize and including William L. Kircher, na­ bargain collectively. The AFLIn commenting upon the agree­ tional organizing director of the CIO has always appreciated the ment, Kircher said, "I would like AFL-CIO. Kircher announced the 100 percent union operation and to commend Cesar Chavez and his agreement at a press conference good relationship of the Schenley fellow leaders. The role of AFLheld shortly after the signing. CIO indicates our respect for the Corporation." The agreement calls for nego­ tiations for a written collective bargaining agreement to begin within 30 days with a pledge that both parties will make every ef­ fort to' conclude an agreement within 60 days. Kircher predicted that the rec­ ognition would prove a giant step The Pacific Coast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative iix More SIU Oldtiriiers Sturgjs Wilcken Hall Thomas Dccareaux Mazzariello Six additional Seafarers have been added to the growing list of SIU veterans already enjoying the security of a $150-a-month pension. The six new pensioners are: Ignace Decareaux, Francis Sturgis, William P. Wilcken, Lloyd James Thomas, Walter O. Hall, and A. A. Mazzariello. Brother Decareaux joined the "® tive city. He sailed with the was in the deck department and SIU over 25 years ago in New SIU's railway tug division with sailed as a Bosun. His last vessel Orleans. He sailed in the deck the B&O Railroad. He will spend was the Trans India of the Hud­ department as a Bosun. He last his retirement with his wife Mary son Waterways company. sailed on the Del Norte and had in their home on Staten Island. Brother Hall is currently living over 25 years on American flag Thomas joined the SIU in Nor­ in Baltimore, Maryland. He joined ships. Brother DeCareaux is cur­ folk and is a native of West Vir­ rently living with his sister, May ginia. He now lives with his sis­ the SIU in Baltimore and worked for the Western Maryland Rail­ Hight in New Orleans, ter, Gladys Coldwell, in Tampa, road as a bargeman. He retired Francis Sturgis sailed with the Florida. While with the SIU he from the SIU with a disability SIU as a cook and baker in the pension and lives with his wife, steward department. He joined the Marjorie. SIU in his native Baltimore and Brother Mazzariello joined the was with the union over 20 years. SIU in his native New York. He He and his wife Eunice are now was a member of the deck de­ making their home in Snow Hill, partment and sailed on B&O rail­ Maryland. way tugs. During World War II Brother Wilcken's experience he saw service in the Army. He aboard ships stretches over 40 is now living in Staten Island, years. He is a native New Yorker New York. who joined the union in his na­ Shipping is booming up and down the coast. From every Hall there is a call for every rating in every department and Seafarers who want to ship out in a hurry are urged to head for the West Coast ports and throw in for a job as soon'®^ Seattle as possible. Shipping continues at a rapid San Francisco pace here in the Pacific North­ There have been five sign-ons in west. From all indications the the last period and there are plenty next months will be the same. of jobs for Seafarers in every de­ There are several payoffs sched­ partment. Shipping continues to uled and any member that likes be very good and it looks like it the Far East or India can catch will continue this way for a long a ship on these runs immediately. time. Payoffs this last period were Paid off during this period were held on the Choctaw Victory, Ex­ the Transpacific, Express Virginia, press Buffalo, Desoto, Linfield Fairwind, Overseas Joyce, Trans- Victory and the Longview Vic­ erie and the Northwestern Vic­ tory. tory. In transit were the Penmar, Old timer Al Dowd stopped by Steel Artisan, Steel Admiral, Sum­ the Union Hall and talked about mit and the San Francisco. the SIU Blood Bank program and In the next two weeks the Rio how much it meant to him and Grande, Neva West, Jefferson City his wife. When Al's wife had a Victory, Ocean Dinny, Transwest- very serious operation the SIU ern and the Delaware are all ex­ Blood Bank here in Seattle was able to supply the needed blood. pected in for payoffs. John Clapp was last on the Some of the Brothers on the beach are anxious to get the Viet­ Northwestern Victory as an AB. nam run. Just out Twenty-year member John piled of the hospital and off after a long trip and will take feeling much bet­ it easy here for a ter is old timer T. L. Thompson while. Another twenty-year who is looking for Union man now a steward depart­ around the hall is ment slot. He says Edmund Eriksen. it's a Viet trip for Brother Eriksen's Thompson him. last vessel was Clapp As a sample of the Choctaw Vic­ the way things are moving around tory. Ed is real happy about the here F. Bally just registered and was ready to go as a baker. Now recent boost in vacation benefits he's on his way to the North­ and thinks the vacation pay is tops in the industry. western VicttMy. �Page Six April IS, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Lifeboat Class No, 148 Graduates REPORT March 26 to April 8/ 1966 DECK DEPARTMENT Boston New York .. Philadelphia Baltimore ... Norfolk Jacksonville . Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington . San Francisco Seattle_^_;^_^ Totals TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A Class B 2 9 26 68 6 9 11 24 5 11 2 9 0 5 9 19 54 22 51 28 11 6 30 22 11 32 150 332 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B Class C 4 0 0 46 19 18 7 3 2 25 7 1 8 11 1 1 3 0 2 10 32 12 2 41 24 3 39 36 19 8 5 2 38 20 24 23 13 12 274 154 84 All Groups Class A Class B 20 4 167 58 31 18 88 43 21 12 13 12 15 10 60 14 148 62 150 55 30 0 57 26 28 8 828 322 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Successful graduates of SlU Lifeboat Class No. 148 assembled for their picture after completing lifeboat training course at the Harry Lundeberg School.of Seamanship. Latest batch of lifeboat ticket holders includes (bottom row, l-r): Robert Wilson, Lawrence Robinson, Mashacic Battle and John Schoonover. Back row, l-r are: Donald Freedman, Tom Howell, Jack Caffey and instructor Ami Bjornsson. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals INQUIRING With all these reports circulate ing ahout unidentified flying ob­ jects or flying saucers, what is your opinion of these sightings? William Smith: I frankly don't know what to make out of the whole confusing business of flying saucers; but there must be some­ thing to it, be­ cause many repu­ table people have claimed £o have seen them. It's Smith not any bunch of deranged people. One thing is certain, however, and that is if Uncle Sam knows anything about it, he's not admitting it. il r. Felix Bonefort: As far as I'm concerned, there is no such thing as unidentified fly­ ing objects or fly­ ing saucers. The sightings could be planes, weather balloons or just ordinary mirages. Then, too, there's Bonefort of person who goes around looking for a little publicity. I was in the service for some time and think that, if there were really anything up there, the Air Force would have found out what it was a long time ago. At any rate, I don't worry about it one way or the other. Class A 1 61 6 15 9 3 3 13 41 46 8 21 14 241 Class B 2 27 9 11 12 4 1 6 27 31 7 23 19 179 STE out with any concrete statements as to the identity of the things. <I> Felipe Aponte: The only thing I am sure of is that people are actually seeing these strange lights in the sky, but I wouldn't go so far as to call them flying sau­ cers. Under prop­ er atmospheric conditions, you Aponte can see lights in any swampy area or place where people or animals are buried. These lights are called "fuego fatuo" in Spanish, and I have seen them on several occasions myself. It is caused .by illuminating gases which cause balls of fire to appear in the night. D. Forest Fry: I think these so-called flying saucers are simply reflections from satellites or possi­ bly debris from rockets. If any­ body bothers to pursue them in airplanes, I think they will find themselves chas­ ing shadows. Mind you, I'm not saying that the sightings are people's imagination, I just think they are actual objects. The sightings occur, I notice, only at certain times of the year, and I don't think they'll keep up all summer. W. J. Geary: I think there's something to these reports about flying saucers, since quite a few intelligent people, Harvey Early: Though I find such as Air Force the reports of flying saucers pilots, have seen mighty hard to them on many oc­ figure, I'm in­ casions. All these clined to think people would not that there must be have come out something to it, Geary with their state­ especially after ments, if there wasn't something to those numerous it. But as for saying what exactly reports in Michi­ these unidentified flying objects gan. They must be Early are, well, that's another thing en­ gas pockets, as far tirely. That is probably the reason as I can figure, or else the people that the government hasn't come are experiencing optical illusions. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle Totals TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class A Class B 0 3 29 3 3 7 14 11 6 3 1 2 0 1 13 3 47 33 22 28 7 5 28 14 12 25 118 202 TOTAL SHIPPED Class A 1 53 5 18 3 3 0 18 13 42 7 24 15 202 Class B Class C 0 2 26 17 0 2 3 0 2 5 3 2 0 2 15 5 10 15 39 21 3 5 19 23 18 19 144 112 NOW ON THE BEACH Class A 9 132 20 53 22 9 8 37 100 87 10 40 18 545 Class B 4 56 19 47 16 9 2 14 70 62 1 17 3 320 ARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 1 1 7 35 12 0 3 3 13 11 2 6 3 4 0 2 3 0 0 1 20 13 7 31 24 3 18 30 15 3 6 4 23 8 46 10 12 11 173 115 103 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 5 2 131 21 9 7 65 33 8 11 4 4 6 3 50 13 98 153 89 35 19 0 41 11 11 21 601 249 Bntain Boosts Merchant Fleet Aid, While U.S. Ignores Growing Problem The Government of Great Britain recently announced its endorsement of a plan which includes $189.5 million in shipbuilding subsidies for revitalizing the declining British merchant marine. The plan calls for a combined effort between Government and industry. The basis of the proposed duced by the U. S. in 1964 was than 2,000 ships. shipbuilding program is a report nearly seven times that generated The difference is one of atti­ made by a seven-member com­ in Britain, and our population is tudes. The British realize that a mittee after a year of studying more than three and one half strong merchant fleet is essential the problem. Among the propo­ times as great. Moreover, at the to the economic health of their sals in the report is recommenda­ end of 1964, the latest date for nation. Thus the British are con­ tion that British yards consolidate which complete figures are avail­ sidering strong steps to correct into four or five groups, each spe­ able, the total British fleet con­ the decline of their fleet before it cializing in particular types of sisted of 2,097 ships, while the reaches the disastrous levels to ships. Other recommendations in­ active U. S. fleet contained less which the U. S. fleet has fallen. clude: lowering steel prices for shipbuilding; finding ways to cut the cost of pre-manufactured equipment; improving industrial relations in shipyards; providing EXAMS THIS PERIOD: Jan. 1>Jan. 30, 1966 indirect tax rebates to shipbuild­ Port SeoitiM ^1^^ Children TO^I ers; and developing a new agency, Boston the Shipbuilding Industry Board, Ti 19 2 icsitlmore to administer financial aid. no 164 32 22 Houston . 135 144 ^5„,4 The size of the commitment Now York , 461 501 24 16 which the British Government is Norfolk. O < 0 31 31 willing to undertake in shipbuild­ fA J : Phitocielphla.,.... 35 59 8 ing makes the feeble efforts of Tompa. 44 45 our own Maritime Administra­ 0 Son Francisco... 1, :1T2^ 172 tion look anemic in comparison. 0 Superior . 11 While the relatively small island5 Now Orleans..... 242 nation is prepared to spend nearly 265 ••.ir-v,:- • 6': > 42 Seattle $190 million to build new ships, 42 © Buffalo....... 16 MarAd has grudgingly asked for 1 -;:19, ; Mobil© only $85 million to construct re­ 1 81 placement vessels for the aging U. S. fleet. TOTAl. 1,384 104 ,65:;;;;:;iT,S53Yet the wealth (GNP) pro­ SlU ClimExams^AII Pdsis liiMM 1 -1 - �SEAFARERS LOG Page Seven "The Time and The Place" A labor-endorsed tire safety bill, the first legislation of the year directed toward protecting the American consumer, has been unani­ mously passed by the U. S. Senate. The bill would set minimum safety standards for new and retread tires, ban the sale of hazardous "regrooved" tires, and direct the Government to issue a meaningful grading system. At present, consumers have no way of knowing whether one manu­ facturer's "premium" tire is equal to another brand's "first line" or a third company's "100 level." The AFL-CIO Convention last December urged both safety stand­ ards and a grading system for tires. In a letter to Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Warren G. Magnuson, sponsor of the recently passed bill, AFL-CIO Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller had criticized the "confusing mish-mash" in tire labeling and declared: "We believe it is absolutely vital to the safety of the American people that all automobile tires sold conform to federal minimum safety and performance standards. Furthermore, we believe that the welfare of the consumer public requires a uniform, federally-enforced system of tire-grading and tire-labelling." President Johnson endorsed the bill, which passed by a vote of 79-0, in his March 2, transportation message, citing evidence that "in­ creasing numbers of inferior tires are being sold to unwitting cus­ tomers throughout the country." The Senate-passed bill directs the Secretary of Commerce to: • Promulgate not later than January 31, 1967, interim minimum safe performance standards for new tires, based on existing public and private standards. • Establish not later than January 31, 1967, revised standards for new tires and minimum standards for retreads, based on a com­ prehensive program of research and testing. These standards would also include maximum permissible loads for each size of tire—a pro­ vision Magnuson termed "very important." At present, he noted, car manufacturers sometimes try to cut costs by supplying a smaller size tire than needed by the weight of the car and its potential load. • Prescribe within two years after enactment a uniform quality grading system for tires to help consumers "make an informed choice." The grade designations would take effect six months after their pub­ lication in the Federal Register. Pay hikes and overtime rates are among the benefits that 2,600 workers in 40 Horn & Hardart restaurants, cafeterias and auto­ mats in New York will get under a first contract negotiated by Cafe­ teria Employes Local 302 of the Hotel & Restaurant Employes. Members elected a negotiating committee January 24, and six weeks later ratified a three-year contract providing wage increases of $3.60 a week for waitresses and $5.60 for other employes; an ad­ ditional $3 a week for those whose workweek is reduced from 45 hours to 40; time and a half for all hours over eight per day and 40 per week. The pact also pro­ vides vacations up to three weeks after ten years of service; up to three days funeral leave; health and pension benefits; grievance procedure including a permanent arbitrator; a promotion clause and other benefits. \I> Success after 15 years of or­ ganizing effort was achieved by the United Shoe workers at the Eddlebrick Shoe Company in Greenup, 111. The workers voted for the union, 155-71, in a Na­ tional Labor Relations Board elec­ tion. Orange Counties Organizing Com­ mittee. The Sheet Metal Workers won bargaining rights in a second election in Bowling Green, Ken­ tucky, at the plant of the Master Vibrator Company. The vote, ordered by the National Labor Relations Board, was 77 for the Sheet Metal Workers, 10 opposed. The union fell short of a majority in an election 14 months ago, but won the right to a runoff vote when the NLRB ordered a re­ count of 32 challenged ballots which gave it 24 more votes and a plurality. A contract package called "the best in many years" has been ne­ gotiated with the dredging indus­ try by Local 25 of the Operating Engineers' marine division, repre­ senting 3,000 dredgemen in states of the northeast. The new pact, announced by Local 25 President Stephen J. Leslie, calls for a union hiring hall, job protection, im­ proved working conditions, a wage increase of 18 cents this year, and an additional 14 cents in each of the two following years. In addi­ tion, a hike of $5 a week in the subsistence rate was won for all classifications of workers covered by the contract. The American Bakery and Con­ fectionary Workers turned back ^ an attack by the combined forces John G. Blair, associate editor of two unions expelled from the of the Cleveland, O., Plain Dealer AFL-CIO because of corruption and a news reporter since 1938, in the leadership and won bar­ has been named publications di­ gaining rights at a new plant of rector of the State, County & the National Biscuit Company in Municipal Employes. Buena Park, Calif. The election, Blair was editor of the Cleve­ conducted by the NLRB, gave the land Record during the Cleveland ABC a 66-6 win over the Team­ mwsoaper shutdown of 1961-62. sters and the Bakery and Confec­ The Record, published by nine un­ tionery Workers, scored with the ions, achieved a circulation of aid of the AFL-CIO Los Angeles- 150,000. The American organized labor movement has successfully faced many challenges in the past. Economic booms and depressions, waves of immigration, technological revolu­ tions and employer antagonisms have all presented serious threats which were met head-on and dealt with successfully. Today organized labor is facing a new challenge, brought about by the rapidly-changing na­ ture of American society and the makeup of the work force. These changes in the makeup of the work force include a relative shrinking of the number of so-called "blue-collar" industrial workers in proportion to the increasing num­ ber of "white-collar" workers. It is among the numerically increasing white collar work­ ers in the United States that the organizing efforts have met with the greatest difficulty. In addition, as stated recently by AFLCIO Director of Organizing William L. Kircher, the increasing number of young workers entering the work force—those bom after World War II—have no memories of the labor stmggles of the past or the condi­ tions which prevailed before the rise of labor unions in America. They will not only have to be informed of and familiarized with the history of great traditions of the American labor movement, but will have to be shown how strong union organizations can help them achieve and maintain the high stand­ ards of wages and working conditions which are the right of every American worker. Also, the continuing diversification of Amer­ ican industry is creating many job oppor­ tunities in