http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/430d34ceb126d7613abd36a2a3bd4546.PDF 9c9578b4b9f2400f56558317a48cfae8 PDF Text Text •! Hall Cites Need for 'Equitable' Ship Plan s* See Story Page 3 SEAFARERS .LOG Vol. XXX No. 12 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO |v-1 "\ S: llcliiS' V J S!,?aS p,i!iv ... lu...I.MI ...... I],.1.1 1131 1 •r? liS^ liiBp HE fire winners of flie 15di aranal SIU cd-1- lege scholarships were announced test month after the -AdvlsDiy CMmnittee d educators met on May 13 to make the awards. The four-year, $6,000 grants went to a Seafar» and fonr children of Seafarers fmr use at any institntioo of higher learning in any field of study. (The scholarship winners, and parents, arc pictured here.) Since 1953, the cmnmittee has awarded 78 scholmrsidps. Seaternrs have received 25 of Aese, while cMdren of Seafarers received 53. Even before fliey had been notified of their good fortune, the whmnrs d the 1968 sdmlarddps already had pledged themselves to work fw tlte betterment of maddnd. AH have chosen careos dut wlO enable them to help Hie underprivileged. Gary J. HMhn, son d Seafiarar Do^ E. Hdm, expressed die typkfd reaction d the wmners, when he was Informed of his sekction. *Tlie news has made me esceedlngly ha^y. and spurs me to greater Incentives,'* he sidd. "In the chdlenglng years idiead, I shall wwrk very hard and do mry best to live up to the standards fihat yon have set befwe me." (See Stwy Page 3) mr,., . BULLETIN: Robert F. Kennedy Slam by Assassin LOS ANGELES—Senator Robert F. Kennedy d New York, Democratic candidate for the Presidency of the United Stated was felled hy an assassin's bullet shortly after midnight on June 5 at a rally here foUovring his victory in the Cali­ fornia primary elections. He died at Good Samaritan Hosfutal June 6. President Johnson has proclaimed Sunday, June 9, as a national day of mourning. A suspect in the slaying was captured at the scene and is being held by police. Kennedy's body will be flown to New York for funeid serv­ ices on Saturday, June 8, and then travel by train to Washing­ ton for burial later the same day in Arlington National Cemetery. (Details will appear in the next issue of the LOG). ?sS£mi Ipehorab Ktehaer Mr SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Annual Report J Annual Report ^ Filed With the New York State Insurance Departmer^ Filed With the New York State Insurqrice bepdirtment Page 9 Page 10 �Page Two June 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Went to Aid of Panoceanic Faith Russian Vessel Honored by SlU For Search and Recovery Efforts w A b^ : NEW WESTMINSTE]^ B.C.—The SIU last month presented a special "Brotherhood of the Sea" Award to the Russian ship, SS Orekhov, in honor of the heroic rescue efforts by the Soviet vessel and its crewmembers following the tragic sinking of the SlU-contracted freighter Panoceanic faith in the North Pacific on ^ testimonial scroll to Captain Alex­ three Japanese vessels—the SS October 9, 1967. ander Fatyanov, present master, Rocky Maru, the SS Bristol Maru The presentation ceremony, in who accepted for Captain Zhez- and the SS Igaharu Maru—and this Canadian city just outside the herenko, since retired, and rep­ the All-Japan Seamen's Union, Port of Vancouver, took place on resentatives of the Orekhov's crew. took place at the headquarters of U.S. Maritime Day, May 22. Others present at the ceremony the Japanese union in Tokyo on The Russian vessel and its crew were Richard Slott, American March 11, 1968. searched the icy, stormy seas for consul in Vancouver; Stuart GifCeremonies honoring the SS survivors and recovered the bodies ford, mayor of New Westminster; Visund and the Norwegian Sea­ of eight Seafarers. Three Japa­ and John Brown, President of the men's Union took place aboard nese vessels and one Norwegian Vancouver Maritime Trades the Visund at Port Newark, New freighter, honored by the SIU in Council, AFL-CIO. Jersey, on April 4, 1968. earlier ceremonies, also took part The testimonial to the Orekhov A special award and presenta­ in the rescue operation. In all, presented by the SIU expresses 36 crew-members were ""lost and "sincere appreciation for the tion also was made by the SIU five SIU men were rescued from dedication and sacrifice" of all of to the family of Japanese seaman, Mitsuo Noguchi, 23, a crew mem­ the Faith. the seamen who took part in the ber of the Rocky Maru who lost When the Orekhov brought the rescue attempts. The scroll said, bodies to Vancouver, northwest of "their unselfish willingness to risk his life during rescue activities fol­ here. Captain Leonid Zhezheren- their lives for their fellowmen lowing the sinking of the Panoce­ ko, then master of the vessel, paid symbolizes the time-honored tradi­ anic Faith. The cash award, in the solemn tribute to the Seafarers. tion of the sea and the brother­ amount of $4,000, is equivalent to Refusing to allow the use of a hood of seamen throughout the the full life insurance benefit presented to family survivors of derrick to remove them from the world." deceased SIU members. ship, he insisted that each body Similar testimonial scrolls were The Panoceanic Faith was en be covered with a United States previously presented to Japanese flag and carried ashore on a and Norwegian seamen and route from San Francisco to stretcher between rows of solemn vessels which participated in the India with U.S. government aid Soviet seamen. international effort to rescue crew- cargo when it went down in the members of the stricken Ameri­ storm-swept waters of the North Mutual Efforts Pacific Ocean, 870 miles south­ can flagship. Presentation of the award to the The presentation involving the west of Kodiak. Orekhov was made possible by the mutual efforts of SIU rep­ resentatives, in both the United States and Canada, and officials of the Russian Embassy in Wash­ ington during the past months. Steve Troy, SIUNA representa­ tive in Seattle, and Norm David, West Coast vice president of the SIU of Canada, presented the The Silver Star, the nation's third highest military decoration, has been awarded posthumously to Army Specialist Four and Seafarer George L. Wilson. Brother Wilson was killed in action last April in the vicinity of ^ Khe Sanh, Republic of Vietnam. medals were awarded for his serv­ George Wilson was the son of ice during his active duty in the war zone. All three decorations Seafarer Ralph G. Wilson. have been forwarded to the De­ In addition to the Silver Star, partment of the Army and will be the 21-year-old Wilson was also HOUSTON—The growth of awarded the Bronze Star and Air presented to his father. Seafarer Ralph G. Wilson. Apprenticeship Outreach pro­ Medal for his Wilson had a mere 21 days re­ grams is "living proof of the services in Viet­ maining of his Vietnam tour of determination of building trades nam. duty at the time of his death. He councils to bring minority-group He was an In­ was buried with full military hon­ youths into the crafts. Under Sec­ fantry Fire Team ors on April 22, at Meadowbrook retary of Labor James J. Reynolds Leader in the sec­ Memorial Gardens, Driver, Vir­ said here last month. ond platoon of ginia. He spoke at ceremonies mark­ Company A, 2nd A letter to his father, from the ing the completion of an outreach Battalion, 7th headquarters of the 1st Air Cal­ program sponsored by the Hous­ Calvary of the 1st vary Division, described George ton Building and Construction Wilson Calvary Air Mo­ as "a fine soldier and greatly ad­ Trades Council. bile Division. At the time of his mired by his fellow soldiers." Reynolds commended the AFLdeath, he was on a search and de­ CIO Building and Construction He was bom in Chelsea, Massa­ stroy mission. Trades Department for its role in chusetts, and joined the SIU in The Army reported that at ap­ 1965 in the port of Baltimore, helping to make the federally-supproximately 1800 hours on April after attending the SIU's Harry portfed programs grow to the ex­ 6, young Wilson was moving Lundeberg School of Seamanship. tent that they now are being con­ through dense underbrush when He sailed as wiper, then moved ducted in 34 cities. his platoon was engaged by "in­ up to oiler. He and his father He reported that more than 700 tense enemy automatic weapon minority youngsters—^mostly Ne­ sailed together on the Columbia, groes—^have been placed as ap­ fire from a fortified bunker." The shortly before his Army service prentices through the programs, enemy was also using hand gren­ began. which are either conducted or ades. The Army stated that Wil­ In the December 22, 1967 issue son exposed himself "to this heavy of the LOG, a photograph was supported by councils. He predicted that a dozen more fire and without regard for his published, showing the two men cities will become involved in personal safety, single-handedly holding a "Vietnam Reunion" outreach programs before the end assaulted and neutralized the en­ aboard the Steel Designer, which of this year and they will bring emy bunker. was making the Vietnam supply "He then continued to expose run. In addition to his father, he is an additional 2,000 minority youths into apprenticeships by himself, drawing the enemy fire survived by his mother, Mrs. Belle to enable his squad to move to O'Connor of Portsmouth, Va. mid-1969. Reynolds also praised the Work­ safety with few casualties. It was Ralph Wilson served in the ers Defense League — which shortly after this action that Navy from 1943 to 1963, before started the outreach plan in 1964 George was mortally wounded." joining the SIU. He retired with —^and the Urban League for their For this heroic act, Wilson re­ the rank of machinist mate first sponsorship of programs. ceived his Silver Star. His other class. Seafarer Dies In Vietnam; Army Awards Silver Star Covt. Aide Lauds Building Trades On Job Training I'l \t, p: i N lae ,h Report of International President by Paul Hall Last week, on May 30th, Americans celebrated Memorial Day, an occasion which has beccMne a "legal bank holiday" which is acknowl­ edged in many areas as a simple holiday rather than a matter of respect for the nation's honored dead. To many. Memorial Day—and we have just observed the 100th anniversary of this solemn date—is more a holiday than a day of remembrance. How easy it is to forget, in the picnic grounds, the amusement areas, or during the relaxing day of fishing, that our fellow Americans have died for generations—and are still dying today—to provide what too many consider as only a day off. As we contemplate the true meaning of Memorial Day we must remember a heroic past, and take into consideration a heroic present, with Seafarers once again doing their utmost to carry the. goods to our embattled servicemen in South Vietnam. They have always per­ formed their service to their country admirably and there is no critic alive, nor historian dead, who has said, or could say, otherwise. During World War II, alone, more than 1,200 Seafarers died while maintaining the Allied life-line on merchant vessels. It has been reported in recent months that more and more U.S.-flag merchant ships are coming under fire and being damaged in the Viet­ nam area while they transport more than 95 percent of the men and supplies required by the U.S. effort in Vietnam. The fact remains, that Seafarers—put their lives on the line every minute of every day while they are sailing in the troubled waters of Southeast Asia and putting into ports in that war-torn area. Those of our membership who leave our ranks temporarily to assume their place among our armed forces, in direct combat against the enemy on land, have further contributed to the proud tradition of the mer­ chant marine and the nation's fighting men. Just recently, as you will read in this issue of the LOG, a former Seafarer died Ijravely as a soldier in the Vietnam conflict and has been awarded one of the nation's highest combat decorations for his selfless devotion to duty. Although there is rarely any mention of it in the public press, we in the U.S. merchant marine know that Memorial Day, 1968, as well all others past and future, applies to our segment of the fighting population, too—and we've been doing our full part for a good deal longer than a hundred years. * • « Another area in which Seafarers can take great pride is that which looks to the future through youth and higher education. The Seafarers Scholarship College Advisory Committee met last month to select the five recipients of the annual $6,000 SIU college scholarships for 1968. During the 15 years in which these scholarship grants have been awarded. Seafarers and their children have consistently gone on to verify the opinion of the leading educators, comprising the Committee, who have recommended them as outstanding young citizens who would go far. They have either already done so or are well on their way, and we can all be proud of them. According to the expressed opinion of the Committee this year, the records of all applicants seemed even better than ever and their final decision was most difficult to reach. We offer hearty congratulations to those who won and our continu­ ing encouragement to all. Oe Graaf Joins Pension Poster Veteran Seafarer Richard De Graaf is presented with his first pension check from administrative assistant Arnold Braitman at New York hall. Brother De Graef now takes it easy in Paterson, New Jer­ sey. A fireman-watertender, he last shipped aboard the Courtland. 'I �Jnne 7, 1968 Funds for New Vessels Stripped From House WASHINGTON—^The House of Representatives last week was forced to delete all 1969 ship construction funds from its Appropriations Bill for the Commerce Department because of a technicality raised by Representative Durward G. Hall (RMo.). A total of $245 million had been earmarked in the bill for new merchant ships and Congressional leaders hop;^ to reinstate these funds through a later supplemental appropria­ tions bill. Representative John J. Rooney (I>-N.Y.), floor manager of the Appropriations Bill, tried to dissuade Representative Hall from pressing the objection on a technicality but was unsuccess­ ful. Hall said the ship construction funds could not be included in the money bill because of the new authorization law pertain­ ing to maritime subsidies passed last year. Under this law the full House and the full Senate must vote on the recommendations of the Merchant Marine Committee of each on the amount of maritime subsidies to be expended before the item can be included in an Appropriations bill. The House has voted on the authorization of funds for new ships but floor action is still pending on a similar bill in the Senate. When Representative Hall pointed this out, Rooney rose and said: "with tears in my eyes ... the objection is in order." Rooney then sought agreement from Representative Hall to at least have the sum of $119.8 million included for new ship construction. This is the amount that was approved by the Administration before the House Appropriations Committee voted to more than double the sum. However, Hall declined. Rooney then accused Representative Hall of "doing his best to wreck the merchant marine," and the full House voted 347 to 28 to send the Appropriations Bill, minus the ship construc­ tion funds, to the Senate for action. Only four days before the vote, the House had received a recommendation from its Appropriations Committee that $245 million be allotted for new ship construction despite a threat that all government-sponsored building of merchant vessels would be halted with the excuse of economy. Representative Rooney stated in his report: "A majority of the committee members feel that despite the present national fiscal situation, it is imperative that adequate funds be provided for our merchant marine, which plays a most important role in the national security of our country." Rooney said at least 24 or 25 new ships could be constructed in 1969 with the $245 million. Originally, the Budget Bureau approved the $119.8 million outlay for eight or nine new ships next year but Congress was informed that if the $6 billion cut in the budget was approved no money at all would be allotted for upgrading the merchant fleet during fiscal 1969. SEAFARERS LOG Page Three $6,000 SlU Stholarship A wards Won by Seafarer; Four Youngsters Seafarers Scholarship Advisory Committee members who announced 1968 awards are shown with SlU offi­ cials. Sitting (I to r) are Dr. Charles Lyons, Dean of Admissions, Howard U.; Miss Edna Newby, Assist­ ant Dean, Douglass College; Dr. E. C. Kastner, Dean of Registration, New York U. and, standing (I to r) Dr. Bernard Ireland, College Entrance Examination Board; Al Kerr, Secretary-Treasurer, SlUNA-AGLIWD; R. M. Keefe, Admissions Director, St. Louis U., and Lindsey Williams, Vice-President, SlUNA-AGILWD. NEW YORK—A Seafarer, who has already advanced inmself at every opportunity the SIU's iqigradii^ school, and four children of Seafarers have been named whmars of $6,000 SIU college scholarslups for the year 1968. The awards w91 enable the winners to pursue four years of study at any college or uni­ versity, in the United States or James Holm, son of Seafarer to help others—•possibly through its possessions, in whatever aca­ Dolph E. Holm, North Babylon, teaching. Debra says she would demic field the scholarship recipi­ N.Y.; and Deborah Hope Kirch- like to enroll at Muskingum Col­ ner, daughter of Seafarer Ralph lege, in New Concord, Ohio, and ents decide to follow. study psychology to properly pre­ A. Kirchner, Arnold, Md. Winners of this year's scholar­ pare herself to assist those in need The SIU scholarship plan has ships are: been operated on an annual basis of her services. Seafarer Gary J. Bryant of At­ for the past 15 years and is rec­ Phillip Lee Gaskill, 18-year-old lanta, Ga.; Debra Marie Butler, ognized as one of the most liberal, son of &afarer James T. Gaskill, stepdaughter of deceased Seafarer no-strings-attached, programs of will be a June graduate of East Vernon Hall, Mobile, Ala.; Phillip its kind in the country. All quali­ Carteret High School in Beaufort, Lee Gaskill, son of Seafarer James fied Seafarers and their dependents N.C., and plans to continue his T. Gaskill, Sea Level, N.C.; Gary are eligible