http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/c7a44767f87fde85941b34f1842cedd4.PDF 828deea26e3d0781a1bf71211eea699f PDF Text Text Vol. XXiX No. 24 SEAFARERS UMS Novombor 24, 1967 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ' •%• .;;^y v-" * V', ' w" ^' '-'' i ry: -' • J .'• ' '.• •, . •:** V f.t, '.h ,- -. -. • • ,'". -,• , .'V -'f* I. ^ ' . -. . -'• "•* .•; • - (••. -r • ;::j^ - " <s\ I'.C V . K '• • -^r" .,.;* /./ - - •• 1^" •, -1 .•}•* \ "k •• 1*1 vi;.>» ^'ri. \-k>, >• TUif.r' • ^>l^/ P-'f* L.-i" 3i^ :.^'V'':». i;","V>rvtX"3v,^v, ;--•. - \XKf{ �Pmge Two Soviet Union Widening Gap Over U.S. in Fleet Capabilities,MARAD Reports WASHINGTON—The rapid rate at which the Soviet Union is outdistancing the United States in maritime capability was brought into grim new focus last week with the release of an official report by the U.S. Maritime Administration. Not only have the Soviets' ucts—among the few items it has Also, Russia's modem fishing "become a major maritime for export—to the West. The fleet, while not considered in the power in less than a decade" by growth of its tanker fleet enabled context of the study as part of doubling their merchant fleet to the Soviet to increase such ship­ 9.6 million deadweight tons in just the merchant marine, can be five years, the report said, but a switched over to a fleet of mine­ ments in its own tankers from continued annual growth of one sweepers and is now doing service 2.8 million tons in 1955 to 27 million tons is anticipated until as observation posts outside the million tons in 1965. Foreign ex­ 1970. By comparison, this coun­ territorial waters of non-Com­ change earned from this increase try added a mere 166,000 tons munist nations. is paying for scientific, industrial to its fleet last year and it is ex­ and agricultural supplies and As a state-owned enterprise, pected that this year's figure may the Soviet merchant fleet can be equipment which Russia buys be less. used as a political instrument for from the West. While many officials in the economic purposes and an eco­ The MARAD study noted two U.S. Administration have tended nomic instrument for political other considerations which have to play down Russia's seagoing purposes, the MARAD report been taken into account by the expansion and continue to regis­ declared. Thus, Russian shipping Russians. First, domestic trans­ ter relative unconcern over the authorities could lower their port is necessary to serve a grow­ poor condition of the American freight rates in any trade at any ing national economy. Secondly, fleet, the MARAD report sharply time they choose for either of political and economic considera­ emphasizes the widening gap be­ these purposes. tween the two countries. tions require sea transport service to other developing nations and Advances In Technology Carry Ifalf of Commerce to Cuba, North Vietnam and It is made clear that Soviet While chartering some of their advances have not been in ton­ merchant ships out to acquire North Korea — particularly for the carriage of crude oil and pe­ nage alone but also in foreign foreign exchange, the Russians commerce, technology and versa­ troleum products. carry about half of all their for­ tility. A few days prior to the release eign trade in Soviet-flag ships as For example, her merchant well. (Only 7.3 of this country's of the MARAD report, Edwin M. marine—more than half of which foreign trade is carried in U.S.- Hood, president of the Shipbuild­ is less than five years old, while ers Council of America, had flag ships.) 80 percent of the U.S. fleet is called the Soviet Union's expand­ In its spectacular growth from over 20 years old—is easily 1960 to 1965, the MARAD sur­ ing seapower even more of a adaptable as a naval auxiliary. vey said, Russia added a variety threat to the security of the U.S. The new passenger ships are readily convertible to troop trans­ of tankers, freighters and passen­ than Russia's ICBMs and its frac­ ports and the large number of ger ships to raise its fleet from tional orbital bomb being devel­ timber carriers can be quickly 13th to seventh among the ship­ oped. converted to missile carriers. ping nations of the world. (It is Speaking to the Progressive now said to be fifth, one ahead of Club of the Newport Shipbuilding the United States.) & Dry Dock Co., here, Hood said Along with its fleet expansion, "the margin of seapower super­ the Soviet Union has given much iority which sets us apart from attention to the elimination of other nations is only slight" and bottlenecks, and the best possible even then "there is an alarming utilization of ships, by increased imbalance between the quality and port construction and improve­ effectiveness of our naval and NAHCOTTA, Wash. —Mem­ ments for the movement of cargo maritime strength." bers of the SIUNA-affiliated Shoal- and ships at home, in satellite Russia, Hood warned, "with water Bay Oyster Workers Union nations and in lesser developed a superiority of merchant ships, here have voted 56 to 14 to ac­ countries. capable of strangulating essential cept a new contract worked out As a means of entering mar­ trade routes . . . could slowly between union negotiators and em­ kets largely dominated by West­ suffocate the commerce of the ployers and have ended their 29ern producers, the report pointed free nations and thereby attain day-old strike. out, the U.S.S.R. finds it desirable their goals in a less costly, The new three-year agreement, to increase the sale and transport more humanitarian manner," than concluding the strike which began of crude oil and petroleum prod­ bombs. October 4, calls for a ten percent SIU West Coast Fishermen OK New Contract wage increase during the first year, a three-percent raise during the second year, and a guarantee of at least a three-percent wage hike during the pact's third year. Also included in the contract is a pro­ vision for an even greater wage adjustment during the third year, should the cost of living rise sharply. Receives First SfU Pension Check Another West Coast strike, in­ volving fishermen of the SIUNAaffiliated Seine and Line Fisher­ men's Union of San Pedro is still continuing with a fleet of 40 tuna boats remaining tied-up at the San Pedro docks. According 'to Steve Hoinsky, secretary-treasurer of the fisher­ men's union, the major strike issue centers around certain deductions presently made by boatowners in arriving at a fishermen's share or wages for a trip. "Our fishermen," said Hoinsky, "are simply trying. to protect what they have already earned." November 24, 1967 'SEAF'A^ERS LOG Philemon Matthys (right) receives first SIU pension check from New York Patrolman George McCartney at USPHS hospital in Staten Island, N.Y. The 60-year-old native of Belgium has been a member of the Union since 1942 and sailed as Fireman-Watertender-Oiler. Report of International President by Paul Hall Despite the doubts which many people entertained, we have been able to make 1967 a year of significant progress for the cause of the U.S. merchant, marine. Congress has already passed, and the President has signed into law, legislation overhauling the appropriations procedure for the merchant fleet. From this point onward, the House Merchant Marine Commit­ tee and the Senate Commerce Committee will have the first oppor­ tunity on Capitol Hill to review maritime budgets and to recommend maritime appropriations. The House of Representatives—by an overwhelming 326-44 margin ^has approved legislation giving the Maritime Administration back its independence. And now. Congress has begun to move on its own—without any initiative from the White House—to develop a maritime program that at long last indicates a recognition of our maritime shortcomings, and provides a basis for moving forward to regain maritime supremacy. Hearings over the next several months will develop the case for an all-out effort to strengthen American shipping and American ship­ building. They will make it plain that this country's interests on the high seas can be.st be .served only through the development of our own maritime capabilities—not through the continued use of foreign-flag ships, built abroad and crewed by citizens of other nations. The hearings which will be conducted will make it plain to all Americans that it would be intolerable to continue the past practices of heaping subsidy after subsidy on the favored few in this country— the passenger liners—to the exclusion of the other important elements of the industry like the tramps, the tankers, the fishing fleet, and our inland waterways and Great Lakes shipping. And the hearings will demonstrate that the government's increased investment in the merchant fleet will be repaid many times—in a stronger domestic economy, in a more favorable balance-of-payments position, in greater American prestige around the globe, and in an auxiliary to our armed forces that will strengthen our military pos'ure. For the past 12 months, we in the Maritime Trades Department —and those in maritime management who stood firmly with us—have referred to 1967 as the "year of decision" in merchant marine matters. It is now quite clear that the decision has been made. It has been made by the Congress—and it has been a decision that we must go forward, not backward, on the high seas. Japanese Govt Seeks Boost In Tonnage for Nation's Ships HONOLULU—Japan is oceans apart from the U. S. geograph­ ically and from all indications it appears that the Japanese govern­ ment intends to bridge those oceans with imports and exports car­ ried for the most part on Japa-^ The Japanese estimate that by nese-flag ships. the fiscal year 1971, the inbound According to U. Alexis John­ tonnage will be 382,000,000 tons son, the United States Ambassa­ and the outbound tonnage 39,dor to Japan, the Japanese gov­ 000,000 tons. Ambassador John­ ernment would like to have 55 son said that he feels this estimate percent of their imports and 63 to be a little on the conservative percent of their expmis moving side. solely on Japanese-flag ships by One of the causes for the dis­ 1971. parity between Japanese imports In a recent talk here before the and exports is the enormous quan­ American Merchant Marine Con­ tity of raw materials, such as coal ference and the Propeller Club of and iron ore, needed for manufac­ the United States, Johnson men­ tioned that U. S. statistics are min- turing. The Japanese export iscule in comparison. The exact mostly electronic goods, cameras, percentage of trade (imports and clothing and other items which exports) carried on American- weigh relatively little and usually bring in huge freight revenues be­ owned bottoms is 7.3%. In 1965, Johnson pointed out, cause of their higher value. Japanese-flag vessels carried just The U. S. Ambassador pointed over one-third of Japan's exports out that even if the Japanese real­ and 45% of its imports. ize the percentage goah they want The total 1965 inbound ton­ by 1971, the amount of cargo nage to Japan was about 220,0(X),000 metric tons and the out­ exported from that nation aboard bound tonnage was 25,000,000 ships of other natiomdities will metric tons. American-flag ships rise from 14,500,000 tons in 1965 carried only about 700,000 tons to 18,000,000 in 1971 and iim each of the inbound and outbound ports from 112,500,000 to 140,cargo, according to Johnson.' 000,000 tons. �itiSfei ^^enlber 1^4, 1967 SEAFARERS Six More Seafarers WinUtenses AsSagiaeers; Tata!Now 192 Reyes Peden Kellogg Anderson Six more Seafarers have been added to the growing ranks of those who have passed Coast Guard examinations for an engineer's li­ cense. The men completed the course of study offered by the jointly sponsored SIU-MEBA'^ District 2 School for Marine En­ as a FOWT. Born in Pennsyl­ gineers. A total of 192 Sea­ vania, he lives in Philadelphia. E. D. Connolly earned a sec­ farers have now upgraded to an ond assistant's license. He is 43 engineer's license after attending years old and a native of the the school. British West Indies. A resident Three of the men upgraded to of Houston, he joined the SIU second assistant and three are new in that port in 1960. Connolly third assistant engineers. sailed as pumpman and FOWT. A new third assistant, James Kellogg joined the SIU in 1964 in the port of New York. Born in Springfield, Mass., he makes his home in that city. Kellogg is 44 years old and sailed as FOWT. Gordon Anderson is 40 years old. He was bom in Canada and is a resident of Seattle. Anderson Hale Connolly joined the Union in Seattle in James Hale is a new second 1957. A new second assistant, he assistant engineer. He was bom sailed as FOWT. in Oakland, Calif., and resides in Engine department Seafarers Portland, Ore. Hale sailed as are eligible to apply for the up­ FOWT and joined the Union in grading program if they are 19 1956 in the port of Wilmington. years of age or older and have He is 38 years old. 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watch Felipe Reyes is 31 years old. standing time in the engine de­ A native of Alabama, he lives in partment, plus six months' expe­ Houston. Reyes received his third rience as a wiper or equivalent. assistant's license after sailing as Those who qualify and wish to FOWT and engine utility. He enroll in the school can obtain joined the Union in Mc^ile in additional information and apply 1953. for the course at any Sit J hall or Kenneth Peden is a new third write directly to SIU headquarters laiistant. The 29-year-oId Sea­ at 675 Fourth Avenue in Brook­ farer joined the SIU in the port lyn, New York, 11232. The tele­ of Philadelphia in 1964. He sailed phone number is Hyacinth 9-6600. MTD Hits Congress Cutbacks On AnthPoverty Program WASHINGTON—The six-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trade" Department today called for the defeat of amendments which would sharply curtail the effectiveness of the anti-poverty program. In telegrams to members of Congress, MTD President Paul Hill, labeled opponents of the anti-poverty program "fat cats" who wanted to emasculate the program in order to "thwart the legitimate aspirations of the im­ poverished to share in the nation's affluence." Hall said that "the false slogan of 'economy' and the malicious charge of 'maladministration' " by opponents of the program con­ stituted a "smoke screen" behind which they sought to hide in wag­ ing war on the anti-poverty pro­ gram. The full text of Hall's telegram follows: "On behalf of the six million menibers of the 38 na­ tional and international unions affiliated with the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department, I urge you to protect the anti-poverty program from the attacks of those who would destroy one of this na­ tion's most-needed activities. "Those who would curtail the effectiveness of community action groups or who would withhold funds from this vital program are either misguided or guilty of gross and callous disregard of those who live in our urban slums or our rural pockets of poverty. "I urge you to ignore the cries of the 'fat cats' who seek to use the false slogan of 'economy' and the malicious charge of 'malad­ ministration' as a smoke screen to hide their real intent—to thwart the legitimate aspirations of the impoverished to share in the na­ tion's affluence. "The nation's disadvantaged de­ serve an opportunity to participate in our society, and the community action programs give them this opportunity. They deserve the chance to become self-respecting, dues-paying members of society, and the anti-poverty program offer them this chance. "The future, not only of those who live in poverty but of our entire society, hinges on the out­ come of this vote." LOG Page Three Garmatz and Magnuson Introduce Bills Five-Year Fleet Upgrading Program Proposed in Joint House, Senate Bills WASHINGTON—A new five-year program calling for the revitalization of the American merchant marine has been proposed jointly in both houses of Congress. Identical bills were introduced in the Senate by Senator Warren Magnuson (D-Wash.) and in the House by Representative Ed­ ward A. Garmatz (D-Md.)— rect the neglect and piecemeal ap­ concerned to express their views both without the endorsement proaches of the past 20 years. and to make appropriate sugges­ The Congress must examine the tions." of the President. Highlights of the proposed new The move, on November 9, had requirements of the situation." Recalling the fruitless threemaritime program, as detailed in been anticipated during recent year wait by Congress for the the bill are: weeks following warnings by leg­ • Authorization of $300 mil­ islators that White House failure President's "new policy for the merchant marine," Garmatz de­ lion each year for five years to to act on a national maritime clared that he and other Con­ subsidize annual building of 35 to policy would no longer be toler­ gressional leaders — including 40 vessels of various types. This ated and that Congress would be forced to draft a program of its Magnuson—had had numerous is almost three times the annual discussions with the Executive appropriations in recent years. own before it was too late. • For fiscal 1969 only, $30 Provided for in the bills are the branch on the subject and the new bill "reflects the basic understand­ million to be spent on upgrading construction of 35 to 40 ships ings which we . . . had tentatively of the better quality ships in the annually with government aid; ex­ arrived at as a reasonable vehicle reserve fleet. tension of operating-differential More Subsidy Extensions subsidies to dry bulk carriers, a for the modernization of our mari­ time programs and policies." new system of subsidy determina­ • An allotment of $25 million In his remarks to the Senate on tion; the building of a fleet of annually—more than triple the nuclear-powered vessels and the the bill, Magnuson agreed that amount presently designated—for establishment of tax differential "there is no question but that in research and development. construction research funds to all the vast demands upon the budget • Eligibility for shipyards, as operators of merchant and fishing dollar there is a keen competition well as operating companies, to for funds." Noting the conflict in vessels. apply for ship construction sub­ Garmatz, chairman of the Vietnam "which has great reper­ sidies and extention of the prac­ cussions upon federal expendi­ House Merchant Marine and Fish­ tical eligibility for such funds to eries Committee, acknowledged tures," the chairman of the Sen­ non-liner companies. Also a shift that accomplishment of the objec­ ate subcommittee on Merchant of construction subsidy rates from tives contained in the bill would Marine and Fisheries said: "It individual ships to types of ships. be costly in the face of other is my firm conviction that alloca­ • Extention of operating sub­ heavy demands on national re­ tions of funds for the revitaliza­ sidies to presently unsubsidized tion of the United States mer­ sources. chant marine should be of great dry bulk carriers and liner com­ "But we sincerely believe that panies. priority." further indecision and delay in • Authorization of new experi­ Seeks Industry Support proceeding toward those objec­ mental operating subsidy pay­ tives will be vastly more costly to Magnuson pointed out that the ment systems. our national