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McCann (photo 8), son of Seafarer Francis H. McCann (photo 9). Selection of winners was made by SIU College Scholarship Ad­ visory Committee. In photo 10 Miss Edna New%, Assistant Dean of Douglass Col­ lege for Women of Rutgers Universitys, submits committee's decision to SIU Secretary-Treasurer Ai Kerr. From left to right are Dr. F. D. Wilkinson of Howard University; Dr. Charles D. O'ConneU, Director of Admissions at the University of Chicago; Dr. Elwood C. Kastnef, Dean of Registration and Financial Aid at NeW York University; Kerr; Dean Newby; Dr; i R. M. Keefe, Director of Admissions at St. Louis University, and Dr. Bernard P. Ireland, Regional Director of the College S Entrance Examination Board. This year's awards brings the number of SIU scholar­ ship winners to 68 since the program was instituted. Of the 68 who have gone to college under the program 24 have beOn Seafarers and 44 the children of Seafarers. -Page 2 Two More SIU Engineer School Graduates Win Third's Licenses —Page 3 S/nRaps CG Attempt To Abolish Jobs 8 —Page 3 • K. r Fakes and Swindles In the Health Field —Page 8 I I Tbo 14 Strike o R 10 • • —Labor History -Page 15 >1 i^> H! "V\ . .... • 1^ •Sj i; �Page Two SEAFARERS Union Fight Pays Off Covernment Ageney Rescinds Order To Shut Down Two PHS Hospitals WASHINGTON—The continuing fight waged by the SIU and other marine unions to prevent the closing of seven United States Public Health Service Hospitals has achieved success as the re­ sult of the decision by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to continue operating the USPHS hospitals in Detroit and The SIU hailed the HEW deci­ such as PHS, but their expansion Savannah—two of the facilities sion to retain and upgrade these wherever possible." which had been scheduled for hospital facilities, noting that In announcing the recent HEW closing. "aside from the value of PHS fa­ decision, Garmatz also hailed the The HEW decision was made cilities to its direct beneficiaries, move, noting that "These facilities public by House Merchant Ma­ the national interest requires not are a definite asset in the field rine Committee Chairman Ed­ only the retention of all existing of health and in the maintenance ward A. Garmatz (D-Md.). The high-quality medical facilities. of our Fourth Arm of Defense." USPHS hospitals have, since the earliest days of our nation's his­ tory, been of great importance to the health and welfare of Ameri­ can merchant seamen. Following hearings held last year before the House Merchant Marine Committee, the Comptrol­ ler General of HEW ruled that the agency had no legal author­ ity to close the institutions. As a result, eight of the 10 USPHS hospital facilities are not only to remain open, but will undergo modernization. Only two hospitals have been closed—one in Chi­ cago and one in Memphis. I- • ^ i §• May 27, 1966 LOG jU.S. Ship Shortage Slows War, Hall Tells House Committee WASHINGTON, D. C.—SIUNA President Paul Hall told the House Merchant Marine Committee that the war in Vietnam is creating "a vicious shipping circle in which the American merchant fleet is becoming the chief vic­ commitments, because their own tim of its own deficiencies." vessels were diverted to military The House committee, under service. the chairmanship of Representa­ "We must recognize that there tive Edward A. Garmatz of Mary­ is an inter-relationship between land, began hearings in February these events," Hall told the ComUntimely Scheme on a broad range of U. S, mari­ gressmen. "We must remember At the time of the House Mer­ time problems, with particular that when these foreign crews re­ chant Marine Committee hear­ stress on the adequacy of the U. S. fuse to carry our military cargoes, ings, the SIU, in testimony, at­ merchant marine in the current they not only place the entire bur­ den of this effort upon the Ameri­ tacked the planned closings as an Vietnam crisis. "untimely and ill-conceived Testifying before the committee can fleet, but at the same time put scheme to wipe out a vitally ne­ last week in behalf of the SIU and themselves in a position to carry cessary service . . . which in the the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades off the commercial cargoes which long run can only result in in­ Department, Hall noted that since these American vessels, diverted to creased costs" to the government the U. S. became intimately in­ military use, themselves cannot and the taxpayer. volved in the Vietnam war last carry. summer, this country has had to "Thus, because the American Modernized Facilities turn to foreign-flag shipping for fleet is inherently weak, its for­ According to the latest HEW the carriage of both military and eign-flag competitors are able to decision, the USPHS hospital in commercial cargoes. exploit it in this emergency situa­ Detroit will be modernized to tion. And because its foreign-flag Cargoes Turned Down provide merchant seamen and competitors are able to exploit it, He also noted that in a number the American fleet becomes even beneficiaries with a higher degree of competent medical care. It was of instances the crews of foreign- weaker than it was before." also noted that negotiations are flag vessels had refused to carry Fleet Inadequate presently underway to acquire U.S. military supplies to South The Vietnam crisis. Hall assert­ the modern hospital facility at the Vietnam, and that in other in­ Hunter Air Force Base to serve stances American-flag shipping ed, has made it clear that the pres­ Savannah area seamen rather than companies had been obliged to ent American-flag merchant fleet try to upgrade the old Savannah charter foreign-flag vessels, in or­ is inadequate to meet either the de­ hospital. der to fulfill their commercial fense or commercial requirements of the nation, as called for in the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, King-Size SIU Vacation Check and has also made it clear that re­ liance in an emergency situation cannot be placed upon foreign flags, although such a concept has been supported by both the De­ fense and State departments. "Finally—and most important —the Vietnam situation has shown us that the only way we can ever achieve real strength and security on the seas, in either the defense or commercial areas, is through the creation of a strong and adeQuate merchant fleet which flies the American flag and which is manned by American seamen," the SIU president declared. He called upon the members of the committee to support the pro­ posals of the President's Maritime Advisory Committee for an ex­ panded American-flag fleet and also urged them to reject the rec­ ommendations of the Interagency Maritime Task Force which, he Seafarer Harry J. Thompson (right) picked up his $1,490 vacation said, "would result in an even check recently from New Orleans SIU patrolman Herman Troxclair, smaller merchant fleet than we have now—a fleet which would The vacation benefit covered a period from July I, 1964 to April carry an even smaller percentage IS, 1966. After visiting his mother in Minneapolis, Thompson plans of our commercial cargoes than it to take it easy for a while in New Orleans before shipping again. does now, and which would be He last sailed on the Ocean Dinny as fwt, making several trips to even less adequate to our security Vietnam. He reported the Dinny a good ship with a top-notch crew. needs." i Report of International President by Paul Hail Over the years, the SIU and other maritiihe unions have been in the forefront in the fight to retain the USPHS hospitals throughout the country. Not only are these facilities necessary from the standpoint of the American seaman whose peculiar employment conditions make them most dependent on this type of medical care, but also from the standpoint of the national welfare. In an era when hospital services have not kept pace with the nation's needs, with beds often virtually impossible to get, the closing of these facilities would be completely inconsistent with the national objective of giving every person medical care when he is in need. Not only are the services provided by the USPHS Hospital is important to Seafarers, but they are essential to the other beneficiaries as well. Even considering these facts, a plan was announced last year by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to close many of the USPHS hospitals, and- especially those in Detroit, and Savannah. This ill-conceived move to deprive American seamen and other benefi­ ciaries of PHS hospitals of proper medical care has touched off a campaign by the SIU and other segments of the maritime labor to save the hospitals. As a result of our battle and the support of sym­ pathetic members of the Congress, HEW not only withdrew its plans to close the Detroit and Savannah hospitals but decided to modernize the operations. * * « The 23rd annual Union Industries show, which ran for six days early this month, was a rousing success. The more than 203,000 visitors who toured Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory viewed over 130 ex­ hibits of the products, services, and community activities of American trade union members, including the SIUNA. It was a gala affair, en­ joyed by union participants and visitors alike. But the true meaning of the Union Industries Show goes much deeper than the fact that everyone had a good time. The products and services on display at the show were produced by union members working under union conditions. Visitors discovered that the union-made products were of the highest quality possible, produced by skilled practitioners of their trades enjoying wages and working conditions unequalled any­ where in the world. In short, they saw the finest products in the world, produced by the finest craftsmen in the world. The two facts go together, and the message was not lost on the visi­ tors to the show. It became obvious after going from exhibit to exhibit, viewing the products and talking to the men who made them, that buy­ ing union-made products makes sense in more ways than one. First of all, the purchaser gets for his money the finest quality products made anywhere. Second, purchasing goods and services under the union label places full public support behind the American labor movement and the high quality of craftsmanship, wages and working conditions which American labor represents. ^ Stiffer Fire, Safety Rules Proposed By World Ship Unit Steps have been taken by an international committee to stiffen maritime fire prevention regulations to avert recurrences of the Yarmouth Castle sea disaster. The 14-nation Maritime Safe- f built before 1948 from its more ty Committee of the Intergov­ severe requirements. The draft ernmental Maritime Consultative amendments will be presented to a Organization, a United Nations special assemble of IMOC prob­ agency to which 60 nations be­ ably in December, Shepard re­ long, has recommended that the ported. Should the proposed rec­ use of incombustible materials be ommendations be adopted they required in the construction of will become effective in 1968. passenger ships. However, Shepard said that the The Maritime Safety Committee committee strongly recommended meeting had been called to deal that member nations act to en­ with fire protection and safety force the proposal immediately, aboard passenger ships and was without waiting for completion of held in London, May 2-10. SIU the long ratification procedure. Vice-President Earl (Bull) Shepard Demands for action to prevent attended the sessions as the labor unsafe, substandard vessels from advisor to the United States dele­ operating followed in the wake gation. of the Yarmouth Castle fire in Shepard has submitted a report the Bahamas last November, with of the meeting to AFL-CIO Presi­ the loss of 90 lives, and the subse­ dent, George Meany, who recom­ quent fire aboard the Viking Prin­ mended the SIU official's appoint­ cess. Congress is now considering ment. legislation that would require the Shepard reported that the Safety U.S. to enforce its own safety reCommittee also specified types of auirements on all cruise ships sail­ fire fighting equipment to be car­ ing from American ports regard­ ried aboard passenger and cargo less of their registration. ships, and requirements for the Shepard reported that although training and drilling of fire bri­ the Maritime Safety Committee's gades. recommendations would represent The Safety Committee recom­ an improvement in the present sit­ mendation would amend the Safe­ uation, he expressed dissatisfac­ ty of Life at Sea Convention, last tion to the U.S. delegation over the revised in 196u, which permits reg­ fact that tougher standards were istering nations to exempt ships not imposed. �May 27, 1966 SEAF^ERS Page Three LOG LP' Congress Hears Joint Position AFLCIO Marine Unions Stress Need For Independent Maritime Agency WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO marine unions have declared their opposition to inclusion of the Maritime Administration in the Department of Transportation proposed by President Johnson, and urged that the Maritime Administration be removed from its present position within the Depart­ ment of Commerce and re-es- ^ become lost in a bureaucratic an entirely independent and au­ tablished as an independent and maze." tonomous agency." autonomous agency. The AFL"The merchant marine," he Hall noted that some 11 sepa­ CIO also urged the creation of an said, "would have a far better rate bills have already been in­ independent maritime agency. chance for survival and growth if troduced in Congress to make the Both the Senate and House its affairs were under the jurisdic­ Maritime Administration inde­ Committees on Government Op­ tion of a Federal agency whose pendent but added that none of erations have been holding hear­ sole concern was maritime. For the bills would provide the kind ings on legislation designed to im­ this reason, we strongly oppose of independent Maritime Admin­ plement the recommendations for inclusion of the Maritime Ad­ istration really needed, particu­ a new Cabinet-level Department ministration in the Department of larly since none of these bills of Transportation made by the Transportation and urge that the separates the promotional and ad­ President in his Transportation Maritime Administration, be re­ ministrative functions of the Message of last March 2. Iden­ moved from the Department of Maritime Administration from tical bills to achieve this objec­ Commerce, and re-established as quasi-judicial subsidy functions. tive—S. 3010 and H.R. 13200— have been introduced in both houses of Congress by Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Wash­ ington and Representative Chet Holifield of California. The position of the AFL-CIO marine unions was presented to WASHINGTON—The SIU and other maritime unions met with subcommittees of the Senate and the United States Coast Guard here on May 14 to register opposi­ House Committees on Govern­ tion to any arbitrary reduction of manning scales on Great Lakes ment Operations last week by Paul Hall, president of the Sea­ ships. The unions were vigorous ^Engine Department) to serve in farers International Union of in their insistence upon adequate place of the oilers who are on North America, who testified in manning requirements to insure watch and the two wipers on day behalf of all maritime unions maximum safety aboard the ves­ work. The ship's complement has represented by the AFL-CIO sels involved. included, three watch standing oil­ Maritime Trades Department, Appearing for the SIU were ers and wipers on day work. The AFL-CIO Metal Trades Depart­ Great Lakes District Secretary- duties of the oilers have increased ment and AFL-CIO Maritime Treasurer Fred Famen, SIUNA since the vessel was retro-fitted. Committee. Vice-President William Jordan, The Coast Guard had not ad­ AFL-CIO Legislative Director and Jack Bluitt. vised the union of the reduction Andrew Biemiller appeared before Representatives from the follow­ in its requirement and the union the House subcommittee and ing organizations also attended the learned of it through a communi­ stated that the AFL-CIO believes conference: cation from the company, asking "it is desirable to create an inde­ for an engine room personnel re­ R. Solomon, Norman A. Bou­ pendent maritime agency with duction in accordance with the such compulsory consultative re­ chard, Marine Engineers Benefi­ Coast Guard temporary certificate. cial Association; Hoyt Haddock, lationship with the new Depart­ Tal Simpkins, AFL-CIO Maritime It was learned at the meeting that ment of Transportation as may Committee; M. G. Fist, C. Arm­ the Coast Guard had arbitrarily be desirable." and unilaterally made a reduction The views of the maritime un­ strong, S. F. Nolawski, Joseph upon a request from the company. Chrobak, United Steelworkers; ions were also supported by other In presenting its position, the AFL-CIO unions in the air, rail Peter McGavin, AFL-CIO Mari­ and highway transportation fields, time Trades Department; and Ir­ SIU submitted a documented study and the recommendation for an ving A. Desroaches, District 50 of the duties of the engine room United Mine Workers. personnel involved and the de­ independent Maritime Adminis­ The unions were jointly opposed mands placed upon them in the tration had been unanimously en­ to any reduction in manning scales, interest of the ship's safety. The dorsed by the AFL-CIO at its convention in San Francisco last and demanded that the Coast Coast Guard announced that it Guard notify all parties concerned would review its position in re­ December. whenever reduction in the agen­ gard to this dispute. Unclear About Position cy's manning requirements are Similar objections with respect contemplated. Asserting that neither the to Coast Guard reduction of man­ The SIU vigorously protested ning scales aboard vessels manned Transportation Message nor the proposed legislation is clear about an attempt to reduce the engine by their members on Lake ships maritime's position within the room manning scale on the were voiced by the other union new department, nor about future SS Diamond Alkali, a retro­ representatives at the meeting. The Federal maritime policy, the fitted ship, for which the Coast MEBA stressed its opposition to AFL-CIO union spokesman con­ Guard has issued a temporary the so-called concept of a "onetended that the Maritime Ad­ manning certificate calling for one man engine room," a view that ministration "could very easily Q.M.E.D. (Qualified Member of was supported by all of the unions. Z. Displaying Ifieir newly-issueS U. S. Coast Guard thircl Engineers Li­ censes, Seafarers Robert Wray Perry (left) and Kenneth