to compete. ; education so he can help educate Fifty-three of the 78 awards others through teaching, either in made to date have been awarded history or science. He hopes to House Maritime Committee Concludes Hearings to children of SIU members. Sea­ matriculate at the University of farers have received 25 of the col­ North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., and his eventual goal is to lege scholarships. impart knowledge and under­ Set High Goals standing to students of high school This year's SIU scholarship age. winners show the full awareness Gary James Holm, 17, son of of America's goals and needs Seafarer Dolph E. Holm, has his which has typified the aspirations eyes on the skies. His ambition is of their predecessors in the SIU to assist the United States in its Scholarship Plan's growing list WASHINGTON—SIU President Paul Hall last week called for a "fair and equitable" merchant of beneficiaries—many of whom efforts to advance its space pro­ marine program that would end 32 years of "discrimination" in the maritime industry and declared have assumed highly successful gram. Gary will be graduated this month from North Babylon High that the proposals recently submitted to Congress by Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd, were roles in all walks of life. School, North Babylon, N.Y. For typical of Boyd's "consistent- ^ Four of the new winners aspire his higher education, Gary will While the Administration re­ to help their fellow citizens— attend Hofstra University, Hemp­ ly wrong" approach to mari­ chant Marine, Hall said: "There are three key elements peatedly expresses concern over a particularly through education— time problems. stead, N.Y. A visit to the library in the Boyd Plan: Foreign ship­ chronic deficit in the balance of and another would seek higher when he was a third grader, he Hall, who also is president of building; the phasing out of oper­ payments. Hall said, "Boyd, who knowledge of outer space as a po­ said, opened the door to the won­ the seven-million-member AFLating subsidies; (and) burying the claims to speak for this same Ad­ tential benefit to humanity. ders of space for him. CIO Maritime Trades Department, Maritime Administration in ministration, proposes a foreign Gary J. Bryant, 28, has been was the final witness before the Deborah Hope Kirchner, 18, Boyd's Department." building scheme that would ag­ a Seafarer since he was 17. After House Merchant Marine and daughter of Seafarer Ralph Kirch­ gravate that payments deficit still graduating from O'Keefe High Plan's Chief Architect Fisheries Committee, which has ner, has already achieved the first further. This is a classic example been holding hearings since midHall noted that the first two of of the right hand not knowing School in his native Atlanta, he rung on the ladder to higher edu­ April on proposed legislation that these proposals were the corner­ has continued his education ever cation. She is a freshman at High since. would revitalize the merchant stones of the Inter-Agency Task what the left hand is doing." Point College, High Point, N.C., As to putting MARAD into the fleet. Force Report of 1965" of which Bryant has participated in the where she is studying to be a He told the Committee, chaired Boyd was chief architect and No. Department of Transportation, upgrading programs of the SIU teacher—preferably of English— by Representative Edward A. 1 salesman. All three, he said, were Hall recalled that Congress had and, as a result, holds engine on the elementary level. She may Garmatz (D-Md.), that flexibility the basis of a plan, that Boyd out­ refused to accept the suggestion room ratings as electrician, deck continue her studies at High Point is the key to providing a new lined, but did not formally present, in 1966 and that the House had engineer, fireman, oiler, water- College or transfer to Millersville overwhelmingly voted last year tender and refrigeration engineer. State College, Millersville, Pa. maritime program and that the to Congress a year ago. to make MARAD an independent 1936 Merchant Marine Act has ". . . Secretary Boyd is con­ agency. The Senate Merchant He intends to enter DeKalb Col­ Deborah first acquired her love of become old and outdated. "The sistent; and in our view, he's con­ lege in Atlanta and pursue a teaching while an instructor in legislation was good—for its day," sistently wrong," said Hall. "He Marine subcommittee is about to course in political science. Sunday School. he said, "but it lacked the flexi­ wants to pull the props out from hold hearings on a companion Debra Marie Butler, 17, whose The panel of five prominent bility to adapt to the continuing under our domestic shipbuilding measure to the House bill, he stepfather. Seafarer Vernon Hall, educators and university adminis­ and radical changes that were to industry and our American-flag added, "and I would say the passed away in December of 1964, trators met in New Orleans last chances for its passage have never take place in this industry." shipping industry. Instead of con­ will be graduated this month from month to study the scholastic looked better." Referring to the "so-called 'mar­ sidering approaches that would Most Pure Heart of Mary High records of the 1968 candidates for "Anybody who may have had School in Mobile, Ala. She has the SIU Scholarships and recom­ itime program'" made public by make the U.S. Merchant Marine Boyd at a hearing of the Senate more competitive, he wants to delusions about a marriage be- not made a final selection on a mend the winners for trustee (Continued on page 4) Commerce Subcommittee on Mer­ make it less competitive." career, but she knows she wants action. ffuH Calls for Fquitable' Program; Boyd Hit as Xonsistently Wrong' �Hall Raps Boyd Maritime Poiiiies; Urges Bad to 'Double Subsidies' (Continued from page 3) tween maritime and the Depart­ ment of Transportation must now realize how futile their hopes have been," the SIU president said. "Secretary Boyd has made it plain that, if he ever gets his hands on the merchant marine, he'll admin­ ister the coup de grace as quick­ ly as possible. Get On With Job "Secretary Boyd's proposal points out one inescapable fact: That the answer lies in the devel­ opment of a maritime program by the Congress, and I think we should get on with the job." In discussing the proposed legis­ lation (H.R. 13940) under consid­ eration by the Committee, Hall recalled that Chairman Garmatz had made it plain at the outset of the hearings that the bill was not a complete or final plan and was open to improvement. "One thing that H.R. 13940 and the proposals made by witnesses before this committee have in common" Hall stated, "is the real­ ization that any new maritime pro­ gram must contain the following elements: "Tax-deferred construction re­ served fund privileges for all seg­ ments of the industry, not just some segments; construction dif­ ferential subsidies for all operators in the foreign trade who want them; operating differential sub­ sidies available to all applicants in the foreign trade; maximum utilization of U.S.-flag ships for the carriage of government-gen­ erated cargoes; a greatly expanded program of ship construction; and greatly increased expenditures for maritime research and develop­ ment." General Agreement He observed that the public rec­ ord of the House Committee "would indicate there is general agreement that these are the major factors that must be included in any realistic maritime program." Examining the expanded ship construction proposals of H.R. 13940, Hall said the "muchneeded increase" in the number of ships to be built under the bill is meaningful, but provides nothing for making these new vessels avail­ able throughout the entire fleet. He said that in previous testimony to the committee the subsidized ship operators indicated their ac­ ceptance of this section of the bill, but the unsubsidized operators asked that language of this section be rewritten so they will be granted some assurance of getting the opportunity to obtain some of the new ships which hopefully will be constructed. "We urge, therefore," Hall said, "that H.R. 13940 be amended to provide the needed flexibility that is essential to our maritime growth. We recommend that the section dealing with ship construc­ tion be rewritten along the fol­ lowing lines: "Provide that the government first meet its contractual obliga­ tions governing the replacement of vessels in the presently subsidized portion of the fleet, (and) that priority on the remainder of the Jnne 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Four ship construction funds be given those ship-owners who have not been receiving subsidy assistance." Sdll Discrimination Referring to the question of operating differential subsidies, the SIU president declared that the pending legislation appears to cor­ rect inequities under the present law by extending the system broadly throughout the entire in­ dustry, but he added the way the bill is written, there would still be "discrimination" against a "significant part" of the industry. "Whatever formula is decided upon by this committee" on this issue. Hall continued, "we urge you to: "Make it fair and equitable; provide the same treatment and the same formula for all opera­ tions; design it so that it achieves the purpose for which operating subsidies were intended, which is to enable American operators to compete with foreign shipping in­ terests for commercial cargo; and make sure that the government gets the maximum performance from the industry for the dollars that are invested." Noting that the purpose of the construction and operating differ­ ential subsidies was to enable those who received them to compete with foreign shipping operations. Hall said, that through these sub­ sidies U.S. berth-line operators in­ volved were placed on a parity with foreign-flag operations and thus were in a position to com­ pete profitably for the carriage of commercial cargo. "The rest of the industry, on the other hand, has no such assistance in meeting foreign competition," he continued. "It has no parity arrangement. For these operators, the carriage of government-gener­ ated cargo is the main—if not only—source of business. "Each of these subsidy pro­ grams provides an opportunity to protect the American-flag indus­ try. The trouble arises when, as in the case of the 14 berth-line operators, these two subsidy sys­ tems are put together. It amounts not only to the piling of one sub­ sidy on top of the other; it also reduces the incentive the berth-line operator might otherwise have to go out and dig for enough com­ mercial cargoes to fill his ships." Commenting that the hearings are being held during a period of great national uncertainty. Hall noted Congress has been dealing with a tax program that also in­ volves a cutback in federal spend­ ing. "I do not minimize the serious­ ness of the problem. I would hope that the government would not make the mistake of suspend­ ing, even temporarily, its invest­ ment in our merchant marine pro­ gram. This would not be cutting into fat—it would be slashing into muscle. ... I know these alleged budget cuts for maritime will not take place, if this committee has anything to say about it." Program a Must However, he added, "If any agreement is reached between Congress and the White House on a tax bill and budget cut— The Atlantic Coast by Eati (Bull) Shepard, Vice-President, Atlantic Coast Area All Seafarers realize the advantage of securing prompt medical attention for a stricken man at sea and the fact that 28 more grad­ uates of the SOA Pharmacist Mate Training School have been assigned to merchant ships means the day is not far off when every American-flag vessel will have a qualified medical officer aboard, a goal long sought by^' the SIU and SOA. It also will a good AB's job on the Cosmos mean that when a graduate of the Mariner. It was a nice trip on a school is aboard, a merchant ship good ship, he said. Elbert just will not have to be inspected at caught another ship, the Eagle Quarantine Station, long the Voyager. William Donald, a 25-year man, source of time consuming delays. had a very good trip on the JopUn Philadelphia Victory, sailing as AB. There was Roy Alston is registered and plenty of overtime and Bill said ready to go as soon as a first chief that he certainly wouldn't mind a cook's job hits the board. Roy few more payoffs like this. last shipped on the Geneva. William Sharp, another 25-year After receiving his FED, Ed man, is looking for a good bosun's Bayne registered for a good stew­ job. He recently completed a trip ard position. Ed was last aboard on the Transhuron. the Commander. Baltimore George Barnes will spend some William Emerson just com­ time at home before shipping out. Assured of Action pleted an Intercoastal run on the A member of the deck departPortmar. He liked this run so As he concluded his testimony, several congressmen assured Hall much, he's waiting for another Congress was going to do every­ one. Bill, an AB, has sailed with thing in its power to provide the the SIU for 20 years. country with a new maritime pro­ Edward Spooner was on the gram and a new merchant marine. Seatrain Ohio, running to the Far East. A 21-year man, he's seen Chairman Garmatz, said one a lot of gains during his time in problem has been that the indus­ the SIU and doesn't hesitate to try has not had a "maritimepraise them. minded Maritime Administrator," Emerson After a trip on the Amicus, indicating MARAD needed some­ ment, his last ship was the Colum­ ,^11)1^, Seqttie is ready to go one who would not depend on the again. Bill did a good job as en­ Secretary of Transportation and bia. gine department delegate. Norfolk the Secretary of Defense for mari­ Elbert Winslow reported he had time programs and policies. Boston John Kulas recently shipped on The Cabins as oiler. A -25-year veteran, he'll ship again anytime, now that he's had some time to visit the family. Peter Gerardi was BR on the Robin Goodfellow. He is ready to grab the first good job to hit the board. WASHINGTON—^The Seafarers LOG has been presented Edward (PConnell, known to with four awards for outstanding performance in the field of his friends as "Ragmop," is in labor journalism in the Journalistic Awards Contest for 1968, drydock after sailing AB on The conducted by the International Labor Press Association and Cabins. As soon as he's FED judged by a distinguished panel of experts from the fields of again, "Ragmop" will scan the journalism, labor and education. board for a good job. Awards presented to the LOG at ceremonies here last May 25 Puerto Rico fell into four categories: General Editorial Excellence, Best Orig­ A frequent visitor to the piers inal Photograph, Best Original Feature Article and Best Origi­ in San Juan, Tomas Mojica drops nal Cartoon. Submitted for consideration along with entries by to keep in touch with his many from labor publications throughout the United States and Can­ friends now that he's on an SIU ada, all were published in the LOG during 1967. pension. Top award for Best Original Photograph went to the LOG for While waiting for a permanent its cover photo of last November 24 which pictured a merchant job, Enrique Vargas and Engenio vessel docked in New York Harbor against the illuminated sky­ Nunez are both catching standby line of the city at night. jobs on Sea-Land ships. Also received was an award for Best Feature Article for the Edctie Bmiafont, who has spent original LOG feature, "The Right to Bear Arms—pro and con," plenty of time on the Intercoastal which explored proposed legislation aimed at controlling the run, is back as AB on the Afoundsale of firearms in the United States and which appeared in the ria, running between San Juan and November 10, 1967 issue of the LOG. the West Coast. Selected for honors in the classification of Best Editorial Car­ toon was the LOG's entry, titled "By His Own Petard" and pub­ lished May 26, 1967. The cartoon depicted Uncle Sam, seated on a bench outside a U.S. Naval shipyard—closed by government order, and reading a newspaper account of hampered U.S. efforts in Vietnam due to a shortage of American shipyard facilities. In Seafarers and members of SIU his briefcase beside him is a copy of a proposed government pro­ affiliates are reminded by Seafar­ gram to build U.S. ships abroad. ers COPE that there are important In awarding the LOG with a certificate of merit for Editorial dates during the month of June Excellence in publications with a newspaper format, the judges regarding the primary elections in noted: connection with the 1968 general "The Seafarers LOG continues to maintain the excellent stand­ elections. ards it has shown for years, including extensive coverage of the The dates are: SIU and its affairs and objectives, and general maritime news and Deadline for Primary Registra­ features. Its coverage of individual unionists, often with pictures, tion: Virginia (June 8) and Con­ is particularly notable. It has good editorials and often outstand­ necticut (June 14). ing editorial cartoons. Feature articles are highly readable . . ." Primary Election Dates: Illinois Judges for this year's Journalistic Awards Contest were (June 11), South Carolina (June Edward T. Townsend, Labor Editor of Business Week; Melvin 11), Maine (June 17) and New Mencher, Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of York (June 18). Journalism Julius Manson, New York City Board of Mediation; Runoff Primary Dates: Missis­ and Herbert Levine, Rutgers University. sippi (June 25) and South Carolina (June 25). and if that agreement means sus­ pension of ship construction dur­ ing the coming fiscal year—it will in no way lessen the need for a long-range maritime program. As a matter of fact, it will increase the need, because we'll be that much further behind. "This is the time to enact the maritime program that we have waited for all these years. We must first have the principle of maritime expansion laid down. Then we can get to the question of authorization, appropriations and actual expenditures by the federal government. Without a program, we can do nothing. With a program, we will, at long last, be in a position to act as