places, such as the South and other rural areas, where unionism has in the past faced its most difficult organizing tasks. To succeed in meeting these challenges the American trade union movement will have to face squarely the new problems before it as it has done so often in the past. New techniques will have to be developed to inform the young worker of just what the labor movement is about, what it means to him and what it can help him to achieve in terms of wages, working conditions, welfare, security and the well-being of himself and his family. Union organizing will have to pay increasing attention to the special prob­ lems of the white collar workers who will make up an ever greater portion of the work force. Increased attention will have to be paid to organizing in southern and rural areas where anti-union resistance has always been strongest. The task will not be an easy one. Amer­ ican business has not changed its basic atti­ tude toward the labor movement over the years and will fight tooth and nail to thwart every attempt by unions to organize new workers. Many employers have already begun to deluge their workers with a flood of anti-union propaganda and have made clear their intention to fight with everything at their disposal to keep the unions out. Anti-labor agitation, threats of replacement with scabs, the planting of finks and spies will all be used again. All this, in addition to the vast changes in American society and industry, will tax eveiy resource of the labor movement. But the battle will be joined and the labor move­ ment will once more succeed as it has so often in the past. �Page Eig^t f- !! SEAFARERS LOG April 15, 1966 April 15, 1966 .W. AM0TH&R TEST FOK THF AMERICAN WORKER THE f |\ V •ttw'isrssqfiic^y KIKGSPORT PRESb, INC. PRIVATE ROAD —I ':Utm : I Vi\\ KIN.CSP0H1 PRimihc ^ntSSMtN & ASSISiaNU tlON LOCAL 336. irvCB a: • V; -:1. • J-' t>yr..v :> It ON STRIKE . "'aa e; ;•; AOSINSI ^SPORT PRESS! ON AfiAMr _ ••-T „., MV'r -'4 •- I hr three yews too wwkers hatOe the sOikebreakers mi snAs • •• •. ' 't; - • 'iy T-Mr -IH.' : 4 I' ' • atst :fl iKINg^PPRTPRESS^ F OR over three years a group of AFL-GIQ' unions have been waging a bitter and impor­ tant struggle a^iinst a union-busting em^^ pioyer diat Is of great-concern to all trade union i workers. The struggle Involves a Tennessee book publishing firm, the Kingsport Press, printers of text bo<dcs and ^cyclopedias which are purchased by schools In communities throughout the nation. Since March 11, 1963 more than 1,200 work­ ers have been manning the pickedines in a strike a^inst die company's refu^i to Iratg^ in good faidi on Wages, hours and working cdndidons. •-• Kingsport Press has employed scahs and strikebreakers in the hope that it will break the spirit erf the woricers and the unions that represent them. But the spirit of uidonism is sdU as strong as ever among the Kingsport strikers who are befing backed by the entire American labor move­ ment. The Kingsport Press strike is important to Seaforeis and all other union workers hecause it is reminiscent of the long, bitter batdes which ^faring men and other segments of organized labw had to wage before employers were forced to ' recogidze- the rights of dieir employes to bargaining collectively in order to improve their wages and working conditions and enjoy job ' security, |Young Darrell Collins, who's dad is a striking bookfbinder, takes his turn in the Kingsport Press picket '' ? lihe alongside striking pressman L V. Slaughter. - • • '.S '•••V.'i! - • _ 'HE^ strike by the production employes of JL Kingsport Press, Inc., Kingsport, Tennessee, one of the largest printers of books and lencyclopedias in the United States, began on Hi0 •March 11, 1963. They are still on strike today. AFL-CIO unions 'representing the Kingsport workers after the comvV,-: pany absolutely refused to bargain in good faith ^^pth the unions on a number of issues involving i^^t only wages, which were well below the pre­ vailing industry rate, but also on hours, fringe benefits and ^ievance procedures, all of which were substantially below standards prevailing in fi-the rest of the industry. The jive unions involved --•th^ Typographers, Electrotypers, Pressmen, Bookbinders and Machinists—made every effort to avoid the strike through negotiation before hitting the bricks. , _ However both before and since the strike began the employer's only answer to attempts at negotia­ tion has been the same—"This is our final, irre­ vocable decision. Either take it or leave it and •onrnwc^, • I1W1,UI0C£M,„„ iruio ON ON STRIKE ^^OlKE _ IMMRTntciaoT>nis MBLlhCAlNC KMGmrTmotfHii UWON.LOCAL«M m-cio m Anew STRIKE KINGSPORT I. 5 Unity on the picket line is demonstrated by members ' of the five unions whose members have been on strike since March 11, 1963 against Kingsport Press, Kings- we will replace you." The company has flatly refused arbitration on any issues in the dispute and has stubbornly maintained its insistence that it be the sole judge of what is best for its em­ ployes, regardless of how they feel. It is because of this contemptuous attitude that thej strike has continued for three years. ' The company replaced many of the striking workers with scabs and strikebreakers, and has since added a further impediment to settlement by demanding that the employment rights of the scabs and strikebiCakers hired since the strike are superior to the riglits of the strikers—^should they return. T HE union-busting attitude of Kingsport management throughout the dispute has been almost a direct throwback to the ear­ liest days of trade-union struggles in America. Kingsport's union-busting intentions are very obvious. When several of the striking imions were granted representatioh elections at Kingsport Press, by the National Labor Relations Board in Vii« II-.H J IIP: I'S; -Sfei Spi'': my Sfij mm fPs, wviMJ xMV.,- flm Shoes and clofhing for children of Kingsport Press striken were distributed from this donated center —w• •• w« at Christmas time as strike dragged into third year. . ; !"-••• • • ; W ^ •?i^« - T' ,' :Kingsport Press strikers use mobile radio-equipped Ipatrols to keep in touch on a widely-separated but Iprderiy picket line outside the Tennessee plant^^ than 4,500 union members and their families ^tstand at attention for the singing of the national ianthem ak^ East Tennessee labor rally called in y Kingsport, Tenn., to solidify support behind the five printing trade unions which have been on strike now for over three years against the Kingsport Press. yT'' j':) a':xkiif5iS'4 •• y.y :5;v'' MLcm ON ON STRIKE I KINGSPORT PRESS! port, Tenn., one of the biggest U.S. publishers of hard-bound boob. The unions are the Typographers, Electrotypers, Machinists, Bookbinders and Pressmen. 1964, the company first tried to stop the elections by court injunction and then began a massive propaganda campaign to influence strikers and non-strikers to reject the union. When the union won the el^tions, the company fought the NLRB decision -ail the way up to the Supreme Court without success. The exceptionally clear-cut attempt at oldstyle union-busting being attempted by Kingsport Press management has aroused the indignation of the entire American labor movement, which has thrown its solid support behind the Kingsport Press strikers. Resolutions of support for the Kingsport strikers were adopted at the conven­ tions of the AFL-CIO, the SIU, the MTD and other labor bodies throughout the nation. The AFL-CIO has instituted a boycott of books produced at Kingsport Press, which is being actively pursued on every level. State and local labor bodies across 'the coimtry are exerting their influence to get school boards, boards of educa­ tion and colleges to refuse to buy any textbooks or encyclopedias produced by scab labor at Kingsport Press. I 'MS ' otcspom nmriec mtmn % AS&RTMTSaMHM LflCAL 136. ¥1-06 RfiMSr [KRIRISPORT PRE n : >• ON STRIKI ACAam '.Si ;1!- ..... i^S" **«»««« N line with this boycott, AFL-CIO President George Meany has said: "I regard this pro­ gram as another test of the ability of the American labor movement to mobilize its strength behind a common cause and against a common foe. We have succeeded before and I am confi­ dent that we will accept this new challenge and each do our part to succeed again. The issues and principles involved in this matter are so crucial that we simply must not fail." All-out participation by each and every Ameri­ can union member in the boycott of Kingsport Press-produced books is of the utmost importance. Every union member should make it clear to his local school board and library that he does not want his tax money spent to purchase, and thus subsidize scab-produced Kingsport Press text­ books or encyclopedias. A quick look at the title page of any book will tell, immediately where it was printed. In addition every union member should urge his friends and family to avoid buying the World Book Encyclopedia,- Childcraft, the Book of Knowledge and Grolier Council encyclo­ pedias, all of which are printed at Kingsport Press. The Kingspvrt Press strike is a struggle m. which all union members have a stake. �.. Wf Page Ten April 15, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG 0 1 f i: .u <v "jfThird Cook S+imon Dezee from San Francisco had plenty of chicken and potatoes for the crew. Seafarer Fred Lewis got his plate filled. Ronald Bliksvaer whose been sailing with Union since 1956 liked ship. Seafarer Leo Wills came out of the engine hole to say 'good trip.' Electrician Harry R. Crabtree relaxing while waiting to get paidofF. Gene Legg looks into the hold on the Rose as ship is unloaded. '4 Just so he will know what his rights are as a Seafarer if any beefs arise Union rep. T. L. Robertson explains rules to Jack GroeneK AB. Seafarer Patty Carrol found he had some pipe fitting to handle. Kitcben uti![ty™^man A. Yabai was one of the Rose's capable crew. Sammie Nelson was the new FWT. He had just boarded on the Coast. Signing back on was Seafarer George Bryr ant Jr., who liked trip> ^' 4 - • 't -1. 