http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/6fc4ea2da287edb9027950fa6b076040.PDF e1faf24e12fffe4c2fd8b1c535693356 PDF Text Text • SEAFARERS«LOG OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG March 1, 1969 Pres. Meany Tells Exec. Council AFL-CIO to Co-operate With Nixon Provided Corrert Programs Are Set BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—The AFL-CIO foresees a "reasonable" relationship with President Nixon and his Administration, federation President George Meany declared last month, but a good deal depends on the specific programs still to come and the future attitudes of the White House. Meany's statement came at a ^ • Urged a single co-ordinating committee to raise the rest of the press conference held in con­ $220,000. unit for day care centers at the junction with mid-winter ses­ Three new vice presidents and federal level to meet the increas­ sions of the AFL-CIO Executive council members named to suc­ ing need for such progr^ams as Council here. ceed John J. Grogan and George well as changes in existing federal The federation president said he M. Harrison, who are deceased, law to permit employer contribu­ was "delighted," for example, that and Ralph Halstein, who resigned tions to trust funds established the President had ordered a study were President C. L. Dennis of by collective bargaining to pro­ on coverage of farm workers un­ the Railway Clerks; Matthew vide for such programs. der the National Labor Relations Guinan, president of the Trans­ • Called for updating the HillAct. The outlook on this matter port Workers Union and A. F. Burton Act to provide grants-in- O. Wijiiam Moody, Jr., secretary-treasurer of the Conference of Trans­ and others requiring legislation, Grospiron, president of the Oil, aid for the development of com­ portation Trades, delivers a report to the CTT executive board, meet­ ing in Bal Harbour, Florida. Listening carefully are, from left, C. L. he said, will depend on the atti­ Chemical and Atomic Workers. plete health services and not just tude of the Administration and A subcommittee was established health facilities, along with com­ Dennis, CTT chairman and president of the Railway Clerks: Bruce Pike, CTT executive director, and SlU President Paul Hall, who also heads the leadership from the White House. to study the possible restructuring prehensive health .systems. He noted, however, that any and makeup of the council with AFL-CIO MaritimeTrades Department; Air piracy wasoneof thetopics. • Called on Congress to restore Administration plan to offset in­ action expected by the time of budget cuts and provide all nec­ flation by allowing unemployment the next convention, scheduled to essary funds to make the 1968 to rise is "fundamentally wrong." open Oct. 2 in Atlantic City. vocational education law opera­ CTT Board Declares: Queried on a statement by Paul tive, expressing its grave concern In other actions, the council: McCracken, chairman of the „• • Called for direct, good-faith at the cutbacks. Council of Economic Advisers, Rallied all unionists to sup­ that in order to check inflation negotiations between the Arab port the 80th birthday celebration there may l)e some rise in jobless­ nations and Israel as the key to of A. Philip Randolph in New lasting peace in the Middle East" ness, Meany said; and condemned the rejection of York May 6 and to contribute "I don't buy the idea that we such talks by Egypt's Nasser and to the fund to be establi.shed in BAL HARBOUR, FLA.—A free world trade union effort to have to make that sort of sacrifice Randolph's name to finance voter his allies as "tantamount to a . . . set up an international code covering air piracy is an important to get a stable economy." There determination to tvagc a war of education and registration proj­ step toward curbing an "increasingly acute" problem, a group of is no sense in a policy of counter­ extermination against the Israeli ects in Neero communities. ing inflation, he asserted, "by put- people." 7^ "7""; 7" • Voted support for the Oil AFL-CIO unions declared here ^ International Civil Aviation Ortine more people out of work." Workers strike against companies last month. • Authorized the chartering of ganization—and while signed by The council adopted compre­ that have still not signed the agree­ Thc executive board of Con­ hensive statements on the national a national union of policemen as ment reached with other compa­ ference of Transportation Trades 23 nations, only eight, four short economv and ^he question of in­ soon as certain structural prereq­ nies and called for all possible as­ called specifically on the U.S. of the required number, have rat­ uisites are met and assurances re­ flation during the sessions. sistance from affiliates and state Senate to ratify the Tokyo con­ ified it. ceived on jurisdictional limits. and local central bodies. Nteany briefly reviewed the The CTT board acted after re­ vention adopted in 1963 but now • Voted to withdraw the AFL• Urged affiliates to lend what­ in effect because it lacks the re­ viewing a report by the Federal 1968 election at the meeting of the COPE Administrative Com­ CIO from the Intl. Confederation ever support they can to the Up­ quired number of ratifications. Aviation Administration docu­ mittee, praising COPE for an out­ of Free Trade Unions following a holsterers union in its dispute with The board urged strengthening the menting the history of air piracy standing job, especially in turning recommendation to do so from Economy Furniture of Austin, pact along the lines of legislation since 1961 and a report by a back the bid by George Wallace. the federation's international af­ Texas. introduced in the Senate. House subcommittee on Inter• Reaffirmed its support of the The committee approved an an­ fairs committee. It urged also that sister trans­ American Affairs setting out the • Strongly reaffirmed support U.S. Savings Bonds payroll sav­ nual register-and-vote drive to re­ portation unions in the Interna­ nature of the problem and the place the biennial campaigns. The for the farm workers' strike and ings plan but urged that the in­ tional Transport Federation "press urgent need for corrective action. boycott of California table grapes, terest rates on the bonds be in­ council will act on this later. their governments" to ratify the declaring "we are determined that creased to the average interest Tokyo convention which calls for Total of 46 Attempts Key Positions Set they succeed and we intend to rate on U.S. notes issued during the safe return of the passengers,, Since 1961 there has been a The opening sessions set out a help them every inch of the way." the previous year. crew, cargo and plane to the total of 46 attempts to hijack number of policy positions high­ It added that labor awaits with It discussed with Senator Birch country of origin. commercial aircraft,jnost of them lighted by the creation of a pio­ "great interest" the Administra­ Bayh (D-Ind.) the question of di­ • The convention was drawn' up successful. neering AFL-CIO Labor Studies tion report on coverage of farm rect election of the President. In 1968 there were 18 Amer­ Center to develop trade union workers under the national labor Bayh is sponsoring legislation, by a United Nations body—the ican airliners hijacked, all of them leadership through varied educa­ law. along with a number of other senflown to Communist Cuba._ tional training programs. • • Called for rejection of the - ators,- to-abolish the Electoral Col­ The board pointed out that The council gave preference as proposed Uniform Consumer lege and provide for direct elec­ SEAEiARERS-^LOG there is "no international law cov­ an early order of business to the Credit' Code by the individual tions. The council later reaffirmed the ering freedom of the air," in con­ fine imposed on the New York states on an "as is" basis and March I, 1969 • Vol. XXXI, No. 5 trast to world treaties on piracy local of the Teachers, voting to urged amendments to get rid of AFI.-CIO position that the Presi­ Official Publication of the on the seas. contribute $100,000 toward pay­ the worst features of the code dent should be elected by popular Seafarers International Union ment of the fine imposed by the designed as a "model" law on vote rather than under the exist­ The resolution warned that pro­ of North America. ing electoral College system. court and naming a two-man consumer credit. posals for paying a reward for Atlantic. Guif, Lakes and Inland Waters District, those who aid in the conviction AFL-CIO and apprehension of hijackers is Executive Board risky and that "bounty-hunting PAUL HALL. President citizens might endanger them­ CAL TANNER EARL SHEPARD Exec. Vice-Pres. Vice-President selves, other passengers and the LINDSEY WILLIAMS AL KERR crew by rash acts of heroism." Vice-President Sec.-Treas. The board also urged support ROBERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Vice-President. for the proposal of the Interna­ tional Air Transport Association to deny air service to any coun­ Editor try which continues to provide HARRY WITTSCHEN a haven for hijackers of commer­ Assistant Editors WILL KARP cial aircraft. CHARLES SVENSON The 28 unions affiliated with Staff Photographer the conference also adopted a ANTHONY ANSALDI legislative report voicing strong opposition to forcing compulsory Publislied biweekly at 81.0 Rhode Island Avenae N.E., Washington. D. C. 20018 by the Seafar­ arbitration on unions in contract ers International Union. Atlantic. Golf. Lakes and Inland Waters District. AFL-CIO. 673 disputes in the transportation Fourth Avenae. Brooklyn. N.Y. 11232. Tel. HYaelnth 9-6600. Second class postage paid field, assailing proposals to ex­ at Washlngtons. D. C. tend injunction procedures against POSTMASTER'S ATTENTION: Forin 3579 cards should be sent to Seafarers International unions, attacking the "labor court" Union. Atlanlle. Gulf, Lakes and Inland scheme and proposals to deprive Waters District. AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Avenue. Outlining his proposal for direct, popular election of the President, Birch Bayh (D-lnd.), chairman .Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232. workers of their democratic of the Senate's Constitutional Arnendments subcommittee, addresses the AFL-CIO Executive Council. rights to cast secret written bal­ Federation President George Meany is at Bayh's right and Vice President David Dubinsky at left. lots on contract proposals. International Code Required To Discourage Air Hijackers �SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG Page Three i Happy Retirement! MTDs Exec, Board Sees New Hope For Stronger U. S. Merehant Fleet BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—Encouraged by a message from President Nixon which declared that "a strong and viable merchant marine is essential" to the economic strength and purpose of the na­ tion, the Executive Board of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department of the AFL-CIO held a two-day meeting here last month f segment of the fleet, the building depletion allowances was pro­ in a spirit of renewed optimism of American-flag ships exclusively posed. about the prospects of moving in American shipyards and taxTurning its attention to other ahead, in the area of maritime deferred construction reserve matters, the board adopted policies reform. funds for the investment of more which included opposition to The telegram, addressed to SIU. private capital in ship construc­ changes in the labor laws, such President Paul Hall, who is also tion by the unsubsidized operators. as anti-strike legislation, compul­ president of the seven-millionIt also called for an end to sory arbitration or other attempts member MTD, expressed the "double subsidies" for the sub­ aimed at weakening collective Chief Executive's "deep interest sidized operators—the 14 com­ bargaining procedures. in seeing our merchant marine panies which now receive 55 per­ Continued support was voted play a more important role in cent of the cost of constructing for the grape workers, the Los world commerce" and said that their vessels from the government Angeles Herald Examiner news­ Retiring after a full life at sea, Seafarer Lawrence E. Taylor receives the President looked forward "to in addition to being granted oper­ paper strikers, protection of Fire his first pension check from Al Bernstein, right, SlU Welfare Director, working with your department ating subsidies. Fighters against harassment, and at New York headquarters. Brother Taylor, who makes his home in and all of organized labor in Also stressed was the need for aid to the Meat Cutters boycott of Chicago, last sailed aboard the Seatrain San Juan as AB in deck dept. achieving this goal and in building legislation protecting the nation's Neuhoff products. a stronger, more united nation." fishing industry, which has suf­ The need to wipe out hunger While pointing out that there fered illegal seizure of trawlers as and malnutrition in the United would be difficulties. Hall told the well as the imposition of unwar­ States also received the body's meeting that, having survived the ranted fines and fees by Latin- attention. past few years, the new "atmos­ American countries. Seventy four Receiving an economic report phere" in Congress and the White such seizures were cited in the which reviewed the nation's fi­ House promised to make the mari­ past eight years—imperilling the nancial health in 1968, and the time picture "a great deal better." lives and livelihood of the crews. role of profits in triggering infla­ WASHINGTON—Federal war-risk insurance coverage on A legislative report to the board, Penalties Urged tion—rather than wage-increases American-flag ships currently in effect has been extended for six which consists of leaders of the The board urged the Depart­ which were blamed by segments months, the Maritime Administration announced last month. 39 unions which comprise the ment of State to press vigorously '^f business for higher prices—the Due to expire on March 7, Honduras—^the runaway-flag ships MTD. noted "a marked change its claim against Ecuador for re­ b-'ard insisted on "setting straight in attitude about maritime affairs payment of losses resulting from the record." the extension moves the final —because they were considered in official Washington circles." the illegal seizure of the fishing date to September 7. This ap­ by the Navy and the Defense De­ Tax Reform Needed Contributing to this more posi­ vessel Day Island. Also urged plies to all war-risk binders cov­ partment to be under "effective It also strongly urged that the ering hull insurance protection control" of the United States. tive attitude, the report said, were was the denial of further military and indemnity as well as second Theoretically, the DOD has con­ the maritime planks adopted in sales to any Latin-American na­ tax structure be reformed to pro­ seamen's war-risk insurance. tinued to maintain, these ships the platforms of both major parties tion seizing an American vessel vide equity of the tax burden and prior to last year's election cam­ outside its 12-mile limit; steps to an end to "legal evasion" of taxes War-risk insurance is provided could be called into service in the paigns, the cheering statements confine loan agreements of U.S. by the wealthy. by the government in order to event of a national emergency. concerning the nation's fleet made naval vessels to hemisphere de­ A special report to the board on Originally, runaway ships in bridge the gap between the time bv Nixon while campaigning and fense; and renewal of an amend­ the problems of civil service commercial war-risk insurance this category were eligible for the ' irtually unchanged make up ment to the Vessel Loan Act (Continued on Page 4) ceases to provide adequate cover­ war-risk coverage by the govern­ of the 91st Congres and its leader­ providing cancellation of such age and 30 days after the out­ ment only until they were 20 years ship. The 90th Congress, the re­ loans if any loaned vessel is uti­ break of war involving the major old. In 1960, 1962, 1963, and port pointed out, had passed good lized for non-defense purposes. 1964 successive liberalization of powers. maritime legislation which in­ Other resolutions sought laws Such coverage was also made age limits was permitted. cluded independence for the Mari­ to benefit the Great Lakes fleet, Late last year, however, available to some vessels owned inland waterways and oceanog­ time Administration — although or controlled by U.S. citizens and MARAD withdrew availability for this was pocket vetoed by Presi­ raphy. registered in Liberia, Panama or such insurance from runaway-flag dent Johnson after Congress ad­ Vigorous enforcement and re­ tankers and reefers owned by organization of the 50-50 cargo journed. United States citizens and regis­ "Progress is in sight—and it's preference laws were called for tered under Panamanian, Honso that foreign aid and Food-forduran or Liberian flags if they achievable," the report declared. BAL HARBOUR, Fla.— Peace cargoes are carried to a were over 25 years old. The age As the Executive Board of greater degree by unsubsidized Independent MARAD the Key limit restriction was imposed be­ the seven - million - member American vessels, and, if possible, cause MARAD felt such ships AFL-CIO Maritime Trades . In adopting its resolutions on that 100 percent of such cargoes may be in terminal stages of ob­ maritime, the board placed great­ move in American vessels on the Department opened its two- || solescence and thus not operation­ est emphasis on an independent basis of long-term charters. day winter meeting here this || month, President Richard M. || WASHINGTON—Addition of ally sound to perform reliable MARAD and a program of fleet Oil companies were condemned Nixon sent the following tele- || service in the interest of national the Lucky Dragon, a 4,225-grossdevelopment which would provide for building their tankers in for­ gram to SlU and MTD Pres- i| defense. ton Singapore-flag freighter to the new ships for the unsubsidized eign shipyards and an end of oilident Paul Hall; || North Vietnam blacklist this "The AFL-CIO Martime month marked the first appear­ || Trades Department's Execuance of a Singapore vessel on the || live Board meeting takes place list, the Maritime Administration at an important hour in the reported. The ship will henceforth history of our nation. To­ be barred from carrying U.S.gether we are seeking new government-generated cargoes be­ ways to create a more healthy cause it traded with North Viet­ economic climate in America nam. —one in which workers and At the same time, two other employers alike derive maxi­ vessels were removed from the mum benefits. list. One—the 5,388-ton British"A stronger and viable flag Yungfutary—^was wrecked, merchant marine is essential and the Maltese-flag Amalia of in this quest for economic vi- ^ 7,304 tons was scrapped, MA­ tality. I want each of you and RAD announced. the seven million men and This leaves a total of 58 ships women you represent to know| aggregating 399,467 gross tons on of my deep interest in seeing the list as of January 24. The our merchant marine play a North Vietnam blacklist was in­ more important role in world augurated by MARAD on Janu­ commerce. ary 25, 1966. Ships so listed will "I look forward to working no longer be permitted to carry 5^ with you and your department U.S. - government - generated car­ ^ and all of organized labor in goes again unless their owners ^ achieving this goal and in pledge that the vessels—as well as II building a stronger more any others they own—^will not be Actress Penny Singleton, the first woman to take part in such a meeting, addresses one of the sesi united nation." used again in the North Vietnam sionc of the two-day meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department's executive board, MTD Presi- War Risk insurance Extended For Six Months by MARAD Pres. Nixon's Pledge on Fleet To MTD Board *New' Flag Added To No. Vietnam MARAD Blacklist »rade. dent Paul Hall is at podium, left. Penny attended in her capacity of vice president of Variety Artists, �. • 1 f.' f I Page Four SEAFARERS LOG MARAD Asks US-Hag Operators For 5-Yoar Ship Coastructioa Plans WASHINGTON—Details of future ship construction plans have again been asked of U.S.-flag operators—both subsidized and unsubsidized—by the Maritime Administration. The request, MARAD says, is for the purpose of assisting the agency in policy and planning and apparently is intended to be useful in budgetting ship con- ^ tion, as had its predecessors, re­ matz (D-Md.), chairman of the struction and replacement funds. fused to take the problem of a House Merchant Marine and Fish Programs to be submitted by "grave-yard" fleet seriously. De­ cries Committee. the shipping companies are to be spite numerous promises of a com­ Both legislators based their op­ long-range, covering the five years prehensive revitalization program timism on statements made by through the middle of 1974. for the merchant marine, the President Nixon while he was run­ Similar requests have been made Johnson Administration never did ning for office. twice before—in 1965 and again make good on them. If this optimism is to bear any in 1968. The only noticeable re­ fruit, shipbuilding wo'dd have to Even the final budget submit­ sult has been a continuation of ted by the outgoing Administra­ be upped considerably. A leve! subsidies to the 14 favored liner tion showed continued lack of of 30 new ships a year has been companies which already enjoyed concern by including ship subsidy described by Senator Magnuson them, and a continuation of gov­ funds—and those only for the al­ as the minimum needed for a proernment policy which leaves all ready subsidized segment of the cram geared to upgrade the fleet. the other operators out in the cold, fleet — which would permit the Coincidentally, recent figures sub­ despite the desperate need to re­ building of only from eight to 10 mitted by MARAD show that build the aging and largely obso­ ships during fiscal 1970. 