http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/8ba3dd4d98acae09b680a21949da82f9.PDF e7104a21d0032e5be206e1813d2131a2 PDF Text Text Vol. XXX No. 22 h SEAFARERSmOG October 25, 1968 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO jr An Editorial As we head for Election Day, November 5, our nation is facing one of the most crucial decisions in its history. The man who becomes our next Presi­ dent will have to deal with domestic and foreign problems of unprecedented magnitude. Hubert Humphrey has the superior skills to deal with them. He has already shown his mettle in decades of service as a member of Congress and as vice-presi­ dent. Humphrey was an original sponsor of Medi­ care and the skillful parliamentary manager for the social reform legislation enacted during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. He was the author of the Peace Corps and Food for Peace. He fully understands the desperately urgent needs of the nation's cities for better housing, quality educa­ tion, improved hospitals and mass transit facilities. He has already proven his concern for the problems of air and water pollution. Certainly, no man but Humphrey has shown more capacity for leadership in foreign affairs. Peace is no empty word for him—he has been fearless in spelling out a real program to achieve it. A leader in trying to slow the spiralling nuclear race, he was the author of the bill establishing an Independent Arms Control and Disarmament Agency in 1961, and is even now working actively for the ratifica­ tion of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This is a record which no other man comes within miles of matching. Humphrey has led the fight for elimination of the open-shop provisions of Taft-Hartley through re­ peal of Section 14(b). He has thrown his unreserved weight behind collective bargaining for farm work­ ers and working people everywhere. He speaks out for labor. It is up to the American worker to dispel the smokescreen of fear and distrust thrown up by can­ didates who wave the American flag but secretly hold many of their fellow Americans in contempt. We must build a better America. We must look forward, not backward. The keynote is not repres­ sion, but progress—not fear, but confidence in our country. That confidence must come from posi­ tive programs expressed honestly and fought for with the passion of conviction. There is one man, and only one man who fits this need. That man is Hubert H. Humphrey. �Page Two October 25. 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Secretary-Treasurer's Report on SlU Voting Procedures i (In connection with the election of officials which starts November 1st, the following is the SecretaryTreasurer's Report dealing with that subject which was submitted to and approved by the membership at the membership meetings held in October of 1968.) MAILING TO THE MEMBERSHIP Under the terms of the Landrum-Griflin Act a mail­ ing to the membership is required by law, giving the membership notice of an election to be held. At the present time, the office of the Secretary-Treasurer is in the process of preparing this mailing, and such mailing will be completed prior to the deadline re­ quired by law, which will be on or prior to October 15, 1968. ^ MEMBERSHIP LIST FOR ELECTION In compliance with the law, your Secretary-Treas­ urer has had prepared a membership list of the Union. However, as you know, not being able to define at any particular moment exactly who will or will not be eligible to vote in our General Election is a somewhat difficult question to answer. The membership is fully aware that our Constitu­ tion, specifically Article III, Section 3, ParagrapTi (a) through Paragraph (e) provides reasons for a member being late in paying his dues. As a result of these reasons, the Secretary-Treasurer, in having this mem­ bership list compiled, has had listed therein the name and address of any member who had paid dues to the organization at any time during the year 1967 even though it may only have been for one quarter. It is also possible that some names not now on this list should appear on this list at a later date. An example of this being a ship that sailed prior to the first of the year and has been out on a long voyage from which it will return in the near future; then the crew thereof, although not having any dues payments in 1967, would then be entitled to be placed on this membership list upon the payment of all dues and assessments. Many members have stated that they objected to having their addresses given out, and insisted that the Union adhere to its long-term policy in withholding this information. As your Secretary-Treasurer, after having checked with counsel, it is my duty to advise you that the Union has no other alternative but to comply with the request of any bona fide candidate to inspect this list, but at the same time, it is also my duty to advise you that under the law the Union is not obligated to permit any candidate to copy the list or any part thereof. The law does, however, give a bona hde candidate the right to inspect, at the Union's principal office (New York Headquarters) this list containing the names and last known ad­ dresses of the membership, once within thirty days prior to the election. ELECTION SUPPLEMENTS, ELECTIONEERING, ETC. The policy of the Union has been and is, equal electioneering limits and facilities for all candidates. As usual, the Seafarers LOG will contain an election supplement, which includes the biographical sketches of each candidate and his photo, together with a sam­ ple ballot with voting instructions. The usual dis­ tribution pattern will be followed. That is, it is sent to all contracted vessels, is made available in substan­ tial quantities, in all Union Halls, and is otherwise distributed. Candidates and members will, therefore, have available to thenl those materials for electioneer­ ing, or any other purpose. In addition to that, the Secretary-Treasurer recommends the printing of this election supplement in enough copies so that there will be available to each candidate, at his request, 100 copies thereof, to be used for such purposes as the candidate may choose. It is felt that 100 copies for each candidate is reasonable. There must obvi­ ously be some limit to the Union's expenditures in this regard. To insure equal treatment for each can­ didate, copies of this special material shall be made available in each Union Hall. The Port Agent shall deliver the amount requested (up to 100) to each candidate, obtain a receipt therefor, keep a record of the same, and notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr immediately. It will be the Secretary-Treasurer's duty to keep a central tally, and to replenish stocks of this material when, as and if needed. To insure good order and to further preserve the secrecy of the ballot, electioneering must not take place within 25 feet of the polling place. In any event, the Union continues to insist on good order and decorum, which must be preserved. Any member whose ballot has been solicited within the prohibited area is required to make this fact known to the Polls Committee, which shall record the complaint in its report, as well as its findings and recommendations thereon. In addition, the member is required to notify the Secretary-Treasurer, A1 Kerr, at Headquarters, within 24 hours of the occurrence, by registered mail, return receipt requested, of the facts, which notifica­ tion must be signed by the complainant, together with his book number. In that connection, the Secretary-Treasurer recom­ mends that the membership also adopt the rule that, in case any member has a complaint that any of the election and balloting procedures of this Union have been violated, the same procedure as above set forth shall be followed. While the members have already been notified, through the LOG, as to notifications to the President in case of a claimed violation of any rights, it is recommended that the rule set forth herein be adopted with reference to the balloting and elec­ tion procedures in this election, since the SecretaryTreasurer, under the Constitution, is charged with specific administrative duties in connection with elec­ tions and referendums. The member's duty to report violations in this manner should be emphasized. If situations exist which call for corrective action, that action ought to be taken. It can't be taken if the responsible parties under the Constitution 'are not made aware of the facts. Obviously, nothing in these recommendations is to be deemed to deprive any candidate or member of his constitutional right to observe the conduct of the election, the tallying of ballots, and so on, provided he maintains proper decorum. In accordance with established policy, the Union, its officers, the LOG, and, indeed, the entire member­ ship, should continue to encourage the utmost interest in the election. The Secretary-Treasurer urges the largest possible vote, and encourages the use of proper electioneering to further stimulate interest in the exer­ cise of this important right. ' ''1 m ' '1 •i 4, •J Total Now Stands at 285 SllTs Upgrading Program Predates Six Additional Liionsed Engineers Six additional Seafarers have graduated from the school of marine engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. Five of the men are new third assistant engineers, while one received his second assistant engineer's license. The men passed examinations conducted by the Coast Guard, following completion of their ^ Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he now course of instruction at the lives in St. Petersburg. The 40school. This brings to 285^ the year-old seaman joined the SIU number of Seafarers who have in the Port of New York in 1968. graduated from the school. Engine department Seafarers A new third assistant engineer, are eligible to apply for any of the Clarence George formerly sailed upgrading programs if they are at as FOWT. A native of Mobile, he least 19 years of age and have 18 still makes his home in that city months of Q.M.E.D. watchstandand joined the Union there in ing time in the engine department, 1964. Brother George is 27 years Spade Moody plus six months experience as old. wiper or the equivalent. Port of New York. He makes his A second assistant, B. J. Power sailed as FOWT. A native of Buf­ home in Newport News, Va. Those who qualify and wish to falo, N.Y., he continues to live in A new third assistant engineer, enroll in the School of Marine that city. The 4()-year-old Seafarer Robert Moody had sailed as a joined the SIU in 1953 in New FOWT before attending the York. school. He is 31 years old and a native of Norfolk where he con­ tinues to make his home. Brother Moody joined the SIU in Norfolk in 1964. He is a four year veteran of the Air Force. Howard Eidschun formerly sailed as FOWT. A new third as­ sistant engineer, he was bom in Harrington Eidschun New Jersey and now resides in St. Petersburg, Fla. A Seafarer Engineering can obtain additional since March of this year, he joined information and apply for the George PowM the SIU in Tampa. Brother Eid­ course at any SIU hall, or they Formerly sailing as chief elec­ schun is a Navy veteran and is can write directly to SIU head­ trician, Vincent Spade has received 29 years old. quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue in a third assistant's license. The 38Prior to receiving his third as­ Brooklyn, New York 11232. The year-old native of New Ywk City sistant's license, Irvin Harrington telephone number is 212-Hyacinth joined the Union in 1968 in the held a FOWTs rating. Bom in 9-6600. A Memo from the Kremlin: Xapltalist' Shipping Beware NEW YORK—An official Soviet boast that their maritime ef­ forts are constraining "the expansion of certain capitalist states in world shippihg" has been revealed in a U.S.S.R. publication, excerpts of which were published in the September issue of a U.S. publication, the Marine Engineering Log. Outlined in detail are the intentions of the Russians in merchant shipping. "The marine policy of the U.S.S.R. proceeds from the tasks of making the merchant fleet contribute extensively to the economic competition between the socialist and capitalist countries (and) to the satisfaction of the country's needs in domestic and external carriages by means of its own fleet," the Soviet magazine states. "Such a policy creates favorable conditions for the development of the Soviet merchant marine, constrains the expansion of certain capitalist states in world shipping, and 'finally' renders complete assistance to the developing countries in the advancement of their economies and foreign trade." Seaborne trade has almost tripled between the U.S.S.R. and the major capitalist countries during the past 5 years. The report mentions the life-line to Cuba, which involves the full-time use of some 300 ships. Soviet-flag ships called at 430 European ports 8,400 times in 1965 and at 60 African ports 1100 times the same year. "The volume of cargo carried by the Soviet merchant marine for f(H-eign charterers has increased 180 percent in the past seven years," the Russian report states, continuing, "A major result of the development of the Soviet merchant fleet was that Soviet for­ eign trade has become independent of the world charter market. Today the Soviet merchant marine can maintain shipping rela­ tions with any country in the world and effect all carriages in its own bottoms." Commenting on the article, the Marine Engineering Log sums up; "So you can conclude from the report that the Soviet merchant marine is going to be an ever more powerful tool in the growing assault upon the bastions of capitalism. And it is a disaster that the only answer the United States government has to this are a few platitudes about the Soviet fleet never amounting to more than a small fraction of the total world fleet, and therefore is only a bogeyman created by special interests to get some kind of ship­ building program in the United States begun. The latter thinking is wrong. It is a fast and cynical appraisal of a very dangerous situation, a turning of one's head to the wall." 'i �OctiJier 25, 1968 SlU Hits Agriculture Dept. i'f For Laxity on Cargo Law •f'. ' t-'' If--.! \ IV* s r P. \ WASHINGTON—^The SIU has charged the Agriculture De­ partment with "ignoring" a Congressional mandate that a mini­ mum of 50 percent of all food-for-peace cargoes be carried on American-flag ships. In telegrams to members of the Senate Commerce Committee and the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, SIU President Paul Hall said that American-flag tramp ships carried only 26 percent of these cargoes in 1966, and only 24 percent in 1967. Hall said that the decline in American carriage of these car­ goes was due in part to Agriculture Department "laxity" in en­ forcing the 50-50 requirements, and in part to "the activities of brokers for foreign trade missions who are systematically denying this cargo to U.S.-flag vessels." TTie SIU president said that while the increasing use of foreignflag vessels could be "partially explained" in the past because U.S. vessels were heavily commited to the Vietnam sealift, "it becomes totally intolerable now with so many U.S. tramp vessels idled and facing lay-up unless they receive cargoes." In the telegram to key House and Senate members, Hall said that "American vessels which responded to the nation's urgent need in the Vietnam crisis are now being ignored once the de­ mand for military sealift capability has eased." He also sent telegrams to Acting Maritime Administrator James Gulick and to Joseph Ryan, director of the Agriculture De­ partment's Ocean Transportation Division urging "immediate and vigorous action" to assure that all food-ior-peace cargoes "sched­ uled to move now and in coming months ... be awarded only to American-flag vessels so long as they are available." V Jv New Transport Union Group Formally Adopts Constitution L/ r i"., 'f. 1-1/ I - fv". 'p l'.- f)- [i: \ •-? .x / WASHINGTON—^The Conference of Transportation Trades, an organization composed of more than 55 AFL-CIO-aflBliated unions involved in all phases of transport, met here on October 15 to . approve a constitution and se­ dustrial Union of Marine and lect Section Chairmen and Vice Shipbuilding Workers of America. Chairmen for each of the six Other selections were: sections that make up the organi­ • General (Inter-modal) Sec­ zation. tion; Jerry Wurf, American Fed­ SIU President Paul Hall was eration of State, County and named Chairman of the Marine Municipal Workers, Chairman; Section. Hunter Wharton, International Conference Chairman C. L. Union of Operating Engineers, (Les) Dennis, president of the Vice Chairman. Railway and Airline Clerks Un­ • Air Section; Frank Heisler, ion, told the assembled members that the purpose of the CTT was; International Association of Ma­ First, to serve as a clearing chinists and Aerospace Workers, house of ideas and as a forum for Chairman; James F. Horst, Trans­ the exchange of views between port Workers Union of America, those unions sharing the common Vice Chairman. bond of relationship, direct and • Highway and Transit Sec­ indirect, to the transportation in­ tion; John Elliott, Amalgamated dustry. Transit Union, Chairman; Mau­ Secondly, to develop programs rice Sullivan, International Asso­ to deal with the issues and prob­ ciation of Machinists and Aero­ lems which effect any and all space Workers, Vice Chairman. segments of this industry. • Non-Operating Rail Section; Finally, to affiliate national and A. R. Lowry, Transportationinternational unions with the Communication Employees Un­ Conference to strengthen the ion, Chairman; Harold Crotty, inter-union ties between all trans­ Brotherhood of Maintenance of portation labor as a means of pro­ Way Employees, Vice Chairman. moting the best interests of the • Operating Rail Section; affiliates of this Conference; Charles Luna, Chairman and AI recognizing the need for joint ac­ Chesser, Vice Chairman. Both tion against the anti-labor attacks of common enemies and the value represent the Brotherhood of Rail­ of creating an effective relation­ road Trainmen. At the CTT's original organiza­ ship for the development of the transportation industry with which tional meeting last May, SIU Pres­ the participating unions are asso­ ident Hall welcome its forma­ tion, declaring: "We in the mari­ ciated. Hightlights of the proposed time trades have had a difficult constitution that will govern the time for several years. The sup­ actions of the organization were port of CTT will help each of us read by i^s Secretary-Treasurer O. protect the interests of our mem­ William Mpody, Jr., of the AFL- bership. The ICC also affects CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ shipping and the ICC is manage­ ment. After due discussion and ment oriented. It serves manage­ deliberation, the constitution was ment primarily and not the unionos. Only the encouragement of formally adopted. Chosen as Hall's vice-chairman the ICC has made many of the in the Marine Section, was An­ recent transportation mergers pos­ drew Pettis, President of the In­ sible." SEAFARERS LOG Page Tlifve Senate Approves Separate MARAD; Bill Awaiting White House Artion WASHINGTON—A bill to reconstitute the Maritipie Administration as a completely independent federal agency cleared its last legislative hurdle this month, as the Senate approved the House-passed measure by a voice vote. The independent agency bill ment—the Department of Trans­ dormant in the Senate until this —which had been strongly ad­ portation. Although the AFL- summer, when it became clear vocated by the SIU, the AFL- CIO supported the concept of a that no progressive maritime pro­ CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ new Department for domestic gram would be forthcoming from ment, and the overwhelming ma­ modes of transportation, it flatly Transportation Secretary Alan jority of maritime management— opposed inclusion of maritime be­ Boyd, chief architect of the Ad­ was sent to the White House in cause of the industry's dual roles ministration's maritime policy. the closing hours of the 90th in bo'-h commerce and defense. In August, the Senate Com­ Congress. merce Committee cleared the As a result of labor's efforts. The final fate of the measure Congress in 1966 created the new measure for floor action by a vote was in doubt, in view of the Ad­ Department but specifically ex­ of 17 to 1. At that time, Senator ministration's long-standing pref­ cluded the Maritime Administra­ Magnuson's Committee told the erence for putting MARAD into tion, leaving the agency where it Senate: Plight Worsened the Department of Transportation. had been since 1950, within the Passage of the measure in the Department of Commerce. "It has become increasingly 90th. Congress was a personal vic­ clear and alarmingly certain that Took Offensive tory for Senator Warren G. Magthe present Administration has not Victorious in what they frankly been able to come forth with a nuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee; described as a "defensive fight," reasonable and well-calculated Senator E. L. (Bob) Bartlett (D- the SIU and the MTD moved over proposal to revitalize the Ameri­ Alaska), chairman of the Mer­ onto the offensive in the opening can merchant marine. chant Marine Subcommittee; Sen­ days of the 90th Congress, when "In the meantime, the plight of ator Daniel B. Brewster (D-Md.); a record-breaking 104 bills for the fleet has worsened, the need and Representative Edward A. the creation of an independent for remedial action has height­ Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of MARAD were introduced in the ened, and the resolve of the Com­ the House Merchant Marine and House. mittee to establish an independent In the fall of 1967, the Gar­ Maritime Administration has so­ Fisheries Committee, who had been the bill's chief architects and matz bill (H.R. 159) was passed lidified." who had steered it through the by the House with strong biparti­ In approving the measure just san support. Approval came by a prior to adjournment, the Senate legislative channels. lopsided vote of 326-44, indicating thus put its stamp of endorsement Chmaxes Long Fight thq mood of Congress on the need on the Senate Commerce Com­ The bill's enactment climaxed a for an independent agency that mittee's view that only through Ion?, uphill fight by the SIU and would halt the present maritime the establishment of an independ­ the MTD for restoring to the decline and head the nation on a ent agency would the government Maritime Administration the inde­ new course toward regaining its have an "efficient mechanism" pendent status which it had en­ maritime supremacy. with which to carry out national joyed between 1936 and 1950—a The House-passed measure lay maritime policy. period which marked the greatest sustained growth of the merchant marine in modem times. The batMe had its beginning back in 1965, when the Sixth Con­ stitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO, in the first omnibus maritime resolution in labor his­ tory, called for a long list of re­ WASHINGTON—President Johnson this month signed into medial actions to rescue the U.S.law a bill extending the authority of the Secretary of Commerce flag fleet from the doldnims. Reestablishment of an independent to pay a differential subsidy of up to 55 percent in the construction Maritime Administration was a of merchant vessels. The meas- ^ key element in that program, ure, introduced as H.R. 17524 voted the extension for a two-year adopted unanimously at the San and subsequently designated period. This traditional version, Francisco convention. This rec­ Public Law 90-572, also, allows however, met opposition in the ommendation was reaffirmed by a subsidy of up to 60 percent in Senate, where a joint amendment the AFL-CIO Executive Council the case of reconstruction or re­ by Senators Frank J. Lausche— the following year. conditioning of passenger vessels. the lame-duck Ohio Democrat— The extension of the construc­ and John J. Williams, (R.