'i nit .• T.. Chisries Dawson doesn't believe in making hard work in va situation where a fey« brains can make it easy. Here goes a suitcase by rope. Seafarer Nelson picfe up his bag as it is Ipvi^ered to him by Dawson. Salon Mess Oiler V; Tdorfil;dil"^has Taylor helps keep crew -made several 'images: happy with good chow. aboard Oyerseas, Rose.. ConMng up ths gangway to the Rose is Deck Department's Rinaldi. rr'iir' V . J L- ^ « •. . -• i-. ^ V «, » , �April 15, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG A Changing Port In Time of Need The following report on a new port facility being congtructed in Cam Ronh Bay in South Viet Nam was written by Seafarer James Patrick Conley. Conley, who has been in and out of Viet Nam for the past twenty years, explains how the development of the new port will aid in alleviating the tieup of ships carrying vital supplies for our mUitary effort in South Viet Nam. In his article, Seafarer Conley also gives some historical information on the Bay area, and reldtes some of the construction problems encountered during the building of the new port facilities, and their eventual solutions. In a previous issue of the LOG (Feb. 4, 1966) Seafarer Conley related his observations after recently returning to Saigon after an absence of many years. D EVELOPING of a vast new port facility at Cam Ranh Bay looks like a major step towards alleviating the shipping bottleneck that is plaguing Vietnamese ports. Since the United States stepped up its activity in Vietnam the port of Saigon has struggled to keep up with the flow of ships. Cargo-laden vessels waiting to be unloaded clog the Saigon harbor and many are anchored down river. Some of the pressure on the Saigon port is being relieved by the partly finished Cam Ranh Bay facility. Construction started last summer, yet about 200 ships were unloaded in 1965, bringing thousands of tons of fuel and ammunition and equipment to the fighting forces in Viet Nam. Largest Port Two piers are in use and four more are scheduled to be in operation in a few months. Scores of new buildings have gone up and 12,000 servicemen are based here. An existing air-strip has been improved and work on a concrete strip for Air Force jets is well under way. The "Bay" is on its way to becoming the largest American-operated port outside the United States. The speculation here is that it will replace Okinawa as the forward base of the American defense force in Asia. This large base has grown from what seven months ago was swirling sand, old buildings and a pier clustered around a natural harbor in central South Vietnam. It has been described as one of six natural harbors in the world and is very safe in rough weather. Two curving peninsulas nearly come together like pin­ cers, leaving a blade of water more than five miles long sheltered against the mainland. The harbor is 200 feet at its center and 30-40 feet deep at the piers. Former Prison The Viet Minh once used it as the site for a prison and later the Republic of Vietnam Navy saw its great potential. This was the history until the spring of 1965 when the U.S. came on scene. By late June the 35th Engineering Brigade of the U.S. Army had started work. A month later the first elements of the U.S. 1st Logistical Command had started work and the face-lifting of the bay was in full swing. The first problem was the sand. Like an invisible monster that strikes without warning it found its way over roads and fouled up equipment thus making life and work miserable. The 35th engineers found the answer to the sand problem by coating the area with crude oil, adding a base of rock and more oil and toping off the project with surface gravel. " Just six months after construction started they erected 10 warehouses, 43 other buildings and 265 bases for tents. Seven miles of 6 inch pipeline had been laid to take oil from the ships to the waiting storage tanks. Floatine Pier At the heart of the activity in the bay was a long floating pier which was put in place in November after a 6,000 mile voyage from the United States. The pier can handle two large ships and a smaller one at the same time. Two more of the 300-foot piers are to be operating by mid-summer along with two 45-foot am­ munition docks. Future plans are in the offing for handling cargo from container ships. Port facilities at the nearby village of Cam Ranh did some growing of their own. Bars, restaurants, snack stands, souvenir shops and enterprises of all kinds seemed to pop out of the sand. Everyone seemed to prosper for awhile—until the village was put off limits for security reasons. Now the men find recreation around the base where the beaches are fine for football and vollyball. The sparkling bright water also offers some relief from the intense heat and sand-burn. An industrial complex is now on the drawing boards for the mainland side of the bay. It could very well become the largest industrial development and peacetime port in the nation. 1 AllC£TOriA\felt)U fiHoMzo. Souoom O.K.'? Page Eleven , dt With spring here and summer on its way the Seafarers abroad the Delfware (Oriental Exports) are doing some early spring cleaning. William F. Chapman, ship's delegate, plans on turning in the repair list early this year. In the line of repairs and replacements, new screens have been ordered as well as some new bunks and the new ^ On a run to Viet Nam E. C. John Flanagan, writing as meet­ rule for the washing machine is Caudill reports that the Brothers ing secretary on the ship Transclean it after each use. Deck on the Pecos hatteras (Hudson delegate James N. (Oriental ExportWaterways), is Bryant reports e r s) appreciate headed for Bom­ that the Brothers the job being bay by way of have already in­ done by ship's Singapore. The stalled screens in delegate Vincent word is that his the port holes and J. TaraUo and shipmates are have made a reso­ have voted him looking forward lution to keep and the ship's to putting into screendoors steward a vote of port especially closed when in Tarallo C. Donery Chapman thanks for jobs since there are port. Max L. Ste­ well done. There have been no some Seafarers aboard who are wart is the delegate from the en­ beefs and the chief stewkrd has making the India run for the first gine department. Meeting secre­ been elected treasurer. The ship, time. Ship's delegate Edward C. tary James Egan reports there is heading to Da Nang, Viet Nam Donery says veteran Seafarers were no beefs. before proceeding to its payoff in aboard take it all in their stride. — ^ — Steward delegate Samuel EperSan Francisco, California. emza told the crew that the stew­ "Brother Sullivan wants to ard is spending more time than thank all of the crew that helped When the ship's delegate re­ usual in the mess hall making sure him out when he was ill", writes J. ceives a vote of thanks and then that the place is cleaned up right is reelected by ac­ and that it's up to the men to help. Wells from the clamation and ev­ Hastings (Water­ — — erything is runman). After leav­ W. M. Wallace reports that n i n g smoothly ing Inchon, Ko­ W. J. Miles has been elected with no beefs at rea the ship is ship's delegate all, it all adds up heading for a aboard the Steel to a good voy­ payoff in Seattle. Fabricator (Isth­ age with a good The men are Wells mian Lines) by crew. That's the looking forward acclamation. Af­ case, according to the new TV set that is going Morse to W, E. Morse, ter thanking the to be installed when this voyage brothers for their aboard the John B. Waterman is completed. "Take care of the support Brother (Waterman) where ship's delegate washing machines" is the warn­ Miles asked the J. Misakian was so honored. The ing of Warren Lewis of the Stew­ cooperation of crew has been happy to receive ard Department. It's been a good Wallace all Seafarers in mail and they are looking ahead crew and their delegates have bringing any beefs to their de­ to the nightlife of Rotterdam and been on the ball. Brother Roy, Evans has kept things on an even then Bremerhaven before return­ partment delegates and draw lists to ship's delegate together. keel with his work as ship's dele­ ing to their New Orleans' payoff. gate. And as for the food, the crew have voted a round of LOG-A-RHYTHM thanks to the steward's depart­ ment. "Old Man" By John Liebman There was a lively discussion aboard the Oceanic Spray (Trans World) during a recent shipboard meeting. Ship's delegate Fred F. Domey told the Brothers "Let your delegates take care of all beefs." He then filled in the mem­ F. Domey bers on how to enroll in the Engine Dept. Up­ grading Program. Meeting Secre­ tary Frank Natalc reports that steward delegate G. Vinlaum re­ minded the Brothers to be sure and help keep the mess hall clean and bring cups back to the pan­ try. Men who show little consid­ eration for Seafarers who are sleeping came in for some harsh words from H. (Tiny) Kennedy who says the night shift can't get any rest when people go around slamming doors. There was $ 15 in the ship's fund and no. beefs