welfare," he said. ultimate location of the Maritime • Tax exempt construction re­ "We can not wait longer to cor- Administration is being consid­ serve funds, now granted only to ered under a separate bill and is subsidized liner companies, would not involved in the present bill. be extended to all operators. One ". . . The most important thing of the purposes of this section is to the merchant marine and to to help Great Lakes operators and the nation is a realistic and work­ also to aid the fishing fleet in the able program which will allow cost of new tonnage or reconstruc­ more ships to be built and oper­ tion of existing vessels. ated under the U.S. flag." • Encouragement of industry Calling for the "unified sup­ in nuclear-powered ship develop­ WASHINGTON — President port of maritime interests" in ment and authorization to "pro­ Johnson has signed into law the enactment of the Congressional vide so much of the aid" needed Congress-approved bill which in­ proposal, Magnuson said "we are that may be "in excess of the cost cludes funds for the financing of bound and determined to enact of developing the proposed ship the Maritime Administration and a program with or without that or ships" had they been of the the Federal Maritime Commis­ support. The condition of our conventional type. • Permission for limited nego­ sion for the fiscal year ending fleet leaves no alternative." June 30, 1968. "We shall try to move as rap­ tiation, as opposed to competitive The appropriations bill, H.R. idly as we can," Magnuson prom­ bidding, in new subsidized ship 10345, was cited as the Depart­ ised, "while still allowing all construction. ments of State, Justice and Com­ merce, the Judiciary, and Related no Representative Visits Headquarters Agencies Appropriation Act and has been designated Public Law 90-133. Included in the bill was a stipu­ lation that none of the funds would be used for the construc­ tion of U.S. ships in foreign ship­ yards and a provision of $1,950,000 for the continued oper­ ation of the nuclear ship Savan­ nah. An earlier Administration plan to put the vessel in moth­ balls was successfully discouraged by industry and congressional leaders who felt its operation served a worthwhile purpose. Funds allocated for maritime are generally higher than in 1967. Money for ship construction sub­ sidies is up $36,315,000 to $143 million; operating subsidies are up $25 million to 200 million; O. Steen Seiersen (center), assistant to the director general of there is $9,575,000 for research the International Labor Organization, visited SIU headquarters and development (up $2,075,000); in New York, recently. Seiersen is assigned to maritime af­ $6,395,000 for maritime training (up $202,000); and $3.6 million fairs. He has been researching containerization of ships and paid for the Federal Maritime Com­ a visit to SlU-contracted Sea-Land vessels with SIU representa­ tive Ed Mooney (left). At the right is Union rep Peter Drewes. mission (up $181,000). President OKs Measure Hiking MARAD Funds �Pagte Foitr NoTCMkcr 84. |.9<^7 SeAPdRXUS LOG House Passes AnthPoverty Bill; AFL'CIO Raps Slash In FaaJs Seven More Seafarers Join Growing SlU Pension Roster Seven more Seafarers have been added to the list of those men now collecting an SIU pension which provides financial security during their retirement years. The latest additions to the pension roster include Alexander King- ^ sepp, Juan Coliazo, Donald Gardner, Albert Smith, Alejo Cruz, Daniel Piccerelli and An­ dreas Swenson. Alexander Kingsepp sailed in the engine department Bom in Estonia, he joined the SIU in the port of New York. He lives in Queens, N. Y., with his wife, Anna. Kingsepp's last ship was Piccerelli the Steel Executive. Albert Smith sailed as bosun Juan Coliazo joined the union and his last ship was the Seattle.' in the port of New York. A native He joined the Union in the port of Puerto Rico, of Baltimore and sailed for 26 he sailed as a years with the SIU. A native of steward. He now Scotland, Smith and his wife, resides in the Margaret, live in Issaquah, Wash. Bronx with his Alejo Cruz was born in Puerto wife, Rafaela. Rico and he and his wife now Coliazo last ship­ make their home in the Bronx. A ped on the Wild member of the deck department, Ranger. Cruz was last on the Long Beach. Donald Gard- He joined the union in the port of Coliazo lives with his wife, New York. Yoshie, in Shirley, L. L, N. Y. A native of British Guiana, Gard­ ner shipped as chief steward and joined the Union in the port of New York. A 28-year SIU vet­ eran, his last ship was the Trans-' superior. WASHINGTON—The House voted 283-129 to continue the nation's war on poverty but Im­ posed a budget cut which the AFL-CIO denounced as a roadblock to an effective program. The money slash was adopted by a 221-190 rollcall ballot. On this key issue, 148 Re-^* • publicans and 73 Democrats tion programs to elected public passage of the anti-poverty bill voted to chop 22 percent from officials and would require local without crippling amendments the $2.06 billion authorization programs to put up 10 percent through a basically conservative sought by President Johnson— of the cost in cash as well as 10 House was viewed in the nation's dropping it to $1.6 billion. Voting percent in services and facilitias. capital as a major Administration to keep the full amount were 162 The Senate-passed bill continues victory. Democrats and 28 Republicans. the present 90-10 financing, with At the start of the six-day de­ Earlier, however, the House de­ the 10 percent local contribution bate, there was a serious question cisively rejected a series of Repub­ payable in services. as to whether any poverty bill lican amendments to dismember could muster a majority in a The decision of the House Edu­ the program and cut the budget cation and Labor Committee to House seemingly hopelessly split even further. give elected public officials greater over the direction the war on pov­ The next step is up to House- control over programs in their erty should take and over whether Senate conferees. The Senate had communities was credited with in fact the entire program should previously approved a strength­ helping to hold southern votes be scrapped. ened anti-poverty program, with against repeated Republican at­ The final vote, at the end of an a $2.26 billion spending ceiling— tempts to change the entire struc­ exhausting 12-hour day, brought $200 million more than the Ad­ ture of the war on poverty. the biggest bipartisan majority for ministration had sought. the program in its three-year his­ Republicans turned out in an In a telegram to the conferees, tory—a stronger vote of confi­ AFL-CIO Legislative Director unsuccessful attempt to substitute dence than had been mustered Andrew J. Biemiller declared that state rather than city and county even in the liberal 89th Congress. the House action "saved the struc­ control, but GOP leaders were While hard-core opponents were ture of the war on poverty, but noticeably absent on a vote on an mocking the program—at times in amendment by Democrat Augus­ much more is needed." language similar to the "rat de­ In the AFL-CIO's opinion, Bie­ tus F. Hawkins (Calif.) to leave bate" earlier this year—the new the community action programs miller stressed, every congress­ urban coalition was making quiet man who voted for the budget as they are now. progress in the lobbies of the slash "was voting against an ef­ Viewed As Victory Capitol and in the offices of con­ fective program to eradicate pov­ Despite the money reduction. gressmen. erty." He added; "The conferees can —and must — restore the funds and strengthen the program which are vitally necessary to help those Americans at the bottom of the The National Right-to-Work Committee, with right-to-work states, with only a single exception, economic ladder. An affluent na­ no accomplishment of any significance to its credit have slipped far below the national average in tion can do no less." in more than four years, is currently flooding per-capita income since enacting RTW laws. These Even if the conference improves the mails with anti-union propaganda and solici­ facts are obviously well known to elected state on the House bill — as it is ex­ tations of support from small businesses and large officials, as well as voters. With the exception of pected to do—the decisive money corporations alike. blocking 14(b) repeal, the National Right-to-Work show-down is still to come. ^vering letters beg for help "in the struggle" Committee and its state affiliates have suffered Separate legislation is required to against what they falsely tout as "compulsory defeat in one state after another—most recently actually appropriate the. funds unionism" in which workers are "forced, against in Oklahoma. No new state has been added to Congress authorizes, and the their will, to become members of labor organiza­ the RTW list in over four years and the concept powerful House economy bloc has tions and pay tribute for the right to earn a is on shaky ground in several states where it is served notice it will fight any sig­ living." the law. nificant increase over last year's They are careful to avoid mention of the fact Facts Disregarded appropriation of slightly more that no union representation election is held out­ Also conveniently overlooked is the fact that than $1.6 billion. side the supervision of the National Labor Rela­ the NLRB last year processed a record 13,385 tions Board and that they are held when a sub­ In addition to the money dif­ petitions for voluntary elections in unorganized stantial number of employees express a desire ference, the House bill would give shops—many of which are operated by RTW to be represented by a Union. more control over community acadvocates who help to promote the myth of "com­ The mail campaign of the right-wing supported pulsory unionism." The year ending last June 30 RTW Committee is well-designed to distort the was also a record-high one in the number of facts and is sent out in two waves. First there is a unfair labor practice charges filed with the NLRB. SEAFARERS^S^LOC letter over the signature of the president the Typical of such charges are those stemming from committee, S. D. Cadwallader, claming credit for the illegal abuse of its employees by J. P. Stevens, Nov. 24. 1967 • Vol. XXIX No. 24 the defeat of liberal and labor attempts to repeal the union-busting textile giant which dominates OffleiaJ Publication of the the anti-union section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley a sizeable portion of the RTW state of North Seafarers International Union Act and calling for efforts on the part of all Carolina. of North America. individuals to extend the principle of right-toAtlanUc, Gulf, Lakes Far from protecting the right of individuals to and Inland Waters District, work—a principle dedicated to making the union join unions voluntaqly as it claims, the Right-to AFL-CIO shop illegal and depriving employees of a united Work Committee pours millions of dollars an­ ExeetUive Board front with which to seek a fair share of manage­ nually into efforts to stifle that right Its very PAUI. HALL, Preiident ment's profits in return for their labors. name is a carefully calculated misnomer since it EARL SHBTARO GAL TANNBB Viea-Prendent Exee. Viee-Prei. exists solely for the purpose of cutting wages PiFompt Fi^w-up LINDBEY WnxiAMS AL KERB and increasing profits through the destruction of See.-Trea*. Vieo-Prestdent Within a week there is a more personal follow- labor unions and the outlawing of the Union sh(^. ROBERT MATTHEWS up letter from a corporation executive. In the With the exception of Nevada, which is sus­ Vice-President case brought to the attention of the LOG, a letter tained almost entirely by out-of-state gambling HERBERT BRAND sent to the Seafarers Sea Chest Corp., it was money, the economy has gone steadily down in Director of Organizing and signed by one A. L. Naylof, president of The every one of the Right-to-Work states. The de­ Publieatione Fairbanks Company of Binghamton, N.Y. Along cline is registered in virtually all areas—from Managing Editor MIKE POLLACK with his second letter is a "copy" of the first—in increased business and personal bankruptcies, case it "is not handy"—together with a pamphlet home foreclosures and rising imemployment, to Staff Writers reproducing newspaper accounts of RTW's efforts drops in new car ownership and new construction. PETER WEISS to sabotage the latxH* movement on state and Even peculation has decreased in many RTW HARRY WITTBCHEN FRANK MAROIOTTA federal levels as well as in the courts, and a states, as workers seek to avoid the ecemomic ' STEVE STEINBERG pledgCHif-suppOTt form to be returned "immedi­ strangulatiem brought on by RTW laws and move PiMMM Masrthr at >10 Iksds lilsMI AfssM ately" with a check. to a healthier climate for Labor. •.E.. WadUattSB, D. C. 2001S ky tlM Ssafarm latEBRtisBal OSISR, Atlaatls, Cilf, Lakes Naylor repeats the lie that "American citizens" Still the CadwaUaders and Naylors, and others sad IBM Watsfs >it(rist, AFL-CI>, >75 are "forced into unions in order to hold a job" of their right-wing ilk, continue in their campaign Fawtt Asaaas, •rsskiyi, a.r. 11232. Tsl. aVHtatk 9-MOO. tsssad aiass pattan laM and boasts that "12 states have active right to to deceive Americans. However, growing opposi­ at WMilattoa, >. C. work organizations" hard at work to obtain laws tion to the RTW principle clearly shows that the PtSTMSTErS ATTEirita: Fani 3579 to saa* to SsBfanrt latstBaUsBal similar to those already on the books in 19 states majority of citizens are becoining more fully Stof, Lakai tad IBIM Vatois —most of them in the south. <75 Fstolk Asaaas, Bnakaware that the so-called Rigbt-to-Woik Coounittee ! toa. a-T. 11232. Not mentioned is the statistical fact that all works exclusivdy on the side of the employers. I »T IT R-f-W Committee Launches Mail Campaign Gardner Andreas Swenson sailed as an AB and joined the SIU in New Orleans in 1938. A native of Louisiana, Swenson lives in New Orleans. His last ship was the Del Sud. Daniel Piccerelli sailed as cook and steward since joining the SIU in New York. A native of Penn- 'sylvania, he lives in Philadeliffiia. Brother Piccerdli's last ship wasthe Albion Victory. SIU Rsho'men Defeat urn SAN DIEGO — Crewmembers aboard the fishing vessels Frankie Boy I, Frankie Boy II and the Santa Teresa have voted fm- the SIUNA—affiliated Seine Line and Fishermen's Uqion as their bar­ gaining representative. The crewmembers aboard the three vessels rejected a rqiresen.tation bid by Harry Bridges' longshcMemen's union in two separate National Labor Relations Board elections aboard the vessels. ILWU Defeat In both elections, the union defeated Local 33 of the inde­ pendent Longshoremen's A Warohousemen's Union. The electitMi idxMu-d tte Fnunkie Boy I and tte FIraiikie Boy H was hdd on Au­ gust 18 aqd that ahos^ the Shnta Teresa on Sqptember 30. �NoTendber Zt, 1967 The Great Lakes bf Frad FariMn.Scerclary-Treasurar.GrMt Laftaa SEAFARERS LOG PMge Fhre MARAD Grants Trial Rate increase On Government 50-50 Aid Cargoes WASHINGTON—Temporary ninety-day increases in ceiling rates for Government 50-50 cargoes have been granted to U.S.-flag ship operators by the Maritime Administration. The increases came The Detroit AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department Port about when many operators claimed that they were losing money in the carriage of GovernmentCouncil held a meeting at the Wolverine Hotel recently and more financed cargoes. The Soviet Union strenuously With the new guidelines which than 200 delegates attended for the purpose of informing the The new rates became effec­ Detroit Port Council about the critical shape of the United States tive upon publication in the argued that American medium- are about to go into effect, small size ships had been charging high- j ships will receive a 10 percent Merchant Marine. Federal Register. er rates as compared with ships across-the-board rate increase. tringer recently joined the SIU The ninety-day period is ex­ Guest speaker, Peter McGavin, pension roster. Leo will live in the pected to provide for an "in- of other nations. The U.S. Gov­ The medium ships will receive a Executive Secretary of the Mari­ ernment conducted a study of the rate based on 75 percent of this time Trades Department, told of Green Bay area and is an avid depth" review of the problem by problem, and found that the most small-ship rate, or, in other words, the Maritime Administration, to practical solution would be to the efforts being extended by the hunter and fisherman. determine what further measures reduce the medium-ship rates to about three percent more than Duluth MTD to inform the public of the before. As before, rates for large must he taken. problems of the maritime indus­ between 60 and 80 percent of the ships will continue to be subject Shipping in this port has been MARAD has scheduled hear­ newly-increased rates that small try. Some delegates were not fully steady for unrated men. The ings on November 28 to answer ships were to receive per ton. to individual negotiations. aware of the situation and were George Steinbrenner, Henry StelnPolicy Shift shocked when informed that U. S. hrenner, R. E. Webster, and the any questions that may arise on Thus, the new medium-size rates, the new rates. shipyards ranked 16th among Uhlman Brothers are all in port In making the new temporary based on the new small-ship rate The urgency of the measure nations in commercial shipbuild­ to get their last load of grain minus 20 percent, went into effect. ceiling rates uniform for medium is illustrated by the claim of some ing. However, the rate-reduction did ships at all ports, MARAD has before layup. operators that they have been not apply to ships in certain ports, departed from its past policy of Frankfort Arnold Perala has received his losing $30-50,000 per voyage on allowing for decisions based on The Oty of Green Bay is still AH ticket after attending IXiluth charters of grain to India. Indi­ due to high port congestion that individual problems, such as ex­ made operations unusually costly. on a five and two schedule but upgrading school. He is a watch­ cations from maritime sources tended delays. By making the may go on a twenty and eight at man on the Lackawanna. Don were that a 10 percent across-the- These ports were: all Korean medium-size ship rates uniform in ports, where operations concerned any time. Piper has shipped as coal passer board rate boost was necessary bagged grain only; all United all ports, MARAD explained, it for operations to "break even." Charlie Johnsoii, fireman on the on the Frank Taplin. Arab Republic ports, where opera­ will remove "the present inequity The rate guidelines, which vary tions concerned bagged flour only; in rates allowed in the case of Arthur K. Atkinson, is getting CIevaland according to the ship's destina­ all Brazilian ports; and, in India, some foreign ports in order to his papers together to apply for tion, cargo, and size, were ordered the ports of Bombay, Candela, take care of delays in discharging The only word on layup dates a disability pension. has come from the Steinbrenner increased for three months by Chittagong, and East Pakistan. operations, and will