soon as this temporary budget problem is resolved," Hall said. Log Receives Four Awards In Labor Press Competition ^i Primary Biettions <• - ^ ' f I �( . I:- Jnne 7, 1968 Firm P^ty on Bargaimi^ Parleys Set by Joint Oil Unions' CoianU WASHINGTON—The Unions' Nationwide Coordinating Coun­ cil for Oil and Allied Industries, representing over 200,000 workers throughout the nation, has announced a firm national wages, benefits and bargaining agree- ^ next general conference held by ment, which shall be the policy the UNCC. for the Organization. The council's newly-established The SIUNA-affiliated Interna­ bargaining policy sets January 5, tional Union of Petroleum Work­ 1971, as the terminal date for all ers and the SIUNA are among the new contracts and specifies wages 17 unions of the UNCC. Frank and benefits increases of 12 per­ Drozak, SIUNA Vice President cent for each contract year. and West Coast Representative, Among other provisions are a attended the two-day policy meet­ full company-paid Hospitalization ing here on May 7 and 8. and Welfare Plan for employees In establishing a bargaining pol­ and their immediate families— icy for all member Unions across with the plan jointly administered; the nation, the UNCC said the a full-company-paid Retirement policy shall inform the oil indus­ Plan; and a cost-of-living formula tries that no other pattern set by for annuitants to provide for ad­ the oil industries shall be recog­ ditional income. nized. In addition, the policy calls for Delegates of the UNCC also all overtime to be paid at double discussed the 27 -percent deple­ time rate; a substantial increase in tion allowance enjoyed by the oil the shift differential for shift industries with many of their sen­ workers and double time for all ators and representatives and a hours worked on holidays, plus firm action will be taken at the the holiday pay. The Gulf Coast by Undsey Williams, Vice-President, Gulf Area The Louisiana Legislature has been in session only a short time and already anti-labor bills have flooded the hopper, including a right-to-work bill. Labor will fight these anti-later bills and will strive to pass legislation favoring the working man, including a complete overhaul of the workmen's compensation laws that are still keyed in this state to the ^ West Africa and Peter Gonzalez, needs of 20 and 30 years ago. Among improvements we seek ship's delegate, reported a real is an increase in the number of fine trip. The steward department weeks of eligibility from 400 to had such New Orleans old-timers 600. In the event an employee aboard as, Norman "Pat" Ragas, is killed by industrial accident, Ramon Roque, Leslie Blanchard, the widow and children would Alberto Trevino, John Zfanmer, receive 600 weeks maximum Elmw Lane, Raymond Flynn and benefits instead of 400. We are Mike Liuzza. also pushing for an increase in Mobile the weekly benefits from $35 to Eddie Morris has registered for $50 a week, and an increase a bosun or AB's job. He recently in maximum medical allowances spent some time on the Antinous, from $2,500 to unlimited medi­ running to Vietnam. cal expenses. Kenneth Huller is registered The question is often asked, group two, engine department. A "Why is labor in politics?" Labor member since the Union's incep­ unions have always participated tion, "Blackie" just completed a in the government of their com­ trip to Vietnam on the Meridian munities, the state and the nation, Victory. just as any other good citizens do. Haywood Scheard is on the Many gains which have been beach here, after a long trip to made at the bargaining table by Vietnam on the Hattiesburg Vic­ organized labor have been at­ tory. He will take a short rest tacked and sometimes destroyed before sailing again. by reactionaries in State Legis­ Houston latures and in Congress. Our The Inland Boatmen's Union society has become more com­ plex. Many of the needs of union called a strike against the Wade workers can be met only by leeis- Towing Company in Brownsville, lation designed to meet the needs Texas, when it refused to meet of all working men and women. Union demands. The strike has since been settled, however, and New Orleans the tugs are back on the job. Eddie Avrard came in the hall Union demands were: a wage on his day off from the Del increase of $1.00 per day, an in­ Monte, where he has an oiler's crease of $2.44 in health and wel­ fare and five extra days in vaca­ tion pay. All the above demands were finally agreed upon. Shipping in this port remains good. We expect more of the same in the coming period. WaltCT "Red" Geis has been on the beaoh but is now ready for a steward's job. W. H. Thompson is taking a Geis Thompson much needed vacation. He will job. Eddie has nothing but praise help with Don Yarborough's cam­ for the ship and its crew. paign for Governor when he re­ The vessel was on a trip to turns. SEAFARERS LOG Pmge Fhre Seafarers will soon find an unex­ pected addition to their crew; purser-pharmacist mate Frances Porfidio (at right) first woman graduate of SIUNA-affiliated SOA Pharmacist Mate Training School on Staten Island, N.Y. Flanked by fellow students Wm. Armstrong (I) and J. Little, as instructor M. MacDonald lec­ tures, she is one of 28 graduates (see below) of school's 2nd class. Burt Lanpher sec.-treas. of SIUSOA is in center of the group. SlU-SOA Pharmacist Mate School Graduates 28; Is Fully Recognized NEW YORK—^The second class—including 27 men and one woman—of the Pharmacist Mate Training School sponsored by the SIUNA-aflBliated Staff Officers Association was graduated last week in ceremonies at the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Island which were highlifted by news that the school's ing quarantine. This, they ex­ Included in the course, taught graduates will be fiilly recog­ plained, means the Pharmacist by veteran instructors, are such nized by government health au­ Mate Training School's program subjects as anatomy, physiology thorities. has been officially recognized and and general clinical patient care. At the exercises, SOA Secre­ that the new purser-pharmacist Also the human skeleton, circula­ tary-Treasurer Burt E. Lanpher mates are eligible to evaluate the tory and digestive systems are and Representative Thomas N. health of freighter crews. Thus, thoroughly covered. In addition, Downing (D-Va.), chairman of the ships on which they serve will there is a course on medical ethics, the Education and Training sub­ be exempt from inspection at first aid and basic life-saving pro­ committee of the House Mer­ Quarantine Station when entering cedures, as well as surgical pro­ chant Marine and Fisheries Com­ port and costly delays will be cedures and treatment of cardiac mittee, announced that federal au­ avoided. patients. thorities will henceforth relax Merchant ships will now be able Twenty-six men comprised the stringent ship quarantine regula­ to fly the international code flag first class, which graduated last tions when a graduate of the "Q"—^which means a request for June. school is aboard a U.S.-flag vessel. quarantine clearance—and will be Frances Porfidio, the first wom­ able to steam right past the clear­ an to graduate from the school, and her male classmates, received ance post without having to drop SEAFARERS^LOG U.S. Public Health certificates and anchor for a health check. Unitl now, only passenger ships had this Coast Guard endorsements as June 7, 1968 • Vol. XXX, No. 12 Purser-Pharmacist Mates to serve privilege. OiBeial Publication of the Elimination of the delays en­ Seafaren International Union on vessels in the U.S.-flag Mer­ of North America, countered by having Health Serv­ chant fleet. Atlantic. Golf. Lakea ice boarding parties check freight­ Present at the ceremonies from and Inland Waten District. SIU headquarters were Welfare ers has long been sought by mari­ AFL-CIO Director A1 Bernstein, Headquar­ time labor and management Xxteutive Board PAUL HALL, Prendont ters Representative Pete Drewes spokesmen. EAKL SHBTAIIO CAL TANNR Lanpher also announced an­ and Patrolman George McCart­ Vice-President Exee. Viet-Preo. other medical innovation as a re­ ney. LIMDSEY WILLIAMS AL Ksm Vice-President See.-Treaa. The school was established last sult of the new ratings. It is an ROBERT MATTHEWS year after a four-year campaign agreement between steamship Viee-Preeident by the SIU and SOA to provide lines and the SOA on a standard­ Director o1 Publieationc expert medical care for seamen ized list of equipment and drugs MIKE POLLACK aboard all U.S. merchant ships— to be carried by every vessel with a much needed service that had a graduate of the Pharmacist Mate Managing Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN School aboard. been lacking. Pointing out that the agreement All the graduates put in 1,080 Staff Writers TOM FINNEGAN hours in an intensive nine-month will improve the standards of the PETER WEISS STEVE STEINBERO course that ran from long hours ship's hospital, Lanpher told the in the emergency room, through graduating class this will mean Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALOI stiff drills in the laboratory, and that "all your skills can be fully the observance of operating room employed." Pikllihst kimskly at 810 lists hliat Aitsss N.E.. Wishlsitss. D. C. 20018 ky tfcs Ssaftfprocedures. They studied the The training program at the sn iRlmiitlsRal ORISR, AtliRtIs, Gslf. Ukss causes, symptoms and treatments Public Health Service Hospital at RRt iRlRRt Wstsn Olltrist. AFL-CI8. C75 FMrtk Amis, BrssklTR. N.Y. 11232. Tsl. of all major ailments and can give Stapleton, Staten Island, was de­ HYaslstk 9-<600. Ssssat SIRM Bsstsis Bali at Wasklaitsa, D. C. emergency treatment and after­ vised by the SOA and approved POSTHASTEI'S ATTERTIII: Fata 3579 care for all types of injuries with by the federal government. It is sarts iksalt bs iSRt ts Ssatarsrs iRtsraatiasai URISR. Atlaatls. Calf, lUss aat lalaat which they may come in contact. administered under the joint di­ Dbtrist. AFL-CII, CTS Fswtk Anass, IIR. H.Y. 11292. Lanpher and Downing stressed rection of the SOA and Com­ the importance of the decision by mander Carnick Markarian, direc­ federal health authorities regard­ tor of training at the hospital. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG SlU Engineers' Upgrading Produces Six Additionai Licensed Seafarers 5. Six more Seafarers have obtained an engineer's license after completing a course of study at the school sponsored by the SIU and District 2, MEBA and passing their Coast Guard examinations. This brings to 251 die number of Seafarers who have obtained a license. Two of the men are now sec- ^ ond assistant engineers, while four received a third assistant's license. A new second assistant engi­ neer, Edward Bender, Jr., pre­ viously sailed as oiler. Bom in the Philippines, he now lives in Houston, Texas. He joined the Whelan Donski Bossick Union in 1954 in New York City. Brother Bender is 32 years old. 36-year-old Seafarer was bom in the upgrading programs if they Bernard Cassada is a new third Yo^ers, N. Y. He joined the are 19 years of age or older and assistant engineer, previously sail- Union in the Port of New York have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. in 1963. watch standing time in the engine Raymond Riemer is a second department, plus six months' ex­ assistant engineer. Sailing as perience as a wiper or equivalent. Those who qualify and wish to FOWT, he joined the SIU in Phil­ adelphia in 1959. He was bom in enroll in the school can obtain that city and still makes his home additional information and apply there. Brother Riemer served in for the course at any SIU hall or the Navy from 1942 to 1948. He write directly to SIU headquarters is 47 years old. at 675 Fourth Avenue in Brook­ Cassada Bender Engine department Seafarers lyn, New York, 11232. The tele­ ing as fireman and oiler. He was are eligible to apply for any of phone number is Hyacinth 9-6600. born in North Carolina and lives in Reidsville in that state. Brother Cassada is 34 years old and joined the SIU in 1964 in the port of Baltimore. Henry Donski sailed as oiler prior to receiving a third assist­ ant's license. The 42-year-old Sea­ WASHINGTON—^The United States has become the first coun­ farer was bom in Powells Point try to ratify safety measures for new passenger and cargo ships North Carolina and lives in Jack­ sonville, Florida, where he joined following a 74-0 vote by the Senate. Only new vessels—^those for ^ between Miami, Fla., and Nassau. the SIU in 1966. A third assistant engineer, Wil­ which the keel is laid after the In the case of the Yarmouth liam Bossick sailed as FOWT. He safeguards and other amend­ Castle, the U.S. had no jurisdic­ is 38 years old and joined the Un­ ments to the International Con­ tion over the ship as long as she ion in 1968 in New York. Brother vention for Safety of Life at Sea met the minimum international Bossick was bom in East Ruther­ go into effect—are covered by safety requirements, which at ford, New Jersey and now resides the ratification. Safety measures that time, were more lenient than in Patterson, New Jersey. affecting existing vessels were those of the U.S. William Whelan lives in Ossin- passed by both House and Sen­ U.S. Ships Set Standard ing. New York. A third assistant ate last year. When all of the countries rati­ engineer, he sailed as FOWT. The The new intemational code for fy the new convention, the inter­ the Safety of Life at Sea was national standards should be as worked out by the intergovem- strict as those aboard Americanmental Maritime Consultative flag ships. Organization of the United Na­ Under the new safety meas­ tions after Representative Ed­ ures, all new ships hereafter will ward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), have to use the maximum amount chairman of the House Mer­ of incombustible materials just WASHINGTON—Use of more chant Marine and Fisheries Com- as U.S. ships have done since efficient icebreakers might make mitee, demanded that the State 1936. The Yarmouth Castle and it possible to keep Ijie Great Department lead the way in ob­ other craft depended on sprinkler Lakes and the St. Lawrence Sea­ taining stronger measures inter­ systems, which it was found, way open longer in winter months, nationally for passenger ships. burned up early during a ship according to Representative Henry The need for more stringent fire. S. Reuss (D-Wis.). One amendment of the code He said both conventional and safety measures was dramatized unconventional devices have been after Panamanian-flag SS. Yar­ would provide higher standards invented to shatter ice, but most mouth Castle burned off Nassau, for passenger ship fire detection had not been tested adequately Bahamas, in November, 1965 with equipment, firemen's outfits, fire or developed to the point of be­ a loss of 91 lives. The vessel had control plans and emergency been sailing on regular schedules procedures. ing operational now. Reuss has urged the Army Corps of Engineers, to put iceSIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS breaking research at the top of its projects involving the Seaway and April 1-April 30, 1968 Great Lakes. Number of Amount Noting that the St. Lawrence Paid Benefits Seaway now is closed for be­ tween V/2 and four months each Hospital Benefits (Welfare) $ 53,685.21 4,B40 winter because of thick ice, Reuss Death Benefits (Welfare) .... 64,239.10 27 called it "inconceivable that a na­ Disability Benefits (Welfare) . . 1,159 253,425.00 tion which plans to land a man on Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . 5,800.00 29 the moon by 1970 cannot find an Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . 102,815.18 507 answer—and find it quickly—to (Average: $202.67) a problem that has plagued the 10,173.21 Great Lakes basin since its settle­ Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . 673 ment." Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) 5,162 39,556.00 "In the fast-moving economy of SUMMARY (Welfare) 529,693.70 12,397 the Great Lakes basin," the Con­ Vacation Benefits 705,165.69 1,632 gressman said, "weather affects (Average: $432.09) nearly every economic activity, but seasonal losses of cargo-carry­ Total Welfare, Vacation ing capacity on the Lakes and Sea­ Benefits Paid This Period 14.029 $1J34^8g^ way is an especially serious prob­ lem." U.S. First Country to Ratify New-Vessel Safety Standards Better Icebreakers Needed for Lakes Lawmaker Declares June 7, 1968 The Great Lakes by Fred Famen.Sccretary-rreasurMvOrMt Lakaa Procedures are underway for the 1968 biennial election of officers for the SIU Great Lakes District. At the regular member­ ship meeting in all ports, the Secretary-Treasurer's notice of elec­ tion, pre-balloting report, was read to the men in addition to notices posted on bulletin boards and mailed to each member at his last-known address. around, but most of them are out Any full book member who can When we attend the Ohio State qualify can nominate himself for AFL-CIO convention in Cincin­ office by notifying the SecretaryTreasurer in writing, via regis­ nati, we expect to get an endorsetered mail or in person, not later than July 15 or before July 1, 1968. Those full book men who qualify may submit their creden­ tials for the following offices: Sec­ retary-Treasurer, Assistant Secre­ tary-Treasurer, Buffalo Agent, Chicago Agent, Duluth Agent and Frankfort Agent. Buckley Treschak The actual voting will take place in August. ment by this body for our fight As previously reported, the this winter to get unemployment SlU-contracted Penn Dixie Ce­ during winter months for Great ment Company reactivated the Lakes seamen. steamer John L. A. Galster. In­ Tidedo stead of notifying the job security The run of ships to this port has board to recall the Seafarers laidbeen steady and we've seen a off in 1966, the company saw fit number of old friends. Mark Warto ignore the seniority rights of ntdf, wheelsman, and Wflllam these men and hired non-priority Buckley, conveyorman, have seamen through newspaper ads. stopped by the hall to say hello. The company then purchased a We are urging all members and tug from McAllister Towing Com­ their families to take advantage pany in New York and are now of the Toledo clinic and have a using the tug to tow the John physical checkup. Galster. When we learned that The Toledo SIU will be repre­ Penn Dixie planned to circumvent sented at the Ohio AFL-CIO con­ our agreement, we immediately vention in Cincinnati. A great set up informational picket lines effort will be made to get unem­ at their plant in Petoskey, Michi­ ployment for Great Lakes seamen gan. We filed unfair labor practice this winter. Duluth charges against the company on Duluth shipping has picked up the basis that Penn Dixie is vio­ lating a signed contract that pro­ in all departments. The hall has vides a job security program been crowded from 8 a.m. to guaranteeing SIU members who 5 p.m. We wish to congratulate were laid-off the John Galster in 1966 the right to be called back Brother James Wilfred Talbot, re­ tiring after 25 years on the lakes. to their jobs. He was bom in Manistique, Mich­ Chicago igan and joined the Union in Shipping in this area has main­ 1943. His first job was coal passer tained a steady pace and is not on the J. S. Ashley in the Buck­ expected to let up. We have man­ eye fleet. He wound up his career aged to fill all of the jobs called as fireman on the J. E. Ferris. in. Those ships and the Princeton During the last two weeks, we are the only vessels he sailed on have spent time on a picket line during his long career. in Petoskey, due to the beef Frankfort against the Penn Dixie Cement The Milwaukee returned to Company. In Petoskey, we had a chance Muskegon, May 21, and crewto see some of our old friends, members are either returning to now on pension. Ai Smith, Lloyd positions they held in the Ann Ciahrmont and Al Hartlauh all got Arbor Carferry fleet or will regis­ together with us to talk about old ter for extra relief work. The Arfliur K. Atkinson re­ times. Paul "Red" Frovo recently retired and is working as a sta­ turned to the shipyard for a cou­ tionary engineer with the city of ple of days after completing it's Chicago. His wife, "Ollie" is still annual marine inspection. She is working in criminal court as head now back in full service. Marine inspectors are giving the Chief bailiff. Wawatam a going-over in St. IgBuffalo Shipping has been going along nace. John Swanson, one of our pen­ without let-up since the fit-out sioner's, was confined to Paul began. The J. B. Ford had an Oliver Memorial Hospital for a engine department and steward few days, but has since returned department aboard for a few to his home. Other seamen who weeks, then laid-up again. were hospitalized are George IverCleveland son, able seaman from the MUCalls for replacements are very waiikee Clipper, and George Sid­ light so the men must be holding ney Smith, cook in the Ann Arbor down the ships without a hitch. Carferry fleet. We are saddened Out of 144 ships in the coal and to learn of the death of George ore trade, 134 are off and running. Charters, May 15. He had been Due to a tug strike in this port, a cook for the Ann Arbor Carferquite a few ships had their orders ries, prior to going on pension. The Arnold Transit Company changed and are taking their cargo has two vessels operating between to Lorain and Ashtabula. We saw Chester Kaiser, Andy Mackinac Island, Mackinaw City Treschak and a few book men and St. Ignace. �June 7, 1968 SEAFARERS Study Reveals R-T-W Laws Stall Union Growth in South '! i •» I. Page Seven LOG "The Old Man and the Sea!" WASHINGTON—^Any doubt that Southern workers would join unions at a more rapid pace if they were not saddled by so-called "right-to-work" laws—with their accompanying fear of coercion and intimidation by private industry—has been virtually eliminated by the results of a controlled experiment announced recently by the Ameri­ can Federation of Government Employees. Since 1962, when President Kennedy issued Executive Order 10988, the attitude of southern workers have been tested in hundreds of southern Federal installations. Executive Order 10988 guarantees Federal employees the right to join unions freely® without fear of reprisal. The experience of just one union proves the case. The American Federation of Government Employees reports that, in January 1962, its membership in right-to-work states was 26,857. By January 1968, AFGE reports, this membership in these states had zoomed to 94,586. Membership IMpled Thus, the net growth in the South in the unrestricted atmosphere of this union was 67,729 in six years. AFGE had more than tripled its Southern membership as its national growth was doubling. These figures become even more significant in terms of employees covered for cellective bargaining. As of November 1967, the official Civil Service Conunission figures show that AFGE holds collective bargaining rights at 246 Federal installations in the South for 113,856 employees. These employees range from laborers to highly skilled electronic technicians; from poultry inspectors to internal revenue agents. They work on installations as large as Warner-Robbins Air Force Base in Georgia, where AFGE holds representation rights for 13,710 em­ ployees, or as small as the weather bureau in Fort Worth, Texas with six employees. The only difference between the civil service employees and South­ ern workers in private industry is fear. The federal employee is protected—he knows union activity will not jeopardize his job—and he joins the union in droves. The private industry employee is intimidated—he knows his union activity might well cost him his job. But when rights are firmly established—as AFGE shows—watch out for an explosive growth in Southern unionism. ' I ' Arkansas labor has opened a campaign for an initiative meas­ ure that would spell out the right of public employees in the state to have unions and bargain col­ lectively. State AFL-CIO Presi­ dent J. Bill Becker said that fed­ eration affiliates are now circulat­ ing petitions to put the measure on the state's Nov. 5 ballot Peti­ tioners must obtain 45,000 signa­ tures by July 1. The initiative, if approved by state voters, would declare the rights of public em­ ployees as "public policy," Becker said. Labor would then seek legis­ lation in the state legislative to implement it, he added. • » • Transport Workers Union Lo­ cal 100 in New York has won a new and unusual paid holiday for employees of Westchester Street Transportation Co.—the anniversapr of the day each employee joined the union. A new two-year contract makes the new holiday effective next January. Also it gives union members a 12-percent pay increase, a $50,000 assault and disability insurance policy, and other benefits. * « * Musicians' President Herman D. Kenin announced the merger of AFM Locals 63 and 549 in Bridgeport, Conn., and predicted that the union's program of in­ tegrating all locals will be com­ pleted in "a matter of months." President Matthew DelPercio of Local 63 becomes head of the new organization. Local 63-549. Hay­ wood D. Clarke, formerly presi­ dent of Local 549, assumes the post of administrative vice presi­ dent. Kenin noted that since 1954 AFM locals in 44 cities have been integrated through merger, leaving only 14 jurisdictions where sepa­ rate locals remain to be unified. * * * The Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers voted its official endorse­ ment to the Poor People's Cam­ paign and a donation to the South­ ern Christian Leadership Confer­ ence. The OCAW executive board passed a resolution endorsing the demonstration after OCAW Pres­ ident A. F. Grospiron toured Resurrection City and reported back on what he had seen. The resolution said: "We find that al­ though the Poor People's Cam­ paign (like all human efforts) may have its flaws, it is essentially a proper and justified effort on the part of oppressed people to secure a better way of life through joint action." * * * The Textile Workers Union of America scored a major bargain­ ing breakthrough in the central Pennsylvania carpet industry in a new contract signed by TWUA Local 1700 at Magee Carpet Co. in Bloomsburg. The TWUA won a 38 to 40 cents-an-hour pay in­ crease package for 1,300 workers after a five day strike. * * * The New York State AFL-CIO has urged Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller to veto a "loyialty bill" that would disqualify anyone from public office who has participated in alleged "subversive activities." State President Raymond Corbett said the bill is a revival of the "shameful era of witch hunts and guilt by association." The setback that the United States Mer­ chant Marine has taken at the hands of its detractors in recent weeks is disturbing, to be sure, but rather than being the knock-out punch it was intended to be, it could wind up as the harsh "smelling salts" needed to raise the maritime industry out of the semi-prone position in which it has been kept by bureaucratic mishandling for years. After waiting more than three years for a promised national maritime policy from the Administration, the outrageous proposals advanced last month by Transportation Sec­ retary Alan S. Boyd brought forth a wave of shock and indignation from both Con­ gress and the industry and even Boyd's for­ mer supporters have largely deserted his cause. The essence of the Boyd proposal em­ bodies the same threatening elements to the very survival of our commercial fleet which he has been peddling aU along, but his de­ liberate defiance of the will of Congress makes them more dangerous than they have ever been before. Among these key elements proposed to Congress in the guise of a "new" maritime program is the all-out building of U.S.-flag ships abroad—despite Congressional rejec­ tion of such foreign shipbuilding last year— and inclusion in the Department of Trans­ portation of the Maritime Administration, regardless of a stipulation by Congress spe­ cifically barring such inclusion when it first agreed to the establishment of the Transpor­ tation Department. Rather than calling for the expansion of the U.S. merchant fleet—^which both the in­ dustry and Congress have been seeking for so long, Boyd's plan includes no plans for expansion and advocates the elimination of existing tax-free capital reserve funds for shipowners. Instead of granting additional operating subsidies, he would do away with them altogether, and whatever future con­ struction subsidies there might be, he would place completely under the control of him­ self and the Secretary of Defense. Considering the fact that Boyd's propos­ als came during a Senate Merchant Marine subcommittee hearing into ways to upgrade the maritime industry through legislation in conjunction with the House—whose Mer­ chant Marine and Fisheries Committee was also nearing the close of hearings into the same legislation—^there is small wonder that such cries as "betrayal" and "double-cross" were voiced in anger all over Capitol Hill. Chairman E. L. Bartlett of the Senate subcommittee said he would promptly call up the bill, already passed overwhelmin^y by the House last year, to establish an inde­ pendent maritime administration. Following what Congressional maritime leaders of both houses felt was the shatter­ ing of an agreement reached with Bovd and the Administration last fall for a forthcom­ ing merchant marine program of greater scope, they declared a renewed determina­ tion to get on with pushing their own mari­ time program through without further delay. Perhaps now that the long-awaited gov­ ernment maritime program appears to have emerged as little more than a revamping of Boyd's own pet project, which none who have the welfare of the American merchant marine at heart can accept, the crushing blows being attempted by Boyd can be re­ versed by the passage of a strong and equita­ ble Congressional maritime program for the entire industry which overcomes all obstacles thrown in its path by backward thinking gov­ ernment spokesmen such as Secretary Boyd. �Page EUgkt Boyd Plan for Foreign Shipbuilding Bead to Disaster/ MTD Warned WASHINGTON—Representative Joseph P. Addabbo (D-N.Y.) has sharply criticized government proposals to permit building of U.S.-flag ships in foreign yards, warning that it would be "the road to disaster" for the American merchant marine. The foreign-building plan, ad- ^ Ships as a "boondoggle" which, he vanced by Transportation Swre- idea." The Congressman charged that said, would "undercut the historic tary Alan S. Boyd, would "doom the Administration was contradic­ role that the merchant fleet has our shipbuilding and repair capa­ tory on the balance-of-payments always played as our fourth arm bilities, would undercut our mer­ issue when it warned the nation, of defense." chant marine" and would be "a on the one hand, of the "critical" The California Congressman major milestone on the road to nature of the present deficit, and declared that the FDL project America's total elimination as a when "on the other hand we are would "siphon off billions of dol­ maritime power," the Congress­ urged to aggravate this situation lars of taxpayers' money" into the man said. by allowing the building of mer­ building of vessels which would "This is the road to disaster," chant ships abroad." He added "serve a questionable purpose." Addabbo told more than a hun­ that Boyd has been "peddling" the The $1.8 billion projected for dred maritime labor and manage­ foreign-building idea ever since he the construction of these 30 ships, ment officials at a meeting spon­ became Under Secretary of Com­ Leggett continued, would help sored by the seven-million mem­ merce for Transportation in 1965. finance the building of between ber AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Addabbo said that any new 160 and 210 commercial vessels Department, "and I will not be led maritime program enacted by Con­ that would perform both a military down that road by the ill-advised gress this year should be geared to function in time of crisis and that notions of the Secretary of Trans­ the principles of the Merchant would also serve "as our commer­ portation." Marine Act of 1936, which, he cial link to the world around us" The New York Congressman re­ said, called for ^'an American- in time of peace. called that Boyd was rebuffed by built, American-owned and Amer­ The Defense Department plan Congress last year when he said ican-manned merchant marine." calls for loading these vessels with that agreement on foreign build­ "I reject the Secretary of Trans­ war materiel and placing them on ing was "the price tag" for any portation's notion that we can station at strategic points around maritime program, and added that successfully tamper with that the globe—^to give the military a the Defense Department also was principle," he added. "quick response" capability in case "turned down cold when it tried At another MTD meeting. of emergency. Operation of the to push through a proposal to Representative Robert L. Leggett ships would cost an additional $1.2 have some Navy minesweepers (D-Calif.), sharply criticized the billion over the anticipated life of built abroad." Defense Department for attempt­ the vessels, the Navy has esti­ Addabbo said there was "open ing to revive a plan for "floating mated. and total hostility in the Congress" warehouses" which Congress re­ "Since the Administration is toward foreign building of Ameri­ jected last year. willing to spend $1.8 billion, over can-flag merchant ships, and ex­ Leggett, a member of the House the next four years, for FDL pro­ pressed doubt that Boyd could Armed Services Committee, char­ grams," the Congressman said, "muster fifty votes" in the House acterized the plan to build a fleet "we should insist that at least that and Senate for his "cockeyed of 30 Fast Deployment Logistics much be spent on merchant ships." Gulf & Infcindf Wafers Disfricf May 16 to May DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York PhUadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa MobUe New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle totoli All Groups Class A Class B 4 5 60 58 17 13 26 17 8 17 12 7 7 11 20 26 46 49 57 41 11 10 86 81 24 9 378 344 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 4 2 34 28 9 11 8 7 26 12 12 11 13 14 7 4 7 2 7 4 22 15 0 42 24 6 40 21 11 16 14 11 45 46 20 11 11 14 270 207 117 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A QassB 14 5 197 120 12 10 73 42 37 27 20 2 12 15 49 30 114 94 111 69 32 1 110 96 45 3 826 514 ENGINE DmRTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Jane 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG All Groups Class A Class B 3 4 42 63 7 8 14 22 6 9 10 15 7 12 12 16 30 43 30 34 9 15 84 75 22 15 280 327 TOTAL SHIPPED All GrouiIS Class A Class B ClassC 3 1 2 30 19 22 8 8 2 17 20 7 6 6 6 10 14 10 4 14 3 17 19 5 23 22 11 27 23 11 8 17 14 50 35 12 10 14 19 203 224 122 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 6 2 109 101 6 7 48 64 12 12 20 13 12 6 21 41 80 78 71 41 0 28 59 111 33 19 437 553 Visitor from South Vietnam SIU Patrolman George McCartney (right) talks with Dr. Phan Quang Dan (center), head of South Vietnam's Free Democratic Party, and Irving Brown, a member of the AFL-CIO United Nations Committee, at a recent New York City Central Labor Council dinner honoring Dan. The Pacific Coast by Frank Drozak, West Coast Representative The California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO, has succeeded in securing amendments to bill SB425, which would have given local communities in California the right to enact right-to-work laws. With these amendments, the federation has no further interest in SB425, which it had originally opposed. The changes were made with the consent of the ^ bill's co-author. State Senator H. any time now. After an oiler's job on the AnL. Richardson. The amendment niston Victory, Fred England is stated that "section 9618 shall not be construed to be applicable to taking a short vacation before any labor organization nor to any heading to sea again. Joe Pennor will take a long trip activity or conduct of any labor organization, with respect to any next time out. Joe, an AB, said he individual or entity, including but expects to go on pension after his not limited to, it's members, the next job. Shipping is booming in this public, or any employer." The over-all bill deals with the "construction of statutes" and specifies circumstances under which statutes shall be considered to prevail over local, police, sani­ tary and other regulations adopted by a city or county. San Francisco '-^•1 J. W. Mims has taken over the Benevento Mims chief steward's job on the Vantage port, with prospects bright for the Progress. . F. E. Lillard is heading for the next period We paid-off four ves­ Far East aboard the Hattiesburg sels and signed-on the same num­ Victory. He's sailing in the deck ber. There are seven ships in transit department. B. R. LeBIanc made a Coast­ Wilmington wise run on the AchiUes, as oiler. Shipping has been excellent in Paying-off are the Azaiea City, this port and rated men have had Panama, Cornell Victory, Hatties­ no trouble securing a job. We burg Victory, Achilles, Robin signed-on the Seatrain Washing­ Sherwood, Coe Victory, Batre ton and have two pay-offs coming Victory, Ctdumbia Trader and up. There are eight ships in The Jrdm C. transit. Seattle Frank Camara registered and Frank Benevento just got back is looking for a job on an Isth­ from Italy, where he was visiting mian ship. He last sailed as AB relatives. Frank is ready to sail on the Steel Artisan. STEWARD DEPARTMENT Port Bolton New York ... Philadelphia . Baltimore — Norfolk JaekaonTUle . Tampa HobHe New Orleans Houaton ..... Wilmington . San Franciieo m-. TOTAL REGISTERED All Gronps daiiACl^Jmb 4 2 14 72 6 16 16 22 9 12 4 7 6 3 11 12 40 22 37 30 13 10 102 57 19 8 169 316 TOTAL SHIPPED All Grooii Class A Class B Class C 0 0 1 16 27 17 4 19 21 11 6 5 7 14 6 6 16 6 0 2 21 12 1 27 12 2 12 12 12 14 19 8 51 33 13 9 4 3 180 132 92 REGISTERED on BEACH •• TJCSTAtSi'siift 10 116 16 49 16 6 7 50 119 90 20 116 10 534 4 48 11 26 14 8 10 29 67 56 0 45 12 274 Support AFL-CIO Farm Workers grai •• • �'^ June 7f 1968 Page Nine SEAFARERS LOG ANNUAL REPORT For the fiscal year ended November 30, 1967 SEAFARERS WELFARE FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 to the SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing; general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbrevi­ ated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance Department, 55 John Street, New York, N. Y. 