http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/a4d7b93e37e34b0a45408ce79e1a2a38.PDF 7f9db12698fd4613dc9dee2ffa22656e PDF Text Text SEAFARERSiLOG Vol XXiX No. 26 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO ', ';v •"t.-i'J- .,-• • •, -"'i-. . . .. I #•# >-f' ti' »•, ' Ifl ^ ...r. ' V-: ' • ••. ••• ^, • J • ,>J- '•• i^-X/yv ;•-; .,V; - • .V ' •-•Xv-Vv.'";:-, ., T ..' Yo all Americans, the Stars and Stripes sym­ bolizes the opportunity for all citizens to develop their potential as human beings to the fullest extent. Since its inception, organized labor has been in the forefront of the struggle toward this goal. Unfortunately, there are factions in our nation who seek to weaken the fibre of American life by blocking progress in order to satisfy their own selfish ends. At its recently-concluded convention, the AFL-CIO reaffirmed its dedication to move steadily ahead—for the benefit of all Amer­ icans in the quest for better wages, housing, education, medical care and social freedom for the entire nation. " »*• 'LI:- M fjic. H iJ • I'.-)' :J. , iV:'-?: -n^ UiV..? . '• • "'fc-' I" • ^ • ••-. 'r^ '-•» ^ " • - �SEAFARERS Page Two Eleven More Seafarers WinUreases; Total Upgraded to Engineer Now 211 Moreira Nandkeshwar Gajew^ Frattolillo Wheeler December 22, 1967 LOG Stefani Eleven more Seafarers have passed U. S. Coast Guard examinations qualifying them for an engi­ neer's license after attending the Marine Engineer's School operated by the SIU and District 2 of the Marine Engineer's Beneficial Association. A total of 211 Seafarers have now received an engi­ neer's license after upgrading at ^ Eugene Bunting was an oiler 25 years old and joined the Union the school. before receiving a third assistant's in New York in 1963. Eight of the men are new third license. The 34-year old Seafarer Ezio Stefani received his third assistants, while three have re­ is a native of Selbyville, Del. and assistant's license. He was born in ceived a second a resident of Oxon Hill, Md. He Lussino, Italy, and now lives in assistant's license. joined the SIU in 1966 in the Long Island City, N. Y. He joined Juan Gomez is port of Baltimore. the SIU in New York in 1966. a new third assist­ Stefani is 35 years old and had ant engineer, hav­ sailed as an oiler. ing previously Lauri Ovaska is 55 years old sailed as FOWT. and joined the Union in 1965. Be­ Born in Puerto fore obtaining a second assistant Rico, Gomez engineer's license, he sailed as Gomez lives in Brooklyn. FOWT. Ovaska was born in Fin­ He joined the land and makes his home in Lake Union in the port of New York Worth, Florida. in 1956. Gomez is 46 years old. A native of Yonkers. N. Y., Power Bunting Tomasso Frattolillo joined the Bohdan Gajewski is a new third SIU in New York in 1964. The Joseph F. Power was an FOWT assistant. He is 27 years old and lives in Bayonne, N. J. Gajewski before earning his third assistant's 51-year-old Seafarer sailed as was born in Poland and joined the license. Born in Calvert, New­ FOWT before earning a tempo­ SIU in New York in 1966. The foundland, Canada, Power now rary third assistant's license. He 27-year old Seafarer had sailed as lives in Dorchester, Mass. He is now lives in New York City. a FOWT. Ramdhanni Nandkeshwar re­ ceived a second assistant engineer's license after sailing as FOWT. The 38-year-old native of British Guiana lives in Brooklyn and joined the Union in New York in NEW ORLEANS—Two Cuban refugees are safely in the 1959. United States to stay after stowing away aboard the SlU-contracted Del Sud. Clearance by the U.S. Immi- ^ gration Department came only vital to the economy because of his know-how. He managed to ten minutes before the vessel escape to Spain three years ago would have been forced to return and last year made his way to them to Brazil. Brazil. Since then, he had been Victor Manuel Steuart, 25, and waiting for the first opportunity to Reynaldo Camara, 52, had stowed get to the United States. away aboard the Delta cargo-pas­ Ovaska Rivera Steuart, a seaman who was in­ senger ship in Rio de Janeiro jured in an attempt to reach shore Elmer Wheeler is a second as­ some two weeks before in a des­ from the anchored Del Sud, later sistant engineer who had sailed as perate effort to reach freedom told newsmen that he was afraid FOWT. He joined the union in here. he might not be permitted to stay New York in 1956. A native of Discovered just a day out of in America and "would have rath­ the State of New Jersey, Wheeler Rio by the ship's captain, George er died than return to Cuba." Ac­ now resides in Williamstown, N.J. W. Smith, the two were placed in tually, Steuart did reach sanctuary He is 59 years old. a stateroom for the rest of the in the U.S. three years ago after Engine department Seafarers voyage and treated like first class defecting from a Cuban freighter are eligible to apply for the up­ passengers by the crew. in Hamburg, Germany, in 1961. grading program if they are 19 Once here, however, they en­ He said he had established resi­ years of age or older and have countered some red tape with the dence in this country at that time 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watch Immigration authorities which but later found that he had lost standing time in the engine de­ never would have been necessary his residency rights when he partment plus six months' expe­ if they had not arrived in such shipped out again as a seaman. rience as a wiper or equivalent. comfort by way of the South He had been waiting in Rio, where he met Camara last year, for a Those who qualify and wish to American port. "If they had escaped from Cuba chance to get back to the States. enroll in the school can obtain Camara had formally applied in additional information and apply and been picked up in a boat, they Rio for an inunigrant visa to the for the. course at any SIU hall or wouldn't have had any trouble U.S. and was being given prefer­ write directly to SIU headquarters getting in," said Mrs. Elise Cerential consideration because his at 675 Fourth Avenue in Brook­ niglia, a spokeswoman for the wife is a legal resident here. lyn, New York, 11232. The tele­ Catholic Cuban Center which was "I guess he didn't realize that," phone number is Hyacinth 9-6600. largely responsible for speeding an immigration official said here. up the Immigration Department A new third assistant, Juan Moreira is a native of the Hon­ procedure so the men could re­ "He'd been away from his wife main in this country. and family a long time and he duras. He lives in New York must have decided to take a City, where he joined the SIU in Encounto- Red Tape chance." 1964. Moreira is 39 years old and The favorable last-minute deci­ Seafarers aboard the Del Sud sailed as a FOWT. sion climaxed a six-year struggle took up a collection so that Ca­ Jose Rivera is a new third as­ by Camara, a former Havana mara could send a telegram to his sistant. Joining the SIU in 1964, building contractor, to become re­ wife in Miami and the Catholic in New York, he had sailed as united with his wife and family. Cuban Center provided funds and electrician. Riveria is 37 years old Mrs. Camara fled to Miami from transportation so the family could and lives in Brooklyn. He is a Cuba in 1961 but the Castro be reconciled. Similar assistance native of Puerto Rico. regime considered the contractor was also provided for Steuart. Cuban Stowaways Aboard Del Sud Granted Asylum by U.S. Government Report of International President by Paul Hall For a nation in which it is theoretically inconsistent with the law of the land, it is interesting to note authoritative reports out of the Soviet Union that unemployment not only exists in that country but is becoming a problem of alarming proportions. When the Soviet Constitution was written some five decades ago, one of its basic guarantees to all Russian citizens was full employment through "the liquidation of unemployment." Since World War II, however, the Kremlin has found that it can no longer merely shuffle workers around at random in order to live up to this guarantee, and the Soviet social structure is ill-equipped to match its growing techno­ logical advances to the increased needs of the people. Although no one could say that Russia has come anywhere near to matching the United States in industrial advancement and modem standards, Moscow's economic experts can no longer hide the fact Soviet Communism is experiencing growing pains and the workers are feeling the pinch. The theory of jobs for all has collapsed and Russian workers, mostly unskilled, are suddenly finding themselves mechanical­ ly eliminated from their livelihood all over the U.S.S.R., in a manner similar to the more isolated case of our Appalachian coal miners in the United States. While there is still too much unemployment in America, we in this country enjoy far more of a "worker's paradise" than the Com­ munists who adopted the term as their own slogan. The organized labor movement in the United States assures an active measure of protection to American workers and has fought for strong laws to give them a place to turn if they become unemployed. Our unions maintain or encourage training programs to prepare unskilled or dis­ placed workers for new opportunities in an ever more demanding national industial structure. It is interesting to note that two separate societies, whose economic i systems derive from two entirely different philosophies, are experiencing a common problem. However, this country, through the efforts of a free' trade union movement, has shown concern for its unemployed and established programs to aid them in their time of need. <0 * Instead of putting its support behind the rebuilding of a new mer­ chant fleet which would supply the nation capably in time of war and profitably in times of peace, the U. S. government has again served no­ tice on the U.S. maritime industry that it plans to dig up the cumber­ some ghost of the foolishly-spendthrift Fast Deployment Logistic ship program buried by Congress only five months ago. From recent statements by the MSTS Admirals to a gathering of shipping officials, it is obvious that Defense and Navy Department arguments in favor of FDL are going to be as illogical and basically un­ sound as they ever were, and Congress is unlikely to swallow them. Any claims by the Administration that it is withholding support of a new maritime program because of a current economy drive on federal spending, hold very little water when that same Administration indicates willingness to spend more of the taxpayers' money on these big seagoing warehouses than Congress is asking for the construction of a modern merchant fleet capable of peak speed and efficiency. Captain John M. Piatt (left) of Delta Steamship Lines chats with Reynaldo Camara (right) and Victor Emanuel Steuart (Second from right), two Cuban refugees who had stowed away on the SIU"contracted Del Sud when it pulled out of Rio de Janeiro in early November. Standing next to Piatt is SIU member John Doyle. �December 22, 1967 Study of Landrum-Griffin Act Cites Constitutional Violations BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—A committee of 21 experienced lawyers reported after a study that the Landrum-Griffin Act constitutes "bad law" compounded by instances of "administrative abuses" by the Labor Department and court interpretations "at odds with the language of the law and the intent of Congress." The study, titled "A Report after Eight Years of the LandrumGriffin Act," was made public by the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department and its president, SlU President Paul Hall. Hall called it a "historic document" which will be followed by other reports on the subject. The committee was established last February by the department and consists of lawyers representing AFL-CIO unions. Howard Schulman was chairman, with AFL-CIO General Counsel J. Albert Woll and Sol G. Lippman as co-chairmen. It examined "hundreds of cases of the law's application" to com­ pare the way in which the law has been administered and interpreted with the language of the act and the intent of Congress, the department announced. Among the committee's findings were these: While the L-G Act was "intended to provide safeguards" for the constitutional rights of workers, it has the "built-in potential to violate rights guaranteed" by the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. The Fourth Amendment" provides protection against illegal search and seizure, yet L-G "encourages precisely this illegality by putting both administrative and police powers in the hands of the same agency." The act permits the Labor Department to delegate its investigatory rights to the Justice Department which "under the guise of conducting routine investigations of union activity" acquires power to conduct surreptitious searches. This exercise of power "violates basic concepts of fair play and places in jeopardy traditional constitutional safe­ guards," the lawyers said. The committee noted that Landrum-Griffin permits prosecution, conviction and imprisonment under both federal and state laws for the same offense. It called this "vindictive and punitive" since it constitutes conduct similar to "double jeopardy." The report commended the Labor Department for good adminis­ tration of the law in some instances. Also it cited cases where Labor Department agents "violated both the letter and spirit of the law by openly soliciting individuals to file charges against unions" under the act—a direct law violation, the lawyers said. Some courts have held that L-G confers unusual rights on indi­ viduals, "permitting them openly to slander and libel other individuals under the guise of freedom of speech." In so doing they abandoned past rules of reason which put restraints on the abuse of free speech, the report said. SEAFARERS Page Three LOG Federation Concludes Four-Pay Convention AFL'CIO to Wage AlFOut Battle Against Conservatives in '68 Vote BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—^The AFL-CIO squared away for two years of hard and deter­ mined work as the leader of the nation's progressive forces, dedicated to continuing unity and set to wage an all-out fight against the conservative threat in the 1968 elections. In a four-day convention climaxed by an enthusiastic demonstration of support for President Johnson as he sp<dce to the nation from the conven­ tion platform, 943 delegates strongly reaffirmed the leader­ ship of President George Meany and fashioned a program to meet the challenges and the prob­ lems of the late 1960s. Meany summed up in a postconvention statement that "the American trade union movement is in fine shape and this conven­ tion proved that." Noting the need for' a major effort to achieve the programs adopted by the dele­ gates, he added "I am confident that, at every level of the trade union movement, we'll get that kind of work." In a nationally televised speech at AFL-CIO convention last Re-elected for a seventh term week, President Johnson stressed Administration's progress in as president of the AFL-CIO along with Secretary-Treasurer William war on poverty and, passage of labor-backed social legislation. F. Schnitzler and the 27 members movements—all hailing the pro­ of the Executive Council, Meany pledges of continuing support. It marked the work of the con­ gressive programs and leadership predicted that "there is a great fu­ vention committees as they dealt of the AFL-CIO, and asking la­ ture for this organization." The vigor and vitality was dem­ with 263 separate