from any department. Boots caked with black and oozing, mud. An old man walked along the banks Where a falling tide had exposed the shore Fraught with rusty iron And all the other artifacts Of an abandoned and time-worn channel. Stuck there groaning was an old deserted tug, Making gurgling sounds as the water Daily moved through her rotting hull. Like a sentient animal Varily protesting its inevitable death In a woods that cries, "alone." Stepping from plank to plank His boots squishing in mud's suction. The old man reached her side And climbed aboard her corroded decks. As all the while The tide was falling. Along, as lonely as the ship. He stood high in the wheelhouse Where there KAJ now no helm at all And watched the blank and .sinuous stretches Of tidal creeks and saltings Where blue herons plucked fish from shallows. Circling and swooping, an osprey hovered Over water where in youth he had rowed Out to pull the nets with his father Who had taught him to love the sea. But now, he reflected, there were no young men With a will to learn. C. POOD'S P/egfry GOOD, TUOUOU, HUH? r I T. FELLAS IH THE CRBW-f HOPS THAT NEyV FELLA LOOKS URE HE'LL DOFIHE... • i] m �Page Twelve SEAFARERS Seafarer Witnessed "The Big Day" When Malta AehievedIndependente "There were jublilant shouts in the streets of the small country," said Seafarer Owen Quinn, "with RAF planes flying overhead, like the American 'Blue Angels,' executing starbirds, rolls and splits. Bands were playing at full blast, and there was a long parade down the main streets of the city." Brother Quinn, a member of ^ take: as they were leaving in their the deck department who lives in boats, they attempted to carry New York City was present with away the ten-foot high, silver other Seafarers when the Isle of statue of the Blessed Virgin. The Malta was granted its independ­ Islanders rallied, defeated the foe ence from Great Britain in Sep­ that had before trounced them tember of 1964. Their ship, the soundly and recovered the statue. SlU-contracted Rio Grande, had "Of course," he added, "I stopped at the island for a month couldn't tell you whether the tale of repairs. "And it was not only was true or not, but I myself like a good place to be on the beach," to believe it; and the figure still Quinn explained, "but it was a stands in the main square of the good time to be there. We had village, bedizened with bright spent three and a half months in jewels." India and were ready to let off Quinn described the Rio Grande steam in a good port of call." as "the best ship I have ever sailed The United States, Great Brit­ on, giving credit not so much to ain, Italy and many other nations the vessel itself, but to comraderie were represented at the festivities Seafarer Owen Quinn, who sails that existed among the Seafarers. by their respective Navies and as an A. B. in the deck depart­ "It was literally our floating visiting dignitaries, said Quinn. ment, spins a sea tale for LOG home," he said, "and we had "Flags were flying from the vari­ staffer, as he puts a coat of enough equipment aboard to sup­ ous ships, and Prince Phillip was •paint on the wheelhouse doorway. ply a small gymnasium: weights, present to represent England." The young Seafarer went on to where he and the other Seafarers speed bags, two sets of boxing say, "Crack marching teams from went to swim were some of the gloves, springs and a skip rope. "On one occasion," he said, "the both England and the island itself better spots they had ever found. middle champion of the island, marched in the main parade." He described the mountainous area Charley Seguna, who had just But aside from the excitement as one of "lagoons, small beaches fought Randy Turpin, came down of the festivities on Malta's big and beautiful clear water. One to the Rio Grande, because he had day. Brother Quinn made many particular lagoon, he recalled, was gotten the word that we were in­ other pleasant observations about under a steep cliff with a deep terested in boxing. He was a the island and he was fortunate drop down to the water, but steps friendly guy and gave us a few enough to have plenty of time to had been cut in the rock which good pointers, then invited us up travel around leisurely. led down to the lagoon. to the place where he trained. "There was much to see in "And the beauty of the coun­ "Best trip, best crew, lovely Malta," noted Quinn. "As most try," Brother Quinn went on to girls, friendly people, beautiful people who have lived through explain, "was not confined to the scenery," Quinn concluded, "is the World War II probably know, the mountains and the countryside. island was a natural fortress guard­ There was a small, shaded park way I would sum up that trip. ing the passage between Sicily and with a bandstand where the local Who could ask for more?" Tunisia; and because it was so people were singing, and the bands often under fire, many of the playing. Seafarers Dino and LOG-A-RHYTHM: dwellings are built into solid rock George Yeagle, Hugh Curran, for protection against the bomb­ Walter Bruner and Chief Mate ing. Religious figurines stand in Walter Bruner would often sit here front of each of the houses. under the trees in the afternoon, By "Then, too," he went on to say, order a few beers and relax and "we would get together on week­ listen. If I ever went back to a A Seafarer Aboard ends and rent a car—^usually an country," he declared, "It would The STEEL NAVIGATOR old Studebaker convertible—and be there." Looking back to one score head up to the mountains to swim. The island, it seems, has been and eleven Every guy had a girl; in fact the the target over numerous invasions Our pathway of life was ratio of women to men on the over the years, and Quinn, seem­ 'tween hades and heaven island was two to one. Needless to ing to take in the life about him, Until I realized that all say, no one objected to that pro­ came back with many interesting was not right portion, nor the proportions of the stories and legends. One of his I tried very hard, with all women either. TTiey were of Ara­ favorites was the time that the is­ of my might. bic and Italian descent and very land was invaded, and the Maltese Setting a pace that was friendly, as were all of the people lost the battle. easy to follow on the island." "But," the Seafarer said, "the Enjoying the oceans and According to Quinn, the places invaders made one disastrous mis­ watching the swallows To me you are still the same girl I wed Others may say not, just believe what I said. Keep faith in me always, don't ever despair Even when gossips may foul up the air Remember the good things that I may have done Never condemn me, even in fun. Even though often we are too long apart Endless are my thoughts from where I depart Coming to this phase or part of the poem Understand, darling, that I'm far from home. Relying upon your trust in me Letting my actions, a judge to be Even when I'm angry, or just a plain bore Yes, I still love, you—of that I am sure. Sailors Request V\ April 15, 1966 LOG Secifaror to Trdvol On Goy't Work^iri To the Editor To The Edttort I I was glad to read about stand taken by the AFL-CI Executive Council in support the right of state and local gow emment employes to union p; tection. When the cost of liv ing goes up, it goes up for every one, and everyone needs a gi •wage whether they work for company, the state, or the gov­ ernment, • , -vrSv James I want to thank the SIU for all it has done for me since I retired. For the firet time in ray life I was able to travel without it being part of my job. This last winter I traveled all over the Southern part of the country. I spent a number of days in Florida and had a good time meetirig old time friends and I stayed in Miami a number of days and really enjoyed bask­ ing in the sunshine. I was lucky enough to be visit­ ing old friends in New Orleans during, the Mardi Gras and was able to see this festive event for the first time. I enjoyed it very much and kept thinking how lucky I was to be on pension and have no worries at all. I am now on my way to Cali­ fornia and looking forward to seeing some of the sites in that great state. I plan on .staying in Los Angeles for awhile and then heading up to San Fran­ cisco to see some old friends. I will stay with my daughter in Seattle for the rest of the year and will again plan another trip next year with the money I re­ ceive from the SIU welfare plan. Paul Sladamere Henry (Harry) Connolly Please contact Joe Trainor at the Philadelphia SIU Hall. He is holding a paycheck for you. Income Tax Refunds Income tax refund checks are being held for the following Sea­ farers at the SIU hall in San Fran­ cisco: Andre W. Deriger, Hans J. L. Pedersen (2). <I> Gregory Troche Please contact Attorney Marvin E. Segal at 38 Park Row, New York, N. Y., at your earliest pos­ sible convenience. — — Manuel Sanchez Please contact attorney Thomas M. Breen, 160 Broadway, New York, N. Y. Alonzo Sistrunk Please get in contact with at­ torney George J. Garzotte at 1040 Maison Blanche Building, New Orleans, La. ^ Jochim F. Cicirello Contact attorney Alfred Marroletti at 3 Penn. Center Plaza, Philadelphia, Pa., as soon as you can. Joseph Nagy Please get in touch with Charles Misak at 500 3rd Ave., New York, N. Y. Paul Zimmer Contact John H. Fix, Reading R.D. 1, Reading, Pa., as soon as you can. Juan Santos Mrs. Carmen Cintron at 584 East 137th Street, Bronx, N. Y., would, like to hear from you soon. LETTERS To The Editor J Retired Seafarer Enfoys Reading log \ To the Editor I am