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENENTS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCF> Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $5,723,164.39 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions $5,723,164.39 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 8. Investment Income: (a) Interest $ 170,415.67 (b) Dividends 66,971.61 (c) Rents 3,742.16 (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments $ 241,129.44 4. Profit on disposal of investments 7,539.53 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) See attachment 41,990.00 (b) Clinic services rendered to participating groups $ 221,591.78 (c) Total Other Additions 263,581.78 7. Total Additions $6,235,415.14 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: (a) Federal (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations .... (3) Nongovernment obligations d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions).. (Identify and indicate percentage of own­ ership by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) See attachment % 100 (2) %.... Real estate loans and mortgages Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured (see attachment) b. Unsecured Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate Other Assets: a. Accrued income b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) see attachment Total Assets LIABILITIES Insurance and annuity premiums payable Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) Accounts payable (see attachment) Accrued expenses Other liabilities (Specify) see attachment Reserve for future benefits Total liabilities and Reserves 796,752.58 —o— 2,115,200.00 2,115,200.00 102,700.00 102,700.00 250,000.00 1,500,000.00 181,487.62 123,032.89 $6,029,157.45 $7,107,051.91 $ $ —o— 320,414.67 3,740.19 8,453.57 6,025,417.26 6,778,183.67 $6,029,157.45 $7,107,051.91 1 The assets listed in this statement must be valued on the basis regrularly used in valuing investments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not so required to be filed with the U.S. Treasury Department. STAtior yg/f/r camrror DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Car­ riers and to Service Organizations (Including Pre­ paid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund $3,332,803.65 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Partici­ pants (Attach latest operating statement of the Organization showing detail of administrative ex­ penses, supplies, fees, etc.) 633,771.39 11. Payments or Contract Fees Paid to Independent Or­ ganizations or Individuals Providing Plan Benefits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 438,229.81 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schedule 2) $ 321.471.71 (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) ... 22,249.89 (c) Taxes 14,441.51 (d) Pees and Commissions (Schedule 3) 75,199.21 (e) Rent 38,723.73 (f) Insurance Premiums 5,079.45 (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums —o— (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) see attachment 177,871.56 (i) Total Administrative Expenses 655,037.06 13. Loss on disposal of investments 52,266.02 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 15. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) Acquisition of fixed assets 370,540.80 (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 370.540.80 16. Total Deductions $5,482,648.73 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND" BALANCE 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Be­ ginning of Year) $6,025,417.26 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) $6,235,415.14 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 5,482,648.73 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 752,766.41 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabil­ ities) $6,778,183.67 Part IV Part ly data for trust or other separately maintained fund are to be completed for a plan involving a trust or other separately maintained fund. It also is to be com­ pleted for a plan which: (1) Has incurred expenses other than: (a) Payments for unfunded benefits or G>) Insurance or annuity premiums or subscription charges paid to an insurance carrier or service or other organization; or (2) Has assets other than: (a) Insurance or annuity contracts or (b) Contributions in the process of payment or collection. Part IV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Seafarers Welfare Plan As of November 30, 1967 File No. WP-59298 ASSETS» End of End of Prior Reporting Item Year Year 1. Cash $ 711,804.60 $1,259,501.56 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) b. Dividends or experience rating refunds .... c. Other (Specify) see attachment 26,704.66 49,817.99 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations ... ...669,140.81 796,072.71 b. Stocks: (1) Preferred —o— 4,605.71 (2) Common 1,175,367.18 1,156,121.05 •fflm. sadcr the paMltllcs •( penaiy thai fbecaalealtaf this Aaaaal Rcfcrt tf« tr OihM (ladkM tinnh SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Attachment to 1967 New York State Insurance Department Annual Statement Year ended November 30, 1967 Page 6—Item 6—Other Additions Equipment rentals $ 13,638.60 Proceeds from sale of fixed assets 3,122.70 Return of donated capital from wholly-owned corp 25,000.00 Miscellaneous income 228.70 $ 41,990.00 Item 12h—Other Administrative Expenses Tabulating service $ 41,828.13 Stationery 46,982,71 Postage 1,638.76 Equipment rental 17,214.93 Electricity 1,028.42 Linen service 160.83 Miscellaneous 15,236.48 Telephone and telegraph 8,290.61 Repairs and maintenance 2,677.17 Cleaning 166.40 Dues and subscriptions 1,228.87 Employes benefits 21,270.42 Port shipping activity report service 18,550.00. Microfilming 1,441.14 Licenses and permits 31.69 Miscellaneous collection expense 125.00 $177,871.56 SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN Attachment to Annual Report Form D-2 November 30, 1967 Part IV—Section A—Item 2 Other Receivables Prior Reporting Year Year Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship $ 1,455.49 $ —o— Claim with City of New York 548.50 —o— Seafarers Puerto Rico Division Welfare Fund 18,106.00 41,360.00 Seafarers Vacation Fund 3,399.89 —o— Seafarers Pension Fund 2,282.04 6,513.60 Seafarers Vacation Fund, Great Lakes District —o— 135.42 Miscellaneous 912.74 1,808.97 $26,704.66 $ 49,817.99 Part rV—Section A—Item II—Accounts Payable Due to Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship $ —o— $ 1,455.05 Due to Seafarers Vacation Fund —o— 133.18 Due to Seafarers Pension Fund —o— 293,065.50 Due to Welfare New York Building Corp —o— 25,760.94 $ —o— $320,414.67 Item 13—Other Liabilities New York City Sales Tax payable $ 64.40 $ —o— Unapplied contributions 2,152.15 2,300.00 Pasrroll deductions withheld 1,523.64 6,153.57 $ 3,740.19 $ 8,453.57 I'art IV—Section A Item 3e—Subsidiary Organizations Capital Donated Less Prior Reporting Name Stock Capital Reserve* Year Year Welfare New York Building Corp. $ 2,000.00 $ 821,293.70 ($ 816,293.70) $ 7,000,00 $ 7,000.00 (Continued on Page Ten) �Page Ten Welfare Philadelphia (Continued from Page Nine) Building Corp. 2,000.00 339,191.44 (323,191.44) 18,000.00 18,000.00 Welfare Baltimore Building Corp. 2,000.00 1,221,063.40 (1,178,963.40) 44,100.00 44,100.00 Welfare New Orleans Building Corp. 2,000.00 1,035,730.16 (1,017,930.16) 19,800.00 19,800.00 Welfare Mobile Building Corp. 2,000.00 200,409.41 (188,609.41) 13,800.00 13,800.00 $10,000.00 $3,617,688.11 ($3,524,988.11) $102,700.00 $102,700.00 • It is the policy of the Plan to reflect its fund balance on a cash basis, therefore a reserve is set up representing fixed assets acquired by the Fund and donated to its corporations. The difference between donated capital and respective reserve represents cash contributed for operating purposes. Part IV—Section A Item 7c—Other Assets Advances to corporations— Welfare Mobile Building Corp Welfare Philadelphia Building Corp Welfare Baltimore Building Corp Welfare New Orleans Building Corp Travel advances Security deposits Fixed assets (see attachment for reconciliation) Furniture and fixtures—Plan office Furniture and fixtures—Detroit Training facilities—Bayou Le Batre, Ala. Medical and Safety Program facilities— Brooklyn, New York Puerto Rico Chicago, Illinois New Orleans, Louisiana Baltimore, Maryland Furniture and fixtures—Blood Bank Program Equipment outports Cemetery plots Less reserve for fixed assets Total other assets $ 20,000.00 45,000.00 68,506.00 47,722.62 —o— 259.00 $ 8,973.16 17,784.09 50,000.53 45,216.11 800.00 259.00 280,326.86 9,635.14 31,185.47 287,723.24 10,733.48 31,185.47 95,875.26 66,995.37 —o— 46,482.35 46,345.97 558,78 2,844.92 1,199.99 (581,450.11) $181,487.62 95,927.20 67,493.02 316,538.32 46,926.34 47,075.78 558.78 3,190.40 833.30 (908,185.33) $123,032.89 '•Title to this property is in the name of the Welfare Mobile Building Corp., a wholly owned corporation. ( ) Indicates negative figure. REPORT For the fiscal year ended November 30, 1967 SEAFARERS PENSION FUND 275 20th Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 11215 to the I' SUPERINTENDENT OF INSURANCE of the STATE OF NEW YORK The data contained herein is for the purpose of providing general information as to the condition and affairs of the fund. The presentation is necessarily abbreviated. For a more comprehensive treatment, refer to the Annual Statement, copies of which may be inspected at the office of the fund, or at the New York State Insurance De­ partment, 55 John Street, New York, New York 10038. STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN FUND BALANCE (RESERVE FOR FUTURE BENEFITS) ADDITIONS TO FUND BALANCE Item 1. Contributions: (Exclude amounts entered in Item 2) (a) Employer (Schedule 1) $ 6,767,932.50 (b) Employee (c) Other (Specify) (d) Total Contributions $ 6,767,932.50 2. Dividends and Experience Rating Refunds from Insurance Companies 3. Investment Income: (a) Interest 518,905.86 (b) Dividends 300,183.10 (c) Rents (d) Other (Specify) (e) Total Income from Investments 819,088.96 4. Profit on disposal of investments 119,353.38 5. Increase by adjustment in asset values of investments 6. Other Additions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Additions 7. Total Additions $ 7,706,374.84 DEDUCTIONS FROM FUND BALANCE [| I u?; f R», a... Kl June 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG 8. Insurance and Annuity Premiums to Insurance Car­ riers and to Service Organizations (Including Pre­ paid Medical Plans) 9. Benefits Provided Directly by the Trust or Separately Maintained Fund 10. Payments to an Organization Maintained by the Plan for the Purpose of Providing Benefits to Participants ( Attach latest operating statement of the Organiza­ tion showing detail of administrative expenses, supplies, fees, etc.) 11. Pasmients or Contract Pees Paid to Independent Organizations or Individuals Providing Plan Bene­ fits (Clinics, Hospitals, Doctors, etc.) 12. Administrative Expenses: (a) Salaries (Schelule 2) | (b) Allowances, Expenses, etc. (Schedule 2) (c) Taxes (d) Fees and Commissions (Schedule 3) (e) Rent (f) Insurance Premiums (g) Fidelity Bond Premiums (h) Other Administrative Expenses (Specify) Schedule attached (1) Total Administrative Expenses 13. Loss on disposal of investments 14. Decrease by adjustment in asset values of investments 16. Other Deductions: (Itemize) (a) (b) (c) Total Other Deductions 16. Total Deductions $ 2,252,717.94 RECONCILEMENT OF FUND BALANCE 17. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits at Begin­ $16,243,609.54 ning of Year) 18. Total Additions During Year (Item 7) $ 7,706,374.84 19. Total Deductions During Year (Item 16) 2,475,285.31 5,231,089.53 20. Total Net Increase (Decrease) 21. Fund Balance (Reserve for Future Benefits) at end of Year (Item 14, Statement of Assets and Liabilities).. $21,474,699.07 Part IV Part IV data for tniit or other aeparatcly maintained fond are to be completed for a plan inyoiyina a troit or other aeparateiy maintained fond. It aUo ia to be completed for a plan which: (1) . . Has incnrred expenaes other than: (a) Paymenta for nnfnnded beneflta or <h) Inanrance or annolty preminma or aobacription chargea paid to an inanrance carrier or aerrice or other organiaatlon; or (S) Has asseta other than; (a) Inanrance or annnity contracta or (b) Contribntions in the process of payment or coiieetion. Part rV—Section A Statement of Assets and Liabilities Seafarers Pension Plan As of November 30, 1967 File No. WP-158707 ASSETS» End of Prior Year Item $ 324,959.62 1. Cash -. 2. Receivables: a. Contributions: (See Item 18) (1) Employer (2) Other (Specify) —o— b. Dividends or experience rating refunds .... c. Other (Specify) 3. Investments: (Other than real estate) a. Bank deposits at interest and deposits or shares in savings and loan associations) ... b. Stocks: (1) Preferred 903,430.09 (2) Common 5,322,980.41 c. Bonds and debentures: (1) Government obligations: 419,673.46 (a) Federal (b) State and municipal (2) Foreign government obligations .... (3) Nongovernment obligations 8,039,126.71 d. Common Trusts: (1) (Identify) AFL-CIO Mortgage In­ vestment Trust Fund 1,000,000.00 (2) (Identify) e. Subsidiary organizations (See Instructions).. (Identify and indicate percentage of own­ ership by this Plan in the subsidiary) (1) (2) %.... 4. Real estate loans and mortgages 266,501.52 5. Loans and Notes Receivable: (Other than real estate) a. Secured .b. Unsecured 6. Real Estate: a. Operated b. Other real estate 7. Other Assets: a. Accrued income 14,069.77 b. Prepaid expenses c. Other (Specify) 8. Total Assets $16,290,741.58 LIABILITIES 9. Insurance and annuity premiums payable $ 10. Unpaid claims (Not covered by insurance) 2,282.04 11. Accounts payable 12. Accrued expenses 13. Other liabilities (Specify) Retroactive pension in­ creases 44,850.00 14. Reserve for future benefits 16,243,609.54 15. Total Liabilities and Reserves $16,290,741.58 End of Reporting Year $ 339,687.66 288,889.60 1,153,396.83 7,002,408.76 1,243,136.24 10,189,473.11 1,000,000.00 255,666.08 4,489.60 $21,477,036.67 $ 2,337.60 21,474,699.07 $21,477,036.67 "The asseta listed in this sUtement must be valued on the basis regularly used in valuing invest­ ments held in the fund and reported to the U.S. Treasury Department, or shall be valued at their aggregate cost or present value, whichever is lower, if such a statement is not required to be filed with the U.S. TVeasury Department. SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN Attachment to the Superintendent of Insurance Year Ended November 30, 1967 PART IV—Section B—Item llh—Other Administrative Expenses Stationery and printing Postage Telephone and telegraph Tabulating service Microfilming Equipment rental Employee benefits Miscellaneous Miscellaneous trustees meetings expense Repairs and maintenance Dues and subscriptions Outside office help $ 6,378.50 8.96 576.29 23,135.81 137.77 1,700.51 1,623.61 1,239.08 6.23 89.60 106.22 24.75 $36,022.33 ARNUAL nPORT OP THE SfAPARUS PENSION FUND 24,990.45 9,207.49 805.24 40,630.64 3,974.05 203.66 TMMofttaPMdaad . tW pMiUtlM of pmjaiy thai Itw watMla of Ihla AMMI Rapofl am tiM Ml b /V. 35,022.33 114 833.86 107,733.51 ' $ 2,476,286.31 �June 7, 1968 V I[y #1 FINAL DEPARTURES Charles Odom, 18: A respira­ tory ailment caused the death of Brother Odom on November 4, 1967 in New Or­ leans. He was a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, and a native of Poplarville, Mis­ sissippi. Brother Odom sailed as OS and his last ship was the Steel Maker. He joined the Union in the port of New Orleans. Surviv­ ing are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Odom of Slidell. The burial was held in that town. Tbooias Foster, 43: Brother Foster died on April 25 in the Highland Hospital, Oak­ land, Calif. He was born in Maud, Texas and made his home in Alameda, Calif. Brother Foster sailed in all three departments and joined the Union in the port of San Francisco. His last vessel was the Tucson Victory. He is sur­ vived by his mother, Mrs. Mary Foster, of Tucson, Arizona. Burial was held in Center Ridge Ceme­ tery, Maud, Texas. Ir (• Reidar Relersen, 52: Brother Reiersen died on February 7, at the Walther Me­ morial Hospital in Chicago after suffering a heart attack. He shipped on the Great Lakes and joined the Union in the port of Chicago. A native of Nor­ way, he lived in Chicago. Brother Reiersen was a member of the deck department and was last em­ ployed by the Great Lakes Tow­ ing Company. The burial was held in the Concordia Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. Dezso Gazsi, 61: A heart at­ tack claimed the life of Brother Gazsi, April 5. at Outer E)rive Hos­ pital, Detroit. He was born in Cleveland and resided in Detroit. Brother Gazsi joined the Union in Detroit and sailed on the Great Lakes. He was a member of the deck department and held an AB*s rating. Brother Gazsi was last employed by the Bob-Lo Co. Surviving is his widow, Mary-Jo. The burial was in the Woodmere Cemetery, Detroit. r- Herbert Justice, 49: Brother Justice died on Dec. 15, 1967, of a cardiac ar­ rest, in Veteran's Administra­ tion Hospital, Oteen, North I I Carolina. He was ^ native of Geor­ gia and lived in Ellaville, Ga. Brother Justice sailed as steward and his last ves­ sel was the Rice Victory. He joined Page Eleven SEAFARERS LOG the Union in New York City. From 1946 to 1954, he served in the Navy. Surviving is a sister, Mrs. Annie Belle Greene of Ella­ ville, Ga. The burial was held in Georgia. Mike Chandoba, 71: Brother Chandoha died on Dec. 23, 1967, in the USPHS Hospital, Galves­ ton, Texas. He was a native of Austria and lived in Houston. Brother Chando­ ha sailed as a FWT and joined the Union in the port of New York. He sailed for over twenty years and his last vessel was the Choctaw Victory. Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Ce­ celia Chandoha, of Houston. ^J> Wayne Williams, 20: An auto­ mobile accident claimed the life of Seafarer Wil­ liams on Febru­ ary 26, in North Strabane, Pa. A native of Wheel­ ing, W. Va., he lived in McMechen, W. Va. He sailed as OS and his last ship was the Robin Goodfellow. Brother Williams joined the SIU in the port of New York. He is sur­ vived by his mother, Mrs. Ruth A. Williams, of Moundsville, W. Va. The burial was held in Wheeling. Pedro Reyes, 47: Heart failure claimed the life of Brother Reyes on May 5, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A native of Puerto Rico, he live in Caguas. He sailed for 24 years and joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk. Brother Reyes sailed as AB and bosun. His last ship was the Seatrain New York. Surviving is his widow, Emily. The burial was held in the Municipal Cemetery, Caguas. Recalling the Torpedoes of W.W. II, Seafarer Finds Vietnam Run Quiet George Bums, a member of the SIU since its inception, was recently browsing through an old newspaper clipping from the Tampa (Fla.) Sunday Tribune of May 24, 1942, with Tampa Port Agent Marty Breithoff. The article, "The Unsung Heroes Of Modem War," recalled the wartime activities of a number of Seafarers who shipped from the war. "We turned around and his career as a waiter in July of 1937, when he caught a job on Tampa area. Although there is headed back to Java, staying the Cuba. This was a passenger there four days," George said. some danger on today's Vietnam ship that made trips out of Flor­ run, George said, it's quiet com­ The Oremar then left Java ida ports. When the war broke for Wellington, New Zealand, pared to those days. out, the Government took it over. Brother Bums where they refueled and took on Brother Bums recalled. He took recalled one inci­ supplies. After this came a 7,000- part in SIU organizing drives dur­ dent in the news­ mile journey to the Panama Canal ing his early days in the Union paper well. "I and on to New Orleans. "We got and shipped with a number of was on the old there in February of 1942," men who later became elected Oremar, a Cal- George recalled. George Burns has made four officers in the SIU. mar vessel," he Robert Burns, who also sailed consecutive trips to Vietnam, most said. "We were in the steward department, con­ on an around- recently on the Yaka. "Sailing to tinues to keep his full Union Look Vietnam is nothing like World G. Bums the-world trip, War II," he pointed out "Al­ up, although he has been in the out of New York cattle business for the past few City, and had taken supplies to though there is some danger in years. He currently resides in the allies in Suez where the British Mango, Florida. were fighting General Rommell in Another veteran Seafarer men­ the desert campaign. The ship tioned in the article is Charlie stayed there for three weeks." Simmons, a native of Florida, The Oremar back-loaded from who now lives in New Orleans, different ports on this trip," where he is on an SIU pension. George said. "From Suez, we Brother Simmons recalled that at took a cargo of tin to Penang, the time, his ship was also at­ Malaya, and rubber to Sumatra. tacked by Japanese planes in The Oremar was one of the last Sumatra but there were no casu­ ships out of Sumatra. We found alties. "The next day, we were ourselves in the middle of the port, the ships are not harrassed out of there," he said, "but while bombing in Sumatra, and our ship by enemy submarines and air at­ going through the Suez Canal pulled out just 16 hours ahead of tack, a constant danger during some Italian planes dropped the city's fall. On the way home, World War II." bombs nearby and hit an adjoin­ we were shelled 25 times by a Born in Marshalltown, Iowa, ing ship." Simmons, who last submarine. All torpedoes missed George now resides in Tampa. sailed on the Afoundria, joined except one which tore a hole in The 55-year-old Seafarer began the SIU in 1940 in New York. the side of our ship." Robert Burns, George's brother, and another veteran Seafarer, was also a crewmember on the Oremar. He had injured his back in Batavia, Java, and while he was recuperating, the Japanese started bombing. He barely escaped from his hotel before a John Dodson, bora April 8, Sandra Strong, bom April 17, bomb tore up half the building. 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James "I fell flat and when I got up I H. Strong, Fibre, Michigan. L. Dodson, Groves, Tex. was so shaky I couldn't light a ^ cigarette," he said. Sharon Loper, bora February Susan Elaine C<^, bora July Robert Burns managed to leave 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. 30, 1965, to Seafarer and Mrs. Java on a British passenger freighter. As the vessel pulled Antonio L. Colin, Cumberland, Collie Loper, Mobile, Ala. out, they were fired upon by the Maryland. — Japanese, but avoided being hit. Randy Armstrong, bora No­ George's ship was heading for Gary Fontenot, born April 20, vember 1, 1967, to Seafarer and Hawaii when word reached them 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wiltz Mrs. Larry G. Armstrong, Chesa­ about the Japanese attack on Pearl Fontenot, Kinder, La. peake, Va. Harbor and the outbreak of the Lifeboat Class No. 198 Graduates r• <I> ^ Denlse Lynn Werda, bora July 3, 1967, to Seafarer and Mrs. My­ ron Werda, Alpena, Mich. IVoy Richoux, bora February 11, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Gerald A. Richoux, Harvey, La. 4^ Frances Bonet, bora March 10, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred Bonet, Bronx, N. Y. Diane Bowman, bora March 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ ert Bowman, Orange, Tex. Danyl Marion and Cherry! Ann Finney, born March 13, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Marion L. Fin­ ney, Illmo, Mo. <(> These recent graduates of the Harry Lundeberg School of Seaman­ ship received a lifeboat ticket after passing Coast Guard exams. The 198th graduating class received its endorsement on May 21st. In first row, left to right: Antolin Perez, Lloyd Rexrode, John Mendez. Second row: David Rodgers, Peter Elman, James Fernando, Luis Rodriguez. In the third row are Instructor Paul McGaharn, Marcus Thomas, John Alder, William Bryant, Bobby Dickeron and Philip Dukel. Ann Rodela, born April 7, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Rodela, Laredo, Tex. <|> Kim Akers, bora April 18, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Clif­ ton W. Akers, Hollywood, Fla. d/ Debrah Krause, bora January 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William Krause, New Orleans, La. df Diana Lynn Netfles, bora March 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. David Nettles, Jacksonville, Fla. d> Neil Finnerty, bora Novembw 26, 1966, to Seafarer and Mrs. George Finnerty, Cleveland, Ohio. Mary Conneii, bora February 13, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Charles Connell, Salem, Mass. d/ Mark Saberon, bora March 3. 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ber­ nard Saberon, Union Beach, N.I. ^ Joseph Giffard, born February 12, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. George F. Giffard, Houston, Texas. d^ Woody Midgett, bom April 9, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Clar­ ence Midgett, Kitty Hawk, N. C. �Page IWehre Jane 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG OlSPATC :4 ^Great Lakes vessels had a^ busy period of fitting-out in, preparation for the current season, in Detroit, the Henry^ ^Loliberte and J. F. SchoelP ^kapf both got set for an^ active year. *v.al f^'s time for the 10 a.m. shipping call and the Detroit haH is kept busy as usual. Dispatcher jSeorge Tekgadai issues shipping cards to Seafarer. |f,"After letting go of the linw on dock, a deckhand-iSI boards the J. F. Schoellkopf as vessel prepared to leave Detroit for the American Shipyard in Tgjedo. ••tr • 'Jew .. ' ' '' " Ml It An AB-watchman aboard H. Laliberte hauls in moor­ ing cables as the ship prepares for the first trip of new season. Ambassador Bridge is in background. Henry Laliberte Seafarers completed lifeboat drill with­ out a hitch and begin to board the vessel. Great Lakes Seafarers are looking forward to a fine year's shipping. MJ'V-,-" ^ ii U. S.-flag ships have high safety standards and vessels on the Lakes are no exception. While fitting-out in DeMs? ^ trolt. ^ ^ S Henry Laliberte held lifeboat drill. Chief Steward Kemmy Roberts (right) takes time out to make an inspection of the galley while J. F. Schoellkopf is in Toledo. Brother Roberts reported all looked fine. Seafarers on the Steel Apprentice (Isthmian) had an extra, honorary crew member during their recent voyage, in the person of a "nice tame duckling," Meeting Secretary Paul Lopez reported. The duck was picked up in Thailand and kept in the quarters of the reefer engineer, Gemroso Crispala. Brother Crispda and f "The ship's delegate, D. F. were hospitalized, Meeting Secre­ the cooks took turns feeding the O'Leary gave a brief and simple tary David NMTIS writes. The duck. All the Seafarers aboard en­ report," to the cooks, messmen and Brother joyed his company, Julius Brocala Seafarers on the Carnes, all received a vote of of the steward department re­ Steel Scientist thanks, Cames told us. Things ported. The duck followed the (Isthmian), Meet­ were exciting in Vietnam, with men as they went ing Secretary F. "patrol boats throwing grenades about their duties S. Omega writes. in the water and shooting at and, when the He stated that the everything that moves." The re­ Captain went on repair list has not pair list includes painting for the inspection, the been completed, bathroom and showers. duck would fol­ but all hands Omega low him from "were assured room to room. rooms in need of painting Just about every­ that will be taken care of," Omega Ship's delegate Peter Gonzalez one aboard be­ wote. Meeting Chairman WflLopez told his shipmates on the Del came attached to liam Hairell reported that there Monte (Delta) their web-footed friend. Calling were no beefs but there was some that he wanted the duck "him" was a guess, since "to thank the it was never actually determined disputed overtime in the engine department. The ship's treasury crew for such a whether it was a girl or boy duck. contains $18.25, after deducting fine trip. Thrare At last report, he's still making his mail charges. The vessel is paywere no logs, no home on the Steel Apprentice. ing-off in Houston. 4> Meeting Chairman C. M. Houchins reports from the Madaket (Waterman) that there are no beefs and every­ thing is running smoothly. !%ip's delegate John Games reports that the treasury contains $18. two men from the Games deck department time lost due to accidents. I want to thank the whole steward department for a wonderful job." I really enjoyed being your ship's delegate and "thanks again, for your co-oper­ ation," Gonzalez said. Meeting Ghairman L. Blanchard writes that steward Pat Rsgas would give the men anything they needed. No beefs reported by delegates. There was some dis­ puted overtime in the engine de­ partment. Six More Veteran Seafarers Join Growing Pension Roster The names of six additional Seafarers have been added to the SIU's growing pension roster. Included in this group are three former Delta Lines Stewardesses. The ladies are veterans of the now - discontinued passenger the Del Sud. She sailed for 21 runs to South America. They years. are Clara Bennett, Anne Bliz­ Fannie Maire joined the SIU zard and Fannie Maire. in New Orleans and makes her home in that city. A native of Louisiana, she last shipped on the Del Norte. Richard De Graaf sailed in the engine department. A native of Holland, he now lives in Faterson, N.J. Brother De Graaf last sailed on the Courtland. He joined the SIU in Boston in 1946. Blizzard Maire Also collecting an SIU pension are veteran Seafarers Richard De Graaf, Walter Adlam and Edmond Eriksen. Clara Bennett last sailed on the Del Norte. She is a native of Eriksen Bennett De Graaf Texas and now resides in Metairie, Louisiana. Sister Beimett joined the Union in New Orleans. Anne Blizzard joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans. A native of Louisiana, she lives in New Orleans. Her last ship was ••I '• I ' <lam Walter Adlam sai i as stew­ ard. Walter joined the Union in Baltimore and he makes his home in that city with his wife, Eliza­ beth. Brother Adlam was bom in the British West Indies. He last sailed on the Yaka. Edmond Eriksen joined the SIU in the port of Baltimore. A 20-year man, he sailed as deck engineer. Brother Eriksen was born in New York City and still makes his home there. His last vessel was the De Soto. 'v -i �June 7, 1968 SEAFARERS Fmge TUitecn LOO HAid Cut Best For Latin Pirates I > To the Editon The Senate recently passed a bill, sponsored by Senator Kuchel (R-Calif.), which would require the President to suspend all foreign aid to a Latin American nation illegally seizing American fishing vessels, if that nation does not repay the U.S. Government for the fines it imposes on the vessels. This bill provides, it seems to me, a far wiser plan to stop these outlaw c^tures than do other proposals which would send the U.S. Coast Guard into the fray to use force, "if neces­ sary." Kuchel's plan, instead, puts the pressure where it hurts the most—in the pocketbook. It is also more practical. To send the Coast Guard in could lead to actual battle with an offending ship or even with the foreign country naval forces. The U.S. surely would be un­ wise to enter into any such fracas if there is a better solu­ tion. A cessation of foreien aid to nations picking off U.S.-flag vessels for what can only be called ransom, seems to me to be the best way to bring about the cessation of this brazen modem-day piracy. George Woodworth. Raps Budget Cuts On SOCIO/ Reform 3 To the Editon Today, several months after the report of the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders and when the coun­ try is faced with another sum­ mer of impending violence, it seems unbelievable that orga­ nized labor is about the only segment of American life which is making a concerted effort to remedy the situation. While labor is pushing for more jobs, on-the-job training programs for the unskilled, greater workmen's compensa­ tion benefits, higher safety standards, and more realistic medical and social security pro­ gram, Congress is slashing funds for the vital areas in which they are most needed—funds that could bring the nation's poor up to their rightful position in an expanding economy. Where are the minds and hearts of those in national and state government who insist on relegating basic human rights to secondary consideration? Have they ever been forced to wallow in poverty? Have they ever suf­ fered exclusion from decent jobs because of illiteracy which they had no means of overcom­ ing? Have they ever been squeezed by legislative neglect into filthy, crowded, crumbling slums? I don't believe any of these "thrifty" officials can really say they have or they would not be able to further ignore long ne­ glected human necessity to meet continued demands for budget cuts. The lessons of recent history seem lost on certain of our short-sighted legislators. Will they finally see the light only after further devastation to our society and our cities? The time for action is now, not in the wake of still further damage and loss of human dignity. Sincerely, Jadk Branley ^ Lakes Seamen Need Off'Season Benefits To the Editor: I have read in the LOG about efforts being made to secure unemployment insurance for Great Lakes Seafarers during the winter months. This I hope will come to pass, particularly in the state of Ohio, which has long fought against this legis­ lation. Although a state with a large working population, Ohio has had many Senators and Gover­ nors with anti-labor back­ grounds—Robert Taft and Frank Lausche, to name just two. The denial of unemployment pay to seamen in the winter is an example of this type of antilabor feeling. A Great Lakes seaman needs this insurance in the off-season, because his is a seasonal occupation. People with such seasonal oc­ cupations as house painters, roofers and toy factory workers, etc., can collect unemployment checks in most states. There are many more seasonal occupa­ tions in which the worker is en­ titled to these benefits because it is difficult