resolutions and bor's continued help in dealing onstrated in the session that wit­ proposals and the adoption by the with the difficult problems at nessed a wide open debate on the delegates of 109 programs and home and abroad. Blended in with the speakers war in Vietnam culminating in a policies covering every aspect of from the platform and the re­ American life and relations with dramatic overwhelming vote of ports of the committee chairmen other nations. Only 22 were re­ support for the Administration's jected while 48 were referred to and secretaries were the voices of position, and a classic example of trade union solidarity as delegates the Executive Council for further the delegates, pointing up the rallied to the striking copper work­ study or action. The others were need for action in certain areas, ers with nearly $550,000 and firm either covered by other resolu­ voicing dissent on a few resolu­ tions or policy statements or with­ tions, explaining the wider impact and thrust of a program. drawn. Corporate Giantism Cited as Threat Recurring themes in the reso­ By unanimous actions, the con­ vention amended the AFL-CIO lutions and the discussions were Constitution to increase the flex­ the need to step up organizing to ibility and efficiency of the orga­ expand even further the member­ nization and simplify its govern­ ship gains of the past few years, a reassertion of the strength of ment. collective bargaining and the gains It heard a dozen speakers led it has brought to workers, a strong by President Johnson and includ­ defense of the right to strike in a ing five cabinet members, top fig­ free society. BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—^The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department voted an enthusiastic en­ ures in the Administration, lead­ (Continued on Page 10) dorsement to a call for a national conference of unions in the transportation industry which would ers of the free world trade union give labor a single loud, clear voice to speak to both government and management in the increas­ ingly interwoven transportation ^ companies will in the future be­ He said "public money could field. come "transportation companies," not be spent for a better cause" Delegates to the MTD con­ with "mergers on top of mergers" than rebuilding the merchant ma­ vention, representing AFL-CIO throughout the industry. rine. And in the long run, Meany unions with more than six million added, it would be less costly than Hall Backs Proposal members. Unanimously approved "crash programs" every time the Hall strongly backed the pro­ nation faces a shipping crisis. a resolution urging that a meet­ WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ing be held early in 1968 to set posal, noting that different seg­ Senator Warren Magnuson (Dment announced last week that it would step up its efforts in up a permanent organization. The ments of the labor movement deal Wash.), chairman of the Senate the Congress to implement the AFL-CIO's comprehensive mer­ eventual goal, the resolution de­ with the same federal agencies Commerce Committee, headed a clared, is a new AFL-CIO depart­ and regulatory bodies. chant marine and maritime policy. large contingent of congressmen It would not compete with and senators who came to the' On the closing day of its Seventh Biennial Convention in ment "bringing together all of the Miami Beach last week, the AFL-CIO voted to retain the 17unions concerned with transporta­ the Maritime Trades Department, convention to pledge their con­ Hall stressed. "It would make us tinued support for a labor-backed point program which delegates adopted at the San Francisco tion." Initiative for the Conference stronger because it would help shipbuilding program and an in­ convention in 1965. The AFL-CIO policy on maritime includes the establishment call came from President C. L. each' and every one of us." dependent Maritime Administra­ of an independent Federal Maritime Administration, increased Dennis of the Railway and Air­ The MTD convention strongly tion. line Clerks. appropriations for U.S. shipbuilding, greater protection for the reaffirmed its dedication to a re­ "A massive undertaking to re­ Dennis, MTD President Paul building of a modern merchant vitalize the American merchant U.S. -fishing industry, opposition to any government reliance on Hall and other union presidents marine—built in American yards, marine should be a matter of ships in the "runaway-flag" fleet, and continued opposition to attending the convention spoke flying the American flag and utmost priority," Magnuson de­ any scheme to build U.S.-flag ships abroad. for the proposal, stressing that the capable of carrying a big share clared. Paul Hall, president of the six-million-member Maritime transportation industry has been of the nation's commerce. Trades Department and a vice president of the AFL-CIO, said House Judiciary Committee the chief Jarget of compulsory that the AFL-CIO convention action gives impetus to the depart­ This goal has the vigorous sup­ Cha-rman Emanuel Celler (Darbitration proposals and that the port of the AFL-CIO, Federation N.Y.), addressed the convention ment's efforts to upgrade the merchant marine and strengthen the ties linking the shipping and air­ President George Meany told the and said that Congress is deter­ entire maritime industry. line industries are tightening. Hall noted that the House of Representatives already has delegates. mined "that the United States will adopted a bill calling for the creation of an independent maritime "The national trend , toward Meany termed the decline of be able to take its rightful place administration, and that similar legislation is pending in the corporate bigness is accentuated the U.S.* merchant marine to among the maritime leaders of Senate. A number of bills are also pending in both houses of in transportation, where the goal about one-fifth of its strength after the world." Congress regarding a new maritime program for the United seems to be corporate giantism," World War 11 "a national dis­ Other speakers — and conven­ States. Dennis said. He predicted that grace" stemming frpm "a stupid tion resolutions — hammered at railroads, airlines and shipping policy." (Continued on Page 10) MTD Convention Votes Support For Tranportation Union Link-Up AFL-CIO Maritime Policy Spurs MTD Fleet Efforts �Page Fonr SEAFARERS The Atlantic Coast by Earl (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area LOG December 22, 1967 Congressman Sees ^Budget Excuse' As Threat to U. S. Fleet Upgrading WASHINGTON—"Whatever happens in 1968, the decision made by the first session of the 90th It is frightening to think that a man like Ronald Reagan is a Cbngress still stands. That decision is that the United States will not, and cannot, stand still in the possible candidate for the office of President of the United States. maritime area. . . . That decision has been made, and it is not negotiable," Representative Robert O. Reagan has shown time and time again that he has no respect Tieman, Democrat of Rhode Is- ^ and cares little for the rights of man. Recently he attempted to land, said in a speech given at a guments, completely invalid, why invisible." Tiernan expressed approval of cut back funds for the states medical care program, and his decision Maritime. Trades Department they cannot find the money. But of course, this is nothing new (for a recent MTD convention resolu­ to use state convicts to harvest the meeting here last week. the industry). . . . • tion which would set up a con­ ntan, Floyd says he has seen many crops of a private grower has few The Congressman pointed out "We cannot allow our mer­ ference of Transportation unions. Union gains in the past few years. precedents in the lengths that a that 1968 will be a year of in­ chant marine to shrink any fur­ public official will go in order to Merger Trend William Isbell is waiting for an­ tensified struggle for a strong mer­ ther. We cannot allow the for­ appease private capital. other Calmar ship after sailing on chant marine, due to expected "Government has the Depart­ moves in Congress to cut budgets eign-flag fleets to dilute our mer­ ment of Transportation," he said, Fortunately, both of these meas­ the Yorkmar. because of British devaluation of chant marine seapower any fur­ "and management's trend k to a ures were struck down' by court Philadelphia ther. . . . We (in Congress) shall the pound. action, but the appearance of a horizontal approach to transporta­ not desert the ship in 1968." Joe Thomas is registered and The battle for an upgraded fleet person like Reagan on the na­ tion, *merging and consolidating MTD Efforts Praised tional scene makes it clearly evi­ ready to ship in a few days. Joe's will take place not only in Con­ shipping, rail, and airlines into one last job was as AB on the Colum­ gress but also in the elections, dent that the enemies of labor Tiernan also lauded the MTD corporate structure. To avoid be­ Tiernan said, warning that "you for its "resounding victories" in ing overwhelmed by this corporate have gotten a good toe-hold in bia. the machinery of national politics. Konrod Hoffner will spend the will hear that the devaluation of 1967. He noted the Congres- and bureaucratic growth, it is im­ holidays at home, then take the the pound clearly means that dras­ sionally-passed legislation which perative that labor marshal its Boston first good black gang spot avail­ tic cuts must be made in the budg­ changed the system of appropriat­ forces into a department of equal Joseph Thomas spent some time et You will hear calls for across- ing money for the merchant ma­ strength." with his family and will be ready able. the-board cuts in all budget cate­ The MTD was complimented Winfield Downs, last on the gories. Now they have another rine, saying that that should bring for the first good AB's job to come about fairer treatment of Mari­ by Tiernan for its work directed up. He last sailed on the Colum­ Geneva, also plans to catch up phony argument against revitali- time in the future. at informing the public on the with family and friends over the zation of the maritime industry, bia. "Another big victory," he said, plight of the maritime industry George Svenmn?sen, a 20-year holidays. and of course they will use it" "was the passage by the House of and gaining national press cover­ SIU man, sailed as oiler on the Dave Backovitz will take the "Instead of trying to find a way the Independent Agency Bill. The age of vital maritime issues. Platte, George is first good steward's job that hits to get the money necessary for im­ count on that was 326-44, which "It is heartening," he said, "to holding the hall the board. His last ship was plementing a maritime program,' indicates the strong support you see the nation's press so interested down while wait­ Globe Cmrier. he explained, "they will find ar- (of the MTD) enjoy on the Hill in our merchant marine and the ing for a good and also indicates the great job maritime industry. job. you did in convincing members of "If the press finds your argu­ Alphonse McmCongress of the tremendous dan­ ments valid and prints these ar­ ahan would like ger of a weak maritime fleet. guments, statistics and the rest, a long trip now "The capstone of MTD's efforts then the general public will also after recently pay­ in 1967 was the introduction of believe your case and in the final Svennlngsen ing off on the bills in the Senate and House out­ analysis, it is this same general Transerle. Al­ lining the new maritime program. public who will force our govern­ NEW YORK—The second class of the Pharmacist Mate Train­ Of course, there will be hearings ment to arrange its thinking about phonse sails as an oiler. ing School sponsored by the SIUNA-affiliated Staff Officers Asso­ on these bills and it will then be our merchant ships, our shipyards, Puerto Rico ciation is well underway at the Marine Hospital on Staten Island. brought out again how the mer­ and America's ability to compete Joaquin Maldonado, one, of our The intensive nine-month ^ chant marine has shrunk to the on the high seas with foreign mer­ pensioners, is a regular visitor to training course for 32 members ultimately provide expert medical point where it is now just about chant marine powers." the hall. Rafael Hernandez flew care for seamen aboard all mer­ from New York to pick up" the of the pursers union began in chant ships—a much needed serv­ chief steward's slot on the Sea- September with a tough prelimi­ ice which has long been lacking. train Delaware. His counterpart nary examination covering basic Included in the course, taught on the Alcoa Explorer is Jimmy knowledge required for the study by veteran instructors at the of all phases of medicine leading Nelson, who's started to make the up to the rating of purser-phar­ USPHS hospital, are the basic island run again. subjects of Anatomy, Physiology macist mate. and general clinical patient care. Juan Gomez came by the hall With the graduation last June The human skeleton, circulatory to tell us about his new third of the first group of 26 pharma­ and digestive systems also are assistant engineer's license. cist mates, a four-year campaign thoroughly covered. MIAMI BEACH—^The Seafarers Log was the recipient of by the SIU and the SOA to reBaltimore five awards for "outstanding achievement in the field of labor institute the vital rating aboard New Course Added Floyd Simmons would like a U.S.-flag merchant vessels reached journalism" in the 1967 Journalistic Awards Contest, conducted With a view toward the best job on a Calmar C-4 after sailing its culmination. by the International Labor Press Association and judged by the possible relationship between pa­ on the Bethflor. A 20-year SIU Board of Judges of the Nieman Fellows of Harvard University. The aim of the program is to I tient and healer, a new course in The top honor presented to the LOG at the ILPA convention Medical Ethics has been added to here this month was for the Best Original Cartoon among the the curriculum of the second class. 