G. Laughlin congratulate each other in New York SlU Hall. Both men have already' been assigned berths as Third Engineers. They prepared for exam at joint SlU and MESA, District 2, License Engineers Training School, NEW YORK—Two more SIU engine department men, Robert Wray Perry and Kenneth G. Laughlin, passed the examination for Third Engineer and were is­ sued licenses by the Coast Guard last week after preparing at the engineer's training school jointly sponsored by the Seafarers Inter­ national Union and District 2 of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association. Perry signed on as Third Engi­ neer aboard the SS Steel Age, now outward bound. Laughlin will take the Third Assistant's berth on the SS Bangor, due in New Orleans late this week. Perry and Laughlin followed in the steps of Seafarer Robert An­ derson, who was the first SIU man to obtain his third engineer's license under the recently-insti­ tuted joint program for training engine department Seafarers to sit for their licenses. The training program, operated under a reciprocal agreement be­ tween the SIU and MEBA-District 2, is the first of its kind in maritime history. SIU men who enroll in the program are provided with meals, hotel lodging and sub­ sistence payments of $110 per week while in training. The joint Union training pro­ gram was instituted to enable Sea­ farers to obtain their licenses and to help meet the shortage of ma­ rine engineers arising out of the crisis in Viet Nam. Seafarers who complete the pro­ gram and receive their licenses and sail as engineers will get full cred­ it and protection for all the pen­ sion benefits which they have built up under the SIU pension plan. In addition, their SIU pensions will be supplemented by the Dis­ trict 2, MEBA Pension Plan in approximately an equal amount while they sail as engineers, and welfare benefits are also covered. SIU men who qualify for their engineers licenses and sail aboard MEBA District 2-contracted ships will not be required to pay the MEBA $1,000 initiation fee, which that Union will waive. Nor will they be required to drop their SIU membership if they do not choose to do so. Engine department Seafarers are eligible to apply for the train­ ing program if they are 19 years of age or over and have three years of watch standing time in the en­ gine department. The period of instruction ranges from 30 to 90 days and will be determined by the member's individual ability and knowledge and by the instruc­ tor's satisfaction of his readiness to take the exam. Applicants can begin receiving instruction at any time. There are 56 men presently re­ ceiving instruction under the joint Union training program. SIU en­ gine department men interested in the program should apply immedi­ ately at any SIU Hall, or directly to SIU Headquarters at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. The telephone number is HY. 9-6600. Sea Unions Fight CG Attempt To Slash Johs on Lakes Ships T^ been operating on an YGRK—One Seafarer and the children of l annual basis for Yhe past 13; years of the 68 awards to I four Seafarers have been named as the winners of the date have gone, to the dependents of SIU: men, and 24 ^ five $6,000 iSlU GoUege Seholarships for the year have been awarded to Seafarers themselves. I 1966. The awards will enable the wiiiners to pursue four Tffie SIU Scholarship Plan is recognized as one of the years of study at any college or university ill the United States or its possessions. They also may choose any most liberal no-strihgs-attached programs of its kind; and Seafarers as weU as their children are eligible to academic field that interests them. .:';eompete''{br''the •'awards,:,' I Thewinnersof the 1966 SIU Scholarships are; Recipients of the five SIU Scholarship Awards for I • Seafarer Bernard A. Maret of Melbotirne; F'loridal 1966 are; to • Thomas M. Baker, son of Seafarer James T. Baker • Bernard A. Maret, who sails in the steward depart­ ' of Wilmington, California-. ment of the SIU and makes his home in Melborne, • Michael J. McCann, son of Seafarer Francis H. Florida. Brother Maret is now attending night school ^ McCann of Cleveland, Ohio. at Brevard Junior college and plans to use his SIU • Tommy Miller, son of Seafarer Elmer E. Miller scholarship toward an art major at John Brown Uni­ - of Norfolk, Virginia. versity in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, • Dedra Robertson, daughter of &afarer Robert F. • Thomas M. Baker, son of Seafarer James T. Baker, who serves in the engine department. Baker; whO lives in Groton, Connecticut, plans to attend the Webb Institute of Naval Architecture. • Michael J. McCann, son of the Seafarer Francis H. McCann, who sails In the engine department. Michael, who is a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was accepted to Day- ^ ton University, where he plans to major in chemistry. • Tommy E- Miller, son of Seafarer Elmer E. Miller,- • a resident of Norfolk, yirginia. T^ who was an honor graduate in high school and a member of the track teani, plans to study bio^:hemistry at the University ; Virginia. • Dedra Robertson, daughter of Seafarer Robert F. Robertson of Port Arthur, Texas. Dedra who already reads French and German, plans to major in foreign languages at either the University of Florida or Louisi­ ana State University. She has already been chosen as one. of the special honors groups that will attend a summer • session at the University Of Florida. ^ - �Pa^e Fonr SEAFARERS May 27, 1966 LOG Boss of Struck Florida RR Fights Congress Action J Legislation Sought to Break Up Fla. Scab-Herder's Financial Empire by Ear! (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area] The Central Labor Council of San Juan unanimously adopted a strong resolution demanding that the President and the Congress of the U. S. investigate the burning of the Viking Princess and adopt laws to make all passenger ships using American ports comply with the high standards of safety which apply to U. S. passenger vessels, I recently returned from London for a meetNewspaper Guild in its strike ing of the International Maritime against the Bureau of National Consultative Organization which Affairs, Inc., in Washington, D. C. discussed this very same problem. Norfolk New York Shipping has been slow but the New York shipping is excellent outlook for the future is good. The in all ratings. On the beach and C-S Baltimore is in the shipyard registered for shipping are two of and will crew up next month. Bol­ our old friends, Joseph Lapham lard Jackson will be ready to ship out after a few weeks on the and Juan Pola, Jr. beach. Bill Culpepper broke his Boston arm while aboard the National Shipping has been on the slow Defender in the Persian Gulf, and bell this period but is expected hopes to ship out as soon as he to pick up during the next two mends. Bill Powers who has been weeks. Charles Council a 20-year shipping out of New York has seafarer, just had a new deck come down here to register as a hand join his family and reports group one and hopes to land a job wife and baby are doing fine. His as pumpman of the Baltimore. last ship was the Spitfire where he Nelson Steadman who spent seven sailed as an AB. Angelo Antoniou, months in the Far East aboard the another 20-year SIU vet, will grab Hurricane is on the beach for a the first job put on the board. short rest. Angelo, who last shipped on the Philadelphia C-S Baltimore, said he hated to Jorge Marrero, who sails as see this floating Chief Steward, is back in town hotel lay up. John after getting off the Spitfire. John Wallack who last Shannon is back in the hall after last shipped on getting off a Sea-Land ship. He the Pefrochem as sails in the Deck department. an oiler, told us Richard (Larry) Savior is around someone has to the hall after shipping on the Sanfeed the horses tore as a member of the Steward Wallack and he's out to department. He told us he's ready make a killing. to ship again. Richard Cummings is fit for duty and ready for the Baltimore first bosun's job that comes along. Bill Sears has paid off the Pennmar to go to the Marine Hospital Shipping has been fair here. Puerto Rico to have his hand checked. As soon as he's FED, he will be ready Puerto Rico President Commis­ to ship out on an intercoastal run. sioner Santiago Polanco said in Chuck Rawlings will have a Washington that the Johnson ad­ medical check up after paying off ministration has adopted a hands the Southwestern Victory on the off policy toward Puerto Rico's West Coast. Irv Glass of the deck fight for exemption from federal department paid off the Del Sud minimum waoe legislation in Con­ and is taking it easy for awhile. gress. Shipping for the past two weeks A two-month old trucking strike has been good and the outlook which halted work at a number for the future is very promising. of sand and gravel companies and Four ships paid off, four signed left 8.000 construction workers on and seven ships are in transit. idle in the Bayamon area ended The SIU is aiding the American here recently. WASHINGTON—Rebuffed by the general public and Florida legislators alike for his intransi­ gent 19th Century anti-labor stand, Edward Ball, boss of the vast duPont Estate empire in Florida which operates the struck Florida East Coast Railway, is now charging the railroad unions with be­ ing the "brains" behind recent ions, which are only asking that quested by the Federal Reserve attempts in the Congress to their members receive the same Board, which administers the end a complicated financial set­ pay and working conditions that Bank Act. up through which the giant cor­ have long since been provided for Legislation has been introduced poration has for years used a loop­ other railroad employees across into Congress which would end the hole in the banking laws to make the nation. Since the strike be­ duPont Estate's exemption from millions of dollars profit in viola­ gan over three years ago, the rail­ the Bank Holding Company Act, tion of the law's intent. road has operated on and off an exemption which allows du­ Railroad union members have manned by scabs. Pont to control both banks and The inquiry into the duPont businesses and industries in Flor­ been on strike against the PEG Railway since January, 1963. Estate's legal and financial setup ida in violation of the law's intent, Since then Ball has flatly rejected is being conducted by the Senate and has made the 78-year-old Ball all settlement attempts by the un­ Banking Committee and was re- perhaps the most powerful man in Florida. In addition to the FEC Railway, the duPont Estate also controls 31 banks and various business and in­ dustrial enterprises. The pending legislation would force Ball to sell off either the Estate's great bank­ by ing empire or its non-banking em­ Al Tanner, Vice-President and Fred Farnen, Secretary-Treasurer,Great Lakes pire, including the struck FEC Railway. On May 11, 1966, SIU Representatives attended a meeting in Wash­ The AFL-CIO has called upon ington, D. C. with the United States Coast Guard that was called for Congress to end the banking law the express purpose of discussing manning requirements on various exemption enjoyed by the duPont Great Lakes vessels with relation to Engine Room crews. Until a short Estate, which it says has served time ago. Great Lakes vessels were not affected by the rules laid to frustrate national labor policy down by the United States Coast and caused the three-year-old FEC Guard on retro-fit and fully auto­ that the United States Coast Railway strike. At the same time, mated ships; however, automation Guard is not carrying out its the federation urged Congress to on the Great Lakes now presents duties by assuring the maintaining retain the bank law exemption for a serious problem to all maritime of maximum safety requirements labor and agriculture organizations unions due to the U. S. Coast on board Lake Vessels, but rather inasmuch as labor banks are Guard's drastic reduction of crews the Coast Guard on issuance of "models for the type of banking under the vessel manning cer­ certificates for various Lake Ves­ service which should be provided sels is going far below the very tificates. in the public interest," in sharp The Coast Guard feels that minimum of basic safety require­ contrast to the duPont-controlled these ships can operate without ments. banking empire. any unlicensed personnel whatso­ Detroit Marine Hospital The controversy over the du­ ever in the Engine Rooms. The We have received notification Pont Empire's exemption from the SIU has entered a strong protest that the Health, Education and banking laws centers around the to the Coast Guard and your Welfare Department does not in­ fact that the operation is set up representatives pointed out that tend to close the U. S. Public financially as "Charitable Tru.st." Great Lakes vessels are virtually Health Service facility at Windmill Questioned bv Senator Harrison maneuvering eight hours out of Point, Detroit, Michigan. The de­ Williams (D-N.J.) about who gets every 24 hours in channel waters cision to maintain the Detroit the Estate's income however. Ball on all of the Great Lakes every Marine Hospital was made after conceded that his sister, Mrs. Jes­ day during the sailing season. protests on the closing had been sie Ball duPont, gets most of it It is obvious that the Coast made by the SIU's Great Lakes (over $10 million last year). But Guard officials in Washington do District as well as other affiliated his sister's taxes are so high and not fully understand the problems unions, to the Public Health au­ she gives so much to charity. Ball existing on the Great Lakes. In thorities and the various govern­ opined, that "at times I wonder fact, one of the top officers of the, ment agencies, members of Con­ howihe's able to eat." Coast Guard did not even realize gress, and the Senate. that many Great Lakes vessels Senator Hart and the late Sen­ presently operating are still burn­ ator McNamara played a strategic Rap Soviet Trawler Fleet Off West Coast ing coal. At this juncture, the SIU role in the preservation of this cannot predict what the outcome needed medical facility. of this meeting in Washington The Detroit Marine Hospital will be. We do, however, know presently services approximately 100 in-patients and 125 out-pa­ tients. According to a study of facilities, the capacity of this hos­ May 27, 1966 Vol. XXVIII, No. II pital can be increased greatly by Official Publication of the SIUNA modernization and some remodel­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO SAN FRANCISCO—A large Soviet fishing fleet which appeared off the U.S. West Coast in recent ing. Executive Board Your SIU Representatives are weeks, has been accused by American fishermen of taking fish from nearby spawning grounds a PAUL HALL, President contacting both the U. S. Public practice which could lead to the^ eventual depletion of fish resources in waters near the U.S. CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Pret. Vice-President Health Service people and the De­ The Soviet fleet, estimated at AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS At the same time, many Soviet deep-sea fishing fleets. Russia's partment of Health, Education up to 200 fishing and factory Sec.-Treas. Vice-President trawlers and factory ships have ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER and Welfare in Washington re­ 1965 catch has been placed at Vice-President Vice-President questing that the modernization processing ships, has been most also appeared off the coast of New 5,6 million metric tons and by HERBERT BRAND of the facilities at Windmill Point active off the coast of Oregon on England. Director of Organizing and 1970 is expected to reach 8.5 mil­ the Stonewall Bank, about 30 Publications This is just the latest of many lion tons. be effected immediately. Managing Editor Art Editor miles at sea. recent incursions by Russian fish­ MIKE POLLACK BERNARD SEAMAN Seaway Tolls The huge Russian fishing fleet ing boats into traditional U.S. Assistant Editor American commercial fisher­ NATHAN SKYER Staff Writers has also been utilized to serve fishing grounds. There have been Hearings will be held in Ottawa, men have voiced strong complaints MELVIN PURVIS many complaints in the past of several other purposes besides fish­ Canada on May 25th and in Chi­ about the heavy Soviet fishing on PETER WEISS depletion of fish resources due to ing. Many are equipped with cago in early June for the purpose the spawning grounds, which tends the intensive fishing practiced by sophisticated electronic equipment of revising the present Seaway toll to destroy female fish before they Pgbllthed biweekly at 810 Rhode Island Avenne the Soviet fleets. Soviet practices rates. The United States St. Law­ can deposit their eggs. American to monitor Western scientific and N.E., Washington, D. C. 20018 by the Seafarers International Union, Atlantic, Gilf. Lakes and rence Seaway Development Cor­ trawlers working the Stonewall in the whaling field brought nu­ military procedures near the U.S. Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Foerth A»enie, Brooklyn, B.Y. 11232. Tel. HVaclnth poration and the Canadian St. Bank are closely monitored by merous accusations that the Rus­ coasts and on the high seas. Many 9-6600. Second class postage paid at Washing­ Lawrence Seaway authorities who the Oregon State Fish Commis­ sians were ignoring international Soviet fishing boats are also equip­ ton, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTEMTIOH: Form 3579 arit are the controlling agents having sion to assure that future fish re­ standards of conservation. ped for oceanographic studies and fhoald be sent to Seafarers International Union, jurisdiction on the Seaway, are During the last ten years the sources will not be depleted. How­ have provided Russian scientists Atlantic, Gilf. Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO, 675 Faarth AveniC, Brooklyn, B.V. recommending an increase of ap­ ever, the Commission has no au­ Soviet Union has built up one of with a wealth of information about 11232. proximately 10 percent. the world's largest, most modern the world's oceans. thority over the Soviet vessels. The Great Lakes SEAFARERS#LOG P The Atlantic Coast Fishermen Charge Huge Red Fleet Depletes American Fishing Grounds �iT-st'.