for him to find work at his own trade the year round. We hope that the Seafarers will be successful in obtain­ ing these benefits for the sea­ men. Sincerely, John Mallery ^ Letter Campaign Carries the Ma/I To the Editor: Every once in a while we read letters in your paper, and elsewhere, asking us to write to our Congressman in support of this or that effort, to fight this and that, etc., etc. I'm pretty certain that some of us, after reading all this, get to the point at which we shrug our shoul­ ders and say "It's just too much to keep up with. I give up." Although I am not the kind of person who seeks out every detail of every problem and sends so much money to this group or writes so many letters to that group—because I do have a lot of other things to keep me busy—I do try to do my part. I don't just "give up," because I realize that our elected representatives can only act on what we, the voters, in­ dicate as our wishes on impor­ tant issues. I would suggest that those people who do find these strug­ gles "just too much" are really hurting themselves if they wash their hands of the whole com­ plex affair on the ground that it will all take care of itself. There is so much to be fought for, so much to be won, and, on the other hand, so much to lose, that they owe it to them­ selves to keep on pulling. Sincerely, lack Halverstead MUS'K and Food are Xoantry'Styk' WithStewardDaiton Barnes Aboard Seafarers aboard a ship on which Daiton Barnes is the steward, can not only look forward to a smooth-running steward department, but to some fine country-style musical entertainment. Brother Barnes has had considerable show business experience, including a stint with the late Hank Wil­ liams, one of the best-known of f Although he has filled in with the country and western singers. rounded by his new-found fans. different bands, played on the When Barnes played with him, he "I just played informally with radio and organized his own band, wasn't writing songs, "but always him and was never regularly em­ said that he "never really Barnes talked about writing them in the ployed," Barnes told the LOG. "I cared for it that much." In addi­ future." met Williams through a musician tion to his stint with Williams, he Plays Four Instnmients friend of mine and played with played with a group called "Big him and two other men. This was Barnes is inclined to be modest Smitty's Band" and went to Co­ in the 1930's and before he went about his own talent, but he can lumbus, Ga., where he played on on to achieve his play four instruments in addition radio station WRBO. When he fame. I played to singing. He has even taken a was in the Army Engineers, he with him at the shot at writing songs, but has was a member of a foin--piece Riverside Inn in "never followed through" on it. band that won first prize in the Far Clearview, Ala­ He plays the guitar, banjo, piano East area. At the time, he was sta­ bama. Later, he and mandolin. Barnes described tioned in Okinawa. went on to Mont­ his musical proclivity as "just a Barnes frequently plays the gomery and then gift, something that comes natural. songs he has written for friends to Nashville to I just picked it up." and fellow Seafarers, but has never make his reputa­ He is a native of Alabama and really tried to get them published. Bames tion as a singer spent his boyhood in the South, "I've made some recordings and song writer." where countiy and western music that I've given to friends, but I Barnes recalled the singer as enjoys its greatest popularity. As never really worked on my song a "jolly man with a wonderful a youth, he met some professional writing," he says. "I'm not a pro." disposition and very likable. He musicians in Georgia, who taught Barnes finds that ffie songs he was tall and liked to wrestle and him how to play. He considers the writes are influenced by his as­ drink. I consider him one of the rhythm guitar his favorite instru­ sociation wiffi Williams. ment, finding it "very easy to all-time greats in his field." Organized Band Barnes saw Williams again some learn." In turn, he has taught some For a while, Barnes did go out years later in Montgomery, but of his shipmates to play. Among didn't have a chance to talk to his favorites are singing stars Jim­ on his own, organizing a band in Alabama, liiey played all over the him, since the singer was sur- my Rodgers and Riley Puckett. state, at dances, church socials, picnics and holidays—^particularly s^the Fourth of July. Brother Barnes said that he "had wanted to go to sea for years," and joined the SIU in Tampa. He has had three service stints, serving in the Army from 1937 to 1939 and then serving in Mike Piskin G. R. Schaitel the Navy during the Second World Your ex-sparring partner, G. War. After the war, he put in a Please contact Edward Thomp­ son at his home at West Sunbury, Ripcord Pulignano, would like hitch with the Army Engineers, you to contact him in regard to prior to joining the HU. The 47Pa., RD #2 16061. an urgent matter. The address is year old seaman lives in Bushnell, 6514 Keystone Street, Philadel­ Florida and joined the Union in Bernard Toner phia, Pa. 19135. 1950. Please contact Bob Ingram or On his last ship, the Cuba ^ Mrs. Ingram, in regard to an im­ Victory, his son, John, sailed in Hans Richardson portant matter. the steward department. John, also The Secretary-Treasurer's office a musician, and Bill Wilson, who at New York headquarters is hold­ sailed as bosun, joined Barnes in John Douglas ing a check for you for your serv­ providing some musical entertain­ Please contact your wife as ices aboard the Elizabeth. ment for the crew. soon as possible in regard to a very important matter. Clarence Scott Contact Antonio Marques Da Kirk Sutton Silva, C/O Italcable, P. O. Box Please get in touch with your 51, St. Vincent, Cape Verde Is­ lands, as soon as possible. mother as soon as possible. ONALS —4/— Albol Weems Please contact your wife in Columbus, Ga., as soon as you possibly can in regard to an im­ portant family matter. i Robert Eismore Your mother, Mrs. Susie Elsmore, would like to hear from you as soon as possible. Please contact her at 6 Upton St., Box 82, Monponsett, Mass. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), Hay 16— Chainnan, Paul Christ; Secretary. T. Ulisse. Brother Banal was elects to serve as new ship's delesate. No beefs and no disputed OT. GATEWAY CITY (Sea-Land), May 12 Chairman, L. A. Williams; Secretary, Jose Velaiuet. No beefs were reported by department delesatee. ErerythinK is running smoothly. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list. (Mnf informoHn) NAME STREET ADDRESS OTY of sru STATE. ZIP. TO AVOID DUFUCATION: If you ai« an eld subeeriber and have a changa of addraoa, plaaaa ghra your fomiar addraM below: DEL RIO (Delta), March 17—Chair­ man, T. C. Deale; Secretary, E. O. Johnson. Ship's deleyate reported that everything is running smoothly. No dis­ puted OT was reported by department delegates. Brother M. D. Smith was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian), May IS—Chairman, Wm. H. Harrell; Secre­ tary, F. S. Omega. $18.26 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. ANDREW JACKSON (Waterman). May 4—Chairman, N. T. Steadman; Sec­ retary, D. W. Owen. $20.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. YAKA (Waterman). May 1»—Chair­ man, W. Velaquia; Secretary. R. W. Elliott. Discussion held on retitement plan. �pi ;; fi rI J . Brothers and SeweO Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) 4> \il I^ CITADEL VICTORY (Waterman), March 17—Chairman, James J. McLinden; Secretary, Edward S. Worth. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. Motion made that the OT rate be Drought up in accordance to minimum wage. Discussion held on jwnsion plan. XJl^EAIR •to I DdSOTifUY 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 lime to time.) a i Jtine 7, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fourteen Stttzd-WeDo' Distfllcries "Old FHaKerald," "CM Hk" "Cabin Sllli,'' W. L. Wefler Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^1. Kingsport Press "World Book," "ChlldcrafI" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) 4, Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) ^1> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas .1. Giumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) Peavy Paper Mill Products (United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safeguarding the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in cWge of these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avaflable In all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This establish^ policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans July 16—2:30 p.m. Mobile ... .July 17—2:30 p.m. Wilmington July 22—2:00 p.m. San Frannsco July 24—2:00 p.m. Seatfle July 26—2:00 p.m. New York . .July 8—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia July ^—2:30 p.m. Baltimore . .July 10—2:30 p.m. Detroit July 12—2:30 p.m. Houston July 15—2:30 p.m. United Industrie Workers New Orieans July 16—7:00 p.m. Mobile July 17—7:00 p.m. New York . .July 17—7:00 p.m. Philaddphla July 9—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. .July 10—7:00 p.m. ^Houston ...July 15—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings -2:00 p.m. July Detroit .. -7:00 p.m. Alpena .. .July -7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. .July Chicago . .July -7:00 p.m. Cleveland -7:00 p.m. .July -7:00 p.m. Duluth .. .July -7:00 p.m. .July Frankfort Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago July 16—7:30 p.m. tSault St Marie July 18—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo July 17—^7:30 p.m. Duluth July 19—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ...July 19—^7:30p.m. Ttdedo July 19—7:30 p.m. Detroit July 15—^7:30 p.m. Milwaukee ..July 15—^7:30p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans July 16—5:00 p.m. MobUe July 17—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia July 9—5:00 p.m. Baltiniore (licensed and un­ licensed) ..July 10—5:00 p.m. Norfolk . .. .July 11—5:00 p.m. Houston ... .July 15—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia July 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimwe July 17—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. •Norfolk July 18—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City July 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News. t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. DlRECTORYti^ UNION IPipi SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cat Tannar Earl Shapard VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiay Wllllami Robart Matthawt SECRETARY-TREASURER A! Karr HEADOUARTERS *75 Ava^ ALPENA, Mich •ALTIMORE, Md 117 Rlvar St. EL 4-3*1* 121* E. lalllmora St. EA 7-4f00 BOSTON, Matt 177 Stata St. BUFFALO, N.y 735 Waihlnatoa St. SIU TL 3-»25» IBU TL 3-f2St Rl 2-0140 CHICA60, III T3B3 Ewtn« Ava. SIU SA i-on3 IBU ES S-K70 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. MA I-S450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jaffanon Ava. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tax JACKSONVILLE, Fla JERSEY CITY, N.J MOBILE, Ala NEW ORLEANS, La NORFOLK, Va MINOT VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), May 4—Chairman, M. W. Murphy; Secre­ tary, W. C. Sink. 021.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother M. W. Murphy was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Dis­ cussion held on having crew's TV re­ paired upon arrival back to States. DEL NORTE (Delta), May 6—Chair­ man, Justin T. Wolff; Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Ship's delegate reported that there were only a few minor beefs that were taken care of, and he thanked everyone for their cooperation. Every­ thing is running smoothly in all depart­ ments. Discussion held on the SIU pen­ sion. 0182.60 in Movie Fund and *82.00 in Ship's Fund. One member of the crew would like the New Orleans hall to contact the Company as to why the crew cannot use the swimming pool as they did in the past, when the ship was not carrying passengers. PENN VANGUARD (Penn Shipping), Map 9—Chairman, Fred Dougherty; Sec­ retary, Robert L. Perras. Some disputed OT was reported by the engine delegate. Ship's delegate reported that five men were logged. It was requested that the Union contact the Company and see if this cannot be straightened out. Motion was made that galley range be repaired or replaced, and an ice machine installed as previously approved by the Union and Company. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. The chief steward was thanked for getting the roach problem under control, and his efforts to maintain a clean ship. JASMINA (Management *k April 28—Chairman, William S. Rud_, Secretary, Peter Sheridan. *88.60 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and steward department. Motion was made to allow any member of the crew, on the Persian Gulf run, to be able to pay off after six months, with transportation home, at the Company's expense. VI 3-4741 P.O. Boi 207 415 Main St. EL 7-2441 SS04 Canal St. WA 1-3207 2*0* Paarl St. EL 3-0tt7 79 Montgomary St. HE 5-7424 I South Lawranca St. HE 2-1754 *30 Jackmn Ava. Tal. 527-754* 115 3rd St. AMES VICTORY (Victory Carriers), March 14—Chairman, John J. Giordano; Secretary, Jack Long. It was requested that an ice maker be placed on board when ship is on Vietnam run. Crew also requested a TV set. Tal. *22-1072 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2*04 S. 4th St. DE *-3IIB PORT ARTHUR. Tax 1340 Savanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraamont St. DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Farnandax Juncoi Stop 20 Tal. 724-2*40 SEAHLE, Wath 2505 Flrit Avanua MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo OOS Dal Mar CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harriion St. Tal. 227-2700 WILMINGTON, Calif. .. 505 N. Marina Ava. 034-2520 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Iiaya BIdg., Room BOI 1-2 Kalganlori-Nakaku 2014771 Ext. 201 PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an i^cial receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive yon of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotUted with the employers. Conse; quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To thieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was esteblish^. Donations to SPAD are entirely volunUry and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the betefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feeU that any of the above rights have been vioUt^, or that he has been denied his constitntional right of scccas to Union records or in­ formation, he should immediately notify SIU .>l>resident Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), May 5—Chairman, Nicholas R. Tater; Secretary, H. Darrow. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Some disputed OT in deck department. Brother D. Harrison was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Discussion held re­ garding repairs. PUERTO RICO (Motorships), May 17 —Chairman, A. Russo; Secretary, A. Aragones. Motion was made that the ex­ isting retirement plan be changed to lower the number of years sea time re­ quired for men with 20 years member­ ship in the Union to qualify for retire­ ment. CITIES SERVICE BALTIMORE (Cit­ ies Service), May 12—Chairman, J. W. Parker; S^retary, "Dutch" Schutz. *20.00 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Ship's delegate reported that the Captain will pay all due transportation before arrival. BURBANK VICTORY (A. L. Burbank), May 14—Chairman, Juan Rios; Secretary, Alfred Hirsch. No beefs were reported by department delegates. MT. VERNON VICTORY (Victory Carriers), May 14—Chairman, Bemie Hilton; Secretary, Alexander D. Brodle. Ship's delegate reported that there were no beefs and the ship is running smooth­ ly. Vote of thanks was extended to the chief steward and his entire department for the good food and service, and to the bosun, Brother Harvey Trawlck for keeping a clean ship. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Metals), May 6—Chairman, B. M. Moye; Secre­ tary, L. J. Beale. Ship's delegate reported that two men had missed ship. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's dele­ gate, Brother Hughes P. Towns. Brother Pete Scroggins was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to the stewerd department, deck department and the bosun for a Job well done. DEL RIO (Delte), May 12—Chairman, W. O. Boiling; Secretary, E. O. Johnson. Ship's delegate reported that there were no beefs and everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks was extended to the entire steward department for a job well done. ' 11 a>.- �I •I. 'i \r y 'i . \i . "We are just at the threshold of our knowledge of the oceans," observed President John F. Kennedy in 1961; "Already their military importance, their po­ tential use for weather predictions, for food, and for minerals are evident. Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it." This statement is equally true today, seven years later. A world starves, yet the seas hold enough food for untold billions of people. Industries thirst for petroleum, yet the seas cover a vast underground supply of this vital fluid. Technology cries out for strategic materials such as cobalt, platinum, gold, manganese and copper—yet mineral deposits stretch far across the ocean floor. Governments strive to build effective military defense and attack systems, yet the uncharted sea depths offer a base of oper­ ations that may revolutionize warfare. The 71 percent of this planet which lies under water may hold the secret of mankind's destiny. Right now, approximately half of Earth's people are underfed, undernourished, or starving, while the huge food supplies in the oceans remain largely un­ tapped. If existing and developing oceanographic methods were to be put to use, the oceans could produce enough high-protein low-cost Fish Protein Concentrate, algae-flour and zooplankton-flour to feed the world's burgeoning billions for years to come, and make land-based agriculture nearly ob­ solete. But without a strong effort to make use of the oceans' foods, the population may dangerously outpace food production, and a crisis may soon be confronting the human race. Resources Affect Diplomacy Petroleum and gas are both vital to today's grow­ ing technologies and industries. Because these items are found in only a few countries, the need for friendly relations with those countries has a definite effect on the balance of power between nations. This ticklish situation could swiftly be eased if countries would utilize their technology and begin mining these resources from the floor of the seas adjacent to their coasts. According to the 1968 Defense Industry Bulletin, perhaps 40 percent of the world's petroleum lies submerged in these areas. The United States' industrial progress relies on 77 strategic materials, 65 of which must be imported from other countries. Yet the floors of the oceans are strewn with at least 50 of these elements. All that is needed is a boosted technological effort to mine them. In addition, nearly any scientific, technological or industrial developments concerning the watercovered 71 percent of this planet will have a profound effect on national military systems and, ultimately, the fate of Earth. Today's land-based missile sys­ tems, and conventional air and ground warfare, may soon be far surpa^wed in efficiency by submerged attack and defense systems able to remain undetected until they wreak their devastation. In the oceans lies the destiny of the world. Accordingly, the United Nations and most of its member nations and related agencies have begun to grapple with the question of how to put the oceans, their contents, and their floors to use for the benefit of mankind, rather than to its detriment. At issue is the advisability of putting the oceans and all that lies within and beneath them under international regulation. 1300 B.C.—1968: The Laws Grow Up Throughout recorded history, the seas were an important means of trade, communications, and limited coastal fishing, and regulations concerning their use stretch back as far as 1300 B.C., when standard trade and navigation practices were codified. As countries developed greater war-making abilities, the seas served as strategic battlefields, and really came into the foreground as such in the GrecoPersian War of 480 B.C. In time, states asserted sovereignty over waters adjacent to their coasts, and extending out three miles, in order to protect then- shores. These areas became known as "territorial seas." Oddly, though the three-mile limit was first decided upon because that was the greatest distance a nation's cannons could shoot in order to protect it from attack by sea, the same three-mile limit is still generally adhered to in today's age of missile-carrying nuclear submarines and ICBM's in which shore can­ nons are about as effective as pop-guns. However, there are exceptions—even under today's comprehensive set of internationally-accepted laws for the world's waters—in which some nations have been able to claim sovereignty over waters extending as much as 200 miles from their coasts. With World War II, the potential of the oceans and seas and all that lay within and beneath them were further realized and, accordingly. President Tru­ man took the initiative on September 28, 1945, and proclaimed that henceforth the United States would have "jurisdiction and control" over the resources of the sea-bed and subsoil of its continental shelf. (The continental shelf is a shallow, gradually slop­ ing submarine plain that borders a continent and typically ends in a steep incline. The width of the shelf varies greatly, so that while it measures only one mile from California's coast, it reaches as far as 750 miles from the shores of Northern Europe and Siberia.) This act, known as the Truman Proclamation, not only claimed for the United States the right to "make possible the orderly development of the underwater area 750,000 square miles in extent," but it also set the precedent that led to major devel­ opments in international laws for the world's waters. Most importantly, it spurred the United Nations' International Law Commission (ILC) to begin work on codifying and recommending laws for the seas. In concluding its vast exploration through this legal jungle in 1956, the ILC proposed that the U.N. hold an international conference to resolve the issues to the satisfaction of U.N. members. Following this sug­ gestion, the U.N., its specialized agencies, and all of its 86 member-countries met in Geneva in early 1958. They emerged with four comprehensive laws govern­ ing the use of the seas and all that lay within and beneath them. These are known as the Conven­ tions on (a) the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, (b) the High Seas, (c) Fishing and Conserva­ tion of the Living Resources of the High Seas, and (d) the Continental Shelf. Claims Widespread The necessity for such laws had been underscored by the fact that 20 nations had, by 1958, already followed Truman's example and claimed sole rights over their own continental shelves. The four Conventions were by no means the last word on the subject. Only a limited number of na­ tions ratified them, and when they did, it was as late as from 1962 to 1966 that the Conventions went into effect. Even then, the regulations applied only to the signatories. Though most of the nations that did not sign the Conventions chose to model their own sea-laws after them, this apparently was not enough. The unrelent­ ing advance of ocean technologies, coupled with the lure of wealth and power held by the seas, is now creating a new push for a more comprehensive sys­ tem of ocean laws. It has been proposed that a single body, such as the U.N., be the "government" in this area. This has met opposition in several quarters, on the grounds that international regulation might severely restrict pos­ sible national gains from ocean use. Suggestions that individual nations move quickly on their own to regulate ocean exploitation has also met opposition, based on the fear that this would slow down ocean development before we know what is really down there. And yet the world is being increasin^y con­ fronted with the spectre of massive hunger, the need for underwater resources, and the danger of un­ predictable underwater military systems. This is where we stand today. As more and more nations resort to off-shore oil drilling, such as this triple-producing oil well operation off Leeville, La., the need for sea laws, covering international waters, comes into play to settle legal disputes. > Bl ^ • 1 �Vol. XXX No. 12 SEAFARERSmOG Juno 7, 196S OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION » ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT » AFL-CIO APPLY FOR ENGINEER LICENSE TRAINING SEAFARERS sailing in the en^ne department are urged to take QUALIFIED a big step toward a better future by enrolling now in the School of Marine Engineering, operated jointly by the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) District 2, in Brooklyn, New York. More than 250 Sea­ farers have advanced themselves by taking advantage of the specialized training that the school offers. WHILE AT SCHOOL The period of instruction at the school ranges from 30 to 90 days, depending on your progress. During this entire period you will receive meals and accom­ modations free of charge, plus weekly subsistence payments of $110. The training provided costs you nothing. All pension benefits accumulated in the SIU pension plan by Seafarers who enroll in the school are completely protected and their SIU pension will be sup­ plemented in approximately the same amount by the MEBA District 2 pension plan while they sail as engineers. Also, a reciprocal agreement between the SIU and MEBA District 2 provides that men who sail continually on District 2-contracted ships, after obtaining their licenses, need not pay MEBA's $1,000 initia­ tion fee and do not have to drop their SIU membership. While at the school, welfare benefits are completely covered. HOW TO QUALIFY In order to qualify, a Seafarer must be a United States citizen of at least 19 years of age, and must have fulfilled the required seatime for the rating sought. To qualify for an Original Third Assistant Engineer's License, applicants must have 36 months discharges in the engine department, consisting of: • At least 18 months of watchstanding time as Oiler, Fireman, or Watertender; • One year as QMED consisting of the ratings of Deck Engineer, Chief Elec­ trician, Reefer Engineer, Chief Pumpman, Machinist, or Junior Engineer; 9 Six months as a Wiper. Applicants for a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License must possess 18 months discharges in the capacity of Fireman, Oiler, Watertender, Junior Engi­ neer, Deck En^e Mechanic, or Engine Man. There are several important points that a Seafarer aiming for an Engineer's License should know: • Applicants giving evidence of service as Chief Electrician or Refrigeration Engineer will be given consideration when specifically recommended for a license by the Chief Engineer of a vessel on which such service has been performed and by the Port Engineer of a company on whose vessel the applicant has served in such capacity. ® A license as "Temporary Third Assistant Engineer" authorizes the holder to serve in the capacity of "Third Assistant Engineer," subject to any limitations that may appear on the license, with the same authority of a regular license issued without the term "temporary." © The holder of a "Temporary Third Assistant Engineers" license must com­ plete such additional service to meet the required 36 months to make him eligible for a regular license as Third Assistant Engineer. There is no examination re­ quired, but he must submit a regular engineer's application, with evidence of additional service, to the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, who will issue the license. In each case, it is vital that discharges be submitted to the school for verifi­ cation of seatime, along with the completed application. Men who are short of the required watchstanding time can prepare now to par­ ticipate in this program. Qualified Seafarers can begin by accumulating the neces­ sary engine department watchstanding time. Meanwhile, ffiey can obtain training manuals and other materials for advanced study. OF SEAMANSHIP APPUCATIOM KMt TRAININO KM INOINI MRARTMINT UCMH u .ZNumbafh •i ^ te No.Y0(r*S«allm«!. - YMn In Engin* Dtpt- K r- -vv ii'' 1 <: Watch Standing Tim*. lUtlnjR -Tim* at Day WOTIMO Exoapt Wipar The following Seafarers have been accepted at the SIU-MEBA District 2 School of Marine Engineering, and are urged to start their course of study at their earlist convenience: John Burdiinal Joseph Bro(rf( WflUam Cacbola James Cttne Annond Dunne Jolm Francis Kenneth Gibbs Leneard Higgans Billie Jenkins Donald Leight Frank Rmnan James Rankin James Roberson Suska Vladik Thomas Toledkt Richard Utiey Alberto Velez Walker Ward Martin Payne Joseph Bereczky Edward Fntch Ross Hardy Rudolph Poletti Sam Black Wilson Frampton Frank Foster George McAlpine Those members whose names are listed above, or who have received notice of acceptance since the LOG went to press, should get in touch with the school as promptly as possible so that schedules can be arranged. The following Seafarers have begun the application process, but still need to complete their applications by submitting discharges, getting their SIU physical, etc., before they can be accepted: Willis Addison Joe Atchison Carmelo Bonafont Raymond Bowman William Connors Antonio Cruz Ezekiel Daniels Hector Duarte Melvin Eickmeir Stanley Gondzar Julio Gordian Vernon Keene John Lasky Bevilon Locke Lucas Lopez Joseph McLaren J<dm Morrismi Nicolas Papageorgiou Spiridon Perd&is Harold Powers Irvin Price Walter Pritchett James Quinn Terril Raseley Andrew Ravettini James Roberts Yaswant Somani Frank Travis George Warren Herbert Rolen Charies Cameron Leon Causey Jo Crumpler Richard Dowell Howard Eidschun George Farris George Johnson . Herbert Lawrence Joseph Manud Earnest Phillips Robert Martinez James Schneider Harry Watts Jose Trevino Grady Williamson Robert Lee Those SIU brothers whose names appear on the above list we urged to make every effort to submit the necessary data to complete their applications. For further information, contact: The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232; or call (212) 499-6565. If you already qualify for the training program, clip the application blank from this page and send it in now so that you can begin your training as soon as possible. �*; SEAFARERSAI^ ' "3i k.'A OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO r Vol. XXX No. yt t7 Upgrade Now • gj •••I To ' V.A 'A Licensed Engineer ,4?I i* V; u- A LL QUALIFIED SEAFARERS sailing in the engine depart­ ment are urged to take a big step toward a better future by enrolling now in the School of Marine Engineering, operated jointly by the SIU and the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association (MEBA) District 2, in Brooklyn, New York. More than 250 Seafarers have advanced themselves by taking advantage of the specialized training that the school offers. The instruction period at the school ranges from 30 to 90 days, depending on your progress. During this entire period you-will receive meals and accommodations free of charge, plus weekly subsistence payments of $110. The training provided by the school will cost you nothing. All pension benefits accumulated in the SIU pension plan by Seafarers who enroll in the school are completely protected and their SIU pension will be supplemented in approximately the same amount by the MEBA District 2 pension plan while they sail as engineers. A reciprocal agreement between the SIU and MEBA District 2 also provides that men who sail continually on District 2contracted ships, after obtaining their licenses, need not pay MEBA's $1,000 initiation fee and do not have to drop their SIU membership. Welfare benefits are completely covered while attending the school. HOW TO QUALIFY T» qualify for the school a Seafarer must be a U.S. citizen, at least 19 years of age, and must have fulfilled the required seatime for the rating sought. Applicants for an Original Third Assistant Engineer's License must have 36 months discharges in the engine department, con­ sisting of: • At least 18 months of watchstanding time as Oiler, Fireman, or Watertender; • One year as QMED consisting of the ratings of Deck En­ gineer, Chief Electrician, Reefer Engineer, Chief Pumpman, Machinist, or Junior Engineer; • Six months as a Wiper. To apply for a Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's License Seafarers must possess 18 months of discharges in the capacity of Fireman, Oiler, Watertender, Junior Engineer, Deck Engine Mechanic, or Engine Man. Several important points that a Seafarer aiming for an .Engi­ neer's License should know are: • Applicants giving evidence of service as Chief Electrician or Refrigeration Engineer will be given consideration when spe­ cifically recommended for a license by the Chief Engineer of a vessel on which such service has been performed and by the Port Engineer of a company on whose vessel the applicant has served in such capacity. • A license as "Temporary Third Assistant Engineer" author­ izes the holder'to serve in the capacity of "Third Assistant Engi­ neer," subject to any limitations that may appear on the license, with the same authority of a regular license issued without the term "temporary." • The holder of a "Temporary Third Assistant Engineer's" license must complete such additional service to meet the required 36 months to make him eligible for a regular license as Third Assistant Engineer. No examination is required, but he must submit a regular engineer's application, with evidence of additional service, to the Officer in Charge, Marine Inspection, who will issue the license. It is vital in each case that discharges be submitted to the school for verification of seatime, along with the completed application. Seafarers who are short of the required watchstanding time can prepare now to participate in this program. Qualified men can begin by accumulating the necessary engine department watch­ standing time. In the meantime they can obtain training manuals and other materials for advanced study. The Seafarers listed below have been accepted for training at the SlU-MEBA District 2 School of Marine Engineering: Rudolph Toletti Joseph Bereczky John Francis Sam Black Edward Futch James Rankin Joseph Bi>ook James Roherson Kenneth Gihhs Ross Hardy Frank Roman John Burchinal Leneard Higgans Thomas Toledo William Cachola Richard Utley Billie Jenkins James Cline Donald Leight Alberto Velez Armond Dunne Gem^e McAlpine Frank Foster Snska Vladik Martin Payne Wilson Frampton Walker Ward Those members named above, or any who have received notice of acceptance since the LOG went to press, are urged to get in touch with the school as promptly as possible so that schedules can be arranged. For further information, contact: The Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232; or call (212) 499-6565. If you already qualify for the training program, clip (he appli­ cation blank from this page and send it in now so that you can begin your training as soon as possible. •UI n : 'ii - !S1 • • I'J • w >, f I % ' • -"^1 i ' •> i .> f OF MAMANSHIP ' u* APWCAnoN pot numma pot momi MPAtnuNr ucmw ' KM ioekPfo MvJMntdHUi. WMchStrndtagTinw. I i # .ZNumbwh. .No.YMn8MHmM .YMntnEnstrwDapt. -Tinw MDay WMlNr«bmpt W|p4 � 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 June 7, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: RUSSIAN VESSEL HONORED BY SIU FOR SEARCH AND RECOVERY EFFORTS SEAFARER DIES IN VIETNAM; ARMY AWARDS SILVER STAR HALL CALLS FOR EQUITABLE PROGRAM – RAPS BOYD MARITIME POLICIES SIU-SOA PHARMACIST MATE SCHOOL GRADUATES 28 STUDY REVEALS R-T-W LAWS STALL UNION GROWTH IN SOUTH BOYD PLAN FOR FOREIGN SHIPBUILDING ROAD TO DISASTER RECALLING THE TORPEDOES OF WWII WHO OWNS DAVY JONES’ LOCKER 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 06/07/1968 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. XXX, No. 12 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log