http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/9e40e763b2b438d43d6c99ed57307ba3.PDF ed2aeeb2a7c312e98563ecb3b3dc9556 PDF Text Text •• aVH.** SEAFARBRSIfeI.OG • '/ OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERSaamim DISTRICT > AFL-CIO iiii—niimvw»g'.wtiTW—' T-i • ' ' •• i'' I Jzjfr I F' > ^ S-^h- ; '•i^ •r- /-J-iX •t r r. *« / '1. jk 1'^ I fii 't" �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG Ecuador Granted World Bank Loan Despite U.S. Fishing Ship Seizures WASHINGTON—^Despite the fact that Ecuador is the foremost perpetrator of the illegal seizure of American-flag fishing vessels on the high seas, the World Bank has granted a $5.3 million loan to that South American nation which will be used to modernize the Ecuadorian fishing fleet and pay for 12 freezer-equipped exploited by Ecuador from Amer­ sharply criticized the World Bank tuna purse seiners. ican fishermen through the seizure for granting the loan. "Congress has clearly stated its Tlie loaii was approved by of American fishing vessels. position by the recent passage of the World Bank—on which the August Felando, general man­ my bill providing for the deduc­ U.S. holds one fourth of the vot­ ager of the American Tunaboat tion of U.S. foreign aid in the ing power—^without any debate Association, said that his organi­ amounts of illegal fines assessed zation had, and will continue to, and in the face of much protest against our American-flag vessels oppose the loan. Felando emphafrom representatives of the Amer­ ... It seems to me that in the ican fishing industry. A good deal hized, "We cannot understand the long range view, this intolerable of the protest was directed to rationale behind the loan. No one World Bank President Robert S. can understand it. It is like the situation should be finally resolved McNamara, former Secretary of World Bank, with U.S. acquies­ by a conference between this Defense, and Livingston T. Mer­ cence, granting a loan to North country and the South American chant, U.S. member on the Bank's Korea so that it could convert the nations who now claim territorial Pueblo into a commercial fishing jurisdiction to 200 miles and be­ board of directors. yond." vessel." Important Question In a statement issued to the Felando pointed out that be­ SIUNA Vice President Carl sides the loan, U.S. fishing experts public, Magnuson added, "Per­ Marino, secretary-treasurer of the will be sent to Ecuador to assist haps our vote would not have killed the loan (there has never Cannery Workers and Fisher­ in utilizing the money. been a veto in the history of the men's Union of San Diego, in a Magnuson Protest World Bank) but my patience is letter to key members of Congress In a letter to Secretary of State wearing thin with the clear indi­ and other officials, asked why the United States is paying 40 percent Dean Rusk, Senator Warren Mag­ cation that our own interests and of the loan funds, when hundreds nuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the those of our citizens are held in of thousands of dollars have been Senate Commerce Committee, complete disregard. As Eight More Seafarers Graduate SlU engineers Upgrading Program Reaches and Exceeds 300'Mark Graduates of the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and District 2 of the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association exceeded the 300-mark last month as eight more Sea­ farers passed their Coast Guard examinations to earn engineer's licenses after completing the inten­ sive course of study conducted ^ Before receiving his third assist­ Verlon Davis previously sailed by the school. ant's license, John Klette held an as pumpman. A new third assist­ The latest group brings to FOWT's rating. Bom in Cincin­ ant, he has sailed with the SIU 302 the total number of Seafarers nati, he now lives in San Diego. since 1967 when he joined the who have received their second Brother Klette joined the Union in or third assistant engineer's ticket Wilmington, California in 1968 Union in the Port of New Orleans. The 22-year-old Seafarer lives in and last sailed on the Enid Vic­ tory. The 40-year-old Seafarer served in the Navy from 1945 to 1953. Harold Powers is a new second assistant engineer. Prior to re­ ceiving his license, he had sailed as oiler. A resident of Waycross, Ga., he was born in Blackshear in that state. Brother Powers joined Sexton Vinson the Union in Jacksonville in 1966 Davis Clark and his last ship was the Arizpa. through this unique training pro­ The 44-year-old Sea'farer served Boutte, La. and is a native of gram. Seattle. He served in the Navy Charles Sexton, a 23-year-old from 1963 to 1967. newly-licensed third assistant en­ Kenneth Clark is also a newlygineer, was the 300th Seafarer to licensed third assistant engineer graduate from the school. He and previously sailed as oiler. The previously sailed as FOWT and 50-year old Seafarer is a native of joined the SIU in the Port of Rocky Ford, Colorado and sailed Mobile. A native of Maplesville, with the SIU since 1967. Joining Alabama, he still makes his home in Houston, he resides in Canyon, in that community. Texas. His last ship was the Jerry Vinson is another new Woods Rankin Manhattan. third assistant engineer. He is a Engine department Seafarers in the Navy during World War are eligible to apply for any of II. Paul Woods is 31 years old and the upgrading programs if they a former FOWT. A new third are at least 19 years of age and assistant engineer, he joined the have 18 months of Q.M.E.D. SIU in 1967 in the Port of New watchstanding time iti the engine York. A native of Englewood, department, plus six months ex­ Colorado, he now makes his home perience as wiper or the equiv­ in Modesto, Calif. He served in alent. the Navy from 1955 to 1959. Those who qualify and wish to James Rankin received his enroll in the School of Marine Klette Powers second assistant engineer's license. Engineering can obtain additional 29-year-old native of Wilmington, He was born in Louisiana And information and apply for the North Carolina, and joined the lives in Oak Grove, La. Brother course at any SIU hall, ,0r they SIU in the Port of New Orleans Rankin has held all engine de­ can write directly to SIU head­ in 1968. A resident of Wilming­ partment ratings shice joining the quarters at 675 Fourth Avenue, ton, he last sailed on the Kent. SIU in 1946 in Philadelphia. He in Brooklyn, New York 11232. Brother Vinson previously sailed is 41 years old and last sailed on The telephone number is (212) as oiler. the Transhatteras. HYacinth 9-6600. January 3, 1969 SIU Eases Blood Shortage With Donation to New York •ll 1 Vi i Dr. Joseph Logue, center, SIU Medical Director and SIU Director of Social Security Al Bernstein, right, present donation from Sea­ farers Blood Bank to Dr. Carlos Ehrich of NYC Dept. of Health at the Greater New York Health Center. Total donation was 50 pints. NEW YORK—The SIU this week transferred 50 pints of blood from the Seafarers Blood Bank in Brooklyn to the city's facilities in order to help alleviate the critical shortage of blood here which has resulted from the increased ^ f,om home and aboard ships need for plasma and the sharp at sea for long periods of time. decline in contributions from The Seafarers Blood Bank is regular sources due to the current maintained by voluntary blood Hong Kong flu epidemic. donations and has been in opera­ SIU Director of Social Security tion since 1959. Al Bernstein made the original offer in behalf of the Union in a letter sent last week to Dr. Ed­ ward O'Rourke, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health. "Our membership and nation­ wide facilities are also available to assist further in this emergency, WASHINGTON —Three ad­ if necessary," the letter added. ditional vessels, one British and Actual delivery of the initial 50 two Cypriot-flag ships have been pints of blood was made on New added to the North Vietnam black­ Year's Eve to the Greater New list. the Maritime Administration York Blood Center in Manhattan announced last month. by SIU Medical Director Dr. Jo­ The latest list, the 23rd released seph Logue and Bernstein, and by MARAD since January 25, was accepted on behalf of the city 1966, shows a total of 59 ships by Dr. Carlos Ehrich, represent­ with an aggregate gross tonnage ing O'Rourke. of 402,768 now prohibited from The SIU also made it known carrying United States govern­ to other areas of the nation, simi­ ment-sponsored cargoes because larly plagued by . blood shortages they called at ports in North Viet­ during the current outbreaks of nam. influenza, that it stood ready to Blacklisted in the current report offer transfers of blood reserves were the British-flag ship Fortune if required. Glory of 5,832 gross tons, the Cypriot-flag Amfithea, 5,171 tons The Seafarers Blood Bank func­ tions through the headquarters fa­ and the Cypriot-flag Laurel, 2,297 cilities of the Seafarers Medical tons. Dropped from the listing be­ Department, 685 Third Avenue, Brooklyn, which operates a net­ cause they were broken up with work of 27 medical centers and the Cypriot-flag Amon, of 7,229 clinics serving SIU members and tons and the Lebanese vessel, Rio their families in various mainland of 7,194 tons. ports and in Puerto Rico. Among the 59 ships on the North Vietnam blacklist are ves­ Seafarers have contributed a total of 7,542 pints of blood to sels of six different nations. Polish^ the SIU Blood Bank, according flag ships are the most numerous, to recent figures. A total of nearly totalling 32; Britain is next with 7,000 pints has been provided by 18, followed by Cyprus with six the bank to meet emergencies in and Panama, Malta and Somali all areas of the country. with one each. Any Seafarer, or member of a MARAD maintains shipping Seafarer's family who requires a records of Free World and Polish blood transfusion can draw, carriers. Those vessels which have through his local hospital, against traded at Cuban and North Viet­ the credits built up in the Union namese ports are placed on the blood bank. A coast-to-coast tele­ relative blacklists for these two type system which links all SIU countries. Such ships are not offices makes such arrangements eligible to carry U. S. governmentpossible on short notice, and has generated cargoes tmtil their own­ been a vital service for members ers pledge to keep their ships from and families of seamen who are trading witvi the two countries. MARADAdds S ddore Vessels Te Bladdist -< r I I li �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Christmas Aboard The Sea-Land Summit Page Three LOG Transportation Institute Study Reveals US-Flag Tramp Ships Held to Halt Of Govt Cargoes Presiribed by Law Seafarers on the Summit (Sea-Land) get in, the spirit of Christmas by decorating a shipboard tree. Left to right: Hans Gottschlich and A. Guillen of the deck department, and Chen Yu, fireman. Active U.S.-Flag Fleet Total Down by Six in Two Months WASHINGTON—U.S.-flag tramp ships are receiving only about half of what federal law pre­ scribes as their "minimum" share of government shipments of surplus agricultural commodities and foreign aid cargoes, according to a research study made public this week by the Transportation Institute. The study further declared: surplus agricultural commodities Noting that the basis for allo­ and 18 percent of AID shipments; "Regardless of whose figures cating cargo to American-flag tankers carrying 51 percent and are used and regardless of whether vessels is embodied in Section 30 percent, .respectively; and lin­ annual or fiscal periods are used, 901(b) of the Merchant Marine ers carrying 65.3 percent and 67 U.S. tramps do not come close to Act of 1936 and Public Law 480, percent, respectively. being allocated at least 50 percent the study said these laws prescribe The research study said that of total tramp cargo. No manipu­ that American ships receive a subsequently there had been some minimum of 50 percent of the "confusion" over the issue because lation of 'availability' claims can cargo generated by the govern­ of conflicting statistics published hide the fact that of this cargo ment, and that this minimum re­ by the Agriculture Department only about 25 percent was car­ quirement be computed separately and the Agency for International ried on U.S.-flag vessels." for each segment of the maritime Development on the application The Transportation Institute is industry — liners, .tankers and of the program. This was particu­ a research organization concerned larly true with respect to AID primarily with the role of Ameri­ tramps. The study determined that "the figures, which claimed that tramps can-owned, American-built and only segment of the industry received 53 percent of their tjq)e American-manned merchant ship­ which consistently receives more of cargo, tankers 51 percent, and ping in the nation's international than 50 percent of government- liners 66 percent. commerce. generated cargo is the liner seg­ The Transportation Institute ment." This is the same segment pointed out that the discrepancy of the industry which is subsidized resulted from AID's contention by the federal government in both that the 50-50 cargo preference the construction and operation of requirement "applies only where its vessels. Pointing out, that the American ships are available"— other two segments have been fall­ adding that "the agency thus ing below the 50 percent floor, the 'writes off the remaining portion study added: of its liftings to foreign-flag ves­ sels before computing the U.S.Tramps Suffer Most flag percentage." LA JOLLA, Calif.—^American "While tankers have not fared tuna fishermen purse-seining for Figures Inconsistent as well as liners, it is the tjamps bluefin tend to find cooler waters which have really suffered from "To be valid," the research more productive, according to a unfair distribution of government study said, "the U.S.-flag tonnage recent study by the Department cargo." carried should be considered as of the Interior's Bureau of Com­ The Transportation Institute a percentage of the grand total, mercial Fisheries. said its study is the outgrowth of not of the sub-total." When this A staff member of the BCF recent complaints by some seg­ is done, the figures become 23.6 ments of maritime management percent for tramps, 42 percent Fishery-Oceanography Center at and labor that the cargo-prefer­ for tankers and 66 percent for La Jolla examined more than ence program has been "adminis­ liners. The slight difference be­ 2,000 records of purse seine sets tered unevenly in terms of cargo tween the Maritime Administra­ from the log books of tuna fisher­ allocation." The original protests tion and the "valid" AID figures, men, and found that only 47 per­ against the program's administra­ the Institute noted, arises out of cent of the sets made on bluefin tion were based on Maritime Ad­ the fact that MARAD data is at water temperatures of 70° to ministration figures showing compiled on a calendar-year basis 76° were successful, compared to tramps carrying 24.2 percent of while AID uses a fiscal-year base. 64 percent at 59° to 65° F. WASHINGTON—continued decline in the American-flag merchant fleet was pointed up by figures released by the Maritime Administration last month which showed six fewer active ocean­ going vessels as of November 1, owned fleet was 972, an increase compared with the totals on of two. This brought the total September 1—^just two months U. S. flag merchant fleet—in all earlier. categories—to 2,094 ships. Shown as of the later date were 1,078 ships of 1,000 gross tons and over. The listing is contained in MARAD's Merchant Marine Data Sheet, an oiilcial report issued periodically by the agency. Of NEW YORK — The membershipthe 1,078 ships listed, 905 were elected rank-and-file Union Tallying privately owned and 173 were gov­ Committee -has begun the tally of bal­ ernment owned. lots cast in the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, MARAD's release shows five Lakes and Inland Waters District elec­ less active and seven more inactive tion for Union olTicers which was con­ ships in the privately owned sector, ducted from November 1 to Decem­ compared With the number listed ber 31. in these categories on September Members of the 12-man Tallying 1. Committee were elected at tnember"Six ships were delivered from ship meetings called on December construction, three were acquired 30th. The following committee mem­ on exchange from the government, bers, and the ports in which they were three were traded in to the govern­ elected are: Cary J. Beck, William H. ment . . . one was transferred to Gradick, Mobile; Charles Hamilton, Panamanian flag, and four were Warren Cassidy, New York; F. Disold for scrapping," the report Giovanni, Thomas D. Garrity, New stated. Orleans: John Carlson, George T.itchIn addition, the active fleet of field, Baltimore; James Doris, Charles MAR AD declined by one to 173 Moss, Philadelphia; John L. Hunt, and the government's inactive fleet John A. Ziereis, Houston. declined by two to 949 in the twoUpon completion of the tally, the month period. Three ships were Committee will submit a report to be transferred from the Navy, three acted upon at the regular February were returned from the Army, membership meetings which will be three were exchanged from private designated as the "Election Report ownership and are expected to be Meetings" as provided in the Union sold, and three were exchanged Constitution. to private ownership. Removed Winning candidates in the election were one which was sold for nonwill take over their duties and func­ transportation use and six which tions as of midnight, February 13. are to be scrapped. A lota! of 54 qualified candidates A decline of three vessels brought the United States-owned ran on the ballot for the 45 elective fleet to 1,122. The privately Union posts. A Bluefin Tuna Keeps His Cool, U.S. Study Finds SlU Election Ballot Count Underway With the conclusion of balloting in the election of SIU officers, members of