retired and have moved to the Sunshine State .of Florida. I have enjoyed very much seeing the LOG through the years that I have been ashore and still get it regularly. ;> It has been excellent reading and a good source of exact in­ formation on the maritime in-; dustry and labor in general. Charlie Copeman Please call or write Thelma Wise at Barrett Ave., Holtsville, L. I., as soon as you can. — Charles V. Bedell Please contact your daughter at 2926 Huntington Ave., Baltimore, Md., as soon as you can. Richard Geiling Contact Mary Geiling at 665 Geary St., San Francisco, Calif., as soon as you can. Carroll Rollins Attorney C. Arthur Rutter, Jr., 500 Helena Building, Norfolk, Va., would like you to contact him as soon as it is possible. Adrian Fecteau D. L. Adams, 4224 So. Derbigny St., New Orleans, La., re­ quests that you get in touch with him concerning your mail and post office box. — ^3> — Charlie Harman Please contact William G. Davis at 1852 Sul Ross St., Houston, Texas. ^J> BUI WaddeU Contact Robert Hoch at 21210 Clare Ave., Maple Heights, Ohio, as soon as you can. <I> Money Due Seafarers listed below have back pay waiting for them at the Texas City Refining Co., Texas City, Texas. To receive pay, a signed request plus social security and Z number are required. Also, in­ structions regarding payment. Those who have money due to them are: William S. Allen, John E. Funk, Edward G. Gorman, Donald E. Mackey, Vincent A. Quinn an.d Wp|in R. Corry. '•*> V A �April 15, 1966 SEAFARERS FINAL DEPARTURES Daniel Walte HiB, 58: A cereoral 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. ton, his wife, Mary Ann Pickens, and their son, Charles David La­ kin, of Gallipolis, Ohio. ^ William Fay Langley, 41: Broth­ er Langley died of Lobar pneu­ monia in Decem­ ber, 1965. He passed away while at sea on the Hudson. Bom in North Dakota the engine depart­ ment member joined the Union in New York in 1949. He is sur­ vived by his wife Ruth Langley of Anchorage, Alaska and his sister, Mrs. Frances Bowman of Tacoma, Washington. Brother Lang­ ley was buried in Tacoma, Wash­ ington. LOG Page Thirteen MWN TO THR SiA FOR SCIENCE —i 'THSERE are maay Seafarers a* -a- wmk ab(K«rdl ocean researcfi Vftpseis imgi^ed in probing the world's in search of scientiflc inftHwafion to benelb all nianidnd. Photos on : fliis page were taken dorii^ Scientiiic Cruise No. 14 of tte SlU-manned Anton Broun. They depict some ni flic daily evrate ahiWd an ocean re­ search ship which help to ntate e^ii vcvyage a distinct and onRatpttfabfe experience ftsr everyone alMmrd. Scien­ tiflc Cm^ No. 14 was terminated at CaOao, Peru on M^ch 16, 1966. Anthony P. Dl Nicola, 61: Brother Di Nicola passed away It is always fascinating to watch specimens being in New Orleans brought aboard in the Anton Bruun's nets. Observing in January. He the procedure above are (!-r): Seafarer Ray Bielanin. was buried in the scientist R; Ovalcnine, Seafarer Eight Mdon Wong.! Greenwood Cem­ etery. He joined Archie Bishop, 31; Brother Bis­ the Union in 1941 in New Or­ hop was killed in an accident aboard the Couer leans which was De Alene (Vic­ his place of tory) in January, ^ birth. Survivors while sailing as a include his sister, deck maintenance Mrs. Mamie Mandala, and his man on the Viet wife, Mrs. Lillian Di Nicola of Nam run. His Metairie, La. Death was the re­ body was flown sult of arteriosclerotic heart dis­ back to the ease. Di Nicola sailed with the United States. A steward department as a bar­ ; .: ..a native of Alabama, Brother Bishop Seafarers and scientists swing aboard Maico shark, tender. Big Moon-fish netted by Anton Bruun , ;] joined the Union in 1952 in Mo­ I believed to be second-largest ever netted, measuring is being held for camera by (l-r) scien- " bile, Ala. He is survived by his 9 feet-8 inches overall. Largest shark of this type on fist R. Ovaknine and two crew memReyes Escolastlco, 66: Brother mother Ethel Bishop of Fairhope, record is only slightl.y larger at 10 feet-6 inches. Escolastico passed away on March Alabama. bars, Sottschlich and Hank Murranka, S' —1 12th of this year in the USPHS . Roy Davis Roberts, 34: Brother Hospital in States Island, New Roberts passed away in April 1964. A native of York. He was a jl • Flint, Michigan [ veteran of over he joined the 144 years at sea. Union in 1947 in Bom in the PhilBaltimore. He lippines he served sailed with the in the U. S. Navy in WW 1. Brother Escolastico deck department sailed as chief steward. He joined as an AB. Brother the Union in 1943 in the port of Roberts is surNew York. He is survived by his vived by his wife, Sara, and his son, Richard mother, Mrs. Sandra Roberts of Reyes Escolastico. He was buried Flint, Michigan. in the National Cemetery at Pine^ lawn, New York. Cleon Mixon, 51: Brother I ^ — Mixon died of cancer in February Charles Y. Lakin, 40: Brother at the New Or­ Lakin passed away in Rio de Janleans USPHS Seafarer Sottschlich (top) While shark is being examined for gill parasites, other I erio, Brazil in No­ Hospital. He who helped land giant shark, vember, 1965, scientists study metabolism, pulse rate and blood pressure ' I joined the Union •watches as scientists prepare • while shipping on in 1937 in Mo­ the Del Norte. to dissect specimen for study. bile, Alabama His death resulted and sailed with from a heart at­ the engine depart­ tack. The body ment as an oiler, •. ..V I was returned to fireman-watertenthe United States der. Brother Mixon is survived by ' on the, Del Norte his wife Josephine, and their five for burial. He is survived by his children, daughters Cleo, Jo Ann, mother, Mrs. Elsie Lakin, his sis­ and Marion, and two sons, John ter, Mrs. Patrick Parker of Hous­ and Harold. -t. - I -• Editor, . I H ^1 J .SEAFARERS LOG, - I 675 Fourth Ave., ' J Brooklyn, N. Y, 11232 1^ ^ • I . h . I I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG-please put my I; . name on your mailing list. (PrM inh>rmon<,n} si' .. .:i-' p I. .NAME BP;,y/Vt»tlKK»a 5] : .-.J ; ,i< VOID DUPLICATIONi It yog an old subwriber «nd b«ve « change plsa«»<giv« yoor fbrrnV addniw boloW: ^•. <'A' �Page Fcnuteen Membership Meetings ..... •.-•-.qr, . SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New York .. May 2—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . May 3—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... May 4—2:30 p.m. Detroit May 6—2:30 p.m. Houston .... May 9—2:30 p.m. New Orleans. May 10—2:30 p.m. Mobile May 11—2:30 p.m. Wilmington .Apr. 18—2 p.m. San Francisco Apr. 20—2 p.m. Seattle Apr. 22—2 p.m. Great Lakes Detroit Alpena Buffalo Chicago Cleveland Duluth Frankfurt SIU Meetings Apr. 18—2 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Apr. 18—7 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Detroit . . . .May 9—^7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .May 9—7:30 p.m. Chicago .. . May 10—7:30 p.m. Buffalo May 11—7:30 p.m. tSault St. Marie May 10—7:30 p.m. Duluth . .. .May 13—7:30 p.m. Cleveland . .May 13—7:30 p.m. Toledo May 13—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Philadelphia . . May 3—5 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) May 4—5 p.m. Houston ..... May 9—5 p.m. Norfolk May 5—5 p.m. New Orleans .. May 10—5 p.m. Mobile May 11—5 p.m. Railway Marine Region Jersey City May 9—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Philadelphia May 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore May 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk May 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New York May 2—7 p.m. Baltimore ,,.. May 3—7 p.m. Philadelphia .. May 4—7 p.m. ^Houston May 9—7 p.m. Mobile May 10—7 p.m. New Orleans . .May 11—7 p.m. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sanlt Ste. Marie, Mich, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. DIRECTORYof UNION HALLS SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard AI Tanner , |BXP»E88 VIRGINXA (Marine 0»rSltTfers), March 26—Chairman, I.ce J. Hnr* vey; Secretary. Gregory F. Gannon. $6.00 'in ship's funi Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Motion was made to see the patrolman about getting tho wddlng machine moved from" the main deck passageway. Motion made to see patrolman about getting a new refrig­ erator In the crew's pantry. The boeun requested that the ship's delegate talk to patrolman regarding the painting of the engine department quarters, and get same straightened out. <1> PANWOOD .(Waterman), March 20— Chairman, Seymour Hclntllng; Secretary, S. Bscehar. $16,94 in ship's fund denoted to SPAD. Some disputed OT in deck and steward department. -One man hospital­ ized in Saigon and two men missed ship in Greece. TRANSHUDSON (Hudson Waterways), March 26—Chairman, F. Kon; S.ecretary, A. Violante. Brother K- C. Smith was elected to serve as ship,- delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. 4^—• MOUNT WASHINGTON (Victory Car­ riers), March 26—Chairman, M. C. Bar­ ton ; Secretory, C. Gamer. Two men were hospitalized in Has Tanura. Head­ quarters notldcd. Brother M. C. Barton was elected ship's delegrate. Some disputed O-T in deck depBrtment. 4^ AlxCOA MAHKETER (Alcoa). April 1 —- Chairman, Guy DiVisio; Secretary, Wm. Cronan. .Ship's delegate report^ that everything is running fine. Finest crew aboard both officers and men. $50.02 in ship's fund. Discussion about fresh milk. VICE PRESIDENTS , ALCOA MASTER (Alcoa), March 28— Lindsay Williams > Chairman, Ballard Browning; Secretary. FVantc Allen. No beefs reported by de-i Robert Matthews „ partment delegates. Brother Lieon Penton I was elected to serve as ship's delegate.i Each delegate asked to check quarters ; for repsifs slid to tarn report in to ship's * delegate. SECRETARY-TREASURER AI Kerr HEADQUARTERS 675 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-6600 ALPENA. Mich 127 River St. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian). March 18— EL 4-3616 Chairman. Kevin Ryan: Secretary, Felix* BALTIMORE, MD 1216 E. Baltimore St. P. Amors. Smoijth payoff. Issue made EA 7-4900 about reduction of manning scale without BOSTON, Mass 177 State St. * notifying the crew. In this, voyage the Rl 2-0140 steward department' fa short one galleyBUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washington St. ; man. Motion wac made to write headTL 3-9259 I quarters asking for ciariiication regardCHICAGO, III 93B3 Ewing Ave. ; ing manning scale. Brother Elwell was SA 1-0733 f re-elected to serve as ship's delegate and was given a vote of thanks for a job CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. well done. It was suggested that topside MA 1-5450 { extra rooms be available to crewmembers DETROIT, Mich. .. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VI 3-474! ; tp ease congested living condittons. -i 4^ DULUTH. Minn 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 CHILORB (Venoro Transportation),, 415 Main St. I March 27—-Chcirman, G. Perdue ; SecreEL 7-2441 I tary. Piggy Sahuque. No beefs reported— HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. I everything is running smoothly. WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla 2608 Pearl St. EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomery St. BOWX.ING GRBKSf (Pan Atteldan HE 3-0104 Tarikero), March IS^^halrm^, Walter, MOBILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. i Nash; Secretary. J. J. McDurmott.:, HE 2-1754 ' Brother S. !>. McCormlck was elected tp serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks NEW ORLEANS. La 630 Jackson Ave. <1> Tel. 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. Tel. 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA. Pa 2604 S. 4th St. DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif, 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R, ...1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 723-8594 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar CE-l-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. Tel. 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif. ...SOS N. Marine Ave. TE 4-2S23 I was extended to the steward department. for the good food and good service. Dis­ cussion about Maritinie Adyancesneiit Program, . ROBERT D. CONRAR (Mafttime ..... . ..... ... .. .. Opetations), March 12—^Chairman; C. Bi Gappc i Seeretaryi None. One lUnn ship in Mexico. No bee& * fqjorted *.hy department delcgaies;/"' • I April IS, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG COLORADO (Waterman), March 18— Chairman, Edward C. Ruley; Secretary, Arthur G. Andersen. Few hours disputed OT in each department to be brought to attention of patrolman, also the inade­ quate stop etunt. UNFAIR TO LABOR <|> WILMAR (Caimar), March 13—Chair­ man, C. L. Flshel: Secretary, Frederick W. Darrey. One man hospitalized in Okinawa. One man missed ship in Sai­ gon. Discussion on getting information on exact bonus zone. DO NOT BUY 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 be amended from time to time.) COLORADO (Watcrnsnn), Jonuary 6— Chairman. Edward C. Buley; Secretary, Arthur G. Andersen. Brother Andersen was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Suggestion was made to hold fire and boat drills midship due to deck cargo. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. 4^ DEL SOL (Delta), March IS—Chtfirman, R. B. Stough, Jr. Secretary. Bern­ ard Feely. $69.50 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine department. 4f IBERVILLE (Waterman). March 14— Chairman, Thomas Liles, Jr.; Secretary, ,, Vincent J. Fitzgerald. No beefs reported,*?; by department delegates. 4^ Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) DIQEST of SIU 4f Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L, Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) MEETINGS dejiartment. ' -rS 4f MOUNT VERNON VICTORY (Victory „ Carriers), February 13—Chairman, C. | Morris; Secretary, S. Fieraon. Disputed | OT in deck and engine departments, | Brother Henry Delgado was elected to Ji serve as new ship's delegate. Vote of j thanks to tho steward department for ; good holiday service. S GENEVA (U.S. Steel>. March 15 — Chairman. Ricliard Heftley; Secretary, Clyde L. Van Bpps. No beefs reported by department'^delegatcs. Ship's delegate to see the Captain about time off for fire­ men, oilers and members of the steward 4 -./X" H. I. Siegel "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) DEL MONTE (Delta), March 14 Chairman, Howard Menz.; Secretary, AI-?. bert Efapeneda. Crew extended a vote of ig thanks to the ship's delegate, who was J re-elected to serve. $2.00 in ship's ftind. ; No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. 4^ "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) J. R. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Cbildcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) 4f 4^ i. FBNN VICTORY (Waterman), March 17—Chairman, S, A. Holden: Secretary, Lawrence Andrews. Two men taken off ship due to illness. Some disputed OT in engine department. Vote of Hianka ex?, tended to the steward dapartmcnt for a job well done. <1> ; WINGL^S VICTORY (GonsolSdate Mariner),: March 26—Dhairmah, D. A. Ramsey ; Secretary, Jfames B. Morton, No beefs reported by uepartnioiit delei gates.; Ship should be fumigated for rats and roaches. Jamestovm. Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) 4f Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) v/V'- Tftmco •: ^ - Shipping* ^eS.?).,:'.JsEiwh-,' 16-—Chairman, Michael Dombrowski; S«c» T^siry, M. Ai, LaPontaine. No disputed OT and ho beefs reported by deparfaneht delegates. Byother George Peinihah was elecfed sto Serve esVshipfa deleg^^ ROBIN laR^^ MdrchWia— CbalrriiaB. R, Hutchins; Secretary,;* Wi Bak». $22.66 in ship's fund. Some dis­ puted OT in deefc : department. Brother a Lisenby was eleot^ tb aerve as ship's delegate. Headqnartm to be contacted regarding condition of wash water tanks; .8 White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) vt> Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membnship's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun& 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 EIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and Ae shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contacts between the Union and the 8hii>owners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this fa: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place. Suite 1986, 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 from among its ranks, one individual to carry out. thU responsibility. Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler PAYMENT OP MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU* unless an official Union receipt fa given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless be fa given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member fa required to make a payment and fa given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this shmdd immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEIAFARERS LiOG 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. Ail 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 ori^n. If any member feels that he is denied the equal righta to which be fa entitled, be should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITT DONATIONS. One of the buie righto of eafarers is the right to pursue legislative and poiitieai objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve the objectives, the 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 membenhip and the Union. If at any ttana a Ssafarar fscb tint any of tba above righto have been vMated, er that ha has bten denied hie constHntienal right ef access to Unien rscords or inforMtian, hs shenM immsdUtely netlfy 8IU Prasldsnt Pan! HaU at bsadqaartars by csrtited nwU, rstnm racsipt ra Men's Shoes . . . Jarinan, Johnstm & Murphy, Crestwmth, W. L. Douglas, Flf^g Brothers, Kingston, Davidson. (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) *"» 4f Tyson's Poultry, Inc. Rock C4Knish I^son's Pride Manor House-Safeway Wishhone-Kroger Cornish Game-Armour and A &,Ps SuperRighf Cornish Game Hen (Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of N. America) 41* -r!' 