-Del.) In 1966,. however, the situation was complicated by Administra­ tion differential subsidy ceilings is cut back the extension period by tion efforts to pull together a only for a one-year period—to one year. score or more agencies into a June 30, 1969. The House of Lausche — a consistent (^posingle new Cabinet-level Depart­ Representatives had originally nent of legislation favorable to the U.S-flag merchant marine— has had an ally in Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd, who pre­ viously forecast that there would be little, or no, government money available for subsidized shipbuild­ ing in fiscal 1969 because of Con­ gressional demands for budgetary economy. Boyd's prediction has since been repudiated by Congress. Pit­ iful though they were. MARAD's funds were uncut. When returned to the House, the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, chaired by Representative Edward A. Gar­ matz (D-Md.) had accepted the trimmed-down Senate version of it's subsidy bill—which must be periodically renewed by Congress —^rather than fight at the last minute for a measure which might ultimately have been defeated by CTT Chairman C. L (Les) Dennis addresses group's constitutional an anti-maritime minority in the meeting. At right is MTD's Bill Moody, CTT Secretary Treasurer. Senate. President OKs Bill Extending Ship Subsidies for One Year �Page Four I ? t • (. ; : i ^* \ ) !• ! SEAFARERS LOC AMA Raps Cargo Bidding Advantape Made Possible by Voubie Sabsidies' October 25, 1968 Ready for Work ] 1 WASHINGTON—An American shipping company was charged with using a $2,000-a-day gov­ ernment operating subsidy to underbid an unsubsidized operator by only 25 cents a ton for the car­ riage of a Food-for-Peace shipment of grain to Indonesia. Alfred Maskin, director of research and legislation for the premium of almost $16 a ton generated cargoes, at preferential above the foreign-flag rate for this rates, aboard ships already subsi­ American Maritime Association, cargo—or virtually the same dif­ dized for the purpose of competing said that this practice constituted ferential that the imsubsidized op­ for commercial cargoes. a "double subsidy," which, he said, erator would need in order to sur­ Maskin said that none of the "subverts the purpose of the sub­ vive without direct subsidy. recommendations would cost the sidy (and) substantially increases "Thus, the subsidized operator government money," and that two the cost to our government ... of clearly received a double subsidy of them—relating to long-term shipping these government car­ —once in the form of direct sub­ charters and the double subsidy— goes." sidy, which is in itself a competi­ "would actually save the govern­ When Headquarters Rep. E. B. McAuley called out jobs in New York Maskin, whose organization tive weapon against the unsubsi­ ment money." hall recently response was heavy, with plently of jobs for everyone. consists of some 90 companies op­ dized operator, and once in the erating 240 of the nation's un­ subsidized merchant ships, said form of the rate differential which that the subsidized company was normally should have gone to the unsubsidized operator." able to obtain the full 50 percent The AMA official outlined a American share of 100,000 tons four-step program for improving of flour which the Department of the status of the American-flag Agriculture is sending to Indo­ fleet, including; nesia "by submitting a bid of 25 Four State Councils of the AFL-CIO, two in the midwest and two on the West Coast, each • Extension to all unsubsidized cents a ton lower than its nearest acting independently of each other during their recent conventions, have unanimously endorsed operators the privilege now avail­ unsubsidized rival." resolutions sponsored by the SIU and the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department urging strong ac­ able only to subsidized operators The management official told a of establishing tax-deferred con­ tion to stem the deterioration of ^ meeting sponsored by the AFLpayments deficit could be elimi­ mittee, and to Senator E. L. Bartstruction reserve funds to replace the American merchant marine. nated without resort to any other lett. Chairman of the Merchant CIO Maritime Trades Department that the direct subsidy which the obsolete vessels with "new and The actions serve notice on the devices. ..." Marine Subcommittee of the Sen­ government that much-needed shipping line receives "compen­ more efficient tonnage." The resolution, in conclusion, ate Commerce Committee. i • Granting of long-term con­ legislation required to upgrade the reaffirms organized labor's solid sates it for over 40 percent of its In an action similar to the resolu­ vessel operating expenses." He tracts for the carriage of govern­ nation's merchant fleet is long intention to "go on record in sup­ tions endorsed by other three state ment cargoes to assure ship oper­ overdue. went on: port of a strong merchant marine councils, the Orgeon state AFL"Obviously the substantial com­ ators of cargo over a given period The Illinois, Missouri, and Cali­ program that will provide us with CIO state convention adopted a petitive edge which this direct of time to enable them "to more fornia state labor councils each an adequate, balanced fleet and resolution introduced by the Port­ subsidy gives it, oVer an unsubsi­ accurately determine their future gave their stamp of approval to a positive shipbuilding program land Port Council of the Marian SlU-sponsored resolution em­ geared to the principle of main­ dized operator, would permit it to requirements for new tonnage." times Trades Department, which • Preventing the entry into the phatically stating that the govern­ taining an American-built, Amer­ bid not only 25 cents a ton lower, attacked Transportation Secretary but virtually whatever rate is nec­ American-flag fleet of vessels built ment could, and should, do more ican-owned and American-man­ Boyd's recent maritime proposals essary for it to obtain the cargo. "either wholly or partially abroad to improve a situation which has ned merchant marine. . . and offered a 10-point counter"Equally important, however, is at half the capital costs of Ameri­ brought about the "deplorable Each State Convention, after program designed tq, ,trUly .Jmthat even though this subsidized can-built ships," since such for­ state of the Nation's merchant endorsing the resolution, than prove and upgrade the industrycompany is paid direct subsidy to eign construction would jeopar­ fleet," and implement a "positive forwarded a copy of it to Rep­ including specific recommenda­ enable it to carry cargoes at world dize the investment American program for its revitalization." A resentative Edward A. Garmatz, tions for the U.S. fishing indus­ rates, the bid that it submitted, owners now have in ships built in 10-point maritime program sub­ Chairman of the House Mer­ try which is threatened with ex­ mitted by the MTD was adopted chant Marine and Fisheries Comalthough just low enough to this country. tinction because of over-importa­ squeeze out its unsubsidized rival, • Ending the double subsidy by Oregon's State AFL-CIO. tion. The SIU resolution, backed was still high enough to give it a involved in putting governmentUnder fire were prt^Kmls by overwhelmingly by all three states Boyd, condemned by the resolu­ conventions, quotes graphic statis­ tion as being actually harmful to SfU Supports Teachers tics on the nations maritime de­ the merchant marine, shipbuild­ cline and proposes a partial solu­ ing and fishing industries. They tion to the balance-of-payments include: Construction of Amer­ problem that is currently vexing ican vessels in foreign yards, re­ government economists. jection of a program to build **Growiiig Awareness" nuclear-powered vessels; elimina­ In calling attention to the fact tion of existing tax-free capital MOBILE Leo Marsh, SIU reserve funds; and stopping all that "over the past several years Joint patrolman in the Port of there has been a growing aware­ subsidization of American-flag Mobile, died suddenly at his home ness on the part of the American passenger liners. public" over the plight of the in Mobile on October 18. He was In place of these proposals, nation's shipping industry, the 53 years old. Brother Marsh the Oregon council's resolution was one of the urges steps similar to those pro­ SlU-backed resolution points original members posed by the other three state out that this vital awareness "has of the SIU and cbouncils, including the creation been generated in a considerable took an active of an independent maritime degree by the efforts of organized part in all SIU agency, an expanded shipbuilding labor." strikes and beefs program, necessary subsidies; ef­ Noting the ever-worsening sta­ since the Union tistics on the pfight of U.S.-flag fective taxation, limitation and was organized. shipping, the statement declares: regulation of runaway-flag ships; Having sailed as "In the past 20 years, this and import ceilings on foreign chief steward for Marsh country has slipped from first to fishery products now menacing many years, until sixth place among the world's the domestic fishing industry. maritime leaders in terms of -ship­ 1951, he was very popular Because of existing government 'with the Seafarers with whom he ping, and from first to 16th place policy oh the latter, the resolution worked on SlU-contracted ships. in terms of shipbuilding. Appointed steward patrolman notes, it is now possible for for­ "Right now when this nation is for the Port of Mobile in Decem­ eign countries to "out-compete concerned over the mounting de­ ber, 1951, Marsh was elected domestic producers to a point ficit in the balance of payments, steward patrolman in 1953 and where 71 per cent of all fishery U.S. flag ships are carrying only served in that capacity for five products consumed in the United 5.6 per cent of this 'country's years. In 1957 he was elected joint States (or 10.2 billion pounds of export-import carpo." patrolman and had served in that fishery products out of a total Referring specifically to the post continuously until his death. annual consumption of 14.2 bil­ balance-of-payments problem, the Burial was at Catholic Ceme­ lion) is now supplied to the Amer­ Seafarers picket dutside City Hall in New York in support of ican nrarket by foreign countries," resolutions offers a forthright solu­ tery in Mobile on October 21. striking United Federation of Teachers. The Oct. 17 demonstration tion: "It has been pointed out by Surviving are his wife, Ethel the resolution declared. drew crowd of 50,000. The teachers walked out of classrooms for the the trade union movement, by luanita, one son, Leo Patrick, .Tr.; Af^er adoption, copies of the third time this term in effort to get Mayor Lindsay and the schoo' members of Congress, and by three stepsons, Freddie, Harold resolution were sent to the Presi­ superintendent to enforce recently negotiated contract and permit 83 other qualified groups that if and William McPherson; and a dent and all appropriate govern­ unlawfully suspended teachers to resume their duties free of harassment American vessels carried but half stepdaughter, Mrs. Juanita Jar- ment agencies and members of by "militants" in a semi-autonomous Brooklyn school district. of our foreign commerce, the man. Congress. Four State AFL-CIO Units Adopt SlU, MTD Resolutions on Maritime LeoMarshDead; SIU Patrolman Succumbs at 53 I •/ •J �•il October 25, 1968 Page Fhre SEAFARERS LOG fit Closing Weeks of Campaign llumpiiref Steprilp^ttacInfts New Support Sui^ges WASHINGTON—Vice Presi­ to ask him. I am tipping him off. dent Hubert H. Humphrey en­ He is afraid I will ask him if he tered the final weeks of his drive still thinks it is a harmful socialist for the presidency with an air of scheme, because that is what they confidence and aggressiveness, said. spurred by the belief that his cam­ "Or maybe he is afraid I will paign is catching fire.' ask him why he cast the tie-break­ As he swung through the mid- ing vote that killed federal aid to America states of Indiana and education when he was vice presi­ Missouri, Humphrey was greeted dent. at every stop by huge, enthusiastic "I think he is afraid I will ask crowds. him if he still think the Peace Speaking in the home territory Corps is a haven for draft dodgers. of former President Harry Tru­ "He is possibly afraid I will ask man, Humphrey reminded his au­ him why he writes special letters diences of Truman's come-from- —little secret communications— behind victory in 1948 despite to Wall Street brokers telling them predictions of the polls that he that the Securities ai\d Exchange would lose. Humphrey suggested Commission is being unfair to that a similar upset is now in the them, apparently forgetting that making 20 years later the purpose of the commission is This drew exhortations from his to be fair to the investors. "Maybe he is afraid that I'll listeners to "give 'em hell" in the ask the 'real' Richard Nixon to Truman style. The crowds roared their ap­ stand up. I'm not worried about proval as Humphrey repeatedly the 'new' one or the 'old' one; it challenged Nixon to abandon his is the 'real' one you need to be strategv of silence and join him thinking about." in debate before the voting public. Charges Stalling Nixon Fears Truth Then, playing on the Republi­ He suggested that the reason can slogan, "Nixon's the one," Nixon has so far refused to do so Humphrey asked: "Is he the one that says he's for is that he is well aware of his own record and fears that "the Ameri­ a treaty to prevent the spread of can people will find out where he nuclear weapons, to prevent Mr. Nasser and Mr. Castro from get­ stands." "Richard the Lionhearted is ting their itchy, erratic fingers on Richard the Chickenhearted," the nuclear trigger? "Or is he the one who says he's Humphrey declared. "Mr. Nixon is afraid that I will for delaying the ratification of that ask him, if he and his party still treaty? think that medicare won't work, "Is he the one who favors in­ because that is what I am going tegration in the North or the one Enthusiastic students at Rockhurst College in Kansas City greet Vice President Humphrey as the Democratic presidential candidate arrives for an address and a question-and-answer session. who is sort of against it when he tours in the South with his new­ found ally, Strom Thurmond? "Yes, Nixon's the one, all right. He is afraid and I don't blame him, because the record *is there." The Vice President's warmest reception on the current campaign tour came at the COPE meeting, where more than 1,000 St. Louis union leaders jammed Carpenters Hall to welcome him. Trade unionists made up a large part of the gathering of more than 10,000 in Evansville. Communi­ cations workers waved Humphrey signs among the crowd of 8,000 that filled a busy intersection for the downtown Kansas City rally. And at the St. Louis airport, when the Vice President's plane arrived, SEATTLE—Senator Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.), warned the welcoming throng included here recently that the United States-flag tramp fleet, the aging machinists and steelworkers, re­ workhorse of the merchant marine, faces "block obsolescence" tail clerks and service employees. Humphrey told the COPE au­ unless strong measures are to have a merchant marine we dience that he had learned Nixon taken by the government. must have government assistance plans to reserve four hours of tel­ The chairman of the Senate evision time on the Saturday night to the maritime industry." Commerce Committee strongly "Our present subsidy system has before the election for his final favored the allowance of tax- no direct application to tramp TV "blitz." That, the Vice President noted, free construction reserve funds to vessels," the Commerce Commit­ the entire fleet to encourage pri­ tee Chairman charged, "and in would be more TV time than the vate investment in the building in the absence of a revitalization pro­ Humphrey forces have been able to purchase in the entire cam­ this country of U.S. ships to re­ gram there will be no U.S. flag vitalize the cargo-carrying capacity tramp fleet in another five to seven paign. "Let him have 10 hours," Hum­ of the nation. years. I and others in Congress phrey declared. "I'd like to give In remarks before a seminar on have proposed a massive rebuild­ him 24; maybe he'd finally say Federal Regulation of Transpor­ ing of the fleet, but our efforts something." tation, Magnuson declared that have not been well received." Again he called on Nixon to "the maritime industry has one come from behind the "bush" and Explaining the financial facts clear distinction: Probably no of life so far as ship-building is debate. The American voters, he other mode of transportation in concerned, Magnuson declared said, "have a right to hear us our nation's history has been al­ that, depending upon the type of speak — to cross-examine each lowed to deteriorate to such a vessel under discussion, construc­ other" on the issues. dangerous extent. I think this is tion costs can range from $12 mil­ *^offring to Say" one of the great tragedies of today, lion for a tanker to $30 million "If you have a candidate who and one of the most costly failures for a new, modern cargo liner. can't talk to you when he wan^s of recent administrations—Repub­ "The plain fact of the matter," to be Presidenti he'll have nothing licans and Democrats alike." he indicated, "is that we cannot to say to you when he is Presi­ "Disastrous Sbape^ compete on a dollars and cents dent," Humphrey declared. The Vice President warned the "While we have the best ocean basis with foreign shipyards or liner fleet in the world," Magnu­ with the low wage scales of for­ COPE delegates that "this is not son pointed out, "our tramp fleet, eign seamen. It costs more to build just my fioht—it's yours," and he made up almost entirely of World an i\merican ship, and it costs cited a suggestion from an ad­ War II vessels," is in disastrous more to operate an American viser to Nixon that the country could use a little more unemploy­ sRupve. While much can be done ship. to narfo».w the cost differentials "The fact remains that if we ment as a means of combatting surrounding^ an American ship are going to have a merchant ma­ inflation. "Whose job is he talking with that of'^ts foreign-built, for­ rine we must have government eign manned tcounterpart, he said, assistance to the maritime indus­ about?" Humphrey asked. He said there would be no ques­ "the fact remkuns that if we are try." Magnuson Warns Government On Aging U. S. Tramp Fleet tion about the outcome of the election if only two parties were involved. But he noted there is a third-party candidate—^Wallace —who is "boring in." And he pointed to a COPE pamphlet to emphasize its title: "Don't Let George Do to the United States What George Did to Alabama." "And when they tried to union­ ize to do something about those wages, former Gov. Wallace used to call out the state troopers to take care of the organizers." The Vice President derided Wallace's choice of General Curtis LeMay as his running mate, call­ ing the third-party slate 'The Bombsey Twins." As for Wallace's attempts to "scare" people about "law and order," Humphrey ridiculed the example the former governor had set while he was in office. "Mr. Wallace decided which courts suited him—and he dis­ obeyed the rest. "He decided which judges he liked—and he vilified the rest. "He decided which laws he pre­ ferred—and he violated the ones he didn't like." Humphrey emphasized that he alone among the major candidates has had actual experience in im­ proving law enforcement. As mayor of Minneapolis, he recalled, he strengthened and professional­ ized a weak police force and wiped out corruption that had been rampant until he took office. The Vice President spoke blunt­ ly about the support Wallace is reportedly drawing from a small segment of rank-and-file union members and attributed it to base­ less racial fears. "What I want is an economy that will give everyone a job— black or white. ... I want a bigger pie to split up, not a smaller one to share among more people." Alex Jarrett Dies at 50 In Calif.; Was Vice Pres. of Marine Firemen SAN FRANCISCO—Alex Jarrett, vice president of the SIUNAaffiliated Marine Firemen's Union, passed away suddenly at his home in Walnut Creek, Calif., last month after an apparent heart attack. He was 50 years old. dent after completing this term Jarrett had served as MFOW of office in February. vice president since April, 1962, He said that Jarrett was a fine after 13 years in man who was completely dedi­ office as MFOW port agent in cated to the welfare of the MFOW and its members, as well as to Honolulu. the American labor movement. Funeral serv­ "Jarrett corrunanded the ad­ ices were held in miration and respect of all those Honolulu and who knew him, ^th in the labor 4 burial was at the ^\/ \ Diamond Head movement and the business com­ munity," Jordan said. "He was Memorial Park. A memorial a big, quiet, unassuming guy and service was also conducted here, an outstanding, exceedingly com­ petent official, who had served at the Apostleship of the Sea. MFOW President Bill Jordan, the Union well ever since he be­ in commenting on Jarrett's death, came an official in 1949." Jarrett is survived by his wife, said that he was stunned and sad­ dened upon learning that Jarrett Mae; three daughters, Paula and had died, as he had fully expected Leslie who live at home, and Mrs. him to assume the presidency' Beth Clark of Honolulu; and one when he stepped down as Presi­ son, Alex. Jr., of Los Angeles. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG Scab Grapes—His Favorite Dish October 25, 1968 «i Vote for Humphrey Seen Vital Investment In America WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany has called on ^erican workers to' protect "the investment we have made in America in the past eight years" by doing their best to help elect Hubert Hum­ phrey as President, Edmund Muskie as Vice President and con­ gressional candidates "who believe, as we do, in a better America for everyone." Meany issued the appeal in the first of a series of four scheduled radio messages over the National Broadcasting Company network on the issues in the 1968 political campaign. The November 5 election, Meany said, poses "a crucial decision" for the nation and the American trade union movement "has a vital in­ terest" in that decision. "In a time when the world is in ferment, and in a time when there is contention at home, the decision we make on these matters is not one to be made on the basis of whim, or fear, or hate," Meany de­ clared. "It is a decision that demands thought and an objective assess­ ment of where we've been, where we are, and where we hope to go. "My concern, and I believe the concern of all working men and women in this country, is that we not squander the investment we have made in America in the past eight years. They have been years of productivity and creativity that have no parallel in history." Meany summarized the record of accomplishments during the last eight years of "uninterrupted economic growth": • "We have made basic social reforms within the framework of our democratic society. • "The real income of the overwhelming majority of Americans has constantly risen. • "Full equality fbr all Americans, in every aspect of life, has been established by law and we can see the day when it will be established :« in custom. • "The road to a full education for every person is now broad and wide. • "Medical care for the elderly is on a sound social basis. • "The minimum wage has been strengthened and improved. < • "There is government concern, expressed in concrete terms, for the quality of life in our country. Compassion has been firmly rooted in governmental policy." All of this, the Federation president said, stems from a philosophy, advocated by the AFL-CIO, "that regards the human individual as our basic resource, a philosophy that contends when you invest in the human individual you achieve richness for the entire nation." "The American working people have invested too much effort— they have fought too hard and too long to achieve the goals we have reached—there is still too much to be done to achieve the goals ahead —for us to do less than our best in the remaining weeks of this elec­ tion-campaign," Meany continued. "If we do that, I am confident we will win a victory this fall—a victory of all America—through the election of Hubert Humphrey, Edmund Muskie and congressional candidates who believe, as we do, in a better America for everyone. "So talk to your fellow workers—to your neighbors—to your family and friends. And," he concluded, "urge them to vote with you for Humphrey, Muskie and a better America." } We hope Richard Nixon enjoys those Cal­ ifornia grapes he is flaunting. They are anti­ union grapes and they are symbolic. By eating them, the Republican Presidential candidate is exposing himself for just what he is—the candidate of the growers, the choice of the manufacturers, the darling of Wall Street. By this time everybody knows that Nixon has denounced the boycott against Califor­ nia grapes now being conducted by the United Farm Workers. The striking workers —amongst the most shamefully and miser­ ably underpaid in the country—have the complete support of the labor movement. They also have the full and sympathetic backing of Hubert H. Humphrey. Nixon's record is clear. And an unfortu­ nate one for American workers, as docu­ mented by his voting score when he was in Congress—a record distinguished by oppo­ sition to all progress. He fully supported the Taft-Hartley Act and its crippling Section 14(b), cast the deciding vote against federal aid to education, denied social security cov­ erage to 750,000 persons. The Republican candidate prefers to woo Wall Street, rather than the struggling grape workers. In an unpublicized "Secret Letter" he has passed the word that, if he gets in, he will "lay off" what he calls "heavyhanded bureaucratic regulatory schemes"— translation, no protection for the small stock­ holders. No wonder the "big boys" love him. Taking note of the strange appeal the third-party candidate seems to have because he gives voice to the irrational fears and prej­ udices of many people—thus arousing anger instead of reason—^Nixon has also under­ taken to out-Wallace Wallace. He simply puts the white gloves on the same demogogic slogans geared to "hardline" quickie policeaction attacks on complicated problems. Here, too, Big Business laughs up its sleeve behind the scenes. After all, police are cheaper than progressive programs. Even if they don't lead to solutions in the long run. So Nixon goes on his way, hopefully peddling an undefined "something for every­ body" in vague terms and slogans without substance. His biggest problem is to avoid being pinned down; he shuns open TV debate because he can't stand the spotlight of truth. He knows he can't compete with the search­ ing, sharp realism of Hubert Humphrey be­ cause, stripped of his speech-makers and his research army, Nixon has nothing to sell but a carefully couched appeal to reaction. Nixon can smile; he thinks he has it made —if he doesn't take chances. But behind the studied smile is a sneer. He obviously believes "the masses are asses." He has nothing but contempt for the people he is trying to trick. He relies in­ stead, on manufactured enthusiasm, synthetic ovations and a saturation of publicity pour­ ing out of public-relations mills. All paid for—you guessed it—^by the men who re­ main behind the scenes anonymous and un­ publicized: the big money crowd, rubbing their hands in gleeful anticipation. Can money buy an election? Nixon thinks so. But Humphrey has faith in the Ameri­ can worker to see through the fakery and the phoniness. His appeal is to the common people to swarm to the polls on November 5 to cast their votes for decency and for progress. -'"tj J* U -J Shipbuilders meeting in Miami Beach during the World Series, pitched American League Presi­ dent Joe Cronin a fast wire pro­ testing the firing of two umpires. The organization's convention went on record opposing the dismissaLof umpires Valentine and Salerno for alleged incompetence. The arbiters claim their dismissal was due to their attempt to or­ ganize the league's umpires in or­ der to get the same wages and benefits National League umps re­ ceive. "In all fairness, we, as la­ bor, condemn the president's ac­ tion in dismissing these men for making efforts to organize their fellow umpires to achieve better working conditions," the Ship­ builders said. * * Two pioneer labor leaders are among the hundreds of subjects depicted in paintings, sculptures and photographs on exhibit at the Smithsonian Institution's new Na­ tional Portrait Gallery in Wash­ ington. Included in the exhibi­ tion of art works on great Ameri­ cans are busts of Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor and Eugene V. Debs, secretary-treasurer of the Locomotive Firemen in the 1800s and candidate for President on the Social Democratic Party ticket in 1900. • • • Eugene A. Kelley, 56, a veteran labor editor and newspaperman, died October 5 after a lengthy ill­ ness in Lawrence, Mass. Kelley joined the staff of the Textile Workers Union, of America in 1947 after years as a labor re­ porter for Lawrence papers, serv­ ing as an editor and public rela­ tions specialist. After a stint with the labor affairs office of the for­ eign aid administration he joined the CIO News. He became assist­ ant editor of the AFL-CIO News when the AFL afld CIO merged. In 1959 he joined the firm of Maurer, Fleisher, Zon and Asso­ ciates handling various trade un­ ion accounts of the public relrations and advertising fW' until his illness. Kelley is su^ived by his wife, Jennie B. a s0n, Eugene A. Kelley, Jr., of Trepton, N. J,, and a daughter, Joan,/of Lawrence. L )' 'V. �The 90th Congress: A Report Organized labor—Seafarers as well as all other mem­ bers of the American trade union movement—have such an eonormous stake in the national election on November 5, 1968, that we feel all available informa­ tion on Representatives and Senators who have rep­ resented us during the past session of Congress should be considered before ballots are cast. On this and the following pages is an AFL-CIO re­ port on what the 90th Congress has—or has not— done for the cause of labor. The commentary is by AFL-CIO Director of Legislation Andrew J. Biemiller. The official voting tabulations—issue by issue and man by man—speak for themselves.) : dates, we won by a healthy 49-19 margin. Republicans cast 18 of the anti-labor votes and the 19th came from a Southern Democrat. A landmark civil rights law with strong, wide-rang­ ing "fair-housing" requirements was passed in 1968 after the Dixiecrat-Republican filibuster in the Senate was broken. A far-reaching, massive $5.3 billion housing law— with new programs to help low and moderate income families get adequate homes—^was approved in 1968. Four major consumer protection laws^truth-intending, meat inspection, poultry inspection and a new Commission on Product Safety—^won approval in the 1968 session. These programs the conservative coali­ tion didn't dare oppose. We must not let the conservative coalition strengthen its position in the 91st Congress. There is too much at stake. The loss of even a small number of liberal congressmen will almost certainly mean further dis­ mantling of the important social programs already un­ der attack in Congress. We must not let a conservative candidate win the presidency in 1968. Election of a conservative Presi­ dent would bring a flock of new conservative cwigressmen into office. Election of a conservative President would open the door to a new anti-labor campaign by the conservative coalition. Our choice is clear. The AFL-CIO has endorsed the election of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie and all candidates for Congress who share their views and ours. Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic candidate, has a 100 percent perfect record on our COPE score sheets. Time after time during a natimial career span­ ning more than 20 years, Humphrey has spoken up and voted for every good, decent, constructive, pro­ gressive cause. He is a tried and true friend of labor. The Republican candidate, Richard Nixon, also has a long public career and he should be judg^ by that career. Nixon claims he was elected to Congress in 1947 "to smash the labor bosses." Maybe he didn't Liberals in the 90th Congress fought with courage and determination to prevent the anti-labor conserva­ tive coalition from cutting back and destroying the social progress achieved during the Kennedy-JohnsonHumphrey Administration. Unfortunately, this defensive battle was not always successful. Again and again conservative Republicans and their conservative Dixiecrat bedfellows joined forces to chop, slash, undercut, or starve the basic programs that help working people and their families. If a direct, frontal attack didn't work, the coalition raised an "economy" battle-cry, the traditional round­ about back-door attack of conservatives opposing pop­ ular programs like education, health, labor, welfare, anti-poverty, housing, and conservation. Thus, the AFL-CIO was forced to fight to protect the social gains of the New Deal, Fair Deal, New Frontier and Great Society. Instead of plowing new ground, we had to protect medicare, aid to education, improved social security benefits, civil rights, and antipoverty measures from being weakened or destroyed. The reactionary anti-civil rights, anti-civil liberties, anti-democratic bias of the conservative coalition has emerged clearly in the 1968 fight on the Fortas nomi­ nation. Republican Senator Robert Griffin, Dixiecratturned-Republican Strom Thurmond, and Dixiecrat Senator Sam Ervin have led an outrageous attack on the Supreme Court, using as a pretext the nomination of Justice Fortas to be Chief Justice. GOP-Dixiecrat teamwork forced a "states' ri^ts" MilHeiramendment into the 1967 aid-to-education bill, seri­ ously weakening the bill. the 90fli Congress as It neared adjonrnnienll Congressmen have been je^ged on 13 key is<*i An anti<ivil rights amendment aimed at weakening sues; senators on 12. The symbols—^Ror^hP* federal school desegregation guidelines got coalition 5#^ the po$ith>ih approval in 1968. fpB1>CI0 took on The anti-labor compulsory arbitration proposal |idO]^ide the ai« tnief descrij^ rammed through the 9(jth Congress in 1967 forced bns of the imnes—^whaf the vote was about and striking railroad shopcraft workers back (m the job. action was a serious setback to the cause of free collec­ I why it was Impoftant to the lidK«r movement and the nation* ^ ^ ^^ tive bargaining. I A congressman or senator may dalm im sup>^ Fortunately, in spite of the victories won by the ported labor's position becausb he voted for final conservative coalition, liberals in the Senate and House pa^ge of a bHi. But in most cases, thw key vote were able to muster a majority on a number of key yms on an amendment that vgoaid have seriously issues. kened or grt^tly improved the bill. The vote# When Republican Senator John Williams tried to 1 here are those comadered most * stop AFL-CIO's COPE collection of voluntary dollars for political contributions to COPB-endorsed candi­ deliver on ffiat promise, but he managed to vote wrong 86 percent of the time as congressman and senate, casting his lot again and again with the anti-labor, antipeople lobbies like the U.S. Chamber of Commmce, the National Association oi Manufacturers, and the American Medical Association. The third party candidate, George Wallace, has no platform, no policies, and no program—nothing ex­ cept racism and hat^. Hh record as governor ot Alabama makes a mockery of his claim to be a friend of labor. Alabama's regressive, soak-the-worker sales taxes are among the highest in the history of the United States—after Wallace promised not to raise them. Low wages, poor working conditions, high crime rates, high illiteracy rates, anti-unionism, segregation and preju­ dice in Alabama all testify to the kind of America that Wallace wants. The national campaign for the Presidency holds the center spotlight Nov. 5—but the shape of the future is also taking form as liberals and conservatives fightfor control of the U.S. Senate and die House Rep­ resentatives. The loss of more than 40 liberal congressmen in the 1966 elections made the difference between the fabL'lously productive liberal 89th Congress and the conservative-dominated 90th Congress. If more liberal congressmen lose their seats in the 1968 elections, we face a serious anti-labor campaign. We can expect the conservative coalition to push "labor court" legislation, compulsory arbitration, a national "right-to-work" law, bills applying anti-trust laws to labor unions, bills banning nation-wide bar­ gaining and anti-COPE legislation. The build-up is planned and coordinated. It is being cultivated in Congress by the ccmservative coalition. It is speaibeaded in the public forum by the giant busi­ ness associations, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the Natitmal Association Manufacturers. The signs point inescapably to the (xmcluskm that these anti-labor forces are counting on conservative political gains in 1968 to pave die way fw restrictive labor legislation in 1969. We must carry the fight at the national level, in the states, and in every cmigressional district to win a liberal majority in the 91st Congress. Only with a liberal President and a liberal Congress will the 91st Congress improve on the sony, ctmservative record of die 90th Congress. From the 91st Congress we must get a massive new job program, occupational safety, expanded health, ed­ ucation, manpower training, anti-poverty programs, organizing and bargaining rights for farm workers, situs picketing rights in the constructicm Industry, and adequate funding to meet the urgent needs of the urban crisis. This voting record tells how senators and refmsentatives answered the roll calls on die major issues ot the 90th Ctmgress. With this information, working men and women can make their informed judgment and decision on Election Day. �Page ES^t SEAFARERS October 25, 1968 LOG 9 C 9 U. II] 1# House Rules Conservatives of both parties ganged up on the open­ ing day of the 90th Congress to restore to the House Rules Committee some of its power to stall legislation indefinitely. The vote served notice that the Republican-Dixiecrat coalition was back in the saddle. It was a major step backwards from the acci)mplishments of the liberal 89th Congress. A motion to continue the rules reform which had been adopted in the 89t!h Congress was defeated, 196-225, on Jan. 10, 1967. For—right; Against—^wrong. 2. Aid to Education The thrust of the federal program of aid to education has been to encourage local school districts to develop programs to meet the special education needs of children from poor families who live in slum areas and start life with two strikes against them. But the House adopted a "states* rights" amendment which turned over federal funds to the control of state boards of education instead of putting it where the need is greatest. The labor-opposed amendment passed the House, 230185, on May 24, 1967. For—^wrong; Against—aright. 3. Compulsory Arbitration Striking railroad shopcraft workers were forced back to work when Congress passed a compulsory arbitra­ tion law. The labor movement vigorously opposed the law, warning that collective bargaining couldn't work if man­ agement knew that its workers would not be permitted to strike. Rail management supported compulsory arbitration, adding to the evidence that management's bargaining tactics were based on a conviction that Congress would outlaw a railroad strike. The House voted for compulsory arbitration 244-148, on July 17, 1967. For—^wrong; Against—bright. 4. Federal Pay Raise A three-step pay r^ise sought to bring salaries of postal and other federal employees closer to private industry levels. The House narrowly defeated a Republican motion to kill the second and third step of the increase, leaving only the first step. The pay-cutting move was rejected, 199-211, on Oct. 11, 1967. For—^wrong; Against—^right. 5. Appropriations Late in the first session, conservatives sou<*ht to force an $8.5 billion cut in the President's budget. The brunt of the cuts would have fallen on education, health, hous­ ing, anti-poverty and similar programs. The Senate managed to reduce the amount of the 1967 cut, but the action foreshadowed the big victory of the economy bloc in the 1968 session. The House voted for the budget slash, 238-164, on Oct. 18, 1967. For—^WFong; Against—right 6. Taxes—Budget Cuts 8. Civil Rights Final passage of the 1968 civil rights legislation would have been endangered if the House had not agreed to accept Senate amendments and instead insisted on send­ ing the bill to a conference committee. The legislation outlawed housing discrimination, protected civil rights workers, and made it a federal crime to enter a state with the intent to take part in a riot. A conference would have opened the door to a new Senate filibuster and endangered the legislation. Church, labor and civil rights organizations pressed for a House vote on acceptance of the Senate-passed bill. The resolution which cleared the way for final passage was adopted, 229-195, on Apr. 10, 1968. For—right; Against—^wrong. 9. Housing Decent homes for all Americans would go a long way toward meeting the nation's most pressing problems. An important step was taken in this year's housing legisla­ tion. It provides for building 1.7 million new or reha­ bilitated housing units in the next three years for low and moderate income families. It includes interest subsidies to help low income families buy homes and incentives for apartment-builders to provide low-rent units. Other sections of the legislation expand rent supple­ ment and model cities programs. The housing bill was passed, 295-114, on July 10, 1968. For—right; Against—^wrong. 10. Model Cities A Republican amendment would have wrecked the model cities program last year by eliminating $225 mil­ lion to help cities renovate entire neighborhoods through a combination of better housing and better services and facilities. As it is, the money available has been inadequate to meet the heeds of the cities. The program, launched by the 89th Congress, has been one of the most promising approaches to the nation's urban problems. The battle in the 90th Congress has been over the financing needed to make this promise a reality. The motion to gut the program was rejected, 193-213, on May 17, 1967. For—^wrong; Against—right. 11. Food Stamps Millions of poor people have been able to eat better because the food stamp program enables them to buy stamps worth several times their cost when exchanged for food at a store. Pres. Kennedy directed an experimental food stamp program immediately after his inauguration in 1961. Pres. Johnson in 1964 won congressional approval to expand the program and make it permanent. An Agriculture Committee amendment would have led to the abandonment of the program in most states by forcing the states to pay 20 percent of the program's cost. The amendment was voted down, 173-191, on June 8, 1967. For—^wrong; Against—bright. 12. Rat Control Conservatives insisted on—and got—a deep budget cut in return for going along with a tax increase the President said was essential to the nation's economy. Earlier, Administration supporters sought to r^uce the amount of the budget slash—a compromise which would have permitted high priority programs to continue while reducing funds for less urgent matters. This compromise was rejected by the House, 137-259, on May 29, 1968. For—bright; Against—^wrong. To a majority of the House, on July 20, 1967, a fed­ eral program to help cities exterminate rats which bring disease and danger into slum homes was a joking matter. Public outrage eventually brought approval of the pro­ gram. The conservative coalition had, for once, over­ stepped itself. Later, somewhat shamefacedly, money was provided in another bill. But on this first vote, the House refused, 176-207, to even take up the rat control legislation. For—bright; Against—^wrong. 7. Meat Inspection 13. Anti-Poverty Funds One of the big accomplishments of the 90th Congress was extension of federal meat inspection standards to the billioneof pounds of meat which had been exempt because it wasn't sold across state lines. The Senate made maior improvements in the original, very weak House bill. The conservative coalition voted down a motion to accept the Senate amendments which required states to match federal inspection standards. A public outcry finally brought approval of a good bill, but this attemnt to strengthen the meat inspection law was beaten, 166-207. on Nov. 29,1967. For—bright; Against—^wrong. A Republican motion to slash $100 million from antipoverty funds would have deprived thousands of chil­ dren of participation in the Head Start progr^ and forced the closing of 13 Job Corps centers—slamming the door shut on training opportunities for young men and women. Adoption of the mojjon would have served notice that Congress and the nation was preparing to abandon the war on poverty as "too costly" for the worid's richest nation. The cutback was rejected, 181-220, on June 26, 1968. For—^wrong; Against—bright 11 1 S 3 4 S A 7 • 9 10 11 ia 13 ALABAMA 1. Edward! (R) 2. Dickinson <R) 3. Andrews (D) 4. Nkhob (D) 5. Sdden(D) 6. Bnchanan (R) 7. BcrOl (D) S. Jones (D) WWW w w w w w WWW w w w w w WWW w w w w w WWW w w w w w WWW w w — w w Www wwwww WWW w w w w w R W W R R R W W W W W W W" W W W W W R W R R W W R R w R R W W W W WW W W R W W W W W wwwww ALASKA AL Pollock (R) WWR R WWWWR WR WR ARIZONA 1. Rhodes (R) 2. Udill (D) 3. 