the rank dnd file tallyir^g committee have started to count the thousands of votes cast by Seafarers in ports all over the U.S. Nationwide balloting for the Union's 45 contested offices began on Nov. I and ended on Dec. 31. �Janaai7 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Four On Proposal of SlUNA Fishermen Two- Year Fish Reseanh Program Barked by $229,000 Govt Grant WASHINGTON—A total of $229,000 in federal funds has been granted for a two-year-long fish research program proposed and conceived by the SIUNA-affiliated Atlantic Fishermen's Union. The objective of the program is "to develop an abundant fish product that will be indefinitely stable with little or no refrigeration," species of fish, primarily whiting, the finished products in their nu­ through the use of a rapid salt have caused "glutting" of the mar­ merous food programs. curing process. ket with catch surpluses that have The federal government's Specifically, the AFU-inspired in turn driven down the price of Agency for International Devel­ study will seek to determine if fish and played havoc with the opment, which oversees most of fish species now in abundant sup­ earnings of SIUNA fishermen. this nation's aid to foreign coun­ ply, such as whiting, can be proc­ tries, has expressed hope that A solution to tl}is traditional essed by rapid salt curing into a rapid salt curing of fish may pro­ problem has been sought for many modem, efficiently marketable vide a valuable new food source years. form, that will open up new mar­ for conducting its programs that kets and thus increase the value Sixteen months ago Ackert of the catch. fight hunger in underdeveloped, asked John Holston, director of famine-ridden countries. The successful conclusion of the Bureau of Commercial Fish­ Ross D. Davis, assistant secre­ the study could have tremendous eries Technological Laboratory in beneficial affects upon the entire Gloucester, Massachusetts to as­ tary of commerce for the Eco­ nomic Development Administra­ New England fishing industry, sist in the project. tion, said in a letter to Represent­ especially in the Massachusetts Infonnation Gathered ative William Bates (D-Mass.), porta of Gloucester and ProvinceHolston compiled the necessary that the new process "will assure town. In addition, since other species of fish besides whiting may technical information, surveyed higher prices to fishermen and be used—such as herring, an­ the equipment available, and provide additional employment marshalled the resources and per­ for fishermen and shore workers." chovy, hake, and even alewivesthe results of the study are ex­ sonnel of the Gloucester lab be­ Ackert reported- that interest pected to also have an impact hind the project. from government agencies that upon fisheries in the Pacific, Gulf, Now that funds have been ap­ conduct foreign-aid programs is and Great Lakes regions. propriated by the federal govern­ most welcome, since purchases of With salt curing of fish the ment's Economic Development the finished product would help basic factor underlying the AFU Administration, Holston will this country's balance of trade by program, the two-year study will head-up the study which will be providing a new abundant export seek to arrive at the most efficient conducted at the Gloucester lab. product. Indeed, the prospect of The project is already receiv­ large"^>ufc'hhses' of the product for method of salt curing, develop handling procedures, and demon­ ing much attention across the export was one of the forces that strate that this method will allow country, and is being closely prompted him to propose the proj­ the finished product to be stored watched by a number of govern­ ect and ask for federal assistance, ,,,|pr a considerable length of time. mental agencies who may utilize he added. The basic concept of the proj­ ect originated with SIUNA Vice President Captain James Ackeft, who is currently on leave from the Atlantic Fishermen's Union to serve as master of the Seafreeze Atlantic. WASHINGTON—Look magazine has been accused by the Ackert said that seasonal fluc­ AFL-CIO of "distortions, misinformation and just plain sloppy tuations in the catch of several reporting" in an article purporting to describe discrimination by unions against Negro workers and members. The article, titled "A National Disgrace: What Unions Do to Blacks," is itself a disgrace, according to AFL-CIO SecretaryTreasurer William F. Schnitzler, who heads the federation's Civil Rights Committee. The piece was written by Jack Star, described as a Look senior editor. But, Schnitzler said, it is laden with untrue statements and ignores facts that "any cub ST. PAUL, Minn.—Harold reporter could have discovered." Koeck of Hotel and Restau­ Presidents of the Railway Clerks, Firemen and Enginemen rant Local 556 here, chair-1 and Papermakers also have written to the magazine to refute man of the legislative com- i falsehoods in the article that relate to their unions. mittee of the St. Paul AFLSchnitzler, in a letter to Look Editor William B. Arthur, took CIO, promised his wife that particular exception to false charges in the headline appearing when Vice President Hum­ over the article: "For nearly a century, most unions have forced phrey was inaugurated as Negroes into Jim Crow locals, given them dirty jobs or refused President, he'd lake her for i to admit them at all. New laws and repeated union promises are their first trip to Washington not stopping prejudice." to watch Minnesota's first I President take the oath of i Cites True Facts office. The facts, Schnitzler declared, are that "most unions never Well, the Vice President i had any Jim Crow locals; most have always admitted Negroes; didn't win the election, but it I almost none hire any workers—black or white—for any jobs, turns out the Koecks will be 1 dirty or otherwise." I going to the inauguration any-1 He hit out at "six untrue, sweeping allegations" that he said way. Look had used to back up its "ridiculous headlines," declaring Last October, Mrs. Koeck that the truth about each allegation is: stopped in the lobby of Twin • There are more than 1.5 million Negroes in AFL-CIO i City Federal, a savings and unions. loan company, and deposited • Of the 60,000 locals in the AFL-CIO, fewer than 150 are i her guess in its election sweep-1 now all-Negro and the campaign to merge them with all-white stakes. She picked Humphrey locals continues even where some black locals are reluctant to to carry Minnesota and change. missed hitting his actual total • Negroes now constitute 3.6 percent of the apprenticeship on the nose by only seven force, an increase of more than 100 percent in 10 years. Labor votes. Department figures show that Negro participation in apprentice­ The prize? A three-day, ship programs has nearly doubled in the past 18 months. all-expense trip to Washing­ '• Unions, including building trades, are engaged in programs ton for the festivities sur­ to recniit Negro journeymen as well as apprentices. rounding the inauguration of j • Unorganized workers—black and white—"are fiosking to the next President of the trade unions," because non-union craftsmen, black or vyhite, United States. earn considerably less than orgaiiized workers do. Green Carders Allowed Jobs As U.S. Workers Go Hungry SAN ANTONIO—Witnesses here recently told the U.S. Com­ mission on Civil Rights that American farm workers live in destitu­ tion while the Immigration and Naturalization service lets 44,000150,000 "commuters" cross the ^ border daily to v^ork^L^o border every day to take farm while an equal number of Laredo jobs. residents cannot get work. At the close of the six days of The Reverend Edward Kruehearings, the acting Chairman, ger, sent to the area by the Texas Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh Council bf Churches as an ob­ asked the commission staff to seek server last year, testified that he a legal opinion on whether federal was arrested and slapped after anti-peonage laws have been vio­ taking pictures of Rangers break­ ing up a farm worker picket line lated by Texas employers. The testimony tended to show. at Mission, Tex. Rangers Captain A. Y. Allee Reverend Hesburgh said, that many migrant farm workers in was booed and cheered when he the lower Rio Grande Valley are denied any brutality or strike­ living in conditions close to slav­ breaking tactics. ery. He is president of Notre Asked whether . he had con­ Dame University, and one of five ferred with the growers during commission members. the organizing effort of the United Father Hesburgh asked for a Farm Workers Organizing Com­ lawyer's opinion on peonage, not­ mittee, Allee said he had been ing that, if the workers try to or­ "in and out of Starr County for ganize, "they get thrown in jail 32 years" but denied the employ­ and have to put up $500 bond, a ers talked to him about the strike. third of their yearly income, to The commission, authorized by get out." Congress to make recommenda­ Arnulfo Guerra, an attorney tions, will report its findings when from Roma, Tex., told how Mex­ they are complete. The states un­ ican "green carders" are permit­ der study are Texas, California, ted to take farm jobs while U.S. Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico. citizens cannot find work at a liv­ The Texas committee includes ing wage. Last year, he testified, Henry Munoz, civil rights direc­ Texas Rangers and Starr County tor for the state AFL-CIO, and court officers helped employers Paul Apolonio Montemavor of break a strike of American farm the Steelworkers, Corpus Christi. workers. In its most recent report, called Manuel Ramirez of Laredo, Cycle to Nowhere, the commis­ Tex., a member of Volunteers in sion detailed living and working Service to America, testified that conditions for black citizens in 2,500 Mexican nationals cross the the Montgomery, Alabama, area. AFL-CIO Hits Race Slurs In Look Article Inauguration Trip Won the Hard Way OK Flection loss • Labor was one of the principal supporters fighting for enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and long before that unions had sought at the bargaining table, to eliminate segre­ gated seniority systems. Railway Clerks President C. L. Dennis charged that the article "completely misstates the facts" in claiming that Negro freight handlers were replaced by less senior white employees and that there are no Negro rail ticket clerks. The truth is, he said, "there is not one known instance" of a Negro freight handler being displaced by a white worker with less seniority and there are "quite a few Negro ticket clerks" at work in passenger terminals. BLFE President H. E. Gilbert said "there is not a shred of truth" in the article's contention there are no Negro firemen. There are Negro firemen in various parts of the nation "and most of them" are BLFE members, he pointed out. President Harry D. Sayre hit at allegations of discrimination in the Papermakers and Paperworkers by pointing out that the union eliminated racial wage differentials more than 15 years ago and Negro members in the South are among the region's highest paid industrial workers. Photo Also Wrong He also blasted the magazine for showing a picture of a Negro worker described as being in a segregated local when the man is a member of a local that was integrated "sometime ago." Schnitzler charged that the article also "deceives by what it omits." He noted, for example, that there is no mention of the successful program under which building trades unions are actively recruiting minority group youngsters for apprenticeships in 44 major cities. "We make no claim to perfection," Schnitzler concluded, "and would welcome a constructive critique of our progress in civil rights. For there has been progress and we intend that it con­ tinue despite attempts such as Mr. Star's to discourage young Negroes. "Labor is not and has not been the foe of the quest for 3 better life. Indeed, it has often been the only group fighting for this goal. And invariably, it has succeeded despite the hos­ tility of that segment of the press which cares neither for the truth nor the cause—and would sacrifice both for sensational headlines." �•January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOC Pace Five Congressman Tells MTP Meeting Labor Board Knocks Down Christmas Bonus Scrooges Two employers who took away a Christmas bonus from em­ ployees must give it back, the National Labor Relations Board decided in a pair of holiday season rulings. Found guilty of unlawful acts were the Beacon Journal Pub­ lishing Co. in Akron, Ohio, and Wisconsin Aluminurn Foundry Company Inc. of Manitowoc, Wis. In the Manitowoc case. Office and Professional Employees Local 9 charged that the employer dropped a payroll clerk off its yearly bonus list because of his union membership and union activities. - The company president denied the firm was biased against employee Lorin Haver. He admitted that Haver had received a bonus of up to $500 for 19 years but last Christmas he was dropped because the bonus went only to supervisors, and Haver no longer was a supervisor. Haver's boss told the NLRB. The withholding of the bonus for the reason given was, the board ruled, a "plain violation" of the labor act. It reasoned as follows: "There was no change in Haver's duties and responsibilities" from one Christmas to the next. What had changed was that in the interval. Haver had organized the clerical workers into a union and was now included in the union bargaining unit. To withhold a bonus payment solely because the employee is represented by a union "serves naturally to discourage mem­ bership in a labor organization," the board said. Two board members reversed a trial examiner's recommen­ dation that the complaint be dismissed. Member John H. Fan­ ning dissented, saying he agreed with the examiner that the bonus was negotiated into Haver's new pay rate. In 'the Beacon Journal case, the NLRB reaffirmed an order handed down 18 months ago but remanded to the board by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Cincinnati, for additional tes­ timony. The board said the newspaper broke the law in 1966 by unilaterally changing its formula for the payment of a Christmas bonus to its union employees without bargaining collectively with the Printing Pressmen, Paper Handlers, Mailers and five other unions. It ordered the company to bargain with the unions about the bonus, and to pay all eligible employees the difference between the bonus actually paid and what should have been paid, plus interest at six percent. 1968 Efforts Realized V Delta's Replacement Program Climaxes As Fifth Ship Sails NEW ORLEANS—The formal delivery last month of the new SlU-contracted Delta Mexico to Delta Steamship Lines here, tharked the completion of the largest ship replacement construc­ tion program in the fifty-year'®' a set of Stiilcken heavy duty gear history of Delta Line. capable of lifting single loads The Delta Mexico is the fifth weighing up to 75 tons. and final unit of a series of five Attractive air-conditioned living Delta Class identical ultra-modern quarters are also provided for all American-flag cargoliners built in crew members. 1968 for Delta by the Ingalls ship­ These new Delta Class ships are yard at Pascagoola, Miss. Princi­ designed for ready adaptability to pal characteristics of these modern containerized and unitized cargo new vessels are; an over-all length operations, in anticipation of the 522 feet, with a beam of 70 feet; possibility of a continuing trend deadweight capacity 13,350 tons; toward intermodal transportation bale cubic 646,860; refrigerated systems. cargo space 47,280 cubic feet; The Delta Mexico will join her liquid cargo 1,658 long tons. four sisterships—the Delta Argen­ Design cruising speed for the tina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uru­ vessel is 18.6 knots with 11,660 guay—and the other U.S.