1969 began with a total of 1,033 lete U.S. merchant fleet. ships of 1,000 gross tons and over The same budget also included MARAD wants preliminary some $101,600,000 in "carry­ in the nation's active ocean-going data on construction plans by over" funds, held over since 1967. fleet—^just 30 under the figure March 15, with a final follow-up Despite the presence of these year ago. by April 15, so that it can "place funds, however, proposed govern­ The current request by MARAD major reliance on the responses" ment policy remained consistent for ship construction plans in­ in its program planning for the in denying any use of funds to the cludes the following information, five years ahead. in addition to the number of ships unsubsidized operators. Last year, MARAD reported However, the statement which to be built and the number and that 35 companies submitted their accompanies MARAD's latest re­ type to be replaced: a detailed de­ plans, indicating the proposed con­ quest for data says: "This infor­ scription of routes to be served, struction of 220 ships during a mation is requested with the un­ the type of transportation offered, similar period ending in mid-1973. derstanding that if new construc­ expected traffic and income, manThese consi.sted of 35 to 40 bulk tion requires some form of gov­ nine scales, wage costs, financing carriers and 25 tankers, with the ernment assistance, the Adminis­ costs with estimates of construc­ remainder being advanced-design tration will require . . . formal ap­ tion subsidies required and amount liner types. plication in accordance with per­ of mortgage insurance needed. In addition, the operators are tinent regulations, and approval 1968 a Fizzle will depend on future considera­ asked to furnish the size, speed, At the time of the 1968 poll. tion of national needs and the deadweight and cubic capacities Acting Maritime Administrator availability of funds." and other pertinent general char­ James W. Gulick announced that acteristics of the prc^Dsed vessels. New Hope Expressed he hoped 1968 would be the year "which determines the course of Hope has been expressed that future development of the U.S. the Nixon Administration will re­ Merchant Marine." It never hap­ verse the previous trend and usher pened. a new dav" for maritime. Instead, the nation's commer­ Such a view has been presented cial fleet continued to decline— by both Senator Warren G. Magas it has since 1950—^while a gov­ nuson (D-Wash.), chairman of the (Continued from Page 3) ernment-backed major shipbuild­ Senate Commerce Committee and ing program failed to materialize his counterpart in the House, workers was made by a committee and the incumbent Administra­ Representative Edward A. Gar- chaired by Jerry Wurf, president of the State, County and Munici­ pal Workers. Wurf scored the lack of signifi­ cant progress during the past year "toward righting the wrong that has been perpetrated against the public employee." "It has been a year of justice delayed, and there­ fore of justice denied," the report Anyone who has ever waded through the incomprehensible stated. language which saturates official reports—and anything-butReviewed were developments official junk mail—will appreciate the following method for stemming from Executive Order creating such nonsensical jargon. It was devised by Philip 10988, issued by President Ken­ Broughton, a 63-year-old official of the U.S. Public Health nedy. After seven years of the Service. order, the report said, it becomes Broughton calls it the Systematic Buzz Phrase Projector and clear that what is needed is "a claims it is a sure-fire way to make even the simplest communi­ law, not a directive," to safeguard cation maddeningly confusing. The system employs a battery of the rights of federal employees. 30 carefully chosen "buzzwords": Urged in the state and local Column 1 Column 2 sector was concentration on four Column 3 0. integrated 0. management areas: a clear-cut statement on the 0. options 1- total 1. organizational right to organize, the right of pub­ 1. flexibility 2. systematized lic employees to be represented by 2. monitored 2. capability 3. parallel a union of their choice, to bargain 3. reciprocal 3. mobility 4. functional collectively, and negotiated con­ 4. digital 4. programing 5. responsive tracts setting forth in detail wages 5. logistical 5. concept 6. optional and working conditions. 6. transitional 6. time-phase 7. synchronized The committee, set up by the 7. incremental 7. projection MTD a year ago, will continue its 8. compatible 8. third-generation 8. hardware study for presentation to the next 9. balanced 9. policy 9. contingency MTD convention, Wurf said. Two The procedure is simple, First, think of any three-digit numareas to be examined more fully her. Then select the corresponding buzzword from each column. arc: the scope of collective bar­ For instance, number 257 produces "systematized logistical pro| gaining, including all aspects of jection," a phrase that can be dropped into virtually any report II relationships involving the legis­ with that ring of decisive, knowledgeable authority. ^ lature and the civil service system "No one will have the remotest idea of what you're talking || and whether effective collective about," says Broughton, "but the important thing is that they're i bargaining is possible for public not about to admit it." employees in the absence of the right to strike. MTD£xee. Board Sees New Hope For Strong Neet New System Shows How To Confuse the Confusers March 1, 1969 Aid Striking Oil Workers Officers of the SlU-affiliated International Union of Petroleum Work­ ers, Local 22, present a check for $526 to leaders of the striking Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, Local 1-561. The money was raised for strike relief fund through voluntary contributions from lUPW mem­ bers in Richmond, Calif. Left to right: Don Regelb, president and Frank Postmus, vice-president, lUPW Local'22; Bob Entwistle, presi­ dent, and Jake Jacobs, secretary-treasurer, OCAW Local 1-561. Three More Seafarers Qualify As Engineers, Total Now 312 Three more Seafarers have earned their engineer's licenses after successfully completing upgrading training at the School of Marine Engineering jointly sponsored by the SIU and District 2, MEBA. This brings to 312 the number | of men who have passed Coast gineering if they are at least 19 Guard examinations after taking years old and have a minimum of the comprehensive course of study 18 months of Q.M.E.D. watchoflFered by the school. standing time in the engine de­ The latest trio partment, in addition to six of graduates in­ month's experience as wiper or cludes Howard the equivalent. Saucier, upgraded Seafarers who qualify and wishto second assist­ to enroll in the school may obtain ant engineer; and additional information and make John R. Hemp­ application for the course at any hill Jr. and Leon SIU hall. They may also write J. Canfield, both directly to SIU headquarters at of whom are now 675 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, Saucier third assistant en­ New York 11232, or telephone the gineers. school at (212) 499-6600. Howard Saucier is a native of Mississippi who now makes his home in Houston, Texas. Brother Saucier has been going to sea since 1947, the same year he joined the SIU in the Port of New York. He served a four-year hitch with the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. John R. Hemphill Jr. was born OAKLAND—Sea-Land Serv­ in Marion, North Carolina, and ice, Inc. is expanding its container terminal here. A revised agree­ ment between the City of Oakland and the SlU-contracted, unsubsi­ dized ship operator calls for the addition of nine acres to facilities already leased by Sea-Land. Also provided in the revised agreement, which has been filed with the Federal Maritihie Com­ Hemphill Canfield mission, are plans for improve­ continues to live there with his ments to the facilities, including mother, Mrs. Mattie Hemphill, regrading, draining and fencing. when he is not at sea. Brother Rental payments will be adjusted Hemphill has been sailing for 16 to include the additional property years, and joined the Union at the and improvements. Port of New York. His last ship The current expansion in the was the Fort Hoskins. Port of Oakland follows an $8.5 l.eon J. Canfield was born in million capital improvements pro­ VIobile, and still calls that city gram for fiscal 1968-69. A key home when he is not at sea. Sea- item of that program was the pur­ arer Canfield has been sailing for chase of 52 acres of Oakland 3 years, and joined the SIU in Dock and Warehouse Property on the Port of Mobile. He last sailed the Oakland estuary for develop­ as FOWT aboard the Transhat- ment as a marine terminal. teras. Sea-Land also participated in All engine department Seafar­ that expansion, in which large ers are eligible for any of the up­ modern container facilities were grading programs at the Union- huilt for the company. Sea-Lam! Adds Nine More Acres To Oakland Base �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Five Senate Commerce Committee Warns: International ice Patrol Resumes Atlantic Vigil The International Ice Patrol will begin its 55th year of operation early this month, it was announced by the U.S. Coast Guard. The patrol will concentrate in the vicinity of the Grand Banks, off Newfoundland, where icebergs pose a particular threat to trans-Atlantic shipping. It was nearly 57 years ago, just before midnight on April 14, 1912, when the White Star liner Titanic, steaming at 22 knots 95 miles south of Grand Banks on her maiden voyage, brushed a giant berg which ripped a 300-foot gash in her hull below the waterline. Two and one-half hours later, the largest and most luxurious passenger liner of her day plunged to the bottom with a loss of 1,513 lives—the worst disaster in maritime history. The Titanic had been considered unsinkable by her builders. She was double-bottomed with 16 watertight compartments and was designed to maintain bouyancy even with four compart­ ments completely flooded. However, the rip in her hull flooded five compartments forward, and the ship was