-atw^noessSiiSteT- Mar 27, 1966 The Pacific Coast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative SEAfARERS LOG Page Five defense Dept. Lied About Ships In North Viet Trade, House Told WASHINGTON—A charge of attempting to cover up ineffective Government policies by with­ There are plenty of jobs here for AB's, oilers and FWT's in the west holding full information about the true number of Free World ships trading with North Vietnam has coast ports of San Francisco, Seattle and Wilmington. been leveled against the Defense Department by a Michigan Congressman in a speech before The State of Oregon will be holding its primary election this week the House of Representatives. with California's primary following on June 7th. Washington has Representative Charles E. here at home by the official dis­ months of 1966 included 29 Brit­ scheduled a September 20 primary election. Don't forget to get out to pensing of misinformation which ish flag; 4 Greek; 2 Cypriot and the polls and vote and support Chamberlain (R-Mich.) accused is designed not to protect our se­ 1 Italian, he said. uled for this time. your labor-COPE endorsed ticket. the Defense Department of keep­ curity but to cover up ineffective According to the latest figures Tiny Kennedy just blew into ing "two sets of books," one classi­ San Francisco policies. released by the Maritime Admin­ town and registered for a chief fied secret and the other unclassi­ Shipping continues to be very steward's job. He recently got off fied, in order to keep from the According to the true figures, he istration concerning the U. S. Gov­ good ihere and we continue to have the Oceanic Spray in S^ Fran­ American people the true number said, the 44 Free World ships call­ ernment blacklist of ships which plenty of jobs for AB's, FWT's, cisco and will probably spend of Free World ships engaged in ing at North Vietnam during the are ineligible to carry U. S. for­ oilers and electricians. last three months of 1965 included eign aid cargoes because they are some time in drydock here at the trade with the Hanoi regime. Paying off during the last ship­ USPHS hospital. We hope that 35 British flag; 3 Norwegian; 3 engaged in the North Vietnam In his recent House speech he Greek; 2 Cypriot and 1 French. ping period were the Pan Oceanic he'll be out in a short time. trade, only 10 Free World ships charged that the list of 119 Free Faith, Pecos, Oceanic Tide, MoqtTwo more Seafarers from this World ship arrivals in North Viet­ The 36 Free World ships in the are listed as having traded with pelier Victory and Monticello Vic­ port joined the pension ranks re­ Hanoi trade during the first 3 Hanoi. nam during 1965, which was re­ tory. cently. Brothers Herman Thomp­ Signing on we had the Coe Vic­ son and Harold Shellenberger both leased by the Defense Department, tory, Couer D'Alene Victory, received their first pension checks was not the true figure but was just released Loma Victory and the Steel Flyer. and are planning to live a life of "unclassified" figure strictly for public consumption. In transit we had the Steel Ap­ leisure from now on. He said that after much prod­ prentice, Longbeach, Steel Woriiding the Defense Department has er, Eiizabethport, Portmar, LosSeattle now agreed to begin releasing the mar, Steel Desdgner and Keva by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Guff Area Shipping remains good, espe­ true figures. The first set of true Ideal. cially for rated men and we have Ships due in are the Los An­ plenty of jobs available for AB's, figures received, he said, shows Traffic lights on the Mississippi River at New Orleans, a familiar that a total of 44 Free World geles, Fairport, Topa Topa, Wild FWT's and oilers. sight to Slli members in this area and especially familiar and impor­ ships called at North Vietnam dur­ Ranger and the Anniston Victory. tant to members plying the Mississippi, have been put back in operation. Paying off since our last report ing the last quarter of 1965 alone, On the beach is P. Korol, chief The lights, operated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers, will be used when pumpman, who just pulled in and were the Warm Springs and the while a total of 36 Free World Young America. ships have already delivered sup­ the river reaches 10 feet on the Carrollton gauge on a rising stage, immediately got the Monticello and until the gauge reads 12 feet on a falling stage. Signing on we plies to Hanoi during the first Victory on a fly-out to Yokohama. had the Warm quarter of 1966. E. Sierra, an SIU oldtimer who New Orleans He pointed out that original fig­ Springs and in sails as deck maintenance also It was like old home week at the New Orleans hall when the Del transit were the ures showed only 21 such ships pulled in and got the same ship. Norte recrewed as a passenger ship recently after making a trip to West Walter Rice, An­ in the North Vietnam trade during Africa as a freighter. All aboard agreed it was a good trip and extended Wilmington chorage and the the last quarter of 1965 and only thanks to the captain for letting the crew use the swimming pool and Shipping activity has really 16 during the first quarter of Seattle. to the chief engineer for letting them use the passenger movie projector picked up here over the past two Bosun Karl 1966. so that carpenter Maurice Kramer could show two movies an evening. weeks. 70 men shipped with 62 "American people have been Hellman who's on Simpson The captain, in turn, thanked the whole crew for a of them being shipped in a onethe beach here greatly disturbed by reports of job well done. week period. has been a member of the SIU this trade even when told less than Some of the regular Delta Line passenger ship men During the past week we had for the past twenty years. Dick half the truth about it," Repre­ signing on for the Del Norte's latest run were: Anton the Connecticut call for a full Simpson, who sails as steward, is sentative Chamberlain declared. (Tony) Evenson and Tom Garrity, watehmen; Clar­ crew and the Oceanic Spray resting up after a long trip on the "Our efforts to win the struggle in ence (Red) Cobb, reefer utility; Louis (Buck) Estrada, signed on. No payoffs are sched­ Jefferson City Victory. South Vietnam cannot be aided second steward; Jake Cuccia, steward storekeeper; Joe Vaccaro, bartender; Frank Ploppert, linenkeeper; Reuben Belletty, BR; Cosmo Argis, gloryhole stew­ ard; Curley Weisbrot, waiter; Jack Callaway, laundryCuccia man; and many others. Many SIU pensioners were on hand for the last membership meeting in New Orleans. Charlie Nuber was in from Waveland, Mississippi, where he makes his home and says the fishing has been real good. He extends an invitation to his shipmates to look him up when they are By Sidney Margolius in Waveland. A conflict over the quality of the goods you buy and finishes have been developed without adequate Walter (Shorty) Cook, another SIU pensioner, was on hand telling has broken out between retailers and manufacturers standards of performance. One example is "durable about the gardening and chicken raising with which he is now occupy­ as the result of complaints about shoddy merchandise. press" or "permanent press" garments. Such gar­ ing his time at home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Pensioner EmU Herek You're the one who pays for and gets the substand­ ments are a real boon since they eliminate most if was in for the meeting from Omaha, Nebraska, where he now makes ard goods. But because retailers have to listen to your not all ironing. But on some types of fabrics the his home. He told the boys about the traveling he has been doing complaints and make exchanges or repairs (if they're chemical treatment which gives a garment is per­ lately in Canada and Alaska. reliable retailers), they too are rebelling over defective manent press, also "tenderizes" the fabric. This re­ Frank Fraone, last off the Columbia Victory as steward, is spending sults in premature deterioration. Too, with some 400 some time on the beach with his wife. He said his last trip to Formosa, products shipped by factories. Many of the recent complaints about quality have different "durable press" processes in use, textile in­ Hong Kong and Vietnam was an enjoyable one but he needs a bit more concerned furniture especially. But complaints are dustry technologists themselves are concerned that rest before shipping again. being voiced also over rugs, draperies, clothing and some may not be truly permanent, especially because of the lack of standards of what constitutes durability Mobile children's toys. The quality complaints erupted into public view or permanence of the finish. One trade paper even Several SIU oldtimers have been on the beach here recently taking when a leading department store president (Walter recently reported that some low-price manufacturers it a little easy between runs. Dewey C. Bell, who last sailed aboard Rothschild, of Abraham & Straus, New York) told a are applying the durable press finish to collars and the Warrior as AB, has been around chatting with meeting of the American Management Association fronts of shirt, leaving backs untouched. friends. Bell, an SIU member for about twenty years, that in many lines "the standards are set too low" now makes his home in Century, Florida, with his But even paying a high price is no assurance of and "we must exercise constant vigilance to keep quality. One of the nation's largest clothing retailers wife and children. Also in the hall was Osborne M. from having our customers victimized with substand­ complained that sometimes dresses selling for as Brooke, an SIU member since the inception of the ard products.'-' much as $150 have poor-quality thread that puckers union. Brooke, who lives near Mobile with his^wife The department store president revealed that much the seams after even the first cleaning. and children, last sailed aboard the Long Beach in of the defective furniture comes from Southern furni­ In fact, the National Institute of Drycleaning re­ the engine department. ture factories which in recent years have come to ports there is a "tremendous increase" in the number William E. Mores is watching the board again dominate the furniture industry. He did not say this, of fabrics and garments which do not dryclean prop­ after last sailing in the steward department on the Brooke but it is significant that these also usually are non­ erly. John B. Waterman's European run. Married, he lives union factories who make the lower-quality furniture. The effect of such widespread incidence of poor with his wife and children in Mobile. Another Mobilian, R. M. As a result of the retailer's public charges. Fair- quality is to increase the risks of getting unsatisfac­ (Pinkey) McEvoy is looking for an engine department slot as electrician child News Service made a nationwide survey and tory merchandise when you buy, and also, to raise the or oiler. His last ship was the Clairhorne. Also last off the John B. found many other businessmen reporting widespread prices all families must pay to cover the high cost of Waterman is Jimmie Jordan who makes his home in Mobile with his wife and children. dissatisfaction with quality of many types of goods. returns and repairs. Some blame the widespread incidence of defects on Houston Look over the fabrics too, to guard against misautomation, others on big volume in a time of rising weaves, thin weaves or thin spots that will soon wear Seafarer D. Horn, a longtime deckhand, has been on the beach in sales. When business is good, factories seem to get lax. out. more ways than one here recently. Between ships he's been ^oing down What this means to you is that when you shop And don't hesitate to return defective goods. One to the beach regularly to cultivate a sun tan, which is coming along nowadays, you can't take quality for granted, but big retailer says that only 8 per cent of defective mer­ nicely. Jimmy Jackson, who sails in the steward department, has been have to inspect closely and don't be afraid to ask chandise is returned. "The other 92 per cent remains in the hall recently waiting for a good trip to South America. Jackson stores for necessary repairs or adjustments. in the hands of unhappy customers," reports Fairchild says he's found the South American climate suits him best and he'll try to hang on until he gets the run he wants. One of the problems is that many new materials News Service. The Gulf Coast YOUR DOLLAR'S WORTH •Seafarer's Guide to Better Buying I •'1: • �Page Six SEAFARERS Delta Crew Awarded Safety Certificate Six Additional Seafarer Veterans Join Crowing SlU Pension Roster Ferenc SlU-manned Del Rio is one of several Delta Line vessels recently awarded Certificates of Merit in honor of the high degree of safety consciousness displayed by SlU crews. In addition to the merit certificate, Del Rio's recreational fund is $100 richer be­ cause of prize money that goes with award. At presentation ceremonies are (l-r): Chief Officer R. A. McDonald, Third Cook James Simmons, Deckman Robert. Merritt, Del Rio's Master E. C. Garrison, Delta Port Captain E. R. Seamen, Delta Safety Direc­ tor Paul Pollatt, and Seafarer Abner Abrams, Chief Electrician. QUESTION — When you're shipping out and the weather gets hot, what do you do on board ship to keep cool? • |! • I ;1 Herhie Gray; Many of the tank­ ers have air-conditioning now, so heat isn't much of a problem. At least, that's the case on most of the tankers I've shipped out on. If there's no air con­ ditioner, the best thing to do is get under a fan tail or awning. I drink a lot of water, of course. ^ Juan Colpe: When the weather gets very hot, T find it's best to just get your mind off it. I try to keep my body cool and a hot shower is very helpful. I drink a lot of milk and cold drinks. There's no place in particular I like to go during the summer, but countries like France and Germany are never very hot. Jorge Gonzales: I like to slip out on deck when it gets too hot. I open my cot and soak up lots of sun. Of course, I drink a good deal of water. I'm usu­ ally not bothered by the heat since I collie from Puerto Rico which can get very hot. 4^ Edward Krcha: If the ventilator shows it's getting too hot, I have several ways of cooling off. I drink a lot of cold water and also keep my wrists cool. I find that salt pills are a good method of preventing cramps. Some of the ships sailing nowadays have air conditioning. ' '' Adolph Demarco: I take my cot and go up on deck for some sun. I like to take my transistor radio along on long trips and listen to a little music. A big pitcher of lem­ onade is my fa­ vorite thirst quen­ cher. For hotweather reading, I find that a good magazine or book gets my mind off the heat. — 4^ — James M. Young: I ship in the engine room and it can get pretty warm down there. I really welcome the chance to go up on deck. That fresh air can feel real good. I also drink a lot of wa­ ter, of course. If I get the chance, I take several cases of coke and soda along with me. In hot weather, I like sailing in Persian Gulf waters. British Seamen Hit the Bricks For 40-Hr. Week LONDON—^The strike of Brit­ ish seamen that has tied up the nation's ports went into its second week with the National Union of Seamen and the shipowners still deadlocked over the issue of the 40 hour week. It marked the first time that British seamen have struck in 55 years and the Queen has declared a state of emergency. The union has refused to budge from its demand for a reduction in the work week from 56 to 40 hours at the same pay, plus over­ time for the additional 16 hours. Average wages for British sea­ men are around $168 a month for the 56 hour work week. An AB gets a little over $200 a month. Some 500 ships of the nation's fleet of 2,500, largest in the world, are already idled. The men are walking off the vessels as they retitrn to British ports. May 27, 1966 LOG Oakley Pearson Holt Denny Hudgins Six more Seafarers have been added to the SIU's pension roster and are now collecting monthly pension checks of $150 a month. The new additions are: Joseph Ferenc, Weil Denny, Laurence Holt, August Pearson, Ferris Oakley and Joseph Hudgins. Ferenc joined the SIU in the^ Holt joined the union in the port port of Elberta, Mich. His last port of New York. Bom in of Mobile, Ala. His last vessel was vessel was the Arthur K. Atkinson Hungary, he resides with his the Yaka (Waterman) on which he (Ann Arbor) on which he sailed as wife, Josie, in New York City. sailed as a messman in the Stew­ an AB. Brother Oakley was born His last ship was the Linheld Vic­ ard department. Born in Ala­ in Michigan and lives in Elberta tory (Alcoa) on which he sailed as bama, he resides in Mobile. Holt with his wife, Viola Mae. a deckhand. saw service in the U.S. Army. Hudgins joined the SIU in the Denny sailed SIU ships since Pearson joined the SIU in the port of Norfolk and was em­ 1943, joining in the port of New York. He was born in the Philip­ port of Chicago, III., and sailed as ployed by the M. Lee Hudgins pine Islands and will continue to a scowman in the SIU's- Great Towing Company. He last sailed reside in New York City with his Lakes Tug and Dredge Region. aboard the Motor Tanker Haven wife, Kusnah. His last vessel was He had been sailing since 1927. Belle and was with the company the Steel Admiral (Isthmian). He Born in Sweden, Pearson and his 31 years. He and his wife, Thelma, reside in Matthews sailed in the deck department and wife, Linda, reside in Chicago. Oakley joined the SIU in the County, Va. achieved a bosun's rating. ISPATCHERS REPORT Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters District May 7 to May 20, 1966 DECK DEPARTMENT ,/ TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco .... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 0 7 22 58 21 8 3 32 6 6 8 5 3 2 27 10 19 59 35 27 7 5 10 25 14 14 297 136 All Groups Class A Class B 0 3 40 18 6 13 7 17 4 2 6 5 2 0 5 8 17 50 36 40 13 8 24 15 7 8 128 226 Class C 0 15 0 0 0 5 1 0 3 10 11 32 4 81 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 26 65 164 15 46 35 90 19 21 9 15 9 5 19 . 93 68 141 64 140 1 10 61 21 11 39 855 334 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco .... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 4 2 25 57 10 13 25 15 6 6 7 4 1 1 17 5 43 23 16 36 12 7 19 22 22 8 164 242 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 0 0 19 24 45 3 2 4 11 0 15 0 2 0 9 6 9 0 2 1 1 0 14 31 27 13 29 17 24 7 13 10 17 26 35 10 3 11 196 144 100 NOW ON THE BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 4 7 49 145 20 25 43 46 21 23 10 7 5 4 19 42 68 101 77 87 3 16 17 39 6 31 583 432 STEWARD DEPARTMENT 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 1 12 44 1 12 12 16 5 2 1 4 5 0 9 20 35 61 30 10 0 3 5 24 7 15 98 236 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 0 0 1 32 8 14 2 2 2 14 3 2 3 2 0 4 3 8 1 0 1 2 6 0 55 33 5 29 15 23 2 0 18 25 21 12 8 7 5 177 87 104 NOW ON THE BEACH AlLGroujg^ Class A Class B 5 5 109 32 18 3 53 38 8 14 6 6 11 1 63 20 151 87 88. 35 12 0 60 12 30 8 603 261 �May 27, 1966 SEAFARERS II Shop Group Seeks To 30 States '•••I • !