-flag shaft horsepower, and in excess of vessels of Delta's fleet engaged in 20 knots when utilizing total regularly scheduled cargo service power at design draft. between U.S. Gulf ports, the East Coast of South America, and also Feature Bulbous Bow The new ships have been built between U.S. Gulf ports and the with a bulbous bow for increased West Coast of Africa. Other SIUspeed and fuel economy. Advanc­ manned Delta cargo vessels are ed features include centralized also being operated through the control stations in the engine room MSTS on the Vietnam sealift. and on the bridge.. Also featured The Delta Mexico proceeded are multiple hatch cargo holds from the shipyard directly to Freewith fast operating hydraulic hatch port, Texas, as her first cargo covers, and the iatest navigation ioadiag pert. After tins she loaded equipment for ship safety and op­ additional cargo at Houston and erating efficiency. The ve^el's Tampico before embarking on her cargo handling equipment includes maiden voyage to South America. Cabinet-Level Department Could End 'Fragmented Approach' to Maritime WASHINGTON—A Connecticut Congressman last month called for establishment of a Cabinetlevel Department of Maritime Resources to end what he called the "fragmented approach" to the na­ tion's problems on the oceans, lakes, rivers and harbors. Representative Robert N. ^ would be forthcoming on the De­ Giaimo added, "and it would be a Giaimo (D-Conn.) told a meet­ partment idea, he favored going mistake, in my view, to consider ing sponsored by the nearly "full steam ahead" with reconsti­ these two problems in such a way seven-million-member AFL-CIO tuting the Maritime Administra­ as to divorce them from the other Maritime Trades Department that tion as an independent agency. elements of our total maritime "more than a score of federal re"After all," Giaimo said, "the effort. partments and agencies have an record has been made on the need "To do this would be to per­ overseer role" over shipping, ship­ for maritime independence. It was petuate the neglect that has l^en building, fishing, seafood process­ made in 1966, when we kept visited upon the other elements— ing, oceanographic research, the maritime out of the Department Great Lakes, inland waterways of Transportation at the time that the development of our oceano­ and the related problem of water new Cabinet-level office came into graphic efforts, the revitalization of our fishing fleet, the expansion pollution. being. It was made in 1967 in the of our seafood processing in­ The Congressman emphasized House and 1968 in the Senate his continuing support for creation when those respective bodies dustry, the strengthening of our of an independent Maritime Ad­ voted for an independent agency. Great Lakes shipping capability, ministration, noting that "Agri­ So the record is there, and we the enlargement of our network of culture, State, Defense, Interior, should be able to pass an in­ inland waterways to serve the Commerce, Transportation, AID, dependent agency bill quickly in heartland of America, and the development of modem port the Coast Guard—and perhaps a the next session of Congress." facilities to serve modem sea and few other federal agencies^—all land transport needs. E^ntial to Progress have a finger in the maritime pie. "But if that's the route we "The fact that so many different "We should be tackling all of agencies meddle in maritime," he take," Representative Giaimo said, these problems together—for, in went on, "and do it from the point "let us make sure that the record truth, all of them are parts of the of view of their own constituencies is clear as to our long-term in­ same problem." rather than from the point of view tentions ... of having all of the As an example, Giaimo pointed of the merchant marine, is pre­ diverse elements of this program to the fact that for several years cisely the reason why we have an eventually brought together in one the maritime industry and Con­ outdated merchant marine operat­ centralized place. This is the only gress have been battling side by ing under an outdated program." way, in my opinion, that we can side for the creation of an in­ But, Giaimo declared, although make genuine progress on all dependent Maritime Administra­ an independent maritime agency maritime fronts—exploiting our tion. "I support this cause, be­ is "vitally important . . . it's far great potential on the seas and cause I happen to agree with you under them, and the great poten­ that we're never going to get at from being the total answer." tial of our lakes and rivers, our the root of our difficulties in the 'The Right Time' ports and harbors—serving the He said 1969 might be "pre­ growing needs of a growing nation maritime field as long as the cisely the right time" to go ahead in both peacetime endeavors and agency charged with this respon­ sibility is placed in a subordinate with creation of the broader Cab­ national defense." inet-level Department, particularly Recognizing the concern of position within the Executive in view of some of the statements maritime labor over the revitali- Branch . . . and corrective action issued by the President-elect's zation of American-flag shipping, is long overdue. headquarters about the need for Giaimo declared: "I share that "An independent agency can consolidating many of the pro­ concern. I recognize the concern devise an up-to-date merchant grams of government which now of workers in American shipyards cross several Cabinet Department and workers in supporting trades marine program, and can see that lines," and in view of a maritime and industries over the need to it is carried forward with vigor statement by Nixon touching on modernize and expand our ship­ and enthusiasm—certain that its all aspects of the maritime-ocean- building capabilities . . . and I efforts are not going to be negated by some Secretary or some Underographic problem. share that concern, too." Secretary somewhere in the higher "But these are only parts of Giaimo said that if it appears "unlikely" that speedy action the total maritime question," echelons of bureaucracy." The Delta Mexico Is the fifth and final ultra-modern cargo ship built for Delta Steamship Company by Ingalls Shipyard, Pascagoula, Miss. The 522-foot vessel will make maiden voyage to South America. �Page Six On UAW Membership Bid AFL-CIO Executive Council Demands Firm Declaration of ICFTU Policy WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO Executive Council last month called on the International Con­ federation of Free Trade Unions for a specific, definite answer to the AFL-CIO's request that it reject applications for membership from hostile, secessionist unions. Until it receives such an an­ He noted that the AFL-CIO centers in the ICFTU from any swer^—specifically on the bid by had asked the ICFTU to reject at nation, is unthinkable and indefen­ the Auto Workers—the councU its November, 1968, Executive sible." said that the AFL-CIO will not Board meeting the affiliation ap­ The ICFTU should do more participate in any activities of the plication from the UAW on the than "merely refrain from taking basis of trade union principle. . action detrimental to the interests ICFTU. The question before the ICFTU of its United States affiliate," Federation President George board, Meany had written to Meany wrote, and the AFL-CIO Meany reported the action to a ICFTU Secretary-General Harm "should receive the complete press conference following a oneG. Buiter, goes beyond that posed backing and support of the day meeting of the council here. by the UAW's application. "It ICFTU in its effort to defend and Meany said that the council involves not only the integrity of preserve the integrity of the only strongly reiterated its position the AFL-CIO but that of every national trade union center in the taken at the September, 1968, other trade union center affiliated United States." meeting in New York that "the to the ICFTU." The ICFTU board postponed AFL-CIO cannot agree to the action on the UAW application, Internal Rivalry 'Unthinkable' aflSliation of the UAW to the leading to the council's demand The AFL-CIO, Meany had ICFTU in any shape, manner or for a specific answer to the trade form," in view of the withdrawal noted, "is faced with the dual ac­ union principle it raised. of the UAW from the federation tivities of a hostile, secessionist In reply to queries, the AFLand its continuing efforts "to split union in alliance with an expelled CIO president said that the trade the American trade union move­ union. Dual membership of rival union movement is in good shape ment." competing national trade union and that life will go on under the Nixon Administration. He said the AFL-CIO hopes to co-operate with the new leadership and that there is some indication that "they want that co-operation." In other actions the council: • • Approved the merger of four WASHINGTON—^The AFL-CIO and the Japanese Confedera­ rail (i^rating unions and the tion of Labor (DOMEI) have joined in supporting the desire of name change to the United Trans­ the Japanese people for the return of Okinawa to Japan "at the portation Union. Three of the unions—Firemen and Enginemen, earliest possible moment.' sire for expansion thereof in the Switchmen and Trainmen — are Representatives of the two free world, bearing in mind the federations also reached agree­ problems of individual unions AFL-CIO affiliates; the Conduc­ ment on U.S.-Japan trade, Viet­ when their workers are affected." tors were unaffiliated. • Heard officers representing nam and the need for stronger On Vietnam, "DOMEI and the the Patrolmen's Benevolent Asso­ unions in Asia at a three-day AFI-CIO reconfirm their desire ciation of New York City ask for meeting here last month. and continue their respective ef­ affiliation with ^he Federation and The meeting brought an agree-- forts for an early restoration of ment that AFL-CIO and DOMEI peace in Vietnam and achieve­ voted to name a committee to representatives will henceforth ment of a free and stable society secure more information on the meet annually to discuss matters through increasingly better condi­ request. Meany named sbc AFLCIO vice presidents, including of mutual interest. Additional tions for the people." SIU President Paul Hall, to the joint meetings may be held at the Towards this end, the statement committee which will report back request of either body. added, "we pledge full co-opera­ to the next council meeting. The AFL-CIO was represented tion with the Vietnamese Con-' • Received an interim report at the initial conference by a spe­ federation of Labor (CVI)." from A1 Barkan, national direc­ cial committee of the Executive On Asian labor, "DOMEI and tor of COPE, on the 1968 elec­ Council, headed by President the AFL-CIO have mutual inter­ tions. A full report will be made George Meany and including four ests in strengthening free trade to the council at its next meeting AFL-CIO Vice Presidents—SIU unions in Asia so that they may in February. President Paul Hall, James A. effectively promote economic de­ • Voted contributions to the Suffridge, P. L. Siemiller and velopment and prosperity for the Jewish Labor Committee, the Joseph A. Beirne. great mass of people." Joint Council on Economic Ed­ DOMEI was represented by its They pledged to press this ob­ ucation and the Inaugural Com­ president. Minora Takita, and its jective in coordination with the mittee's guaranteed fund. The lat­ general secretary, Takumi Shi- Intl. Confederation of Free Trade ter is to help underwrite inaugural geeda. Unions and the Asian Regional costs and the funds are usually re­ In a joint statement, the leaders Organization. turned from ticket sales, etc. of the two federations said that they "anticipate that the govern­ ments of Japan and the United States will reach a full and satis­ factory agreement" on the Okinawan issue. In the meantime, they declared, there must be improvement "of the working conditions and free industrial relations in Okinawa." Specifically, they called for a re­ view of labor ordinances and rales at U.S. military establishments^ with a view toward improving them. "More permanent tenure of management negotiators is impor­ tant for continuity in establishing sound labor-management rela­ tions," the joint statement said. These were the expressions of agreement in the other areas; On trade, "DOMEI and the AFL-CIO President George Meany Issues joint statement on Olcinawa, AFL-CIO continue to support free trade policy, Vietnam and Asian Labor with Minoru Takita, president, and liberal trade policy and de­ and Takumi Shigeeda (right), gen.-sec, of Japanese Labor Federation. Return of Okinawa Supported By AFL-CIO, Japanese Labor Januarjr 3, 1959 SEAFARERS LOG At Home on the Range • •X Mariano Marcelino cooks lunch for hungry Seafarers as they wait for Steel Age to pay-off after recent voyage to India among other ports. A native of the Philippines, he joined the SIU in 1951. SIU Deck Officers Program Upgrades 3 More Seafarers Three additional Seafarers have received their deck officer's licenses after completing the course of study offered at the up­ grading school sponsored by the SIU and the America Maritime Officers Union. A total of 43 under a reciprocal agreement be­ men have now earned a deck officers license after attending tween the SIU and the Associated this school and Maritime Officers Union, is the passing Coast first of its type in the industry. Applicants can begin training Guard examina­ at any time. The period of in­ tions. struction is determined by each Henry Bilde re­ ceived a second member's individual ability and mate's license. knowledge, and his preparation to The 53-year-old take the examination. Seafarer was born The training program was in­ Bilde in Denmark and stituted in line with the SIU's makes his home objective of encouraging and as­ in Bellport, Long Island, N.Y. sisting unlicensed personnel to Brother Bilde previously sailed as upgrade themselves. bosun and joined the Union in Seafarers can participate in the Philadelphia in 1943. His last ship course of instruction at no cost as bosun was the Robin Goodto themselves. They will be pro­ fellow. vided with meals, hotel lodgings A Seafarer since 1952, John Andringa joined the SIU in Sa­ vannah, Ga. Formerly sailing as AB, he received a third mate's license. He is a native of Minne­ sota and makes his home in Crookston, Minn. Brother And­ ringa served in the Air Force from 1941 to 1945 and again during the Korean War. His last vessel before earning a license was the Transpacific. Andringa Dew Paul Dew received a second mate's license after sailing previ­ and subsistence payments of $110 ously as bosun and AB. Born in per week while in training. White Oak, N. C., he has been a This in-training assistance is member of the SIU since 1952, the same as that available to when he joined in the Port of engine department Seafarers who Baltimore. The 41-year-old Sea­ are enrolled in the union training farer served in the Navy from program to prepare engine depart­ 1944 to 1949. His last ship v/as ment men for their lisensGd engi­ the Hermina. He lives in Glen neer's examination. Burnie, Maryland with his wife, SIU deck department men in­ Ethel. terested in the program should The training program, operated apply at any SIU hall. �wwrr-Mtr- January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Tax Reform SeenJEssential In Solving NatfOfi''s Problems WASHINGTON—^Tax reform is essential to the massive public in­ vestment needed to overcome America's accumulated social and eco­ nomic problems, AFL-CIO President George Meany stresses in a recent article written for a prestigious academic joumah The article "Labor Looks at Government Finances," appears in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. It discusses the impact of the "rapid and radical changes in tech­ nology, urban growth and race relations." It notes the problems created because "millions of people have been leaving depressed rural areas of declining job opportunities to seek their future in the cities. Additional millions have been moving from cities to suburbs. Industry, too, has been leaving the city for suburbs and outlying areas." The article warns that the public investment in facilities and services —however large it may appear in dollar terms—has not been adequate to meet the backlog of needs and keep up with rapid changes. As a result, Meany points out, education and public transportation have deteriorated in large cities, air and water pollution have become major problems, housing for the lower income families has been grossly inadequate. And a significant minority of the nation has had little share of national prosperity. Can the states, cities and private industry overcome these problems? Meany thinks not. They can help, he says; they can do more than they have done. But, he adds: "The key to the national complex of social and economic problems is federal government policy, funds and planned programs over the -next 10 to 20 years—^with state and local government initiative and additional funds to carry through the nationwide efforts at the local level." Meany emphasizes labor's position that the government must be: • "The employer of last resort—to create jobs for the unemployed and seriously underemployed in providing needed public services. • The landlord of last resort—to build and rehabilitate housing that poor people can afford." But can the government, itself, afford this? Yes, Meany insists. The growth in the national economy will gen­ erate additional revenue. But, he stresses, to gain continued public support for heavy federal expenditures, the public must be convinced of the fairness of the taxation system. The fact is that we don't have an equitable tax system, even though it is superior to most state and local tax structures. Specifically, Meany proposes "elimination of those gross inequities that impose full tax rates on workers' earnings while there are various loopholes that permit wealthy people-and corpwations to escape pay­ ment of full tax rates and, in some cases, to escape from paying any federal taxes at all." He calls also for reform of state and local tax policies, consolidation of small local government jurisdictions and a federal tax credit for state income tax payments to encourage states to base taxation on ability to pay. Meany firmly rejects the conservative call for "no strings" handover of federal money to the states. "Since unconditional grants would not be tied to specific programs, there is no assurance they would not be used for less urgent or even wasteful purposes," he notes. Nor could enforcement of federal civil rights or labor standards be assured. Genuine problems resulting from uncoordinated grant programs can be overcome by less drastic remedies, Meany suggests. Basically, the article insists, "America has the manpower, skills and productive ability to achieve solutions" to the nation's problems. Bert M. Jewell, 87, president of the former AFL Railway Em­ ployees Department for nearly a quarter of a century, died in a Kansas City, Kansas, rest home recently. He retired from the position in 1946. Jewell, a long­ time leader in the Boilermakers, also headed the negotiating com­ mittee of the non-operating unions for many years, and represented rail unions at international labor meetings. • • ... » The City Council of Lakewood, Ohio, has unanimously passed an ordinance calling for full recogni­ tion of union bargaining rights. The ordinance was enacted after extensive negotiations with Local 1043 of the State, County and Municipal Employees and the lo­ cal lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police. City-recognized unions submitted their proposals for wage provisions for 1969 last mouth. Bargaining will be handled by the council's finance committee and any agreements must be approved by the council. * « « James L. Kane, 48, president of the Buffalo AFL-CIO Council since 1959, has been appointed to a Buffalo City Court judgeship and took office Jan. 1. "James L. Kane has been a very active law­ yer," Buffalo Mayor Frank A. Sedita said in announcing the ap­ pointment, "he will be a very good judge." Kane, a graduate of the University of Buffalo Law School, became president of the former Buffalo Federation of Labor in 1946 and has presided over the council since its merger. He is a member of the Postal Clerks. • • • More than 20,000 members of Utility Workers Ixx;al 1-2 returned to work after voting by a 3-1 margin to end a two-week strike against Con Edison in New York Inst month. Wage inerpases of $17 to $48 a week are included in a 27-month contract which won ap­ proval after an earlier offer was rejected Nov. 30. Page Seven LOC O' Say Can You See? In keeping with long-established custom, Christmas greetings were sent once again this year to the men and women of the American Merchant Marine by the Presi­ dent of the United States. This message was broadcast to all U.S.