permit com­ Chicago fleet. They are on their last trips 10 percent acros.s-the-board for The medium ships in these situa­ pensation for port delays, if any, Although layup time is near, for storage grain to Buffalo, where smaller ships up to 15,600 dead­ tions received the same tonnage through the practical medium of job calls are frequent. the fleet is expected to spend the weight tons. rates as the small ships. more realistic demurrage rates." Vessels in the medium sizeThe Coast Guard reported that winter. group (15,600 to 29,999 dead­ Buffalo they will continue issuing appli­ weight tons) would be offered ap­ cations for seamen's papers. They Shipping is steady here, due proximately three percent over had intended to discontinue issu­ mainly to the large amount of their previous rates. ing temporary seamen's documents grain moved into this port before Rates for vessels of over 30.000 as of November 15. However, the season's end. Most of the tons will continue to be subject DETROIT—Nominations for candidates for office in the Tug & after a meeting with us, they have ships currently unloading are to negotiations, the Maritime Ad­ Dredge Region of the SIU's Inland Boatmen's Union will be open scheduled for grain storage next ministration said. stated that they will continue is­ trip, and will lay up here shortly. from December 1 through December 15, 1967. Elections will be Since Public Law 480 set rate suing temporary documents until The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades guidelines in 1957, the need for held beginning March 4, 1968, the end of the season. Department, in conjunction with revisions were frequently dis­ and will extend through March in continuou.s good standing for The Gartland Steamship Com­ the Buffalo Port Council, held a cussed but the only major rate 16, 1968. at least three (3) years, is eligible to be nominated for and elected pany has agreed to give time off legislative dinner in Buffalo on change, until now, was in 1963 In order to notify union mem­ in port for this purpose. It re­ November 2. About 1,300 people and directly resulted from the bers of nomination procedures in to the office of Regional Director. mains for the USCG to enable attended. American sale of grain to the sufficient time for them to make Any member of the Section elect­ Soviet Union. The terms of the nominations, a special newsletter ing an Assistant Regional Direc­ inspectors to give the man immedi­ Alpena tor who is in continuous good sale agreement stipulated that 50 ate examinations. The J. B. Ford has laid up in percerit of the grain to travel has already been sent to the home standing in the work classification Wc regret to announce the Buffalo and the E. M. Ford in to the U.S.S.R. on American-flag address of each member. The covered by that Section for at death of Herb Rostock. He sailed Milwaukee, so we should have ships. However, many American newsletter is entitled, "Notice of least (3) years, is eligible to be in the steward department and some men available for relief jobs. operators complained that the low Procedure for Nominations and nominated for, and elected to, the Election of Officers." office of Assistant Regional Direc­ had been living in Milwaukee with Shipping remains about the reimbursement rate for this ship­ The Notice states that members tor for that section." his wife. same with a few job calls daily. ping was costly for their smallmust have the following qualifi­ ship operations, so the U.S. Gov­ A seven-inch snow, the first heavy 2. "All nominees for, and those Great Lakes Seafarer Leo Ensnow of the season, has made the ernment raised the rates to be­ cations in order to be nominated: elected to, the foregoing offices 1. "Any member of the Region, must be citizens of the United tween $17.48 and $22.50 per ton. hunters in the area happy. States of America." Ship-fo-Sliip Communication in the Suez 3. "No one may be nominated for, or elected to, the foregoing offices who is disqualified there­ from by law." 4. "All holders of said office, whether elected or appointed, are A treaty that would provide for required not only to possess the a new system of dual operation of foregoing qualifications, but also the Panama Canal, another that to maintain them, including con­ would authorize a sea-level water­ tinuous good standing, as a condi­ way to be built there by the United tion of the retention of their States, and a third that relates to offices." United States military bases in In addition, a qualified mem­ Panama were shelved legislatively ber may also nominate himself, both in the United States and but only for one office. Panama. Agreement cm the treaties -was After December 15, the Re­ announced by negotiators for both gional Director will issue a report governments last June 26. iSnce which will be posted on the bul­ then the treaties have come under letin boards of all union halls, heavy criticism in this country naming those members who meet and Panama. Now the treaties will the qualifications to become nom­ not be considered until late 1968 inees, and those who have been or early 1969, disqualified. Prior to the January Reports from Panama indicate meeting, the Regional Director's that the treaties will not be sub­ Report will be presented at the mitted for approval to the Pan­ general membership meetings to amanian assembly which ends its Stranded in the Suez Canal since the outbreak of hostilities on June 6th, the remaining skeleton be acted upon. term in January and will not meet crews of ocean vessels such as those pictured here have taken to "commuting by sailboat to visit All unqualified nominees are again until October of 1968. The one another. Among the vessels is the crewless SlU-contracted Observer, laid up in Ismalia with entitled to correct the reasons for United States* Senate is not ex­ their disqualification within 15 a grain cargo originally bound for India, The ship's operators, Marine Carriers, report that since the pected to consider the treaties undays after the January meeting. crew has been repatriated to the states. Watchmen periodically visit the vessel to see that all is well. tfl Panama approves them. Nominations Open on December 1 For Tug and Dredge Region Election US, Panama Shelve Three Canal Treaties �I I, NoTomlMr 24v 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Six 3 More Seafarers Upgrade To Deck Officer's License Three more Seafarers have received their Deck Officer's license after attending the Deck Officer's Training School, jointly spon­ sored by the SIU and the American Maritime Officers Union. The Seafarers who recently passed Coast Guard examinations are instruction at any time. The pe­ Arthur McCall, Eugene Flowers riod of instruction will be deter­ and Gerald McCarthy. A total of mined by each member's individ­ 17 men have now upgraded them­ ual ability and knowledge, and the instructors' satisfaction of his selves to a deck officer's license. readiness to take the examii»ations. Arthur McCall is a new third mate and previously sailed as AB. He is 33 years old and joined the union in 1958 in New York City. A native of Brooklyn, he makes his home in Florida. Eugene Flowers Flowers McCarthy is a new third mate and joined Seafarers can participate in the the SIU in New McCall course of instruction at no cost to York City in themselves. They will be provided 1942. He is 44 years old and was with meals, hotel lodgings and born in Pennsylvania. A resident subsistence payments of $110 per of that state. Flowers previously sailed as AB, bosun and deck week while in training. maintenance. This in-training assistance is the Gerald McCarthy sailed as AB same as that available to engine and was born in Canada. He is 43 department Seafarers who are en­ years old and lives in Nova Scotia. rolled in the union training pro­ McCarthey joined the union in gram to prepare engine depart­ Canada in 1952. He received a ment men for their licensed engi­ third mate's license. neers examination. Reciprocal Agreement In order to qualify for the train­ The training program, operated ing course. Seafarers must be 19 under a reciprocal agreement be­ years of age or over, have 24 tween SIU and the American Mar­ months watch standing time in the itime Officers, is the first of its deck department and an AB en­ type in the maritime industry. dorsement on their seaman's pa­ Applicants can begin receiving pers. THE INQUmiKG SEAFARER QUESTION: What made you decide to go to sea for a living? George Muzzicca: I have always liked to travel and what better way is there to see the world than to sail for a living? I do a lot of sight­ seeing and that alone makes it a worthwhile ca­ reer. Of course, there are a lot of good union bene­ fits and that is a big help also. Tony Blake: I found I could make more money sailing than I could on land. And there is a lot of security. If you do your job right, you will always have one. Plus plenty of oppor­ tunity to move up to a higher rat­ ing. The SIU has lots of good benefits which offers another inducement. -f- Pedro Esteban: I figured it would be a good way to see the world. In addi­ tion, I could earn my living at the same time. By travelling, you rub elbows with all kinds of peo­ ple and widen your knowledge of life. 1 think it is the best education there is. Barney McNally: In 1941, job opportunities weren't too good in my home town, P i 11 s b u rgh. I thought I would try my luck at sea and I've never regretted the move. I tried it ashore occasion­ ally, but I always wind up back at sea. Of course, travelling around the world makes the job nicer. 4> Nunez Santiago: I sailed in the Navy and acquired a taste for the sea. When I got out, I thought I'd like to con­ tinue sailing with the Merchant Marine. There's lots of room for advancement in this profession. I just finished regis­ tering f&r upgrading school, so I can get an AB's rating. Nick Bechllvanls: I always liked the sea and thought I would like to try^ my hand at being a seaman. The money was pretty good and I have been at it 30 years, now. I've enjoyed many benefits during my 20 years with the SIU and have really seen the union grow. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmingrton San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco .. Seattle Totals From Nov. 3 to Nov. 15, 1967 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED REGISTERED on BEACH ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groui REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 6 1 48 30 7 3 24 17 13 6 7 3 8 0 19 22 47 42 42 42 7 11 (Not Available) 14 13 242 190 All Groui>s Class A Class B Class C 0 1 5 41 43 17 7 2 4 14 14 5 6 4 5 4 9 4 1 4 1 13 8 4 26 32 11 34 29 3 8 9 14 (Not Available) 10 14 16 160 168 94 All Groups Class A Class B 0 1 36 44 5 3 12 8 1 6 5 3 2 7 18 16 41 36 35 46 9 8 (Not Available) 16 13 180 191 Class A Class B Class C 3 2 2 35 15 9 4 3 5 5 12 3 15 6 5 2 5 10 0 6 8 1 37 27 6 23 10 3 8 4 3 (Not Available) 5 9 16 133 97 59 Class A Class B 0 0 40 24 2 2 11 14 1 6 3 4 6 0 14 16 44 24 41 23 4 8 (Not Available) 10 10 176 131 All Groups Class A Class B 14 2 93 211 26 8 57 107 20 31 3 12 8 13 70 25 127 77 77 132 20 0 (Not Available) 47 8 810 378 All Groups Class A Oass B 6 2 122 101 11 6 41 68 14 18 4 5 6 9 37 19 93 84 74 88 17 0 (Not Available) 17 25 450 417 Class A Class B 6 1 158 43 13 5 91 36 12 25 6 3 12 1 67 22 127 96 86 49 12 2 (Ndt Available) 23 3 613 286 •" • • ,S»krei^' Guide'to ;'Etoer;Buyii^s: '•'-i Several years ago The Wall Street Journal reported a test made by DuPont of why women buy one brand instead of another. The market­ ing experts showed a group of women slides of landscaF>es interspersed with occasional non­ sense syllables such as "Bif or "Gah." Then the women were told to take a free pair of stockings from boxes labeled with these madeup names. Twice as many women chose from the box marked with the nonsense syllable they had seen most often. What the test showed was that many people can be manipulated into choosing one product instead of another simply by repetition of a name or symbol. This also is being proved every day by the fact that the most heavily advertised brands of cleaning products, house­ hold medicines such as aspirin, and toiletries such as mouthwash, sell best e*'en when they are virtually identical with lower price brands. In an era of self-service shopping, women who do not use what information is available to them for selecting best buys, even can be led to buy a particular brand just by a picture on a package or even its color. For example, merely putting the picture of a spoon on the Betty Crocker cakemix package hefped make that brand the leading seller, Louis Cheskin, one of the most successful "motivational researchers," reveals in his re:ently-published Secrets of Marketing Success. Putting Parliament cigarettes in a blue pack­ age increased their sales. In fact, the research­ ers found that when the package had a linen finish, 80 per cent of the smokers tested thought the cigarettes tasted finer, Cheskin reports. Even just putting an illustration of a crest on the package boosted sales of Marlboro ciga­ rettes. In his book Cheskin says that the choices petite make are not motivated by logic "but .* •• is- « ^^ . AU Groui Class A Class B Class C 2 2 2 32 12 42 4 2 2 10 7 7 6 5 3 3 5 7 0 4 0 16 12 2 35 37 7 33 41 4 7 9 5 (Not Available) 18 19 10 169 182 61 •4 we seek rational reasons for making them." According to him, we think we are buying use­ ful quality but actually we are attracted by the styling. Sometimes we are aware of this but we cover up; "we try to make ourselves appear rational." Thus over twice as many housewives in a test considered Gold Imperial Margarine in one package to be "higher priced" than in another package. Cheskin doesn't mention this, but a lot of mother's buying now is dominated by children who in turn are dominated by television. This kind of forced buying, sometimes accompanied by screaming in the supermarket aisles, is espe­ cially noticeable nowadays among such prod­ ucts as cereals; bubble bath preparation; soft drinks, and the new milk shake products sold with musical shakers. There is even less reason for women to be manipulated by the color and design of a pack­ age than by their children. All they need do is take the time to read the lists of ingredients and net weights to see wliat one brand actually provides compared to anoRier. The evidence is that many women do not take the time to see what they are buying. One of the signs is the balloonihg popularity of "balloon" bread. This is bread which contains more air per pound. Yet, despite the fact that in some markets balloon bread costs as much as five cents more per pound than the standard loaf, it is now the leading seller in stores that stock it, the U.S. Agriculture Department's Farm Index reports. This is a shocker, becaux there have been a number of warnings about balloon bread by consumer authorities and in this column. More­ over, all that housewives have to do is look at the weight marked on the wrapper and com­ pare the price per pound with other breads. ; «>' �November 24, 1967 SEAFARETiiS Senate Bill Outlaws Bias Against Older Workers I »• •'A Page Seve* LOG "Specialty of the House" WASHINGTON—^The Senate voted to outlaw job discrimination against older workers. It passed by unanimous voice vote a labor-backed bill covering workers and job applicants between the ages of 40 and 65. A similar bill has been approved by the House Education & Labor Committee. The legislation contains a congressional finding that the setting of arbitrary age limits by employers regardless of the job require­ ments, "has become a common practice." Congress found that older workers displaced from their jobs are "severely disadvantaged" in finding other employment and "their numbers are great and growing." To correct this, the bill bars employers, employment agencies and unions from discriminating in any phase of employment—including hiring, firing and wage rates—on the basis of age. It specifically bars help wanted ads setting an age limit. The only exception granted is where age can be proved to be "a bona fide occupational qualification." The legislation would not require an employer to hire an older applicant in preference to a younger job-seeker. But it would require that the choice be based on factors other than age. The secretary of labor is instructed in the legislation to initiate an education program to encourage employers to hire older workers and to seek through persuasion to bring about voluntary compliance. If that fails, enforcement would be through the courts in the same manner as is provided for violations of the wage-hour law. Initially the legislation would cover firms with 50 or more employees. Next July, however, coverage would extend to firms with 25 or more workers. The Senate bill does not require an employer to provide the same pension or insurance benefits to an older worker if this would increase his cqsts. But it does not permit the existence of a pension plan to be used as an excuse not to hire the older worker. The only significant departure from the legislation proposed by the Administration is that the age coverage was extended from 45 to 40 years. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough (D-Tex.) floor manager for the bill, expressed regret that it doesn't take care of "the problem of airline stewardesses, who are forced to give up that job at age 32 or 35." He said the bill provides for a six-month study by the secretary of Labor into this and any similar problems. Twenty-four states have some type of law dealing with age dis­ crimination but many are weaker than the proposed federal law. XABOR ROUND-UP The world's white collar unions must guard against the harsh im­ pact of automation, the recently held world congre.ss of the Inter­ national Federation of Commer­ cial, Clerical, and Technical Em­ ployees (FIET) declared. A major resolution urged FIET affiliates to give "top priority" to negotiat­ ing contracts protecting members from automation's "adverse ef­ fects." FIET is the second largest of the 16 international trade union secretariats. It has 120 affiliates in 64 countries, representing over 5,500.000 workers. In the U.S., its affiliates are the Retail Clerks, Office Employees, Building Serv­ ice Employees, Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, and Insurance Workers. Four hundred delegates to the Kansas AFL-CIO Convention adopted a broad legislative pro­ gram and plans for a vigorous 1968 election campaign. Former Governor Alf M. Landon also spoke before the Convention and warned that compulsory govern­ ment-enforced arbitration is an encroachment on collective bar­ gaining and proposed that a na­ tional board of arbitration with sweeping powers be established to work on a voluntary basis instead. Among other resolutions adopted by the Convention were the call for a law prohibiting importation of strikebreakers, and the pro­ posal that striking or locked-out workers be given unemployment benefits after six weeks of work stoppage. •t# The 55th National Safety Con­ gress has elected the secretarytreasurer of the Brewery Workers, Arthur P. Gildea, the National Safety Council's vice president for labor. Gildea, who succeeds Op­ erating Engineers president Hun­ ter P. Wharton in this position, will be liaison bet\t'een the board of directors and the NSC Labor Conference, a volunteer group concerned with labor safety prob­ lems as well as labor involvement with safety in general. The Railway & Airline Clerks have negotiated a new wageboosting contract for their 450 members working on Carribean Atlantic Airlines (Caribair). The new pact provides wage increases of 36% in addition to many other benefits. The pact calls for sal­ ary raises ranging from 69e' to $1.02 per hour over the two years, as well as such fringe bene­ fits as increased life insurance and medical coverage, with the com­ pany pay-premium formerly paid by employees. Caribair services Puerto Rico, the Dominican Re­ public, and the Virgin Islands. 