• Page Seven LOG "Down in Davy Jones' Locker" Open shop movements have sprouted in seven states since January 1, the National Right to Work Committee claims, and it boasts RTW groups will be functioning in 30 states by the end of the year. The seven newly-organized groups are in Iowa, North Dakota, Mon­ tana, West Virginia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Missouri. Iowa and North Dakota already have open shop laws. Missouri is the latest to join the rolls. RTW supporters will push for a state open shop law in the 1967 state legislature. Predictably, there are hints of rightist affiliations among the Missouri leadership. One director of the new committee is vice president of A. B. Chance Co., Centralia, Mo., whose head man, F. Gano Chance, is a leader in the John Birch Society. The national committee, in an effort to drum up additional support in the wake of 14(b) repeal failure, is conducting a series of regional seminars over the next two months. Two Republican groups have urged their party to repudiate Dixie GOP attempts to build party strength through racism. The groups are Republicans for Progress, a national organization of moderate and liberal Republicans headed by Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, and Re­ publican Advance, a movement of students and teachers centered at Yale University. In a report to the GOP National Committee, the groups called for disciplining of lily-white GOP organizations in the south and urged southern Republicans to appeal to Negro and moderate white sentiment in their campaigns. The report condemned the white-only approach of Mississippi, Ala­ bama and South Carolina GOP organizations. It warned that while courtship of segregationists and John Birch-type extremists may win short-term gains, decades of defeat would come in the long run. It warned that already new Democratic movements to shake the grip of racism have "captured the torch of progress in much of the south" and attracted moderates and liberals, while in exchange Dixie GOP groups have won over "thousands of the most reactionary Democrats." iiABOll ROUND-UP ^ ' President Joe Davis of the Washington State AFL-CIO has been named by President Johnson to serve on a new Citizens Ad­ visory Committee on Recreation and Natural Beauty. Johnson es­ tablished the committee and ex­ panded the President's Council on Recreation to include natural beauty in an Executive Order. Vice President Meyer H."Mike" Weintraub of the Distillery Work­ ers suffered a heart attack and died in a Miami hospital while he was in town for a meeting of the union executive board preceding the organization's convention. Bur­ ial was in New York. Weintraub, an officer and for 20 years a mem­ ber of Local 1, New York Wine Workers, had been a Distillery Workers' vice president since 1958. His widow and two chil­ dren survive. — — Dr. Albert Sabin, who devel­ oped the oral vaccine for protec­ tion against infantile paralysis, gave the oath of office to Cin­ cinnati AFL-CIO board members recently and in a talk to delegates praised the labor movement for protecting the right to free asso­ ciation and preserving the right to strike. Dr. Sabin is a University of Cincinnati research scientist who was named winner of the 1967 Murray-Green award by the AFL-CIO Executive Council last February. He was chosen for his "lasting contribution" to human health. Chase Department Store em­ ployees in Newark, Summit and East Orange, N. J., have changed their minds about union represen­ tation after a two-year trial of promises by new management and switched to the union side. They voted for Department Store Em­ ployees Local 21 of the Retail ... Clerks, 397 to 135, in a National Labor Relations Board election. The Retail Clerks International Union announced the appoint­ ment of Vice President James T. Housewright, the union's director of organization, as executive as­ sistant to President James A. Suffridge. Housewright, 44, succeeds Vice President Murray Plopper, who retired after 30 years of union service but will be "on call" for the rest of 1966 in con­ nection with his former assign­ ments. Vice President William A. McGrath took over Housewright's post as director of organization. McGrath, 44, has been organiz­ ing director for RCIA's eastern and central divisions. The Carnegie Hero Fund Com­ mission has awarded its coveted medal and a $750 check to a rail­ road worker who risked his life to save a migrant farm worker. The award went to Leo H. Murphy of Wallingford, Conn., local chair­ man and treasurer of Lodge 201 of the Railroad Trainmen, and a freight conductor on the New Haven. When the 60year-old farm worker failed to respond to the warning of the locomotive horn. Murphy leaped from the footboard of the engine, shoved the man off the track and fell on top of him. — Funeral services for John P. Burke, who was president and secretary of the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers for 48 years until his retirement 15 months ago, took place on April 29. Burke was 82 when he died at Miami Beach, Fla. He got his first job at 13 in a paper mill and later, while working for the International Paper Company at Franklin, N.H., helped form the union. He headed the or­ ganization from 1917 to 1965. For An Independent Maritime Agency President Johnson has asked Congress to establish a new cabinet-level Department of Transportation in which 11 Federal trans­ portation units, including the Maritime Ad­ ministration, would be combined. Hearings on this proposal are now being held before the appropriate committees on government operations in the Congress. The SIU and the other AFL-CIO marine unions have strongly opposed inclusion of the Maritime Administration in such a new department, and further urged that MARAD be removed from its present position within the Department of Commerce and re-estab­ lished as an independent and autonomous agency. In the years during which MARAD has been an agency of the Department of Com­ merce, it has continually been mired in a tangle of red tape which has led to a serious deterioration of U.S. maritime capability. As SIU President Paul Hall pointed out to the Congressional hearings on the subject last week, MARAD "could very easily be­ come lost in a bureaucratic maze," if it were included in an even larger Department of Transportation. Maritime would be in very real danger of being completely swallowed up and ig­ nored within the huge, complex structure of the proposed Transportation Department. In such a case neither the best interests of the merchant marine or the nation would be served. In line with the resolution endorsed by the AFL-CIO Convention in San Francisco last December, the AFL-CIO marine unions have submitted to the Congress a proposed bill under MARAD would be removed from the Department of Commerce and re-estab­ lished as an independent agency. Only if the Maritime Administration en­ joys an independent status will it be able to promote the interests of the maritime in­ dustry. If it remains shackled in red tape or becomes even more enmeshed in an even larger, more complex Department of Transportation, U.S. maritime will in all likelihood continue to deteriorate past the point of no return. Good Luck to the Scholarship Winners The 13th annual awards of the $6,000 SIU college scholarships was made last week. As a result, a Seafarer and four children of Seafarers are enabled to attend the college of their choice to pursue any course of studies. The SIU college scholarships, have since their inception, enabled 24 Seafarers and 44 children of Seafarers to obtain their higher education. Graduates of past SIU scholarship programs are presently active in a variety of fields including medicine, teach­ ing, community services and engineering. The SIU scholarship program represents just one of the ways in'which the American trade union movement benefits not only un­ ion members, but the nation as a whole. The SIU is proud of the record compiled by Union scholarship winners in the past and wishes the 1966 award winners the best of luck in pursuing their studies. �Page Edght May 27, 1966 SEAFARERS LOC May 27, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG M. -.if'lt:-' Mm S-S"!, • . a Kg* w If'v:' PALORIES l\i\ ol the aa^BS o\ DON'T COONT CQiggyjlllinsaVm ot \l\e tooA \\M 1/ Honegar < Now ;::;J Wf-M •'iSK'S - -I •isns'^^ 'srnm ^•I'm t- Awr- ^ :- i IM •> :/hl 'EES'; AKES and swindles in the field of health have tion of the U.S. Department of Health, EduCatibn^ becOTne big business in the United States. It and Welfare and the Senate Subcommittee on Frauds mSml has been estimated that Americans spend $1 and Misrepresentation Affecting the Elderly. Ihe ion a year on falsely promoted, worthless, or following facts should be read carefully because they ..r . t igerous health produots. are of vital importance to everyone's life: Much of this fakery is aimed at the nation's elder i ^ VITAMINS. No dne will deny that a balanced p atizeas those who can least afford to waste their vitamin supply is essential to good nutrition and money on fake treatments and products, and who iii^^ health. Yet vast amounts of money were wasted can be harmed by delaying necessary professional yearly on expensive vitamin supplement simply be­ K| medical treatment while in pursuit of non-existent . ..... cause people fail to reaiize that abundant supplies "miracle" cures. But no one is immune from the of vitamins are already present in the American food • faults of these health quacks and frauds. TTiey supply, which is the best in the worlds Daily use t ' f.j make appeals to people of all age gropps, all social of common foods sueb as ve^tables,E fruits, milfcjfi| - and economic levels, and the highly, educated as eggs,, meats, fish, and whole grain or enriched bread3 well as the poorly educated. Vast amounts are spent wiU supply all of an average individual's nutritiona]|i on advertising products and techniques which have IKOCEMTSM needs. High pressure sales techniques are Used ta£; I at best limited value, and at their worst can be met nEHMu ATURAb iflNER/Usell millions of dollars worth of . vitamins which arei? J deadly to the individual who falsely places his trust ; in their effectiveness. II not needed. They are often pushed as cure-alls fori; ; At hearings conducted by the Senate Subcommit- ii" every kind of disease. The fact, is however, thati some vitamins are actually harmful if one takes tod^i i tee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the? much for too long. Weil-planned meals will supply Elderly, which is part of the Special Committee on Aging, witnesses estimated that, of the $1 billion? I all the vitamins needed by the average individual. 5 spent annually on health frauds, $500 million goes - : In case of any doubts about individual requirsmsnts,?; I self treatment with vitamin supplements Is a serious E for dietary frauds in the form of "health" foods, One of the phoniest of health swindles is the sale of sea I mistake. In such cases the money would be much food supplements, weight-reducing gimmicks and salt or bottled ocean water with the claim that it sup^better spent by visiting the family doctor for a • literature, and fads and cults of this nature. ArthriEplies minerals essential to life. Plain food is better. complete checkup, tis sufferers alone are bilked for another $250 mil­ lion yearly on misrepresented remedies. But far ? ; HEALTH FOODS. A11 sorts of wild claims are worse than the staggering financial loss involved in i tiiade for so-called "health" foods by food faddists ': self-diagnosis and self-treatment With ineffective prci-ftis; ipnd dietary cultists. These claims invariably ? i> "ducts, is the danger that reliance on them can cause d; [ialse because the "sf^ial" foods, which are sold fatal delay in getting proper medical treatment. iSj ||d grossly inflated prices, contain the same nutri; . Under the suggestion of Senator Harrison A. Wil-| J|iional value as the foods jmu dan purchase at any ; hams, chs.rman of the Special Senate Committee*• sprocery store or supermarket. Food fads can be ? on A^ng, a nationwide study is to be made of factors! dangerous to health as well as expensive when the! .J induce people to fall for fakes and swindlesS ?|^iet is limited to one food or family of foods. Much | . in the field of health. The study will be Coordinated of this food faddism has been aimed at the nation's % •'--"'-"fby the Food and Drug Administration of the Fed­ Plder citizens,^yet the same rule applies. No matter I eral Government, with the cooperation of other what his age, if an individual is in good health these ®: government agencies. ! special foods are of no value. If an individual is not^ wdrthiess gaiiih "Micro = D^smete^" wai? The variety of frauds and misrepresented remedies ri in good health a doctor should be consulted--—at-f : 'curing" arthritis supposed to treat seriou^ l^ich are practiced a^nst the American public tempts at self treatment with special di^ of pro^' l Vender Glove, diseases but was a |s staggering, Th«^ range ftpm complicated, worth- i| ducts are daapious, ; •••' v "E EE-I; and very expensive m^hines which supposedly j| In this same category are the so-called "folk medi- ; liagppse or treat various aUments, to miracle charms •Sir- cines," often popularized in do-it-yourself health | liif magnetized iron. Vitamins, health foods and books ^b(mks. The potions they advocate for treating everytE^ ^n folk medicine are classifbd under the category thing from arthritis to warts are often common plants-fc :|tjf fraud when exaggerated claims are made con-| and substances which have no appreciable medicinal p cerning their nutritional value to the individual. value. All things being equal, for instance, consume p Many highly advertised patent medicines must be | ing quMtities of unsaturated fats will not prevenri| placed in this same category when the advertising hardening of the arteriesj cod liver oiF and oran^^ri qoes not make clear to the public that although the juice will not cure arthritis; garlic has do effect oi| product may give temporary relief of the symptoms high blood pressure; and royal bee je% WiU not re^^f of an illness, it does not provide a cure for tl» ill- store an ag^ individual's lost manhood. What oftenl| pess—-as is often implied. happens with frdse reliance on these quack cuie$,il The^ health fakes and iS He "^6oite", ohe of phony devicos demonrirated dri ««« swindles awuiwwB discussed WWUSBCU dh uu these lucsc unfortunately, is that proper medical attention issl loiia+e lubcomnitifoo hearing, cradded. buzzed and jls pages represent only a paitial listing, compUed from posteKMied until successful medical treatment is eitherl gave off gazes Hiat eSegediy cured major illnesses. a<»umulated by the Food and Drug Administraimpossible or mitremely diiffcult. I •; ^.. i- cMMiJwhhrarieM ; !, ( ii s :):i: if J • •: f ! I t 1 ,lf i> I . i ' • I i I : "• M f--"- ,., S^'yoctor book'* can «rve aiTjiubstituf® for .y rmiB^t4»! dccfor yet one which fafseiy promoted honeyl Iand Vinegar as cure-aH recently made bestseller list. he "Oscillotron" was one of 13 phony dswces pro^w • moted by Electronic Medical Foundation. Photo shows'' device giving "treatment" for exophthalmic goiter^ flower Oif ca^ies^ recommended in best selling ^ ^ "Calories, Don't Coiint" were taken off the market because of false health aid claims made in book. : methods could save millions of lives Which are now I' OR TREAT DISEASE. One of the biggest and most needlessly lost ^ I dangerous health swindles is the mechanical or eleoCancer can be cured with early treatment by trical gadget that is supposed to tell what disease a surgery, X-ray, or radiation. Some specific types II person has and how to treat it. Thousands of such • of cancer wili also respond to certain dru^. Early JI machines have been manufactured and are in use diagnosis and treatment by a trained physician is ; by various kinds of health practitioners to diagnose f of the utmost Importance. To be cured, cancer must • and treat every kind of human ailment. |LIMITED.yALUE MEDICATIONS. Limited-vali^ ;|be nipped in the bud. The earlier it » caught and ^ Keep in mind that there are legitimate medical |niedications ate the kind that most Americans arri treated, the greater are the chances of recovery. i| devices such as those used by physicians to deter^exposed to most often through advertising. In geh^ : Regular medical checkups are your best protection , mine blood pressure, and to record heart action, Ipral they offer relief for the symptons of a disease against cancer. In addition, see a doctor without 5; (electrocardiograph). However one must immedhitely Irather than making an attack on the disease itself. delay if you olwerve any of the following warning Is beware when pi^nomenal daims are made for mejTfais can be extremely dangerous because, relieved signals: |chanica! or electrical devices. They are invariably of tite painful, embarrassing or discomforting symp§ dangerous frauds. Such devices include uranium • Any lump, especially in the breast. llimpregnated gloves fOr the treatment of arthritis, j|itons of an ailment, people often postpone seeking • Iiregular bleeding or discharge from body ^machines which emit gasses supposedly beneficial for Iprofessional treatment for the disease itself. Such, opening. i^arious diseases (but which are often themselves inelttde pain IdDecs, cong^ and cold zeme• Persistent di^stion. .^angerous to health), devices which supposedly trans|]ie$» canOte treaimentSi, • Unexplained changes in bowel movements. unit beneficial electrical currents through the body, pain tclicvcsa, arthritis ren^ies, diab^ foods, • Unexplained weight loss. ||md other such fake gadgets. nicer pieparaffoBSj ane^ (fired Mood) pre- :0 • Omn^^ in color or size of a mote/! : The vibrator or massage devices are often useful ^ paradons^ and nwmy others ' 9 Any sore that does not heal promptly^T | give temporary relief of muscular aches and pains, . Hie use of these products involves the ever-presenti ' COSMETIC MEDICINES. No one can seriousi Jbut are not eflfective for arthritis, rheumatism ori i danger that relief of symptons often masks the fact lij deny the value of good cosmetic preparations, pro-|i t heart conditions—nor for "spot" reducing. that a serious and often deadly disease is at wdrkri II perly ai:pUed. They can improve personal appear-i^ ^ TO KVOW IF IT'S FAKE OR HAS VAiuii I A persistent cough, for example, may be the warning ance and in so doing contribute greatly to improving e Food and Drug^ Administration sugj^sts the sign of throat cancer. Frequent colds may be the the individual's mental health and general outlook following ways to determine whether a remedy is f-Warning sign of a badly infected internal organ. I Ton life, and even, because of psychological factors, worthwhile: I General weakness (tired blood) may be caused by' il; make them feel better physically. Many unscrupun is a "secret remedy? If so, you can be almost .