-flag vessels throughout the world during Christmas week. The White House message expressed its "unending debt to those who sail our mer­ chant ships over the highways of the sea" ... and those who "safeguard the nation's sup­ ply lines to our military forces on distant shores . . ." These are encouraging words, it is true; but the poor record of White House support of maritime reduces them to words—and words alone. Even though they are a token pat on the back, they can hardly raise any ju­ bilation. Seafarers in 1968 have continued to sail into often dangerous waters aboard many ships which should have been retired to the scrap-heaps years ago. Despite the formal praise issued for ptiblic consumption, the truth is, the U.S. merchant marine is carrying governrnerit cargoes with a fleet 70 percent of which consists of ships over 20 years old. Tlie truth, again is, that this nation has practically abandoned the carriage of its goods in international com­ merce. Today we are hauling less than six percent of our own imports and exports. Our 50-50 cargo laws are in disrepute because of constant circumventions of the law by gov­ ernment officials which continue unchecked under the blanket excuse that we don't have the ships with which to live up to regulations. This is no more than federal double talk sub­ stantiated by long-standing fedefal neglect. Today this nation is scrapping more ships —and replacing them more slowly than ever before in its history. The Soviets are build­ ing ships at a rate of nearly seven to every one we put on the ways. With the advent this month of a new Administration, the opportunity to reverse course is before us. The hard-earned vic­ tories for maritime which have been chalked up in the past year—despite the hostility of the Executive Branch—can be solidified into law. The maritime industry and the Con­ gress soundly defeated the attempt to bury MARAD in Transportation, where it would have become even further subordinated to every other means of moving people and goods. But MARAD must be moved out of Com­ merce, too, where it has languished since 1950, where it has had to compete with that Department's big business programs, and with the more prosperous, well-protected in­ dustries such as the railroads, airlines and trucking. Any national maritime program must start anew—from this point on. The Congress is well aware of the sad plight of the decrepit American merchant marine. In 1968, it passed maritime's declaration of independ­ ence by approving overwhelmingly a bill for an independent MARAD. The same ur­ gency, the same understanding, and the same legislators who recognized the need then are still there now—with the exception of only a few. MARAD must be made a separate agency—and now! That will pave the way to real considera­ tion of America's vital interests—economic, political and strategic — in this country's recapture of its supremacy on the high seas. Then, :..:id only then, will official holiday greetings to the men and women of our mer­ chant marine—made up of a growing, re­ vitalized fleet—sound like a sincere greeting, rather than mere commiseration. �t fi |i I Page Eight / P. StevenSr Governments Darling, Gets Hardest Rap Yet from NLRB WASHINGTON—J. P. Stevens and Co., Inc., major supplier of textile goods to the U.S. govern­ ment, deliberately reduced the flow of cotton into a company warehouse to give itself an excuse for getting rid of union supporters prior to a National Labor Relations Board election, an NLRB aide declared last month. Stevens management started its whom he held to have been un­ The ruling, by Trial Exam­ lawfully disehaiged, should be re­ union-busting tactics when it iner Owsley Vose, marked the instated—all of them with back­ learned in the fall of 1967 that sixth straight time since 1966 that pay except three who were laid its warehouse employes were in­ terested in joining the Textile unfair labor practice charges off after the election. Workers Union of America, the Challenges to ballots cast by the against the nation's second largest examiner reported. 14 should be overruled, Vose said. textile maker have been upheld. Though its Black Hawk ware­ advised the NLRB to open He Two of the NLRB rulings have house was only about half full in and count the ballots; to certify been sustained by the U.S. Su­ September of 1967, Stevens "com­ TWUA as the bargaining agent preme Court. Three company ap­ peals still wait to be ruled on by for warehouse employees if it wins menced consigning the great bulk a majority of the valid votes cast; of its shipments" from cotton other U.S. appeals courts. and if it does not get a majority states to an independently-owned Excuse for Layoffs that the election be set aside public warehouse in Greenville, Vose concluded after hearing and a new election ordered. thence to its cloth-making plants. the latest charges that Stevens Vose's report will go to the That month Stevens consigned "deliberately changed its past NLRB for review if the company 73 of the 88 carloads of cotton methods of doing business so as files exceptions, as it has in the shipped from the South to Green­ to be able to reduce the volume five preceding cases. The first two ville for warehousing at the inde­ of cotton moving" into and out of of five NLRB findings against pendent warehouse, the examiner the company's Black Hawk ware­ Stevens were refused review by related. house at Greenville, S.C. The the Supreme Court. Policy Changed purpose, he found, was "to have Workers unlawfully fired by "Earlier in 1966 and 1967, al­ an excuse for laying off a substan­ Stevens in the first two cases have most all the cars placed at the [in­ tial number of the group of em­ collected $666,895 in backpay to dependent! warehouse had orig­ ployees which ... the company date. Stevens' union-busting pol­ had heard contained the largest icies have prevented any success­ inally been consigned to Black number of union supporters, ful union organization in the past. Hawk. However, apparently real­ namely the warehouse em­ TWUA President William Pollock izing that it did not make sense to ployees." predicted that the Black Hawk consign cotton to Commodity [the The examiner recommended workers will give TWUA its first independent warehouse] when it had plenty of space available at that 17 warehouse employees. "foothold" in the Stevens chain. Black Hawk, and when its own warehouse staff was comparatively idle. Stevens had 37 of the 73 cars originally consigned to Com­ modity" switched to its own ware­ house, the examiner related. The remaining 38 cars com­ prised a "significantly larger num­ OKLAHOMA CITY—Oklahoma's voters, who turned down a ber of cars than Stevens had pre­ proposal to ban the union shop in a 1964 referendum, won't be viously had Commodity handle," faced with another vote on the issue for at least some time to come. Vose said, citing the record of Oklahomans for the Right- istered voters, names written in shipments. Next Stevens in­ creased its use of warehouses at to-Work, the state affiliate of the same handwriting. Gulfport and Clarksdale, Miss., the National Right-to-Work But it conceded defeat, declar­ instead of Black Hawk, and at the Committee, had to give up its at­ ing the Supreme Court ruling same time laid off 20 Black Hawk tempts to force the issue on the made it "impractical" to continue employees to bring the warehouse ballot on the basis of petitions the fight. workers to 28—a reduction in collected last year. The organization's executive force of unprecedented size. Oklahoma's secretary of state, vice president. Herb Johnson, said And just before the eligibility John Rogers, had ruled that the a new "right-to-work" petition period for voting in the NLRB organization hadn't turned in will be circulated "as soon as we election expired, Stevens hired three new shop employees, Vose enough valid petitions to qualify can get everything set up." He said the state legislature noted. The shop employees, who under state law. Signatures of should pass a new law to cover repair equipment, are mainly 101,589 voters were required. The "right-to-work" group the problem of "missing" signa­ white and the warehouse workers predominantly black. fought his decision in the courts tures. —and claimed that some 3,500 names they turned in hadn't been Early Morning Byeopener counted. But they couldn't make the charge stick. The state's Supreme Court ap­ pointed a referee to investigate the charge. He found no evidence that any uncounted petitions had ever been submitted. The Supreme Court then con­ firmed his findings and took note of "obvious discrepancies" in the testimony given by "right-towork" officials regarding the "missing" names. That left the number of peti­ tions on file at only a few hun­ dred over the legal minimum— despite the use of paid solicitors and a high-powered advertising and publicity campaign during the three-month period allowed for collecting initiative petitions. The "right-to-work" group could have contested the ruling that 17,000 of these signatures were invalid—^fake names, dupli­ Minor Jensen enjoys a cup of coffee at the New York hall's cafe­ cations, names of persons not reg­ teria. He last shipped on the Robin Goodfellow as a chief cook. Oklahoma Right-to-Workers Forced bv Court to Retreat January 3, 1969 SEAFARER^ LOC :Se Plan Early for Retirement By Sidney Margollus Is anyone in your family coming up for retirement in 1969? Or in the next few yeans? Even ten years ahead is not too soon for practical retirement plan­ ning. Now, more than ever before, it is important to estimate well in advance how much your living expenses will be when you finally do retire. If you expect to live on about the same scale after retirement as be­ fore, you probably will need about 70 percent of the income you had before. Thus, if pre-retirement costs for a husband and wife have been about $6,000, you would need about $4,200 to continue living in the same way after retirement. That's just about the annual amount a retired couple needs today for moderately comfortable living. The main differences in annual living costs are brought about by savings on income taxes, job expenses, some clothing, and fewer meals out. Unfortunately, most retired people do not have 70 percent of preretiremenf income. Only about one out of six already-retired people have any private pension. The others depend mostly on social security, plus occasional part-time work and help from relatives.. In the future, more retiring workers will have pensions to supple­ ment social security. However, for at least another generation, this will not be the case for most. In addition to working out a retirement budget, there are certain key financial decisions which should be made. Their timing can affect your taxes, how much extra income you will have, and even your expenses. Some of the most vital decisions involve the following: • Your House. If you sell your house before you reach 65, you may have to pay more tax on the gain in value than if you close the deal after 65. • E Bonds; Other Savings. If you expect to cash in E bonds or sell mutual-fund shares or other securities on which you have gains, you can usually save taxes here, too, by waiting until after 65. If you are buying E bonds for retirement, buy smaller denomina­ tions—for example, two $50-bonds instead of a $100-one. In this way you won't have to cash a large bond to get a relatively small amount of cash. (This suggestion can be useful to younger families too, especially since they have to pay tax on the increase in value of their bonds.) • Retirement Savings. The form in which you want to keep your savings after retirement may also be different. E bonds will be less useful than five percent savings accounts as a place to keep your sav­ ings. You will no longer need the tax-postponable feature of the E bonds, which is useful to younger families, because you probably will not have to pay much—if anything—in income taxes following your retirement. If you have some of your savings in mutual-fund shares or stocks, those paying higher immediate income are more useful now than those paying lower dividends but offering better prospects for capital growth. • Your Life Insurance. You also must decide what to do about your life insurance. If you have a whole-life or endowment policy on which you have been paying for many years, it probably has a fairly large cash-surrender value. When you are ready to retire, you prob­ ably will need income more than your heirs will need insurance pro­ tection. If this is so, you usually can convert this cash value into an annuity which will pay you an income each month. If you also arrange for survivor payments—or buy a separate annuity for your wife—this income will take the place of at least part of the insurance as protec­ tion for her if she survives you. Converting the cash value of your insurance to an annuity or other income-producing investment will also reduce your living expenses by ending further payment of premiums. If you do have an endowment policy, consult the insurance com­ pany about the tax effects of the optional ways of taking the proceeds. If you convert to an annuity before, or within 60 days after the policy matures, you may be able to escape some or all of the tax on the difference between what you put in and what you get back. • Medical Needs. Some medical care you may wish to postpone until your Medicare coverage starts—if such care is postponable with­ out harm to you. But some needs not covered by Medicare—such as dental work, eyeglasses and hearing aids—may give you a tax deduc­ tion if paid before age 65. The deductibility of such expenses may be of less use to you after 65. • If Others Will Help You. If your grown children or other close relatives will help support you in retirement, make sure you and they know all the dependency rules. Sometimes taxpayers lose a potential exemption because they slip up on some point, such as not counting all their contributions, including the value of the dependent's room in the taxpayer's house. The most important rule is that the taxpayer—or taxpayers, if more than one contributes—must provide more than half the support of the dependent. Also, the dependent must not have $600 or more of "taxable" income of his own. Remember that social security, railroad retirement, VA payments and similar income are not taxable as income. Even if the taxpayer cannot claim you as a dependent because you have $600 or more of taxable income, he still may be able to include your medical expenses in his medical deduction, if he does pay these expenses and does contribute more than half your annual support. �,n^. • January 3, 1969 ONE VOYAGING—ONE MAN sailing the high seas in a small, frail craft—has become an in­ creasingly popular sport in recent years, and despite the dangers involved it continues to exercise a fascina­ tion over these adventurous souls who feel impelled to challenge the seas and elements. Although most men who took up this challenge in the past were master mariners, their ranks have been joined by amateurs—and one of these, Cleveland copyreader Robert Manry, sailed five years ago in what was probably the smallest craft to ever successfully cross the Atlantic. In the personal account of his crossing in an 11-foot sailboat from Falmouth, Massachu.setts to Falmouth, England, Manry gives perhaps the most novel description of what constitutes a lone voyage. "A voyage made by a .solitary person is sometimes called a singlehanded voyage or solo voyage," he wrote, "but neither of these terms gives proper credit to the most important factor in any voyage, the boat." The boat is indeed important. Lone voyagers have dis­ covered—sometimes to their surprise—that small craft fare better in rough seas and storms than larger ones which are more difficult to maneuver, and are more likely to be broken up by pounding waves. "Far from being a solo," Manry continues, "a oneman voyage is a kind of maritime duet in which the boat plays the melody and its skipper plays the harmonic counterpart. The performances of the boat and the skipper are both important, undeniably, but if it comes to making a choice between the two the decision must be in favor of the boat. For there have been a few honest-to-goodness solo voyages, and these have been made by boats, not men." Manry is referring here to solo voyages made by derelict vessels—some of which drifted, unmanned, for thousands of miles without sustaining the slightest bit of damage. The past 15 years have witnessed nearly a dozen ocean crossings by lone voyagers. They have become so com, monplace that Mariner Alan Villiers, who himself sailed a replica of the Mayflower across the Atlantic ten years ago, speaks cynically of "a radio-sick populace clamouring to be told about them." In addition to Manry's trip across the Atlantic in his II-foot Tinkerbelle, Alec Rose, a grocer, has crossed the same ocean in a 36-foot yacht; William Willis—since lost at sea— crossed the Pacific twice on a sail-propelled raft; and Sir Francis Chichester has circumnavigated the world alone in his yacht Gypsy Moth. Although men were undoubtedly making lone