4, Three workers from one of Africa's new nations are training in hotel work in New York under a program jointly sponsored by their government, the AfricanAmerican Labor Center, the Hotel & Restaurant Employees and the New York Hotel Associ­ ation. The three—Anna Henry, Fatima Nasser and Samuel Songoro—came here last year from Tanzania, a country in East Africa formed in 1964 by the unification of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. They were selected as the staff nucleus of a new hotel to be built in Dar-e»-Salaam, Tan­ zania's capital. The AFL-CIO's legislative director, An­ drew J. Biemiller, hit the nail right on the head last week when he described to a Sen­ ate Agriculture subcommittee as "a snare, a delusion and a hoax on the American people," the meat inspection bill recently approved by the House of Representatives. The bill is so watered down that it does little more than put a 1967 stamp on a 1906 law and provide government cost aid to states which voluntarily set up inspection programs equal to federal standards. In the light of repeatedly publicized re­ ports—both federal and private—from all over the nation of the revolting conditions to be found in meat packing and processing plants, who can be gullible enough to believe that the states will curb the sale of rotten and diseased meat on a "voluntary" basis now when they have not done so for more than 60 years? It is now up to the Senate to insure that the consumer is protected from the un­ scrupulous profiteers who deliberately ped­ dle millions of tons of contaminated meat for human consumption each year. Under a compromise bill now before the Senate Agriculture Committee, states would be given two years to set up inspection sys­ tems at least equal to federal standards. If such a law was strictly enforced it might provide the best solution available in the face of meat industry pressures for the most lenient rules they can get. A better bill, originally submitted by Senator William Mondale (D-Minn.) had real merit. Supported by both the Adminis­ tration and organized labor, it would have required federal inspection of all meat re­ gardless of where it was sold. This would have been the best possible system to mini­ mize abuses by the meat packers and proces­ sors who opposed it so strongly. A Good Start! "More in sorrow than anger." Such was at least one Congressional description of the attitude with which concerned leaders in the House of Representatives and the Senate felt obliged to submit, to their respective bodies, a modernization program for the American merchant marine minus the long-promised endorsement of the White House. Whatever the feeling, the twin bills sub­ mitted for Congressional consideration ear­ lier this month were long overdue. Senator Magnuson, Representative Garmatz, and their colleagues in both houses who joined them as co-sponsors of the legislation, are to be commended for taking into their own hands the responsibility repeatedly shirked by the Administration on one pretext after another. It is indeed a sorrowful situation when the U.S.-flag fleet, once the mightiest merchant marine in the world, lies today in a state of near decay while the Exqputive branch of our government continues to simply look in some other direction and do nothing what­ ever to stem the worsening tide. The proposed new maritime program is a comprehensive one and has a good deal of merit. It will provide life-giving assistance to all segments of the industry—many of which have been virtually starved out over the last 20 years. We can only agree with the proponents of the maritime bill that the time for protracted discussions and hearings, on facts already well known to all, is past. It remains only to get this worthy legislation passed quickly so the big job of rebuilding can proceed smoothly. �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG Meany Urges Immediate Passage Of Senate Setial Secarity Bill WASHINGTON—The social security bill up for a vote in the Senate is "a considerable improve­ ment over the extremely inadequate bill passed by the House," AFL-CIO President George Meany declared recently. With one major change, he said, it should be passed "without delay." Meany's statement of support a House-voted freeze on the num­ federal funds which would be came as the Senate opened de­ ber of children who could be available in the new school year. bate on a committee-approved helped. It also modifies somewhat the bill which would: "A glaring defect" still in the "bloc grants" the House voted for • Raise all social security bill, Meany said, is a compulsory state agencies for supplementary benefits by at least 15 percent, as work provison for many mothers. education centers—dropping fed­ contrasted with 12.5 percent in While the Senate bill, unlike the eral controls over how the money the House bill. House version, exempts mothers is spent. A threat of a southern filibuster • Lift the minimum benefit of pre-school children, it would from $44 to $70 for a single per­ force other mothers to take even to force the Senate to go along son and from $66 to $1Q5 for an low-paid, dead-end jobs or lose with the House version led Sen­ elderly couple. The House raise their welfare benefits. In many of ate leaders to hold up action on only went to $50 for a single per­ these cases, Meany noted, "they the bill until after the social secu­ would be much better occupied rity legislation is acted on. son, $75 for a couple. The pay raise provisions of the taking care of their children in • Raise the wage base on Senate bill are the same as those their homes. The Senate should which social security taxes are passed by the House—a two-step recast the work and training pro­ paid by gradual steps to pay for 11 percent raise for postal workers gram to make it voluntary and the improvements and provide and an initial 4.5 percent increase meaningful." bigger future benefits for higherfor the classified civil service, with A hard core of conservative op­ paid workers. (At LOG press time, the Senate ponents served notice they would additional raises over the next two was still considering the measure fight to substitute the less-gener­ years to achieve full comparabil­ but had voted to include in the ous House bill. However, the more ity with private industry. Deleted bill extra annual funds of $250 liberal majority appeared to have by the Senate was a provision of million annually to hospitals for the votes to preserve the higher the House bill which would have care of their medicare patients benefits of the Senate Finance denied any raises to employees of the Office of Economic Opportu­ and to require state welfare pay­ Committee bill. nity. Awaiting the floor in the Sen­ ments to families with unem­ Before taking up the social se­ ate after the social security bill is ployed fathers.) curity bill, the Senate passed a passed were two other major bills Meany said the Senate commit­ tee had made a number of im­ —an Administration-backed ex­ labor-supported bill establishing provements in the punitive public pansion of the aid to elementary federal safety standards and reg­ welfare provisions of the House- and secondary education program ulation of natural gas pipelines. passed bill. He welcomed assign­ and a bill combining postal rate The Senate approved one amend­ ment of work and training to the increases with pay raises for near­ ment to the committee bill urged Labor Department, "which has ly two million salaried federal by the AFL-CIO and rejected another. the experience and qualifications employees. for successfully operating them," A key feature of the school aid rather than to the Department of bill would permit appropriations Health, Education & Welfare. to be made a year in advance to He also praised elimination of plan ahead with knowledge of the Addresses Buffalo MTD Meeting Seaway Benefits Foreign Shipping, Not US, Proxmire Declares BUFFALO, N.Y.—The Soviet hammer-and-sickle is now seen as frequently in the St. Lawrence Seaway as is the American stars and stripes, U. S. Senator William Proxmire (D.-Wis.) charged here recently. "Russian-flag ships made as came to Buffalo to launch the first many trips through the Seaway in a series of public conferences this year as the entire U. S.-flag slated for key port cities to focus fleet did," the Senator told a meet­ public attention on the problems ing sponsored jointly by the 6- of the maritime industry. The Wisconsin Democrat, chair­ million-member national AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ man of the Great Lakes Confer­ ment and the BuflFalo Maritime ence of Senators, laid out a threepoint program which, he said, Port Council. should be part of any Adminis­ "From April 15 to September tration maritime package submit­ 30 of this year, Soviet-flag ships ted to Congress. He called for: made 19 deep-water transits of • "An earmarking of ship con­ the Seaway, calling at Canadian ports," Proxmire went on. He struction subsidies so that at least contrasted this to only 15 com­ 25% of the subsidy funds pro­ mercial voyages and four trips vided are used to build ships that with military cargo by ships flying can transit the Seaway. No new U.S.-flag vessel has been con­ the American flag. structed for Great Lakes service Joining with Proxmire in ham­ since 1961. mering away at the rise of foreign• "A requirement that at least flag shipping through the Seaway and on the Great Lakes was $8 million or so of the $200 mil­ Anthony Scotto, president of ILA lion provided yearly for operatingLocal 1814 and vice-president of differential subsidies be set aside the International Longshoreman's for for U. S.-flag trips into the Association. Scotto also serves as Lakes. If the funds are not used chairman of the national MTD's to subsidize Lake trips, they would revert to the Treasury." Legislative Committee. Scotto called for construction • "Set aside $7,500,000 of the and operating subsidies for Lakes amount provided for military car­ shipping so that it could compete go shipments overall to be used with low-wage foreign building exclusively for military cargo and the "cooKe wages" paid for­ shipments out of the Lakes, where a great deal of this cargo origi­ eign seamen. Senator Proxmire and Scotto nates." ^ ^ . .-^«35d«sSa^,_ S Suez Blockage Hikes Capetown Port Activity Since the blocking of the Suez Canal during the Arab-Israeli war, there has been a huge increase in the number of ships having to make the longer journey around Cape Horn and the port of Cape­ town is humming with the new activity. So far Capetown has handled a record number of 461 ships. The first arrivals forced to detour be­ cause of the conflict began calling in late June. In the first part of July, delays of six hours were re­ ported at Capetown and twelve hours at Durban. These delays were actually less than prior to the crisis, when Capetown was al­ ready congested with near record imports and exports of fruit and other perishable items. The increased sailing time of the route around the Cape (nine to 12 days) adds greatly to the ex­ pense of operating the ships. Even more expense is added due to voyage repairs made necessary by the longer route. South African harbor authori­ ties are not complaining, however. With the knowledge that the Suez Canal, at best, will only be able to handle 110,0(X) ton deadweight ships by 1972, they are looking forward to the Cape route being used by the 250,000 tonners al­ ready under construction, and the even larger ships of the future. Due to present' rebuilding and modernization activities, neither East London nor Port Elizabeth can offer the extra bunkering and provision facilities available at Capetown. Novemter 2^- IMT The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepaitt, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area The Maritime Administration's report on the spectacular rise in the Soviet Union's merchant marine capabilities only serves to confirm what we in the maritime industry have known for a long time. It should come as no great surprise to anyone that while the United States-flag fleet has been allowed to deteriorate over the last decade into the sad shape ^ George Swift, a 25-year SIU it is in today, the Russians have taken advantage of every avail­ veteran, is now in drydock. able opportunity to strengthen "Swifty" last sailed as oiler on the Summit their position on the high seas. 1 certainly hope that the Ad­ Maurice Olson is ready to go ministration will soon wake up to back to sea after working ashore. the seriousness of the Soviet threat He said he would grab the first to this country's future in world AB's job to hit the boards. His shipping and put its full support last ship was the Alcoa Master behind a U.S. maritime buildup. Puerto Rico The leaders in the Kremlin have proven that they realize the value Domingo Ortiz is back in town of a strong merchant marine and after making a trip to Vietnam on will take whatever steps necessary the Beauregard. Ortiz said they to see to it that the Soviet Union had a good trip with a good crew. has a fleet second to none. Lee Mendoza after a nineBaltimore Thomas De Carlo is waiting around for a good job to hit the board. A 20-year man, his last ship was the Alcoa Trader. Stanley Fauntbroy told us he thinks our welfare plan is "the greatest in industry." Stan is look­ ing for a good cook's job. Larenzo RInaldl, just off the Bethtex, would like a chief cook's job aboard a Calmar C-4. month trip on the Warrior, piled off for a few weeks rest. He'll Norfolk Bosun Andrew Boney said he'd be ready to ship out soon as a like a European run after four FWT. trips to Vietnam. His last ship was Philadelphia the Steel King. William RInehart spent some T. A. Stubbs had an oiler's job on the Missouri prior to his vaca­ time on the beach and is now tion. He'd like a short trip to looking for a steward department Europe. slot. Frank O'Malley was chief Philip Navitsky just left the pumpman on the Western Hunter. Potomac on which he sailed in the He said he is on the lookout for deck department. A 20-year SIU a long trip to the Far East. member, he's registered and raring Bof^' to go again. John Hamol is ready to go After an AB's spot on the Globe again, after caring for his mother, Traveler, Vincent Quinn said h?'d who was seriously ill. His last job was as carpenter on the Robin like a bosun or deck maintenance job. Goodfellow. Check-Up Time at New York Clinic Joseph Puglisi, Jr., gets' his check-up at the New York clinic by Doctor F. Tricarico, while his mother looks on. Joseph is threeyears-old and the son of Joseph Puglisi of the deck department. �. , PhhriBn*ir t*4, 1967 SEAFARERS Page Nine LOG '•'• -.*.i^;;--\:r.:rt.::: "• -. T'-'>!' "> '• TWE GHOSTS /of* Re^isian II ' II »! • 1 ' r r h |>ESPITE nationwide advances realized by orga-i'- ' nized labor over recent decades, and a gener­ ally productive collective bargaining climate between labor and management, the conspiracy of giant textile companies in the Southeast United States continues to keep thousands of workers more than 30 years behind the times in industrial equality and more than $30 a week behind the average earnings of other American manufacturing production workers. Similar conspiracies existed in other major indus­ tries or our country in the 1930s but they were destroyed by the momentum of the trade union movement, a public spurred to outrage by unchecked exploitation of employees by big business, and the efforts of those in government who became aware that an equilibrium in collective bargaining was the only way to achieve economic growth and stability. To be sure, there are still anti-labor forces hard at work to destroy unionism in all 50 states, but the *fextile industry is the last stronghold in the nation which consistently defies and violates the official labor policy of the United States and gets away with it. For more than 30 years, the National Labor Rela­ tions AaLhas been the law of the land. It clearly states that the policy of this government is to en­ courage "the practice and procedure of collective bargaining" and guarantees workers the right to "self-organization, and designation of representatives of their own choosing." Ironically, this same act, which once helped work­ ers seeking to organize and win an equitable share of America's tremendous economic growth, is being cynically and deliberately twisted by textile companies for use against workers. Findings by the National Labor Relations Board of flagrant violations of the NLRA are appealed by the offending companies and stalled in the courts for months and years. In the meantime, workers illegally fired for union activity are deprived of income during the long court battles and, as often as not, blacklisted from other employ­ ment through company pressures. Even when NLRB charges against employers are finally upheld, the penalties are insignificant, and the mills continue to thwart union organizing activities by a repetition of the same unlawful and undemo­ cratic means. Extensive Congressional hearings into the terror tactics used by the textile firms to prevent their em­ ployees from exercising their right to organize were held last August. A long line of witnesses testified to beatings, firings, harassment, intimidation—even of an attempt to use father against son—to stop Union organizing efforts. Shock was voiced at all levels of government but nothing concrete was done to correct the deplorable situation. Nothing can be done until the loopholes in the law that employers thumb their noses at are closed by legislative action. Easily the most notorious, but by no means the only company guilty in the conspiracy is J. P. Stevens. At the request of Stevens employees, the Textile Workers Union of America launched an all-out cam­ paign to organize the company in 1963. Within a short time 107 employees were fired without legiti­ mate cause and efforts at representation elections in Stevens plants were crushed, at least temporarily, by further threats. In testimony before the House Subcommittee on Labor last sununer, TWUA President William Pol­ lock offered his explanation of how employers get away with such methods and why the conspiracy can go on imchecked. 