dopmed. The disaster spawned the International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea which met in London in 1913. Out of that con­ vention came the Ice Patrol and two other safety measures which would have drastically reduced the death toll on the Titanic if they had been in effect a year earlier. At the time of the collision the California was less than ten miles away. But, the distress calls from the Titanic went unheard because the California's radio operators were off duty and asleep. The 1913 convention adopted a resolution requiring all ships to maintain a 24-hour radio watch. The other vital regulation coming out of that meeting requires that all ships have lifeboat space for all persons on board. The Titanic was equipped with lifeboats enough to accommodate only 1,178 of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard. Since the Ice Patrol was inaugurated in February, 1914, not a single life has been lost due to collisions with icebergs in the North Atlantic sea lanes. US Fleet Needs Massive Rebuilding if Menhant Marine is to Survive WASHINGTON—A "massive rebuilding" of the nation's fleet is an absolute necessity "if we are to have a U.S. merchant marine" the Senate Committee on Commerce declared in a report issued here last month. Also stressed by the Commit­ have made possible a limited continued, "for further delay could tee was the fact that it must "ex­ replacement program. But the well spell the end for U.S. mer­ amine and determine the appro­ slowness and inadequacy of the chant shipping. Thus an exten­ priate administrative location and replacement program for the sub­ sive effort will be made by the function of the Maritime Admin­ sidized operators is well evidenced committee in the coming session istration." by the fact that by the end of to re-evaluate the urgent needs of The report accompanied a res­ fiscal 1970 we will be 65 vessels the merchant marine and develop olution to authorize appropriations behind in the subsidized opera­ a comprehensive new legal basis of $550,000 for the Senate unit's tors' contractual replacement pro­ for operation of the fleet." Dealing with the status of the work during the current fiscal gram with the government." Maritime Administration, the re­ year. The section of the statement Fleet's Life Ebbing port goes on to say that, "In addi­ dealing with maritime matters cen­ tered around the "crucial task" of Of the unsubsidized sector of tion to the great effort that will rebuilding the United States mer­ the merchant marine, the state­ be undertaken to develop.and en­ chant marine. ment noted: "The tramp fleet is act into law a long-range revitali­ "That a rebuilding of our mer­ comprised almost exclusively of zation program for the merchant chant fleet is required is not sub­ World War II vessels. As such, marine, the committee must as ject to dispute," the report states. their operating life has already well fulfill its requirement of an­ "The U.S. merchant fleet which been extended beyond that which nual authorization of funds for once evidenced our nation upon efficiency and expectation could the programs of the Maritime Ad­ the seas as the foremost seafaring reasonably be forecast. . . . The ministration. This will entail the nation of the world has been al­ 5.6 percent of our foreign-borne comprehensive review of existing lowed to deteriorate to an alarm­ commerce now carried in U.S.-* and projected programs of the ing degree. While our fleet does flag bottoms is symptomatic of the Maritime Administration." employ some of the most modern degree to which our fleet has been Location of M-4RAD and efficient liner vessels in the allowed to deteriorate and the de­ "Additionally," the report con­ world, the tramp fleet is approach­ gree to which there is the neces­ cludes, "the committee must ex­ ing block obsolescence and only sity for a greatly expanded mer­ amine and determine the appro­ a portion of the liner fleet has chant shipping effort. priate administrative location and "In the 90th Congress this com­ enjoyed the benefit of construction function of the Maritime Admin­ mittee held extensive hearings on and operating subsidies which the status of the U.S. merchant istration. When the Department marine in an effort to isolate and of Transportation was formed Will Become Effective July 1— analyze the various issues respon­ some two years ago, the Maritime Administration remained within sible for the decline of our fleet and holding the key to meaningful thfe Department of Commerce. revitalization. Following some five Last year this committee reported months of hearings several mem­ favorably and Congress passed bers of the committee sponsored legislation which would have es­ an omnibus maritime revitalization tablished the Maritime.Adminis­ program (S. 2650), upon which tration as an independent agency. hearings were begun late in the That measure was vetoed by the WASHINGTON—Merchants and money-lenders were told by the government last month exactly second session of the 90th Con­ President on the basis that the what information must be disclosed to credit customers and borrowers after July 1, when the fed­ gress. The brief hearings on S. Maritime Administration should 2650 were sufficient to disclose be located within the Department eral truth-in-lending law takes effect. the serious difference of opinion of Transportation. Thus the ap­ The law, strongly supported the amount repaid in 12 monthly between the administration and propriate administrative location by the AFL-CIO during an the buyer of an automobile to judge whether he would pay the installments comes to $1,060 the Committee as to the appropri­ of the Maritime Administration eight-year-campaign for passage, lowest finance charge by financing would have to use the correct ate path to follow toward revitali­ is unsettled and this committee allowed more than a year of prep­ his car through the dealer, a bank, annual rate of 11 percent. This zation of the merchant marine." must again examine the appropri­ aration to reform the nation's con­ a loan company or a credit union. is because the full $1,000 would "The Committee must reach an ate location for that agency in an sumer credit structure. The regulations include tables be available to the customer only accord with the new administra­ effort to constitute it in a manner It assigned to the board of gov­ for determining the true annual for the first month of the loan. tion as to appropriate and effective most conducive to a revitalization ernors of the Federal Reserve rate according to the type of With each payment, he repays remedies for our fleet," the report of the merchant marine." System the task of translating the credit—whether open end credit, part of the principal and has less legislative language into specific such as department store revolv­ money at'his disposal. Honored for Safety-at-Sea regulations on credit and interest ing charge accounts or credit • If a bank discounts the inter­ charge disclosure. cards, or single transactions such est charge in advance—actually The board has completed its as a bank loan or a major pur­ giving the borrower only $940, regulations which will apply to chase. The tables are geared to it would have to list its annual "banks, savings and loan associ­ show iiic true interest rate to the rate at 11.5 percent. For the first six months of the ations, department stores, credit nearest one-quarter of one per­ law—until January 1, 1970—the card issuers, credit unions, auto­ cent. The buyer or borrower doesn't annual percentage rate can be ex­ mobile dealers, consumer finance companies, residential mortgage have to worry about the tables; pressed as dollars per $100 in­ brokers, craftsmen such as plumb­ they are for the use of the seller. stead of as a percentage. Thus, ers and electricians, doctors, den­ But if the seller or lender deliber­ instead of 18 percent' a finance tists, hospitals and any other ately violates the law, he can be charge could be described as $18 per year per $100 of unpaid bal­ individuals or groups which ex­ jailed for one year and fined tend or arrange for consumer $5,000, and the customer can sue ance. for double civil penalties. credit." The new regulations also spell out the wording of a notice which Examples Cited Sets No Ceilings must be given to every person As examples of how credit and who signs an agreement putting Neither the law nor the regu­ lations set any ceiling on interest interest charges must be expressed up his home as security to a loan. by July 1, the Federal Reserve The notice tells the borrower that rates or finance charges. governors cited these cases: he can cancel the agreement within The intent is to disclose to cus­ • A department store which three business days without pen­ tomers or borrowers before a deal is closed or a sale made exactly now charges revolving credit cus­ alty. what the credit or interest charge tomers 1.5 percent of the unpaid Actual enforcement of the reg­ The Seattle wins award for being the safest ship in Sea-Land fleet. may be in terms of true annual balance each month would have ulations will be spread among At ceremonies in Seattle were (Seated, l.-r.): J. R. Nystrom, vessel s interest rates. This would enable to notify its customers that the nine federal agencies with regu­ master; Joe Schoell, ship's delegate: Steve Troy, SlU Port Agent. consumers to "shop for credit" by annual rate comes to 18 percent latory authority over various in­ Standing from left: R. F. Whitmire, Division Marine Manager, Seacomparing the credit costs of one a year. dustries and bank systems. How­ store, bank, or loan company with • A bank which makes a ever most retail credit transactions Land; P. K. Leatham, West Coast Marine Safety Representative; that of another. $1,000 loan for one year and now will be policed by the Federal Captain D. M. Alger, Chief, Merchant Marine Safety Division, U.S. Coast Guard, Thirteenth District, which includes the City of Seattle. calls it a 6 percent loan because Trade Commission. It would, for example, enable Gov't Truth-indending Regulations issuedto Merchants, Money Lenders �f'fl^ Page Six SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG On Campaign by Big Business Board Member Srores Publkations For Slanted Anti-NLRB Propaganda TUCSON, Ariz.