856 entries submitted. Titled "I'll Never Learn that New Math," This will prove invaluable in draw­ the winning cartoon depicted Senator Everett M. Dirksen sitting ing out the thoughts, feelings and in a school classroom befuddled by the "one man-one vote" con­ emotions of the seriously ill, the cept. chronic invalid or the accident victim. A Special Citation "for consistent high-quality editorial car­ toons . . . effectively displayed" was also awarded by the panel Another important addition is who noted that they "consistently stand out on LOG editorial the subject of First Aid and basic pages—so much so that the judges felt a special citation was in life saving procedures taught by order." William Hughey, assistant direc­ tor of safety services of the Amer­ Other Awards of Merit were received for Editorial Excel­ ican Red Cross. The objective of lence, newspaper format; Best Front page, newspaper format; this is to give the student sufficient and Best Feature Article. The judges descri(jpd the winning front skill and knowledge to qualify for page as "a salty orator set off by seaweed green (which) created the Advanced First Aid certificate a suitable tone for the dominant headline: 'All This Happened— issued by the Red Cross. The Story of American Labor.'" The feature article cited was Particular attention is also given "Let the Buyer Beware." during the course to surgical pro­ All five awards won by the LOG were in the International cedures and the treatment of car­ Publications Divisions. diac patients. During the judging of this year's entries, the Nieman Fellows In order to provide as many praised the labor press in general for its "consistency in pro­ pharmacist mates as possible in the shortest possible time, it had fessional excellence" and urged continued "comprehensive re­ been originally planned to begin porting of organized labor affairs, of collective bargaining" and a third class in February which of union-management relations. would have overlapped the present At the Staten Island Pharmacist Mate Training School, learning to one. The judging panel consisted of Ken Clawson, labor reporter However, hospital officials take blood pressure is one of fhe first lessons given to a trainee. found they lacked staff and facili­ for the Toledo Blade; Dewey James, editor of the Florence, S.C., This basic examination gives important clues to the health of a ties to properly train 60 men si­ Mot-ning News; Remer Tyson, Washington bureau of the Atlanta patient. Pictured here are: Ake Fried (seated left), taking his own multaneously and the start of the Constitution and James Whelan, Caribbean manager of United blood pressure: James Brustman (seated right); and fellow Pharmacist third class was put off until a Press International, Mate students (from left to right) M. Said, W. Mize, and R. Mills. later date. SlU-SOA Pharmacist Mate Trainiag Prepares 2ad Class for Ratii^s Five Awards Won by Log In Labor Press Competition 'I �December 22, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Protests Aired at MSTS'Sponsored Meeting The Great Lakes 1^ Fred Femen,Secretjry-rreasurer,Qreat Lakes The St. Lawrence seaway "officially" closed on December 6, but due to fair weather and warm water temperatures, the sea­ way remains open on a day-to-day basis. A total of 60 vessels remain on the Lakes, 13 of which are above the Lake Ontario end of the Welland Canal. All SIU ships are either laying-up now or due ^ to come in within a few days. The emergency hospitalization,' the entire Boland fleet should be laid- USPHS Hospital should be noti­ up by December 20. Detroit and fied within 48 hours. Failure to Toledo will have some 26 ships notify the nearest hospital can re­ sult in the loss of benefits to the laid-up. member. The Westcott mailboat had one Cleveland of its longest seasons. The SIUThe sandboat Scobell was the contracted Westcott launch serv­ first vessel to call it quits for the ices every vessel on the Detroit season. She came in early to finish river, both American and Cana­ dian lakers, in addition to deep- repairs before the shipyard rush. sea vessels of all nations. The mail- It is expected our winter fleet will boat also carries seamen to and contain six vessels, with one more in Lorain. from these vessels. Alpena Duluth The Paul H. Townsend became The last of the Reiss and Buck­ the latest Huron Portland Cement eye steamships are loading grain Co. vessel to lay-up. and leaving for winter lay-up. The We're getting a run of vacation Henry R. Piatt will be the last pay applications in this port. Mem­ ship to leave this port. bers are happy with the way the We are getting many OLD checks are being processed and vacation check applications and returned to them. our members are picking them up Our annual Christmas dinner as fast as we can process them. will be held December 21 at the Our annual Christmas dinner is Grove Restaurant. All indications being held at the Lincoln Hotel at point to a good turnout. 6 p.m. on December 22. Please let Buffalo us know if you wish to attend, as With the majority of ships laidsoon as possible. up, shipping has come to a near Frankfort halt. However, there are still a few The City of Green Bay is back ships scheduled for another trip on a 5 and 2 schedule, after being and some jobs are going out of on a 20 and 8 schedule since mid- this port. November. We will have a Christ­ We will hold our Christmas din­ mas dinner for members and their ner at the Hotel Lenox on dependents on December 17 at Christmas day. We expect a good the Hostess Cafe. For further de­ turnout of members and their tails, contact the Frankfort hall. families. The annual Christmas dinner is The Ann Arbor No. 5 left this this port on December 1. The Bul- a good opportunity for Gt, Lakes tema Company tug, Muskegon, Seafarers and their families to get towed "Old Pedro" from her berth together before all activity in this and many local residents watched port ceases. When lay-up comes, the vessel leave Frankfort for the some members and their families go to other parts of the country, last time. so the dinner serves as a last getWe want to remind all SIU together before Spring fit-out. members that when they require SEAFARERSmLOG D«c. 22. 1967 • Vol. XXIX, No. 25 Official Publication of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atiantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Executive Board PAUL HALL, President •CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Viee-Pree. Vice-President AL KERR See.-Treaa. LINDSEY WILLIAMS Vice-President ROBERT MATTHEWS Vfee-Presidenf Editor MIKE POLLACK Staff Writers PETER WEISS HARRY WITTSCHEN FRANK MARGIOTTA STEVE STEINBERG Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI Pibllihed biweekly at 810 Rhode iilind Avenii N.E., Waihlngton, D. C. 20018 by the Seifaren Intemitlonal Union, Atlantle, Gilf, Laket and Inland Waten Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth Ayenae, Brooklyn, R.Y. 11232. Tel. 9-6600. Smnd clait poetaie paid at Waihlnilon, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTEHTION: Fans 3579 eanli ihoald bo sent to Seafaren Inlomatlanal Union, Atlantic, Golf, Lakei and Inland Watan Dlitrlet, AFL-CIO, 675 Foarth A>enaa, Braaklynp N.Y. 11252. Allotment of US. Defense Cargoes Rapped byUnsubsidlzedShipowners WASHINGTON-^Unsubsidlzed U.S.-flag ship operators last week called for sharp revisions in the Government's method of allocating defense cargo so that the millions of tons that move on com­ mercial vessels each year is more equally distributed between subsidized and unsubsidized com­ panies. During an MSTS-Industry operators now can carry commer­ disrupt their commercial services conference sponsored by the cial cargoes that were unavailable unless their ships are absolutely needed by the military is a "fair Military Sea Transport Service then. Klebanoff also suggested that position," King stressed, that "it here, spokesmen for unsubsidized is equally fair, and advantageous some subsidized lines, at the same lines insisted that the problem of time they are receiving direct gov­ to the government, to establish a securing military cargo is virtually firm policy that the subsidized ernment funds to compete with a life-or-death matter for their lines should not receive cargo un­ other operators, may be getting fleets and refused to be placated til unsubsidized services have added subsidy when carrying mili­ by officials of government and tary cargoes at special rates. been employed." subsidized lines who sought to Howard Pack of the SlU-con­ While conceding that MSTS head off debate. tracted Seatrain Lines told the should continue to use berth serv­ At issue was the Wilson-Weeks ; conference that the MSTS had Agreement of 1954 under which ices of U.S. flat liner companies shown by its own reports that the the government's present cargo- where "prudent and economically cost of moving a ton of cargo per allocation program was estab­ feasible," Klebanoff said "there is mile was lower on unsubsidized lished. Really a memorandum be­ no longer any sensible reason for vessels than on those that are tween the Defense and Commerce any fixed or immutable formula subsidized. secretaries in the Eisenhower Ad­ which establishes a preference or Pack recommended that the ministration,, the agreement set up priority for the use of berth ves­ MSTS develop long-term charters sels." the so-called nucleus of the MSTS with the unsubsidized shipping *A Small Percentage' fleet and priorities to be used by companies to provide the best type Klebanoff noted that commer­ the government in the movement of service for its operations and of its military cargoes on com­ cial liner cargoes in the foreign also advised the retention of com­ commerce of the United States are mercial shipping. petitive bidding in the procure­ Arguing that world trade and now available in large amounts, ment of vessels. maritime conditions are no longer but American-flag participation in Almost 200 shipping officials, the same as when the agreement these cargoes constitutes a very including the heads of most un­ was formulated, operators of un­ small percentage. subsidized companies in the coun­ "Furthermore," he declared, try and those of some half-dozen subsidized tramp vessels chal­ lenged it on the grounds that it "most liner companies receive op­ subsidized lines, were present at gives subsidized berth operators a erating differential subsidy for the the discussions which came on the priority over unsubsidized ship­ express purpose of enabling them second day of the MSTS-lndusping, which, in effect, amounts to to compete with foreign-flag liner trial conference. a double subsidy. Some unsubsi­ vessels for commercial cargoes— dized berth line operators, among there is no foreign-flag competition them the SlU-contracted Isthmian for MSTS cargoes." A. E. King, president of Steamship Company, joined in the Isthmian Steamship, acknowlchallenge. .edged that "unsubsidized liner Priorities Obsolete services have been the major WASHINGTON—The United source of instantly available sealift Michael Klebanoff, president of States balance of payments defi­ the American Tramp Ship Owners at the time of the Korean and cit for the third quarter of 1967 Association and a vice president Vietnam emergencies" but urged is somewhat worse—at $2.68 bil­ of the SlU-contracted Oriental Ex­ MSTS to devise a new policy lion—than it was during the same porters, Inc., told the meeting that which would give priorities in period last year, the government priorities in the Wilson-Weeks cargo-carrying to these companies. has announced. Estimates for the Pointing out that the demon­ full year range between $2.2 bil­ agreement no longer exist and that under changes in trade conditions strated position of the subsidized lion and $2.5 billion. since 1954, subsidized berth line lines is that they do not want to The comparable figure for the third quarter of 1966 was $1,357 billion. The government had Loyola Human Relations Institute Presents Award hoped to keep the deficit total for the full 12 months of this year down to $2 billion but this goal now appears extremely doubtful to informed observers. Economy Endangered For some time the Administra­ tion has been warning that a con­ tinued outflow of American gold seriously endangers the U.S. econ­ omy and the Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, at its annual meeting in New York last September, adopted a resolution officially re­ questing the government to do all in its power to stop the increase in the balance of payments defi­ cit. MTD and SIU President Paul Hall has pointed out that even with American-flag shipping car­ rying only a small 7.3 percent of this country's export-import trade, it still contributes a billion dollars a year to the plus side of our This past October 27, Judge Fred J. Cassibry was honored by the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO and balance of payments. the Loyola Institute of Human Relations, at a testimonial banquet given in the New Orleans SIU "If American ships were carry­ Hall. Cassibry, long a friend of Labor, was recently appointed by President Johnson to the United ing the same proportion of U.S. States District Court of Eastern Louisiana. At the banquet were (1 to r): The Reverend John Cronin, cargoes which they carried a doz­ Superior of the Jesuit Community at Loyola; Davy P. Laborde, Sr., Executive Sec'y of N.O. Carpenters en years ago, some 34 percent," District Council, United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America; the Hon. Victor H. Schiro, Hall reasoned, "there would be Mayor of New Orleans, and Honorary Chairman; Victor Bussie, Pres. of the La. AFL-CIO; A. P. Stoddard, no balance of payments deficit at Pres. of Greater N. O. AFL-CIO; Cassibry; SIU Vice Pres. Lindsey Williams and Rev. Willie Jackson. all." Payments Deficit Shows Increase �'' 1 Page Six SEAFARERS December 22, 1967 LOG Servicing the Penn Sailor From November 30 to December 13/ 1967 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore *. Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals The SlU-contracted tanker Penn Sailor, anchored at Perth Amboy, New Jersey, was recently visited on a payoff by SlU Headquarters Representative Fred Stewart and SlU patrolmen Mike Sacco and Jack Caffey. Here, Caffey waits to board the ship from the Amboy launch. Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 6 3 70 41 10 5 19 17 4 7 9 8 6 5 29 20 39 29 75 65 19 12 35 33 19 12 337 259 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 5 2 49 31 13 0 1 6 32 8 4 7 6 12 10 7 3 4 6 0 29 14 2 16 4 1 71 62 4 8 5 20 27 31 35 17 6 9 275 184 110 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C 4 60 8 23 2 6 3 16 18 73 17 34 15 279 3 31 6 17 3 3 2 18 9 54 5 35 17 203 3 63 4 19 4 4 5 22 35 70 9 39 14 291 2 42 0 15 5 11 6 18 12 50 8 32 8 209 2 18 3 11 6 3 0 6 8 5 18 27 17 124 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 8 4 201 87 31 9 90 65 30 26 9 6 10 18 75 27 168 99 122 57 25 0 63 0 50 14 890 404 REGISTERED on BEACH - All Groups Class A Class B 5 134 16 56 17 9 5 39 88 84 24 39 24 570 2 92 8 34 21 7 10 28 90 63 0 0 14 369 STEWARD DEPARTMENT The Gulf Coast by Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco .. Seattle Totals AH Groups Class A Class B 4 3 60 25 11 3 13 16 3 3 6 2 5 3 10 14 35 28 35 50 11 9 23 15 14 9 162 248 The sixth annual Community Services Award of the Greater New Orleans AFL-CIO, was presented December 19, at the SIU hall here. For the first time, the award was made to a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keller, Jr. Charles Keller is distinguished by his contribution to various community projects. Among those Seafarer Thomas Lundy has with which he is connected are; Public Affairs Research Council just completed a fast trip to Spain of Louisiana, the President's Com­ on the Transchamplain. mittee for Equal Opportunity in Housing, a member of the Na­ tional Citizens Committee, Com­ munity Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the President's Committee on The backbone of Russian Communism is in danger of be­ Urban Housing. coming a victim of progress and Kremlin leaders are embarrassed The award was presented by as well as worried about it. In a country where unemployment Robert Quinn, New Orleans Com­ cannot exist by guarantee of its own Constitution, joblessness is munity Services chairman. rising at an alarming rate—largely due to automation. Mrs. Rosa F. Keller is an active According to Dmitri Pospielovsky, an authority on Soviet participant in the United Fund, affairs, about 12 percent of the 110 million Russians currently League of Women Voters, a board in the labor force are actually out of work. In addition to this, member of the New Orleans Pub­ available figures indicate that of the 14 million Russians now lic Library, and is associated with looking for jobs only about five million—or less than half— the Urban League of Greater New will find work in industry under the present five-year plan Orleans. In addition, she is