-.f any number of serious bodily ailments. Stomach H lous persons, however, have cashed in on human ; certain that it is a fake. Does the sponsor claim he I pains m^ mask cancer. The list is practically endlessy ? ;; vaiiity which makes many people willing to spend a ' . Is Imftliag die medical profession or the government Limited-value medications have their place, but great deal of money for products that promise what || whidi is tryii^ to suppress his wonderful discovery must not be considered as cures or depended upon ( ^ they cannot perform. and keep it from the public? This one of the surest i for long periods of time. The admonition which s| The worst of these promises are made for products signs of quackery. How did you hear aboP it? If S goes along with the most reputable of these prepara- 1| containing supposed miracle chemical or scientific the treatment was advertised or promoted in a sen­ |tions to "See your doctor if pain persists" is exi| ||; discoveries which will return the body, or portions sational magazine or by a faith-healers' group, or tremely important and usually not stressed nearly df the anatomy, to a state of youth. This is im­ by some crusading organization of people with little enough in advertising or printed prominently enough possible. The process of aging cannot be reversed. or no medical training, be skeptical. Reputable phy­ fl on the package. Diagnosis of a condition must be Proper care can often improve the condition of '-?f I sicians or medical researchers do not operate that ^ left to a qualified doctor who, after a thorough the skin, for example, if it has been neglected or ,; way. I examination, will teU you whether temporaiy relief ' exposed to wind, weather or other irritants. There THE SAFE THING TO DO. If you feel ill, are ?|or senotis treatment of a disease is necessaiy for is no preparaiiott iiowevar, wfakh can return dbe sldii ! worried about unexplainable symptoms or bodily Whatever condition is troubling you. I to a state of yonth; Such a faJse clsuni is often made ; changes, or suspect for any reason that something is I ARTHRITIS REMEDIES. Arthritis is a painful. I Jfor royal bee jelly, for example. Wrinkle removers wrong physically, visit a reputable doctor for a com­ are worthless. Similarly, there is no cure for Imldness I^metimes crippling disease, which affects both young plete physical examination. Seafarers and the depend­ land old, although it is more frequent among the I (part of the process of agui^ eiHier throu^ medlca- M: ents of Seafarers should take advantage of the free Imaged. Because of the severe pain and crippling?| |IOm) or massage treatments. Another procej» of diagnostic medical examinations available to ffiem in igittg, the loss ci the hair's c<d<Mr, is similarly im- •v;» ffiecmnpetently-snpervisedSIU clink facfliticKS. These ||efifects associated with arihiitis^ a booming busine l^ssiUe. The hair can be dyed) but its natural color fin phony cures has sprung up. Over $250 facilities are staffed by experienced doctors and tech­ be restored. Spectel vitamins or oAer prer yes^y is spent on worthless preparations and treatnicians utilizing the latest in diagnostic equipment itioas itte worthless tte stehieye this end. ||mente for arthritis and riieumatisip, ranging fr^ and techniques. The SIU urges all Seafarers and pills composed of varying chemicals to expensiv*^: ^PUCING FOODS AND SCHEMES^ One of M their dependents to take advantage of this service leleetrie. machinesi; post lucrative fields of fekery involves reducing piw! tegulariy, even if they do not feel sick or suspect the I Inexpensive drugs can lelfeve arthritic pain to Igjliicts. Many fraudulent promoters have gotten rich presence of an ailment. In the early stages of m(»t l^me extent, but there are as yet no drii^, devices^ • quick by "fooling the fat" as they cynically put it, J, diseases the patient feels no discomfort and shows methods which can cure arthritis. Early treatment| in the sale of dru^, gadgets, and diet plans anff I no physical symptoms of illness. In the earliest stages, a physician can reduce the pain and crippling I / books. Barring serious glandular disturbance, over­ when they are most easily treated and complete ects. Diagnosis and treatment by a competent| eating is the basic cause of overweight and careful recovery is most likely, many diseases are discoverlysician is of the utmost importance because there | proper dieting under tlte supervision P a phy-. |able only with the aid of complete diagnostic facflis many forms of arthritis which t^pira diflforei^^, ; sicjan, is the only ti®at^ what any- - ties utilized by competent physicians and laboratory of treatment. \ • one says, no matter how many titles a convincing technicians. The lives of many Seafarers and of the |GANCER :TREATM^ There/are no serums,' huckster has plaited after his name, you cannot eat • dependents of Seafarers have been prolonged beM mudi as you and stfll lose we^L cmise in the igp, or diets which have bean proved to be effeoslim gnicie* is nothing but the worthless slogan ot; p ailments were discovered that they might not have in curing caiocer although many cancer victiihs their famffies;Spei!d large amounts of money on get rkb gnldL, c « i otherwise learned of until it was too late for medical snciak' winqi swrosEM,* DIAGNOSE | orthless treatments. Prompt treatment by effective ^ I "H. i : 4>l d 'i| . :i" -. ' •I \\ 4 �Pace Ten Mar 27, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG ONE OF THE GREAT HOAXES papefrated on the nation's newspa^ readers Is "canned copy"—editorial matter written by propagandfots in places like Wash­ ington and whidi appear in papers thron^nt the country witlmnt revealing the source. The irse of "canned copy" i^^afaist organized labor hf» been effectively ex­ posed in die AFL-CIO magazine American Federationist, prompting Rep. Frank Thompson (D-N. J.) to suggest a law requiring canned material to ]i^ so labeled. A CENTcB, 7EX. vage earner r I When [ Januai^. on^ legUW 1 I \I ^ "J CHAMPION '5^ 9'*m nSt-Ssrs-°1 convenes When ....rs I When confess oat. orders ot^ W ("ws- 'mi-ti,-\ ... "••Work' I V HAMLIN, W. VA. ^^ """ Earners? ' conere« I 1 wrpcal ot ^ ^-9x^119 mlAct Tin I " Ii f:.' polsory u.""."- ^.h»iuene»v.i-ii« of the 15 St»t^PlNCDALC, WVO. SSS: •esiSs'JSS.-'^ ^MiSil^il^ewho Itodlvidual s^^ ^ it J Ipulsory urioni I t ii 1 i i fc^'S^VAFUao.^ iT^pei ol 'i!! ,<w ol hoth houses M ^'y-'*_npsl loraon^ lorgoth ^Pler^,^'"!!!". And p ^.."5°"-^ DOES WORK" HURT "•"•H SERIOUS fraud is being practiced against the readers of small town daily and weekly news­ papers all over the country. They are being fed "canned" newspaper material and editorials, pre­ pared in .Washington, D. C., by high-powered publi= cists in the employ of various special interest groups ~most of them right-wing, anti-labor groups. This growing problem, which is important to every American and to American labor in particular, was exposed and expired recently in an article ^litten I ture of bountiful prosperity and high pay for work[ for the AFL-CIO Federationist magazine by Ray \ ers in the 19'right-to-work'states. "The reader could be expected to assume that the I Denison of the AFL-CIO Department of Public Reeditorial was the conclusion of the local editor—-re­ I lations. (Dension was formerly the managing, editor spited Rotaiian, community leader and doting i of the Sharers Log and later rqiresented the SIU parent—who had examined facts and figures ahd the in several other capacities.) In the Federationist economic climate around him (most of the stories article, Denison pointed out that thousands of these appeared in'right-to-work'states). canned editorials in support of 14B were printed in "This editorial, however, was actually the product newspapers at the time when the question of 14B of National News-Research, a 'boiler room' operation reped was before Congress. in Washington, and had been distributed to hundreds Readers of these newspaprs were led to believe, of weekly and small town daily newspapers, the article pointed out, that the "news" came from ' "The cost to the local editor was nothing. The tab recognized, r^ponsible, and impartial sources, or had been picked up by the 'right-to-work' sponsor, were the creation of their local editor's mind after as was the cost of a steady stream of simUar put careful and objective study of the Issues involved. powings by other 'news services.'" Actually however, they were the slick, calculated The nature of National News-Resehrch company^ .. writing of anti-labor "right-to-work" lobbyists based a typical "boiler room" producer of canned news was!l| in Washington, D. C., Denison wrote. revealed in the Denison piece as an outfit whose ; i The problem of biased, "canned" news and edi­ "major source of income is variou.s extreme right-. torials has become such a serious problem in the wing causes espoused by its founder, Ralph deTol«ii ;J. United States that the weekly trade magazine of the dano. A long-time advocate of radical rightwing • daily press. Editor Se Publisher, which normally de­ causes, deToledano is a functionary in such far right | votes much of its editorial space to denunciation of outfits as Young Americans for Freedom and the. -; the printing trades unions and the Newspaper Guild, American Conservative Union. He is also the authw^ recently startled its readers by wholeheartedly sup­ of the 1963 book. The Winning Side, a CUre fbf porting the Denison article and the AFL-CIO stand Goldwater Conservatism' and in the 1964 presidci^|^ against canned editorials. tial campaign had as a client the Citizens for Gpld^ Denison's study points out that "Far from being water-Miller organization." ^ a phenomenon peculiar to the 14B fight, the "we'll The Federationist article points out that deTbl)^ peddle your cause as news for a fee* business has be­ dano's "good standing with America's far right was come a substantial Washington industry, thriving on evidenced by the disclosure in the New York Times" ! the" deception that a point of view presented as a that some of the $200,0(X) lefr over from the Gold- " nevro stc^ is more likely to be read and believed water presidential campaign was given to National than an advertisement-—and a lot cheaper." News Research and other conservative fringe groups. "The effect this editorial bombardment" the Fed­ Another of the anti-unlmi canned news operators , erationist article continued, "can have on a com­ described in the Federationist article was U, S. Press, munity mind was described by veteran reporter and which offers its "editor-serving service'' available tp press critic Ben Bagdikian in the February issue of 1,500 editors. the Federationist: "For U. S. Press, an attack on the U SMabtSr "The editorial page helps create community movement WM e^," Denison noted, adding that standards for discussion, if for no other reason than "In I96I, at the time of Senate inquiries into lobby­ its effect on the commercial community. It is a ing activities on behalf of foreign nations, U. S. Press major factor in deciding which issues become issues offered its editors an attack on United States foreign and it tends to limit the breadth of alternatives con­ policy. Editorially criticized was the U. S. govern­ sidered respectable or viable; it provides the b^ic ment position in the United Nations' debate on the arsenal of ideas and of the vocabulary of public dis­ Portuguese colony of Angola. The client? The cussion. Portuguese government, whose American public're­ "This is where the American editorial page has lations representative paid U. S. Press $175 for dis­ failed most significantly.'" tributing the editorial. No identification was made The AFL-CIO Public Relations staffer said that to the recipient editors as to the editorial's spcttsori'' "Shortly before the 89th Congress reconvened in Jan­ "If the editor had small chance of knovrihg"uary, identical editorials appeared in scores of small thcHigh he might well surmise—the reader had nb^^ town newspapers. Each successive editorial deplored chance at all," the AFL-CIO writer said. "And, even 'the union bosses' control over federal legislative if an astute reader eventually figured out that there processes;' bemoaned 'President Johnson's payoff to just might be more to I4B than he was being fed,!" labor cronies;' applauded 'Senator Everett Dirksen was too late to react. and a loyal band of American senators who were "Besides, the 'boiler room' outpourings never ceasb; preventing the demise of democracy,' et cetera. The reader is now finding another labor 'iraue' on his "None of the stories and editorials gave any clue local newspaper's editorial page. Tlje purrent edi­ that the views being printed had been paid for by torial starts off The name sounda like some kind an organi^Uon with a dinxX personal stake in the disease; and perhaps in a seiose it is. Thwe's a biU "issue,".. now before Congress (H.R. IfXill) palted the"loiii^ m^ situs' or 'secondary boycott' hilj. It would a3= in the "canned news'* operaticm . ;lmv a constructicm workers' union to stop ell worit JL dsscrfbed by Denison in this way: •'Does on a building project if the union b the 'right-ti>work' Hurt the Wage Earner? asked (hie editorial. And in seven choi(» parai^ajphs the "Looks like U. S. Press is already answer was obviously 'no.' Instead it painted a pic^JnT^alf of anoUipr client f 1 m , ill A.' ^ e e ^ i . -T * r, - .' • •- • �Mar 27, 1966 SEAFARERS LOG Page Eleven SlU Oldtimer Remembers Old Days When Charleston Was Leading Port My brother always carried his double-barreled shotgun with him on the mail runs." This is one of the recollections of SIU pensioner Moses A. Lucas who first went to sea in 1906 and served in the steward department on the old Clyde Steamship Company passenger ships. When Brother Lucas first set people I know. Everywhere I go port cities. Aside from his recent out on his seafaring career, his I remember what used to be lo­ trip to his native city of Charles­ brother was running the U.S. cated on a certain spot. There are ton, Lucas took a trip to New Or­ mail boat between Charleston and hardly any small grocery stores, leans last year during the Mardi a small South Carolina town called butcher or poultry shops remain­ Gras; and when he is not travel­ Cainhoy, which could be reached ing. 1 guess everything is now ling, Brother Lucas spends his only by water. handled through the supermar­ time with his married daughter, "Back then there were wild tur­ kets." who lives in Hyannis, Massachu­ key and ducks up and down the setts. Still Wonderful river where the "Now," Lucas concluded, "it's "There were many things to see boat ran, and it time for this old Seafarer to sit was a rare day in that colorful city," he said, "and back and take notes and leave the when we didn't in my opinion there still are. Of rest to the younger generation. But come home with course, no one travels about in I've no regrets about the way I've something in his buggies any more, but the mag­ managed my life. I have my good game bag. As a nolia gardens and the grand houses days—and I wouldn't call my bad matter of fact, he filled with antiques still remain. I ones very bad." kept his family visited there last month, and had "I have, however," he said, Lucas and friends pretty an excellent time just walking "seen a good bit of life while work­ well supplied with about recalling old memories of ing at sea, and I thoroughly enjoy meat just by slowing down his my life there as a boy. "As I remember," Lucas went my travels back to the old ports, boat occasionally to do a little on to say, "Charleston was a big­ where I used to visit as a boy." shooting." ger port than it is now, compara­ "I guess you could say that my tively speaking, and the place was whole life has been connected with bustling with activity. Everybody the sea one way or the other," seemed to be in some.kind of busi­ Lucas explained. "Not only did I ness—even if he had to rent a work in the steward department shack and sell stickwood or tur­ on those passenger ships, but I nips and cabbages. It was truly a also was employed on a buoy city of ships and small markets." Friends of Billy Pitner tender servicing the rivers and in­ Now on Pension lets in the Carolina low country. Seafarer Pitner is under the When Brother Moses first start­ Now that Seafarer Lucas has re­ weather and would like to hear ed shipping out, he was paid $20 tired on SIU pension benefits, he from his buddies. His address is a month plus room and board. He spends a good bit of his time 1455 Rivers Avenue, Boston, was then serving as pantryman on travelling about the United States, Massachusetts, and he will be at passenger ships running between reliving his early days in the vari­ this address for the next two New York, Charleston and Jack- ous Gulf and eastern seaboard months. •sonville. When the passengers would disembark at the port of LOG-A-RHYTHM Charleston, Lucas recalls, they would take a tour of the city in horse-drawn carriages. The port city of Charleston was By Harry Woiowitz nothing like it is now, Lucas ex­ plains. Nearly all of the sidestreets were dirt, although some When I retire at sixty-five. had cobblestones, which were hard Or maybe sixty-two, on a horse's feet. Meat and vege­ I'll say goodbye to my shipmates. tables were boueht in open-air With this sea sailing I'll be through. markets, supplied by the people who lived on the nearby islands I've sailed the seas forty years, Had my share of everything, and farms. "But the biggest Been to just about every port in the world. change I notice now," he said, "is Had my ups and downs, what life will bring. ont the change from the horse car to the electric car to the automo­ I started to sea forty years ago. bile. The big change as far as I'm Where you slaved all day, kept on the go,. concerned is that I don't see many The food was slop, the pay was nil; If you spoke at all, your job they'd fill. When I Retire FOREIGN PAYOFF? ^ LEAVE CLEAN SHIP ' :;:.