'To put it bluntly," he said, "it thrives because the law has abandoned workers who seek to orga­ nize. FtM- practical purposes, a worker cannot exer­ cise that ri^t without risking his job in the process." PoHock referred to a booklet entitled Tlie Hollow Promise*, prepared by the TWUA to illustrate the pU^t of the Southern textile worker under the inequities of the NLRA. "The protections and guarantees the National Labor Relations Act is sup­ posed to hold out to workers are nothing more than that," he pointed out, "once a worker finds himself face to face with the textile indusf^'s anti-imion con^iiKy-** In a series of hearings, NLRB trial examiners have ordered the reinstatement with back pay of the 107 workers fired by Stevens and the ruling has been upheld by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. "Yet not one of them, to this day," Pollock told the subcommittee, "has been reinstated to his job. What else can one add to describe the utter inade­ quacy of a law which fails to produce a remedy in four long years?" To further emphasize his point, the TWUA presi­ dent cited the 1956 case in which the 550 workers of the Darlington Manufacturing Co.—a South Caro­ lina subsidiary of the Deering Milliken textile chain —exercised their right to form a union under the NLRA. "A majority of them duly voted to be represented by our union," he said. "Six days later, the board of directors of that firm voted to liquidate, and by December of that year the plant stood stripped clean of its machinery with its 550 workers out on the streets without jobs." Although the case of these workers has been favor­ ably reviewed by the NLRB and gone all the way to the Supreme Court, it has now been referred back to the NLRB with a further hearing scheduled by the Court of Appeals. "So here it is—11 years after the fact—and these 550 Darlington workers are still without redress for the grievous injury done them," Pollock declared. "If justice delayed Is justice denied, this is a case of justice strangled." Even with the awesome pressures applied by the textile firms and their conspiracy, the TWUA has won a fair share of elections approved by the NLRB. "But winning an election is only the beginning," the union head stated. "That's merely the point where the employer falls back upon his-second line of attack by refusing to bargain in good faith. "At this moment there are 11,000 southern textile workers who voted to be represented by our union, in some cases as long ago as two years. They are still without a contract. So even after you win, you can still lose." It is clear that something has gone seriously wrong with the NLRA. Before its passage in 1935 there was no labor law at all and the cards were auto­ matically stacked with the economic and political strength of the employer. The purpose of the NLRA was to balance this situation by encouraging forma­ tion and growth of trade unions as a natural, logical and democratic protection for workers who were otherwise powerless to deal on an equal basis with employers. TTie pro-management Taft-Hartley Act, passed over presidential veto during the Truman Adminis­ tration, abandoned that concept on the theory that unions should be "regulated" and the balance of power was again tilted in favor of the employer. "The effect of this changed approach to labor relations has been to hinder organizing and hog-tie collective bargaining," according to Pollock. "This is because it encourages an employer to resist the efforts of his workers to organize and to undermine their union once it has been organized. It helps him to create community-wide hostility to­ ward unions without fear of reprisal from the law. It even encourages him to violate some sections of the law in the knowledge that the Act contains devices familiar to cunning, anti-labor lawyers that will enable him to escape punishment, if used cleverly enough." Pollock pointed out that the use of these loop-hole devices has been polished by lawyers into a master blueprint for the conspiracy used against unions. The fact that this conspiracy is coordinated and centrally directed, from within the textile industry, is evidenced by the fixed formula followed by all companies in the area of Georgia and the Carolinas when prounion sentiment is found in a plant. All turn up with the same handful of law firms and management consultants who specialize in the art of union-busting. All use the same employer propaganda—often without a single change in word­ ing or punctuation—to threaten workers. All use the same schedule of terror tactics as each step in an OF 105 HAUNTS J.P, STEVEH5 UmofsnY Of LOHPON SUPPO^ wowe«s organizing campaign is reached. And whenever a union is successful in being certified as a bargaining agent, all present the same set of management de­ mands in contract negotiations which, if accepted, would kill the effectiveness and value of the union. Such measures by employers—thus far all too effective—are possible because the language of TaftHartley undermines the provisions of the National Labor Relations Act. To bring the southern textile employee into the more affluent 20th century world of his fellow workers in the rest of the nation, those provisions must be restored by the Congress and the White House. With the full backing of the AFL-CIO, the Textile Workers president has made the following proposals to put teeth back into the enforcement of the NLRA: • Double or triple damages assessed against viola­ tors such as J. P. Stevens and its collaborators in the southern conspiracy so that breaking the law will no longer be profitable. (As it is, back pay ordered by the NLRB for reinstated employees is not only tax deductible as a business expense, but a mere pittance when compared to decent wages that would have been paid all employees under a union contract.) • Employers repeatedly found in violation of the NLRA should be disqualified by Executive order from receiving contracts from the federal govern­ ment. (In 1966 alone, J. P. Stevens did more than $76 million in government business.) • The NLRB should be required to seek injunc­ tions to restrain unfair labor practices by employers who are chronic violators of the law. (At present, the board has that power in particular cases but an attempt to use it against Stevens in 1964 was stalled in the courts for more than two years and eventually came to a dead end.) • Criminal penalties should be provided against any employer who discriminates against a worker who files charges or testifiies before the NLRB. • In an effort to speed up NLRB procedures and eliminate long delaying actions by employers, a victimized worker confirmed by the board as having been improperly fired should be reinstated in his job immediately so he can continue to earn a living while the employer's appeal is pending. • The right to hold pre-hearing elections should be restored to the NLRB so that decisions can be speeded up and cases resolved in weeks, instead of the months or years that are now common. • In proper cases, the NLRB should be powered to '•equire employers to recognize and gain with a union when the union has been vented from gaining a majority because of the ployer's persistent unfair labor practices. em­ bar­ pre­ em­ • A provision whereby unions claiming to rep­ resent a majority of employees can substantiate that claim through a card-check election before NLRBappointed federal labor law registrars—thus shorten­ ing present time-consuming election machinery. • Realistic remedies to insure consummation of an initial collective bargaining agreement in cases where an employer is required by law to recognize and bargain with a union. This to eliminate bad faith bargaining on the part of anti-union employers. • Revocation of the employer's immunity under Taft-Hartley from responsibility for the acts of his agents. This change in the present law would bar employers from using third parties—such as news­ papers, the local Chamber of Commerce, "citizen's committees," etc.—to do their anti-union dirty work for them without anyone being held legally account­ able for such actions. In the light of all the evidence of company abuses of the law, it is the duty of Congress to effect these changes. The conspiracy of the southern textile giants must be smashed, not rewarded with fat gov­ ernment contracts which make these brazen law­ breakers rich while their employees continue to be cheated out of decent wages and working conditions. �SEAFARERS Page Ten LOG November 24, 1967 AFL'CIO Raps House Meat Bill as Hoax on US Pablit WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO, calling for a tough Federal meat inspection law, has denounced a Housepassed meat inspection bill as "a snare, a delusion, and a hoax on the American people". Testifying before a Senate Agriculture subcommittee looking into new meat inspection bills, the labor federation instead gave strong backing to the bill presented by Senator Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) which would extend Federal meat inspection to all meat-packing plants, regardless of whether these plants deal with intrastate or interstate commerce. At present, the Federal Government can inspect only those meat-plants dealing in interstate commerce. The subcommittee is also reviewing a similar bill presented by Senator Joseph Montoya (D-N.M.). (As the LOG went to press, a compromise bill was reported to have been worked out between Mondale and Montoya which would give the states two years to in­ stitute inspection programs "at least equal" to Federal standards. Failure to comply would be grounds for the Secretary of Agriculture to act against any intrastate plant found to be a health hazard and, if necessary, close it. The substitute measure would also provide a continuous review of state systems—including access to records and the taking of meat samples.) Also testifying before the subcommittee were Betty Furness, is President Johnson's Special Assi.stant on Consumer Affairs, who pressed Administration back­ ing of the Mondale bill, and author Ralph Nader, who scored "powerful state agriculture departments and ment industry pressure.s" for hampering vital inspection legislation, and several Federal investigators who re­ ported deplorable conditions in meat-plants not subject to Federal inspection. Federal vs. State Controls The Mondale bill, which would immediately extend Federal controls to intrastate meat-packers, has re­ ceived strong endorsement from labor, consumers' groups, and in a sudden policy switch, the Administra­ tion. The House-passed bill calls for a Federal grant pro­ gram, under which the Government would pay up to 50 percent of the cost for any state which establishes an inspection program meeting Federal standards. Com­ pliance with the program is purely voluntary. The Montoya bill, previously backed by the Admin­ istration, would amend the House bill by providing a three-year limit for states to institute adequate meat inspection programs. If a state failed to act within this time, the Secretary of Agriculture would be authorized to enforce Federal inspection standards in the state. Montoya's bill received support from segments of the packing industry. Andrew J. Biemiller, AFL-CfO Legislative Director, testified that "there must be no bargain basement gimmicks when the health of fellow Americans is in­ volved". The House bill, he said, is "weak, ineffective legislation" that would prod rather than pressure states into enacting inspection programs that might meet Federal standards. Miss Furness told the subcommittee that consumers had alreadv waited 60 years for states to establish ade­ quate health standards in the meat-industry, and a wait of two or three more years, as Montoya's bill or the House bill would provide, is too much to ask. "I don't think we should be looking askance at hamburgers and sausages for the next couple of years," she remarked; "We can't fool around with this." Ralph Nader, who has campaigned for federallyenforced safety standards in different industries, declared that stronger Federal meat-inspection mea*^ures are a necessity. "The fact that Federal inspectors condemn an average of about one-million pounds of meat a day as unfit for human consumption—even under the more stringent Federal inspection—is the clue to . . . the basis for concern in the non-Federally inspected sector," Nader declared. "More ominous," he continued, "is the deep-rooted entrenchment of traffic in the '4-D's'—dead, dying, diseased, and di.sabled animals. Ironically, bad meat is, and has been for a long time, good business. . . . This traffic is drawn heavily to intrastate markets because of the nonexi-stence, laxity or complicity of Government regulations." Widespread Abuses Cited Also testifying in favor of stricter inspection measures before the Senate subcommittee were three Federal in­ spectors from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who appeared at the request of Senator Mondale. One inspector, Edward Chizek of Omaha, said that in July he visited a plant where he found flies "abundant­ ly present." He also reported "mold slime in coolers and debris and trash throughout the plants," and that "Em­ Hie Pacific Coast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative The Republican momentum, which was obvious in many elec­ tions, didn't affect Democratic Mayoralty candidate Joseph L. Alioto. The SIU and other unions gave their all-out support to Alioto. He defeated Republican Harold Dobbs by more than 16,000 votes and Democrat Jack Morrison by more than 66,000 votes. The SIU supported Alioto's candidacy '<^ by walking the precincts, handing Wilmington out literature and talking to the William "Flat-top" Koflowitch, voters. now on the beach here, last sailed Many people feel Republican on the Norberto Capay. AB "Reaganism" may be the big trou­ Koflowitch has been a member ble in California. Democrats and of tbe .SIU for 20 years. other liberals are joining ranks to Also on the beach is Bill King, turn back the reactionary drive who's looking for a slot as Fire­ against the working-class citizens man or Deck Engineer. He's been who make up much of Califor­ an SIU brother for 20 years. nia's population. Seafarer Richard McConnell, AB, is just off the San Francisco. He presently is recuperating from a back ailment before shipping out. In this period, we have had three sign-ons, eight ships in SAN DIEGO — The SIUNA- transit, and payoffs on the Rachel affiliated Transportation and Al­ v., Rebecca, and Seatrain Geor­ lied Workers of California have gia. Seattle negotiated .a new contract with the Oceanside Taxi Company, On the beach we have Seafarer calling for a guaranteed weekly Francis A. Warren, who has been wage, a hike in health and welfare a member of the SIU for 20 years. benefits and increased vacation Robert S. Cossiboin, off the time, in addition to other new Transwestem where he sailed as benefits. second electrician, has been a The new contract provides for member of the SIU for 22 years. two weeks vacation after two Shipping has been good. Since year employment, a 20% increase the last period, we paid off seven in health and welfare benefits, ships, signed on eight, and had arbitration and increased commis­ eight in-transit The shipping out­ sions, in addition to a weekly look looks fair for the coming period. guaranteed wage, S/U Cab Drivers Win New Pact ployees were not required to wear wa.shable clothing or head covering, and equipment was without adequate sanitary procedures." Another inspector, R. A. Baumgartner of Milwaukee, told of surveying a plant where plant workers wore "filthy clothes" and there was "direct contamination of products." The third inspector, Stephen Kota of Norfolk, Va., told of visiting a plant at which he found "abcessed beef and pork livers and parasitic infested livers mixed with edible products;" meat was dragged across a "primitive floor" on which there were vermin droppings. Though this particular plant is in a state with manda­ tory inspection laws, Kota said, "the law was not imple­ mented." Thus, he added, the plant was able to pro­ duce as much as 15,000 pounds of unsafe hamburger meat per week. Triendly' Fond It was recently disclosed that a meat industry trade association president attempted to raise funds for "friendly" congressmen. The fund-raising project, orga­ nized by L. Blaine Liljenquist, president of the Western States Meat Packers Association, was abandoned at the insistence of leaders of the House Agriculture Com­ mittee, who supported the industry position on meat inspection and favored the House-passed bill. When a copy of Liljenquist's fund solicitation letters (which had been sent to meat-packing firms) came to the attention of House Agriculture Committee chair­ man W. R. Poage (D-Tex.), Poage consulted with senior Democratic and Republican committee members and fired off a letter to the packer's association demand­ ing that the solicitations cease and that any funds col­ lected be returned. Until that was done, Poage warned, the bill would not be brought to the House floor. Liljenquist agreed to the terms, and the bill was brought out of committee and passed by the House. Senator Mondale noted that the setting-up of the "political slush fund" could boomerang on the entire industry. "The meat industry's sudden interest in the political careers of 'filendly' congressmen," he said, "coming at a time when Federal legislation regulating the slaughter and processing of meat sold to consumers is under consideration, can only lead to the conclusion in the public eye that this was a crass attempt to influence the Congress." Massive Shipbuilding Program Urged By Congressman at MTD Seminar WASHINGTON—Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal (D-N.Y.), today called for enlargement of a Congressional merchant marine program introduced last week by House and Senate maritime leaders. Speaking at a day-long seminar sponsored by the six-million-member AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, Rosenthal called «> ———— — for construction of more than try will be "convincing an econ­ time affairs off of "dead center." • Milton G. Nottingham, vice the 30 or 40 new ships a year omy-minded Congress that it would be toying with national president of Peralta Shipping recommended in the new program. disaster to put off an immediate Agency, Inc., who reminded the Rosenthal was one of a series revitalizing ot our merchant ma­ audience that the merchant ma­ of speakers who hammered away rine." rine "consists of both ships and at the need for a bold new mari­ • Henry Segal, Treasurer of men," and who urged that the time program to help make up the Pulp-Sulphite Workers, who nation "give at least as much the deficiencies of the past two decades, and who called for res­ called the Congressionally-spon- attention to those who will direct toration of the U.S. as a major sored maritime program "a break­ and man our merchant fleet as through" which signals the inten­ to the ships that will comprise the maritime power. tion on Capitol Hill to get mari­ fleet." Among those addressing the conference were: SIU Lakes Boatman Retires • Former IDemocratic Con­ gressman Robert E. Sweeney of Ohio, who warned that "we've already wasted too much time" in the devising of a maritime pro­ gram, and who said that the pend­ ing legislation "is our last chance" to save the U.S. merchant marine. • Rocco C. Siciliano, president of the Pacific Maritime Associa­ tion, who called for an industry­ wide consensus on a maritime pro­ gram, declaring that the merchant marine is "sick, and it is in danger of becoming a terminal case un­ less there