voyages thousands of years before him, the first recorded lone ocean crossing was made 75 years ago by a master mariner in a 37-foot sloop—and five years later another master mariner sailed alone around the world in an even smaller craft—a converted Indian dugout fitted with sails. Captain Joshua Slocum, a Nova Scotian who had been "born in the breezes" and "studied the sea as per­ haps few men have studied, neglecting all else," had sailed since the age of 10 and survived a long career at sea as a sailing-ship master before he was to undertake his last great adventure. In 1890, at age 55, Slocum found himself without a ship, having lost a bark that he commanded off the coast of Brazil. After returning to Boston to work in a shipyard, he was given—as a practical joke—an anti­ quated little sloop, the Spray which had been lying idle for seven years on a New Bedford shore. Measuring a little less than 37 feet by 14 and-one-half feet, the Spray vvas completely rebuilt and outfitted by Slocum during the next two years. As work progressed, an idea began taking root in Slocum's mind. He started asking himself—at first facetiously, then seriously—why not sail the Spray singlehandedly around the world? Following trial runs to make certain that the Spray was seaworthy, and the addition of a few innovations of his own—including a lifeboat made from a dory cut in half with one end boarded up—Slocum decided the moment had arrived to embark on his solo voyage. On July I, 1895, complete with newspaper interviews and a gala sendoff by well-wishers, Slocum, who in all his years of seafaring had never learned to swim, set sail from New Bedford on a three-year journey that was to take him to every corner of the globe. His experiences on this trip included an encounter with pirates in the Mediterranean, raids on his ship by na­ L SEAFARERS LOG tives in the South Pacific, a celebrities welcome in sev­ eral of the world's seaports, the offer of a girl from the Azores to accompany him on the rest of his voyage (which he refused), and a near-collision with a whale. Slocum was the first to experience what has happened to many later lone voyagers—imagining that there is someone else on board, hallucinations so real that the lone voyagers actually carries on conversations with the imaginary passenger. At one point during his transAtlantic crossing many decades later, Manry thought he had a grey-bearded hitchhiker who wanted to be dropped off at an equally imaginary island. Slocum's imaginary hitchhiker was straight out of the history books. This was early in his voyage, shortly after he had left the Azores, the first leg of his journey. While eating island fruit and white cheese that the American Consul in the Azores had given him, Slocum was suddenly seized with such painful cramps that he could barely move—and at that very moment the wind took on gale proportions, forcing him to adjust his sails and lash the helm. Finishing this, he crawled to his cabin where he fell to the floor in a faint. The l3l/2-foot sloop Tinkerbelle in which Robert Manry, a Cleveland newspaperman, made trans-Atlantic cross­ ing to Falmouth, England, in 1965, gets final inspection from owner at suburban home. Trip took 78 days. . Page Nine ing it around the world. He, too, wrote a bodk about his voyage adventures, but the idea of lone navigating still didn't draw others to sea in small craft for some time afterward. Then, in 1921, an old carpenter, Harry Pidgeon, began a three-year voyage around the world in a 34-foot sloop, the Islander. Successfully completing this lone voyage, he continued to make solo trips for the next 20 years until the age of 70. Pidgeon was the first of these lone voyagers to use the newly-opened Panama Canal. He was soon joined by a French tennis champion, Alain Gerbault, who sailed his yacht Firecrest around the world singlehandedly. By this time the equipment on yachts had been so improved that it became possible, as Villiers puts it, for "most anyone to 'have a go.' " This equipment in­ cludes radios that keep the lone voyagers in constant communication with civilization, special lifesaving de­ vices, and other modern conveniences that have taken some of the earlier romance out of solo voyaging. Nevertheless, lone voyagers still occasionally disap­ pear—William Willis, the "Old Man of the Sea," was lost last September. A few pieces of wreckage from his 11 Vi -foot sloop, the Little One, found by the Russians in the Atlantic, were the only trace found. And Robert Manry, in his 11-foot Tinkerbelle, was twice washed overboard during his voyage, saved only by a lifeline tied around his waist. The most recent of the returning lone voyagers was Alan Eddy, a Scarsdale, New York mariner who left Catskill, N. Y., in 1965 in a 30-foot fiberglass sailboat, the Apogee, and logged 36,000 miles in the succeeding three years, going first to Marblehead, Massachusetts, then to the Virgin Islands and the Grenadines before passing through the Panama Canal and continuing on to the Fiji Islands. Returning to New York last September after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, Eddy's voyage might have gone virtually unnoticed had he not picked up a passenger on the last leg of his journey, a woman photographer who accompanied him to the West Indies. The first man to sail around the world in a fibreglass sailboat, Eddy had an experience in the Pacific Ocean which is perhaps unique among lone voyagers—his vessel was attacked by a school of whales, an attack that broke loose the cabin flooring and left Eddy with a severe case of the shakes which was not improved by a later severe tropical storm off the coast of New Zealand which sank one other vessel and left three more dis­ masted. While taking note that circumnavigating yachts are now ". . . commonplace. . . On almost any call at Pa­ peete, Tahiti, one will see at least a dozen alongside there, most of them sailing round the world," Villiers acknowledges that "a single-bander is still something of a rarity. . . After all, such mariners inevitably offer them­ selves as hostages to fortune. . ." Six months ago there was a non-stop around-the-world race by lone voyagers by way of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Horn. Although Villiers wished them well, he emphasized that ". . . for my part, they can have it." Later regaining consciousness, he became aware of the ship's plunging and tossing in the stormy seas. Making his way to the deck, Slocum then imagined he saw a man at the helm. "I have come to do you no harm," the spectral figure said to Slocum. "I am one of Columbus' crew. In fact I am the pilot of the Pinta. Lie quiet Captain. I will guide your ship tonight." Raving, Slocum asked the appartition to remain un­ til the next day, shouting "But just give her sail!" The figure then advised Slocum: "You did wrong. Captain to mix cheese with plums. White cheese is never safe unless you know whence it comes." What are the feelings and impressions of lone voy­ agers after they have been alone at sea with absolutely no other company than their own thoughts and imagi­ nations? In the account of his voyage, Slocum mentioned an initial feeling of overpowering solitude which lasted about a week, only to disappear and never recur throughout the remainder of his travels. "During these days a feeling of awe crept over me," he wrote. "My memory worked with startling power. The ominous, the insignificant, the great, the small, the wonderful, the commonplace—rail appeared before my mental vision in magical succession. Pages of my history were recalled which had been so long forgotten that they seemed to belong to a previous existence. I heard all the voices of the past laughing, crying, telling what I had heard them tell in many corners of the earth." When Slocum returned from his three-year voyage in 1898, he wrote a book about his exploits which was quite popular at the time, but no one was eager to du­ plicate his feat—quite possibly because a few years later he tried to duplicate it himself and disappeared without a trace. However, in 1901 another master mariner. Captain I. C. Voss, found a derelict Indian dugout on a Van­ Gipsy Moth IV, famous ketch in which Sir Francis Chi­ couver beach which he christened the Tilikum. He chester, shown at her bow, made his round-the-world solo fitted it out with sails and spent the next three years sail­ voyage, setting out from the Port of Plymouth, England. �Page Ten January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOC Presidential Emergency Rail Board Public Welfare Rule Reform Bids Talks Resume on Train Crews Wins Full ATL-CIO Backing WASHINGTON—three-member presidential emergency board recently summoned the man­ agement of three railroads and the Railroad Trainmen to "immediately resume negotiations" on disputes involving train-crew sizes. In a report to President John­ son, the l^ard said that it found ment is reached and the railroads They asked for an "unfettered" cannot issue threatened new rules. right to determined crew sizes, "no reason" why the issue The disputes go hack to 1960 that is without bargaining. couldn't be settled by "conscien­ when BRT first served notices on The board termed as "unreal­ tious" bargaining "as has been railroads calling for a minimum istic" the railroads' request for a done in the greater part of this "safe" crew of not less than two freehand to set crew sizes, noting industry." trainmen in addition to the con­ that the earlier arbitration board's Upon receiving the report, ductor on all trains. findings — "that the employees Johnson also appealed to both After a two-year compulsory have a legitimate bargaining in­ sides to use "every effort to re­ arbitration award on train crews terest in this question"—are still solve their differences through the expired in 1966, the notices were valid. free process of collective bargain­ upheld in litigation that went all As for conflicting claims of ing." the way to the U.S. Supreme what is a safe and efficient crew, Court. the board said that "evaluation" Disputes Aired Since then the BRT has reached of these factors "is a matter for The hoard, appointed upon the agreement on crews—some threejoint consideration by the bargain­ recommendation of the National men and some two-men — with ers on the properties." Mediation Board, held 10 days of more than 70 railroads. But it has During the hearings, there also hearings into disputes involving been unable to reach agreement were charges by the BRT that the BRT and the Louisville and Nashville, the Belt Railway of with L&N, Belt and IC and sev­ railroads management had illegal­ ly met with individual workers, Chicago and the Illinois Central. eral other carriers. Union witnesses charged before without notice to the union, to Appointment of the hoard ended a one-day strike on the the hoard that the three carriers offer pay increases if the men L&N and a three-month walkout have "refused to bargain in good would abandon the crew-size issue. The board made it clear that on the Belt. It also covered the faith." It urged the hoard to call union's dispute on IC even though for resumed bargaining, either "negotiations on the crew issue, there was no strike on that line. with or without a suggested pat­ now present by virtue of the notices already filed, will be better Under the terms of the Railway tern for settlement. Labor Act both sides must keep The railroad managements, on served by laying aside of this the "status quo" until Jan. 13, the other hand, contended that money issue." which means the union cannot two-men crews were adequate for BRT President Charles Luna strike before then if no settle­ safety and efficient operations. said the report "reaffirms the po­ sition we have held all along. We are ready to negotiate at any time rnd always have been." Right Wing Begs Faithful: 'Eat More Scah Crapes' KANSAS CITY~The American Farm Bureau Federation, the National Right to Work Committee and the John Birch Society have called on their members to eat all the California grapes they can stuff down. ^ At the convention of the Farm The goal is to break the AFL- Bureau here, President Charles B. CIO United Farm Workers Or­ Shuman called for a counterganizing Committee, whose na­ boycott of food stores which have tional boycott of struck Califor­ boycott of food stores which nia table grapes has the solid have stopped carrying California support of the trade union move­ grapes. ment and the endorsement of "Buy and eat grapes and have leading church groups. some on your table for Christ­ mas," Shuman urged delegates. The pitch to the conservative big farmers' establishment was SEAFARERS^LOG that organization of grape work­ ers in California would spread to Jan. 3. 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. I farm workers elsewhere. Official Publication of the Posters in the convention hall Seafarers International Union of North America, warned, "Grapes today-^bread to­ Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes morrow." The head of the Cali­ and Inland Waters District, fornia Farm Bureau reported on AFL-CIO the "almost traumatic experience" Executive Board PAur, HALL, President of union organizing and passed CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD out baskets of grapes to the dele­ Exec. Viee-Pret. Vice-President gates. AL KERR LINDSEY WULIAHS Sec.-Treae. Vice-President Local chapters of the John AL TANNER ROBERT MATTHEWS Birch Society have held "counterVice-President Vice-President picketing" demonstrations to try Director of Publications to nullify protests against the sale MIKE POLLACK of California grapes. Editor HARRY WITTSCHBN And the National Right to Work ilssistant Editors WILL KARP Committee has a leaflet it is pass­ PETER WEISS ing out which terms the grape BILL MOORE boycott a weapon to bring about Staff Photographer ANTHONY ANSALDI "compulsory unionism." It says grape pickers are really Pikllihsd kIwMkly at SIO Rksds lilind Avenis H.E., Wuklniton, D. C. 20018 ky tks Stafarwell off and are covered by "more •n Intarnatlanal Union, Atlantic, Gait, Lakat protective laws than farm workers and Inland Watin Dlitrlit, AFL-CIO, £75 Faartk Avanaa, Brooklyn, H.V. 11232. Tal. in any other state." NVMlntk 9-£600. Saeand clan pactaia paM at Waihlnitani, D. C. What the "work" committee POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Fann 3579 doesn't mention is that the farm aardt akanid ka sent ts Sasfarcri Intcmatianal Bales, Atlantia, Gall, Ukaa and Inland workers aren't covered by a law WRtari DIftrlct, AFL-CIO, £75 Faartk AcanM, •naklyn, N.V. 11232. giving them the right to union or­ ganization and collective bargain­ ing. WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has given its "enthusiastic en­ dorsement" to public welfare reforms which the Department of Health, Education and Welfare predicts will bring greater efficien-.y, economy and dignity to ^ ments have been unjustly reduced progtams to help the needy. or terminated. Payments would v., deration President George continue while the claim was be­ Meaiiy wrote HEW Secretary Wil­ ing adjudicated. bur j. Cohen that the new regula­ Cohen announced the proposed tions his department has proposed changes Nov. 20, with a 30-day would make "more humane a sys­ period for comments by interested tem which has in many ways been parties. If finally approved, the gea^'ed to punishing the most dis­ new procedures would be binding advantaged in our country." on states after July 1, 1969. The The chief change would be to bulk of the money for the pro­ require states to rely on first-hand grams—to help needy children, the information obtained from appli­ aged and the disabled—comes cants in determining whether they from the federal government. are eligible for public assistance. In his announcement, Cohen There would be controls and noted that several states already checks to guard against abuse. But use the simplified declaration sys­ the intent is to end the "snooping" tem for determining eligibility and type of home investigation which spot checks have found that abuses has placed a stigma on the needy are no higher—and often lower— and helpless. than in states which rely on home "Besides offering a measure of investigations. dignity and self-respect to those Caseworkers now spend 70 to who must turn to public assist­ 95 percent of their time determin­ ance," Meany stressed, "the new ing who is eligible for assistance procedures will release many pro­ pavments, the HEW noted. The fessional people to do what they time, the announcement suggested, have been trained to do—that is, could better be spent "helping to offer rehabilitation and other so­ people solve problems and become cial services to people who badly more self-reliant and self-supportneed them." ing. Meany as in line with a policy Meany noted that the indigni­ resolution adopted by the last ties to which welfare recipients AFL-CIO convention would make are subjected too often serve to legal help available to welfare discourage people in need from recipients who believe their pay­ obtaining help. December 13 to December 26, 1968 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTJSKED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Port ' 1 Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle ;.. Totals Class A Class B 7 0 68 43 8 5 43 13 7 11 10 11 9 6 20 23 33 30 21 27 17 16 36 60 21 16 300 261 Class A Class B Class C 9 3 1 19 30 15 6 3 1 16 4 4 8 12 4 7 7 5 0 1 2 16 20 4 23 22 3 19 14 7 13 19 13 38 60 27 9 17 13 191 206 97 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 10 4 98 141 13 20 106 48 37 15 19 2^ 16 20 65 37 76 118 101 80 39 0 15 35 7 37 453 728 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 5 4 New York 55 55 Philadelphia 4 7 Baltimore 28 23 Norfolk 6 14 Jacksonville . 6 13 Tampa 3 4 Mobile 17 16 New Orleans 35 38 Houston 19 23 Wilmington 10 10 San Francisco ... 