Chairwhich ends in 1970. TOTAL SHIPPED AH Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 13 37 18 16 3 0 5 13 7 5 6 5 14 6 5 9 5 4 1 9 18 6 12 7 2 48 22 3 8 13 16 30 29 21 8 4 8 188 133 109 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 5 1 162 36 16 9 90 48 6 14 11 5 11 2 69 12 131 90 84 56 14 6 43 0 38 12 680 285 Automation Hiking Soviet Unemployment Perldns Lundy man "of the Hospitality Committee for foreign visitors for the Foreign Relations Association. New Oileans All members are reminded that they are invited to the Christmas dinner at the hall on Christmas day. Family, in-laws, and friends are cordially welcome. Mobile Jack Filli^hlm is' registered and would like to get his AB's ticket. Charley Perkins had a long trip as steward aboard the Whiteh^i. A real SIU oldtimer, Charley lives here in Mobile. James Webb was second cook on the Cities Service Norfolk. He shipped out of the Gulf for twenty years. The Soviet Constitution "guarantees work by liquidation of unemployment" but, put to the test of a sharply rising birth rate since World War II and ever-increasing concentration on defense rather than domestic industry, this guarantee can no longer be backed up. Forced to slash investment expenditures, Moscow is doing most of its cutting in iron and steel products, chemicals and light industry. Already the Soviet iron and steel industry is some 60 percent mechanized or automated and plans for further costsaving progress along these lines is expected to put up to two million more workers out of jobs by 1971. In the meantime, the country's working-age population went up five million between 1961 and 1965 and the estimated in­ crease by 1970 is nine million more. Winter Idleness One of Russia's biggest unemployment problems lies in the fact that while about 30 million of its citizens live in rural areas, industry is centered in the large cities. During the winter months Soviet sources estimate that of the able-bodied farmers living on collectives, some 30 to 50 percent of them do not work. Also, efforts to open up Siberia as a partial solution to the unemployment problem has not met with the hoped for success. In some small Siberian industrial towns up to 25 percent of I workers are out of jobs and all in the area bitterly oppose the ® high cost of clothing, food and heating fuel. Soviet officials note with concern and annoyance that more and more workers are becoming migrant wanderers who lose an average of one month's employment each time they move from one job to another. An estimated one-third of workers in the north seek warmer southern climates. Others drift from city to farm and back again in search of jobs they cannot find. Econo­ mists explain that this is because of the decreasing need for workers on the farms and the decreasing availability of city jobs for those without special training. Two recent studies are viewed by Soviet officials with frank alarm by Moscow. One found that 94,000 miners have been displaced by automation and that 66 percent of those affected in the Moscow area had been unable to get new jobs. Similarly, 7,800 lost their jobs within a year after p^rogressive modern methods were brought into locomotive repair shops and even after retraining only half of them could find re-employment. By 1971, it is also predicted that automation of the Russian trans­ portation system will have idled some two million porters. Satellite Nations Affected With the exception of East Germany, unemployment is also becoming a problem in Soviet satellite nations, but they are at least taking steps to tide those out of work over with bare min­ imal state payments. Russia, on^the other hand, has no legislation whatever to provide for unemployment compensation. Solutions being sought by the Soviets to ease the jobless situ­ ation include keeping children in school—and out of the labor market—longer, state-run retraining centers and employment agencies, and requiring hiring of a minimum quota of young workers. Also there has been a tightening up on permits for citizens seeking jobs in the crowded cities and collective farms are being allowed to set up job-providing projects of their own—such as food canneries—^to tide them over during the winter months. However, the recently-announced one-year reduction in com­ pulsory military training for young men, and the tendency of Russian women to seek jobs for added income, will add consid­ erably to the Soviet labor force and the burden of providing it with jobs. The Soviet Union's Constitution may still theoretically "guarantee" jobs but the days of the completely planned economy, in which the Kremlin could push workers into industry whether production needs warranted them or not, are gone. In the new Communist economy, even skilled workers cannot all be sure of jobs. Some experts on Soviet affairs predict that instead of rely­ ing entirely on state-run enterprises in the future, Kremlin leaders will be forced more and more to use private enterprise to, absorb its unemployed citizens. �December 22, 1967 SEAFARERS Medicaid Critics 'Abuse' Cry Refuted by N.Y. State Study Page Seven LOG 'Gone With the Wind!' NEW YORK—Contrary to the insistence of its critics, New York State's Medicaid program has been used almost entirely by the destitute and low-income families for whom it was designed, a state study re­ leased last week showed. Opponents of the plan—^the most liberal of its kind in the nation— contended when it was passed last year that it was a "give-away" which would help families able to pay their own medical bills. However the study made last August and September of the two million Medicaid cardholers in New York State, none of them on welfare, showed that the average gross income of these families was less than $3,200 annually—about $61 a week—and that less than 10 percent of them had enough income to beat the cost of even a deductable payment toward Medicaid services. The study, made by the research office of the state Social Services Department, further found that some 56 percent of the households covered consisted of one or two persons with a gross income of about $35 a week and the rest averaged five persons living on an income of less than $93 a week. Also, 75 percent of all households had no private health insurance. Familes with a gross income of $10,000 or more made up only one-quarter of one percent and each of these consisted of seven or more persons. No Millionaires George W. Chesbro, first deputy commissioner of the Social Services Department said he "wouldn't consider a family of seven or eight with $10,000 affiuent There are no millionaires flocking in droves to the Medicaid program." "These facts indicate that Medicaid has been serving the citizens it was set up to serve—the destitute, the low-income groups, and others with medical care costs they cannot meet." Chesbro added. Medicaid, a federal-state-local program of comprehensive medical services to welfare clients and other families classified as "medically indigent," varies from state to state. The federal share is 50 percent with 25 percent each paid by state and local governments. Under the New York plan an average family of four, with one wage earner and a yearly net income of less than $6,000 can qualify for full coverage. Other states have different minimum wage requirements. Welfare recipients were not included in the study because thenincome is automatically considered to be at the poverty level. The Maryland Constitutional Convention has approved a tenta­ tive provision that calls for laws "for the protection and education of the citizens of the state against harmful and unfair business prac­ tices." Backers of the consumer protection measure said it was aimed at aiding the poor in deal­ ing with shady businessmen. The United Steelworkers of America have appointed James C. O'Brien, executive director of the union's Committee on Older and Retired Workers, as the Steelworker's new Political Action Di­ rector. O'Brien will replace Frank N. Hoffman who has retired to become staff director of the na­ tional Democratic Senatorial Cam­ paign Committee. The International Confedera­ tion of Free Trade Unions has filed another complaint with the Director-General of the Interna­ tional Labour Office protesting the "continued flagrant violation of trade union rights" in Rhodesia. According to the ICFTU there are at least 168 trade union lead­ ers being illegally detained in Rhodesia without charge or trial. Establishment of a reciprocal working agreement between American and Bermuda musicians has been announced by President Herman D. Kenin of the Musi­ cians and Secretary-General Charles Vaucrosson of the Ber­ muda Federation of Musisians & Variety Artists. Principal terms of the agree­ ment provide that requests from the Bermuda union to AFM for listing of Bermuda musicians on AFM's "unfair" or "defaulters" listings will be handled by AFM in the same manner it handles such requests from its own locals. AFM will approve contracts by its members for Bermuda engage­ ments, but it will reject such con­ tracts if the Bermuda union ob­ jects for reasons relating to its minimum scale or because the purchaser ot the music has an "unfair" or "default" status in Bermuda. <|> Teachers in Plainedge, N. Y., have chosen the AFL-CIO Ameri­ can Federation of Teachers as their bargaining agent, turning away from their previous repre­ sentation by Classroom Teachers Association, a National Education Association affiliate. The vote in a representation election was 203 for the Teachers to 158 for the Association. The Screen Actors Guild has negotiated a new agreement with animated TV motion picture pro­ ducers that will improve wages and working conditions for actors who are never seen. The so-called "off-camera voices" won raises in the basic pay scales depending on length of film and the number of voices used. Congressman Elmer J. Holland (D-Pa.), who has served in Con­ gress for the past i3 years, has announced that he will seek office again. Holland first entered Con­ gress in 1942 to fill an unexpired term. He did not seek national office again until he was elected to the 84th Congress to fill an­ other unexpired term. The liberal Democrats from Pittsburgh, who has won labor's endorsement each time, is a member of Local 1272 of the United Steelworkers. It now appears certain that the odious principle of "right-to-work"—the notorious tool of union busters whose sole purpose is to deny employees the right of free organiza­ tion and collective bargaining—^has been dealt a final death blow by the citizens of Oklahoma. The most recent defeat in Oklahoma, after 20 years of bombardment by all the big guns of the National Right-tp-Work Committee, is also a clear indication that states which have thus far spumed the compulsory open shop laws RTW committees strive for, want no part of stifling the U.S. trade union move­ ment. Further successes by RTW advocates are, as AFL-CIO President George Meany so aptly put it last week, apparently "a dead issue in this country." After their national anti-labor efforts had drawn nothing but blanks for more than four years, the RTW committees had pinned all their hopes this year on adding Oklahoma to the other 19 states which have been in steady economic decline since enacting rightto-work laws. True to their formula, the right-to-workers pulled out all the stops to ramrod their restrictive legislation down the throats of Oklahomans. In order to secure the 104,000 petition signatures needed to gain another state-wide referendum, like the one they lost in 1964, they brought in all of their highpowered fund-raising and propaganda talent. They even offered to buy signatures to get the required amount. But they fell flat. The citizens of Okla­ homa, like those of other states who have repelled RTW advances time and again, had time to see the right-to-work myth for what it really is. Contrary to the claim made by NRTWC that they thump for open-shop laws to stimulate business and advance the economy of the states, they are really seeking the open shop in order to destroy established unionism and bring back the free-wheeling management abuses and discriminatory hir­ ing practices that the organized labor move­ ment has fought to abolish. U.S. citizens everywhere have also had ample time to see what has happened to the states who swallowed the big lie and passed RTW laws under Section 14(b) of the TaftHartley Act. With the exception of Nevada, which derives its income almost entirely from gambling and tourist money earned outside its borders, every single one of them has experienced a steady economic decline of ruinous proportions. Before right-to-work legislation most of these states—mostly in the south—were be­ low the average national per capita income, with a few above. But today all are below average and still slipping. With RTW laws came business and personal bankruptcies, lost homes, lost jobs, and a sharp drop in new construction and sales of everything from automobiles and ap­ pliances to bare necessities such as food and clothing. Those who could, pulled up stakes and left their home states; countless more who couldn't had to remain and live with the new law. There remains little doubt that those who escaped RTW in its earlier days don't want it now and will never want it. But the NRTWC and its state affiliates will continue to per­ petuate themselves by milking fellow union haters of new funds with false promises of what will never be. The only way to stop them is redoubled efforts on the part of all of us in the labor movement to secure repeal by Congress of the infamous Section 14(b) which set them up in business. �'• \ Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG December 22, 1967 AFL'CIO Maritime Trades Department this month held its three-day biennial convention in Bal Harbour, Florida, More than 200 delegates, representing 37 international unions affiliated with the MTD and the department's port councils throughout North America, were in attendance. On this page are some of the photos taken during the sessions. MTD President Paul Hall speaks to convention delegates in support of a plan to set up conference of all transportation unions for a stronger collective bargaining position. A t 1 SiUNA Vice President Morris Weisberger (at left) chats with Firefighters Union President William Buck. Cesar Chavez, Farm. Workers Organizing Dir., and Asst. Dir. Larry Itliong (left) talk to President Hall. IBEW Secretary Joseph Keenan greets Senators Magnuson, (D-Wash.) (right) and Bartlett (D-Alaska). Philadelphia Mayor James Tate (left) with Joe Lewis of AFL-CIO Union Label & Service Trades Dept. Vice Admiral Lawson P. Ramage, Commander of Military Sea Transport Service, ^addresses delegates. SIUNA Vice Pres. Keith Terpe (L) talks with Santiago P. Abreu, Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico. Andrew J. Biemiller, Dir. AFL-CIO Legislative Dept. AFL-CIO Pres. George Meany called ^or upgrading of U.S. fleet in the public interest. At left is MTD President Hall. James W. Gulick, Acting Administrator of MARAD. MTD Pres. Hall chats with Machinists Pres. P. L. Siemiller (R) and RCIA Pres. James A. Suffridge. Director Walter Davis of the AFL-CIO's Education Dept. SlU Vice President AL Tanner (R) and Pres. Leo Dennis of Railway Clerks during brief pause. �Pmge Nine SEAFARERS LOG December 22, 1967 ^~\ver 900 delegates from across the nation, representing all segments of organized labor, attended the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO held in Bal Harbour, Florida, earlier this