is some agreement among all the various forces who are proposing a cure for its ills." • Andrew J. Biemiller, AFLCIO Legislative Director, ^o de­ A disability pension check is presented to Seafarer Felix Knechtel clared that the "biggest single (right) by IBU Great Lakes Welfare Representative Dick Hollingstask" facing the maritime indus­ worth, on the occasion of long-time seafarer Knechtel's retirement. �N<r««mber 24, 1967 Nigerian Unionist Visits LOG On a recent visit of SlU Brooklyn Headquarters, Nigerian labor official Okon Eshiett (center), discussed union publications with Seafcrers LOG editor Mike Pollack (left) and Frank Pecquex, of the SlU International Department. Eshiett is the General Secre­ tary of the Nigerian Union of Commercial, Technical, and Allied Employees. He is studying United States of America labor activities. The Gulf Coast by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Guff Area The SlU-contracted Delta Steamship Company began service to several Mexican ports on November 2. Among the ports serviced are Vera Cruz, Tampico and Coatzacoalcos. The Del Norte be­ came the first Delta vessel to ply the new routes. A major conversion job was performed by Todd Shipyards in Galveston. The Houston was con- ^ verted from the T-2 Tanker Mis­ New Orleans sion and added to the Sea-Land John Durcan is looking for a fleet. The conversion was accom­ South American run. He's been plished in four months, some shipping out of New Orleans for forty days ahead of schedule. the past few years as FOWT. The ship will carry 332 con­ O. Farrara would like a Viet­ tainers and have facilities to main­ nam or Far Eastern trip after sail­ tain 63 refrigerated units. ing as third cook on the Rebecca. Candidates endorsed by the He's shipped out of New Orleans Louisiana AFL-CIO Committee since 1926 and his Southern drawl on Political Education were elect­ belies his Rhode Island birth. ed overwhelmingly in the Demo­ Mobile cratic Primary. Statewide candi­ Fred Cooper just registered dates received up to 80 per cent after shipping as bosun on the of the vote. Alcoa Voyager. Fred has shipped Louis W. Cutrer has been en­ out of the Gulf for 20 years. dorsed for Mayor of Houston by Marshall Cooper spent a year the West Gulf Ports Council of aboard the Ocean Anna as a the Maritime Trades Department. member of the deck department. Cutrer is opposing the incumbent After some time with the family, two-term Mayor. he will be ready for another trip. The council represents 35,000 James Dicidnson was FWT on members in the 26 unions in the Keva Ideal cement run until Houston and Harris County. the vessel had to lay-up due to "This is the first group represent­ lack of cargo. James prefers ing organized labor to endorse short rUns and should be ready to any candidate," said SIU Houston sail shortly. port agent Paul Drozak, who also A1 MascieUo spent some time serves as executive secretary of shuttling aboard the Ema Eliza­ the council. beth. A1 sails as a baker and has Drozak said that the present sailed from Gulf ports for 20 Mayor, Louis Welch, "made a lot years. of promises that haven't been ful­ Harlan Peters had a long trip filled." In addition, Drozak aboard the Maiden Creek as a pointed out, Mayor Welch has member of the steward depart­ been endorsed by Governor John ment. Connally, another reason for the Houston sun>ort of Cutrer. The council Nick Gaylord, who last shipped feels the Governor's anti-union on the Di^y, came in to say views have been reflected in the hello to his many -friends here. Mayor's office. Nick was ship's delegate during All trade unionists are urged a 43-day trip from Rotterdam to to vote and work for the election Texas. Nick reported that ship of Louis W. Cutrer for Mayor of breakdowns were responsible for Houston. the extended trip. SEAFARERS Page Eleven LOG Jobless Rate Hits Two- Tear High; Workforee increase Cited for Rise WASHINGTON—A continuing rise in the number of people seeking work and failing to find it pushed the nation's jobless rate to 4.3 percent in October, the highest level in two years, the Labor Department has reported. The key seasonally adjusted usually large labor force injobless rate was up from 4.1 per­ creases,' the Labor Department rose by 120,000 over the month, seasonally adjusted, to 66.2 mil­ cent in September and 3.8 per­ noted. lion, the report said. The rise cent in August. The rate was 3.8 The report pointed out that un­ was centered in state and local percent in October 1966. employment was up about one- government and in trade. The Teenagers ' and adult men ac­ fourth over the year for both return of striking teachers ac­ counted for the increase of nearly teenagers and women—to 15.1 counted for 60,000 of the job 200,000 in unemployment over percent and 4.8 percent, respec­ gain in government, the report the month, the Labor Department, tively. added. said. Total unemployment stood Factory employment totalled Occupationally, the Labor De­ at nearly 3 million, about 500,000 19.2 million, seasonally adjusted, partment said, jobless rates have higher than a year earlier. in October, unchanged from Sep­ moved up for jobs requiring less The employment side of the tember. This was 400,000 below picture remained strong, with job­ skills and in work in which the all-time high set in January women are concentrated. holders totaling 74.6 million, sea­ The rate for operatives (semi­ 1967, the report observed. sonally adjusted. This was about Over the year, payroll jobs are the same as in September and was skilled) rose from 4.1 to 5.3 per­ up by 1.5 million. The Labor up 1.4 million from October a cent over the year. The rate for Department tied the entire innon-farm laborers increased from year earlier. crea.se to job growth in the serv­ The upsurge in unemployment 6.8 to 9.2 percent. ice-producing industries. Govern­ For workers whose last job was ment, primarily state and local, in recent months was related by the Labor Department ^o the un­ clerical, the jobless rate moved up was up by 670,000. Miscellaneous expectedly large labor 'force in­ from 3.2 to 3.9 percent over the services were up by 500,000 and crease. The adult women flooding year. The rate for sales workers trade by 400.000. into the labor force in the early moved from 2.2 to 3.4 percent and Factory employment was down fall were still having difficulty for service workers, from 4.6 to by 260.000 from October 1966, finding jobs, a situation which in­ 5.5 percent. with much of the reduction attribcreased medium-term unemploy­ Job stability continued for cer­ ted to an increase in striking work­ ment—those jobless five to 14 tain key groups. The report said ers who were off payrolls. Strikers weeks. the jobless rates for adult men and are counted, however, in the sepa­ married men, at 2.5 and 1.9 per­ rate household surveys since they Labor Force Increases cent in October, were not signifi­ are considered as employed but The civilian labor force totalled cantly changed from a year ago not at work. 78 million in October, up by 1.9 and remained close to their aver­ Average hourly earnings for million or some 500,000 higher age levels for the past 12 months. than the 1.4 million job rise since Similarly, the rate for workers in­ workers on non-farm payrolls were $2.72 in October—up one October 1966. sured under state jobless pay pro- cent from September and 12 cents "This large year-to-year increase prams, those with a "firm labor from October a year ago. Their in unemployment—^which includes force attachment," was unchanged workweek averaged 38.1 hours, 275,000 women, 175,000 16-to 19- over the month at 2.4 percent. down six-tenths of 1 percent from year-olds and 50,000 adult men— a year ago. Non-Farm Jobs Up developed almost entirely in the For factory production workers, last few months along with unNon-farm payroll employment the workweek edged down onetenth of 1 percent over the month to 40.7 hours seasonally adjusted. JTie workweek was down more than one-half hour from a year ago. Weak Gun Control Measure OKd by House Committee WASHINGTON—A heavily watered-down version of the Ad­ ministration's proposed firearms control bill has been reported by a House Judiciary subcommittee and sent to full committee. The vote in favor of rqjorting of any gun control measure. the bill to the full committee was The bill prohibits the sale of taken on a straight 7-6 party- handguns to persons under 21 line basis. A similar bill is still years of age, and long guns to under consideration by the Senate persons below 18. It also strength­ Judiciary. Both the Senate and ens the licensing procedure for House bills are given little chance dealers and makes it unlawful for of passing. a dealer to sell guns to persons Representative Jack Brooks (D- whom he suspects are prohibited Texas), who voted to advance the by local laws from buying bill out of the subcommittee, ex­ weapons. plained that he did not support No date has been set for the the bill but wanted to get it before full Judiciary Committee to hold the full committee where it could hearings on the bill. be discussed more thoroughly. He President Johnson has been said he was sure there was "defi­ pressing Congress for a gun-con­ nitely" no chance of the bill being trol law for years. passed this session. Stand Is Softened Though the original bill bans interstate sale of handguns as well as interstate mail order sale of all guns, the White House had ap­ proved a change which would al­ The George Meany Foun­ low states to exempt themselves dation will produce "The La­ from the ban on rifle and shot­ bor Of Thy Hands" by Joseph gun sales, and would permit a Mindel on the Eternal Light buyer to purchase such a "long television program on Sunday, November 26, from 1:30 to gun" in person and have it shipped across state lines to his home. 2:00 p.m. EST. The provision allowing states to The program will also be exempt themselves was added to carried on 110 stations of the. attract a measure of support from NBC-TV network. Consult the western states which have ob­ your local newspa(>er listings jected to a strong bill. The Na­ for the time and channel in tional Rifle Association has also your area. stirred opposition to the passage Meany Foundation I Presents TV Program I Soviet Fishermen Triple Catch Off East Coast BOSTON — Russian fishermen caught 165 million pounds of fish in waters off the coast of New England in 1964, more than tripling the amount they caught the previous year (50 million pounds). Senator Edward M. Ken­ nedy said at the American Com­ mercial Fish Exposition. In comparison, he noted that in 1964 landings at the Boston Fish Pier totaled 106 million pounds and in 1966 the landings totaled only 89 million pounds. "These statistics tell the story of one nation bent hard upon expanding its fishing industry and of another letting it die," Ken­ nedy asserted. Joint Effort A joint program between Rus­ sian and U.S. scientists, surveying the fishing grounds between Cape Cod and Cape Hatteras, also was described. Dr. Arkady Noskov of the So­ viet Union and Dr. Robert L. Edwards of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's program for the Bureau of Commercial Fish­ eries, described the joint scientific approach in which the Americans and Russians even swapped ships in a cooperative mood. �Pmge Twelve SEAFARERS Welfare Claims Handled Promptly Birch Society Un-American To The Editon I wish to express my thanks to the SIU welfare plan for the efficient and prompt way in which they handled my recent claim. My thanks also goes to the office staff. They were most helpful when I called them long distance. It's a good feeling and a comfort to know one has such benefits through the SIU. Again, my thanks to everyone there. Sincerely, Mrs. Ada Frank Greenville, R.I. To The Editor: ^1, SIU Did Fine Job In Raising Pensions To The Editon Once again, may I express my thanks to my Seafaring LETTERS To Tlie Editor brothers and the welfare de­ partment for making it possi­ ble to increase my pension check. My appreciation for their ef­ forts and those of the officials for bringing this about. May the very best come tp all of you who have helped in so many ways to obtain this in­ crease in the pension. Fraternally, Charles Goldstein Expresses Thanks To SIU Welfare To The Editon I am writing to express my heartfelt appreciation for the courteous and speedy manner in which my husband's disabil­ ity and death benefits were re­ ceived. It was most efficient. The lovely floral arrange­ ment, expressing sympathy, and the announcement in the Sea­ farers Log of his departure and final rites, should also be men­ tioned. These mementoes will remain always. The SIU and their officials are to be com­ mended for such a magnani­ mous program. Sincerely, Mrs. Bessie M. Prescott (Widow of Omer G. Prescott) Mobile, Ala. Thanks Union For Blood Donations To The Editor: On behalf of myself and my family, I would like to thank the SIU for your assistance in obtaining blood for my late sis­ ter, Mrs. Flofence Bushek, who passed away October 19. The assistance by your orga­ nization will always be remem­ bered deep in our hearts. Please extend our deep thanks to the members of your organization for the blood donated in behalf of our sister. Forever grateful, I remain, Gregory Gran and Family I just want to add a few notes to what has been printed in your article on the Birch Society; The Birch Society claims it believes in the U.S? Constitu­ tion, yet opposes the Federal Government's use of the Bill of Rights and later amendments to protect the rights of Ameri­ cans. The Birchers say the civil-rights movement has been, and is. Communist-inspired. They mention nothing about "poverty-inspired" or "oppres­ sion-inspired." The Birch Society claims that our Government is riddled with Communists. But the Birchers say nothing about the fact that our national and local and state representatives were elected by America's millions of voters. They also say nothing to show what an out-and-out Commu­ nist looks like or acts like, or exactly what makes any elected official in the Federal Govern­ ment a "Communist" in the first place. If by "Communist" the Birch­ ers mean those who pool their resources for the benefit of the whole, they forget that the John Birch Society itself collects dues from its members and pools the money. If by "Communist" the Birch Society means those who use deceit and trickery to impose their own ideas on unsuspecting people, the Birchers seem to forget that their organization's own "Bible," the Blue Book, advocates the use of heckling, deceit and trickery to get rid of a person they believe to be "Red" but can't prove it. The Birchers talk about the will of the people being subver­ ted. Yet they declare that the U.S.- is really a "republic," not a "democracy," and that the masses of American ctizens are generally not smart enough to know what is good for them. The Birchers say that this nation should pull out of the United Nations and stop talk­ ing. They forget that the only way to win the world over to a belief in personal freedom is to convince people of its value, not to force them into submission by taking away their chance to see that freedom. The Birchers say we must end all foreign aid. They fail to see that to do so would be to force impoverished or develop­ ing nations to turn most prob­ ably to the Communist nations for that aid. If that were to happen, it would be as though the United States had just sat down and completely given up. Perhaps, as the Birch So­ ciety says, there is a danger of Communism coming from with­ in the U.S. But I submit that the fanatic beliefs and twisted con­ spiracies of the John Birch So­ ciety are as much of a threat to a free and democratic America as the supposed "Red threat." The only thing left to distin­ guish Birchers from Reds in America is that the Birchers ap­ pear better organized. Sinccr^, Ron Harrisoti LOG NoveiiAer S4, 19«7 Alowe Version of Seafarer's Novel Touted as Possible Award Winner ". . . Exciting and unforgettable . . "a forceful portrait, . . . ruthlessly realistic." These com­ ments, by critics from the New York Post and New York Times, were just two of many that greeted the movie version of "Cool Hand Luke," based on the novel by former Seafarer Donn Pearce. Pearce joined the SIU in 1955 and shipped out in the steward department. He later became an OS, then an AB. Paul Newman, who plays Luke, an eternal rebel, headed the cast of this major pro­ duction, which is as authentic as a motion picture can get. Pearce spent two years at hard labor in a Florida chain gang, after "the world's most inept, teen­ age safecracking job. I served my time and later wrote the book just the way it was," Pearce explained. "Naturally, there was some literary license, but the details about the work, the punishments, the food and life in the barracks were all from experience." Warner Brothers, producers of the picture, effectively maintained the atmosphere of a southern chain gang on the movie set. The studio built a southern prison camp just north of Stockton, Calif. Included Ex-Seafarer turned author, Donn Pearce (left) discusses the filmamong the dozen buildings were ing of a key scene in "Cool Kand Luke," the movie version of a barracks, mess hall, warden's Pearce's novel. Stuart Rosenberg (holding cup) directed. Paul New­ quarters, guard shacks and dog man (right) played Luke, the Florida chain gang prisoner who re­ kennels. The camp, which covered fuses to conform. The film was highly praised by movie critics. several acres, was surrounded by chain-link fencing. Dozens of oak Shortly after that came the safe­ lar, where he took up painting, trees on the camp's perimeter were and sold some canvases at side­ strung with moss, a ton being cracking experience and life on walk art shows in New York's the chain gang. After he was re­ shipped in from Louisiana. leased, he went to sea. "As soon Greenwich Village. Then, he took Award Possibilities as I could, I went to sea. It's a free up writing. "The motorcycle accident turned The realism paid off with a life and it helps me to write. I've out to be the luckiest break of my movie that will undoubtedly wind been shipping out, off and on, ever life," Pearce stated." While I was up on many ten-best lists and since." recovering in a Danbury Hospital, "I prefer to write from the gut earn some Academy Award nomi­ I met my wife Christine who was nations. The Los Angeles Times about things I know from first working there as a nurse. As soon said the film is a "remarkably in­ hand. Til probably go back to sea as I was back on my feet, we were teresting and impressive Holly­ again soon to make sure of some married." wood film and one which gives of the details in my next book, For the sake of posterity, a fresh hope that the Hollywood which will be about the sea." complete still photographic record movie need not be a limiting de­ Pearce gained valuable writing of the filming of "(Y>ol Hand finition." knowledge from a scholarship to Luke" was compiled by Stockton Pearce's contribution didn't end the Bread Loaf ' '-•er's Confer­ historian Horace Spencer. The with writing the book. He co- ence at Middlebury College in photographs were added to the authored the screenplay with archives of the Hazen Memorial Frank R. Pierson and served as a