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MATTHEWS—Book No. M-1—No. 7 On BaDot For: President (Vote For One) PAUL HALU—Book No. H-1— No. 1 On Ballot Original member of SIU. Hold all strike clearances. Elected secretary-treasurer 1948. Participated in all SIU organizing cam­ paigns and major beefs since earliest days. Served on all SIU nego­ tiating committees since 1948. Helped initiate Welfare, Vacation and Pension Plans. Participated in drive for SIU seniority hiring system to save Union hiring hall. Now serving as SIU president. ANDREW PICKUR—Book No. F-172 —No. 2 On BaUot Andrew Pickur started his career with the SIU in 1943, sailing out of the port of Boston. An AB, Pickur last shipped aboard the Wacosta. A native of Iselin, Pennsylvania, Brother Pickur is 42 years old, married and the father of three sons. He makes his home in Pittsburgh. Seamen, Brother Pickur believes, are lacking in eco­ nomic and living conditions and if elected, he will use his 25 years experience to change these conditions. SIDNEY ROTHMAN—Book No. R-325—No. 3 On Baflot I started sailing with the SIU in 1944 and have over 15 years seatime, with U. S. Coast Guard discharges. I participated in all the principal Union organizing beefs, 1946-1947-1948-1961. My plat­ form would include the following plans: (1)—1 will return the Union to the professional seamen by changing the Constitution. (2)—^Sea­ men should have improved shipboard conditions, better quarters, more personnel in steward department, etc. (3)—^All Union jobs must be put on rotary shipping board, and a good 20-year pension plan which is long overdue. For: Executive Vice-President (Vote For One) GAL TANNER—Book No. T-1— For: Vice-President in Charge of the Atlantic Coast (Vote For One) JAMES M. DAWSON—Book No. D-82—No. 8 On BaUot I have been in the Union close to 24 years. I have been clear of all major beefs since 1946. Been elected ship and deck delegate on many ships and am well qualified to run. 1 have not been a Com­ munist or belong to the party, or convicted of any felony. 1 was bom in the U.S.A. EARL SHEPARD—Book No. S- No. 9 On Ballot One of SlU's original members. Active in P&O strike and other early Union actions. Directed field work in Isthmian organizing drive. Participated in Great Lakes organizing. Directed N.Y. water­ front activities in 1946 general strike. Appointed New Orleans port agent in 1947. Elected New Orleans agent for 1948, 1949, 1950. Elected assistant secretary-treasurer for 1951. Appointed Baltimore agent in 1951. Elected Baltimore Agent in each Election from 1952 to 1960, when elected Vice-President in charge of the Atlantic Coast. No. 4 On Ballot Charter member of the SIU since the beginning. Sailed actively during the war, seeing service in most combat zones. Active in Isthmian organizing drive both on ship and ashore as organizer. Elected Mobile agent from 1947 to 1960>. Participated in various A&G District organizing drives of past years. Active in all SIU beefs and holds clearances for all strikes the Union has engaged in since it was first organized. Now serving as executive vice-president, to which I was elected in 1960. For Secretary-Treasurer For Vice-President in Charge of the Gulf Coast (Vote For One). LINDSEY J. WILLIAMS—Book No. W-1—No. 10 On Ballot (Vote For One) AL KERR—Book No. K-7— Joined SIU when it was chartered. Served as patrolman and port agent in Mobile and later as agent in Jacksonville and San Fran­ cisco. Assigned in 1946 to NY as hq representative. Served on every Union negotiating committee from 1946 to 1954. Elected assistant secretary-treasurer 1948, 1949 and 1950; hq representative for 1951-'52. Assistant secretary-treasurer 1953-'54, 1955-'.'"5, 1957'58. Houston agent from 1958 to 1962, when assumed post of vice-president in charge of contracts and contract enforcement. Participated in all SIU strikes and beefs. No. 5 On Ballot Joined the SIU on November 6, 1943, in Port of New York. Sailed in all ratings in the deck department. Hold a clear record on all Union beefs and picketing actions since I joined the SIU. Have served the Union in many official capacities since 1945, including organizer, dispatcher, patrolman. Trustee of the SIU Welfare, Vaca­ tion and Pension Plans, as well as Secretary-Treasurer of all the Union's corporations. At present serve as &cretary-Treasurer of the Union and its corporations. For: Vice-President in Charge of Contracts and Contract Enforcement Joined SIU in January, 1942, in New Orleans. Sailed in the deck department during the war in practically every war zone. Served as Gulf area organizer during Union drive to organize Isthmian. Director of organization for Cities Service drive and was responsible for bringing many other new companies under contract. Elected New Orleans port agent in each election from 1950 to 1960, when elected vice-president in charge of Gulf Coast. • For: Vice-President in Charge of the Lakes and Inland Waters (Vote For One) (Vote For One) J. AL TANNER—Book No. T-12— DOMINGO La Llave—Book No. L-44—No. 6 On BaUot I joined SIU in 1944 and I have fulfilled all obligations as a Union member and I am proud to be a member of the biggest and most outstanding Union in the maritime field. In the 24 years I have been active in the SIU I have been most dedicated to help my brother members and to perform my duties with the Union and my brother members. Through the past years I have been delegated as ship's delegate in.various ships. No. 11 On Ballot Sailed steward department ratings on SIU ships for many years. Became SIU member December, 1951. Came off ship to manage Baltimore Port O'Call when new hall opened. Participated in Baltimore HIWD and MAWD organizing including successful drive for harbor tugs. Active in aid to Westinghouse strikers. Also in N.Y. Marine Allied Workers organizing and as Welfare Services repre­ sentative. Now coordinator of Great Lakes organizing for the Maritime Trades Dept. Elected vice-president in charge of Lakes and Inland Waters in 1960. ^,1 �. October 25, 1968 Sapplement—^Page Three For: Headquarters Representative (Vote For Three) WILLIAM W. HALL—Book No. H-272—No. 12 On Ballot Joined SIU, A&G District, in 1944, in the Port of New York. Served actively in many of the Union's major strikes and beefs, including the 1946 general strike, the 1947 Isthmian strike, the Wall Street strike and the Canadian beef. Was elected deck delegate and ship's delegate on most of the ships I sailed. Hold clearances for all Union actions. Elected assistant secreta^-treasurer for 1953-'54. Re-elected 1955-'56, 1957-'58. Serving as headquarters representative since 1960. EDWARD X. MOONEY- -Book No. M.7— No. 13 On Ballot Joined SIU in 1945. Served as ship's delegate or steward delegate on majority of ships. Member of Food and Housing Committee for 1946 general strike. Assisted during Canadian beef, and repre­ sented Union in various beefs in Puerto Rico. Participated in Wall Street strike. Appointed New York patrolman in 1952. Elected NY joint patrolman 1953-'54. Served as headquarters representative since 1955. Played major role in Robin Line beef. FREDDIE STEWART—Book No. S-8— No. 14 On Ballot Was volunteer organizer for SIU when it was founded. Partici­ pated in all major strikes including bonus strike, Isthmian, 1946 general strike and other actions. Was leader of direct action to secure milk, good provisions and decent shipboard conditions for all Seafarers. Served as steward patrolman in NY in 1947 and joint patrolman in 1948 and 1949. Elected steward or joint patrolman for all years, 1950-1960, and as headquarters representative in 1960. Assisted in drawing up many of the Union's past contracts. New York Agent (Vote For One) JOSEPH DI GlORGIO^Book No. D-2—No. 15 On BaUot Joined the Atlantic & Gulf District in 1951 in New Orleans. Served actively in many of the Union's major beefs and strikes in the years since then, including the 1946 general strike, the Isthmian strike, the Wall Street beef and numerous others. Elected Baltimore patrolman 1955-1956. Served on numerous rank and file committees and elected ship's delegate and steward delegate on many occasions. Was elected New York joint patrolman 1960-64. Elected New York Port Agent in 1964. For: New York Joint Patrolman (Vote For Ten) TED BABKOWSKI—Book No. B-1— No. 16 On Ballot Joined SIU in 1941 and sailed in all combat zones during World War II. Was volunteer organizer in Isthmian drive and various tanker drives. Served on NY Isthmian strike committee. Active in 1946 strike. Coos Bay and shipyard beefs. Served on Baltimore committee aiding shipyard and telephone workers. Elected engine or joint patrolman in each election since 1949. RUFINO GARAY—Book No. G-770—No. 19 On Baflot Brother Garay joined the SIU in New York in 1955. Although this is his first try at an elective position in the Union, he took part in the Bull Line Strike. The 41-year-old Seafarer is a native of New York and lives in Brooklyn. A frequent ship and steward depart­ ment delegate. Brother Garay feels there should be more patrolmen in New York. "It's a big area and they are frequently short of patrol­ men with many delays on pay-offs as a result," he maintains. A veteran of the Navy, he served from 1945 to 1953. Garay sailed as relief bartender and waiter on the Wilson Line excursion runs along the Hudson River at the beginning of his career. LUIGE lOVINO^BooV No. 1-11— No. 20 On Ballot First started sailing with the SIU in 1946, and has shipped in both steward and deck departments since that time. Took part in 1946 general strike, the Wall Street strike and was active in the Isthmian organizing campaign. Also helped organize Government workers. On many occasions during the past fourteen years, has taken role in shipboard responsibility by serving as delegate. Now serving as joint patrolman in New York. PASQUALE (Pat) MARINELLI—Book No. M-462— No. 21 On Ballot Have been sailing in the SIU since 1950 when I joined in the Port of New York. Sailed in the deck department as AB and carpenter. Have active Union record and have participated in all major Union beefs and organizing activities since joining the Union. Took part in many successful organizing campaigns in Puerto Rico. Served as .Patrolman in the Port of New York and now serving in that capacity in San Francisco. E. B. "Mac" McAULEY—Book No. M-20—No. 22 On BaUot Have been member of the SIU since 1943. Sailed all zones during World War II in both steward and engine departments. Was an official SIU observer during 1946 Isthmian election. Was acting Savannah agent in 1946. Have been ship's delegate and engine del­ egate on numerous ships. Was patrolman-dispatcher in Savannah during 1952-53. Served as headquarters organizer in 1953-54. New York dispatcher in 1954. New York joint patrolman 1955-56. Elected Savannah Agent 1957-58. Part of 1958-61 worked on head­ quarters staff. Was West Coast representative in 1962-64, and New York Patrolman since then. GEORGE MCCARTNEY—Book No. M.948— No. 23 On^llot Started sailing in 1949. Have sailed in all departments at one time or another aboard freighters, tankers and passenger vessels. Have been departmental or ship's delegate aboard most ships on which I sailed. Came ashore in 1961 to serve as patrolman in New York and Philadelphia. Served as agent in the Port of Wilmington, California, for two years. Was reassigned to headquarters in Janu­ ary of 1964 where I am presently serving as patrolman. If elected, will represent the membership to the best of my ability and will at all times abide by the Constitution and policies of the Union. FRANK MONGELLI—Book No. M-1111— No. 24 On BaUot Started sailing in 1938 in the deck department. Came ashore to work for SIU in 1952. Has served in numerous capacities including building superintendent for five years. In charge of SIU training school activities including responsibility for lifeboat class, entry training and upgrading. Active in all SIU beefs since coming ashore including longshore, American Coal, Bull Line strike, Robin Line and SS Cleopatra. Has a clear record on all Union beefs. Elected New York joint patrolman in 1960, and 1964. ANGUS CAMPBELL—Book No. C-217—No. 17 On BaUot I have been a member of the Union since 1943, sailing in the deck department. I served as a voluntary organizer in the successful Isthmian organizing campaign and the Cities Service organizing campaign. 1 have been active in practically all Union strikes and have strike clearance in all major beefs. On most ships that I have sailed I have served as department and ship's delegate. Throughout the years I have been elected and served on various constitutional committees such as the Union financial committee, balloting com­ mittee. In 1960-63 I served as joint patrolman in the Port of New York. Since 1963 I have been serving as acting agent in San Juan, Puerto Rico. KEITH TERPE—Book No. T-3 No. 25 On Ballot Sailed throughout World War II. Was headquarters organizer during 1949-51, active in winning successful Cities Service drive. Also served as acting port agent in Lake Charles during 1950-51. Helped organize several other non-union companies. Was New York patrolman, contract negotiator and headquarters representative 1951-1952. Elected NY joint patrolman 1955-56, 1960-64, and 1964-68. Have been serving Union in Puerto Rico. No. 18 On BaUot STEVE (Zubovicb) TROY- -Book No. T-485— No. 26 On BaDot I sailed in both the steward and deck departments before coming ashore in 1957. Since then have been employed by the Seafarers International Union in various capacities. I served as dispatcher, patrolman and welfare representative. I have been active in various beefs and organizing drives such as the American coal beef, Bull beef, Robin Line and most recently the Puerto Rican organizing drive. Have served as Boston Port Agent, and New York patrolman. First sailed on Seafarers International Union ships in 1944. Re­ ceived full book in 1945. Have clearance for all major beefs while shipping. Was in US Navy in 1946. Then returned to sea. Sail in deck department. Elected ship's delegate or deck delegate on ma­ jority of ships I sailed on. Elected New York Joint Patrolman 1960-64, and 1964-68. During the last term I have been assigned as Agent in Seattle. JOHN F. FAY—Book No. F.363— �October 25, 1968 Supplement—Page Pour ELI HANOVER—Book No. H-313— For: Philadelphia Agent I have been a member in good standing of the SIU since March, 1941. I have served as dispatcher from August, 1953 to February, 1954. I then returned to the sea and sailed as able seaman until I came ashore to run as patrolman in Baltimore in 1956. I have been elected joint patrolman for the past four elections. I feel I am well qualified to hold office because of the many beefs I have been involved in since I have been in this Union, including the 1946 strike and all major beefs since. (Vote For One) FRANK DROZAK—Book No. 0-22— No. 33 On Ballot No. 27 On BaUot Joined SIU in 1944 from port of Mobile. Sailed boatswain. Elected ship's delegate on most of contracted vessels. Active in all major beefs: Cities Service, Isthmian, Moore-McCormack, NMU, Railroad Strike, SS Atlantic Beef, Teamster beefs in Puerto Rico and Philadelphia. Acting port agent in New York from 1959 to 1961. Port Agent Philadelphia since 1962 and reassigned to Port Agent, San Francisco. TONY KASTINA—Book No. K-5— No. 34 On BaUot I have been employed by the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District since June 9, 1950. EKiring that time, I have served as dispatcher, patrolman and have handled the Union Welfare Plan for a number of years. Also active in Baltimore and other areas including the American Coal beef. I have all strike clearances since joining the SIU. For: Philadelphia Joint Patrolman (Vote For Two) BENJAMIN WILSON—Book No. W-217— No. 35 On BaUot BELARMINO (Bennie) GONZALEZ—Book No. G-4No. 28 'On Ballot Joined the SIU in 1938, in Tampa. Active in organizing P&O Line and in subsequent P&O strike. Helped organize Florida East Coast Carferry in 1940. Was New York dispatcher in 1946-47, steward department patrolman in 1948. Elected Baltimore steward patrolman in 1949. Served as AFL organizer in Florida. Was patrol­ man in Tampa, patrolman and dispatcher in New York during 1953-54. Elected Tampa joint patrolman in 1955-56. Elected Philadelphia Joint Patrolman 1964-68. LEON HALL, JR.—Book No. H-125—No. 29 On BaUot I started sailing with the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District in 1943 and worked for the Union since 1957 in various positions. I was elected joint patrolman in the Port of Baltimore in 1964. Was active in the Isthmian drive and all strikes since joining SIU. For: Mobile Agent (Vote For One) Joined Union in the Port of Mobile, Ala., in 1939. Shipped out in the steward department. Worked up to rating of chief steward after serving as cook or cook and baker. Inducted into service in 1942 during World War II. Returned to shipping in 1946. Partici­ pated in the general strike, 1946; also Isthmian organizing and WaU Street strikes and many other Union beefs. Was elected to the Port of Philadelphia as joint patrolman in 1964. LOUIS NEIRA—Book No. N-1— Joined the SIU in the Port of NY in 1943. Sailed in the engine department. Appointed organizer in Mobile in 1945. Organized Mobile Towing Company and.other towboat companies in Mobile and Gulf area. Chairman of strike committee in Mobile for 1946 general strike. Active in 1947 Isthmian strike and numerous other Union beefs. Served as acting SIU agent, patrolman and organizer in Mobile and other ports. Appointed Miami port agent in 1958. Elected Tampa agent for 1959-1960. Elected Mobile agent, 19601968. For: Baltimore Agent (Vote For One) ALFRED H. ANDERSON—Book No. A-11 No. 30 On Ballot Having sailed in the deck department for 29 years and having worked in the Port of Norfolk as patrolman, I feel that I am fully qualified for this position. I am in favor, of a larger pension for the membership as well as a prescribed period of employment for re­ tirement. Also I believe that all SIU officials should be elected by membership rather than appointed. REXFORD DICKEY—Book No. D- No. 31 On Ballot I was elected and served as patrolman for 10 years, from 19381948. During World War II, I took a leave of absence and shipped as AB, and also served as patrolman and organizer during the Isthmian Line drive. I shipped as AB from 1948-1952. In May of 1952 I was appointed patrolman in which position I served until 1964 when I was elected as Baltimore port agent. I was active in the 1946 strike and on all picket lines established by SIU affiliates in and around Baltimore. No. 36 On BaUot Joint Patrolman For: (Vote For Four) imm oHi w IB* Baa (Vote For Four) W. PAUL GONSORCHIK- -Bo(^ No. G-2— No. 32 On Ballot Joined SIU in 1938 at its inception. Sailed as chief steward, chief cook and baker. Elected dispatcher in 1940. Elected as Rank and File Committee member to Washington, D.C., 1942, War Defense Mediation Board for War Bonus. Sailed for five months in 1943 on leave of absence. Participated in all major beefs, including general strike, 1946, U.F.A., Cities Service and Isthmian beefs and strikes. Served as negotiator and on strike com­ mittee. Served as dispatcher, patrolman and agent in Port of Nor­ folk, Va., and agent in Port of San Francisco. Presently, patrol­ man in Port of Baltimore. Sailing since 1928 and Union repre­ sentative for 28 years. HB MM aaa • HAROLD J. FISCHER—Book No. F-1—No. 37 On BaUot Have been a member of the SIU since 1938. Sailed steadily in the engine department during the war until December, 1943 when I was appointed Mobile branch dispatcher. Was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944 and discharged in 1946. Returned to sea, serv­ ing again in Mobile as patrolman-dispatcher from 1946 to 1950. Served as Port of San Francisco agent and West Coast representa­ tive, 1950 through 1952. Elected Mobile joint patrolman, serving from 1953 to 1964. Reelected in 1964 to serve until 1968. Have clear strike record all beefs. ROBERT L. JORDAN—Book No. J-1 For: Baltimore Joint Patrolman V*-/ V! . 1' No. 38 On BaUot Sailed as a member in the engine department since 1938. Was organizer in the Gulf Area for Isthmian ships and tugboats from September, 1945, on. Served as Mobile engine department patrol­ man in February, 1946 as well as acting dispatcher and organizer in the port. Was elected engine patrolman in Mobile in each elec­ tion from 1949 to 1956. Elected joint patrolman from 1956 to 1968. Active in all SIU beefs and picketing actions for many years. Have strike clearance records. LEO MARSH—Book No. M-9— >1* No. 39 On BaUot I have been a member of the SIU since its inception and have always sailed in the steward department, in all ratings and on almost all types of vessels under Union contract. Have clearances for all SIU strikes and beefs since the Union was organized and have taken active part in all of them. Was appointed steward patrolman for the Port of Mobile in December, 1951. Elected Mobile steward patrolman, 1953-1956. Elected Mobile joint patrol­ man, 1957 through 1968. •» % 4 'i' • �October 25, 1968 Supplement—Page Five BLANTON (Mack) McGOWAN—Book No. M-1351— No. 40 On Ballot PAUL WARREN—Book No. W-3— No. 47 On BaUot Joined the SIU in 1938. Sailed in the deck department with all deck department ratings. Sailed during World War II in all theaters of operation. Participated and took an active part in all SIU beefs since the inception of the Union as an active member. Appointed to various jobs in the Union including Great Lakes organizer. Cities Service and Isthmian organizer and patrolman. Worked as joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans for the past 15 years. Presently joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans. Brother McGowan sailed with the SIU since 1957. A bosun, he joined in New Orleans. He lives in McCool, Mississippi, with his wife and three daughters. Last sailing on the Steel Artisan, Brother McGowan believes he can "oflFer experience and represent the men well in the position of patrolman." WILLIAM J. MORRIS—Book No. M-4No. 41 On Ballot Have sailed since 1939 and through World War II. Appointed acting agent for Jacksonville in March, 1945. Later assigned to New York and then to Norfolk as patrolman. Served as acting agent at Charleston, S.C. Appointed patrolman for Mobile 1947; served as deck patrolman in Mobile in 1948; joint patrolman in 1949; deck patrolman 1953-1956 and 1958-1960 and served as such until Savannah hall closed. Elected as joint patrolman in Mobile 1961-1964 but was assigned Jacksonville port agent. Have taken part in Union beefs and strikes and hold strike clearance records. For: Fon Houston Agent (Vote For One) PAUL DROZAK—Book No. D-180— Became SIU member in 1945 in Mobile, Ala. Active in many major Union strikes and beefs from 1946 general strike to present Served as Seattle and San Francisco patrolman from 1951 to 1954. Served a two year hitch in the U.S. Army, 1954 to 1956 and then was assigned as New York patrolman. Major assignment was on Robin Line beef where I was active for a full year from time the ships were sold until SIU won the beef. Have clear Union record. Elected New York joint patrolman in 1958, and agent in I960. Elected Houston port agent in 1964. Orleans Agent (Vote For One) (Vote For Four) MARTIN (Marty) BREITHOFF—Book No. B-2— No. 49 On BaUot Started sailing with SIU in 1942 and sailed during World War II in the combat zones in both engine and steward departments. Served on grievance committee in Tampa during 1946 general strike. Was shipboard organizer at start of Cities Service drive in 1946. Served as chief dispatcher. Port of New York, in 1951 and 1952. Elected NY joint patrolman 1953 to 1956. San Francisco agent for four years. Elected Houston Joint Patrolman 1964-68. One of the early members of the SIU, joining in December, 1938. Active in 1939 Isthmian strike, 1939 bonus strike, 1946 general strike and 1947 Isthmian strike when company signed. Served A&G District in many capacities from dispatcher to agent in New Orleans. Sailed in all combat zones during WW II. Elected New Orleans engine or joint patrolman since 1947 in ever>' election up to 1960 when I was elected as Port Agent. Have participated in many Union beefs. • #.