40 38 6 Seattle 19 Totals 234 264 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C 3 1 3 16 26 13 9 0 5 11 4 5 9 12 5 3 9 7 0 1 1 12 17 5 6 15 25 13 23 13 8 8 12 31 38 36 8 16 18 123 192 120 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groui Port Boston •. York ..«•••• Philadelphia ..... BfiLltimore ..••••• Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans ..... Houstoi. Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 4 3 , 36 23 8 3 22 11 4 5 13 4 4 1 12 13 35 19 12 17 12 4 29 56 16 2 207 161 Class A Class I1 Class C 1 1 2 21 16 13 2 4 2 6 6 5 4 8 7 2 9 5 0 1 0 18 11 6 15 18 11 12 IZ 2 9 5 7 27 47 29 10 2 4 • 127 189 97 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 1 105 95 3 14 100 56 17 12 14 11 14 11 26 40 104 87 70 85 1 12 17 32 33 8 448 522 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 3 44 107 18 7 82 46 13 22 10 13 6 21 49 23 42 120 38 82 0 21 27 33 3 35 262 606 �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS Labor Department Briefing Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, right, meets with George P. Shultz, the man who will succeed him in the incoming Nixon Administra­ tion. Wirtz referred to Shultz as "an old and cherished friend." Patrolmen Join With Clerks In Latest Rail Union Merger WASHINGTON—The Railway Patrolmen have completed a merger that brought the union into the Railway Clerks as an au­ tonomous section of BRC's Allied Services Division. Under the merger, effective Like Ryan, Dennis emphasized January 1, the Patrolmen will that "unions in the transportation be in seven locals of exclusive industry need merger. Our mem­ membership within the division. bers are calling for it all over the The union has about 2,000 mem­ United States and Canada. bers in 52 locals holding 65 con­ "The merger trend is clearly at tracts with U.S. railroads. hand in railway labor, and our The Patrolmen's convention in union expects to play a major role Portland, Ore., in October ap­ in developing a situation in which proved the merger plan and in­ there are fewer, but better unions structed its executive board to to represent the needs of the em­ work out details to effectuate the ployees," he concluded. merger. BRC President C. L. Dennis and Patrolmen's President Wil­ liam J. Ryan announced here that the board completed this process in meetings held in Chicago De­ cember 5 and 6. Details of the merger were negotiated by the board in confer­ ences with L. E. Dennis, BRC's ANCHORAGE, Alaska—The­ administrative coordinator and odore F. Stevens, a Republican, W. J. Donlon, the union's gen­ was appointed last week to fill eral counsel. the vacant United States Senate Under the merger agreement, seat created by the death of Ryan became a vice president in the BRC division. The Patrol­ Alaska's Democratic senior Sen­ men's Secretary-Treasurer L. ator, E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. The appointment was made by Powell, is now a member of the Republican Governor Walter J. division's board of trustees. Hickel, who, as President-elect Increased Effectiveness Nixon's appointee choice for Sec­ In announcing the merger, retary of the Interior, is expected Ryan said: "We are very happy to take over that post this month. with the negotiated agreement, Stevens, a 45-year-old lawyer which brings our members into a who has been majority leader of large and effective union." the Alaska House of Representa­ Stressing that the need for tives, will serve until 1970, when mergers among transportation a special election must be held unions has been apparent for to fill out the term which runs to many years, he added that he was- 1972, Following the death of Bart­ "proud that the Railway Patrol­ lett on December 11, Hickel had men have taken this forward step" 30 days in which to name a suc­ with the Railway Clerks. cessor. William A. Egan, a Dem­ In welcoming the Patrolmen ocrat, who was first Governor of into the Railway Clerks, Dennis the new state and a leader in the said he was certain that the fight for statehood, has been re-_ union's members will find their garded as a leading candidate for new union "hospitable and bene­ the Senate. He was defeated by ficial." Hickel in his bid for a third term A very important point in the as Governor by a narrow margin merger plan, he explained, is "that in 1966. the existing craft and class lines Hickel selwted Stevens from a for Patrolmen will be continued, list of 10 names submitted for and there will be maintenance of his consideration by the Repub­ separate agreements." lican State Central Committee. There also will be maintenance Stevens was the unsuccessful Re­ of separate seniority, promotion publican nominee for the Senate rights, bargaining rights and re­ in 1962 when he lost to Senator sponsibilities, jurisdiction rights Ernest Gruening by more than and craft and class determinations, 10,000 votes. Gruening was edged Dennis added. out for the Democratic nomina­ He expres.sed ijope that the tion this past election by Mike merger "will demonstrate that Gravel, who went on to win the large and small unions can join seat. The 1970 campaign for the together on an equitable and Bartlett seat is expected to begin workable basis." shortly. GOP'er Named To Senate Seat Of E. L. Bartlett Page Eleven LOC Comprehensive Health Plan Systems Seen Vital For Needed Medhal Care WASHINGTON—Comprehensive health care systems—incorporating communtiy, area, state and regional facilities—are needed to meet the nation's medical needs. This is the major conclusion of the National Advisory Commission on Health Facilities as it recom­ mended in its report to the PresIt also noted the gains brought The coninilssioii defined com­ dent: prehensive health care as the sys­ through medicare and medicaid "The nation must now con­ tem that takes in: health education, and other progressive health legis­ centrate upon organizing health personal preventive services, diag­ lation in the last five years. facilities and other health resourc­ nostic and theraf>eutic services "In the next two decades, na­ es into effective, efficient and eco­ and rehabilitation of patients. tional health policy as expressed nomical community systems of Prepaid medical health plans through federal legislation and ad­ comprehensive health care for all." must be further developed in or­ ministration must foster local abili­ • America's health care systems der to provide all people with ty to deliver comprehensive health should combine private and public equal access to the improved care to all—an accepted national responsibility, the commission re­ health care, the report said. These goal," the commission stressed. port to President Johnson said. plans include private health insur­ The blue ribbon membership of ance, group prepayment, govern­ the commission includes AFL-CIO ment welfare supp>ort, in addition Vice President David Sullivan, to medicare and medicaid. president of the Service Employ­ The nation must be prepared to ees. finance comprehensive health serv­ Commission Chairman Bois- ices adequately, the commission feuillet Jones said that "existing stressed, to ensure the continued fragmented delivery systems must operation of the systems and for DULUTH—Imports of general be made whole through full co­ the development of new compo­ cargo through the Lake Superior ordination of resources and serv­ nents in tile systems. Port of Duluth-Superior reached ices at the local level." Funding is Vital 60,621 tons during the 1968 sea­ Although facilities and systems will vary according to capacities All available sources of funds son, the Port Authority of Duluth and needs, the cuinmission recom­ must be tapped to support the announced, setting a record for mended the following guidelines: health services. These include gov­ the third successive year. At the same time, exports han­ • Systems should be organized ernmental, public and private ex­ dled through the Port were 117,to assure appropriate points of penditures'. entry into and continuity of health Federal grants and direct loans 930 tons, a volume which reached services. are a necessary means of building the third highest level in the 10 • Every citizen should have new facilities and for the expan­ years of St. Lawrence Seaway ready access to quality health care. sion or modernization of existing operation. Total import-export volume • States, regions, local commu­ facilities. nities and all health institutions The report noted that federal reached a peak of 2,848,340 tons .should carry out continuous plan­ grants for' construction have at­ for the season—including the bulk ning. tracted money from local sources, and general categories. Although • There should be community often raised through fund drives higher than 1967, it was slightly responsibility, with both the users or community bond issues and below the 10-year average. and the providers of health care do not require repayment from The shipment of bulk liquids participating in decisions. patient revenues. from the port's Public Marine • All levels of health care The commission pointed to the Terminal tank farm reached only should be interdependent. gains made in the last 21 years in 30,635 tons, however — a drop Emphasis must be to the orga­ health care facilities and services from 34,785 tons last year. Scrap nization of ambulatory care for through the federal Hill-Burton iron exports rose from 45,495 the individual and his family. program, which has "vastly in­ tons to 71,545 tons. Jones pointed out, with co-ordi­ creased the availability of hospi­ In grain exports, counting di­ nated professional direction tals, nursing homes, diagnostic and rect shipments as well as those through the full spectrum of com­ treatment centers, public health handled via Canadian ports, a prehensive health services. centers, rehabilitation facilities." total of 2,550,478 tons went out. Port of Daluth Hits New Record In Cargo Imports The Wyoming Is Launched in New Orleans The SlU Pacific District-contracfed Wyoming was launched recently at the Avondale Shipyard in New Orleans. The ship was the fourth in a series of five cargo ships built by the yard for States Steamship Company. The vessels are the largest ever built in Louisiana and the biggest launched in the Mississippi river. Other ships in the series of S79-foot vessels were the Colorado, Montana and Idaho. �•'li Jannuy 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twelve Cargo Giveaway Seen Bad Trend The Northwestern Victory (Victory Carriers) paid-off in New York recently, ship's delegate Butch Wright reported. Crew members aboard the vessel included such SIU oldtimers as G. Doty, oiler, John Abraham, Henry Gock and Charles Swain of the deck department. Wright said that he ran into his old buddy Swain in f of this vessel should be sold to ley crew received a vote of thanks Norfolk and they decided to another ship, for the original cost, for the fine work they have turned sail together on the same ship so that fresh films may be pur­ m. for the voyage to Korea and Tai­ chased. After calling at Rio, the wan. Brother Wright reported that .ship is heading for a late January "with nine new pay-off in New Orleans. Troy Savage, steward on the men in all three departments, the Kyska (Waterman) reports that he oldtimers lost no has a top-notch time in giving Meeting Secretary Robert Spen­ galley crew as the them a helping cer reported from the Cosmos vessel departs hand in becom­ Mariner (Cosmos New York for a ing good practical long voyage to the Navigation) that seamen." Gock ship's delegate Far East. Chief reported that he Swain Cook Jay Stede W. M. White is retiring after and baker Law­ talked to the chief 25 years with the Union. A few rence Smith are engineer about inhours disputed overtime was re­ number one, stalling a water while Joseph ported in the engine department, fountain in the but there were no beefs or logs. port passageway. Riclmrd, third cook, can always be After receiving a vote of thanks Tbommen An order has been counted on to turn-out excellent for a job well done, Wright told placed for the chow. "I am sure we will have a his fellow Seafarers that he's head­ fountain which will 6e installed as fine trip," Brother Savage wrote, ing for the Northwest Mountains soon as possible. Spencer said. with these men on hand to keep and a bit of hunting and fishing Jack Thommen, meeting chair­ the men well-fed. The Kyska will prior to grabbing a ship for the man, reported that a discussion call on Massawa and Assab in Far East. He has his eye on an was held in regard to an arrival Ethiopia, Djibouti in the French 800 pound grizzly bear. pool for the purchase of movies. territories of the Afars and Issas, A total of $225 is needed to pay for the ten films needed, Thom­ Khurramshahr, Iran and Karachi, men wrote. Seafarers have been West Pakistan. A discussion was held on an asked to be particularly careful arrival pool which would boost when using the swimming pool the ship's fund of on board because accidents can Seafarers on the YeUowstone the San Juan (Sea- happen. The ship is expected to (Oriental Exporter) extended a Land) in order to pay-off in San Francisco. "vote of thanks buy extra movies, to the steward and Meeting Chaircooks for putting man Thomas out a very good Markham report­ Seafarers will liave an extra Thanksgiving din­ ed. Ship's dele­ treat with their movies aboard the ner," Meeting gate James SiniI Oakland (SeaChairman Maxi­ J Land), according Markham explain^ the mo Bugawan new disability re­ to Meeting Chair­ wrote. Ship's dele­ port forms which are to be sent M. £. Sanman DeLappe gate James W. to the welfare department when 'i chez. "Pop corn Simmons reported necessary. A repair list will be and an electric made and the Union will be con­ corn popper are that two men paid-off in Hawaii. tacted for new library books, available," Broth­ No beefs or disputed overtime. F. A. Olson, meeting secretary, er Sanchez wrote. Brother Simmons said. A discus­ reported. No beefs or disput^ Masters They should help sion was held about keeping na­ overtime were reported. The ship make tfie trip to tives from entering rooms and is heading for San Francisco and Vietnam and Japan more enjoy­ passageways during visits to In­ a pay-off after calling at Subic able. The pay-off is scheduled for dian ports. A motion was made by Bay, Yokohama and Seattle. A Oakland. An arrival pool has been W. A. DeLappe and seconded by vote of thanks was given to for­ set-up to purchase extra movies James Moran, that Headquarters mer ship's delegate T. E. Mark- according to Meeting Secretary should send copies of the new pen­ ham for the fine job he did. "Hie R. O. Masters. After spending sion and welfare plan to all SIUsteward department has turned $150 for the movies, the pool will contracted vessels. In a fine performance, the crew have $10 left. Shipboard pools agreed. have produced a $50 winner with A Good Catch $25 to the alternate winners. Mas­ ters writes. Since the minutes of the previous meeting were mis­ James Tucker, ship's delegate laid and could not be found, they on the Del Mar (Delta) wrote that were rewritten by William BOger the ship's fund and C. Bogusld, chairman dnd currently totals secretary respectively of the last $31. Most of the meeting, to complete the record. beefs taken up with the patrol­ — man have already been settled, he Meeting Chairman J. J. Connors reported. A new jeports from the Cities Service tube for the movie Baltimore (Cities Chafin projector has been Service) that the purchased and ship's fund now the crew has rented fifteen mov­ totals $11.50 and ies for the current trip. Darrell will be left in the Chafin, meeting secretary, re­ care of the chief ported that Brother Tucker re­ mate for the next ceived a vote of thanks for a job crew. John Hall, well done. Juan Cruz, oiler, was engine delegate, elected new ship's delegate. A Hall reports that there motion was made by Jean Latapie is some disputed that those Seafarers who "wish to overtime in hie department as the see the movies should donate $10 ship heads for Baytown, Texas. to the movie fund." The motion Connors is ship's delegate, E. Steward utility Jacob Weigel was passed unanimously. Another CConnell represents the deck de­ proudly displays a butterfly flsh motion passed was that nineteen partment, and William Magruder, he caught during trip to Persian movies now owned by the crew the steward department. The gal- Gulf aboard Monticello Victory. <1> To the Editor: A story in the last issue of the LOG which reported that the Acting Maritime Adminis­ trator, James W. Gulick, had issued clearance for more for­ eign-flag ships—in this case, those of Venezuela—to cany U. S. cargoes is just one more evidence of a long-disturbing trend. The excuse given is always the same—there aren't enough U. S.-flag ships to do the job. This might be understandable if we were a small nation, with no merchant fleet to speak of. Maybe that's what those in the Federal government who could correct the deplorable state of the U. S.