month. Progressive policies aimed at improving every facet of American life were discussed and formu­ lated during the four-day proceedings. Some photos of convention sessions appear on this page. Dir. Sargent Shriven of U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity was speaker. Betty Furness, Presidential Advisor on Consumer Affairs, delivers speech. SlUNA's delegation to convention listens as proceedings of the day get under way. George Meany, AFL-CIO president, welcomes Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz as he arrives to speak to delegates, Delegates from all segments of the organized labor movement in America gathered for AFL-CIO convention to set aims and goals for progra°ms of next two years. SlUNA and MTD President Paul Hall and John J. Grogan, president of lUMSWA, talk things over during brief break in proceedings. U. S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark also spoke to delegates. A: fit ' Alan Boyd, Secretary of Trans­ portation was another guest. International vice presidents Lindsey Williams and Steve Edney (right) were among SlUNA delegates to the sessions. Motion picture personality Charlton Heston, President of the Screen Actors Guild, has talk with Pres. Meany after session. �December 22, 1967 SEAFARERS LOG Pagre Ten AFLCIO to Wage AlFOut Battle Against Conservative Threat in '68 Seafarer Rozalski Retires on Pension employment insurance and work­ men's compensation because of inadequate state laws. • Urged a national effort to humanize technological change to alleviate the damage and disrup­ tion caused by rampant automa­ tion geared to engineering and financial concepts. • Stressed the continuing need for major improvements in social security benefits and public assist­ ance programs. • Cited the need for enact­ ment of legislation setting out . a comprehensive national man­ power policy keyed to a commit­ SIU Representative George McCartney (left) presents Waclaw Rozment to full employment, making alslci with his first pension check in the New York hall. Rozalski sailed 25 years and his last job was AB on Sea-Land Summit. the government the employer of last resort. • Called again for a clearly warranted increase in the mini­ mum wage to $2 an hour, cov­ erage of all workers and a 35 hour work-week. The convention's strongly re­ maritime industry spokesmen who (Continued from Page 3) affirmed support for the Johnson Administration's policies in Viet- government tolerance of "run­ emphasized the common concern Nam to halt Communist aggres­ away flag" shipping, criticized of labor and management for the proposals to build U.S. ships in future of the merchant marine and sion in Southeast Asia. foreign yards and urged federal from government officials, includ­ subsidies to develop the world's ing Maritime Administrator James first nuclear-powered merchant Gulick, Federal Mediation & Con­ ciliation Director William E. Simfleet. The convention dealt with a kin and Vice Admiral L. P. Ram­ broad range of issues—from a. a-re, commander of the Military strong endorsement of the Ameri­ Sea Transport Service. Collective bargaining in the can commitment in Vietnam, to by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative consumer legislation, the crisis of United States "is doing a very good the cities and the battle against job," Simkin told the delegates. The prolonged hearing on the sinking of the Panoceanic Faith "poverty and intolerance." Over the last seven years, he ended last week in San Francisco. The board, headed by Rear Labor's political role was said, statistics show "that the aver­ Admiral Chester R. Bender, will probably issue its findings in five stressed both in convention res­ age guy loses a day on strike iln months. The ship sank in a storm off Alaska, October 9, with the olutions and in a major address over two years in time . . . that is loss of 36 lives. ^ by Philadelphia's recently re­ a pretty small price to pay for Hearings of this nature can of serve a useful purpose in prevent­ elected Mayor James H. J. Tate. freedom." Tate said he came to the con­ course never make up for lives ing a repetition of the fate met by Praises Federal Mediator lost, but we hope that they will the crewmembers of the Pan- vention to tell the story of what oceanic Faith. Hall responded with praise for the labor movement can do politi­ federal mediators and a declara­ cally when it unites, when it is San Francisco tion that the maritime industry It's been a long time since aroused," and when the cause is would have been much better off we've seen snow out here, but right. if more use had been made of this He told the delegates how he Seafarers who live in and around type of third-party assistance to had gone into both the Demo­ San Diego and Los Angeles saw bargaining rather than the "per­ cratic primary and general elec­ Continuing research to produce a better and safer hull design some of the white stuff last week. tion as an underdoe, opposed by manent umpire" type of arbi­ have borne fruit and a new model has been tested that appreciably However, we haven't noticed any two-thirds of the old guard Dem­ tration. reduces slamming and may eventually replace the design that is of the boys who ship out of here ocratic ward leaders. Ramage told the convention regularly looking for another run now being used on most Amer- ^ that American merchant seamen Labor was in his corner, but power to maitnain the same speed because of the snowy conditions, ican freighters. have "never failed" the armed the party organization considered in rough seas than the other and we dont' figure to lose any forces in any emergency. labor a "paper tiger" politically. The forebody of most Amer­ model. men to the Puerto Rico run. Just as the nation must have "a Important as was the Philadel­ ican cargo ships is the U-shape, Less Power Needed Shipping is still brisk in this Navy adequate to defend all our phia election, Tate stressed, "the more or less unchanged since it port. We paid-off and signed-on national interest," the admiral In a full-sized ship, the naval 1968 election will be even more was adopted around 1918. The the following ships: Norberto said, so must it have a strong architect said, his form would re­ important—for the nation and for new hull form tested is more of Capay, Kenyon Victory, Raphael merchant fleet. He added: quire an average of 2,100 less the world." a U-V shape, closer in design to The MTD closed its three-day The all-out labor political ef­ those used by designers abroad. horsepower for propulsion through Semmes, Lynn Victory, Los An­ geles, Steel Recorder, Steel Ap­ convention with the unanimous fort must be duplicated in the Its development, by naval archi­ seas with 10-foot high waves. prentice, Longlines, American re-election of its three top officers: The test results were given at congressional and presidential tect Harry S. Townsend, was President Paul Hall, Executive Pride, Seatrain Louisiana, Canton a symposium of the Society of elections, Tate urged, "if orga­ prompted after it was discovered Secretary-Treasurer Peter M. McNaval Architects and Marine En­ Victory, Lucile Bloonifield, and nized labor is to continue in its that the forward bottoms of all Gavin, and Vice President Jack gineers that met in New York last role as champion of the people." the Oakland. The Columbia is in 10 ships of a new fleet of fast McDonald. month. First, two five-foot models The convention heard also from | transit. freighters had suffered damage which cost an average of $50,000 were tested in the model basin of Seattle a year in repairs on each of the the Davidson Laboratory at the Shipping has fallen off some Stevens Institute of Technology, vessels. SIU since our last report, but the pic­ then larger 11V2-loot models with The tests grew out of a desire propellers were tested at the hy­ ture for the future looks bright, NovemlMir 1 - Novembar 30* IW to do something about this prob­ dromechanics laboratory of the due to grain ships to India and lem. Slanuning occurs when the Naval Ship Research and Devel­ • Arhounf: V Number <»f MSTS-chartered vessels running to bow rises out of the water as it opment Center in Washington. • Paid. Benefits Vietnam. cuts through oncoming waves and Measurements of the pressure $ 51*444.52 4*720 then comes down hard on the sur­ of impact forces on the forward Claude Pritchett, just off the I^OsRifnl 85,164.40 •34Death Benefits .. face of the water. The pounding bottoms were taken as well as re­ Seattle as chief cook, is waiting 276*688.00 jf*030 Disability BfifieflW the hull takes is both costly and cordings of speed, power, pitch, for a new ship. 5,463.00 29 •Jfiatemtty• dangerous. heave and other factors. 81,466.93 Woody Lawton was bosun on Depsmdents ^neflts 402 Townsend said that results of The tests were backed by the the Manhattan and had a long trip lOptical Benefits ........... 12,266.92 813 tests indicated his design was the Naval Architects, American Bu­ 32,752.00 equal of the old one in smooth reau of Shipping, the Maritime aboard this super-tanker. After |,Out"Palient Benefits ......... 4/!iM)3 545,245.77 water, while in simulated rough Administration, American ship- resting awhile, this 29-year SIU I'Vacatlon Benefits . ^ > 11*231 seas the force on the bottom of lines, shipyards and the United member will catch another ship. iTotal Welfare* Vacation ' 635^51841 1*321 the new model was about halved. Salvage Association of which We have four ships in transit, Also, it took substantially less Townsend is vice-president. paid-off one and signed-on two. (Continued from Page 3) Dominating much of the con­ vention was the theme of the serious challenge to the future of the trade union movement posed by the conservative coalition in Congress and its bid for control of the next Congress with result­ ing anti-labor and anti-progress legislation. The convention's reaction was expressed in the resolution on po­ litical action in which it declared that the developing political threat to the trade union movement must be met by a maximum mobiliza­ tion of labor's resources behind COPE in the 1968 elections. A meeting of the AFL-CIO General Board during the conven­ tion heard a detailed analysis of the situation in Congress and the political problems coming up next year with Meany summing up that the federation was neither opti­ mistic nor pessimistic about 1968 but simply determined to mount the most extensive drive ever. Convention Positions In terms of national programs the convention took these posi­ tions; • Gave Congress a blueprint for action to protect the health, safety and buying power of the American consumer. • Called for an expansion of the war on poverty by Congress and the Administration and by labor at the local level. • Reaffirmed its conviction that the American economy can support the extension of social advances at home while meeting the needs of Vietnam and called for further action by the govern­ ment to implement the policies spelled out in the Employment Act of 1946. •' Spelled out its determination to achieve full equality for all minority groups in all aspects of American life, noting the accom­ plishments to date and the long distance still to be traveled. • Called for a comprehensive national health insurance program as the key to dealing effectively with the 'mounting problem of health care. • Urged a beefed-up drive on air and water pollution to correct the present weaknesses in funds and enforcement • Detailed specific programs for the development, management and conservation of natural re­ sources for the benefit of all citi­ zens. • Assailed extremists of both the right and left as a continuing threat to American life. • Called for a massive national effort to provide quality education for America's youth, regardless of race, background or income. • Reasserted the need for mini­ mum federal standards for un­ MTD Convention Supports Transport Union Lfnic-Up The Pacific Coast /ifeur Hull Design Adds Protection Against Heavy Pounding of Sou • 'jti: ¥:M.. �December 22, 1967 Union Pays Bills During Illness To The Editon I am writing this letter so I can tell everyone concerned about my appreciation for what the Union has done for my wife and I. I was in the hospital in April and had an emergency opera­ tion. The union was of the greatest help to us during this time. Then in October, my wife went into the hospital for a seri­ ous operation. Again, the Union came forth with help beyond belief. I re­ cently learned that the SIU paid all of my wife's hospital bill. I would like to say we always read the LOG and I sincerely hope that you will print this letter showing our deep appreciation for what the SIU has done for us. Sincerely, George Black Galveston, Texas Crew Helped Out During Emergency To The Editor: I would like to extend my sincere appreciation for the kindness and thoughtfulness ex­ tended to me by the entire .crew of the Robin Gray during the serious illness suffered by my wife. This enabled me to fly home immediately. Gratefully, Frederick Osborne SEAFARERS These budget-cutters seem to be trying to regain those thrill­ ing days of yesteryear when the lollipop was king and the U.S.A. was mighty, invincible, and low-priced. I submit that those days were not, to put it succinctly, so hot. What they lacked, aside from the evils that did exist then, were the problems of overpopulation, nuclear war, and competition between huge and powerful in­ ternational alliances so techno­ logically-advanced that the fate of the planet Earth could be swiftly determined by one*single move—possibly even by acci­ dent. The time we live in is peril­ ous. The solution to diminish­ ing the dangers, and to making life better for all people—threebillion now and six billion in about 30 years—is not to cut down on programs designed to achieve this goal. Specifically, it is foolish and dangerous for the House to slash foreign aid ap­ propriations to the lowest level since 1948. The only effect this reactionary move can have is to force the poorer nations to either buckle their belts—if there are any notches left to buckle—or to turn to the Com­ munist countries for aid, and, possibly, for friendship. In cutting welfare programs and in calling for bills to sup­ press riots instead of the causes of riots—poverty, hunger, dis­ ease, educational deprivation, discrimination, and so on— Congressional reactionaries are doing a great deal more harm to the people of this country than the troubles they hope to quell. Richard Dalton ^ U.S. Maritime Should Be No. 1 To The Editor: This past year, I had the hpnor and pleasure to sail with the SIU as an AB, after a lapse of 20 years. As a Democratic Committee­ man from the Philadelphia Third Congressional District, I have seen the great progress the Union has made for the benefit of the workingman. I read in the LOG with great interest the fight the Union is making for the upgrading of our merchant marine. In a nation as great as ours, the merchant marine should be in a top position, and stay there. The U.S. merchant ma­ rine's economic growth and maintaining its position as our fourth arm of defense, is a great deal. To all those involved, keep up the good work. To the Union, officials and membership, I wish to take this opportunity to wish all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours truly, Joseph Homer 4/ Budget-Cutting No Solution To the Editor: "Cut Social Security, cut for­ eign aid, cut welfare programs, and the future's delayed." That apparently is the motto of most of the House members who seem to enjoy