-r (Vote For Four) !-• ERNEST C. de BAUTTE—Book No. 0-208— No. 43 On Ballot Born January 8, 1920 in Lucy, La. Veteran of World War 11. Started going to sea, August 14, 1947, shipping out of New Orleans. Shipped out of New York from 1954 to the middle of 1963. Active in all strikes. Going to sea for 21 years, with better than 16 years seatime in deck department. Union dues paid up to end of 1971; have always been a member in good standing. My great grand­ father came to what was then the Isle of Orleans in 1790. His name was Douglas de Bautte. I believe in walking erect before God and man. Have been delegate aboard many ships. All my seatime was aboard SIU ships, with but 67 days on a tanker, which the SIU was trying to organize. THOMAS E. GOULD—Book No. G-267— No. 44 On BaUot Joined SIU in Port of New Orleans on December 23, 1942. Sailed regularly throughout the war years. Active in Union's post­ war organizing campaigns in the Isthmian and Cities Service fleets. Took part in 1946 general strike and other major beefs through the years. Elected to various rank and file committees. Served as welfare services representative, dispatcher and patrolman in New York. Also served in Seattle. Elected New York deck patrolman in 1955-1956. Elected joint patrolman in New Orleans in 19561958. Presently serving as joint patrolman in New Orleans. LOUIS GUARINO—Book No. G-520—No. 45 On BaUot Have been sailing since 1946, in the deck department the ma­ jority of the time. Last ship was the SS Del Norte in the capacity of boatswains mate. Participated in various beefs and picket lines in and around the Port of New Orleans, for the SIU and other unions. Acted as delegate on various ships. Was appointed joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans in July of I96I and have been joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans since July of 1961. Presently joint patrolman in the Port of New Orleans. HERMAN M. TROXCLAIR—Book No. T-4— No. 46 On Ballot Joined SIU in March, I94I, and have been active in Union since that date in all strikes, beefs and organizational campaigns, serving on many committees. During World War II sailed widely in many combat areas. Always sailed in steward department. Was first elected steward department patrolman for New Orleans in 1948. Was reelected for 1949 and 1950. Elected steward patrolman in same port for '52, '53, '54. Elected joint patrolman in I960. Strike clearances for all beefs. I For: Houston Joint Patrolman C. J. "Buck" STEPHENS—Book No. S-4No. 42 On Ballot For: New Orleans Joint Patrolman No. 48 On BaUot "Pete" DREWES—Book No. D-177— No. 50 On BaUot Started sailing during World War II at age 16, servicing most of the major war areas. Have clearances for all major strikes. Origi­ nally came ashore in 1959 to participate in organizing drive on Great Lakes. Have worked in various capacities, thereby obtaining a broad knowledge of the functions of the Union. Assigned in the fall of 1966 to Yokohoma, Japan, servicing contracted vessels in the Far East area. ROAN LIGHTFOOT—Book No. L.562—No. 51 On BaUot Began sailing with the SIU in 1952 and sailed as AB and bosun. Have been active in all organizing campaigns and Union beefs since coming into the SIU. Served in various capacities in the Port of Houston. Am now serving as patrolman in the Port of Houston. JOSEPH N. MCLAREN—Book No. M.1209— No. 52 On BaUot I would like to become an official of the Union because I like that kind of work and I think that I can serve my Union in an efficient capacity. The Union has done a great deal for me. I would like to get in a position to help the Union as much as possible. I have sailed as ship's delegate many times and at the present I am ship's delegate on the Steel Maker. I have all strike clearance stamps in my book. ROBERT F. "Mickey" WILBURN—Book No. W-6— No. 53 On BaUot Joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans on August 8, 1944. Sailed in the deck department and have AB's rating. Have served in all major Union beefs and organizing campaigns. Participated in the 1946 general strike and have strike clearance. Was active in a great many successful organizing campaigns in behalf of the Union in the tugboat and other inland fields. Presently serving as agent in Port Arthur. Texas. For: Detroit Agent (Vote For One) FRANK "Scottie" AUBUSSON-^Book No. A-8— No. 54 On BaUot Joined the SIU, A&G District, in 1942 and sailed with the Union during World War 11. Active in numerous major strikes and beefs of the Union, including the 1946 general strike, the 1947 Isthmian strike and many other beefs since then. Served as dispatcher at headquarters in 1955-60 and also as headquarters patrolman. Served as organizer and patrolman on Great Lakes. Elected Detroit Agent 1964-68. . T �JS^-' October 26, 1968 Supplement—Page Six SlU Constitution Ruies on Eiections Article Xiii Elections for Officers, Headquarters Representatives, Port Agents and Patrolmen i Section 3. Balloting Procedures. (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as to candidates or ports. The ballots may contain general information and in­ structive comments not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within each category. The listing of the ports shall follow a geographical pattern, commencing with the most northerly port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast down to the most southerly port on that coast, then westerly al6ng the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of ports is exhausted. Any port outside the Continental United States shall then be added. There shall be allotted write-in space, on each ballot, sufificient to permit each member voting to write in as many names as there are ofiRces and jobs to be voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said number to be easily removed to insure secrecy of the ballot. On this removable portion shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature of the ballot and the voting date thereof. (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the SecretaryTreasurer shall be the only official ballots. No others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as indicated in the pre­ ceding paragraph and shall be numbered consecutively, com­ mencing with number 1. A sufficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain separate rec­ ords of the ballots sent him and shall inspect and coimt the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer as having been sent to that port. The Port Agent shall immediately execute and return to the Secretary-Treasurer a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrepancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and correspondence dealing with the election. This file shaU at all times be available to any member asking for inspection of the same at the office of the Secretary-Treasurer. (c) BaUoting shall take place in person, at port offices, and shall be secret. No signatures of any voter, or other distinguish­ ing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except that any member may write in the name or names of any member or members, as appropriate, for any office, or the job of Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (d) Only full book members may vote. However, immediately prior thereto they must present their books to the Polls Com­ mittee of the port in which they are voting. The voter's book number shall ibe placed upon the roster sheet (which shaU be kept in duplicate) in the space opj^site the proper ballot num­ ber, and the member shaU sign his name. The portion of the baUot on which the ballot number is printed shall then be re­ moved, placed near the roster sheet, and the member shall pro­ ceed to the voting site with the ballot. An appropriate notation of the date and of the fact of voting shall be placed in the member's Union book. (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the establish­ ment of a booth or. other voting site where each member may vote in privacy. (f) Upon completion of voting the member shaU fold the baUot so that no part of the printed or written portion is visible. He shall then drop the baUot into a narrow-slotted baUot box, which shaU be provided for that purpose by the Port Agent and kept locked and sealed except as hereinafter set forth. (g) Voting shaU commence on November Ist of the election year and shtJl continue through December 31st, exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holidays legaUy recog­ nized in the city in which the port affected is located. If No­ vember Ist or December 31st falls on a holiday legaUy recog­ nized in a port in the city in which that port is located, the bdloting period in such port shall commence or terminate, as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. Subject to the foregoing^ voting in all ports shjfi conunence at 9:00 A.M., and continue until 5:00 P.M. except that, on Saturdays, voting shaU commence at 9:00 A.M. and continue until 12 noon. Sactloii 4. Polls CominlttaM. (a) Each port shaU elect, prior to the beginning of tbe voting on each voting day, a PoUs Committee, consisting of three full book members none of whom shalLbe a candidate, officer or an elected or appointed job holder." For the purpose of holding a meeting for the election of a PoUs Committee only, and not­ withstanding tbe provisions of Article XXIH, Section 2, or any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) members shaU con­ stitute a quorum for each port, with the said meeting to be held between 8:00 A.M. and 9:W A.M. with no notice there­ of required. It shaU be the obligation of each member wish­ ing to serve on a PoUs Committee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present during this time period. It shaU be the responsibility of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purpose of electing the said FoUs Committee is called, and that the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to the SecretaryTreasurer. In no case shall voting take place unless a duly elected PoUs Committee is functioning. (b) The duly elected PoUs Committee shall collect all un­ used ballots, tie voting rosters, the numbered stubs of those ballots^ already used, the ballot box or boxes and the ballot records and files kept by the Port Agent. It shall then proceed to compare the serial numbers and amounts of stubs with the number of names and corresponding serial numbers on the roster, and then compare the serial number and amounts of ballots used with the verification list, as corrected, and ascer­ tain whether the unused ballots, both serial numbers and amount, represent the difference between what appears on the verification list, as corrected, and the ballots used. If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon shall he drawn by the PoUs Committee finding such discrepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed by aU the members of •such'Polls Committee. Each member of the Comm-ttee may make what separate comments thereon he desires, provided they are signed and dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given the Port Agent, to be presented at the next regular meet­ ing. A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the SecretaryTreasurer, who shall cause an investigation to be made forth­ with. The results of such investigation shall be reported to the membership as soon as completed, with recommendations by the Secretary-Treasurer. A majority vote of the membership shall determine what action, if any, shall be taken thereon. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Con­ stitution, the Executive Board shall not make any determina­ tion in these matters. (c) The PoUs Committee shall also insure that the baUot box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall not be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding paragraph with regard to dis­ crepancies shall be utilized in the event the PoUs Committee has reason to believe the lock and seal have been iUegally tampered with. (d) The PoUs Committee shaU permit full book members only to vote. Prior thereto, it shall stamp their book with the word "voted" and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure that proper registration on the roster takes place, collect stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preserve good order and decorum at the voting site and vicinity thereof. AU members and others affiliated with the Union are charged with the duty of assisting the PoUs Committee, when called upon, in the preservation of order and decorum. (e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors or irregularities in any one day's balloting affecting all the balloting in any port, the foUowing procedure shall be observed: At the end of each day's voting, the PoUs Committee, in the presence of any member desiring to attend, provided he ob­ serves proper decorum, shall open the ballot box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots therein in an envelope, as required, which shall then be sealed. The members of the PoUs Commit­ tee shall thereupon sign their names across the flap of the said envelope or envelopes, with their book numbers next to their signatures. The committee shall also place the date and name of the Port on the said envelopes, and shall certify, on the enve­ lope or envelopes, that the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of those ballots are enclosed in the envelope or enve­ lopes dated for that day and voted in that Port. The PoUs Com­ mittee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem appropriate, to insure the foregoing. At the discretion of the Executive Board official envelopes may be prepared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording embodying the foregoing inscribed thereon, in which event these envelopes shall be used by the PoUs Commitee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any member of a PoUs Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided the comments are signed and dated by the member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed in a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of the Ex­ ecutive Board, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or registered mail, by the said PoUs Com­ mittee, to the depository named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The PoUs Committee shaU not he discharged from its duties until this mailing is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. The PoUs Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys to the boxes in an envelope, across the flap of which the members of the committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after seal­ ing the envelope securely. In addition to deUvering the key and ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the PoUs Committee shall deliver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they may have received, and aU the stubs collected both for the day and those turned over to it. The Port Agent shaU be responsible for the proper safeguarding of all the aforesaid material, shall not release any of it untU duly called for, and shall insure that no one illegaUy tampers with the material placed in his custody. The remaining copy of each roster sheet used for the day shaU be mailed by the PoUs Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer, by certified or registered mail or delivered in person. (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without com­ pensation, except Uiat the Port Agent shaU compensate each PoUs Committee member with a.reasonable sum forlineals whUe serving or provide meals in lieu of cash. Sactlon 5. Ballot Collection, Tollying Procedure, Pretests, end Speciol Votes. (a) On the day the balloting in each port is to terminate, the PoUs Committee elected for that day shall, in addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, deliver to headquarters, or aiail to headquarters (by certified or registered mail), aU the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed °and dated by all members of the Committee that all ballots sent to the port and not used are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make_ separate coniments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, tbe committee shall forward to headquarters all stubs collected dur­ ing the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by all members of the committee, that all the stubs collected by the committee are enclosed therewith subject to the right of each member of the committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The said PoUs Committee members shall not be discharged from their duties until the forwarding called for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of mailing or de­ livery is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept in the Port Agent's election records or files. (b) AU forwarding to headquarters called for under this Section 5, shall be to the Union TaUying Committee, at the address of headquarters. In the event a PoUs Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port is to terminate, the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifically set forth in Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the Union TaUying Committee, which wiU then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said PoUs Committee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union TaUying Com­ mittee to execute those functions. AU certifications caUed for under this Article XIII shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, and belief of those required to make such certification. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 full book members. Two shall be elected from each of the seven ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, Houston, and Detroit. The election shall be held at the regular meeting in December of the election year, or if the Ex­ ecutive Board otherwise determines prior thereto, at a special meeting held in the aforesaid ports on the first business day of the last week of said month. No Officer, Headquarters Repre­ sentative, Port Agent, Patrolman, or candidate for office, or the job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this Committee, except as pro­ vided for in Article X, Section 4. In addition to its duties here­ inbefore set forth, the Union TaUying Committee shaU be charged with the taUying of all the ballots and the preparation of a closing report setting forth, in complete detail, the results of the election, including a complete accounting of all baUots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with de­ tailed reference to serial numbers and amounts and with each total broken down into port totals. The TaUying Committee shall be permitted access to the election records and files of all ports, which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at its discretion. The report shall clearly detail all discre­ pancies discovered, and shall contain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. AU members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the baUots, with pertinent details. The TaUying Committee is also charged with the receipt and evaluation of written protests by any member who claims an illegal denial of the right to vote. If it finds the protests in­ valid, it shall dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest vaUd, the committee shall order a special vote, to be had no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are practical, effective, and just, hut which terms, in any event, shall include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shall apply, not­ withstanding any provision to the contrary contained in this Article. Protests may he made only in writing and must be received by the Union TaUying Committee during the period of its proceedings. The reports of this committee shaU include a brief summary of each protest received, the name and book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the dis­ position of the said protest. The committee shaU take aU rea­ sonable measures to adjust the course of its proceedings so as to enable the special vote se( forth in this Section 5(c) to be completed within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by it unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shaU have been duly completed and tallied. (d) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shaU proceed to the port in which headquarters is located, as soon aa possible after their election but, in any event, shall arrive at that port , prior to the first business day after December 31 of the election year. Each member of the committee not elected from the port in which headquarters is located shaU be reim­ bursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expenses occa­ sioned by their traveling to and returning from that Port. All members of the committee shall also be paid at the prevaUing standby rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which they were elected. The Union TaUying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt its own procedures. Decision as to special votes, �October 25. 1968 Snpplement—Page Seren SlU CONSTITUTION RULES ON ELECTIONS Continued protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum in attend­ ance, which quorum is herehy fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not less than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immediately after the termination of balloting and to insure their safe custody during the course of the commit­ tee's proceedings. The proceedings of this committee, except for the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents there­ from, if any, shall be open to any member, provided he observes decorum. In no event, shall the issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying Committee be delayed beyond the January 1.5th immediately subsequent to the close of voting. The Union Tallying Committee shall be discharged upon the completion of the issuance and dispatch of its reports as required in this Article. In the event a recheck and recount is ordered pursuant to Section 5(g) of this Article, the com­ mittee shall be reconstituted except that if any member thereof is not available, a substitute therefore shall be elected from the appropriate port, at a special meeting held for that purpose as soon as possible. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up in suffi­ cient copies to comply with the following requ'rements: two copies shall be sent by the committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting sched­ uled to take place subsequent to the close of the committee's proceedings or, in the event such meeting is scheduled to take place four days or less from the close of this committee's pro­ ceedings, then at least five days prior to the next regular meet­ ing. Whichever meeting applies shall be designated, by date, in the report and shall be referred to as the "Election Report Meeting." As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. This copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election Report Meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any, referred to in Section 5(c) of this Article and the recommendations of the Tallying Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in accordance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results of the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Report Meeting, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more members of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section 5(f) the closing report shall be accepted as final. (g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Section 5(f) must take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election Report Meeting, at each port where the discrepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the foregoing, and to the limits of the vote set by the membership, as aforesaid, the Port Agents in each such port shall have the functions of the Tally­ ing Committee as set forth in Section 5(c), insofar as that Section deals with the terms of such special vote. The Secre­ tary-Treasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immediately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such special vote. Immediately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and com­ municate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall be forwarded to tbe Secretary-Treasurer, all in the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means prac­ ticable, but, in any case, so as to reach tbe Secretary-Treasurer in time to enable him to prepare his report as required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certification, made by tbe Port Agent, similar to those required of Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report containing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule indicating in detail how they affect the Union Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in its clos­ ing report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent to eacb port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report Meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent segments of the Tallying Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modi­ fication. If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report thereon by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of and deemed accepted and final, by majority vote of the mem­ bership at the regular meeting following the Election Report Meeting. If such recheck and recount is ordered, the Union Tallying Committee shall be required to continue its proceed­ ings correspondingly. Section 6. Installation into office and the Job of Headquarters Representative, Port Agent or Patrolman. (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or job involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for a particular office or job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from the results deemed final and accepted as provided in this Article. It shall be the duty of the President to notify each individual elected. (b) The duly elected officers and other job holders shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report Meet­ ing, or the next regular meeting, depending upon which meet­ ing the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed find and accepted, as provided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Section 1. This shall not apply where the successful candi­ date cannot assume his office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected President to assume office the provisions of Article X, Section 2, as to succession shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. Section 7. The Secretary-Treasurer is specifically charged with the preservation and retention of all election records, including the ballots, as required by law, and is directed and authorized to issue such other and further directives as to tbe election procedures as are required by law, which directives shall be part of the election procedures of this Union. i1 ' 'L V 1. 1 ADDITION TO VOTING PROCEDURES IN FORTHCOMING ELEGION OF OFFICERS (Under Article Xm, Section 7, of the Union's Constitntion, the Secretary-Treasurer of the Union^ A1 Kerr, pre­ sented the following "Addition To The Voting Procednres In The Forthcinning Election Officers." These proce­ dures were adopted by the membership in the May and June membership meetings and are now a part of the dection procedures of the Uiiion.) President's Pre-balloting Report Article X, Section 1, "The President" Sub-section (e), provides that the President's Pre-balloting Report shall be submitted to the membership at the regular meeting in July of every election year. It is recommended to the membership in this connection that such Pre-balloting Re­ port be made both at the June and July meetings so as to give more than adequate notice to any prospective nom­ inee for office. Provision for Nomination by Others Article XIII, Section 1, "Nominations," provides for self-nomination to office. In order to square any ambigu­ ity as to the meaning of this section, it is recommended that a member may place his name in nomination or have his name placed in nomination by any other member, and further, that in either event, such member nominated must comply with the provisions of the Constitution, as they are set forth, relating to the submission of credentials. This change is an amplification of the existing provisions of the (Constitution and should not be construed to be an alteration of same. his ballot number and the date on which such ballot was Absentee Ballot sent, which information shall be turned over to the Union Article XIII, Sections 3 and 4, "Balloting Procedures" Tallying Committee, when elected, in accordance with and "Polls Committee," of the Constitution, provide that balloting shall be manual in nature. It is now recom­ Article XIII, Section 5(c) of the Constitution. The mem­ mended that the following absentee ballot procedure be ber, after voting, shall return his absentee ballot by Regis­ presented to the membership upon advice of counsel as tered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing device an amplification of such provisions. Full book members at the location from which such absentee ballot is returned, may request an absentee ballot under the following cir­ if such be the case, to the depository named in the Presi­ cumstances only. While such member is employed on an dent's Pre-balloting Report. These absentee ballots must American-flag merchant vessel, which vessel's schedule be post-marked prior to midnight of December 31, 1968, does not provide for it to touch a port in which voting is and must be received by the depository named in the to take place during the voting period provided in Article President's Pre-balloting Report, prior to January 10, XIII, Section 3(g) of our Constitution. In that event, the 1969, regardless of when post-marked, for them to be member shall make a request for an absentee ballot by counted as eligible votes. Such ballots will be maintained Registered or Certified Mail, or the equivalent mailing separately by such depository and shall then be turned device at the location from which such request is made, over to the Union Tallying Committee, as provided in if such be the case. Such request must contain a designa­ Section 5(d) of Article XIII, of the Constitution. tion as to the address to which such member wishes his ' absentee ballot returned. Such request shall be received no later than 12:00 PM on the fifteenth day of November of the election year and shall be directed to the Secretary- Committee Procedure Treasurer at 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New York If during balloting at any location, a procedural error 11232. Upon receipt of such request, the procedures as in casting a ballot occurs, e.g., a member having previ­ established in Article XIII, Section 3(d) of our Constitu­ ously voted or ineligible to vote casts a ballot, then the tion, shall not apply. The Secretary-Treasurer shall be ballots contained in that ballot envelope shall be set aside. responsible for determining whether such member is a If the amount of such ballots are not determinative of the member in good standing, and, further, whether such mem­ election of any office, they shall not be counted. If the ber has, in fact, voted previously. He shall send the proc­ amount of such ballots would be determinative of the essed ballot by Registered Mail—Return Receipt Re­ election of any office or offices, then the eligible members quested to the address designated by such member in his whose ballots were not counted shall be afforded a second absentee ballot request. The Secretary-Treasurer shall send opportunity to vote, only for such office or offices as to to such member with his ballot, instructions for returning which such ballots were determinative. The procedures the ballot, which instructions must be complied with ex­ for such second opportunity shall be in accordance with actly. The Secretary-Treasurer shall further maintain a the constitutional provisions for special vote for office and record showing the name, book number of the member, in accordance with applicable law. I # �•• •• • No. 0000 OFFICIAL BALLOT For Election of 1969-1972 Officers ^qb'^ SIAFARCRS INHRNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMIRKA Atlantic, Oulf, Lak.s and Inland Waten Diitrict VOTING PfRIOD NOVIMMR lit, 1960 THROUGH DfClMOfR 3l(t, 1960 INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS-ln order fo veto for a candidafo, mark a crou (X) in voting iquore to the lift of nam*. If you vote for more .andldatet for office than specified herein your vote for such office will be invalid. YOU MAY V/RITE THE NAME OF ANY MEMBER WHOSE NAME DOES NOT AI>PEAR ON THE BALLOT IN THE BLANK SPACE PROVIDED FOR THAT PURPOSE UNDBt EACH OFFICE. ,o^ MO Do not use a lead pencil in marking the ballot. Ballots marked with lead pencil will not be counted. MARK YOUR BALLOT WITH PEN AND INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL NEW YORK JOINT PATROLMAN Vote for Ten PRESIDENT Vote for One 16 • 17 • 18 • 19 • 1 • Paul Hall, H-1 2 • Andrew Pickur, P-172 3 • Sidney Rothmon, R-325 r EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT Vote for One Ted Babkowski, B-1 Angus Campbell, C-217 John F. Fay, F-363 Rufino Garay, G-770 Luige lovino, 1-11 Pasquale (Pat) Marinelli, M-462 "A^uley, M-20 George McCartney, M-948 Frank Mongelli, M-1111 36 • MOBILE AGENT Vote for One Louis Neira, N-1 4 • Col Tanner, T-1 SECRETARY-TREASURER Vote for One 5• VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF CONTRACTS AND CONTRAa ENFORCEMENT Vote for One 6• 7O 4 i- 42 • Domingo Lo Llove, L-44 Robt. A. Matthews, PHILADELPHIA AGENT Vote for One 27 • » •: • Al Kerr, K-7 Frank Drozak, D-22 NEW ORLEANS AGENT Vote for One C. J. "Buck" Stephens, S-4 -s NEW ORLEANS JOINT PATROLMAN Vote for Four 43 44 45 46 47 • • O • • Ernest C. de Boutte, D-208 Thomas E. Gould, G-267 Louis Guarino, G-520 Herman M. Troxcloir, T-4 Paul Warren, W-3 PHILADELPHIA JOINT PATROLMAN Vote for Two VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF THE GULF COAST Vote for One 10 • 28 • Belarmino (Bennie) Gonzalez, G-4 29 • LeonHall, Jr., H-125 lindsey J. Williams, W-1 48 0 VICE-PRESIDENT IN CHARGE OF THE LAKES AND INLAND WATERS Vote for One P 4• 9 n • J. Al Tanner, T-12 30 O 31 • 12 • William W. Hall, H-272 13 • Edward X. Mooney, M-7 14 • Freddie Stewart, S-8 Paul Drozak, D-l 80 BALTIMORE AGENT Vote for One Alfred H. Anderson, A-11 Rexford Dickey, D-6 HOUSTON JOINT PATROLMAN Vote for Four 49 • 50 • 51 • 52 • 53 • HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES Vote for Three \ , J HOUSTON AGENT Vote for One Martin (Marty) Breithoff, B-2 "Pete" Drewes, D-177 Roan Lightfoot, L-562 Joseph N. McLaren, M-1209 Robert F. "Mickey" Wilburn, W-6 BALTIMORE JOINT PATROLMAN Vote for Four m • m NEW YORK PORT AGENT Vote for One 15 • Joseph DiGlorgio, D-2 32 • 33 • 34 O 35 • W. 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Lukens (R) VIRGINIA RRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRR �HOW YOUR VOTED I•" ^ff E , < 0 S i £• g "S 5 IB 1. Filibuster Rule The Senate's Rule 22 requires a two-thirds vote to stop a filibuster. Because of this, the Senate has been unable to act on repeal of Taft-Hartley's ^c. 14(b) and major civil rights bills. The filibuster has also been used to block any change in the rule. On Jan. 24, 1967, the Senate voted 53-46 for Majority Leader Mansfield's motion to close debate on the rules change, but it was defeated for lack of a two-thirds margin. For—right; Against—^wrong. 2. Compulsory Arbitration Sen. Ralph Yarborough sought to balance the com­ pulsory arbitration bill by an amendment impounding 10 percent of the railroads' profits during the period in which rail workers were prohibited from striking—thus creating an incentive for a voluntary settlement of the dispute. The amendment was rejected, 23-59, on June 7, 1967. For—right; Against—wrong. 3. Congressional Redlstricting A House-passed bill would have allowed states to evade one man-one vote standards for congressional districts until 1972. An amendment by Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) improved the bill by limiting the population variation to no more than 10 percent, begin­ ning with 1968 elections, and barring gerrymandering. It was adopted, 44-39, on June 8, 1967. For—^right; Against—wrong. 4. Political Contributions An amendment by Sen. John J. Williams (R.-Del.) to an election reform bill was aimed at the AFL-CIQ Committee on Political Education. It would have pre­ vented COPE from giving dollars voluntarily contributed by union members to endorsed candidates. The amend­ ment was rejected, 19-46, on Sept. 11, 1967. For— wrong; Against—aright. 2 5 I 9 - « = I E O ? o I 5 2 3 1 e 4 5 6 Mansfleld (D) Metcair (D) 9 a o t £ a >> & o 9 D o e fig NEBRASKA 0 1 8 9 7 ALABAMA Hill (D) Sparkman (D) "O I 6 lads • 9 It) II 12 ALASKA R R R R R R R R R R R R W R R R W — — R W W W W R W W R WWW W W — W W W — ARKANSAS Fnlbright (D) McClellan (D) W W W R W W W R R W W W R W — .R W W W — W W W — 4 •*' '. -ri' 12. Anti-Pavarty Funds A House-Senate conference committee recommended knocking out $75 million for the 1968 summer youth manpower training programs and $25 million from Head Start, The conference rqx>rt was rejected, 24-54, on Apr. 10, 1968.. iPbr—wrong; Against—bright. NEW HAMPSHIRE RRRRRRRRRW — R WWRWR-RRWWWR NEW JERSEY RRR— RR— RRRRR RRRWRRRRRRRR NEW MEXICO Anderson (D) Montoya (D) R WW — R R R WR RRW — RRR— R Kuchcl (R) Murphy (R) R W W R W W W W w Goodell (R) Javits (R) R R R W W R R R R W W R WWW'> —.R _ •^L _ See House RecordkWRRRRRRRRRR R R NORTH CAROLINA COLORADO Allott (R) Dominick (R) R R W W R W W R W W R W W R Ervin Jordan R R WWWR R WWR W — W — — WWR W W W R W W W R — WW — WWWW NORTH DAKOTA CONNECTICUT Burdick (O) Young (R) Dodd(D) Ribkoff (D) R R -R R R — R — R R R R R R R W R R R — R DELAWARE Bogga(R) WiUiams (R) R W R W W R W W W R R W W R R R W R W W W W Holbnd (D) Snuthers (D) W W W R W W W — W W R W W R W W W W — W — — Russell (D) Talmadge (D) W W W — W — W R W W R W W W W W W W W W W W W — R R W W W R R W R R R R R R R R R W R Church (D) Jordan (R) R ,R W -R "ir R R - R — ' W WWW R R — R W R W W W R r W W VV W R W W — — R W R R R R R R R W — R R Bayh (D) Hartke (D) R R W R R — W — R R — R R R R R — R W R R R W W w w w w — W W W W W W R W Hickenlooper (R) MUler (R) W R W W W W W Carlson (R) Pearson (R) R W R W R W W R R W W W W W W R W W Cooper (R) Morton (R) R R W R R W R W — — W W R W R W R R R R R R R W — W R W W W R Ellender (D) Long(D) W W VV R W W W R WWW WWW Muskie (D) Smith (R) R R W R W R — W R R W R W R R — R W W W W W Brewster (D) Tydings (D) R R — R W R R — R R R R R R — R R R R R R R Kennedy (D) Brooke (R) R R — R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R R — R HartCD) Gritrm (R) R R — R W R — R R R — R R R R R R R R R R R McOr^^) McCarthy Mondale i •^-R'-'vR R R -JR: J# : R R R R R R R R Mississippi Eastland (D) < Stenois(D) W W^w — w w w w w w w w W W W R w w w w w w w w MISSOURi LoogtD) SymingtM (DX R R R R W R ; R W — R — R R R — R R W R R — W R R RRRRRW — — — — WWR WWR W R \ RRR W- RRRRRRRRR W — — WW-r-WWW ' RRR — RRRRR— RR WWW WWWW W, WWWW R — R W R W R R R R H R — R R — — R WWW R R R WWW R WWW R WWWR WWWR R — R RRR RRRRRR RR RRRRRRRR; f'-k I J -I WWWW WWR R .•J WWW RWR R R WWWWWW R R R R R R WISCONSIN R R A''k R R RRRRRRRR R R R R R W W W IVYOMfNG McGee (D) Hansen (R) MINNESOTA RRR WWR WEST VIRGINIA Nelson (D) Proxmire (D) MICHIGAN R RRRWRRRR W — WWWWWWW 4H Byrd <D) Randolph (D) MASSACHUSETTS RRR WWR WASHINGTON Jackson (D) Magnuson1 (O) (D MARYLAND WWWW R WWR W W" R R WWWWWWWWWW W W VIRGINIA Byrd (D) Spong (D) MAINE i'f - s-,-1 VERMONT Aiken (R) Prouty (R) LOUISIANA • c~.. ; . UTAH Moss (D) Bennettt(R) ( KENTUCKY — — — R R -R TEXAS Yarborough (D) Tower (R) .w w w w RWR— RR— WR RRR— RRR — R TENNESSEE Gore (D) Baker sr (R) ( IOWA — R SOUTH DAKOTA McGovem (D) Mundt (R) INDIANA R R RWRRRRRRRRRR R WWRRWRRRRRR SOUTH CAROLINA Hollings (D) Thurmond (R) Dirksen , Percy (R R R RHODE ISLAND Pastore (D) Pell(D) - IDAHO RWR— RRRW R R W W — R R R WR PENNSYLVANIA Clark (D) Scott (R) HAWAII — RR— RRRWRR— R WW — R R R R WR WWW OREGON Morse (D) Hatfield (R) GEORGIA WWR — R WR — WW — — RWRRRRRWRRRR OKLAHOMA Harris (D) Monroney (D) FLORIDA RRRRRRRWRWRR WWW — R — WWWWWW OHIO Lausche (D) Young (D) KANSAS II. Head Start Pre-school children have been helped to overcome poverty handicaps through the Head Start program. An amendment by Sen. Clark (I>-Pa.) to appropriate $25 million for Head Start was approved, 43-42, on Mar. 11, 1968-^fter Vice Pres. Humphrey cast the tie-breaking vote. For—aright; Against—^wrong. WWR-.RWWRWWWR NEW YORK CALIFORNIA ILLINOIS 10. Emergency Jobs A labor-supported proposal by Sen. Prouty (R-Vt.) would have set up a one-year, $925 million emergency job program—a step in the direction of the large-scale program urged by the AFL-CIO and the Urban Coali­ tion. It lost, 42-47, on Oct. 4, 1967. For—^right; Against—^wrong. NEVADA WiUiams (D) Case (R) Hayden (D) Fannin (R) 6. Aid to Education A "states' rights" amendment to give control of federal school funds to state boards of education was rejected, 35-38, on Dec. 11, 1967. For—wrong; Against—right. 9. Rent Supplements Funds for rent supplements to help poor families live in decent housing would have been cut in half under an amendment rejected by the Senate, 34-55, on Sept. 20, 1967. For—wrong; Against—right. WWWWWWWWWWW WWWWWWWW WWWR Mclntyre (D) Cotton (R) W W ARIZONA Inouye (D) Fong(R) 8. Runaway Shops Many cities have used tax-exempt industrial bonds to finance plants as a lure to runaway industry—along with low wages and a non-union workforce. The Senate on Mar. 28, 1968, voted 50-32 to end this tax exemption. For—right; Against—wrong. Curtis (R) ( Hruska (R) Bible (D) Cannon (D) W W W W W W W W W — R WWW W W W R W W W R Bartlett (D) Gniening (D) 5. Social Security The Senate social security bill was greatly superior to the House-passed bill. An amendment to reduce benefits to the level of the House bill was defeated, 22-58, on Nov. 21, 1967. For—wrong; Against—^right. 7. Civil Rights A filibuster against the fair housing civil rights bill was broken when a motion to limit debate received the necessary two-thirds majority. The vote to end the filibuster was 65-32, on Mar. 4, 1968. For—right; Against—wrong. • = * 1334S67S9 10 1112 MONTANA W R R WW R R R R R R R W W W W^ W W R �October 25, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Catching Up with the LOG Page Nineteen Ilth-Hour Hearing on MIdbody Bill Poses New Battle in 91st Congress WASHINGTON—group of maritime labor and industry leaders delivered strong—^but too late —testimony in favor of the "Midbody" bill (H.R. 163) before a one-day hearing of the Senate Com­ merce Committee's subcommittee on Merchant Marine this month. Urging a prompt, favorable turn to foreign shipyards for the eign midbody was installed in a report by the full committee in vessels that are needed in our Toreign yard. hopes that the House-passed fleet. It would be unfortunate if, "This bill would broaden that measure could be enacted into law after Congress had directly re­ exclusion to prohibit use of for­ by the now adjourned 90th Con­ buffed the 'built-abroad' scheme, eign midbodies for three years as gress, Page Groton of the Boiler­ it should permit an indirect ap­ to both cargo preference cargo makers Iron Shipbuilders Marine proach to foreign building via the and military cargo, even if the Council spoke also on behalf of midbody route. Yet this is pre­ midbody .was towed to the U.S. the nearly seven-million member cisely what would happen if fed­ and put into a vessel in a U.S. AFL-CIO Maritime Trades De­ eral bureaucrats are permitted to shipyard," the Senator noted. partment, the American Tramp hand down interpretations making "Existing law has been con­ S. Perdikis, oiler, and Moses Broussard, third assistant engineer Ship Owners Association, and the these vessels eligible for the bene­ strued so as not to bar vessels and a member of MEBA, District 2, read about the latest shipping Western Shipbuilding Association. news while the Steel Chemist is tied up at Yokohama dock. Senator Daniel B. Brewster (D.- fits previously reserved for Ameri­ which have been rebuilt by the in­ sertion of foreign-built major can-built vessels. Md.) presided in the absence of "H.R. 163 breaks no new legis­ components of hull or superstruc­ subcommittee Chairman E. L. lative ground. It seeks only to ture where such components are Bartlett (D-Alaska). close loopholes in existing law— assembled into the rebuilt vessel in In a separate statement filed loopholes which have made pos­ the United States," Brewster with the subcommittee, the Mari­ sible bureaucratic interpretations added. time Trades Department pointed which are at odds with the intent In his support of the bill, WASHINGTON—The maritime industry has made progress in out that the introduction of for­ of Congress, as expressed in the Groton stated that the need for a eign-built midbodies into the the 90th Congress, Representative William S. Moorhead (D-Pa.), American-flag fleet is an attempt Merchant Marine Act of 1936, comprehensive program has been declared here recently, forecasting even "more substantive action" to get around the very clear intent and with the repeated decisions of repeatedly emphasized, but there Congress in the intervening years has been no program forthcom­ by the new Congress that will ^ from the 90th Congress, Moor- of the Merchant Marine Act of concerning the need for preserv­ ing, "and none can now be ex­ convene in January. head said, it did make members of 1936, which called for the de­ ing the American-built aspect of pected until next year—if then. In The Pennsylvania lawmaker Congress aware "of just how criti­ velopment of an American-owned, our fleet." the absence of a comprehensive said that the intensive activities cal our maritime posture is," and American-built and AmericanIn his opening remarks. Senator program it is necessary that inter­ by the nation's shipping and it stimulated both national parties manned merchant marine. Brewster had pointed out that, mediate steps be adopted to pre­ shipbuilding interests over the past to "include maritime planks in "In the past two years," the under existing law, a U.S.