^eii''they-i ship:.; ; article port, f the to ieaye a clean ; ship for the next crew is ^ i same as in any Sfat^ide port. Attention to details of bouse•keepmg;;,aaa'-eff(^:: to leave ;qufii:5^;';m^stoothi^^ - other working spaces clean will be appreciated by the new crew There was no Union, just fink shipping halls; If you didn't have a five spot, you didn't ship at all. Besides your eight hours, there were field days galore. When I think of all this now, my back still gets sore. I hit the bricks in thirty-six. And I'm glad I've done my share; I can look the world straight in the face. Smile and say, "Hello, there." Now I'm getting that middle spread, also middle age. Just a happy-go-lucky Union man, not an oriental sage. I'm looking forward to my pension, I've dreamed of it before. When I can relax with a bottle of Vat, and take it easy forever more. SIU Lifeboat Class Sets Sail • f 11 1i V'c' " 5 •9 A' t HARRY LUNDEBERG -."rtV- SCHOOLx'SEAMANSHIP Uf£BOAT CLASS I 7.<?. Recent graduates of SIU Lifeboat Class No. 151 pose for their photograph at graduation ceremonies, after completing the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship's lifeboat training in New York. Graduates include (seated, l-r), Clifford Leahy, Clifford Zink, Bill Owens and Henry Lawrence. Standing (l-r); Dan Shafarmen, Tho­ mas Peden, Mathew Henehen and class instructor Ami Bjornsson. Joe Bjowski Your wife is holding important letters for you at home. If you are unable to drop by to pick them up, please send a forward­ ing address. Passport Lost Would any Seafarer who has found the passport of James T. Simmons, please leave it at the counter at New York head­ quarters. <1> Candide Aicides Ortiz Please contact your wife at her home at 3400 Springdale Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21216, as soon as possible. Walter Wright Please contact Mrs. N. Matthis, 304 Haines Avenue, Barrington, New Jersey, as soon as possible. Joseph L. Sheahan Please get in to^ich with your niece, Mrs. Mary Ann Verwey, Route 1, Rosebush, Mich. Carroll J. Rollins Please contact your family at the following address: Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rollins, 199 Messick Road, Poquoson, Virginia. ^3/ Bernard C. Hamer It is important that you get in touch with your uncle, Mr. George H. Riley at 2256 Pineland Drive, Albany, New York. Bartolome Del Valle Would you please contact your wife, Mrs. Sandra Del Valle, at 1532 A. S. 8th Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 53204. Gerald L. Nance Please get in touch with your wife any time after six o'clock. Her phone number in Charlotte, North Carolina is 376-8100. <I> Alfred Sylvan DeAgro, Jr. Please contact Mr. Robert H. Metz at the County Office Build­ ing in Rockville, Maryland, 20850. <1> John (Jack) Nail Q. Augusta would like for you to call. Phone number TL. 6-2632, or write at 87 Prospect Avenue, Buffalo, New York, 14201. Wayman C. Lizotte Please get in touch with your wife, Elizabeth, as soon as possi­ ble, at 752 Domingo, Santiago, Sampaloc, Manila. Carlos Ortez Manuel Derecho is still hold­ ing part of your gear which was left in his automobile. If you are unable to stop by, please send him a forwarding address, so that he can ship it on to you. Contact him at his address in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 1 ...MYOWN SEA WHEsi YOU'RE LOOiCA WHAT A eoYLEfT HANP-£M6/ZOIP£REP, THROaSh REAOlN'^ TOO! LISTEN FORPOOPS/E NERO... TENDER IN TUB WABNER. miSHTOF MYU'L COULOI (SETMY THEBRINY- SNORTS BACK? o 1 f '' �ini SEAFARERS Page Twelve On The Del Norte Chief Cook F^lilcs Jasocinskf prepares to grill some tasty chow. I 11 May 27, 1966 LOG When you can eat and sun at the same 'time that's good shipping, as these mem­ bers of Del Norte crew will surely testify. Benefits of Unions Often Go Unnoticed Asks Health Data Cards for Seamen To the Editor: Your recent article covering the advancement of Seafarer Robert Anderson from FWT to 3rd Assistant Engineer is note­ worthy as it is indicative of the effort of organized labor to ben­ efit its membership. Too many irresponsible voices have been heard in the past, and I'm sure will be heard in the fu­ ture claiming that unions kill in­ itiative and are only interested in getting a free ride whenever pos­ sible. It is unfortunate that they will not read about the success of your program, nor bother to speak to the men who are ben­ efitting by it. These same irresponsible voices can never seem to be heard when it comes to attack­ ing runaway shipping programs or proposed foreign shipbuilding programs. The SIU record has long stood for helping its membership while not forgetting the nation. Gordon Schofield To the Editor: Time after time I have taken this up with shipboard person­ nel and they are in accordance with my feelings—but nothing has ever come of it, I sincerely hope that you may see fit to start the ball rolling in the right direc­ tion. A vessel must have a Sea­ worthy Certificate before it puts to sea and I feel that the sea­ going personnel should be placed in the same category. True, each crewmember car­ ries a Health Card that states he is in A1 condition for one year/or he may have a card good for 3 to 6 months. An automo­ bile may pass every test in the books and one week later—said auto may fall apart at the seams, the human body fits into the same class. I am for this yearly checkup 100%, but the crewmember should also be serviced with the following. Since each and every seafaring man must renew his S.I.U. health card yearly, I can­ not see any additional hardship placed on the Clinics. 1. He should have on his Health Card his blood type. Who knows when a serious accident might arise and the crewmember may require a blood transfusion? By knowing his Blood-Type might mean the difference of Life and Death. Example—crewmember suffers bad injury and is hemmorrhaging—call goes out for assistance—Blood Type is the other end can line up blood doners with same type and be prepared to take over immedi­ ately when the man is landed in their care—^TIME FACTOR can mean the difference of Life and Death. 2. An crewmember who suffers from diabetes, heart trouble, ulcers, etc., said disease should be noted on back of his health card, in the event of an emer­ gency, he can get immediate at­ tention. Example—patient may be one who indulges in alcohol, he may be in a stupor and the layman comes to the conclusion that the man is intoxicated, this man might be a diabetic and might be in a COMA? 3. He should have all the neces­ sary shots, which can be checked by the clinic whenever he re­ news his Health Card. (a) Smallpox, good for 3 years (unless you touch a country that has had an epidemic) then it would be necessary that the vessel com­ ply with the 1-year ruling. (b) Yellow Fever, good for 10 years. (c) Tetanus (this should be a MUST) a man suffers a head injury/or runs a nail into his foot etc., etc. Tetanus can be very tricky and should be only administered by a doctor. The above vaccinations should be done by the Clinic, other tvpe of shots can be taken care of by using shore side doctors, depending upon the voyage the vessel is making. I sincerely hope that the S.I.U. can see their way clear to cover the above and also that all the other Unions will follow suit. Regarding the BLOOD TYPE, this should not only pertain to sea-going personnel, but to peo­ ple from all walks-of-life, Jerry Lurle, Purser, SS Del Rio : SlU Deck Delegate Bob Callahan snapped (I. to r.) 1 Captain Cooley, Chief Engineer Turner and Purser I W, Sistrunk in the act jgf sunning pri^ The.^ Deck Delegate R. Callahan, Chief Ste­ ward Bill Kaiser and Fireman Kurts Binemonis pause for the photographer. Along the rail of the Del Norte is a great spot to relax and shoot the breeze, according to crew members M. Smith, J. Zimmer and A. Guidy. Henry Donnelly, who serves as 2nd coofe and ships delegate, stands ready to put the steaks on the charcoal grill.. FINAL DEPARTURES I ft Dominic Grazlano, 56: Pneu­ monia claimed the life of Brother Graziano in San Francisco, Calif., March 3. He joined the SIU in 1951 in the port of New York. A member of the deck department, he sailed on American - flag ships for over 20 years. Born in New Jersey, he lived in Yokahama, Japan. Surviving is his widow, Michiko Katayama of Yo­ kohama. Burial was in Newark, N. J. I I I I I I i I I i Editor,--'' SEAFARER.S ERS LOG, urth Ave., 675 fourth n, N. Y. 11232 Brooklyn, Thomas MacTaggart, 38: Broth­ er MacTaggart died of pneumonia in San Francisco, November 21, 1965. He was born in El Reno, Oklahoma, and was a resident of San Francisco. Brother MacTag­ gart sailed as an oiler in the Engine Department. He was a member of the union since 1947 and joined the SIU in the port of New York. Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Es­ ther MacTaggart of Norman, Ok­ lahoma. 4^ ' . - , I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Mormation) I I CITY I i i "•5 I Henry R. Dombrowski, 40: While sailing as a Bosun aboard the coaster Arizpa, Brother Dombrowski was stricken by a heart attack, March 14, 1966. The body was re­ moved at the Coast Guard sta­ tion in Virginia Beach, Va. A member of the SIU since 1945, he joined the Union in New York where he was born. He is survived by his wife, Anna, of Middle Village, Long Island, and a sister, Mrs. Stella Goidice of Brooklyn, New York. STATE ZIP.....i.. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old subscriber' end have a change egress, please give your former address below: i{£$S STATE ZIP. Lawrence R. Vance, 45: Brother Vance died at his home in Baltimore, Md., March 1, from heart disease. He joined the SIU in Baltimore in 1964. A firemanwater tender in the Engine de­ partment, his last ship was the DE SOTO. Vance was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He served in* the Marines front 1944 to 1946. Surviving is his brother, Robert Vance of Baltimore. Burial was in Baltimore National Cemetery. Log Aid In Fighting Anti'Union Forces To the Editor: Since May 1948 this writer has been receiving the LOG reg­ ularly at home. I live in Ten­ nessee, where unionism has had a hard time as in many southern communities in being accepted. I like to think that my copy of the LOG, passed from hand to hand has played some small part in making my neighbors more aware of the benefits and rightness of organized labor. I was 2nd engineer on an Alcoa ship when I started receiv­ ing the LOG in 1948. Now I am about to retire after some 34 years at sea—with all ratings from wiper to first assistant. I'll have a hard time adjusting to the quiet routine of retirement no doubt, but I am assured that the LOG will keep me alert and svmpathetic with the problems of my shipmates everywhere. C. H. Sparks Seafarer and Wife Thank Welfare Plan To the Editor: My husband and I wish to thank the SIU Welfare Plan for the fast and efficient way in which our claims were handled. Our bills were paid in less than a week. We are very grateful that the Welfare Plan took such good care of us in our time of need. Mrs. Jose Garcia Union Loyalty Helps During Bereavement To the Editor: I received a letter from the Union along with a check for $4,000 upon the death of my husband. Many thanks from the bottom of my heart for the warm sentiments, loyalty and under­ standing that the letter expressed. It is deeply appreciated. My heart is very heavy but with the backing of the fine or­ ganization that the SIU is I gain additional strength with which to go on. I extend my sincere thanks and may the Lord bless each and every Seafarer. Mrs. Kathleen Herzich �May 27, 1966 SEAFARERS ARRIVALS Gerard Cifarelli, born March 6, 1966, to the Angelp Cifarellis, San Pablo, Calif. Elizabeth Simpson, born Febru­ ary 24, 1966, to the Robert A. Simpsons, 8 Mile, Ala. Beth Luanne Lupton, born April 18, 1966, to the Christo­ pher Luptons, New Bern, N. C. Sandra Lynn Thayer, born March 4, 1966, to the Donald Thayers, Chicago, 111. — \i> — <t> Theresa Brazden, bom April 20, 1966, to the Joseph A. Brazdens, Atlantic City, N. J. ^ Rose Vanocor, born March 18, 1966, to the Joseph Vanocors, New Orleans, La. Dawn Jourdian, born March 25, 1966, to the Ronald J. Jourdians, Baltimore, Md. Sean Michael Slmms, bom March 24, 1966, to the Herbert Simms, Baltimore, Md. —<1> Joseph Simpson, born Decem­ ber 22, 1965, to the Robert W. Simpsons, Parlin, N. J. Donna Taylor, born December 6, 1965, to the Lee Taylors, Walker, La. John Leroy Shaw, born March 14, 1966, to the John W. Shaws, Port Arthur, Tex. ^ Anna Iris Vazquez, born Octo­ ber 8, 1965, to the A. M. Vazquezs, Brooklyn, N. Y. ^ Marcia Sue Cormier, born Oc­ tober 27, 1965, to the Joseph Cor­ miers, Opelbusas, La. — — Pamela Ash, born April 5, 1966, to the John Ashs, Jackson­ ville, Fla. ^ Rosaline Dailey, born March 2, 1966, to the Ervin R. Daileys, Lake Charles, La. —T ^ — Tina Maria Daniels, born Feb­ ruary 25, 1966, to the EzekielX. Daniels, Wanchese, N. C. Jacqueline Bianchi, born July 1, 1965, to the Jerome Bianchis, Toledo, Ohio. <1> Nona Adams, born March 15, 1966, to the Earl Adams, New Orleans, La. <1> Lisa Ann Troxclair, born April 1, 1966, to the Calvin Troxclairs, New Orleans, La. Raymond Francis Whilden, born February 17, 1966, to the Kenneth Whildens, Heinslerville, N. J. William Squires, bom March 28, 1966, to the Edward Squires, Levittown, N. Y. Page Thirteen LOG Seafarers Convert Wood to Watts When Breakdown Cripples Vessel The ability of Seafarers to adjust to and make the best of adverse conditions was aptly demon­ strated during the recent run of the SlU-contracted Bowling Green. The vessel steamed out of Port­ land, Oregon, on a run to Japan; and though the trip started smoothly enough, it ended with Seafarers working around the clock to get ^ steam on three separate occasions, the limping ship into Yokohama. only to have the power fail again. The cause of all the trouble Finally, they had to throw in the was a failure which affected not towel when the vessel was about only the engine itself, but the elec­ 100 miles from Yokohama, since trical . system as well. Seafarers there was no longer any hope of found themselves chopping wood getting the vessel moving again, from 12-14 hours a day—wood to until it underwent quite a few re­ get the ship underway again, and pairs. Needless to say, the entire « wood to prepare their food on i crew was quite happy to have their makeshift stove. feet on dry land again. And though the crewmembers CARROLL VICTORY (Delta). March wouldn't pick this situation again 6—Chairman, B. D. Moyd; i^retary, a D. Moyd. Some disputed OT to be if they had the choice, according taken up with boardine: patrolman. Vote to the report of the Seafarers of thanks to the steward department. aboard, everybody pitched in and PORTMAR (Calmar), April 12—Chair­ put in long hours in an attempt to man. R. Stahl: Secretary. J. Bonds. keep the ship going. Ship's delegate reported tlial all is run­ V Steward Dept. Cited The steward department was es­ pecially cited by the crew. They rolled up their sleeves and worked up to 15 hours a day to provide hot meals for their fellow Sea­ farers. Since the ship's range was also on the blink, their stove con­ sisted of a five-gallon can covered with an iron grating from a milk crate. The galley gang spent long hours breathing in soot and smoke in order to provide hot meals for the crew. There was no heat, no lights— even drinking water was at a pre- ning smoothly with no beefs. Bosun ex­ tended a vote of thanks to the entire crew for their cooperation. Salon Messman Robert Cadaizo chops up small pieces of wood to be used in the makeshift stove on the Bowling Green dur­ ing a nine-day breakdown at sea. mium after a nine day breakdown in the Pacific. But the black gang kept trying to get the engine back in opera­ tion with the wood that the rest of the crew was cutting. They were finally able to get up a little A trip to Africa gave the Del Norte (Delta) crew a change of pace. Deck delegate Robert Calla­ han reported. Since the ship was in dry dock longer than expected, she missed her regular South Amer­ ican run. Callahan reports that the men are enjoying their shore leave and that Nicholas L. Pizzuto just joined the vessel as the new bosun, replacing Smiley Qaus- the movie camera. Carl Jordan, of all aboard and moral has been Angela Lynn McKay, born sen who signed on another ship. chief baker, and the steward de­ helped by the men receiving mail partment were extended a vote of April 16, 1966, to the Murdick The crew extends to Smiley their thanks by the crew for a job well and logs periodically. P. McKays, Alpena, Mich. thanks for a job well done. There done. were no logs or beefs. Movies It's back to the U.S.A. for the Paula Vargas, born April 14, — were enjoyed Steel Scientist (Isthmian). The 1966, to the Ramon Vargas, Meeting chairman H. L. Camp­ thanks to the ef­ Brooklyn, N. Y. vessel is heading forts of Herbie bell reports that the St. Christopher for Wilmington, ^ (St. Lawrence Mueller, Chief North CarolinaRichard . Allen Fcdem, born Carriers) stopped Engineer W. O. and then to its April 27, 1966, to the Richard in Spain on the Turner who pro­ payoff in New Federns, Tampa, Fla. way to Yokahoma vided the passen­ Orleans, La. Co­ to deliver oil to ger movie projec­ ordination is the the U.S. base at Pamela Moon, born April 1, tor and Maurice by-word accord­ Rota. A number 1966, to the William D. Moons, Kramer, carpen­ Mueller ing to A. Malof new crewmen Erie, Pa. ter, who operated Maldonado donado who says weer taken on at It s a great bunch Norfolk. Meeting Hodges of Seafarers to be with. "Let's secretary J. L. get these repair lists in early" Hodges reported that two men says ship's delegate W. Griggers. Headquarters is holding checks for the following Seafarers, for were taken ill and had to be re­ Brother Griggers went on to ex­ unclaimed wages transportation, disputed overtime and lodgings. placed. plain that early repair lists will Anyone listed below is asked to contact headquarters in New York. — — result In prompt action being Seatrain Savannah—unclaimed wages—-Hugh Wells. The Brothers are planning to get taken. It was another long voy­ Natalie—one day's wages—Jam^ N. Boone, Jose OrtigueiTa, up the awning for the fantail to age with no beefs. Frank G. Valerie. help beat the heat Sapphire Sandy—^uneamed wages-^Uvo D. Safelli. of the Persian Hercules Victory—rdisputed overtime—Edward Jensen, Robert Henry Buckner, ship's delegate Gulf reports Wil­ Smith. on the Portmar (Calmar Steam­ liam C. Sink, Penn Carrier^disputed overtime—Earl Beamer. ship Co.) reports meeting secretary Transwestem—disputed overtime—^Calvin Smith, Daniel Mc­ the Bosun gave a aboard the LongLaren, Clyde Greeson. vote of thanks to view Victory (VicNiagara—disputed overtime—Richard Heckman, Francis M. the whole crew, tory Carriers). Greenwell. saying it was the Steward depart­ Valiant Hope—transportation—Thomas E. Hanson, Dondd most cooperative ment delegate Kershaw, James P. O'Mara. Collins bunch he's ever Frank Collins re­ Azalea City—transportation—Jose Ross. sailed with. To ported that things were going well Niagara—lodging—Warren Weiss. cut down on in his department. Repairs will be Seatrain New York—disputed lodging allowance—^James Gleabreakdowns and done to the vessel as the trip to son, Fred Patereon, Earl Resmondo. Buckner repairs, a list of Pusan and Inchon, Korea, by way Kent—Clyde D. Berry, Joseph L. Chapean, Cyril Gauthier, Aldo instructions was posted over the of Yokohama progresses. There .X Hassein. ' ' was a vote of thanks from the washing machine and dryer. Sea Pioneer—lodging—Verdon Nash, Edward KUligrew, George crew for ship's delegate, Henry Everything is running smoothly, McKenna, Gene Berger, Constantino Rug|^ero, Leamardo RugSieber, for doing such a good job. and there were no beefs as the gero, John p. Pennell, Audrey Parsons, Andrew Lewis, Willlani The long trip has gone smoothly ship is headed for a payoff in Langford. because of the good cooperation Baltimore. STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian). May 5 —Chairman, Joe Brown; Secretary, Tony Caspar. One cre-wmember missed ship in New York. Beef regarding draws in foreign ports. $11.86 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department for the good feeding and service. TAMARA GUILDEN (Transport Conamercial), April 26—Chairman, Joseph Warfield: Secretary. Calvin Hirsch. $9.05 in ship's fund. $254.00 in movie fund. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Discussion on preparation of food. Discussion about movies. PENN EXPORTER (Penn Shipping), April 17—Chairman. Durrdl McCtnrvey; Secretary, Z. A. Markris. Few hours dis­ puted OT in engine department, otherwise everything is running smoothly. Motion made that Union see if they can gat a retirement plan worked out so that a man can retire at any age if he has enough sea time, and to set a sea time. Motion made to see if Union can make arrange­ ments for a crewmember to pay assess­ ments in two payments instead of ha-ving to pay it at the start of the year with dues and all at one time. Brother O. A. Hess was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. Crew extend thanks to SXU for getting awning put on aft of ship. A great big vote of thanks to a good steward department for a fine job. <I> ^1> <I> <I> MONEY DUE <1> DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS ST. CHRISTOPHER (St. Lawrence Carriers). March 17—Chairman, Howard L. Campbell; Secretary. J. L. Hodges. Motion made to write headquarters regarding articles on this vessel. Day men required on tankers of this size. Discus­ sion regarding the necessity of ventila­ tors or fans for the men working in tanks. DEL NORTE (Delta), May 1—Chair­ man, Kobert Callahan ; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Department delegates reported that this was a, very good trip all around. No beefs and no disputed OT. Everyone getting along and cooperating with each other. $153.95 in ship's fund and $192.00 in movie fund. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. TRANSORLEANS (Hudson Waterways). May 8—Chairman, David P. M. Sykes: Secretary, Charles Hurlburt, Two men missed ship in Okinawa and one man was talcen off the ship in Singapore. Some disputed OT in engine department. The bosun extended a vote of thanks to the deck department for doing such a good job with the tanks, and for theirC: work in general. Patrolman to be con­ tacted regarding food. \ : RENN CHALLENGER (Penn Ship­ ping), April 26—Chairman, D. E. Nelson ; Secretary, E. J. Riviere. $15.58 in ship's fund. Brother A. Elliott was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. TBANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterwavs), May; 4—Chairman, Andrew Pickur; Sec­ retary, C. L. White. No beefs reported by department delegates. Ship is not re­ ceiving LOGS and mail. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), April 24—Chairman. Arthur Turner; Swretary, Chester Coumas. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Overseas). April 24—Chairman. Ted Toren. tino: Secretary. F. Hall. No beefs rerjorted by department delegates. Brother B. C. Jones was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion, held oh various ./matters. •• 1• t I.: i: •i" y m �Page Fonrteen SEAFARERS Mar 27, 1966 LOG UNBAIK TO LABOR FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safegruardinR the membership's money and Union finances. The c«->nstitution requires a detailed CPA audit every thr^ 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 shali 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 RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Elarl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or nnember. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union tells. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righu of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feels that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. DEL SANTOS (Delta), April 8— Chairman, W. Meehan; Secretary, M. Perry. Brother Bill Meehan was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks extended to the steward depar^ ment for the good feeding and extra sweets during coffee breaks. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New York .June 6—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia June 7—^2:30 p.m. Baltimore ..June 8—2:30p.m. Detroit June 10—2:30 p.m. Houston .. .June 13—^2:30 p.m. New Orleans June 14—2:30 p.m. Mobile June 15—2:30 p.m. Wilmington June 20—2 p.m. San Francisco June 22—2 p.m. Seattle June 24—2 p.m. * ~ Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit June 6—2 p.m. Alpena June 6—7 p.m. Buffalo June 6—7 p.m. Chicago June 6—7 p.m. Cleveland .. .June 6—7 p.m. Duluth June 6—7 p.m. Frankfurt June 6—7 p.m. • Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Detroit .... June 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .June 13—7:30 p.m. Chicago .. .June 14—7:30p.m. tSault Ste. Marie June 14—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo ... .June 15—^7:30 p.m. Duluth June 17—7:30 p.m. Oeveland .. June 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo June 17—7:30 p.m SIU Inland Boatmen's Union Philadelphia ..June 7—5p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) . .June 8—5 p.m. Norfolk June 9—5 p.m. Houston June 13—5 p.m. New Orleans . .June 14—5 p.m. Mobile June 15—5 p.m. Railway Marine Region -•j Jersey City June 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Philadelphia June 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Balthmm June 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. *Norfolk June 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New York June 6—7 p.m. Phfladelphla ...June 7—^7p.m. • JOHN B. WATERMAN (Waterman). April 3—Chairman, J. I. Hacker; Se/^ retary, W. El Morse. Ship's delegate re­ ported that everything is running smoothly. Discussion on repairs. Baltimore June 8—7 p.m. ^Houston June 13—7 p.m. New Orleans . .June 14—7 p.m. Mobile June 15—7 p.m. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, NCTVport News. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. PENN CARRIER (Penn Shipping, March 20—Chairman, E, M. ESHs; Sec­ retary, T. J. Schulta. Everything running smoothly. Some disputed 07 to be taken op with patrolman. Discussion held on repairs. MATAGUEIZ (Sea-Land), April 17-:.Chairman, L. B. Moore; Secretary, El J. Misakian. Some disputed OT in deck de­ partment. Brother Misakian was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. DIAMOND ALKAti (Bolaiid & Comdlius), April 16—Chairman, Jesse R. Baste; Secretary, Gay Bnrke. $4.00 in ship's fund. Crewmembers will donate 50p each to build up ship's fund. BrotheiJiUttrel Zender was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Everything is running smoothly. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindsey Williams Robert MaHhews SECRETARY-TREASURER Al K«rr HEADQUARTERS ALPENA, Mich BALTIMORE, MD BOSTON, Mass BUFFALO, N.Y CHICAGO, III CLEVELAND, Ohio 675 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-6600 127 River St. EL 4-3616 1216 E. Baltimore St. EA 7-4900 177 State St. Rl 2-0140 735 Washingiton St. TL 3-9259 93B3 Ewing Ave. SA 1-0733 i420 W. 25th St. MA 1-5450 DEL NORTE (Delta), April 10—Chairman. Robert Callahan; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Ship's delegate resigned while in Kew Orleans. Brother Henry B. Don­ nelly was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. $131.04 in ship's fundWd $13.50 In movie fund. No berfs reported by departn^t delegates. NORINA (Wall Street Traders), April t7—-Chairman, Charlea P. Moore; Scoretary. None. $11.00 in ship's fund. Mo­ tion made that all major repairs be completed or agreed upon, prior to sign'pn. Motion made to have food plan repfescntative and patrolman attend special meeting at payoff, , DIGEST of SIU MEETINGS f? DEL MAR (Delta)/ April 28~Gh8iri hian, Peter Blaleck; Secretary, Joseph 1 Whiten, Jr. Brothet Joseph Whalen, Jr. •' resigned as ship's delegate and extended 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 la vote of thanks to the crew for making P.O. Box 287 ; his job easy. Brother Peter Gonzales was r elected to serve.as ship's delegate. Crew 415 Main St. extended a vote of thanks to resigning EL 7-2441 ship's delegate. DETROIT, Mich. .. 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canai St. WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. Fla 2608 Pearl St. EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J 99 Montgomery St. HE 3-0104 MOBILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La 630 Jackson Ave. Tel. 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. Tel. 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2604 S. 4th St. DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R. ...1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 723-8594 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. ...505 N. Marine Ave. TE 4-2523 DEL MUNDO (Delta), April 10—Chair. man, Michael Toth; ^retary, W. K.' jSutherlin. Thia vessel wma the Ijafety .;,Awjyt;d last trip and a $100,00 prize given to the crew. This voyage could be an1 other winner. $29.87 is still in the ship's fund and will be used to buy reading materia!. OT beef in. engine department to be taken Up with boarding pBtroliaan. /Vote of thanks to the steward for the weii planned and balanced menus, and to; the galley force for the way feon was prepared and served throughout the whole voyage. Steward department is well Or''ganized-'^' GLOBE EXPLORER (Sea Liberties), April 24—Chairman, O. G. Collins; Sec­ retary, O. G. Collins. No beefs reported b.v department delegates. COTTONWOOD CREEK (Bulk Trans­ port), April 10—Chairman, 0. Jones; Sec­ retary, A. H. BJanchctt. Ship's delegate rei>orl;^ that everything is in order. No beefs reported by department delegates. ANNISTON VICTORY (Waterman), April 10-—Chairman, Patrick Fox; Sec­ retary, Charles J. Mitchell. Some dis­ puted OT in deck department. Minor beefs to be brought up with boarding patrolman. $7.00 in - ship's fund Some disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Vote of thanks to the steward and his entire department for a job well done; The steward extended a vote of thanks to the bosun and his department for d^ ing such a wonderful job painting mid­ ship inside. JOHN P. RB1S8 (Reiss), April 1'8— pbairman James W. Lafevre; Secretary, Wayne B. Guarino. $6.48 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. KENT (Corsair Transportation); Ajn-ll 3—Chairman, William H. Field; Secre­ tory, John W. Parker, Jr. Brother Rudy P. Deboissiere was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs reported by de­ partment delegates. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), April 17—Chairman, Clarence Oliver; Secretary. George Anderson. No teefs reported by department delegates. Brother Roque Asencio was elected to: serve as ship's delegate. (^EAN ULLA (Maritime Overseas)/ April 24-;^hairmBn, J. Kuchto; Secre­ tary. J._ McDonald. Ship's delegate re­ ported that there were minor beefs, noth­ ing serious. JOHN e. WATERMAN (Waterman). May 2—Chairman J. Hacker; Secretary. W. EL Morse. Everything is running smoothly except for some disputed OT in engine department. Chief mate to be contacted regarding wind'shoots. CANTIGNV (Cities Service), April If —Chairman, William Morris; Secretary, Larry (Istrott. Ftew hours disputed OT in ' engine department. Crew would like more of a variety of breakfast and night lunehi. -VENN CARRIER (Penn), April 10Chairman, D. Nagy; Secretary, Ted Sehultz. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. Brother Earl E. Mcsaros WM elected to serve as ship's delegate; Ship's fund given to new ship's delegate for use as he sees fit. Discussion and clarification wanted regarding "when tanker is on grain, docs the FWT on ; watch get cargo or port time?" . ^GATEWAY CITV (Sea-Land), May I— Chairman, J. Rlvadulla; Secretaiy, Ray­ mond W. Blethen. Ship's delegate will chMk with patrolman about promlacd re•pairs while in shipyard, ANTINOUS JWatermatt), April 24— Chairman, H. Ibomas; Secretory, P. S. Holt. Brother John Der elected new ship's delegate. No beefs nmorted by depart­ ment delegates. Seventy-five cents in ship's fund. ,^TEEL WORKER (Isthmian), May I— Chairman, E W. Bent; Secretary, C. A. Bortz. $18.00 In ship's fund. Motion made to have all men signing on hew ; voyage to have up-to-date clinic card orR proof of physical • examination wilhini past year. Brother Jon Gallagher was# elected to serve as new ship's del^ate. DEL RIO (Delta). April 24—Chairmah.! G,: I^: S^^retery, P. Plasdk. $14.00 inf ship's fund. No beefs Reported by deV partment delegates. Beefs of last trip settled. Discussion on/ways to keep the natives out of the crew's living quarters, also to keep: the natives from using the crew's cups and drinking glasses. /:/!, MTV VERNON VICTORY (Victory Tiers), April 14—Chairman, Morris: Sec­ retary, Fiersoji. Motion made "to hdve SIU OUR LADYROE PEACE (Wihchesb^ representative in Far East to handle . May 6—Chairman, Bill Doran ; Secretory, beefs. Majority of crewmembers are dis­ Prank Slvvia. Water beef in each depart^ satisfied with the way the cajitain is run­ ment. Headquarters: to be: notified.about: ning : ship. Ship's Relegate' tol contact restriction to the sMSp beef. U.S. Consui at Singapore for Intenprei :fation a;f, ship's articles/ Three men paid CHATHAM (Waterman), May 1— off iby mutual consent. Five-men paid Chairman, Roy Guild Secretary, :T.RA.? :off and; hospitalized. Bosun failed to join , Jackson. No b^s: reported by depart­ /shiji: in Japan. Some jobs were replaced ment delegates.:. Brother. Roy :6Wld Wn by U.S. citizens and; non-cit|z«ins. elected to serve as ship's d$les(ate. , • 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.) "Lee" brand tires (United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum & Plastic Workers) vt. H. I. Siege! "HIS" brand men's clothes (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) Sears, Roebuck Company Retail stores & products (Retail Clerks) Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) J. R. Simplot Potato Co. Frozen potato products (Grain Millers) Kingi^rt Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Jamestown Sterling Corp. Southern Furniture Mfg. Co. Furniture and Bedding (United Furniture Workers) Empire State Bedding Co. "Sealy Mattresses" (Textile Workers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) — 4,— Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Tyson's Poultry, Inc. Rock Cornish Tyson's Pride Manor House-Safeway Cornish Game-Armour and A & P's SuperRight Cornish Game Hen (Food Handlers Local 425 of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen of N. America) Di Giorgio Fruit Corp. S and W Fine Foods Treesweet (National Farm Workers Association) •4 1 •^1 �THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR Union hiring hall was crux of bloody 1934 strika of West Coast saamen and longshoremen. Beef paved way for birth of SlU of North America. ' Attempt of tfriking sfaalworkers and their families fa picket Republic plant in Chicago after 1936 Memorial Day picnic ended in massacre by police. . " ;T/- ' ' » g ffjg nation began the long and difficidt climb out of the depths of the great dcr I pression, the American labor movement ^developed a renewed militancy. At the same ftime employers all across the nation stiffened ^their opposition to organized labor's march. IManagement and labor engaged in savage: % struggles. One of these was the waterfront strike of 1934 on the West Coast, which re­ sulted in a general strike of both maritime and shoreside workers that tied up virtually all tPacific Coast shipping despite vigorous scabh bing attempts by both shipping and stevedoring i companies. The basic issue was the union hir­ ing hall, which the seamen—led by Sailor's Union of the Pacific—were determined to get ^ito end the abuses of the employer-controlled •"system. The strike continued for three months, ^during which time troops were called in to in$Aimidate and terrorize the strikers and to proscabs. Several strikers were killed and ¥~scores wounded in. clashes with soldiers and 0 police. The strikers held firmly to their de1 i mands, however, and eventually achieved their hi,objectives. The strike victory ultimately led to Uihe institution of the union hiring hall, which. " J,7or seamen, represents one of the great union ^achievements in the struggle for job security. Ijt was during this time of increased mili­ tancy that organized labor began to turn um more and more attention toward organ­ izing the great numbers of unorganized inSdustrial workers employed by some of the na-> Ition's biggest and most violently anti-labor cor® porations. Under the umbrella of the Wagner 1Act, which outlawed "yellow dog" contracts, bompany unions, discrimination against union members and refusals by employers to nego-^ tiate with a union, a Committee for Industrial Organization was formed within the AFL to : spur the organization of mass-production workers in the steel, radio, automobile, gargl ment, rubber, textile and other giant indusj 'r ' A split developed, however, between the ten r, p AFL unions comprising the Committee for Int • ' dustrial Organization and the rest of the Fed^ aratipn over the old question of craft versus industrial unionization. Despite many attempts at conciliation, the split grew continually wider until in 1937, the Committee unions broke with the AFL and shortly thereafter became the fel»rma^|rt h^ustrial Origtm tionsv ? The first mass-production mdustry to «„i^e CIO turned its attention wasi steel. In a h short tunie^r 100,000 steel workers were h-' r the union felt strong enough to demand recog-t4;^|| nition from General Motors. The company re-;! fused however, in defiance of the Wagner Act,S^ and in January 1937, under strong rank an<U file pressure, tlte union struck General Motors signed up. A showdown was expected with United States Steel, then the nation's biggest corporation, with a history of violent opposi­ tion to labor. The expected showdown never materialized, however, to the great surprise of the nation and to the great anger of "Little Steel" the smaller steel corporations. U.S. Steel entered negotiations with the union and mu­ tually acceptable agreements were soon signed with the steel giant and its numerous sibsidiaries. "Little Steel" did not follow the lead, however. Bethlehem, Republic, Inland, and Youngstown refused to negotiate with the union. strike followed, wWch was punctuated by one of the worst acts of company vio­ lence in the history of Ahierican labors-the "Memorial Day Massacre." Little Steel's resistance was led by Republic Steel. On May 30, 1937 a picnic and rally was being held by striking workers and their families not far from the Republic plant in South Chicago. As the strikers and their families strolled toward the plant gates to picket they were suddenly at­ tacked by police and special deputies under the direction of the company's management. A volley of shots and tear gas bombs was fol­ lowed by a club swinging charge. Men, women and children~Were bludgeoned indiscriminately. Ten strikers were shot dead—seven in the back ——and 80 were wounded. The violence suc­ ceeded in breaking the. strike and the CIO had suffered its first defeat. The organization of in­ dustrial workers was still largely a wide open area, however, and simultaneously with the or­ ganization of steel the CIO turned its attention to the huge automobile industry. 