Vermont. He won the scholarship Galleries, a privately-endowed technical advisor. In addition, the for "Cool Hand Luke," with the museum in San Joaquin County. Seafarer had a bit part in the film. movie sale soon following. Jo Van Fleet, who plays Paul According to Pearce, Luke is a Some seven years ago, he had Newman's mother, is considered "super convict." A larger than life his right foot crushed in a motor­ a good bet for an academy award hero, he was a decorated war hero, cycle accident. Disabled for two for her role. The part is a good an expert banjo player. Luke was years, he lived in a Brooklyn cel­ one, even though very small. a man who wouldn't conform to the system. "He displayed the greatest courage in the face of the SIU Lifeboat Class No, 189 Casts Off cruelties and the beatings by the guards, the utmost endurance and cleverness during his repeated escapes. He played a real cool hand." Luke yas the inspiration of his fellow prisoners and they remem­ ber him long after he is killed by the prison guards. Workfaig On New Novel Pearce has a stack of short stories and some ideas for novels that he hopes might be published shortly. "Cool Hand Luke" was published by Charles Scribner and Sons, with a pocket book version published by Fawcett Publications, due on the newsstands soon. Pearce's own life reads like a scenario. "I never had a home in the usual sense. I was bom in Croyden, Pa., just in time for the depression. My father was what you might call a dri^r, an itin- Jhese men have just received their lifeboat tickets after passing cmnce'ss?ona?re'''^PeMM"w forced to "quit high school al 15 and joined the Army at 16." He was discharged when the Army discovered his true cage. Coast Guard examinations. The men took the SIU lifeboat training course at Mill Basin, New York. In front row, L-R, are: Jose Soto. Seibel, Jesse Greer and Melvin Gibby. In back row, instructor f^^ul McGaharn, Andrew Kelly, John Callanan and Georges Angelikoussis. The lifeboat class was graduated on November 7, 1967. �SEAFARERS JVoTcml^er 24, 1967 Page Thirteen LOG Wetnm IVar Gose to Home \/men Seafarer's Sea is Weimded Up until recently, the only involvement Seafarer Joe Castro Harold Du Cloux, ship's reporter on the Duke Victory (Victory Carriers) told the LOG that James had with the Vietnam war was the fact that he supported the U.S. A. Joimson of the steward department took his chief cook's job on the ship in order to visit his sonwar effort and did his part by making the Vietnam run as many in-law, Major John Coppley, advisor to South Vietnamese forces. Johnson arrived in Cam Ranh times as possible. <s>Bay where he met Major Cop­ Recently the war struck closer disagrees with the arguments of "This crew goes on record in pley. The Duke Victory's cap­ •are looked out for," Dunne wrote. to home when his son Manuel some anti-war demonstrators. thanking ship's delegate Earl Moore told the crew that "every­ Castro, 19, a Lance Corporal with Manuel told his father of "atroc­ tain invited the Major to visit thing seems to be shaping up" and McCab for a job well done." Meetthe First Marine Division, was ities" performed on village chiefs the ship and the entire crew gave he hopes "the new gang will have him the "V. I. P. treatment," Ehi a pleasant trip." Dunne, who also by the Communists. wounded in action. ing Secretary Cloux reported. After his visit, served as bosun, came in for some "I get sick when I see these Alton Booth re­ Castro recently paid a visit to the Major was praise for "Supplying the ship ports from the St. Albans hospital in New York demonstrations," Jose stated. picked up by a with a new library full of the lat­ Del Santos (Del­ City to see his son and told the "They have no respect for law patrol boat and est books." This ship has left Sai­ ta). The Captain LOG that Manuel received ma­ and order. As for myself, I hope returned to shore gon and will pay off on the West to go back to Vietnam. If I can't is "well satisfied chine gun and shrapnel wounds where he rejoined Coast. with his SIU in fighting around Trang Qui. As fight, I may as well take cargo." his outfit at Quin Jose has been sailing in the ere w." Booth a result the boy has a partially Booth Hon. Meeting wrote. A vote of paralyzed right arm and neck deck department for 21 years and Chairman Henry has two other boys, Jose, Jr. and wounds, his father said. Malcolm M. Cross, meeting thanks was extended the steward Schwartz reported Pedro. Jose, Jr. is 21 years old department for doing such an ex­ "I give St. Al- and is stationed at Fort Dix, New "a good ship with chairman on the Linfield Victory, cellent job. Du Cloux ban's my compli­ Jersey. His youngest boy, Pedro (Alcoa) reported no disputed over­ ments," Castro is 18 and sails as an OS with the time reported by the delegates." that ship's dele­ said. They pro- SIU. He sailed to Vietnam aboard Brother Schwartz also serves as gate Bill Scott William Phillips resigned as V i d e wonderful the Linfield Victory at the same ship's delegate. All the Seafarers proposed that a ship's delegate on the Cosmo Mar­ treatment for all time his father was making a trip need for a perfect voyage is a new letter be sent to iner (Cosmos) to of the boys there aboard the Free America, ice maker. the company in give someone else there." Jose said but unfortunately they didn't get regard to the "ex­ a shot at the job, cellent manage­ Castro waiting a chance to see each other. John Dunne, meeting chairman meeting Secretary ment of the vessel word on a possi­ "I had made a trip to Vietnam on the Bowling Green (Pan Amer­ Jack Hart writes. by Captain Rich­ ble operation for in March when Manuel's outfit Cross ican) reports that Phillips received young Manuel on the wounded was sent over,' Jose recalled, "but ard Hicks." Scott Charles Moore praise of his ship­ part cf the neck or shoulder. also received a vote of thanks for "was elected by we didn't have a chance to meet." mates for the fine This is the second time the boy acclamation to his "exceptional" job as delegate. Jose has met a number of U.S. job he turned in, was wounded, his father said. servicemen and found their mo­ continue the good The steward department did a fine Hart reported. Mosakowski The first time • ••cli "-hen rale to be "very high." job by all mem­ job, Richard Hanek, meeting sec­ Robert Spencer, retary, reports. The payoff will he was hit in ti.,; arm by shrap­ bers present." Jose, a native of Puerto Rico, meeting chairman told the men nel. "He recovered and went joined the Union in Baltimore. Moore has done be held in San Diego. that the ship's fund contains $8. back," Jose said. a "tip-top job in His first ship was the Morning Joe Mosakowski was named as the seeing that the in­ Seafarer Castro said that he Light. ship's delegate. Dunne Some good old American knowterests of the crew — — how was required to fix the Alcoa Voyager's (Alcoa) It was election time on the television set. Overseas Dinny (Maritime Over­ Meeting secretary seas) according: to M. P. Cox report­ J. H. Loe, meet­ ed. "The televiing chairman. s i o n repairman Pete Dolan will "The alertness of an efficient couldn't fix the serve as ship's Nancy O'Neill, born October 1, Paulette Gnillory, born October crew and officers" helped save the set in Germany," delegate while R. 1967, to the Johnny O'Neills, 16, 1967, to the Paul C. Guillorys, life of a fellow crewmember Cox wrote, ".so Hunt has been during a recent voyage of the Bronx, N.Y. La. Mamou, the job will have elected to be the Globe Traveler, AB and ship's Arndt to be done in New new treasurer. delegate Ivar Anderson reported Orleans." Cox, who is also ship's Meeting Secretary to the LOG. William Beacham, born Octo­ Loe Atrise Lawrence, born July 26, treasurer, stated that the ship's M. Requiso in­ "We were on ber 11, 1967 to the Benjamin 1967, to the James L. Lawrences, fund totals $34. O. L. Arndt, formed us that the galley repairs our way to Hol­ Beachams, Beaufort, N.C. Jr., New Orleans, La. land with a load meeting chairman, reported that have been taken care of and dele­ of coal," Brother most repairs have been taken care gates reported no problems. Anderson re­ of. Those that have not should Bonefay Mullis, born October Vita Maria Marano, born ported to the be finished before the payoff in 7, 1967, to the John W. Mullis, October 20, 1967, to the Anthony LOG. About 600 New Orleans or New York. Some Mobile, Ala. J. Maranos, New Orleans, La. miles out of Phil­ disputed overtime in the engine adelphia our ra­ department, delegate Chester Anderson dio officer, Har­ Lohr reported, but no other beefs J a m e s Antfaoay Blancluurd, old Rafter, suffered a heart at­ or disputed overtime. bom October 18, -1967, to the Vera Carolyn Mann, born Oc­ James L. Blanchards, Pacolet, tober 25, 1967, to the James tack. It was about 9:45 p.m. on S.C. MUSKEGON, Mich. — CrewManns, 5602 Skidaway Rd., Sa­ November 1, when he was strick­ en." The Captain and Chief Offi­ member of SIU Great Lakes Dis­ Meeting Chairman R. Weaver vannah, Ga. ^ cer were able to provide aid while reports from the Cortland (George trict-contracted freighter Gysum sending a message for assistance. T. Bates) that M. recently rescued two men after Sonya Mae Merritt, bom Aug­ "I acted as liaison man between C. Storch of the they had drifted helplessly for al­ ust 20, 1967, to the Robert R. Larry Keith Jordan, born Oc­ the radio and bridge," Anderson deck department most three days on their power­ Merritts, Femdale, Fla. tober 27, 1967, to the Dewey B. said. "We finally heard from the had to leave the less cruiser. Coast Guard Cutter, Cape George. vessel due to hosJordans, Wilmer, Ala. The two men, Robert Morton, The cutter contacted their head­ p i t al i zat i on . 42, and Ralph Guthrie, 21, were Stephen Wade LighteD, bom —— quarters in New York, who in turn Brother Storch spotted by the Gysum after they October 2, 1967, to the Paul G. notified the USPHS Hospital in Lightens, Metaire, La. needs an opera­ had set off emergency smoke Rose Hawkins, born August 17, Staten Island. tion and his fel­ flares, a trick Morton had learned 1967, to the Sidney D. Hawkins, Anderson reported that the low Seafarers only recently in a U.S. Power NakUcki Captain ordered the Globe Trav­ wish him a speedy Squadron class. MeUnda Fletcher, bom October Pensacola, Fla. eler tumed around and the ship recovery. Frank Naklicki, meet­ The luckless pleasure boaters 11, 1967, to the Bobby E. Flet­ then headed for Halifax, Nova ing secretary, reported that B. J. had set out to winterize their craft, chers, Houston, Texas. Lisa Michele Knapp, bom Aug­ Scotia, the closest port. The ves­ Williams rejoined the ship in a 22-foot powerboat called the ust 11, 1967, to the Horst N. sel had been in radio communi­ Bombay. Etepartment delegates "Whee One." About one and onecation with the USPHS Hospital, reported no beefs or disputed half miles past the South Haven Noordin Idiia, bom October keeping them fully informed on overtime and LOGS and mail are breakwater, the engines quit and 18, 1967, to the Sedek B. Idris, Knapps, Baltimore, Md. arriving regularly. The repair list the pair drifted helplessly. Rafter's condition. San Francisco, Calif. ^ Upon arrival in Halifax, Rafter includes another fan for the mess"When we spotted the smoke Larry Ediumd, bom September was lowered into a launch and room. from the Gysum, we dropped the John NORIB, bom October 1, 13, 1967, to the John H. Edlumds, taken to the hospital. His present emergency smoke flare into the condition is listed as good, a com­ 1967, to the John Norris, Akron, Mobile, Ala. water and let it drag about 50 feet pany spokesman said. New York. behind us, "they told newsmen "Our bosun, Stan Mosakowski after being brought to Muskegon. ^ and dayman Bill Crownan should Within 15 minutes they were 3, 1967, to the Harry Watts, HaliAlphonse Slater, bom October be complimented for the fine way spotted by the Gypsum and once Carol F^cif Watts, born July 5, 1966, to the Willie Slaters, Pri- they helped the sick man into the on board they enjoyed their first launch and cared for him. fax, Va. chard, Ala. meal in 70 hours. •>- Seafarers Aid AUiag Shipmate <1, .1. .t.— 4# ,1, •<1> Lakes Seafarers Rescue Two Men Adrift on Cruiser �SEAFARERS Page Fourteen FINAL DEPARTURES Governor Brower, 55: A heart ailment claimed the life of Brother Brower, July 24, at Pennsylvania Hospital. He join­ ed the UIW in Philadelphia and was employed by the Philadelphia Laboratories, Inc. Brower was born in High Point, North Carolina, and lived in Philadelphia. He is survived by his father, George Brower of Washington, D.C. Burial was in Mount Lawn Ceme­ tery, Sharon Hill, Pa. — John Walsh, 52: Heart disease claimed the life of Brother Walsh, September 12, in Cleveland. He was a member of the SIU Great Lakes District and joined the Union in Cleve­ land. A native of that city, he made his home there. Walsh sailed as a fireman and was employed by the Great Lakes Towing Company. He served in the Navy during World War II. Surviving is a son, John, of Elyria, Ohio. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery, Cleveland. — Eugene Cook, 52: Brother Cook died in Stevens Memorial Hos­ pital, Edmonds, Wash. He sailed as FOWL and joined the Union in the port of =1 Seattle. Cook was born in Missouri Valley, Iowa, and resided in Granite Falls, Wash. His last ship was the Duke Victory. Cook served in he Army from 1943 to 1946. Surviving is his wife, Georgia. Brother Cook was buried in Restlawn Memorial Gar­ dens, Edmonds, Wash. Perry Pedersen, 42: Death claimed Brother Pedersen on Oct. 10, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He joined the Union in the port of New York. A member of the deck deparment. Brother Pedersen sailed as AB. His last ship was the Albion Victory. He was born in Norway and lived in Brooklyn. Before joining the SIU, he had served in the Navy. Surviving is his wife, Lillian. The burial was in Ever­ greens Cemetery, Brooklyn. <|> Andrew Blahnik, 58: Brother Blahnik died in Grand Rapids, Mich., Oct. 17. He was a mem­ ber of the SIU Great Lakes Dis­ trict and joined the union in Frankfort, Mich. An AB, he last sailed on the McKees Son. Brother Blahnik was on an SIU pen­ sion at the time of death. Bom in Nadeaw, Mich., he made his home in Grand Rapids. He is sur­ vived by his sons Raymond and Rudolph of Frankfort. Burial was in Nadeaw Township Cemetery, Menominee County, Mich. <!> Francis Price, 20: An automo­ bile accident claimed the life of Brother Price on Sept. 6, in Charleston, W.Va. He joined the SIU in the port of New York. He was bom in West Virginia and was a resident of Charleston. An OS, he last sailed on the Alcoa Master. Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Eileen Price of Charleston. WiUiain Willdridge, 52: A heart ailment claimed the life of Brother Willdridge, Oct. 27, in Hull, Mass. During his career, he sailed as a FOWT. He joined the Union in Bos­ ton during World War II. Bom in Quincy, Mass., he was a resident of Hull. Brother Willdridge last sailed on the Steel Apprentice. Surviving is his wife, Mildred, of Hull. Burial was in Hull C^etery. Paul Kovaievich, 52: Heart fail­ ure claimed the life of Broth­ er Kovaievich, on October 12, in Oyster Bay, N.Y. He was born in Brooklyn, and joined the SIU in New York. A res­ ident of Commack, N.Y., he was employed by the American Casting and Manu­ facturing Corp. He served in the Army from 1943 to 1946. Sur­ viving is his mother, Anna, of Plainview, N.Y. Burial was in Mt. Olive Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens. Fred Biichert, 66: Brother Blichert died on June 16, in Ribe, Denmark, of can­ cer. At the time of death, he was on an SIU pen­ sion. He was bom in Denmark and joined the SIU in the Port of Nor­ folk. He had pre­ viously resided in New York City. A member of the engine department, he sailed as electrician. Brother Blichert's last ship was the Andrew Jackson. He is survived by a brother, William. Brother Blichert was buried in Ribe, Denmark. Charles Graham, 63: A heart ailment claimed the life of Brother Mich. He was bom in Brimley, Mich, and was a resident of Detroit. Broth­ er Graham joined the union in the port of St. Ignace. A fireman, he last shipped for Dunbar and Sons. Surving is his wife Irene of De­ troit. Burial was in Oakview Cemetery, Oakland County, Mkh. November 24, 1967 LOG Seafaring Songwriter Hits Jatkpot With Two Best'Seiling Rerords Seafarer, songwriter, nightclub proprietor, owner of record and sheet music publishing companies— these are the credentials of Seafarer H. C. Cain of Mobile, who has managed to maintain a career both at sea and shoreside. Brother Cain has had some nationwide hits among the tunes he has written. Two of his records, "Landlord" and "Jack and Jill,' have appeared at Marie's Lounge, recent dancer's at the club was recorded by a Mobile singer, Cain stated. Among them is "Sam "Judy the Body." Quite a few of Julian Glad, sold 100,000 copies. the Sham," a rock and roll singer the girls use descriptive names, The songs were recorded on the who has had a number of hits on Cain reported to the LOG. Brother Cain opened his first Mercury label, one of the major the major MGM label. club in 1955 and became associ­ Perhaps the biggest problem en­ recording companies. ated with Marie's Lounge five countered in the running of At present, he has a record fea­ Marie's Lounge is making sure all years ago. "I started out by book­ turing the Dalton. the customer's are over 21, Ala­ ing rock and roll performers," he Boys, recorded on bama's minimum drinking age. said. After booking acts into clubs in Mobile and other towns, ^ his own "Cy" la­ "We have to check our customers he decided to go into the night carefully," Brother Cain said. bel. The titles are club business. "Sometimes we get guys who look "Something you Seafarer Cain also has quite a between 25 and 30, but are only Got," and "Lover Please," which 18 or 20. A lot of seamen come background as an athlete. While was released 6n into the club and of course, some attending Murphy High .School^ largest in Alabama, he played Cain November 1. The are uniler 21." center on the football team well Dalton Boys are also from Mo­ As in many nightclubs, the girls enough to* win All-City and Allbile. dance to records since "live or­ State honors. This is not a minor Brother Cain, who is 33, has chestras are very expensive and achievement, since Alabama is sailed in the deck department many nightclubs have discon­ well-known for its High School since 1952. He is also the owner tinued them." One of the most and College football teams. and operator of Marie's Lounge and Restaurant, located at the en­ trance of Bankhead Tunnel in Mobile. While at sea, the lounge is operated by his two brothers, Arlen and John. Checks are being held at SIU Headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y., for the Seafarers listed below for money due They have nationally-known them on the ve.ssels shown. Men whose names are listed should personalties on stage nightly. get in touch with Union headquarters as soon as possible. Brother Cain said. Included are "some of the South's most beauti­ Claim Ship Name ful girls." Brother Cain is not certain whether he prefers operat­ Edward Jensen Hercules Victory Disputed overtime ing the club or shipping out to Hercules Victory Disputed overtime Robert Smith One day's wages foreign ports, but he emphasized Frank G. Valerie Natalie Disputed overtime that both "help to make life inter­ Earl H. Beamer Penn Carrier esting." Disputed overtime Transwestern Calvin Smith Disputed overtime Transwestern Daniel McLaren A number of well-known acts Disputed overtime Transwestern Clyde Greeson Transportation Thomas E. Hanson Valient Hope Transportation Valient Hope Dhnald Kershaw Lodging Niagara Warren Weiss Seatrain New York Disputed lodging James Gleason Seatrain New York Disputed lodging Fred Patterson Lodging Joseph L. Chapeau Kent Lowell Thomas Bailey Lodging Cyril Gauthier Kent Kindly contact Dewey Elrod, Standby wages J. Walsh Mldlake 16 N. Wolfe, Baltimore, Md. Standby wages Midlake D. Shattuck Wages Bonanza Carlo Rniz —— Wages William L. Robinson Bonanza Transportation Edgar Lee Faison Alcoa Master Rowland Harper, Jr. Transportation Alcoa Master Bobby V. Carter Bernard D. Lipton, 1401 K. Transportation Alcoa Master David J. Flynn Street, N.W., Suite 1021, Wash­ Retroactive wages Rambam J. Rose ington, D. C. 20005, would like Retroactive wages C. Cummings Rambam you to contact him as soon as Retroactive wages A. Sama^ Rambam possible. Retroactive wages J. Smith Rambam Retroactive wages Rambam J. Saunders <|> Retroactive wages Rambam E. M. McCay Frank Myatt Unclaimed wages Western Hunter Ian O. Robertson Get in touch with J. W. AllUnclaimed wages Seatrain San Juan Roy L. Frank man, at 525 Franklin St., South Unclaimed wages Seatrain San Juan Neil Napolitano Hill, Va., in regard to an impor­ Wages Coe Victory Robert Wilson tant matter. One Day's Wages Albion Victory Emil H. Kjono Refund John B. Gardner, Jr. Norberto Capay Norberto Capay Refund Onofre F. Rando Repatriation Minot Victory Edward Giordano Donald J. French Please contact your brother Jay, aboard the Transontario, c/o Hud­ pamaBBaBBBHBanaaBaBBBiiuMBraaaaBBaBaMMaraBi son Waterways Corp., 1 Chase S Editor, Manhattan Plaza, New York, 2 kAFARERS LOG, N.Y. 10005. S 675 hHirlh AWw Money Due Clinton L. Conn Rojeane D. Conn would like you to contact her as soon as possible at R.D. No. 1, Box 101, Confluence, Penn. 15424. Bin WUHMUS Please contact youf brother in Kissimmee, Fla., at the earliest possible time. Or contact J. B. Garrison in Kissimmee. �SEAFARERS LOG OVERaEtAS JOYCE (Maritime Over­ seas), October 29—Chairman, F. E. Otto: Secretary. J. Morrison. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Motion made that men who sailed with the Union for 20 years he eligible for retirement, regardless of age. DO NOT BUY Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various cdmpanies 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.) ROSWELL VICTORY (States Ma­ rine). September 16—Chairman. Handrey Rucki: Secretary. Steve Bryant. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly thus far. Small beefs were settled. Little disputed OT in deck department to he settled when ship ar­ rives in port. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa). October 22 — Chairman. O. L. Arndt: Secretary. M. P. Cox. Most of the repairs have been completed. $34.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT was re­ ported. Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Startlite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) "HIS" hraud men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Cloves, Richman Brothers and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Chvalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) ^ Peavy Paper MID Products (United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Unionof United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) <|> Magic Chef Pan Padflc DfrUoa (Stove, Ftirnace and Allied Ai^Ilance Worken lataiutional Unkm) CENTERVILLE (Chatham). October 26—Chairman, E. L. Odem: Secretary, E. J. Rivierra. Brother EL R. Harrison was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MADAKET (Waterman), October 2!)— Chairman, Steve Homke: Secretary Jack Ixing. $30.00 in ship's fund. Some dis­ pute OT in engine department. Motion was made for retirement after 20 years in the Union. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. BANGOR (Bermuda Shipping), No­ vember 5—Chairman, Peter Hammel: Secretary, C. Demeres. Some disputed OT was reported by engine' delegate. Insufficient supply of food was put aboard. Motion made to have company install an ice machine. Sdtzel-Weiler Distilleries "Did Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Stiii," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) LINFIELD VICTORY (Alcoa). Octo­ ber 29 — Chairman. Malcolm M. Cross; Secretary, Richard J. Haney. No beefs and no disputed OT. Ship's delegate pro­ posed that a letter be writjen about the excellent management of vessel by Cap­ tain Richard Hicks. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Bill Scott for doing delegate. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. Crew thanked by the steward department for their cooperation. LOMA VICTORY (Delta). October 22— Chairman. Cecil Futch; Secretary. How­ ard F. Menz. Brother Howard Menz was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. COSMOS MARINER (Cosmos). Octo­ ber 10—Chairman. Robert Spencer ; Sec­ retary. Jack Hart. Brother William Phillips resigned as ship's delegate and was given a vote of thanks. Brother Joe Mosakowski was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. $8.00 in ship's fund. Ship's 'TV needs to be repaired. Matter of putting a new ice machine on board will be taken up with port steward. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers, Inc.), October 25 — Chairman. Oscar Cooper: Secretary. George A. O'Berry. No beefs were reported. Some disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Brother O. Cooper was elected to serve as ship's delegate. It was dis­ cussed that the company should be re­ quired to hire qualified American union seamen to fill all Shipboard vacancies. Ship has operated since March 17. 1967 without proper complement in steward department so as to avoid violation of Article V, Section 22. COMMANDER (Marine Carriers). Oc­ tober 29—Chairman. L. A. Webber; Sec­ retary. None. $6.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Vote of thanks was extended to the cooks and messman. Tom Brown. BOWLING GRIEEN (Pan American Tankers). October 14—Chairman. John Dunne: Secretary. F. J. "Whitey" Johnspn. Ship's delegate reported that moat of the repairs from last voyage have been completed. He stated that every­ thing seems to be shaping up well and hopes that the new men will have a good trip. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Brother Charles Moore was re-elected to serve as ship's delegate and was given a vote of thanks for doing a tip-top job. EAGLE TRAVELER (Sea-Transport). October 21—Chairman. Ernest W. Pierce: Secretary. Dominick Orsini. No beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. Captain will re­ plenish slop chest. Motion was made that all men paying off in Yokohama be able to file and receive vacation checks in the Yokohama hall. It was suggested that the pension be increased to $300.00 a month, after 20 years with the Union and enough sea time. DEL SUD Chairman, J. Crew extended chief cook and done. (Delta), November 5— Glass: Secretary, None. a vote of thanks to the 2nd baker for a job well YAKA (Waterman), October 27 — Chairman, W. Vehazquez: Secretary. W. El Hart. Brother Tom Booth was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No disputed OT and no beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. SS PLATTE (Platte Transport), Octo­ ber 22 - - Chairman, O. W. Rosenly; Secretary. G. Trosclair. Brother L. S. Blanchard was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. It was suggested that the Yokohama representative meet ship re­ garding the repairs which were not com­ pleted when the ship was in the ship­ yard. DEL SANTOS (Delta). October 23 — Chairman. Earl McCab : Secretary, Alton R. Booth. Vote of thanks to the ship's delegate for a job well done. Everything is running smoothly in all departments. Vote of thanks to the steward depart­ ment. Vote of thanks to Brother Foster for keeping longshoremen out of crew quarters. Captain is well satisfied with his SIU crew. DEL SANTOS (Delta). September 24— Chairman. B. Foster: Secretary A. K. Booth. Brother Elarl McCab was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Page Fifteen Schedule of Membership Meetings SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans . Dec. 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile Dec. 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . Dec. 18—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Dec. 20—2:00 p.m. Seattle Dec. 22—2:00 p.im. New York . . .Dec. 4—2:30 p.]m. Philadelphia .Dec. 5—2:30 p.]m. Baltimore . . .Dec. 6—2:30 p.im. Detroit Dec. 8—2:30 p.im. Houston .... Dec. 11—2:30 p.]m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Dec. 4—2:00 p.m. Alpena Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Chicago . . . .Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Cleveland . . .Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Duluth Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Frankfort ...Dec. 4—7:00p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago . . . .Dec. 12—7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Dec. 14—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Dec. 13—7:30 p.m. Duluth Dec. 15—7:30 p.m. Cleveland . . .Dec. 15—7:30 p.m. Toledo Dec. 15—7:30 p.m. Detroit Dec. 11—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . .Dec. 11—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans .Dec. 12—5:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 13—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia . Dec. 5—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and unlicensed) Dec. 6—5:00 p.m. Norfolk . . . .Dec. 7—5:00 p.m. Houston . . . .Dec. 11—5:00 p.m. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Over­ seas). October 8—Chairman, J. H. Loe: Secretary, M. Requiso. Brother Pete Dolan was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to Brother Jerry Brown for assisting in making badly needed repairs. It was suggested that the ship be fumigated. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Dec. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Dec. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk Dec. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Dec. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans . Dec. 12—7:00 p.m. Mobile Dec. 13—7:00 p.m. New York . . .Dec. 4—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia . Dec. 5—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . . Dec. 6—7:00 p.m. ^Houston . . .Dec. 11—7:00 p.m. CORTLAND (George T. Bates). No­ vember 12—Chairman, R. El Weaver: Secretary, Frank Naklicki. No beefs were reported by department delegates. t Meeting held at Labor Temple. Sault Ste. Marie. Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple. Newp6rt News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land). October 29—Chairman, W. J. Barnes: Secretary. C. J. Nail. Brother Roy A. Watford, resigned as ship's delegate and was given a vote of thanks for a job well done. Brother W. J. Barnes was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs were reported by department delegates. TRANSONTARIO (Hudson Water­ ways). October 10—Chairman. Ronald Lawrence: Secretary. Richard Runkle. $14.97 in ship's fund. Deck department men thanked the Captain and the Mate for time off allowed in Sasebo. No beefs were reported by department delegates. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklsm. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the'siU Atlantic, Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. Ail these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters ol, 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 riights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union hails. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as conUined in the contracts between the Unkm and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battenr Place, Suite 1980, 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 contracta arc avaOable 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, sucb as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Unkm oAcial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract righu prop­ erly, contamt ti^ nearest SIU port agent. BDITORIAL POLICY—SBAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from pnblishing any article serving Oie political purposes of any individual In the Union, offlcer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed barmfnl to the Union or its collective membersbip. This established policy hss been feaflrmad by membeeship action at the September, I860, meetings in ril «^Ututhmal porta. The maponslhiUty for LOO policy is vated in an editorial boaid which aonahia o< the B-""""— Board of the Union. The Bmeutive Board may delegate, te earry oat this reapaaalbllitr. J DIIUiCTDRY UNION HAULS SIU A-l-iantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard VICE PRESIDENTS LIndtey Williamt Robert Matthewi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS ALPENA, Mich BALTIMORE, Md 475 4th Ave., Bklyn. HY 9-4400 127 River St. EL 4-3414 1214 E. Baltimore St. EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mais 177 State St. Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washington St. SIU TL 3-9259 IBU TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, III 9383 Ewing Ave. SIU SA 1-0733 IBU ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va VI 3-4741 P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. EL 7-2441 5804 Canal St. WA 8-3207 2408 Pearl St. EL 3-0987 99 Montgomery St. HE 3-0104 I South Lawrence St. HE 2-1754 430 Jackson Ave. Tel. 529-7544 115 3rd St. Tel. 422-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 1348 Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 Tel. 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 2505 First Avenue MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. Tel. 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif. .. 505 N. Marine Ave. 834-2528 YOKOHAMA, Japan. Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 204971 Ext. 281 PAYMENT OP 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 halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. A!! Seafarers are guaranteed eq: .i rights in employment and as members of the SIU. Tiicie 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 or^in. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, 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 mnmbership and the Union. If at any time a Scafarsr feds that any of ths abuvr rights hava besa vMated, or that M has been denied his eonstitntional right of uc--«es to UCI.->A records or iafonaatiaiW IM ahoald iasmsdlately natlfr SIU President Pool HaU at hcadqaarters by e«tilad nMil, rstnm receipt �'Ti Vol. XXiX No. 24 '-«"01 SEAFARERS LOG «*«A Novombor 24/ 1967 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO N EVER INCREASING NUMBERS, Seafarers are availing themselves of the opportunity to gain engi­ neer ratings by enrolling in the Engineer training program jointly sponsored by the SIU and MEBA District 2. Any Seafarer who is interested in taking advantage of the chance to upgrade himself to the rating of engineer should file his application by mail or with an SIU representative, or at his nearest union hall. In order to qualify you must be a citizen of the United States, 19 years old—or older—and have 18 months verified watch-standing time in the engine department. m ::j _ . "if -: ••• •.tf" •* : , • > • /* -v • This valuable training will cost you nothing. Not only will you be able to ship as an engineer immediately upon obtaining your license, but you will be provided with meals, hotel lodgings and subsistance payments of $110 weekly while learning. Under a reciprocal agreement between the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Associa­ tion, District 2, full credit will be extended to Seafarers for all pension benefits built up under the SIU pension plan. Also, your welfare benefits are completely covered and your SIU pension plan will be supplemented by the MEBA District 2, plan in approximately the same amount while you are serving as an engineer. After obtaining their licenses, any Seafarers who sail aboard MEBA District 2-contracted vessels will not be required to drop their SIU membership unless they wish to, and will be exempt from payment of the $1,000 MEBA initiation fee. Instruction periods range from 30 to 90 days. They are determined by the ability and knowledge of the student. The latest list of applicants approved and accepted for the upgrading school is as follows: E. F. Armstrong Joseph Bereczky Joseph Bruce John Buck Elwyn Bnsseil William Cachola Clyde Cahin L. J. Canfield Bernard Cassada Jochim Qcirello Malvin Chandler James Cline Alfred DeArgo Armond Dunne Harvey Falrhum John Francis E. A. Fotch Luis Gonzalez Julio Gordlan Ross Hardy Leonard HIgglns Billle Jenkins Roman Linkowsky Paul Magner Clifton Mainers L. G. Malta George McAlplne Juan Medina Anthony Melanson Harold Mlddleton Peter Murphy Robert O'Brien Doniminck Orsini Gustavo Osuna J. Pagan Rudolph Polletti John Preston Thomas Raines Raymond Riemer G. E. Rival Rayford Schram L. R. Soper Vladlk Suska Alberto Yelez Walker Ward Harry Watts David Wilson Allen Wolfe Those men listed above, as well as others being accepted on a daily basis for the training program for licensing of new engineers, will be given class schedules at their convenience. Those Seafarers whose names appear on the list, are urged to write immediately to: The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, or telephone the school at Area Code (212) 499-6565. The sooner yov in touch, the quicker your upgrading training will begin. Upgrading is the merchant seaman's "tomorrow." Those Seafarers who can qualify and arc interested in becoming licensed engineers should apply without delay. An application form appears on this page. Clip it' and send it in. If you have any questions, write or call as indicated above. OF lEAMANSHIP AmiCATION KM TRMNIiW M* INOINI MPAMMMT Namw Book No .ZNumboffa Addrasat. DMoJolMdSIU: Watch Standing TimoRalingft—— .No. Yoara Soatlmot. .Yoan In Engino Dept. -Timo at Day Wtorkar/Exoapt Wlpar- • � 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 November 24, 1967 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SOVIET UNION WIDENING GAP OVER U.S. IN FLEET CAPABILITIES, MARAD REPORTS FIVE-YEAR FLEET UPGRADING PROGRAM PROPOSED IN JOINT HOUSE, SENATE BILLS HOUSE PASSES ANTI-POVERTY BILL MARAD GRANTS TRIAL RATE INCREASE ON GOVERNMENT 50-50 AID CARGOES MEANY URGES IMMEDIATE PASSAGE OF SENATE SOCIAL SECURITY BILL THE NLRA – TIME FOR REVISION AFL-CIO RAPS HOUSE MEAT BILL AS HOAX ON U.S. PUBLIC MASSIVE SHIPBUILDING PROGRAM URGED BY CONGRESSMAN AT MTD SEMINAR JOBLESS RATE HITS TWO-YEAR HIGH MOVIE VERSION OF SEAFARER’S NOVEL TOUTED AS POSSIBLE AWARD WINNER 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 11/24/1967 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. XXIX, No. 24 1967 Periodicals Seafarers Log