-flag vent a complete scuttling of the two years had created a climate their national platforms." On this MTD statement declared, "con­ ship with a foreign-built midbody U.S. maritime effort. H.R. 163 of opinion that will make it "far basis, he said, the maritime indus­ siderable controversy has sur­ is ineligible to carry preference is a stepping-stone to a stable easier" to win enactment of a try can expect "positive action in rounded the efforts by Transpor­ cargoes—for three years after maritime program." new maritime program in the 91st the immediate future." tation Secretary Alan S. Boyd to U.S. documentation—if the for"Briefly stated," Groton sum­ Congress. marized, "enactment of H.R. 163 Speaking to maritime manage­ would . . . provide equitable ment and union representatives at treatment for all U.S. shipping a meeting sponsored by the nearly operators who participate or who seven-million-member AIT^CIO desire to participate in the car­ October 4 October 17, 1968 Maritime Trades Department, riage of government - generated Moorhead lauded the industry for DECK DEPARTMENT cargoes." having "turned a national spot­ Also supporting the bill were TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH light on our shortcomings" in the All Groups All Groups Andrew Pettis, president of the maritime field. As a result of in­ Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Class A Class B Industrial Union of Marine and creased awareness, he said. Con­ Boston Shipbuilding Workers of America; 3 0 2 1 2 12 4 gress passed legislation giving the New York 49 62 38 42 16 179 111 Alfred Maskin, Director of Re­ 16 6 6 5 24 14 2 House Merchant Marine and Fish­ Philadelphia search and Legislation, American 23 19 98 24 8 3 38 eries Committee and the Senate Baltimore Maritime Association; Joseph 8 7 30 11 5 1 26 Norfolk Commerce Committee power to Jacksonville 10 12 14 2 20 11 18 Kahn, Chairman of the Board of recommend annual authorizations Tampa 7 7 3 6 2 18 19 the SlU-contracted Seatrain Lines; 30 14 27 10 4 20 Mobile 23 for the merchant fleet. and Edwin M. Hood, president of New Orleans 22 •31 10 17 116 119 2 the Shipbuilders Council of Not a Fair Test 56 32 69 Houston 26 16 75 21 Wilmington 14 24 18 30 28 18 2 America. He said the new procedure, San Francisco ... 35 44 25 31 33 71 10 used this year for the first time, Seattle 20 15 29 10 24 15 13 "didn't get a fair test" because Totals 297 253 469 242 204 716 112 it was caught up in the "fiscal crunch" of budget-cutting grow­ SEAFARER&^LOG ENGINE DEPARTMENT ing out of the Vietnam war and TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH TOTAL SHIPPED the balance-of-payments deficit. All Groups All Groups Oct. II, 1968 • Vol. XXX, No. 21 All Groups In future years, the Congressman Port Official Publication of the Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Seafarers International Union predicted, the authorization pro­ Boston 2 3 4 2 1 2 1 of North America, cedure "will provide effective Con­ New York 46 60 106 125 38 49 10 Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes 3 14 11 Philadelphia 7 4 4 4 gressional scrutiny of executive and Inland Waters District, 43 59 15 12 3 15 15 AFI„CIO policy decisions" and will secure Baltimore 13 Norfolk 7 7 21 2 2 10 Executive Board for maritime "the appropriations Jacksonville 13 8 24 21 4 14 6 PAUL HALL, President to which it is entitled." 3 Tampa 8 0 4 0 11 11 CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD 19 40 29 14 21 13 11 Moorhead pointed to House Mobile Exec. VicC'Prea. Vice-President New Orleans 20 66 113 25 8 22 3 passage of legislation reconstitut­ Houston AL KERR LINDSEY WILLIAMS 22 80 27 18 71 24 15 Sec.-Treas. Vice-President ing the Maritime Administration Wilmington 10 18 3 12 3 15 17 AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS 46 40 17 as an independent agency, calling San Francisco ... 28 38 31 27 Vice-President Vice-President 18 7 17 24 14 16 12 this evidence of "a strong tide of Seattle Director of Publications 214 236 1! 166 207 453 522 123 sentiment" in favor of revitalizing Totals MIKE POLLACK the merchant marine. Editor STEWARD DEPARTMENT HARRY WITTSCHEN The bill, then awaiting Senate Assistant Editors TOTAL REGISTERED REGISTERED on BEACH action, has since been passed by TOTAL SHIPPED PETER WEISS All Groups All Groups All Groups WILL KARP the full Senate and sent to the BILL MOORE Class A Class B Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Port White House. Staff Photographer 0 0 5 3 2 2 2 While the industry did not se­ Boston ANTHONY ANSALDI 29 14 26 106 69 29 24 New York cure a new maritime program Philadelphia 10 5 10 2 8 2 11 RejK Moorhead Sees Outlook Good For Aition on Maritime Next Year DISPATCHEKS R • m Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston .Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals 10 7 8 6 23 24 20 11 37 16 194 7 10 9 4 16 19 23 10 40 12 187 17 2 5 1 11 10 16 5 40 15 166 3 2 6 2 19 10 10 7 87 14 126 2 9 9 3 9 0 9 8 28 6 114 66 20 16 18 27 101 68 16 64 25 540 40 22 7 10 16 75 44 2 40 12 350 PibllihM bIwMkly It 810 Rhodi Itlind Awnn M.E., Wuhlitton, D. C. 20018 ky th* Snfar•n intimitUiial Uilin, Atlintle, 6ilf, Liket ud InlMd Witm Oiitrlet, AFL-CIO, C7S FMrth AnoM, Brooklyn, N.V. 11232. Til. HYulnth 9-6600. Socond cliu poitaii paid al Waihinitmt, D. C. POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Fora 3579 aardi ihoild ka nnt to Soafarart lotematlonal Ualoa, Atlanllt, Calf, Lakn and Inlaid Waton OMrlat, AFL-CIO, 675 Foartk Artnaa, Rrookiyn, N.V. 11232. �Page Twenty October 25, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG FINAL DEPARTURES h I John Swanson, 67; A heart con­ dition claimed the life of Brother Swanson on Sep-V . tember 21, at Paul Oliver Me­ morial Hospital in Frankfort, Michigan. He was bom in Ministee County, Mich., and lived in Bear Lake, Mich. Brother Swanson joined the SlU in Milwaukee, and sailed as watertender-oiler. He was last employed by the Ann Arbor Railroad Com­ pany and at the time of death, was on an SIU pension. Surviv­ ing is his widow, Sally. Burial was held in Fairview Cemetery, Bear Lake. The Coe Victory (Victory Carriers) arrived in Honolulu for a brief stay recently and Bob Goodrum discovered a good smorgasbord restaurant which he heartily recommended to fellow Seafarers. The place is located "in the out-riggers building at Waikiki Beach and features all you can eat at prices that range from about 99 ^ cents to $1.30. It's really fabu­ getting "liberty launch" pay for to Red, Willy, Lee, Stanford and lous," Goodrum says. Meeting the days spent at anchor outside Vince." Secretary William Dickerson re> the port of Santos, Brazil." Movie ports that Brother Goodrum was director Leroy Rinker reports that The Banre Victory (Delta) was elected ship's del­ a total of seven films were sent delayed briefly due to illness, ship's egate; Richard to the ship by Greyhound bus. delegate Luke Bradford, deck The cost was $207. Ciamboll report­ delegate; Dw^ht ed. Chief cook Best, Jr., engine Veteran Seafarer Maurice Duet Harry Jones, Jr., department dele­ of the deck department, has sailed and messman gate and Charles on many vessels, Juan Otero were Thorpe, the stew­ but he claims the hospitalized in ard department's Del Campo Panama. How­ representative. (Delta) has been Ikirt ever, Billy Russell Meeting Chair­ one of the best. and Sullivan man David ndrt wrote that AB T. Ciambdi Steward "Red" Clark, Jr., quick­ L. Thacker left the ship in Hono­ <!> Strickland is al- ly joined the vessel in that port to lulu with an apparent attack of ap­ } ways willing to assume the cook and messman pendicitis. The vessel will undergo Walter Koyn, 66: Brother Koyn please and do jobs, respectively. Ciamboli re­ some brief repair work while in died on June 8, at St. Joseph Hos­ " anything for the ported that all Seafarers were re­ port, Ikirt said. pital in Houston. welfare of the quested not to f.o top-side with A native of Sidcrew. Brother Duet reported. any individual beefs. "Go through now, Michigan, Meeting secretary Bill Kaiser Chief Cook Waiy Scophtes turns your department delegates," he he made his home reported from the Del Norte out meals like a chef and "eats told them. Steward R. Nelson in Houston. Koyn (Delta) that it was thanked the men for the fine cohis own food with great pride." I was a member of the deck depart­ the steward de­ ment's turn to Stanford A. "Tasty" Smith is an operah'on, according to meeting partment and elect a ship's del­ artist worthy of the title "Mr. chairman L. Hitchner. Some dis­ joined the SIU in egate and they Baker." No baking in any city, puted overtime was reported in 1960 at Houston. picked Chad- anywhere, could compare with the deck department. His last ship was the Chilore. He bourne GaH. Be­ Smith, Duet said. Third cook Lee served in the Army from 1920 fore departing the Scoplites "can take over the galley Meeting Chairman, Alvin Dem- to 1921. Surviving is his sister, ship in New Or­ as well." Galley boy Vince Ortiz leans, former del­ said he'd challenge anyone on oran reported from the Midlake Mrs. Gertrude Sliger, of Trout Gait (American Bulk Creek, Mich. Burial services were egate Henry Don­ cleanliness. "If you ever ride with Carriers) that a held in Trout Creek Cemetery. nelly contacted the patrolmen these men, m^e sure you are not funeral was held about the possibility of the crew on a diet," Duet warns. "Hats off at sea for radio operator Merlin Cook, who passed Cecil Manning, 44: Pneumonia away on October claimed the life of Seafarer Mann­ 9. The burial was ing on Septem­ held the following ber 6, in New Or­ Brother day. Gazic leans. He was a Demoran reports. Many Seafarers enjoy taking cameras along with them on their H. E. Morris, deck delegate, stated native of that voyages. A number of them have inquired about the best type that some doubt has arisen, con­ city and joined the Union in the and most convenient type of camera to carry aboard ship and ways cerning the overtime rate for Port of New in which they can best be pro- ^ cleaning tanks. This will be taken Also, keep any camera in a York. Brother tected against possible damage. up with the patrolman at pay-off cool place if there is film in it. Manningwasbom Just about all cameras can This will prevent spoilage of film. time. Robert Marion, meeting in Florida. A easily be taken on a ship, but the Both black-and-white and color secretary, said that Paul Gazic member of the deck department, ones that are likely to best serve film are effected by a hot climate. ^ has been elected ship's delegate. his last vessel was the Globe Ex­ your needs are of the single lens Whereas the former will lose its One man missed the ship in plorer. He served in the Army reflbx (SLR) variety. Most single film speed, color film will not only Bombay due to illness. The pay­ during World War 11. Surviving lens reflexes have interchangeable lose speed but, being more fragile, is an aunt, Mrs. Lou Loyless, of lenses and the newer models have its color properties will fade as off is scheduled for New Jersey. through-the-lens metering. An im­ well. portant point to remember about A Token of Appreciation Due to varying weather condi­ these cameras is that their versa­ tions at sea, it is suggested that tility is unlimited. you keep three or four dehumidiIf your camera has an inter­ fier packets in your camera case. changeable lens, you can use from These also are relatively inex­ 8mm Fish Eye to 1000 mm Tele- pensive at any store stocking pho­ photo. There are also many other tographic materials. attachments which may be used. Whenever asked to name their Among them are the zocnn lens, favorite port for taking pictures. various filters, a monocular lens Seafarers usually place Japan at, and a micro lens, and others. or near the top. Hawaii is also a If your camera has through- great favorite. However, beauty the-lens metering, any of the lenses and drama abound no matter —or any attachments on them— where we are. The LOG would will be compensated for. Taking welcome and appreciate the pho­ proper care of your camera is very tos of the SIU's numerous seago­ important since the quality of ing shutterbugs. Many pictures your pictures depends on the con­ published in your newspaper are dition of whatever camera you taken by Seafarers. use. Regular cleaning is hi^ly Unfortunately in the past, many recommended. pictures received by the LOG A damp lintless cloth is a good have not been used because we way to clean the body of the cam­ were unable to properly identify era. The inside should be cleaned the Seafarers or activities involved. Steward Bill Alvaro (center, first row) is presented with Polar­ by using a syringe type blower— Please include adequate identifi­ oid camera on Tucson Victory by ship delegate Bob Davis. Alvaro reasonably available anywhere— cation, remember this when send­ was cited for "his unselfish attitude toward the crew." In front (l-r) are: Q. Brown, R. Mateo and B. Denby. In back: R. which will eliminate dust. On the ing in photds. lens, a small piece of lens tissue Also, if you have any question, Fowler, C. Rivere, R. Forrest and H. Evans. The camera was purchased and a blower will do the job nicely. pertaining to photography, send through contributions by the Seafarers and presented while at sea. Your camera can best be pro­ it in. It will b« answered in the tected in a shock-proof case. LOG. Typical Questions Answered For Seafaring Camera Fans f life' Jacksonville, Florida. Burial serv­ ices were held in Riverside Me­ morial Park Cemetery, Jackson­ ville. — 4^ — Ormel Fleet, 67: a coronary occlusion claimed the life of Sea­ farer Fleet on August 9, at Me­ morial Hospital in Corpus Christ! Texas. A native of Indiana, he made his home in Corpus Christi. Brother vFleet joined the Union Fleet in the port of Mobile and sailed with the SIU for 26 years. His last ship was the Jacksonville. Brother Fleet sailed as FOWT and had served in the Army during World War I. Surviving is a sister. Mrs. Vera Fogler, of Pana, Illinois. Burial services were held in the Rose Hill Memorial Park, Corpus Christi. — 4^ — Ernest Goo, 39: Brother Goo died in Vietnam while sailing aboard the Transglobe, August 30. He joined the Union in the Port of San Francisco and sailed for 13 years. He held an AB's rating. Brother Goo was bom in Hawaii and made his home in Mill Valley, California. He served in the Army from 1955 to 1957. His last pre­ vious ship was the Brigham Vic­ tory. Surviving is his widow, Loretta. The burial was held in a mil­ itary cemetery in Honolulu. Rudolph Boman, 69: Brother Boman died in Trinity Hospital, Ashland, Wis­ consin, from in­ juries sustained when he was struck by a car in that city. A resident of Duluth, Minnesota, he was bom in that state. Broth­ er Boman joined the SJIU in the Port of Detroit and sailed as FOWT. He was last employed by the Reiss Steamship Co. The Sea­ farer is survived by his widow, Aileene. Burial services were held in Fairview Cemetery, Mound, Minn. — 4^ — Donald Horton, 29: Brother Horton died in St. Elizabeth Hos­ pital, Beaumont, Texas, July 22. A native of Port Neches, Texas, he lived in Sabine Pass, in that state. Brother Horton Joined the SIU in New York City. Sailing in the steward department, his last vessel was the Overseas Joyce. Be­ fore joining the SIU, he served in the Navy, Surviving is his mother, Mrs. Aline Horton of Sabine Pass. The burial was held in Oak Bluff Memorial Park Cemetery, Port Neches. �October 25, 1968 Republican Threat To NLRB Forecast To the Editon One thing labor can surely expect in the event the Republi­ cans gain control in November, is an assault on the functions of the National Labor Relations Board. Employer organizations and public relations firms have been spending more and more time and money to convince the na­ tion that the NLRB is too strong and too pro-union. A new period of labor trouble problems—such as experienced in the Eisenhower Administra­ tion—caused by an intensified drive for anti-union legislation is one thing the country does not need at this time. I hope that all union members and their families will remember this and vote for the Humphrey-Muskie ticket whose progressive record on labor is the hope of the fu­ ture. Sincerely, John OTooie he recently has given assa to Wall Street that he would end what he calls the "heavyhanded bureaucratic regulatory schemes" of the Johnson Ad­ ministration. He has even de­ nounced a move by the Securi­ ties and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department to force mutual funds promoters to reduce the charges they levy on small investors maximum risk. These are just a few of the obvious indications that workers who are loyal members of un­ ions will be in dire trouble if Nixon and the "lets get back to management control" Republi­ cans are victoiious in Novem­ ber. All of us in the labor move­ ment are gambling with our very livelihood if we don't make cer­ tain that we get out and vote for the Humphrey-Muskie ticket —ail the way—on November 5. Sincerely, Ed Frasier Recalls Depression Under Republicans U.S. Flag Fleet Facing Crisis Period To the Editor: I was distressed to read the statement by officials of the Ma­ rine and Shipbuilding Workers at their recent convention which seems to preview the possible Jfinal demise of the Americanflag merchant marine. The delegates were told that shipbuilding in the United States "faces a threat of near obliteration in the next five years" unless "emergency meas­ ures" are taken. This is indeed forboding since thousands of workers engaged in manning our ships and working in our shipyards in the U.S. would be eliminated. Perhaps the change in our federal Administration after the election on November 5—^we all hope with Hubert Humphrey as President—^will lead to better days for the U.S.-flag merchant fleet. We in the merchant marine can only hope for a new Presi­ dent who, with a Congress and Senate to match, will finally realize the need for a strong merchant marine to protect and restore our traditional position on the high seas, and work ac­ cordingly. Sincerelv, Sam Phillips Nixon Win Would Equal Labor Loss To the Editor: There doesn't seem to be much doubt in anybody's mind that a Nixon victory would make it tough for labor to get. progressive legislation for the next four or eight years. Not only hu Nixon come out strongly and brazenly against unions in the California grape dispute between the farm workers and the growers, but Page Twenty One SEAFARERS LOG To the Editor: It's hard to understand how some people can vote so care­ fully in local elections and sup­ port their labw unions all the way and then go to the polls to vote for the President of this great country and cast their ballot for someone who is going to destroy all that they and their unions have worked so hard for. Maybe some workers forget what hard times were. L don't. We had a depression in 1929 which was terrible. Lots of peo­ ple were out of work—millions of them walking the streets looking for a job while there wasn't bread on the table for their wives and kids. That de­ pression followed very good times. It happened under a Re­ publican President who kept promising that prosperity was just around the comer—^while people starved and he did noth­ ing. It took a Democratic Presi­ dent to restore confidence in the people and bring the coun­ try back from ruin. He did it by pushing for programs like social security and for measures to strengthen unions. The Re­ publicans attacked those pro­ grams outright then. They are still attacking them now, only more carefully because they are afraid they will alienate the peo­ ple. Unions strive for higher wages, more security, more edu­ cation for the people, better housing, an end to discrimina­ tion, a better life for all. The one party that has supported these aims all the way down the line is the Democratic Party. So, if you are for progress, the kind of progress that un­ ions have brought to working people, you won't run scared backwards with a Wallace and wont let the money-bags be­ hind Nixon fool you and steal your vote. You will support Hu­ bert Humphrey and continued progress for a better America. Sincerely, Irving Zippnt fwe/fe Alore Seafarers lAJdeJ To Growing SlU Pension Roster Twelve more Seafarers have joined the SIU's pension roster after completing their careers at sea. The latest SIU members to collect pensions are James Sealy, Francesco Natale, Tomas Concepcion, Ed­ ward Tonisson, Henry Fossett, Carey Beck, John Pagano, John Tiemey, James Smith, David Sorenson, Louis Meyers and Archie ^ ^ : Cray. James Sealy sailed in the steward department. He joined the union in the port of Balti­ more. Born in the Virgin Islands, he is a resident of New York City. Brother Sealy last shipped aboard the Fort Aliza. Fossett Tonisson Francesco Natale sailed in all deck department ratings since Edward Tonisson sailed as A native of New York City, he joining the SIU in Boston. A 25FOWT and as deck engineer. He now lives in Bayonne, N. J. He year veteran, he last sailed on the joined the Union in 1943 in New joined the Union in the Port of Transsuperior. Brother Natale was York City. Born in Estonia, he New York. Brother Pagano is a born in Boston and makes his lives in Scarsdale, N. Y. with his veteran of the Air Force. home in Fairfield, Conn, with his wife, Maria. Brother Tonisson last John Tierney sailed in the deck wife, Natale. sailed on the Chatham. department and held an AB's rat­ Tomas Concepcion lives in Henry Fossett sailed since 1944, ing. He joined the SIU in Phila­ Menlo, Park, Calif. He was born and joined the SIU in the Port in the Philippines and sailed as of San Francisco. He was bom delphia and makes his home in New York. A native of Pennsyl­ in Alabama and resides in Balti­ vania, he served in the Army dur­ more with his wife, Marguerite. ing World War n. His last ship Brother Fossett sailed in the stew­ was the Fred Morris. ard department as a cook and his James Smith joined the Union last vessel was the Venore. in 1940 in Baltimore. A native of A Seafarer since World War Texas, he lives in Houston. II, Carey Beck sailed as electrician. Brother Smith sailed in the deck A native of Alabama, he makes department with an AB's rating. his home in Mobile with his wife, Sealy Natale Katie. Brother Beck joined the steward. Brother Concepcion Union in Mobile and his last ship joined the Union in the Port of was the American Pride. John Pagano sailed as deckhand New York and last sailed on the for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Halaula Victory. Pagano Judith L. Bradsbaw, born Sep­ tember 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. J. L. Bradsbaw, Galveston, Texas. Keuueth Atfano, bom August 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Alfano, Colonia, New Jer­ sey. ^ Clara Daniebs, bora May 12, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Victor V. Daniels, Jr., Wanchese, N. C. \I> Roy Stevenson Harden, born August 5, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Roy S. Harden, Norfolk, Va. Yadira Molina, born August 3, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jose E. Molina, New Orleans, La. Shannon McDanlel, bora Au­ gust 21, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leroy McDaniel, Tampa, Florida. His last vessel was the Steel Sur.