-flag fleet would have us become. If that is so, it's a crying shame. The people in high places must realize that you can't have it both ways. If this great coun­ try of ours, which is tops in so many ways, is to be regarded by those responsible for our mari­ time posture as having a fleet which is too small to carry its full share of available U. S. cargoes, it is high time such responsibility is placed in the hands of maritime-oriented offi­ cials who can call for, and get, shipbuilding program in this country which will provide us with the fleet we need. Appointed bureaucrats bnve been sitting on their hands for far too long when it comes to the rebuilding of the American merchant marine. And all the while the government continues to lament the sad state of our trade balance deficit which sees more money going out of the country than there is coming in. This despite recognition by con­ gressmen and members of mari­ time labor and management of the fact that if there were more U. S. ships to carry cargoes to and from foreign ports the trade deficit could be virtually erased. When will the right hand and the left hand come together? What we need, it seems to me, is an Administration which gives needed priorities to build­ ing a fully competitive U. S. cargo and tanker fleet and really does something about seeing to it that the construction is accomplit-hed. Come January, maybe this will happen. It certainly makes good sound sense economically. It makes good sense politically. And it's absolutely necessary for our in­ dustry if maritime is to continue making the vital contributions all around. Sincovly, Jeny Matfeo Revision Urged On 50-50 Cargoes To the Editor: A new move to overhaul the 50-50 cargo preference law has been called for and I for one, hope it is the beginning of a new era for the merchant ma­ rine in this country. The 50-50 law is supposed to guarantee a basic minimunl of foreign aid cargoes for U. S. shipping, but the Government seems to feel all they have to do is reach the 50 percent mini­ mum and that's that. To those who persist in think­ ing that the need for a strong merchant fleet is no longer im­ portant, I'd say look how crowded the airlanes are getting. There is plenty of room on the oceans and the United States should do everything possible to maintain its fair share of trade by sea. Other nations do and are profiting handsomely as a result of their sound maritime policies. Also, it must be remembered that a healthy maritime industry provides jobs not only for Sea­ farers but for many thousands of workers in related fields as well. This is no small step toward building the strong econ­ omy with full employment which the trade union move­ ment is striving for. It was a step in the right direction when Representative James J. Howard (D-N. J.) said he would introduce legislation in the 91st Congress that would guarantee the movement of all foreign-aid cargo on U. S. ships whenever they are available. However, the building of enough new ships is a needed first step to insure that U. S.flag vessels are available wlien needed. This can only be done with the cooperation of govern­ ment. During the election cam­ paign, both parties promised to work toward rehabilitation of the merchant marine. Now that the Republicans are in office, it is their campaign promises which must be remembered and fulfilled. Sincerely, John Coleman LOG Reader Raps Growers, Stevens To the Editon In issue after issue of the LOG is the continuing story of the grape workers—still out, still struggling for decency, for elementary rights that we have won so long ago that many of us hardly ever think about it any more. Also there is the case of the giant textile company, J. P. Stevens, caught flatfooted time and time again with its hand in the anti-labor till by the NLRB. Yet—despite labor board deci­ sions and court decisions—^with lengthy appeals and what not, it takes years to settle a case and secure the rights of em­ ployees. In the meantime, those who would destroy organized labor give it to the worker in the neck again—and again. To anyone who might tell us unions are too strong, that they run the country, and so on, it's up to all of us to tell him back he's "full of the anti-labor non­ sense these constant violators of worker's rights run off their propaganda machines. And that ain't no sweet grapes! Stocerdy, Steve �January 3, 1969 FINAL DEPARTURES Carl Olson, 76: Brother Olson died July 19, in Veteran's Admin­ istration Hospital, Minneapolis. A resident of that city, he was a na­ tive of Iowa. He sailed as chief cook and joined the SIU in 1948 in the Port of New York. Sea­ farer Olson's last ship was the John C. At the time of death, he was collecting his SIU pension. Brother Olson served in the Navy from 1917 to 1919 and again from 1926 to 1942. He is sur­ vived by a sister, Mrs. Lillian Hutson, of Aparta, Wisconsin. Burial services were held in Na­ tional Cemetery, Fort Snelling, Minn. <|> Clifford Cowell, 43: Accidental drowning claimed the life of Brother Cowell on November 7, 1968, following an accident in Chesapeake Bay. A member of the deck department, he joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Norfolk. He made his home in Portsmouth, Virginia. Brother Cowell was employed by the R. K. Davis Co. During World War II he had served in the Navy. The Seafarer was a native of Mount Vernon, N. Y. He is sur­ vived by his widow, Shirley. Burial services were held in Olive Branch Ceimetery, Portsmouth. Page Thirteen SEAFARERS L6C Great Lakes. Surviving is his wid­ ow, Edna. The burial was in Greenwood Cemetery, Superior. <I> Joseph Carey, 67; Cancer caused the death of Brother Carey in Boston, No­ vember 18, 1968. '• ' He had been a Seafarer since 1944 and joined the Union in the Port of New York City. He held the rating of FOWT. Brother Carey last shipped aboard the Gray. He served in the Marine Corps from 1917 to 1921. A na­ tive of Massachusetts, Gray re­ sided in Whitman, Mass. Surviv­ ing is a daughter, Mrs. Elinor Walsh, of Roxbury, Mass. The burial was held in Mount Hope Cemetery, Boston. Ever-Expanding SIU Pension Roster Adds Eight More Seafarer Veterans The names of eight more Seafarers have been added to the list of oldtimers collecting their SIU pensions after completing their sailing careers. The new additions to the pension roster are: Thomas Garrity, Daniel Piccerelli, Michael Schalestock, Stephen Andros, David Sykes, George Bryan, Roy Poston and Robert White. ^ ratings in the deck department last vessel was the Hermina. Thomas Garrity joined the during his sailing career. Robert White is a native of Union in the Port of New Or­ A Seafarer since 1941, George Oklahoma and makes his home in leans. A resident of that city, Bryan joined the SIU in the Port New Orleans with his wife Alvina. he sailed as AB. Brother Garrity of Mobile. Born in Alabama, he He has held all ratings in the stew­ was born in New Orleans and last now lives in New Haven, Conn. ard department. Seafarer White shipped on the Del Sud. He held a steward's rating and his joined the SIU in the Port of New Daniel Piccerelli joined the SIU last ship was the Free America. Orleans. His last ship was the in the Port of New York. A na­ Steel Advocate. tive of Pennsylvania, he makes his home in Philadelphia. Brother Piccerelli sailed as cook and stew­ ard and his last vessel was the Brigham Victory. Schalestock Andros Roy Poston sailed as cook. A native of North Carolina, he makes his home in Marion, Vir­ ginia, with his wife Mandy. Brother Poston joined the Union in the Port of Baltimore and his Friends of Sheffield Nurkett Any Seafarer knowing the whereabouts of Sheffield Nurkett is requested to ask him to contact his son, Hulbert Nurkett at Apt. 610, 325 Mechanic Street, Or­ ange, N. J., in regard to an im­ portant family matter. Roy Garcia, 23: Brother Garcia died in Danang, Vietnam, on No­ Garrity Piccerelli vember 24, 1968. At the time of his A member of the engine de­ death he was a partment, Michael Schalestock is crewmember a native of New York City who aboard the Hast­ now resides in Philadelphia with Joseph Rudolph ings, sailing as a his wife, Jean. An oiler, his last Please contact Paul M. Godwiper. He was shop was the Commander. He stein, Attorney at Law, 1015 born in Fresno, joined the SIU in the Port of Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. California and Philadelphia. 19107, in regard to your claim had made his Stephen Andros joined the Unagainst the Massniar. home in Sacramento, Calif. Broth­ 'itttr in the Port of New York and er Garcia joined the Union in New held a deckhand's rating. He was York City in 1967. The body was born in New Jersey and makes returned to the United States for his home in South Amboy, N. J., R. L. Cooke burial in Sacramento. with his wife, Helen. Brother An­ A package is being held for dros was last employed by the Bal­ you from the Maritime Overseas timore and Ohio Railroad. Corporation. You can claim it at Sheldon Butler, 66: Brother David Sykes joined the SIU inSIU Headquarters in New York. Butler passed away on December New Orleans. A native of Chi8, 1968, in St. cora, Mississippi, he now lives in Frank Rajkovich, 47: Brother Luke's Hospital, Mobile. His last vessel was the Rajkovich died on November 22, Robert Allen Ruffner Jacksonville, Venore. Brother Sykes held all Poston White 1968, at LockFlorida. He was Please contact your mother, wood MacDonald a native of Jack­ Mrs. Marion Locke, at RFD #2, Hospital in Petosonville and lived Box 194, Berryville, Virginia sky, Michigan. A most of his life in 22611, as soon as you can. native of Superior, that city. Seafarer Wisconsin, he Butler joined the sailed as AB. He Union in the Port joined the Union of Tanapa. At the time of death, George Mike Krieg NEW YORK—Management of Sears Roebuck & Co. has been in the port of Chi- he was collecting an SIU pension. hit with new findings of union-busting tactics by a National Labor Please write to Mrs. Stella Krieg cago and made He last shipped on the Del Aires his home in River Rouge, Mich. and sailed as a baker and cook. Relations Board examiner. at P.O. Box 273, Granite Falls, Brother Rajkovich had served in The body was cremated in the The giant retail store chain Washington 98252, at your earli­ the Army prior to joining the Southern Crematorium, Jackson­ was found guilty of firing a sup­ that after the union began orga­ est opportunity. nizing "big ticket" salesmen at SIU. He sailed mainly on the ville. porter of Retail, Wholesale and Sears' Fordham Road store in the Department Store District 65 and Bronx, Charles Sigerson, the com­ Fred Morris Safe After VC Attack threatening others to smash a pany's director of employee rela­ 1967 organizing campaign at tion, came up from his head­ three Sears stores in the Bronx, quarters in Philadelphia and con­ Stephen Bergenia Manhattan and Mt. Vernon, N.Y. ducted a series of meetings with Please contact Joseph LieberTrial Examiner Samuel Ross management personnel of the man, Counsellor at Law, 60 East ruled after hearings that manage­ Fordham Road, 31st Street and 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. ment of the three "hard goods" Mt. Vernon stores. 10017, as soon as you can. stores not only fired a union com­ mitteeman in violation of law but SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS also acted illegally in the follow­ ing ways: November 1-November 30, 1968 • Subjecting union committee­ men to "corrective" interviews Number of Amount and placing "memoranda of Benefits Paid deficiency" in their personnel files Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . . 3,750 $ 41,413.47 to discourage their union ac­ Death Benefits (Welfare) . . . . 20 42,386.67 tivities. Disability Benefits (Welfare) . 1,255 286,985.00 • Threatening employees with Maternify Benefits (Welfare) . 25 5,000.00 discharge and other reprisals to Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . 35B 72,554.75 discourage support of the union. (Average: $202.67) • Promising to correct long­ 535 7,936.80 standing grievances and to im­ Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . 27,158.70 prove earnings opportunities to Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) . 3,427 Seafarers aboard the Fred Morris arrived in Naha, Okinawa, after deter support of the union. SUMMARY (Welfare) . 9,370 483,435.39 a trip to Vietnam during which the Waterman ship came under at1,619 ® Spying on union backers and Vacation Benefits 666,207.85 fack by the Viet Cong. From left are: George Maharas, cook and maintaining an illegal "no solicita­ (Average: $411.49) baker; Don Howser, AB; Freddie Bailey, steward; Peter Feeley, bosun; tion" rule during nonworking time Total Welfare, Vacation and Warren J. Lewis, who sailed as electrician. The ship was in nonpublic store areas. 10,989 $1,149,643.24 Benefits Paid This Period not seriously damaged and no Seafarers were injured aboard ship^ Witnesses told the examiner Sears Roebuck Union Busting Scored by NLRB Examiner —4/ �Page Fourteen Janiurjr 3, 1969 SEAPAREttS LOG Del Sol, Steel Apprentice Seafarers Recall Reactions to Viet Cong Fire Seafarers on the Del Sol (Delta) and Steel Apprentice (Isthmian) have, like those on numerous other SlU-contracted ships, come under the Viet Cong gun while sailing the supply run to Viet­ nam". L. S. Johnston, ship's delegate on the Delta vessel and his counterpart on the Steel Appren­ tice, Gus Pacheco Lopez, reJohnston, a native of Indiana, sure if 1 was dreaming or not. ported to the LCXJ what it was is a long-time member of the deck .After seeing the rocket blast and like for the crews of their re­ department and sailed with the hearing the whistle of the war­ spective ships. SIU since 1938, joining in the heads in and around the water­ "On Sunday morning, Novem­ Port of New Orleans, where he front. I started running indoors ber 17 at 0115 hours, the Viet lives. looking for a safer place to The Del Sol is getting to be a weather the attack." Cong started sending a rocket barrage onto the piers of Da veteran of the Vietnam run. John­ Aim Was Fortunately Poor Nang," Johnston recalled. The ston noted that she had been hit once before while coming down "The Viet Cong, who had Del Sol was among four SIUslipped from their hiding places contracted and two other Amer­ the Long Tau from Saigon. ashore during the night, fired ican-flag vessels docked there at A Real Nightmare the time. The Delta ship and Sea122MM rockets with 40 to 50"For Seafarers on the Steel Ap­ train Texas were at dock one, prentice, it was a nightmare in pound warheads during the attack while the Cape San Diego and Saigon," Brother Lopez wrote. which began at about 2 a.m. Their Steel Worker were at dock three. "The ship arrived in Saigon on launching pad was simple and In between were the American May 25 with a full load of general light, but fortunately, not very ac­ ships Irmina Victory and U.S. De­ cargo for that port. We were curate during this particular at­ fender. docked on the starboard side for tack, for which I am very , thank­ discharging cargo and the crew ful," Lopez reported. "About ten was looking forward to a well- rockets landed on the waterfront deserved liberty ashore after the near the Steel Apprentice, while long Pacific crossing." others landed in the c'ly. On the morning of June 3, Sai­ "One shell did come a little too gon was experiencing a typical close for comfort, hitting forward hot day, for that time of year. below the anchor. Although it did Lopez was sleeping on the boat- some damage, we were fortunate deck under lifeboat one on a cot, that it didn't land amidships. which was far cooler than the The luck of the Steel Apprentice Johnston Lopez cabins. Until now, the voyage had held during the attack but when it "Shellfire lasted until 0400, with been uneventful, but suddenly was finally over, none of the crew a direct hit on deck two," John­ Lopez was awakened by "the noise felt much like going back to sleep ston said. "Shrapnel resulted in of incoming rockets and the that morning—especially those of the death of the watch mate on screaming of Vietnamese steve­ us who were sleeping on deck. the Defender. Two other shells dores searching for a place to As for me," Lopez added, "I de­ cided to start looking for a safer fell short of the Del Sol's stern hide." "It was a fearsome feeling," place to sleep. Nightmares like and another fell between us and the Irmina Victory, spraying both he said, "and at first, I wasn't that I can well live without." ships with shrapnel. Although the Defender's mate was the only cas­ ualty on the merchant marine ves­ sels, the Navy suffered quite a few losses, we learned later, and a Navy crane was also damaged during the attack. However, Navy gun boats eventually arrived on the scene and started shooting-up Terrell Jordan, bom October Michael Sullivan, born Novem­ the Vietcong," he continued. 