touching bottom. They are much like the bird who always flew backwards iii order to see where he had been. — Border Jumpers Hurt Economy To The Editor: Some U.S. Companies have joined the runaway ship own­ ers in the constant battle to find workers they can pay less money to than their American counterparts. Instead of Liberia or Panama, the industrialists have settled on Mexico as their new home. Not only are the American companies taking jobs and wages away from Americans, but they are not helping the Mexico economy to a notice­ able degree. It is believed as many as 100 companies have set up operations South of the border. I hope the Government will put an end to this practice. Paul Raichle ^ Romney Follows Company Line To The Editor: It is interesting to note that moderate Republicans refer to Michigan Governor Georee Romney as a moderate candi­ date, even a Liberal. Considering his anti-labor statements, this is almost as funny as saying Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan are Liberal. Consider Romney's statements at the University of Denver Law School, when he stated tliat unions are acquiring "monopolies" that "threaten our whole economy." His statements on labor make one wonder how another socalled liberal. Governor Rocke­ feller, can support him. Ted Neiderhuher LOG Page Eleven Seafarer Lee SavoU Retails Bouts As Contender forHeavyweight Crown Among the crew of the Ocean Evelyn during a recent voyage, was a deck maintenance man named Lee Savold. The name is undoubtedly familiar to fight fans, since Lee Savold was one of the better heavyweights in the 1940's, frequently ranked in the top ten among division contenders. Although Lee never fought officially for the World Cham­ pionship, he was recognized in England and most of Europe as heavyweight champ when he knocked out Bruce Woodcock of England, in the fourth round at White City Stadi­ um, London, on June 6, 1949. When Joe Louis retired, Lee, Gus Lesnovich, Jersey Joe WolSavold cott and Ezzard Charles were to be in a tournament for the title. Lee had been committed to the Woodcock fight and Lesnovich had contracted for a fight in Europe, so the tourney was not held. Charles won eventual uni­ versal recognition as champion. Lee, now 52 years old, lives in Paramus, N. J. He was bom on a farm and ranch in Canby, Minne­ sota. Lee recalled that his first fight was as a substitute at a county fair in Canby. He was only 15 years old at the time. Since it was the main event, he started out as a main event fighter. Dur­ ing a career that spanned some 20 years, he fought many of his di­ Bruce Woodcock (right) misses with a right during the last round vision's biggest names. of his fight with Lee Savold, on June 6, 1950. Savold won fight, Heads for the City held in London, and was recognized as European heavyweight champ. Like so many boys from the small towns, Lee decided to leave contest. Minus the draws and no and Baer all had their chance at home and head for the big city, contest bout, he won 72, lost 31, the heavyweight title. which in his case was St. Paul, in 106 fights. Lee is the possessor of a fine Minn. Here, he was discovered by Madison Square Garden was sense of humor. When asked by a well-known boxer, Mike Gib­ the scene for one of Lee's most a shipmate who gave him his bons. Gibbons took young Lee on memorable bouts. In 1948, he toughest fight, Lee replied, "my the boxing circuit, hooking fights fought Gino Bonavino, an Italian landlord." But, in a serious vein, all over the U. S., from big city fighter, and KO'd him in the first Lee thought Lem Franklin, who arenas to smaller cities like Des round. It took all of 45 seconds to stood 6' 5 inches and weighed well Moines, Iowa. In those days, box­ dispose of the Italian visitor, still over 200 pounds, was his toughest ing thrived and getting fights the shortest fight in the long his­ foe. Lee's record against Franklin wasn't hard. Working your way to tory of the Garden. was two wins and a loss, including the top against tough competition a hard-fought TKO of Franklin in Last Minute Substitute was harder, however. Chicago Stadium, in 1943. Ironically, the fight was almost Lee's first bout was a six-round Lee fought Joe Louis during the decision over Johnny Marcus in cancelled. Lee was a last-minute great champ's comeback, and was St. Paul. Shortly afterwards, he substitute and New York State's knocked out in six rounds, in New knocked out Ford Smith in San Boxing Commissioner, the late York's Madison Square Garden. Francisco, the first of his 53 Eddie Egan, objected on the Shortly afterwards, another great knockouts. He won an additional grounds that Lee, who had been fighter. Rocky Marciano knocked 19 by decision, lost 23 on points inactive awhile, was not in shape. Lee out, also in the sixth round, and was stopped only seven times. The Garden matchmaker argued in Philadelphia and Lee then de­ He had two draws, lost one on a to get the fight and Egan finally cided to hang up his gloves. foul and one bout was ruled no agreed. Perhaps the first big name Vietnam Reunion fighter Lee met was Buddy Baer, the less distinguished brother of former heavyweight champ, Max Baer. Lee lost in an eight-rounder in Des Moines. However, his Eastern debut was an impressive The San Francisco office of one, as he scored a technical American-Export Isbrantsen knockout aver "Big" Jim Robin­ Lines, Inc. will dose after De­ son in the third round of a fight cember 29, or possibly just in New York on January 10, 1940. prior to Christmas. This office That same year, Lee lost a 12has several articles of un­ rounder in New York to the great claimed personal effects be­ Billy Conn, former light-heavy longing to the following Sea­ champ, who eventually went on to farers: fight Joe Louis. Frank Adkins, Western Clipper; Oran K. Templeton, Among the big names Lee Western Clipper. battled were Lou Nova, whom These men are advised to Lee knocked out in Washington claim their property as soon in 1942 and again in Chicago's as possible. As soon as the Wrigley Field a year later, Tami Ralph Wilson, who sails in Steel company knows who will rep-1 Mauriello, who defeated Lee twice Designer's engine dept., saw his resent Western Agencies in in New York, in 1942 and '43, son, George on trip to Vietnam. San Francisco, they will try I to transfer any unclaimed per-1 and Arturo Godoy, whom Lee George sailed as oiler before he sonal effects to the new agent. fought to a no-contest decision in joined the Army. The two had 1946. Nova, Mauriello, Godoy, sailed together on the Columbia. Seafarers Gear Being Held �Page Twelve SEAFARERS December 22, 1967 LOG SIU Lifeboat Class No, 191 Graduates From tlie Sliipi at The Mount Washington (Victory Carriers) is on a "run for your life," according to ship's delegate Manuel Rendueles. The ship has been on a busy schedule and port time has been limited, he reports. With a fine steward department headed by steward Robert Ferrandiz, the ship has been a good feeder, Rendueles reports. The ^ crew gave a vote of thanks, espe­ to provide a fine meal, Triana- Lambis, George Herrea, Larry cially, for the fine Thanksgiving fillos reported. Turning out the Bullard, Rolin Manuel, Drosalio vittles were: chief cook Richard Ybarro, Fernando Urias and Clar­ dinner. "We have a clean swim­ Sessions, ably assisted by Phil ence Fontenot. ming pool and the crew has been enjoying it, along with the air con­ ditioning," wrote Brother Rendu­ eles. The Seafar­ ers found a couple of stowaways on board, when they left Subic Bay. They were taken off the ship in Rendueles Singapore. In the Persian Gulf, a new Captain joined the ship, wrote Rendueles. SlU Pension Benefits Give Security To Seven More Seoforer Veterans Bogovic Treyes Mazet Ocean Anna (Maritime Over­ seas) Seafarers "had a fine Thanks­ giving dinner and the crew had a fine day," accord­ ing to chief stew­ ard Pete Triantafillos. The vessel was en route to Antwerp, Bel­ gium. The Stew­ ard department Triantafillos worked very hard 1. i •• I; ' P •'' I' l'«' l>< 1^ Dietrich The names of seven Seafarers have been added to the list of SIU men who have retired on an SIU pension. The seven new SIU pensioners include: Philip West, Antonio Treyes, Edwin Diet­ rich, John Marchant, Joseph ^ Bogovic, Frank Mazet and Rus­ in Norfolk and sailed as bridge tender. A native of Mathews, Va., sell Morrison. he now makes his home in Nor­ Edwin Dietrich joined the SIU folk. Marchant was employed by in the port of New York. He was the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail­ born in New Jersey and lives with road. his wife, Josephine in Westwood, Philip West sailed with the P. P. N.J. Martin Co. He was born in Dela­ John Marchant joined the SIU ware and now lives in Philadel­ phia with his wife, Ethel. West join­ ed the Union in the port of Phil­ adelphia and sail­ ed as a deckhand. Antonio Treyes Quick action by Seafarers aboard the Columbia Banker averted last shipped for West the Taylor and a disaster when fire broke out as the ship was heading for Viet­ nam, chief steward and meeting secretary Fazil Ali reported to Anderson Towing Co., as a cook. He joined the SIU in the port of the LOG. Ali wrote, joining the overflow of Philadelphia. Treyes and his wife, At 1:10 p.m., November 20, diesel oil, "the decks became a Lillian, reside in that city. Sea­ the general alarm sounded, Ali sheet of flame." All hands re­ wrote. Third cook John Maples, sponded immediately, manning the farer Treyes was born in the Phil­ discovered a fire in the ship's gal­ fire hoses and extinguishers. Hav­ ippine Islands. ley was simultaneously rousing all ing been trained for just such an hands. Saloon emergency, the men knew just messman Nathan what to do. "Their prompt action Adams observed averted what could have been a deisel oil flowing disaster," wrote Ali. onto the deck Cariying Military Cargo through the over­ flow pipe and a , Because the Columbia Banker few seconds later was carrying military cargo, two "winds whipped Army men. Lieutenant Bruce Morrison Marchant the fuel through a Bowman and Sergeant Bill Brocka galley port hole ington were aboard. Ali reported Joseph Bogovic joined the SIU onto the already hot range," Ali that Bowman, an old salt with 82 in the port of New York. He was reported. days at sea, was "quick to man a born in Yugoslavia and now re­ As the fire shot up two decks. hose," during the blaze. sides in New York City. Bogovic Ali, aided by chief cook Ed sailed as a floatman and was em­ A Final Tribute Taylor, made a quick change in ployed by the New York Central the menu and served a cold sup­ Railroad. per, but a mighty tasty one, the Russell Morrison joined the SIU crew agreed. By 7 p.m., Ali re­ ported, the electricians checked in the port of Baltimore. He is a the circuits and the deck gang had native of Massachusetts and now the galley scraped and ready for makes his home in Saverna Park, painting. Md. Morrison sailed in the deck The following morning, break­ department and his last ship was fast was served on schedule, the Aloca Master. "thanks to a crew that was really Frank Mazet was bom in Bel­ on the ball." The Columbia Bank­ gium and lives in New York, er is now unloading her cargo in Da Nang, Vietnam, Ali reports. where he joined the SIU. A mem­ Brother Ali joined the SIU in ber of the engine department, 1957, in the Port of New York, Mazet's last ship w£; the Robin where he makes his home. Locksley. Quick Action by SIU Crew Extinguishes Shipboard Fire D. t. Redmond, AB, lowers wreath into sea from the Anchorage, In honor of Panoceanic Faith crew­ men who lost their lives. Union brothers from Seattle contributed money for the floral tribute. STORIESandPI These men received- a lifeboat ticket on Nov. 28, after passing Coast Guard examinations. They attended Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship In New York City. In front row, L-R, are: Hector Rosado, Santiago Nuhez, Edmund Sorensen. In the second row: In­ structor Paul McGaharn, Jim Dower, Ray Kayser, Evarlsto Pantoja. FINAL DEPARTURES Elmer Dickerson, 38: Heart dis­ Raymond Drouillard, 52: Brother Drouillard died on Octo- ease claimed the life of Brother Dickerson on No­ ber 25, at St. Mary's Hospital, vember 16, at the USPHS Hospital, Duluth, Minn. He was a native of Galveston, Texas. Minnesota and re­ He joined the Un­ sided in Saginaw, ion in the port of Minn. Brother Houston. Born in Drouillard joined Louisiana, he the Union in Dulived in Humble, Hk 7 luth and sailed as Texas. Brother linesman. He was employed by Dickerson sailed as AB and he the Great Lakes Towing Co. Dur­ was last employed by G and H ing World War II, he served in Towing Co. Surviving is his wife, the Army. Surviving is his wife, Mary, of Humble. Burial was in Marian. Brother Drouillard was Rosewood Memorial Park, Harris buried in Grand Lake Cemetery, County, Texas. Grand Lake Township, Minn. Boyd Amsberry, 71: Brother Amsberry died on October 31, in USPHS Hospital, Seattle, Wash. He was born in the state of Washing­ ton and resided in Seattle at the time of death. A steward, he joined the Union in Mo­ bile. His last ship was the Transnorthern. Brother Amsberry was in the Navy from 1917 to 1923. Surviving is a nephew. Rex Bliss of Seattle. The body was cre­ mated at Hawthorne Lawn Me­ morial Park, Mt. Vernon, Skagit, Wash. Harvey Glotzer, 28: A heart ailment claimed the life of Brother Glotzer, Oct. 22, while at sea aboard the Transyork. He was a native of Brooklyn, where he made his home. Brother Glotzer joined the Union in the port of New York. He had been sailing as OS. Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Ada Glotzer of Brooklyn. The burial was in Machtelah Cemetery, Long Island, N. Y. Marcelino Mdkatangay, 66: Brother Makatangay died on October 22 at the USPHS Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y. He was a native of the Phil' ippine Islands and resided in New York. He sailed as a cook and baker. Brother Makatangay joined the union in New York and his last ship was the Steel Scientist. He is survived by a sister, Marcellina Mendez of Quezon City, Philippine Islands. Burial was in Rosehill Cemetery, Linden, N. J. ^1. Jack Williams, 60: Brother Wil­ liams died on November 17, at Memorial Hospi­ tal, Panama City, Fla. He was on an SIU pension at the time of his death. He was born in Tifton, Ga. and lived in ..I New York while he was an active Seafarer. Upon retirement, he re­ sided in Lynn Haven, Fla. Broth­ er Williams was a chief elec­ trician and joined the SIU in New York. His last ship was the Chatham. He is survived by his wife, Gladys, of Lynn Haven. The burial was in Moultrie, Ga. �December 22, 1967 SEAFARERS Relaxing in Amsterdam Enjoying a good meal and some Dutch beer ashore are Seafarers from the Globe Carrier. From left, Stan Cieslak, deck maintenalice, Shir­ ley Nicholson, AB: Ed Abualy, bosun; Francis Donovan, AB; Marvin Howard, AB. The Globe Carrier took a load of coal to Amsterdam. AmiwLs-;;;; Audrey Mae Wilson, bora No­ vember 7, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Aubrey Wilson, Mobile, Ala­ bama. Jose Hiram Rodriguez, bora December 2, 1966, to Steafarer and Mrs. Jose Rodriguez, Playa Ponce, Puerto Rico.. I ' Shane Limes, bora November 7, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. David Limes, Solvang, California. Lisa Myers, bora October 12, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bruce Myers, Harbor View, Ohio. ^ Steve Norris Smymonowrid, fjorn October 16, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Norris Smymanowski, Baltimore, Maryland. Keith Tamlyn, born August 12, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ ert T. Tamlyn, St. Ignace, Mich­ igan. Lori Lynn Stevens, born June 21, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Calvin Stevens, Mobile, Alabama. Jacqueline Angotti, bora May 2', 1967, to Seafarer Ronald E. and Mrs. Jacqueline Angotti, Chicago, Illinois. 