'i < �Bitterness of Industrial conflict in U. S. was evi­ denced in Lawrence, Mass., textile strike. Here federal troops hem in a strikers' demonstration. /TlAe twentieth century was to see the AmerJL ican labor movement adopt a new mili­ tancy. Despite setbacks it suffered in the previous decades the union movement had proved it would keep fighting and that it was a force to be reckoned with. At the AFL conventidn in 1900, Samuel Gompers reported: "It is noteworthy, that while in every previous indus­ trial crisis the trade unions were literally mowed down and swept out of existence, the urdondi now in existence have manifested not only the power of resistance, but of stabiilty and perma­ nence." Change ^as in the air. Following the stunning defeat labor suffered in the Pennsylvania hard-coal (anthracite) mining regions during the "Long Strike" of 1874-75, deporable working conditions had continued tmd become even worse. ITie Mineworkers, who had been actively ofganizihg in both the hard-coal and bituminous or softcoal regions and had carried out successful strike actions there, returned to organize the Pennsylvania hard-coal miners in 1902. After long and fruitless negotiations with the coal companies it became obvious that the mineowners would not negotiate in good faith and a strike was called in May. Aire The mineowners resorted to the same terror tactics which had broken the "Long Strike" many years before. The Coal and Iron Police was mobilized and many new "deputies" added. Scabs were recruited from all over the country. Most of the scabs were afraid to go down into the dangerous underground mine-shafts how­ ever. The UMW maintained strict discipline among the strikers, who ignored much provo­ cation from the Coal and Iron Police goons in order to avoid violence and bloodshed. The strike dragged for months, and as winter neared, coal reserves to feed factory furnaces and heat homes were dangerously low. It was obvious that fault for the prolonged strike lay with the mineowners and President Theodore Roosevelt finally stepped in to end their in­ transigence. He told management that if they refused to negotiate or submit the dispute to arbitration he would send in troops—r:not as strikebreakers—but to seize and run the mines in the national interest. Faced by an angry public and a President who had had all he could take of their stalling, the mineowners agreed to arbitration, called in their goons, and soon reached a settlement with the union. ill ' One of organized labor's biggest problems in this period were the court injunctions which restricted its fights against the eniployers, and which led Gompers to comment: "God save labor fibm the courts." A classic example was the Danbiiry Hatters case. In 1908, 250 strike ing members of the Hatters Union at a Danbury, Conn., plant, were ordered to pay $310,000 in damages because the court ruled it had violated the Sherman anti-trust law by organizing a boycott against the company. The strikers lost their saving, their homes were attached for 14 years, until the AFL paid the damages. L ABOR progress was continuing on many fronts during this period. The conditions under which American seasrm labored was receiving publicity for the first time and Andrew Furuseth, leader of the International Seamens Union and the Sailors Union of the Pacific had begun his long fight to obtain free­ dom for searnen of the United States—and of the world. Soon after the UMW victory in the Pennsyl­ vania hard-coal mines, another militant brand of unionism grew up in the American West— the Industrial Workers of the World — the IWW, better known as the Wobblies. The IWW was formed at a Chicago conven­ tion in 1905 attended by an assortment of unionists, socialists and radicals. It took a lot of sorting out to produce some unity out of such diversity of beliefs—a unity which was never really solidly achieved and led eventually to the IWW's downfall. But a working unity was finally hammered out, and the IWW emerged, led by William (Big Bill) Haywood of the Western Federation of Miners. The IWW motto was "One Big Union" made up of all the working men and women in the nation. As often as not the IWW did not initiate strike action, but rushed trained and able organizers to the scene of a spontaneous but unorganized walkout anywhere in the country. T HE Wobbly concepts of trade unionism struck real fear into the hearts of Amer­ ica's big-business establishment, and it wasn't long after the Chicago convention that an attempt was made to frame Big Bill Hay­ wood for murder. He and two other, officials of the Western Federation of Miners were ac­ cused of killing a former Idaho governor who had used stem measures to break a series of strikes by the WFM while he was Governor of the state. The well-known anti-labor Pinkerton Detec­ tive Agency was hired to collect the evidence against Haywood. The case was placed in the hands of J^es McParlan, the same man who had produced the "evidence" used to convict union officials and break the "Long Strike" in the Pennsylvania coal fields in 1875. He soon produced a "confession" from a WFM member with a shady past, who claimed he had com- mitted not one but 27 murders under the direc­ tion of the WFM leaders. The IWW hired the famous criminal lawyer Clarence Darrow for the defense. In short order, Darrow punched so many holes in the prosecution charges that the Idaho jury could bring back nothing but a "Not Guilty" verdict. In similar situations, other IWW members and organizers were not so lucky. Many were lynched, beaten and jailed. Joe Hill, famed IWW songwriter and organizer was tried and executed by the state of Utah fw a murder most historians still feel he did not commit. In spite of eveiything however, the IWW carried on, organizing farm workers, shoreside and seagoing maritime workers, lum­ berjacks, factory workers—anyone who wanted union representation. 4 ti ' ^ • T HE IWW used direct methods to dis­ courage anti-labor violence. When the "Pennsylvania Cossacks," a constabulary force, noted for its brutality against strikers, killed a worker during a strike at the Pressed Steel Car Company in 1909, the IWW strike committee threatened that in the future a "Cos­ sack" would be killed for every striker killed. The anti-striker violence ended suddenly and the strike was won. The IWW also adhered to its pledge to go anywhere to provide leadership to unorganized workers engaged in a spontaneous walkout. This was the case in 1912 when textile work­ ers, most of them foreign-born women, struck the American Woolen Company in Lawrence, Massachusetts, after wages had been cut below the level even of sheer survival. IWW orga­ nizers rushed to the scene, organized picket lines, soup kitchens, printed leaflets and pro­ vided leadership to the striking women. The strike dragged on into a bitterly-cold winter, but it was the employer who broke first. The police were ordered to break the strike by at­ tacking a group of women and children, who were clubbed and beaten. The townspeople were so sickened by the display of brutality that even the local anti-labor newspaper con­ demned the employer. Soon afterward the Company gave in and the strike was won. In the end however, the IWW, whose mem­ bership never was more than 250,000, col­ lapsed because of the anti-war position of the leadership and because of its organizational failures. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, many of its leaders de­ nounced the action and refused to support the war effort. Many, including Haywood were imprisoned and the leaderless organization col­ lapsed. However, the IWW wrote a fiery pa^ in the history of the American labor movement. -'.V- I: I �SEAFARERS*I.OG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO SEAFARERS VACATION ", B EFORE 1951, when the Seafarers fiiMmiiiohal Union revolutionized the system of vacation pay for seamen, very few seafaring men were able to enjoy the benefits of a paid vacation. Under the tradi­ tional system, seamen were eligible for vacation only if 1 they stayed in the steady employment of a single company for as long as a jrear. Since the majority of seamen move from ship to ship, most of them neyer qualified for vaca­ tion pay. The SIU maintained that this traditional vaca­ tion setup was outmoded and unfair and that a more equitable system was in order. The Union then nego­ tiated and won from the shipowners the first industry­ wide vacation plan in maritime. Under the precedent-setting SIU plan, shipowners were required to contribute to a central vacation fund; on the basis of each man-day worked. Seafarers wCre eligible for vacation money in accordance with the ^ji^mber of days of shipboard employment, regardless of number of companies or ships on which they were employed dur­ ing the period. Cash vacation benefits were based on a year of emplojinent, but a Seafarer could collect his bene­ fits on a pro-rated quarterly basis after each 90 days of work. And to receive his vacation pay a Seafarer simply had to fill out a simple application and present it with his discharges at any Union office for prompt collection. When the Seafarers Vacation Plan was instituted in 1951, the first vacation pay wa? $115. Shortly thereafter, the Union won an increase to $140, and it continued winning increases steadily to the point where, on January 1 of this year, vacation payments to Seafarers went into effect at the rate of $1,000. (The chart belbw highlights the major increases in SIU vacation pay.) ' ." I I I'l M III � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource April 15, 1966 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU ATLANTIC FISHERMEN WIN PENSIONS MAX HARRISON DIES IN MOBILE; WAS FIRST WELFARE PLAN HEAD SIU BACKS MAC SUBCOMMITTEE PLAN TO EXPAND DOMESTIC SHIPPING FLEET LOUISIANA STATE FED VOTES SUPPORT OF STRONG MERCHANT MARINE PROGRAM CONGRESSMAN URGES U.S. ESTABLISH TERRITORIAL LIMIT OF TWELVE MILES GRAPE STRIKERS WIN BREAKTHROUGH AS GIANT GROWER OK’S BARGAINING BRITAIN BOOSTS MERCHANT FLEET AID, WHILE U.S. IGNORES GROWING PROBLEM ANOTHER TEST FOR THE AMERICAN WORKER – THE KINGSPORT STRIKE DOWN TO THE SEA FOR SCIENCE THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR – ALL THIS HAPPENED: PART 5 SEAFARERS VACATION BENEFIT NOW $1000 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 04/15/1966 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. 8 1966 Periodicals Seafarers Log