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. ber 11, 1968, to Seafarer and "After they arrived, the attack Norman Roy Jordan, Prichard, Mrs. David H. Sullivan, St. Louis, didn't last long." Ala. Mo. SIU Lifeboat Class No. 216 Casts Off Franz Kraljlc, bora October 24, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. An­ thony P. Kraljic, West New York, N. J. —— Patricia Logan, born November 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. Logan, Bellmore, N. Y. Michael Charies Dickens, born May 19, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Merle C. Dickens, Taylor, Michigan. <I> Michael Leonard, born Octo­ ber 31, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Alex Leonard, Chesapeake, W. Virginia. —4^— Blanca Stella Salfarez, bora No­ vember 25, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William K. Saltarez, Housi m, Texas. These Seafarers have just received their lifeboat tickets after passing Coast Guard examinations prepared for by attending the lifeboat school maintained by the SIU in Brooklyn. In the front row, left to right: Mike McAbee, Larry Albertus, Curtis Rhodes. In back row: Chief Instructor Paul McGaharn, Larry Smith, Dimitrios Katsogiannos, Harvey Barlow. The 216th class graduated on December 17th. Jozette Lane Aucoln, born May 30, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William J. Aucoin, Evangeline, La. A camera is made-up of many parts, some simple, others more technical. Explored below is some of the more common photo­ graphic terminology which might help you to master the less complicated techniques of photography. One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with all but box or instamatic cameras is to set your light meter at the right A.S.A. speed, • A.S.A. Speed: This indicates the correct exposure for the film being used. For example, set your A.S.A. on 400 if you are using Tri-X film. Your light meter will then be ready to obtain the correct exposure. This system was established by the American Standard Association. A different standard was set-down by the Deutsche Industrie Norm (German Standard Organization). This norm, known as D.I.N., applies to much of the film made in Europe. • Depth-of-Fleld Scale: When using high-speed film your depth-offield is not limited. However, when using slow-speed film, it is. In order to determine what area is in focus you must use a depth-of-field scale. Many cameras, in addition to the focusing scale, carry an indicator that shows the near and far limits of the depth-of-field of the lens at any particular aperture, or lens opening. The depth of field scale is often located behind the focusing scale. For example, if your camera is set at F.8, your depth-of-field scale will show you the correct range for which your camera is in focus. • Range Finder Focusing: There are many different types of focus­ ing attachments that can be used. One of the most common types is range finder focus. This rangefinder mea.sures the subject's distance from the camera by the convergence of two rays from the ends of a fixed base on the body of the camera and can be observed by the coincidence of two images. • Filter Factors: When using filters, there are two things that should be considered. One is the filter's color and the second is the correct exposure for the filter being used. The way to determine the correct exposure is through the filter factor. Filter factors determine the color of light allowed to pass by eliminat­ ing unwanted colors. Therefore, they call for a longer camera exposure to compensate for this light loss. In practice, the exposure time is multiplied by the filter factor. For example if the correct exposure is F-8 1/50 of a second using a dark red filter with a filter factor 4. To find the correct exposure with the filter you multiply the filter factor times the speed. Example: Four times fifty equals 2.00. Now you haVe obtained your correct ex­ posure differentiation. The correct exposure is F-4 at 1/50 of a second with filter. • Guide Numbers: When using a flash, indoors or out, the correct guide number must be chosen. The flash distance and F (or aperture) number for correct exposure are inversely proportional. For any film and flash bulb, the joint product is constant. This product is the guide number and provides the means for quick exposure calculations. Correct aperture equals guide number divided by distance. For example, if the guide number is 100 at 10 feet, the aperture should be F-11. • Focusing screens: On some cameras, these are interchangeable. Types vary from microprism to split-level focusing. The most common type generally found, however, is ground glass focusing. The screen consists of ground glass mounted in a frame and fixed within the camera in such a position that the camera lens forms a visible image on its ground surface. In the normal types of screenfocusing cameras, the screen must be slid or swung aside after focusing in order to take the desired picture. In the reflex camera, the screen is fixed at the top of the camera and the rays of light passing through the lens are reflected onto it by a hinged mirror. • Stereoscopic Camera: An interesting and quite different type of camera is the stereo. A variety of special effects can be obtained with this camera by viewing a wide area without distortion. This type of camera is normally designed to take two simultaneous photographs of the scene in focus before it. The photographs are taken from viewpoints separated by the same distance as a pair of normal human eyes. Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my name on your mailing list, (^rint information) NAME STREET ADDRESS CITY ZIP. TO AVOID DUPUCATION: If yeu are an old subtcribar and have a ehaeea of addraaa, plaaaa giva your fonnar addrau balow; —4/— Thomas Koch, born November 2, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frederick T. Koch, Superior, Wis­ consin. STATE. OTY �January 3, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Pace Fifteen SAN JUAN (Sea-Und), Tbonuw k 'Mbiihxm; Seeretary, F. A. Obbh. |!l4.0( in «hil>'s fund. BrcUter J. Slniu^ was eleetad te ssrve as ship's dslcgrsts. Vote of thanks was extended .to Uie Matire steward depsrtniettt for K i<A well done. FINANCIAL REFOBT8. The constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes speciflc provision for safeauardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditina committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AOantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund aareements. All these aareements specify that the trustees in charae of these funds shall equally consist of union and manaaement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shippina riahts and seniority are protected exclusively by the cuutracls between the Union and the shipowners. Set to know your shippina riabts. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shippina or seniority riahts as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified null, return receipt requested. The prcH^>er address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 19«0, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writiuK directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wases and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rishts, as well as your oblisrations, such as fllingr for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This establisbed policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in aii constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an editoriai board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Ehcecutive Board, may del^ate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given for same. Under no circumstances should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SBAFAREUIS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in ail Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should Immediately notify htadquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the nxembership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the employers. Conse­ quently, no Seafarer may be discriminated against because of race, creed, color, national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic rights of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of tbenuelves, their families and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was established. Donations to SPAD are entirely voluntary and constitute the funds through which legislative and political'activities are conducted for the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feds that any of the above rights have been violated, or that he has been denied his ceastitntional right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immcdiatdy notify SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. OVBR8BA8 JOYCE (Maritiine Over;seas), December 1—Chairman, Elvis Warren; Secretary, W. L, Everett. Few hours disputed OT in the deck departr ment One man missed ship in Guam.l ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), November 6—Chairman, Richard D. Runklo; Sec­ tary, William Beadh. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. RALEIGH (Crest Overseas). December if—Chairman, Ttctsr! Kyser; Sscretary, Peter Blanchard. EveryOiing is running smoothly -with no beefe. Brother;: ,H. Crackoell was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), Decem­ ber 14—Chairman, Hubert Cain; Secre­ tary, 0. J. Nail. Beef regarding delayed sailing to be taken up with boarding patrolman. Vote of thanks was extended 'to Brother C. Nail, chief steward, and the entire steward department. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Transport), November 11—Chairman, 3. M. Skinner; Secretary. G. J. Trosclair. Brother 3. M. Skinner was elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs were reported and everything is running smoothly. Di-euasion was held regarding the installation of some kind of peimanent rig in thej engine room space to haul up any man who is hurt or becomes sick. ; - S' ALCOA MARINER (Alcoa), December ,14 — Chairman, C. Hall; Secretary, O. Smith. No bee& were reported by de­ partment delegates. One man was hos­ pitalized in Honolulu. Vote of thanks extended to the stvw#™ departaaeat for ,» Job well dune. | IttRECTORYof SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shepard Al Tanner- VICE PRESIDENTS Llndiey Wllliamt Robert Matthowi SECRETARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS tTS 4th Ave., Iklyn. (212) HY 9-6^ ALPENA, Mich 127 River St. (517) EL 4-36li BALTIMORE. Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4900 BOSTON, Mast 643 Atlantic Avenue (617) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO, N.Y 735 Washington St. SIU (716) TL 3-9259 IBU (716) TL 3-9259 9383 Ewlng Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-9S70 1420 W. 25th St. CHICAGO, III CLEVELAND, Ohio (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jefferson Ave. DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 P.O. Box 207 4IS Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 (313) VI 3-4741 FRANKFORT, Mich HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2600 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. . — 630 Jackson Ave. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va IIS 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. . 2604 S. 4th St. (215) DE 6-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tex. . .... I34S Seventh St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 350 Fraemont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, P.R |3I3 Fernandez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEAULE, Wash. 2S0S First Avenue (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Dal Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla. ;... 3|2 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON. Calif. 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Itlonrf. C»Hf, (613) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan..Isaya BIdg., Room 001 1-2 Kalgan-Dorl-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 201 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans. Jan. 14—2:30 p.m Mobile Jan. 15—2:30 p.m Wilmington .. Jan. 20—2:00 p.m San Francisco Jan. 22—2:00 p.m. Seattle Jan. 24—2:00 p.m. New York ... Jan. 6—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia . Jan. 7—2:30 p.m. Baltimore ... Jan. 8—^2:30 p.m, Detroit Jan. 10—2:30 p.m, Houston .... Jan. 13—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans. Jan. 14—7:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—7:00 p.m. New York .. Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Jan. 7—7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. . Jan. 8—7:00 p.m. •tHouston .. . Jan. 13—7:00 p.m. Great I..akes SIU Meetings Detroit Jan. 6—2:00 p.m. Alpena Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Biiifalo Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Chicago Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Duluth Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. . Jan. 6—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region Chicago Jan. 14—7:30 p.m. t Sault St. Marie Jan. 16—7:30 p.m. Buffalo Jan. 15-^7:30 p.m. Duluth Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Cleveland ... Jan. 17—7:30 p.m. Toledo Jan. 17-7:30 p.m. Detroit Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. Milwaukee .. Jan. 13—7:30 p.m. SxU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans. Jan. 14—5:00 p.m. Mobile Jan. 15—5:00 p.m. Philadelphia.. Jan. 7—5:00 p.m. Baltimore (licensed and un­ licensed) .. Jan. 8—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ....Jan. 9—5:00p.m. Houston Jan. 13—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Philadelphia Jan. 14—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore Jan. 15—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. '^Noifolk Jan. 16—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Jersey City Jan. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. 1 Mtietiiig held ut Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New-, port News. 2 Meeting held at Galveston wharves. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union Conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stftzel-Weller DIstlUcries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon vjihlskeys (Distillery Workers) KIngsport Press "World Book," "Chlldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) —— Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Moot and Shoe Workers' Union) Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) "HIS" brand men's clothes Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Hes, Boss Gloves, Richman (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Jamestown Sterling Corp. (United Furniture Workers) Brothers and SeweD Suits, Wing Shirts (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Baltimore Luggage Co. Ijidy Baltimore, Amelia Earhart Starlite luggage Starflite luggage (International Leather Goods, Plastics and Novelty Workers Union) White Furniture Co. (United Furniture Workers of America) ^ Gypsum Wallhoard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) ^J> R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) Comet Rice Mills Co. products (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillery Workers) Pioneer Flour Mill (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110,' San Antonio, Texas <1> Giumarra Grapes (United Farm Workers) Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) Tennessee Packers Reelfoot Packing Frosty Mom Valleydale Packers (Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Aflantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Cluett Peabody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) •awmat' • ' STEEL VOYAGER (Isthmian), Decem-I her 15—Chairman, Eldward Webb; Seen tary, Robert D. Brown. Vote of thank was extended to the ship's delegate.! Brother Edward V. Webb, and Jo alii departments, for c job vfc-ii duiie. i-'atr<d-| man to be contacted regarding the mat-l tcr of getting better medical aid in Port of Calcutta, India. SEATRAIN PUERTO RICO Nov ^ her 24—Chairman, M. H. Jones; Secre-| tary, R. Anderson. Brother M. H. Jonesi was elected to serve as new ship's dele-i gate. Ship is in need of many r^atrs.! :Repair lists turned in. Discussion hejdf regarding retirement plan. B CHILORB (Venore Transportation), November 3—Chairntan, W. S. gomcry; Secretary, C. M. Lee. Brother H. E. Wright was elected to serve as ship's delegate. Some deputed OT re­ ported in deck and engine departments. DICEST of SIU MEETINCS CANTIGNY (Citios Service TankerL Deoemfaer 14—Chairman, C^arlea Hnrlburt; Secretary, Charles Hurlburt. No . beefs and no disputed OT reported by 3 department delegates. ' ^ HURRICANE (Waterman), Decemb^ f 4H--?tJnairman, Joseph Sah imiippo: Secrei tary, Roseoe L. AUbrd. Some disputed OT I in the deck department wBl be taken up I with patroimah unieBS, settied aboard '• ship-./ ^ COLUMBIA BANKER (ColumMa), (December 16—Chairman; R, Risbeck; i Secretary, R. Statham. Generel ffiscussion held regarding much needed repairs. Also diSMissed was Om retirement plan, wagcs; and fringe benefits. = YELLOWSTONE (Oriental). December fc^hairman, Maximo Bugawan; Seew tary, V. F. Placey. Two men prfd off in Hhwaii. There Were no reported by department delegates. Moyon was n»de tracted siSpa; pertinent hbd olarificaiions regaording new pension plan shd welfare plan, Vote of thanlM: was exi^ded to the stevvard department for the excellc-nt IhahksgivJng Day Dinher.-:''''-ft.;;.S'tCiTIBSRERVlcE- BAl^lMOBBJCitleh l^etvice), /October-JHl-^J^iair^^ Nonef Isccretary,; • Iliggina.;;''5Il,-80 • in, Iship's- Di«d,sThere .were .-noi,<-lieBfti, • and -hp. sdisPufed OT reported d^arianeht dele..Jgatc-9.",Vote:<>f 'thanlm ^partment for a pob well done. CITIES SESVICB Bd LTIMORE (Citita ; Service)-,':' November—CUwthah,-fc'#: -'Connars ;.-£ccrs.tsry, •B:ar.ttez,-K««y.'; $xii30 in ship's fund, Bwiythmt »»rh*- nins,- smcpthly,Vpte:jh5. vwaS{ „«x,--' ten^ to the steward department for a Job well dene. Cla®eiiim,:;--'J- 3. Wm., A. aUgtUMer. �SEAFARERSyLOG Vol. XXXI No. 1 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT « AFL-CIO O 1 fUi f f^ El'-v TeeH.Do'^ .. . •&•?'::: ;,- i-l;^ -<: • :.;: *.' nuncjry SQ^r^ • Mmm ... ^ in Brie ikitiSin after a trip to ingiand, Hoiiand and Germany. The vessel transported Governi^r:y.:."^ment .cargo and brought back general cargo. /# was an excellent trip with few problems and the pay-off went smoothly* SiU patrolman Luigi lovino handledt the pay-o0 and was accompanied bf' a pho^ ^p^ctpber ftorn the Seafarers LOG, ', : i-.' -: ;• -i;.'' \ frt- v- i|v ^ 't""? lii; - Catchl^p on the indusliy and V.s low Seafarers while waiting for pay-off is Ronald Burton of the deck department. '.A;-j"--' • ' hPl -.I P -••'•. Sc^ PPSI 1 i/ if' "v " r ^•»' ' '• T, X-A J- J \\ A • f XX* ^- '•'••I g.Tf' vV&'.y-. Sfci: P [j • -- • iiw jMi.»4A..iJj|JiiU ..uu IJJW, • _t c9'- i Ml. ill , D. W. Prindie. AB. watches for the signal x-Ax ^ ljoom operator as h cargo load•^ , fng ; operation. The ship: ' Jij:, ...j' . 11 .MI^ <??•• '• ..... ts a ne^l^ '"^chectinw fe � 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 January 3, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: ECUADOR GRANTED WORLD BANK LOAN DESPITE US FISHING SHIP SEIZURES US FLAG TRAMP SHIPS HELD TO HALF OF GOVT CARGOES PRESCRIBED BY LAW TWO YEAR FISH RESEARCH PROGRAM BACKED BY $229,000 GOVT GRANT CABINET LEVEL DEPARTMENT COULD END FRAGMENTED APPROACH TO MARITIME AFL-CIO EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DEMANDS FIRM DECLARATION OF ICFTU POLICY JP STEVENS GETS HARDEST RAP YET FROM NLRB PRESIDENTIAL EMERGENCY RAIL BOARD BIDS TALKS RESUME ON TRAIN CREWS COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH PLAN SYSTEMS SEEN VITAL FOR NEEDED MEDICAL CARE EVER EXPANDING SIU PENSION ROSTER ADDS EIGHT MORE SEAFARER VETERANS DEL SOL, STEEL APPRENTICE SEAFARERS RECALL REACTIONS TO VIET CONG FIRE MASTER OF THE SEAS – THE ALCOA MASTER PAID 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 01/03/1969 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. XXXI, No. 1 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log