—Slanted and biased reports of National Labor Relations Board decisions can have only a harmful effect on the nation's collective bargaining system, NLRB member Gerald A. Brown told the University of Arizona's fifth annual conference on collective bargaining and labor law here last month. ^ lacious reasoning, and name call­ ers thought. The regulation was "Distorted accounts of the ing." adopted without benefit of the board's activities have appeared He cited as "distorted accounts" sort of formal rule-making pro­ recently in the Readers Digest those in the Readers Digest and cedure where companies and un­ and other publications," Brown other publications which "care­ ions could argue for or against it. said. fully select a few cases, gloss over The summary nature of this ac­ He noted a report last year or misrepresent the facts, accuse tion led an appeals court to de­ that the nation's major corpora­ the NLRB of bias and prejudice, clare the (Excelsior) rule invalid." tions had joined with the Cham­ and conclude with emotional Briefs Submitted ber of Commerce, the National words predicting dire consequenc­ The fact is, said Brown, that Association of Manufacturers and es for our system of free enter­ the board not only heard oral other employer groups in a $1 prise, consumers and the civil arguments by unions and manage­ million campaign to help change rights of all citizens." ment but invited, and received, public opinion about the labor Such accounts. Brown noted, written j^riefs from the CofC and laws. "do not mention that almost all the NAM more than eight months "The labor board welcomes the cases cited have been approved before the Excelsior rule was honest and informed criticism," by the courts" after judicial re­ adoptevl. Brown said. "But I have a differ­ view. The "quoted authorities usu­ Another fact, he said, is that ent reaction to an organized cam­ ally represented the losing side in the rule has been approved by paign-which represents a disserv­ the cases discussed, but this fact more than a dozen other courts ice to employers, employees and is nowhere mentioned." besides the one cited by the busi­ the general public." "If a case is to be reargued be­ ness paper. The Supreme Court The board does not seek im­ fore the public, both sides should recently agreed to hear arguments munity from fair comment but be heard. It is true that the board on the one adverse ruling. is concerned "about the harmful has sometimes been reversed by Brown produced copies of three effects of the existing well-fi­ the courts, but our critics ignore newspaper editorials in the Ma­ nanced propaganda campaign" the fact that the reversals have comb (Mich.) Daily, the Rich­ against the present labor law, he been at the expense of unions as mond (Calif.) Independent and the well as employers, and blame the Northern Virginia Sun of Arling­ told the conference. board whatever the results." ton, Va. Each editorial "appeared Facts Twisted Brown quoted a Wall Street to represent the independent view Since Big Business launched its Journal editorial of December 2, of the paper" in which it appeared propaganda campaign, Brown 1968, asserting that in requiring but two were identical, the board said, he has noted these propagan­ employers to furnish unions with member noted. All three repeated da -techniques in critical news employee name-and-address lists, employer charges that the board stories and editorials—"the use the board was forcing employers has "disregarded fraud and gross of slanted or biased news, ridicule to help unions organize their em­ misrepresentations" by unions and and belittlement, color words, ployees. The editorial said in part: "rewarded strikers for flagrant fear technique, guilt by associa­ "In this instance the board misconduct by forcing employers tion, false conclusions from fal­ didn't even find out what employ­ to reinstate them with back pay." New SlU Tanker Wabash Launched at Sparrows Point BALTIMORE—A new SlU-contracted tanker, the 37,250deadweight-ton S. T. Wabash was launched here last month at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point shipyard. The vessel is the second of molded depth is 48 feet 9 inches. m tnis two in this Class class to oe be con­ The draft will be about 36 feet structed here for affiliated com­ 8 inches at 37,250 deadweight panies of Ogden Marine, Inc., tons. formerly Oriental Exporters, Inc. The house-aft vessel has been All ships of the companies are constructed to be as maintenance named for rivers in the United free as possible. The top side, unStates and this newest addition to derbody and all tanks are coated the fleet takes its name from the with epoxy type paints. The crew's Wabash River in Indiana. quarters are of the most modern When formally delivered to its design, fully air-conditioned and owners next spring, the Wabash with permanent pre-finished plastic will be assigned to the carriage coated bulkheads which will re­ of petroleum or .grain products, quire a minimum of maintenance. or both. Unlike most tankers recently built in the United States, the Wabash as does her sistership, the Willamette, has an expended cruis­ ing range of about 12,000 miles. Her storerooms—both dry and refrigerated—^have a capacity large enough to hold a six-month supply of stores. The vessel has a capacity of TAMPA—The Port of Tampa 333,000 barrels in its 15 tanks,' set a new record in cargo tonnage and may be readily converted to handled during 1968, eclipsing a the grain trade with a grain carry­ good 1967 total by eight percent, ing capacity of approximately 1,- Port Director Jack P. Fitzgerald 500,000 bushels. Her cargo han­ announced last month. dling pumps will be capable of A total of 28,002,237 tons were discharging a full liquid cargo in moved through the port during the only 14 hours. year, placing Tampa 10th in rank The Wabash is expected to op­ for waterbourne commerce in the erate at a normal sea speed of 16 nation and continuing its status knots. It has a 15,000 shaft horse­ as the most active port in Florida. power turbine driving a single During December, 1968—^the screw. The design includes a largest tonnage month ever re­ curved rake stem, a cruiser stern corded in the history of the port— and a spade rudder. a total of 2,625,005 tons of cargo Over-all length of the ship is were handled to register a 22660 feet 2 inches, with length be­ percent increase over the 2,147,tween perpendiculars of 630 feet. 063 tons handled in the previous Its molded breadth is 90 feet and December. '68 Cargo Totals Hit Record High la Port of Tampa Blue Cross Study Finds Health Problems of U. S. Poor Are National Disaster CHICAGO—A new publication has entered the health field with a bang, pointing out in its first issue that the health problems of the United States poor are a national disaster. The periodical. Sources is put out by the Blue Cross Association—the world's largest voluntary, nonprofit health prepayment organization. According to Walter J. McNerney, president of the association, the new periodi­ cal will "identify and give definition to vital health issues of today." The magazine will be distributed free to leading private citizens, public officials and other decision makers and will be published at a frequency yet to be determined. "We hope that by sharing our knowledge with others, inside and outside the health field, we will contribute to a decision-making process that will result in better solu­ tions that are an effective response to the problems," McNemey explained. In dedicating the first issue to the health problems of the poor. Sources quotes from several authorities who make salient points on the subject. "The health of the poor in the United States is a national disaster," says Dr. H. Jack Geiger, professor of preventive medicine at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. "The poor are likelier to be sick, the sick are likelier to be poor." "More money is spent conserving migratory birds than the health of migratory workers," Dr. Stanley Skillicorn, director of the migrant clinic in Santa Clara, California, points out. "Now in the affluent 60's ... it can truthfully be said that over one third of this nation feels ill-cared for in its medical needs," declares public opinion analyst Louis Harris. And, from the Office of Economic Opportunity come these obsci vaiions from Dr. Joseph T. English, assistant director for health affairs: "There is no point in training a boy to work when employers view him as disfigured because all his teeth have been extracted." Commenting on the selection of this theme on the launching of the new publication, McNerney stated, "We in Blue Cross have discovered that we know too little about the health problems of the poor." He explained that the association is now working with several agencies both in government and in the private sector "to explore methods of making the health care system more efficient and improving its availability to every American, whether affluent or poor." The Social Security Administration designates 45 mil­ lion Americans as poor or near-poor, defined as members of four-person families with incomes of $85 weekly or less. Mollie Orshansky of that agency has suggested that, in order to combat poverty, new public income-support programs, or, at least, the sharp stepping-up of imple­ mentation of existing programs and their extension are needed. The result of poverty is directly translated into physical ailments, official government figures show. Families with incomes under $2,000 have three times the incidence of disabling heart disease, five times as much mental illness, and nine times as much visual impairments as occurs in the over-$7,000 income families. The leading pollster, Louis Harris, cites a study which finds that worsening health is what the poor—both white and black—worry about most. Most of the poor are convinced that not enough medical care is available to them. They resent the kind of care dispensed at hospital clinics—particularly the long waits and the impersonality of medical personnel. Also, the Harris study reveals, about 40 percent express the view that "each part of the health care has to be found somewhere else." A case in point is reported by Dr. George James, dean of New York's Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, who describes "a man who lived near a major medical center, but wouldn't go to it, even though he had 12 major pathologic diagnoses. The hospital called him 'an unco­ operative patient.' He had been told to attend no fewer than 10 specialty clinics. He was too sick to do it, so he just said the hell with all of them." Medical reporter Jay Nelson Tuck, in an article, "Gov­ ernment on the Poverty Line," reports the above case. The article details the new neighborhood health centers of the Office of Economic Opportunity as well as other aspects of the new $5.1 billion annual program to bring health care to the poor. American Indians fare even worse than the other ele­ ments of the population. Senator Fred R. Harris, Demo­ crat of Oklahoma and Mrs. Harris, in an article on Indian health, point out that diseases which the white community now regard as having become relatively rare continue to afflict these people "with disturbing frequency." Tuberculosis is six times more likely to strike an Indian than a white American; dysentery 40 times mor^ likely. Indian life expectancy is now 63.5 years, compared to 71 years for white Americans. The Harrises attribute the poor health conditions of these people to "poverty, family and social disorganization, and the hapless dependency of Indians on the federal government." "Poverty in living standards accompanied by poverty in medical care seems unjustified by the amount of money Americans are investing in health care—$47.3 billion, which constitutes more than six percent of the Gross National Product, the highest percentage spent on medical care of any nation, except the USSR," Richard M. Ralston, editor of Sources stresses. Tuck points out, on the basis of a recent study by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, that $9.7 billion of this amount was spent in 1968 by the federal and state governments on the health care of the 45 million poor and near-poor—somewhat more than $200 per person. The study concludes: "Given the current estimates that about $200 per year per person would purchase 'good' health care, if resources were applied for maximum benefit, current government expenditures would cover the major costs of health service for the poor. While this degree of efficiency is rarely found in any system, it seems clear that much room for improvement exists." �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS President Contmues OEO; Two Key Programs Shifted WASHINGTON—President Nixon announced a reshuffle of key anti-poverty programs last month but told Congress he wants to con­ tinue the Office of Economic Opportunity as an "incubator" for new programs to help the poor. As a first step, the President said, he is using his executive authority to delegate operation of a number of OEO programs to the Depart­ ment of Health, Education and Welfare and to the Labor Department effective July 1. Nixon assigned the operation of the Job Corps to the Labor De­ partment to be co-ordinated with other manpower programs admin­ istered by the department. He delegated to Health, Education and Welfare the OEO's Head Start program for pre-school children, its Comprehensive Health Centers for poverty neighborhoods and its Foster Grandparents pro­ gram under which retired volunteers receive modest payment for providing individual "grandfafherly" care to fatherless small children. Several other OEO-initiated programs are already delegated to other agencies, including the operation of the Neighborhood Youth Corps by the Labor Department and the school-age Head Start FollowThrough program by HEW. At least initially, supervision of Community Action programs will remain under OEO. Although the announcement was the first formal message Nixon has sent to Congress since taking office, it was strictly informational and did not request any immediate legislative action. The President said he will later ask Congress to extend" authorization for appropriations for the OEO for another year. And before June 30, Nixon said, he will submit "a comprehensive proposal for the future of the poverty program." Nixon had both praise and criticism of the Office of Economic Opportunity in his message. He said the anti-poverty agency "has been a valuable fount of ideas and enthusiasm." Its "greatest value," Nixon said, "is as an initiating agency—devising new programs to help the poor, and serving as an 'incubator' for these programs during their initial, experimental phases." This, he said, is the area on which OEO should concentrate. He was critical of the management and loose financial supervision of some OEO programs. "Even those most thoroughly committed to the goals of the antipoverty, he suggested, much more attention must be given to those worked," the President said. "The men and women who will be valued most in this Administra­ tion," Nixon added, "will be those who understand that not every experiment succeeds, who do not cover up failures but rather lay open problems, frankly and constructively, so that next time we will know how to do better." In new areas, Nixon hinted at steps to overcome disadvantages which blight many children during the first four years of their lives— before Head Start comes into the picture. "If we are to make genuine, long-ranee progress" in overcoming poverty, he suggested, much more attention must be given to those earliest years "which determine how far, throughout his later life, the child can reach." Spin-off of OEO programs to other agencies has been a hotly con­ troversial issue in past Congresses, with most Republicans and conserv­ ative Democrats favoring it and most liberals supporting the role of the Office of Economic Opportunity as the keystone of the antipoverty effort. Leon Duplantier, former presi­ dent of Communications Workers Local 3410, will posthumously re­ ceive the annual Merit Award to Labor given by the A.ssociation for Retarded Children, Inc., of Greater New Orleans. Duplantier, who died in February 1968, was active in United Fund drives in a number of caoacities, including a role as special assistant of com­ munity services representing the president of the Louisiana AFLCIO. * » * Carl J. Megel, legislative direc­ tor of the AFL-CIO, American Federation of Teachers and form­ er AFT president, has been reap­ pointed to the President's Com­ mittee on Employment of the Handicapped for another threeyear term. Megel previously served six years on the committee after 12 years as union president. He is currently a vice president of the International Federation of Teacher Unions, and a trustee of the United Nations Association of the USA. The Post Office Mail Handlers' executive board has announced the election of Vice President Lonnie L. Johnson, 36, as presi­ dent and called for the implemen­ tation of the merger with the La­ borers voted by the union's 1968 convention. Johnson, of Chicavo, succeeds the late Harold McAvoy. He said most members of the un­ ion and the board support the merger because "our best hope as a small union rests with LIUNA." The University of Illinois hon­ ored State AFL-CIO President Reuben G. Soderstrom at a pub­ lic ceremony here for his decades of service to labor education and the university. Soderstrom, state federation head for 38 years, was given a certificate of appreciation by UI President David Dodds Henry and Director Melvin Rothbaum of the university's Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations to highlight the 20th annual Cen­ tral Labor Union conference. • * • LOG Page Seven Carrying the Load An estimated 28 percent of^f the total i7o1iiP> value of all goods and services produced in this country goes to the federal, state and local governments in the form of taxes. This makes government a major partner in the worker's pay-check—a partner whose share is collected first, before the family gets its food money. But who pays that 28 percent? How is the burden shared? During 1967, there were 21 individuals in the United States who made over one million dollars for the year but paid not one cent in taxes. When the wage-earner looks at his depleted pay-check and realizes that he is carrying the exempted money maker on his back, and paying his taxes besides—that's the time when tax reform becomes a top priority item and when the American worker's traditional belief in al­ ways paying his share begins to become some­ what shaken. Some loopholes are so obvious one might well wonder why the public outcry hasn't been louder before now. Nearly $2 billion of income is tax-free to those who can afford to buy state and local bonds. Another $2.5 billion escapes through the in­ vestment tax credit loophole which gives cor­ porations a seven percent credit for every dollar invested in new machinery. Also, the Treasury Department estimates that revenue lost throu^ manipulation and abuse of charitable deductions totals some $2.5 billion annually. Oil companies enjoy a 27.5-percent tax ex­ emption on the price of crude oil they sell—to others or themselves—the "oil depletion allow­ ance." In iS67, for example, • Standard Oil of New Jersey—with a net income of over $2 bil­ lion—paid only 7.9 percent of it in U.S. Taxes. The capital gains tax permits people who are in the top personal income tax brackets—where they would otherwise pay-up to 70 percent—to pay only 25 no*-/ percent, because stock income is taxed less than earned wage income. What happens is that the tax-brackets—which range from 14 to 70 percent on taxable income —become most meaningful at the bottom; least meaningful at the top. Those in the lower brack­ ets, who can least afford it, are the ones who are forced to pay the full amount of tax indi­ cated in the tax charts. The most shameful aspect of this process— that which perhaps shows it most clearly—is that families below the poverty level pay taxes. Vitally needed tax-reform, in the areas of abuse indicated, could bring in $10 billion, ac­ cording to estimates of AFL-CIO economists— without even touching the tax brackets them­ selves. This is enough to grant substantial relief where it is most needed—at the bread-and-butter level. Both the national AFL-CIO and the Mari­ time Trades Department have long advocated tax reform, soberly and realistically. They advocate a raise in the minimum stand­ ard deduction for individuals and families; treat­ ing capital gains the same as any other income, and setting a minimum tax for each tax bracket —above an "adequate living" income level and regardless of how the income is earned. Also, they argue, sound limitations must be set for charitable deductions and state and local bonds should not be allowed to continue entirely scot-free of taxation. Such loopholes as invest­ ment tax credit and oil depletion allowances have no place in an inflating economy where business hardly needs incentives, considering their booming profit statements. The possibility of a tax revolt by the "middle class" was voiced by former Treasury Secretary Joseph W. Barr in his departing appearance be­ fore the joint Congressional Economic Commit­ tee—unless tax reform becomes a fact. Finally fed up with a business-oriented tax structure, wage earners can be expected to call more and more for tax relief where it is most needed—at the bottom. not/ nnit/ �•ili Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG Runaway Firms Hopping to Mexico As U. S. Cities Tout 30'Cent Wage V !r ;i J 5• ISi 'u TUCSON, ARIZ.