4* Organization of the automobile industry was a particularly tough nut to crack. Controlled by three vastly rich and violently anti-union giants—General Motors, Chrysler and Ford— the work force was mostly unskilled and eas­ ily replaced. The workers' need for organiza-^ tion was great. Although the industry contin­ ually went all out in publicizing the high hourly wage of its employees, no mention was made of the long seasonal layoffs whidh reduced yearly salary to extremely low levels, or the practice of the speed-up of assembly lines which placed the workers under unbearable tension which could make a man old and unable to work in just a few short years. The automobile companies had an effective labor spy system and active goon squads which '41. •m were used to hamper organizing attempts. In spite of this, the United Automobile Work­ ers signed up members gradually until, in 1936^ special kind of strike technique was lized—the Sit Down Strike. Instead of; leaving the company plants, the workera . sat down at their workbenches and refused to leave or allow scabs to enter. Company po-;:|| lice and goon squads attacked the plants but^l retreated before volleys of nuts and bolts, cof|j fee mu^, lunch pails and high pressmre stream^ of water from fire hoses. As the police rani] for cover, the action became known as the "Battle of the Running Bulls." The company then demanded that the Govempr mobilize the state militia to take over the plant, but >• -A'-Governor Frank Murphy refused to call out ^ the troops for fear of touching off great bloodshed. Faced with a stalemate at the idle plantsand under increasing pressure to obey the law and recognize the union. General Motors fi-« nally gave in. Later a short sit down strike^ j brought recognition for the union from Chrys-^; ler. These were great victories for labor, but the battle was not really wpn until three year^ later, in 1941, when Ford was finally organ-^^^ , ized after a long and violent struggle. A A -•4^4 During its brief reign, the sit down strike proved to be a valuable weapon on the side of labor. Before industrialists mana^d to push • ' through legislation outlawing the sit down 4 strike, it proved effective in speeding organ-t •:A ization in the rubber, textile, ^ass and many other mass production industries. During this ® I^riod Goodyear, Goodrich, Firestone and i United States Rubber came under union con- , tract. Large and small textile plants were or­ ganized—many in the strongly anti-union S South. Many mass production and service ih-^ ?dustry workers were organized for the first time. The organizing battles between manage- 4 4 > ment and labor raged fiercely across the na-| tion during the late 1930's and early 1940's.; 4! But union membership was increasing undet^ both the banner of the AFL and of the CIO; In 1937 the AFL unions had a membership of 2.5 million. By 1941 the AFL unions' mem­ bership ^d risen to 4.5 million workers. In the same period the CIO unions increased their membership from 1.5 million to 2.^ million. Meanwhile, in September 1939, Nazi Geir-t many had begun its war to destroy democracji and enslave ,1* /i 11; . /' �TO THE U.S. CONGRESS The Seafarers International Union, along with all other AFL-CIO maritime unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, the AFLCIO Metal Trades Department and the AFL-CIO Maritime Committee are opposed to the inclusion of the Maritime Administration in the single Depart­ ment of Transportation recently proposed by Presi­ dent Jt^nson. Instead they are urging that the Mari­ time Administration be removed from its present position within the Department of Commerce and re-established as an independent and autonomous agency. Testimony in support of the unions' posi­ tion was presented last week by SW President Paul Hall before separate hearings conducted by the sub­ committees of the Senate and House Committees on Government Operations. Testimony in support of an independent maritime agency was also recom­ mended to the Home Subcommittee by Andrew Bierniller. Director of the AFL-CIO Legislative Depart­ ment. The following is from the text of the testimony: IHIS has been true whenevw maritime affairs have been in the hands of the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the De­ partment of State or other Federal Departments and agencies. It is true in the present instance, in which the Maritime Administration occupies a subordinate position within the Department of Commerce, and there is every reason to believe it would be true in the Department of Transportation, particularly since the role of the Maritime Administration is not clearly defined, nor are the lines of responsibility clearly drawn. In light of this we feel very strongly that maritime would be completely swallowed up within the mam­ moth, complex structure of the proposed department, that maritime concerns would be shunted aside or pigeonholed in a bureaucratic web, and that no proper representation would be given to maritime's interests which in many respects are far different from those of other forms of transportation. The merchant marine. It mu^ always be remem­ bered, differs from other modes of transportationITH respect to the Department of Transporta­ •? except possibly the airlines—^n that its operations are tion, I shall not attempt here to discuss all of international in scope. In a sense, it is a political the proposals made by the President in the instrument, as well as an economic instrument and Transportation Message which he sent to the Con­ an instrument of our national defense, and each of gress last March 2nd. these roles must be given its full share of considera­ Discussions of those proposals which relate to tion in the determination of maritime policy and the other modes of transportation—air, rail and highadministration of maritime affairs. way^—shall leave to the appropriate persons in those In the proposed Department of Transportation, we fields, and I shall confkie my discussion to those pro^ strongly feel, none of these roles of the merchant posals which relate directly to the maritime industry. marine would be given their full and proper con­ To begin with, I might note that the President's sideration, and neither the best interests of the mer­ Transportation Message, while calling for the in­ chant marine nor the nation would be served. clusion of the Maritime Administration in the De>r The merchant marine, we believe, would have a ;• partment of Ttansportation, and while setting forth far better chance for survival and growth if its affairs i a number of general proposals for improving water were under the jurisdiction of a Federal agency ; transportation, leaves unanswered many basic ques­ whose sole concern was maritime. tions regarding maritime's position in the proposed For this reason, we strongly expose inclusion of department. K the Maritime Administration in the Department of I might also note that the identical legislation| Transportation and urge that the Maritime Adminis­ which has been introduced in the Senate and House • tration be removed from the Department of Com­ to implement the President's recommendations—S. merce and reestablished as an entirely independent 3010 by Senator Magnuson and H.R. 13200 by Con­ apd autonomous agency. And in this position, J gressman Holifield—-similarly leave unanswered the m^t note, we are not only being supported by other same basic questions. Af i,-CIu transportation unions, but by the entire Neither the Transportation Message, in fact, nor AFL-CIO which endorsed the concept of an inde­ the legislation which is now being considered by this pendent Maritime Administration in Resolution No. committee, is specific about maritime's position in 217 imanimously adopted at the AFL-CIO conven­ the new department, about the functions and duties tion in San Francisco in December of last year, and of the Maritime Administration within the depart­ appended ^ Exhibit No. 2. ment, or about what future Federal maritime policy Our reasons for favoring an independent and will be^—a matter with which maritime labor is ex­ autonomous Maritime Administration are as follows: tremely concerned. L The Maritime Administration now has no inde­ In fact, if one studies the proposed structure of pendent power and must compete with other prothe Department of Transportation, as reported by* : grams administered by the Department of Comthe Congressional Quarterly of March 25, 1966, and inerve. TTros, the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 appended here as tixhibit No. 1, one will note that has not been properly administered and the In­ all we really have here is a brief sketch of a new and evitable result has be^ the decline of the Amerl- v mammoth Federal department within which the can merchant marine. Puttifig Marad in a present Maritime Administration could very easily partment of Transportation would, not alter this become lost in a bureaucratic maze. situation. The chart indicates, for example, that the pro­ 2, The creation of an independent agency to ad­ posed department will have a Secretary, an Urider^ minister this country's Maritime laws would focus secretary, four Assistant Secretaries (one of whom grtater attention on our decaying fleet, and the will be an Assistant Secretary for Administration) ultimate objective of revitalizing the industry and and a General Counsel. But the functions of these enabling the United States to meet its foreign officers are not ddineatcd, nor are the lines of comcommerce needs and defense ccmfnituJcQts pur­ muiiication and responsibility between them and, suant to the policy set frwrth in the Merchant maritime clearly drawn. : Marine Act of 1936. What, ip other words, is the channel of communi­ 3i The present structure of the agency constitutes cation between maritime, at the bottom of this struc­ - an inconsistency in government organization ture, and the Assistant , Secretaries, Undersecretary, since, whereas tiie Federal Aviation Act of 1958 Secretary, and finally the President himselfj at the created the Federal Aviation Agency, thus giving top? Neither the chart, the Transportation Message Independent statte to .aviation, t.he promotional V-:- hqr the proposed legislation makes this clear, . sctiyities of the tuet^anL^ well as ad­ Nor do either the Transportation Message Oic prpi ministration of the .s«b,sidy progfaffi-^tVere boried ;Jpbsed make clear a auittber of other matwithin the Departnieht of CcpimVce by Reteis,^ T^ President stated in his Transportatiioa qiganization Plan No^ 7 of 1961. Afeo;, subsidy Sfessage that ffie proposed depailinent^ ?^^ frnctions of the Civil Aerohadtics Bo brace the Maritime Administration, but there is no to be mctodi^ itt the new tJepartment flear indicauti or the legislaportatioh but ffie maritime sybsidy^^fe^ liptt as to libw the Maritime Adraihistratibh wtil be; ! be included. • ^ constituted, vriiat policies it will prtstnote;^ OT 4. The Merchant Marine Act of 1936 provided for much independence it will have in the promotion of a five-man Independent Maritime Commission, to these,|tolicies;.':^ . be appbifited by the President witfr the consenfttf regard to policy, all of our past the Senate. The Cc«n^ functioned ifideexperience has taught us that whenever iurisdicti^ •;;;pen<}etttly,and;, conducted; o survey over maritime affairs has been delegated to Federal f in a lonj^ of sKipfeHilding di^igngd^^ departments or agencies whose primary concern has {to prijvide sbmie 500 nev' i^ips oven^ not been the inarine, the irierchatit marine period. It was during this time that the "C type has suffered, and vrith it the should be vessel was designed for and the beneficiaiy of the contributions which the mer­ the passenger liner S,S« America wgs huift. Qufchant marine can make to its commerce and security, . ing the CfommiSsioi^s^j^^^ between 1936 and 1950, an unprecedented stnaigthieitii^ of our merchant marine took place. 5. The Maritime Subsidy Board cannot now func­ tion independently as intended by tins Act of 1936 since its decisions are subject to review and veto by the Secretary of Commerce. An independent maritime agency, with a stronger and more inde­ pendent Maritime Subsidy Board, would serve to cure these ills. We are aware, of course, that some 11 different bills have already been introduced to make the Mari­ time Administration an independent agency, but while we favor the intent of these bills, we do not feel that any of them would provide us with the type of independent Maritime Administration we really need. This is particularly true because none of the bills separate the quasi-judicial subsidy functions of the Maritime Administration from purely promotionat and administrative functions and it is our strong feeling that the interests of the maritime in­ dustry would best be served by giving independence to the Maritime Subsidy Board. The value of separating subsidy functions from other functions has already been recognized in other areas—as in the case of the CAB which we have just cited—and it is our strong feeling that sulsidy dei terminations are so important to the maritime indus­ try that those charged with the responsibility for these determinations should be absolutely free to reach their decisions on the basis of the merits of the case, without regard to other considerations and without the overriding of their decisions by some other per­ son who may be influenced by other considerations. F r* HI • OR this reason, we have drafted our own pro­ posed legislation calling for the estabiishment of an independent Federal Maritime Agency,' and a copy of this proposed bill is appended as Exhibit :.v:: No. 3. • The manner in which our proposed bill would alter existing legislation is shown in Exhibit No. 4; As can be seen from a study of these two exhibits, our propc^d bill would not only establish an inde­ pendent and autonomous Federal Maritime Agency, but within that agency the Maritime Study Board would be a relatively independent body composed of the Maritime Administrator and two other members appointed by the President with the advice and con­ sent of the Senate. The Board would have complete and final author­ ity to pass upon all matters related tn construction and operating subsidies, and the affirmative votes of any two members of the Board would be sufficient for the disposition of any matter which comes before it. No single Board member, including the Maritime Administrator, in other words, would have the power to override the decisions of the other two Board members nor would any other official. ^ The Maritime Administrator would also be ap­ pointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate and he would be appointed with due regard for his.fltness for the efficient discharge of the powers and duties vested in and imposed upon by the bill. Previous employment by or previous pecu­ niary interest in any business or union associated with the inaritime industry would not constitute a bar to appointment as Administrator. A Deputy Maritime Administrator, appointed by the Administratcwr under the classified civil service, is also jprovided for by bur bill. The Deputy Administra;tor would at no time sit as a member or acting member of the Maritime Subsidy Board. Thus, oUf bili would solve four of the most press­ ing prqblems now confronting the present Maritime Aditiihistratidn within the Department of Commerce: 1. It woul^establish a eompktely ihdraendent and autpnomous Federal Maritime Administration. 2 It would establish a strong add independa^ Subsidy Board within the Maritime Ad^ liainistratibn, whose rulings wbuld not be subject veto by another agency or hi^er official, v { 3. By estaWishing such a Maritime Subsidy^ Boards it would separate within the Maritlrne Administraticwi quasi-judicial subsidy matters from purely; adminis­ trative and prorrtotional matters. Yet, a cfose liaison between the two functions would be maintained be­ cause the Maritime Administratba Would be ChaiN man of the Board. 4. It would provide for the appointment bf a strong Maritime Administrator who could devote a, good portion of his , time to promoting the merchant milrine {Pmyiotfr^^p^^ mana;^an^ bar to his appointment as Adminislratbr, and such experience could be considered as an asSet. '-'pa i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource May 27, 1966 Description An account of the resource Headlines: 1966 SEAFARERS SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS GOVERNMENT AGENCY RESCINDS ORDER TO SHUT DOWN TWO PHS HOSPITALS STIFFER FIRE, SAFETY RULES PROPOSED BY WORLD SHIP UNIT AFL-CIO MARINE UNIONS STRESS NEED FOR INDEPENDENT MARITIME AGENCY LEGISLATION SOUGHT TO BREAK UP FLA. SCAB-HERDER’S FINANCIAL EMPIRE DEFENSE DEPT. LIED ABOUT SHIPS IN NORTH VIET TRADE, HOUSE TOLD SIU OLDTIMER REMEMBERS OLD DAYS WHEN CHARLESTON WAS LEADING PORT SEAFARERS CONVERT WOOD TO WATTS WHEN BREAKDOWN CRIPPLES VESSEL THE STORY OF AMERICAN LABOR – ALL THIS HAPPENED: PART 8 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 05/27/1966 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. 11 1966 Periodicals Seafarers Log