„veyor. From 1933 to 1939, he Steve Dodge, born June 25, served in the Navy. 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ralph David Sorensen sailed as W. Dodge, Elberta, Mich. FOWT. A native of Denmark, he Diana Vargas, born August 23, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. En­ rique Vargas, Villa Fontana Car­ olina, P.R. KeDy UUom, born September 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. liiomas Ullom, Honor, Michigan. Ronald Tomas Beacham, bora September 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Benjamin P. Beacham, Beauport, N.C. Jeffrey Andrew Muriey, born August 26, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Horace H. Muriey, Jr., Gretna, La. <t> Marie Okrogly, born June 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alfred H. Okrogly, Plains, Pa. <I> Steve Garza, born September 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Pete Garza, Texas City, Texas. litf Mark Fulling, bom June 15, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Fulling, Bayville, N.J. John Catrakis, born September I, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Konstantinos Catrakis, Forest Hills, N.Y. Brian KeUy Oakley, born Au­ gust 13, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard B. Oakley, Frank­ fort, Michigan. Wendy Sue Schuman, bora September 17, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Irvin F. Schuman, St. Clair, Mich. 4/ Edward Wade Faires, bom July 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Edward Faires, Port Arthur, Texas. Sorensen SnHth joined the Union in the Port of Mobile. Brother Sorensen makes his home in Baltimore and his last ship was the Steel Mariner. Louis Meyers has sailed as OS, wiper, cook and steward during his long career. He was bora in Baltimore and now resides in Se­ attle. Brother Meyers joined the Union in the Port of Norfolk and last sailed on the Aimiston Vic­ tory. Archie Cray joined the Union in Norfolk. A deckhand, he was employed by the Pennsylvania Cray Meyers Railroad. Brother Cray served in the Army during World War II. He is a native of Blakes, Virginia, and makes his home in Richmond, with his wife, Bernice. '' 11 �Pose Twentr Two SEAFARERS LOG Oelober 25, 1968 COLUMBIA (U. 8. Steel), October *— Chairman, R Heffley: Secretary, M. S. Soapina. No beefs were reported by de­ partment delegates. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific provision for safesuardinr the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a deUiled CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditins 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 varioiu trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge ot these funds shall equally consist of union and management representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funib are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various tnut 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 Borxd. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union :^cial, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has tradiUonally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been 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 nmy delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monieo are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIIT unices an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be rsjrarted to beadquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL BIGHTS 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 naembers should retain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-fle committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shiplxy^rd 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 tbe SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTrVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic ri^ts of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the beat interests of themselves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any dme a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been viobtsd, sr that he has been denied his constitntional right of access to Union records or inforasation, he shonld issniediatcly notify SIU President PanI Hall at hcadqnarters by eertiied mail, retnm recdpt reqnested. Schedule of KBNYON VICTORY (Columbia), Oc­ tober 6—Chairman, Don Kelly; Secre­ tary, George Chittum. Discussion held re­ garding wages and OT. Three men missed ship in Chicago. OVERSEAS TRAVELER Maritima Overseas), September 30—Cha rman, _ „ L Anderson; Secretary, H. McCullough. Ship's delegate reported that there were no beefs. MT. VERNON VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), September 22—Chairman, Joeeph A. Morrison; Secretary, Alexander D. Brodle, *6.00 in ship's fund. No disputed OT and no beefs were repotted by 'de­ partment delegates. COLUMBIA (Oriental Exporters), September 7—Chairman, Stephen Homka; Secretary, Nicholas Hatgimisios. Brother William Koltonuk was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a job well done. No beefs and no disputed OT reported. MERIDIAN VICTORY (Waterman), September 18—Chairman, Ralph O. King Secretary, Brown Huszer. Ship's dele­ gate reported that he has a wonderful crew on board, and everything is running smoothly in all departments. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Maritime Overseas), July 21—Chairman, I. Ander­ son : Secretary, C. Bortz. Few hours dis­ puted OT in engine department, other­ wise everything is running smoothly with no beefs. OVERSEAS TRAVELER (Maritime Overseas), September 26—Chaii-man, I. Anderson; Secretary, Ray Moore. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. All department heads were re­ quested to submit repair lists. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orieans.Nov. 12—2:30 p.m. Mobile Nov. 13—2:30 p.m. Wilmington .. Nov. 18—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Nov. 20—2;00 p.m. Seattle Nov. 22—2:00 p.m. New York... Nov. 4—2::30 p.m. Philadelphia .Nov. 5—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Nov. 6—2:30 p.m. Detroit Nov. 8—2:30 p.m. Houstmi Nov. 11—2:30 p.m. United Industrie Woiicers New Orieans.Nov. 12—7:00p.m. Mobile Nov. 13—^7:00 p.m. New Yorit .. Nov. 4—7:00 p.m. PbiladelpMa. .Nov. 5—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. . Nov. 6—^7:00 p.m. tHoustmi ...Nov. 11—7:00p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detrmt .. .Nov. 4—2:00 p.m. Alpena .Nov. 4—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. .Nov. 4—7:00 p.m. Chicago . .Nov. 4—7:00 p.m. Duluth . . .Nov. 4—^7:00 p.m. .Nov. 4—7:00 p.m. Frankfort Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Nov. 12—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Nov. 14—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Nov. 13—7:30 p.m. Duluth Nov. 15—7:30 p.m. Cleveland .. .Nov. 15—7:30 p.m. Toledo Nov. 15—7:30 p.m. Detroit ... Nov. 11—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee . .Nov. 11—7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orieans.Nov. 12—5:00p.m. Mobile Nov. 13—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Nov. 5—5:00 p.m. Baltimore Gicensed mid un­ licensed) .. Nov. 6—5:00 p.m. Norfolk Nov. 7—5:00 p.m. Houston .... Nov. 11—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Nov. 12—:10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Nov. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. *Norfolk Nov. 14r—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey Oty Nov. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.iii. t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste Marie. Mich. • Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Gal Tanner Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindiey Wllliamt Robert Matthswi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS *75 4th Ave.. Iklyn, (212) HY 9-i*00 ALPENA, Mich lALTIMORE, Md •OSTON, Mail 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3*1* 121* E. laltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 177 State St. (il7) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO. N.Y 735 Waihington St. SIU (71*) TL 3-9259 IBU (71*1 TL 3-9259 CHICAGO. Ill 93*3 Ewinq Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND. Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (21*) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jeflenen Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH. Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT. Mich P.O. Boi 2*7 415 Main St. (*t*) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON. Te« SB04 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE. Fla 2tOB Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY. N.J 99 Montgomery St. (201) HE 5-9424 MOBILE. Ala I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La *10 Jackion Ave. (504) 529-754* NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) *22-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2*04 S. 4th St. (215) DE *-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex 134* Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Freemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R 1313 Fernandex Juncoi Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Waih 2505 Firit Avenue (20*) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Me *05 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Ha 112 Harrlion St. (813) 229-278* WILMINGTON, Calif. 450 Seaiide Ave. Terminal liland, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan, .lieya Bidg., Room 881 1-2 Kalgan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 Kayser-Roth Hosiery Co. Inc. Women's Hosiery Schiapareli, Kayser, Phoenix, Mojud, Supp-hose, Sapphire, Bachelor Girl, Fascination. Men's Hosiery & Underwear Esquire Socks, Bachelors' Friends, Supp-hose, Supp-hose Underwear, 9endo Children's Products Kayser, Fruit of the Loom Mojud. Slippers Jiffies, Mercury (Textile Workers Union of America) Stitzel-Weller Distillcrics "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin StiU," W. L. WcUer Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) ^ Kingsport Press "World Book," "Childcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) Baltimore Luggage Co. lAidy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starffite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) DEL NORTE (DelU), September 2»— Chairman, Chadboume W, Gait; SecreUry, William P. Kaiser. 8107.00 in movie fund and $92.40 in the ship's fund. Brother Chadboume W. Gait was elect­ ed to serve as ship's delegate. No. beefs, everything is running smoothly in all departments. <l> DIGEIST of SIU White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) <t> Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarnian, Johusoa & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) Hillenhrand Industries of Batesville, Ind. Batesville "Monoseal" Casket Hill-Rom Hospital Furniture (Upholsterers' International Union) — Giumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) —- "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Bbyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) 4, Brothers and Sewell Soits^ Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) ^ Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Yalleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) MEETIf^GS TOPA TOFA (Waterman), September 16—Chairman. Jim Spencer; SecreUry, Joseph Pitetta. No beefs were report^ by department delegates. Discussion held regarding retirement plan. OCEANIC VICTORY (Admiralty Ma­ rine), August 20—Chairman, H. Petersen ; SecreUry G. Cayton. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. CONNECTICUT (OrienUl Exporters), September 29—Chairman T. D. Ballard: SecreUry, T. D. Ballard. $19.25 in ship's fund. AMERIGO (Crest Overseas), September 8—Chairman. R. N. Laurence: SecreUry, A D. Hill. Everything is running smoothly in all departments except for some disputed OT in deck department. Brother John Karpinski, Jr. was givm a vote of thanks for doing a fine lob as ship's delegate. Brother R. N. Laurence has been elected new ship 8 delegate. DEL 8UD (DelU), OctobCT 6—^air­ man, W. A. Pittman; SecreUry, W. S. Harris. Brother Bill Pittman was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Eve^ thing is running smoothly in all depart­ ments. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Moore-M^ormack), September 29—Chairman, Milton Poole: SecreUry, John J. Kane. Some disputed OT in deck department. Imcussion held on SIU pension plan. No beefs were reported. WESTERN HUNTER (Western Tan^ ers), September 20—Chairman, Corbett Myrich: SecreUry, J. B. Moorehead. Brother Bob Rafael was elected to serve as ship's treasurer. He asked all crewmembers to donate $2.00 to the ship's fund for TV and library fund. Depart­ ment delegates reported that everything is running smoothly. Ma ' * dll BELGIUM VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), September 16—Chairman, Walter T. Gronek, Jr. Ship's delegate reported that everything is running smoothly in all departments. YELLOWSTONE (Oriental Export­ ers), August SO^hairman, W. H. Sim­ mons : SecreUry, Charles Hebert Dis­ cussion held about much needed repairs in the engine department. Headqj^arters and San Francisco port agent were noti­ fied of the urgent need for these lepalxs. >' i �October 25, 1968 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twenty-three Veteran Seafarers of Vietnam Run Witness Fuii ffleasure of Astion 08te of the busiest poris ia the ceuntiy, «rs we/I as one of the most popular, is RfsM' more. Almost every Seafarer has been here at one time or another during his sailing coreer* The L0O photographer recently vis­ ited the focOl ffll Itoff wfeere Seafarers were waiting for a ship and enfoying some lighter moments. Shipping is running along at a >y reported. L; •l(' )'• i • 1 Seafarers Abe Handleman and Bruce Nusbaum recently completed separate voyages on the Viet­ nam run during which both encountered a number of Inemorable experiences while in the battle zone. Brother Handleman spent 17 months shuttling on the Halaula Victory while Nusbaum was on the Cape Junction, for about a year. and knees as they looked for shel­ his long trip—among them Colon, Handleman discussed his trip ter from the attack." Honolulu, Subic Bay, Manila, In­ with a LOG reporter in the New When Handleman later returned chon, and some in Japan—in ad­ York hall and Nusbaum wrote to to his ship by launch he found dition to several in Vietnam. the LOG shortly after catching that the SIU ship that had been "Considering the length of the the Mount Washington bound for fired on had already left for an­ trip," he said, "the crew got along Singapore. other port. "It was replaced by remarkably well. There were no "I caught the another vessel at about 7 p.m. personality clashes at all and Halaula Victory that same day and the new ship, many pleasant hours were enjoyed in Norfolk," Han- tied up in the same position as the by Seafarers." dleman recalled. other one had been, was the first "We loaded am- to be fired on. Apparently, the VC munition at had been using the buoy as a Sunny Point, target." North Carolina The Halaula Victory was also and sailed for Su- fired on several times, and Sea­ Nusbaum bic Bay. We ar­ farers often got a bird's-eye view rived on July 29, and stayed there of the fighting. "We could see for 12 days before sailing for Viet­ some 500 marines pour into a nam. When the ship reached Vung village across from the ship and Tau, we anchored there for four one night, we were subjected to days and then on August 16, head­ three blackouts that lasted some ed up river. two hours total," Handleman said. "As we went, we could see "When we left Cat Lai, we could American jets bombing the Viet- see American helicopters hunting cong about 2,000 feet from the Vietcong supply bases only about river bank," Handleman said. 30 feet from the river. Later while The vessel proceeded to Cat Lai we were in Saigon, the National where the Halaula Victory was Assembly building came under one of three ammunition ships heavy attack, resulting in a num­ tied up next to each other in front ber of deaths." Abe Handleman displays cigar­ of a temporary buoy. "At 4:30 Handleman says that since 1964 ette lighter bearing names of a.m., another SIU ship in the area he's made about 12 trips to Viet­ Vietnamese ports he's been to. was struck by Vietcong gunfire," nam but this is the closest he's Handlemah said. "Several Viet­ ever come to the heavy fighting. Tet Offensive Raging namese longshoremen were hurt He has already put in for the Viet­ "We arrived in Saigon on Jan­ but the Seafarers aboard all es­ nam ribbon being issued to mer­ uary 28, and were at buoy anchor­ caped injury." chant seamen. As a further me­ age 35 until the morning of Feb­ During another VC attack, mento, he has a cigarette lighter ruary 17," he reported. "The Tet Handleman was off-duty and had engraved with the names of all offensive started on January 31. taken a room at the New Martin ports he has visited in Vietnam. And it was still going on, althou^ Hotel in Saigon. A member of the steward de­ with somewhat less intensity, even "Somebody downstairs suddenly partment, Handleman joined the as we left the area." Nusbaum, started shouting for everyone to SIU in 1960 and is a native of Joe Saxon and Louis McDuffie of 'come on down' and we all thought Baltimore. He said that since the the deck department "were on the the hotel was under attack," he Halaula Victory paid-off in Savan­ early-and last-launch ashore Jan. said. "Actually, the VC were at­ nah he has been looking forward 31 and were able to witness some tacking the city hall building a to shipping back to Vietnam again. of the attack, first hand. At one Bruce Nusbaum, who joined the time, gim fire from in or across block and a half away and a Hindu Church nearby was also Cape Junction in Sunny Point, the Saigon River struck a barge under fire. I could see several GI's N.C., on August 25, 1967, wrote immediately behind the point crawling around on their hands of calling at many ports during where the SIU vessel, Seatrain Washington, was docked," he said. "Gunfire was going on from all sides of us and 167 VC were killed in a field just a few yards off the , * .* . J. bow of our anchorage. We also .• Wl'.-'.wt, J; - • saw the securing of the U.S. Em­ James N. Quinn Walter W. Jacobson bassy, which had come under fire. Please write to Mrs. Rita E. Please write to your mother, Dead servicemen and Vietcong Sullivan, 20 Shore Drive, Middle- Mrs. W. G. Jacobson, at Rt. 2, could be seen on the grounds of town, R. I. 02840 as soon as pos­ Box 26, Hitchcock, Texas 77563, the Embassy." Another crewmemsible. as soon as you possibly can. Or ber, Terry Zellers, chief electri­ cian, was ashore being treated for telephone 986-5959. a kidney stone at an Army hos­ pital located in the old Meht)poIe Hotel, Nusbaum reported. The Claude W. Pritchett Hotel had been dama^ by terrm-Burt KOby Your brother and sisters are ists earlier in the war but was not Your friend, Doug Fillmore, touched on this occasion. anxious to hear from you. They would also, like to know where would like you to write to him. "The Cape Jimction anchored His address is 15198 South Prairie off Vung Tau just in time for the they can send your mail. Avenue, Lawndale, California first VC rocket attack the city 90260. was subjected to in two years," he \|> said. "Several shells just missed —^ the (SlU-contracted) South-West­ Mike Schwall ern Victory, which was docked at Please contact your uncle, G. Friends ot Eric Joban Berg 'The Long Pier.' A ncnmal visit C. Schwall, at 61 Alpine Street, Anyone having information to the port of six or seven days Garfield, New Jersey 07026. concerning the whereabouts of any was turned into a three-week stay relatives of the late Seafarer, Eric and from our vantage point in the Johan Berg, who di^ August 18, 1968, in Seattle, Washington, Saigon River, we could watch the Paul Edwin Bailey please contact the law firm of daily battle around us." A native of Arizona, Brother Please call or write to your Vance, Davies, Roberts and Betmother, as soon as possible. Or tis. Room 815, 1411 Fomlh Ave­ Nusbaum joined the SIU in San your sister, Martha J. Bailey at nue Building, Seattle, Washington. Francisco. He makes his home in 2504 Brewster Drive, Apt. A, In­ The telephone number is (206) El Paso, Texas, and served in the Navy. He sails as FOWT. MU 2-7784. dianapolis, Indiana 46224. 4> I >i / I \ 1 s �Vol. XXX No. 22 SEAFARERS^LOG October 25/ 1968 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO w l'v'hSl COLUMBIA BARON CASTS OFF The Columbia Baron prepares to sail from the North Pier, Yokohama. The vessel, a regular on Far East run, is owned by Columbia Steam­ ship Company and was formerly the Del Santos of Delta Lines. ' V ."V ...... |S^?arere ihoughf numbef onFstowarcl^^'y menf.'' and these men were among the reaisons why. From left: P. Lambis, Isaiah Gray, ch. cook, W. H, Harris, NC and baker. "Tjr fcl-, ^ of siu '-'' l"i V ''f H. ' ^SSteward Alton Booth has sailed since 19412. He joined the ; li^U in New Orleans and hails from Doyle, La. Ralph Dough-y i ||-erty, AB from Brooklyn, joined SlU in New Yoric In 1959. liWi^ : • Before a ship leaves potd, there's alway$; #^^M 7:^! work to do and the Cotunnbia Baron is no exqeprion. Here, deck crevy secures tar^|jM over cargo holjdr fSc ii^eward Alton Booth discusses the day's menus with third cook -Phil Lambis in foc'sle prior to sailing. The <^ew re^ J: it rr,.• ] ' ' ' 'V' ^''1 YI te>7.5- I'W. Snodgrass helps seGO%l ifeel for long voyage home.^ ^-off was in San Francisco,! .V. iSS,:. m SSiiJ .• � 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 October 25, 1968 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SECRETARY-TREASURER’S REPORT ON SIU VOTING PROCEDURES SENATE APPROVES SEPARATE MARAD AMA RAPS CARGO BIDDING ADVANTAGE MADE POSSIBLE BY DOUBLE SUBSIDIES FOUR STATE AFL-CIO UNITS ADOPT SIU, MTD RESOLUTIONS ON MARITIME LEO MARSH DEAD; SIU PATROLMAN SUCCUMBS AT 53 HUMPHREY STEPS UP ATTACK AS NEW SUPPORT SURGES ALEX JARRETT DIES AT 50 IN CALIF; WAS VICE PRES OF MARINE FIREMEN THE 90TH CONGRESS: A REPORT 1968 ELECTION SUPPLEMENT – SIU ELECTION 11TH HOUR HEARING ON MIDBODY BILL POSES NEW BATTLE IN 91ST CONGRESS VETERAN SEAFARERS OF VIETNAM RUN WITNESS FULL MEASURE OF ACTION COLUMBIA BARON CASTS OFF 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 10/25/1968 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. 22 1968 Periodicals Seafarers Log