4^ Sebrina Richards, bora August 20, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Tom A. Richards, San Francisco, California. Anthony Grant, bora July 25, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willie Grant, Jacksonville, Florida. 4^ Frances Sylvia, born June 10, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francis Sylvia, Hayward, Cali­ fornia. 4^ Lisa Andrea Brauner, born Oc­ tober 27, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. Christian John Brauner, Jr., Metairie, Louisiana. 4^ Sean and Sherman Smith, born November 1, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs Alfred Smith, Somerdale, New Jersey. Bagle Traveller Docks in Yokohama Page Thirteen LOG Grim Reminder of Faith Tragedy Sighted hy Steei Seafarer Crew An empty lifeboat served as a grim reminder to Seafarers aboard the Steel Seafarer of the tragedy that struck the crewmembers of the Panoceanic Faith October 9. Comello Preclarq, AB on the Steel Seafarer, recalled how the lifeboat was sighted. "We were searching for survivors and everyone who could stand watch was on deck," Preclaro said. About 5 p.m. we saw the lifeboat, shot a line to the raft and after rigging a block and tackle, we pulled it. aboard. We kept the lifeboat on the ship until we reached Coos Bay, Oregon. Then we turned it over to the Coast Guard," Preclaro reported to the LOG. Seafarer George McKlatchy, who sailed as chief electrician, reported that several crewmem­ bers spotted the lifeboat. "All the men wanted to help look for sur­ vivors- We rigged up lights to While Steel Seafarer was clocked at Erie Basin, some crewmembers scan the sea during the night. discussed the efforts of the ship in trying to locate survivors of the When we were unable to find any Pan Oceanic Faith after vessel sank October 9. From L-R: Frank survivors, the crew became very Strates, FWT, Corne.llo Proclaro, AB, LOG Staffer Pete Weiss and downhearted." Chief electrician George McKlatchy. Ship's efforts were in vain. When the crew of the Steel Seafarer heard of the Panoceanic had previously sailed on the Pan- sels in the area. "We heard of oceanic Faith. Strates had kind Faith's distress they "knew at once words for the captain, John F. the ship's distress some 900 miles it was a Union ship." We "were Ogles, who was among those from Kodiak, Alaska," Strates said. It took about six hours for concerned about our union broth­ killed. the ship to arrive in the Faith's ers," Preclaro said. The Steel Seafarer was the first vicinity. Frank Strates, who sailed ship to relay the Faith's SOS to According to Strates, the Steel aboard the Steel Seafarer as FWT, the Coast Guard and other vesSeafarer "was bobbing all over the ocean like a corkscrew. All our cargo was unloaded in Bang­ kok. When we arrived on the scene, a Norwegian, Russian and Japanese ship were already there David J. Taylor and hunting for survivors, Strates Augustin W. Mtmdes Your mother, Mrs. Corinne added. Please get in touch with your Taylor, P. O. Box 455, West son, Robert, at 78 Futoomachi Strates said that Seafarers in Lake, La., is anxious to hear from the engine room knew of the dis­ Kokoku-ku, Yokohama, Japan. you. He is anxious to hear from you. aster when the captain made an announcement over the loud­ speaker shortly after ordering an increase in the ship's speed. Roy F. Pierce CImrles Ussin Please contact Eugene Weiss as "Everyone wanted to help Please contact Mrs. Sharen Van soon as possible, at 1748 Jasmine search for survivors," Strates re­ Zandt, Department of Public Welfare, Jefferson Parish, P. O. Ave., New Hyde Park, N. Y. ported to the LOG. "The men 11040. Box 99, Gretna, La. 70053. felt thirty eyes were better than two and a man in the water is awfully small." Strates was given a lifejacket Edward Achee Harold Sj^eer by a deckhand when he went on Please get in touch with Mrs. Please get in touch with the deck. "The storm was even worse Lydia Harvey, Covington, La., in Coast Guard in Seattle. the two days before the sinking. regard to an important matter. It was impossible to walk and chairs were being thrown about," he reported. Albert Weems Earl E. Gonyea The vessel was in contact with Your wife would like you to Kenneth Gonyea sends the fol­ the other ships, relaying what contact her at 1905 First Ave., lowing message: "Left the position each was able to accomplish in Columbus, Ga. 31901. I formerly had due to certain cir­ the search for survivors. The Steel cumstances. Am going to try and Seafarer searched for three days find another position if I possibly before they were told to discon­ Martin Thomas tinue their mission. can." Please contact the Methodist Hospital at 506 Sixth Street, Editor, ^ Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215, as soon as SEAFARERS LOG, possible in regard to a very im­ 675 Fourth Ave., portant matter. Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 <1> 4^ 4^ 4^ —4^— 4^- 4^ CecU Gates Please contact Rosemary Goff, 831 - 29th Avenue, San Francisco, Calif., as soon as possible. <!>' These Seafarers arrived in Yokohama, Japan, after a long voyage to the Far East aboard the Eagle Traveller. From left to right: Paul Luteman, AB, Dominick Orsini, chief pumpman. Bill Joyner, bosun, George Pedersen, AB. Some of the Seafarers were paid-off in Yokohama, while others made the return trip to San Francisco. Michael Abernathy Please contact your" brother or father as soon as possible. Write Neil Abernathy, 10941 Iberia St., Mira Loma, Calif. 91752. I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please pot my name on your mailing list. fWnr inhrmation) NAAAE STREET ADDRESS CITY ••••• • STATE • • • a a. » • |H TO AVOID DWLICATION: If yow aie an old tubscrHaer and hava a dMmtpt S of eddraas, pleaaa give yewr %m«r addratt i>alew: E ^ 0TV: *• . * *««'«...«.« SSAHE ss �Page Fourteen SEAFARERS LOG December 22, 1967 UNMIR TO LABOR DO NOT BUY Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved. and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel-Weller DistiUeries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiD," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) ^ Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChildcrafI" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) 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 Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguardintr the membership's capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. 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 TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund asreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charfce of time funds CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. months in the SEIAFARESRS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ ard made only upon approval constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ headquarters of the various trust funds. gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping RETIRED BEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halis. If you fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attendfeel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in ..ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ Board by certified mail, return receipt request^. The proper address for this is: cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take , Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standiug Union pol­ 17 Battery Place, Suite 1930, New York 4, N. Y. icy of allowing them to retain their g<^ standing through the waiving of their dues. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of rac^, creed, color, ship. Know-your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. Seafarers is' the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained the hest interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This establish^ policy has been political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, tional ports. The resiransibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which or that he has been denied his eonstitntlonal right of access to Union records or in­ consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, formation. he should immediately notify SIU President Pani Hail at headqnarters by from amoog its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. eortllied mail, return receipt requested. COLUMBIA BANKER SACRAMENTO (^cramento Trans­ cember 3—Chairman, John Maher; port). April 8—Chairman, W. P. Link; tary. FaxU Ali. Disputed OX" re delayed SecreUry, D. B. Sachm-. One man failed sailing in all departments, to be taken to join ship in San Pedro due to a family up with boarding patrolman. Otherwise, emergency. No beefs were reported by everything is running smoothly. Vote ot department delegates. Patrolman will be thanks to the steward department for contacted regarding air conditioner which doing a fine job. Crew thanked for thete is too small. Vote of thanks to the ship's cooperation. delegate and the entire steward depart­ ment for a job well done. ' SACRAMENTO (Sacramento Transport) Noveraher 27—Chairman. W. Link k; Secretary. D. B. %cher. Brother Wyatt was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No beefs and no disputed OT rennrted. • SACRAMENTO (Sacramento T^ransport), June 18—Chairman. V. Ferguson ; Secretary, D. Sacber. A number of beMis to be taken up with patrdman. Mail delivery has been bad this trip. GLOBOB EXPLORER (Maritime Over­ seas), November 12—Chairman, Clarence S. Jack; Secretary, Frank A. Radzvlla. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate for a job well done. No beefs and no disputed OT. Elverything is running smoothly. CUBA VICTORY (Alcoa), December 3—Chairman, W. C. Sellers: Secretary, N. D. Cook. Little disputed OT in engine department which delegate is trying to clear up. Discussion held on sanitation. Motion made that something be done about sortt emitting from stack. <1>—R^ J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) —^— Peavy Paper MiB Products (United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union) r— Comet Rice Mills Co. products .(International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) MALDdEN VICTORY (Alcoa), no date —Chairman, L. G. Goodwin; Secretaryi A. Plekur. Brother A. Pickur was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. No cooperation in steward department. Hatter to be taken up with the Captfin. MADAKET (Waterman), December 2— Chairman, Stanley A. Hoiden; Secretary, John T. Cranes. Brother J<mn Cranes was elected to serve as ship's delegate, 630.00 in ship's fund. No major beefs, everything' is running smoothly. ALCOA MASTER (Waterman). Novem­ ber 26—Chairman, M. T. Morris; Secre­ tary, B, Feely. Brother Tony Ferrara was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was 'extended to the steward department for a nice Thanks­ giving dinner and all around good food and service. Motion made to have trans­ portation paid from ship to 'tte hsU. <|> "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman Brothers and Sewell Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) HALDm VICTORY (Alcoa). October 1—Chairman, Andy Plekur; Secretary, Mr. Hsuklesd. Brother L. Q. Qoodwia was elected to serve as ^ip's dels^^ Motion made that C-card men should saQ: in group 2 and 3 before qnalifyiuff fhr group 1 jobs. GATEWAY CITY (Sea.Land)i Decem­ ber 8—Chairman, A. Carpenter; Secre­ tary. E Kaznowsky. Discussion held re­ garding the repair list. Vote at thanks was extended to the steward departmehf for a job well done No beefs reptnrted. SELMA VICTORY (South Atlanrie & Caribbean), November 19—Chairman. Daniel Browning; Secretary, William Lovett. Brother Alfred Eirsch was elected to serve, as ship's delegate. No beefs were "reported by department detail gates. The steward department is putting out fine menus, and the crew messmaa and crow pantryman are doing a mueh better job than before. HERMINA (Hudson Marine) , no da^e-ChairmsR, P. l/emer; Secretary, Frank Kellett. Disputed OT in deck and engine departments. Many beefs to ba taken np with boarding patrolman. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detroit Jan. 2—^2:00 p.m. Alpena Jan. 2—7:00 p.m. Buffalo Jan. 2—^7:00 p.m. Chicago Jan, 2—7:00 p.m. Cleveland ...Jan. 2—^7:00p.m. Duiuth Jan. 2—^7:00 p.m. Frankfort . . .Jan. 2=7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago .... .Jan. 16—^7:30 p.m. tSault Ste. Marie Jan, 18—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Duiuth Jan. 19—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. .Jan. 19—^7:30 p.m. Toledo Jan. 19—^7:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 15—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .. .Jan. 15—7:30 p,m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans .Jan. 16—5:00p.m. MohHe Jan. 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia . .Jan. 9—-5:00 p.m. LYNM VICTORY (Vte^ darrttrijg; Baltimore (licensed and November 19—Cbairman. J. B. Shearer Secretary, M. P. Carroll. Small amount: unlicensed) Jan. 10—5:00 p.m. of disputed OT in deck depsrtmept, otherwise no he^s were reported. Norfolk Jan. 11—5:00 p.m. Houston Jan. 15—5:00 p.m. THETIS (Rye Marine), November 8—> Chairman, J. M: IJariS ; Secretary,' D. • McTerman, Eighty-two cents in ship's fund. No beefs reported by d^artment delegates. SEATRAIN DELAWARE (Seairain), November 30—Chairman, Ralph Hernandes; Secretary, H. Serrano. Repairs are still pending. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments, otherwise no beefs aboard. Vote of thanks to Brother B. St. Marie, acting ships delerat^ for having done a good job. Brother H. Serrano was elected to serve as new ships delegate. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), October 15—Chairman, W. E, Oliver; Secretary, George Martin. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. SACIRAMENTO (Sacramento Trans­ port), October 22—Chairman, David B. Sftcher; Secretary. W, P. Link, Jr. A number of beefs will be taken up with boarding patrolman. The crew wishes to go on reco^ for a retirement plan for those with 20 years in the Union and 16 BETHFLOR (Bethlriiem Steel), No­ vember 21—-Chairman,. James E. Rose; Secretary, James E Rose. Dbenssioh held about pay raise. It was aupsimtad that the raiSe should apply tn m'essmen^ —-A1> Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stbve, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans . Jan. 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile Jan. 17—^2:30 p.m. Wilmington . .Jan. 22—^2:00 p.m. San Francisco. Jan. 24—2:00 p.m. Seatde Jan. 26—^2:00 p.m. New York .. .Jan. 8—^2:30 p.m. Philadelphia .Jan. 9—2:30 p.m. Baltimore Jan. 10—2:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 12—2:30 p.m. Houston .. .Jan. 15—^2:30 p.m. ordfnaiy; »eanwip;:,a»d-'*l Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Jan. 16—^10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Jan. 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. ^Norfolk Jan. 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City • Jan. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans .Jan. 16—^7:00 p.m. Mohile Jan. 17—7:00 p.m. New York ...Jan. 8—^7:00 p.m. | PhUadelphia . .Jan. 9—7:00 p.m. | Baitimore Jan. 10—^7:00 p.m. tHoiistim Jan. 15—^7:00 p.m. i .. ^ , I ' SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tannar Earl Shapard VICE PRESIDENTS Lindiay Williami Robart MaHhawt SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Karr "s. HEADQUARTERS *75 *th Ava^ Bkl^ ALPENA, Mich BALTIMORE. Md 127 RWar^SL 121* E. Baltimor# St. EA 7-4700 BOSTON, Mats BUFFALO, N.Y 177 Stala St. Rl 2-0140 ....735 IBU TL 3I72S7 CHICAGO. Ill CLEVELAND, Ohio 73B3 Ewing Ava. SIU SA 1-0733 IBU ES 5-7570 DETROIT, Mich 1420 W. 25th St. MA 1*5450 10225 W. Jaffarton^Ava. DULUTH, Minn 312 W.^2n(^SL FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tax JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, NJ MOBILE, Ala P.O. Box W 415 Main St. EL 7-2441 5S04 Canal St. WA 8-3207 2*08 Paarl St. EL 3-0787 77 Montgomary St. HE 3-0104 I South Lawranco St. HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La *30 Jackson Avo. Tal. 527-7S4* NORFOLK, Va. 115 3rd St. Tal. *22-1*72 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2*04 S. 4th St. DE *-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax I34B Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnandti Juncos Stop 20 Til. 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 250S First Avanua MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Dal Mar CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. Tal. 227-2788 WILMINGTON. Calif. .. 505 N. Marina Ava. 834-2528 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isaya Bldg., Room SOI 1-2 Kalgan-Dori-Nakaku 204771 Ext. 281 (I �December 22, 1967 Y the seventeenth century, Vast far-off lands were yet uncharted, and tfie prospect of voyag­ ing by sea was viewed as a bold departure from a sailor's homeland into a wave-swept world of ex­ citement and mystery. Somewhere beyond the rim of the horizon was the unknown. Adventure beck­ oned, while death often waited. So it was that men went out to brave the high seas, as they challenged the world to unfold its secrets, its continents, its peoples. The reasons for these voyages had not always been the most noble; they had begun in the search for material wealth, and for years apparently had little scientific purpose—even to the'basic extent of chart­ ing new areas. Such was the case in the eleven worldencircling voyages between 1711 and 1719 by French captains who set out from St. Malo or Port Louis. Reaching the South Seas and the coasts of Chile and Peru, they crossed the Pacific to Canton, making their return via Manila, the Indian Ocean and the Cape of Good Hope. In all their far-reaching jour­ neys, they gave no thought to discovery of new lands or to charting these lands, routes, weather, or other phenomena, recording neither geographical nor astro­ nomical observations. Their voyages, as far as they were concerned, were of a strictly commercial nature. Where they could have returned home with both money and knowledge, they took only the money, and were that much poorer for it. It was only with the publication of certain theo­ retical treatises which were important aids to navi­ gation in the seventeenth century that a new spirit of discovery, and accumulation of knowledge, was given impetus. "Hydrography" by Father Fournier in 1642 and "The Science of Geography" by Father Francois in 1652 were the first of these. The possibility of furthering scientific studies through maritime ex­ ploration was more closely scrutinized with the work conducted by the Dutch geographers Vossius and Varenius, the establishment of study centers in Rome by the Popes and Jesuits, and the founding of learned societies such as the Royal Society in London and the Academie des Sciences in Paris. The movement toward a more scientific outlook led to more precise instructions—drawn up in collabora­ tion with scholars in such fields as astronomy, botany, medicine, and zoology—being issued to mariners. By the time the mid-eighteenth century rolled around, scientific research was well under way. Ships had been transformed into veritable sea-going labora­ tories, specially-equipped with all the latest naviga­ tional and observational a^^paratus, and carrying re­ search teams as well. SEAFARERS LOG B Secrecy A Weapon This "golden age of maritime exploration," from about 1740 to 1840, revealed much of the true con­ figuration of the earth's surface, and the mythical lands of the past faded away. Strangely enough, though 1740 brought about close attention to seeking out maritime discoveries, governments often clamped down with a veil of secrecy, regarding cartography or map making as a secret weapon. The Portuguese Government im­ posed the death penalty on anyone revealing the contents of maps drawn up by navigators. The Dutch took severe precautions to maintain secrecy concern­ ing navigation in the Indian Archipelago. As late as 1769, Bougainville refused to disclose the where­ abouts of Tahiti, maintaining that such information was a "government secret!" Gradually this attitude changed, so that a navi­ gator was able to write in 1774, "Gone are the days, when each discovery was shrouded in mystery . . .". Emphasis temporarily shifted to an attitude of inter­ national collaboration for scientific objectives, most notably apparent when governments allowed the pooling of information concerning observations of Venus crossing the Sun on June 3, 1769. The spirit of scientific collaboration even extended through periods of international warfare, as in the American Revolution, during which French officers received orders from their government to render all possible Page Fifteen American coast from Chesapeake Bay to what is now called the Hudson River. He then set sail up the Labrador Peninsula and headed into Hudson's Bay, from which he never returned. Meanwhile, other ' British navigators were still seeking the North-West Passage, hoping to find a direct route from Europe to China without having to take the long voyage around the southern tip of South America. In the second half of the seventeenth century, only one man made any noteworthy maritime explora­ tions. He was William Dampier, an Englishman whose studies in botany and hydrography well quali­ fied him on his voyages of discovery. Between 1683 and 1710, Dampier made three very important voy­ ages, rounding Cape Horn, sailing up the coast of California, and voyaging over the Pacific and the Indian Archipelago. aid to the British explorer James Cook. Similarly, in 1800 the British Government provided the French explorer Baudin with protection in the form of a passport on his journey to the Australian coasts. The zeal behind maritime exploration fluctuated with the years, so that during the seventeenth cen­ tury, the Spanish, Dutch, and English ^ere the most energetic in their pursuit of the seas's secrets while, in the following century, the French pulled forward in maritime activity where they remained prominent until 1840. Russia's Peter the Great, who encouraged pro­ gressive reforms and "westernization" of Russia during his reign (1682-1725), spurred his nation's seafarers to make noteworthy contributions to the knowledge of various regions, especially in the North Pacific. ' Just as interests in maritime advances shifted from nation to nation, the attention of explorers shifted between different regions of the world. The Indian Ocean and the Far East called to seventeenthcentury navigators, while during the next century, research was directed at the little-known Pacific and the mystery of "terra australia incognita," whose V legends brought it an aura of adventure. Discovery and exploration in such areas as these promised rich rewards to the nations involved, in terms of both prestige and economics; the British were at­ tempting to consolidate their long-expanding empire and the French needed to offset their losses of the Seven Years War. Exploration Interest Fluctuates There were several significant stages in the chain of discoveries. The first half of the seventeenth century was a period of much exploration, most notably on the part of the Spanish, Dutch and British. Quieroz, a Portu­ guese serving with the Spanish forces, voyaged across the Pacific Ocean between 1605 and 1606, and was elated at discovering what he thought was the longsought terra australia; it was actually the New Heb­ rides. From 1606 to 1607, Diego de Prado and Luis van de Torres sailed along the New Guinea coast, passing through what has since become known as Torres Strait. Torres may also have touched at several points along the north Australian coast. The Dutchman Abel Tasman pursued the study of the newly-discovered country, then known as New Holland, and sailed along its southern coast in 1642, proving that it was a separate continent and not part of Antarctica. On this expedition Tasman also dis­ covered the island now called Tasmania, and was the first to sight New Zealand. The Far East was an area that held particular interest for the Dutch, especially after the founding of Batavia in 1619, which served as a base for several expeditions along the coasts of China and Japan. The British concentrated most of their effort on the northern regions of America and in the Arctic, which had provided popular whaling grounds since the 1500's. In the course of three expeditions between 1607 and 1611, famed explorer Henry Hudson vis­ ited Greenland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, and the 1700's Bring Scientific Advances In the first half of the eighteenth century, the Indian Ocean was the center of attention for the Indian trading companies of the British, Dutch, and French. In 1745, the French hydrographer d'Apres de Mannevillette published "Neptune Oriental," a series of ocean charts which were long regarded as authoritative navigation guides, despite numerous errors. Interest also developed again in the North Pacific, where the Danish explorer Vitus Bering, in the service of Russia, discovered in 1728 the strait named after him between Siberia and North Amer­ ica. Five years later, an international scientific mis­ sion founded the town of Petropavlovsk in Kam­ chatka and surveyed the coasts of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Scientific achievements in charting distant seas and lands in this period were considerable. Among such events were the round-the-world voyages accom­ plished between 1721 and 1724 by Roggeven, the Dutch explorer who discovered E^ter Island, and between 1740 and 1744 by the Briton, Anson, whose published log of his adventures was an immediate success. After 1760, the impetus toward gaining wider knowledge of the planet gained momentum. The French and English initiated much of the explora­ tion of the Pacific area, sending out teams of scien­ tists and scholars, and thus providing the beginnings of scientific exploration as it is known today. Ad­ vances in shipboard conditions such as ship design and hygiene made the voyages more bearable than before, when shipboard deaths were a common thing. As maritime conditions improved and the excite­ ment of discovery spread, men of several nations headed their expeditions toward circumnavigation • of the world. The British made ten circumnavigations under Byron between 1764 and 1766, Wallis and Carteret between 1766 and 1768, and Cook, between 1768 and 1779. A number of circumnavigations were made by the French between 1766 and 1792 under Bougainville, La Perouse, and Marchand. And Malaspina, a Spaniard, made one round-the-world voyage during the period from 1789 to 1795. It was on board one of the ships in Bougainville's fleet that Jeanne Barre, disguised as a sailor, became known as the first woman to have travelled around the globe. In this same period, numerous voyages of a more modest nature took place. Among them were the unsuccessful voyages in the 1760's and 1770's of Kerguelen, Surville, and Marion-Dufresne, who were unable to locate the austral lands. Research con­ cerning new navigation methods and devices led to voyages being planned for purely scientific purposes. Such was the case when the French Navy, between 1767 and 1772, outfitted four expeditions to test the newly - invented Leroy and Berthoud navigation chronometers under actual sea conditions; the con­ clusive results brought in the era of modem naviga­ tion by chronometer. Other expeditions were concerned with hydrogra­ phy, such as those by Joseph-Bernard Chabert and Antoine Chastenet Puysegur, who published remark­ ably detailed charts of the inlets and bays of the Santo Domingo littoral in 1787. Thus it was that the eighteenth century came to a close, having opened up new vistas to the in­ quisitive minds of seafaring explorers of many nations. f �) I'* I Vol. XXiX No. 26 SEAFARERS«LO€r OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND. WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO I 11^ I "' an *) I i^:f \f. I i, I i A 04 LL SEAFARERS, or the sons or daughters of Seafarers, who wish to compete for one of the five annual college scholar­ ships being offered by the SlU for 1968 have only two more opportunities to take the College Entrance Examination Board test required before they can be considered eligible for a schol­ arship. Arrangements for taking the tests should be made as early as possible. Don't put it off until the last minute. Any Seafarer who has completed a minimum of three years accumulated seatime on SlU-contracted vessels can qualify for the scholarships. Children of qualified members are also eligible to compete. The study grants under the program are worth $6,000 each. In order to sit for the College Entrance Examination Board tests on either January 13, 1968 or on March 2, 1968, write at once to the CEEB at Box 592, Princeton, N. J., if you live nearer the East Coast. The West Coast address is Box 1025, Berkeley, Calif. You will be informed promptly of the hour and location of your examination. For applications for the scholarships write to: SlU Scholarships, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 or to the SlU hall in any port. Winners of the five SlU scholarships are selected, on the basis of high school records and the score attained on the College Entrance Examination Board test, by a panel of leading university educators and administrators. Announcement of the 1968 winners will be made in May. Considered one of the most liberal of its kind in the country, the SlU Scholarship program has a $6,000 cash value over a four-year period of study. Winners may pursue whatever courses they wish at any accredited college or university in the United States or its possessions. Since the scholarship program was begun in 1952, it has been the means to a college education for 24 Seafarers and the children of 49 Seafarers. � 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/. 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Title A name given to the resource December 22, 1967 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ELEVEN MORE SEAFARERS WIN LICENSES AFL-CIO TO WAGE ALL OUT BATTLE AGAINST CONSERVATIVES IN ’68 VOTE MTD CONVENTION VOTES SUPPORT FOR TRANSPORTATION UNION LINK UP CONGRESSMAN SEES ‘BUDGET EXCUSE’ AS THREAT TO US FLEET UPGRADING ALLOTMENT OF US DEFENSE CARGOES RAPPED BY UNSUBSIDIZED SHIPOWNERS SEAFARER LEE SAVOLD RECALLS BOUTS AS CONTENDER FOR HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN GRIM REMINDER OF FAITH TRAGEDY SIGHTED BY STEEL SEAFARER CREW 18TH CENTURY – THE WORLD PREMIERE SIU SCHOLARSHIPS – YOUR KEY TO THE FUTURE 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 12/22/1967 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. 26 1967 Periodicals Seafarers Log