—Mexico's "inexhaustible inexpensive labor market" is being touted as a 30cents-an-hour gold mine for U.S. businessmen willing to invest in plants on both sides of the border. "You don't have to go to Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea or Japan for low cost easily trainable foreign labor," says the official ^ jg The walkout was not an official a day. publication of DATE—Devel­ strike, sanctioned by the ruling Defense Contract opment Authority for Tucson's powers, but it forced Transitron to The U.S. plant has started work Expansion—which describes itself ship some of the quartz crystals as a "nonprofit corporation repre­ on a $1.7 million contract to make used in its production processes to senting a broad cross-section of telephone cables for the Defense another company subsidiary in Department. The contract is for the Tucson community." a one-year period, but the Army Kansas City. The workers finally "It's available right here . went back when the governor of along the Mexico-Arizona border Electronic Command awarded Tamaulipas state stepped in and Transitron an additional contract for as low as 30 cents an hour in the State Labor Board agreed to virtually inexhaustible numbers," on its bid of $1.1 million, and the hear the dispute—over wages DATE proclaims in glowing Economic Development Adminis­ promised but not paid for lunch tration procured a grant of $28,Chamber of Commerce prose. 000 in U.S. funds to "train 15 or "breaks." "Mexican labor is competitive Last year an AFL-CIO Execu­ with foreign labor—easily recruit­ 20 persons in the electronics field" tive Council subcommittee urged ed, quickly trained and equally as at the Transitron plant in Laredo. joint action by American and A subsidiary, Phalo Corp., got the productive." Mexican labor movements and contracts and the grant. Tucson businessmen headed by The hands-across-the-border governments to change the immi­ J. Karl Meyer, DATE's executive concept got a jolt, however, when gration and tariff laws. It cited director, point to the "advantages" the Mexican workers cast off the unfair competition by low-wage of "co-operative U.S.-Mexican "proud, cheerful attitude toward border-jumping plants and "green border operations such as low ab­ work" extolled by the tubthump- card" tourists who cross the bor­ senteeism and a proud, cheerful ing U.S. businessmen and stopped der freely to take jobs in agricul­ attitude toward work . . . under work for three weeks at the Nu­ ture, often at the expense of union the Twin Plant concept." farm workers. evo Laredo plant. That concept is described in these words: "Components are manufactured Accord Reached With L&N in Tucson, assembled in Nogales, Mexico, and returned to Tucson for final inspection, packaging and shipping. . . . Duty is imposed only on the added value of the assembly." Tucson is only one of the WASHINGTON—The recent settlement of a dispute over trainSouthwest's border towns promot­ ing the "cheap foreign labor" con­ crew sizes on the Louisville and Nashville Railroad has been cept. Among the first to tap the cited by the United Transportation Union as "proof that good new lode was Laredo, Texas, faith bargaining" can resolve which induced the Transitron labor-management differences in self-help after 30 days. This means the management could arbitrarily Electronics Corporation of Wake­ the industry. set sizes on unresolved crews or field, Mass., to move its non-union The settlement, reached in long the union could strike over the operations into a new plant with negotiating sessions in Louisville, issue. a small work force. provides that L&N will employ The agreement on the l-and-2 Across the border at Nuevo La­ a conductor and two trainmen on makeup covers 250 crews, many redo, Mexico, within walking dis­ half of its freight train crews, of which previously operated with tance of Laredo, is a Transitron while the other half remain sub­ only a single trainman. plant with 1,400 workers, all Mex­ ject to negotiation. The procedure is similar to that ican nationals. Under the twin If no agreement can be reached set in accords reached previously plant formula, Transitron may on the makeup of the remaining use its small U.S. work force to 50 percent of the crews in six on the crew-size issue between manufacture products and its months, the matter will be re­ UTU and 52 other railroads. It large Mexican force to assemble ferred to UTU President Charles has led to complete agreements without walkouts. them. Luna and L&N President W. U. "Particularly Important" Wage rates in the U.S. are Kendall for disposition. $1.60 an hour and up. In Nuevo If they can't reach an agree­ However, UTU has stressed Laredo the rate is a reported ment, the parties may revert to that the L&N settlement is "par­ ticularly important" because the dispute there and similar disputes Fueling Up on the Illinois Central and the Belt Railway of Chicago were han­ dled by a presidential emergency board in December. The brunt of the union's case before the board was that the three carriers had "refused to bargain realistically" ever since 1966 when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the legality of no­ tices served by the Railroad Trainmen, now part of UTU. Recalling the history of the dis­ pute, LJTU noted that its memIjers were forced to strike L&N before the board was appointed, and again briefly in January when negotiations again reached a stale­ mate. The second strike was halted by a court injunction, but the walkout also produced a new round of negotiations which led to the settlement. "In the final analysis," Luna said, "an agreement can be It's chow time and Seafarer James Kalogrlds is ready to eat. George reached if both sides will sit down Spizou is serving up lunch Kalogrids has selected in cafeteria at the across the table from each other N,Y. Hall. Kalogrids sails in the deck department as deck engineer. and iron out their differences." Dispute on Train Crew Sizes Resolved by Union Bargaining -ft' III. March 1, 1969 Additional Legal Aid Urged As Vital to Nation's Poor WASHINGTON—Federal legal aid for the needy granted under the nation's anti-poverty drive should be greatly expanded, the National Council of Senior Citizens told Congress recently. David H. Marlin, associate director of NCSC's program of legal research and services for the elderly, made the appeal be­ fore a Senate Special Committee on Aging. The council is currently conducting legal aid projects under a $510,793 grant made last year by the Office of Economic Op­ portunity, and it was on the basis of this experience that Marlin testified. "I can detail both from my own experience and from known facts on legal aid in this country the very urgent need faced by millions of the poor for legal assistance," Marlin declared. He described two projects in which the NCSC is trying to expand legal services for poor, elderly Mexican-Americans in gj the San Antonio, Texas, and Albuquerque, N.M. areas. Afraid to Apply In the San Antonio area, Marlin said, about 5,000 MexicanAmericans receive old age assistance but many more receive none because they entered the United States illegally and are afraid to apply to the government for help. Estimating that there are more than 60,000 Mexican-American farm workers 65 and over who are "poverty stricken" in the Southwest, he added, "No group stands in greater need of legal aid than the Spanish-speaking Americans." Marlin also described legal research and legal aid demonstra­ tion projects being carried out by NCSC throughout the United States. They include a counseling program in Boston, legal aid in the area of housing at Venice and Culver City, Calif., and legal research projects being conducted in cooperation with law schools at Columbia and Duke universities. But his conclusion was that all of the NCSC plans and other legal aid now being provided for the poor falls far short of the actual need. Fla. Fun Center to Rise Non-Stop In Building Trudes-Disney Compmt BAL HARBOUR, Fla.—A labor-management agreement assurmg orderly and uninterrupted construction" at the largest private project ever put together in the United States was signed here by 18 building and construction f trade unions and Walt Disney 43-sq'jare mile site 15 miles south­ Productions and its contractors. west of Orlando, Fla. The agreement came during a The project agreement covers meeting of the BCTD executive Walt Disney World, a Florida vacation-recreation complex ex­ council here which discussed a pected to open in 1971 that will number of problems in the con­ be five times larger than Califor­ struction industry and the trade union movement. nia's famed Disneyland. The agreement was signed by C. J. Haggerty, president of the Building and Construction Trades Department, the presidents of the 18 unions making up the depart­ ment, and Harry Hall, president of Allen Contracting Co., Disney's general contractor. The joint statement issued at the signing termed the working BALTIMORE—Jurisdiction of arrangements "fair, strong and anchorages in the Port of Balti­ satisfying the needs of the em­ more, formerly the responsibility ployees, the unions, the contrac­ of the Maryland Port Authority, tors and Walt Disney World." has been assumed by the United The agreement, the statement States Coast Guard, effective from added, "makes possible the or­ January 11, it was announced last derly and uninterrupted construc­ month. tion" of the project and puts into The Port's anchorages include practice "effective and binding those for deep and shallow draft methods for the settlement of all vessels, a quarantine anchorage misunderstandings and disputes." and one for small craft of under lOO-feet—nine anchorages in all, Negotiated 12 Months including one reserved for dead Bonar Dyer, vice president for ships, awaiting scrapping or re­ industrial relations for Disney, pair. Anchorage areas are used by praised the "spirit of co-operation and good faith" of the unions dur­ ships awaiting berths or cargoes. Administration of the anchor­ ing the nearly 12 months of nego­ tiations on the agreement. ages, including requirements for The first phase of the project permits is now under the Captain will include an amusement park, of the Port, U.S. Coast Guard. several resort hotels, a large recre­ Some of the physical limits of the ation complex and a transportation areas have been altered. A new system. Later phases will feature chart, showing the changes, is ex­ a jet airport, industrial parks and pected to be available later this a prototype 'community of tomor­ month from the U.S. Coast and row." The project is located on a Geodetic Survey. CG To Oversee Nine Anchorages In Baltimore �mamBsmmsi March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine Income Tax Guide April 15, 1969, is the deadline for filing Federal income tax re­ turns. As is customary at this time of the year, the SIU Accounting Department has prepared the fol­ lowing detailed tax guide to assist SIU men in fiiing their returns on income earned in 1968. Generally, with very few excep­ tions, seamen are treated no dif­ ferently under the income tax laws than any other citizen or resident of the U. S. (The non-resident alien seamen must also file a re­ turn, but the rules are not the same for him.) WHO MUST FILE. Every Sea­ farer who is a citizen or resident of the United States—whether an adult or minor—who had $600 or more income in 1968 must file; i 65 or over, $1,200 or more. A Seafarer with income of less than these amounts should file a return to get a refund if tax was withheld. A married Seafarer with income less than his own persona exemption should file a joint re­ turn with his wife to get the smaller tax or larger refund for the couple. WHEN TO FILE. Tax returns have to be filed by April 15, 1969. However, the April 15 deadline is waived in cases where a seaman is at sea. In such ins'tances, the sea­ man must file his return at the first opportunity, along with an affi­ davit stating the reason for delay. HOW TO FILE. The Seafarer has two return forms to choose from. Form 1040 and card form. Form 1040A. Form 1040 is lim­ ited to a single sheet. Supporting schedules may be attached accord­ ing to the individual needs of each taxpayer. Generally, if your income was entirely from salary, wages, inter­ est, dividends, and sources other than those for which schedules (B, C, D, and F) are required, you will need only Form 1040. You can use it whether you take the standard deduction or itemize de­ ductions. If you have income from sources listed below, complete and attach one or more of the follow­ ing forms: Schedule B for income from pensions, annuities, rents, royalties, partnerships, es­ tates, trusts, etc.; Schedule C for income from a personally owned business; Schedule D for income from the sale or exchange of prop­ erty: and Schedule F for income from farming. WAGE EARNERS WITH LESS THAN $10,000 INCOME. You can use a simpler return (Form 1040A), printed on a punch card, if: 1. Your income was less than $10,000, AND 2. It consisted of wages re ported on withholding statements (Forms W-2) and not more than $200 total of other wages, inter­ est, and dividends, AND 3. Instead of itemizing deduc­ tions, you wish to use the tax table or to take the standard deduction which is generally the higher of: (a) the 10 percent standard deduction—about 10 per­ cent of your income, or (b) the minimum standard de­ duction—an amount equa to $200 ($100 if marriec and filing separate return) plus $100 for each exemp­ tion claimed on item 15 on the back of your Form 1040A. If your income is less than $5,000, you can choose to have the Internal Revenue Service figure your tax for you. A husband and wife may file a joint return Form 1040A if their combined incomes do not exceed these limits. DON'T USE FORM 1040A IF— (1) You wish to take any de­ ductions for specific items, such as unreimbursed employee ex­ penses. (2) You wish to claim a re­ tirement income credit. (3) You wish to compute your tax under the head-of-household rates of to claim "surviving spouse" benefits. (4) You wish to claim any ex­ clusion for wages or salary you received for a period while you were sick and this amount is shown on your Form W-2. (5) You wish to claim credit for payments of estimated tax for the taxable year or for an over­ payment from 1967. (6) Your wife (or husband) is filing a separate return on Form 1040 and itemizes her (or his) deductions. (7) You have a nonresident alien status. TAX SURCHARGE. The tax surcharge is in addition to the regular income tax and is 10 percent figured on an annual basis for the period April 1, 1968 through June 30, 1969. Since the surcharge was effective for only nine months of 1968, the rate for the calendar year 1968 is 7.5 percent. If the regular tax is less than $734, the tax surcharge is to be found in accordance with the tax surcharge tables in the tax in­ struction booklet. If the regular tax is $734 or more, the tax sur­ charge is 7.5 percent of this amount. HOW TO PAY The balance of tax shown to be due on your return must be paid in full with your return if it amounts to $1 or more. Make checks or money order, payable to "Internal Revenue Service." ROUNDING OFF TO WHOLE DOLLARS The money items on your re­ turn and schedules may be shown in whole dollars. This means that you eliminate any amount less than 50 cents, and increase any amount from 50 cents through 99 cents to the next higher dollar. ADVANTAGES OF A JOINT RETURN. Generally it is advan­ tageous for a married couple to file a joint return. There are bene­ fits in figuring the tax on a joint return which often result in a lower tax than would result from separate returns. In cases where a man's wife tirement income such as rents, lives in a foreign country, he can dividends and earnings at odd still claim the $600 exemption jobs. However, an adjustment for her. must be made in this credit for In addition, a taxpayer can Social Security benefits. HOW TO REPORT YOUR claim $600 for each child, parent, grandparent, brother, brother-in- INCOME. All income in what­ law, sister, sister-in-law, and each ever form received which is not uncle, aunt, nephew or niece de­ specifically exempt must be in­ pendent on him, if he provides cluded in your income tax return, more than one-half of their sup­ even though it may be offset by port during the calendar year. The deductions. Examples are given dependent must have less than below: $600 income and live in the U. S., Example of Income Which Must Be Reported: Wages, salaries, Canada, Mexico, Panama or the bonuses, commissions, fees, Canal Zone. tips, and gratuities. A child under 19, or a student over 19 can earn over $600 and Dividends. CHANGES IN MARITAL still count as a dependent if the Interest on bank deposits, bonds, STATUS. If you are married at taxpayer provides more than onenotes. the end of 1968, you are consid­ half of his support. Interest on U. S. Savings bonds. ered married for the entire year. The law also enables a seaman Profits from business or profes­ If you are divorced or legally sep­ who is contributing (with other sion. arated on or before the end of relatives) more than ten percent Your share of partnership profits. 1968, you are considered single of the support of a dependent to Profits from sales or exchanges for the entire year. If your wife or claim an exemption for that in­ of real estate, securities, or husband died during 1968, you dividual, provided the other con­ other property. are considered married for the en­ tributors file a declaration that Industrial, civil service and other tire year. Generally in such a they will not claim the dependent pensions, annuities, endow­ case, a joint return may be filed that year. ments. CREDIT FOR EXCESS SO­ Rents and royalties from property, for the year. You may also be patents, copyrights. entitled to the benefits of a joint CIAL SECURITY (FICA) TAX return for the two years follow­ PAID. If a total of more than Your share of estate or trust in­ ing the death of your husband or $343.20 of Social Security (FICA) come. tax was withheld from the wages Employer supplemental unem­ wife. EXEMPTIONS. Each taxpayer of either you or your wife be­ ployment benefits. is entitled to a personal exemp­ cause one or both of you worked Alimony, separate maintenance or tion of $600 for himself, $600 for for more than one employer, support payments received from his wife, an additional $600 if you may claim the excess over (and deductible by) your hus­ he is over 65 and another $600 $343.20 as a credit against your band (or wife). if he is blind. The exemptions for income tax. Prizes and awards (such as items TAX CREDIT FOR RETIRE­ age and blindness apply also to a received from radio and TV taxpayer's wife, and can also be MENT INCOME. A tax credit is shows, contests, raffles, etc.) claimed by both of them. allowed for individuals against re- Examples of Income Which Should Not Be Reported: Disability retirement payments and other benefits paid by the Veterans Administration. A major tax beef by seamen is that normally taxes are not Dividends on veterans' insurance. Life insurance proceeds upon withheld on earnings in the year they earned Ae money, but death. in the year the payoff took place. Workmen's compensation, insur­ For example, a seaman who signed on for a five month ance, damages, etc., for injury trip in September, 1967, paying off in January, 1968, would or sickness. have all the five months' earnings appear on his 1968 W-2 Interest on State and municipal slip and all the taxes withheld in 1967. This practice could bonds. increase his taxes in 1968 even though his actual 1968 earn­ Federal Social Security benefits. ings might be less than those in 1967. Railroad Retirement Act benefits. Gifts, inheritance, bequests. There are ways to minimize the impact of this .situation. For example, while on the ship in 1967, the Seafarer un­ doubtedly took draws and may have sent allotments home. These can be reported as 1967 income. Unfortunately, this raises another complication. The sea­ man who reports.these earnings in 1967 will not have a W-2 (witholding statement) covering them. He will have to list all allotments, draws and slops on the tax return and explain why he doesn't have a W-2 for them. Furthermore, since no tax will have been withheld on these earnings in 1967, he DIVIDEND INCOME. If a will have to pay the full tax on them with his return, at 14 seaman has dividend income from percent or upwards, depending on his tax bracket. stocks he can exclude the first The earnings will show up on his 1968 W-2. The seaman $100 from his gross income. then, on his 1968 return would have to explain that he had If a joint return Is filed and reported some of the earnings in 1967 and paid taxes on them. both husband wife have dividend He would get a tax refund accordingly. income, each one may exclude In essence, the seaman would pay taxes twice on the same $100 of dividends from their income and get a refund a year later. While this will save gross income. the seaman some tax money in the long run, it means he WELFARE, PENSION AND VACATION BENEFIiS. Bene­ is out-of-pocket on some of his earnings for a full year until fits received from the SIU Wel­ he gets refunded. fare Plan do not have to be re­ This procedure would also undoubtedly cause Internal ported as income. Revenue to examine his returns, since the incmne reported Payments received from the would not jibe with the totals on his W-2 forms. SIU Pension Plan are includible That raises the question, is this procedure justified? It is as income on the tax return of justified only If a seaman hijid very little income In one year those pensioners who retire with and very considerable income the next Otherwise the tax a normal pension. There is a spe­ saving is minor and probably not worth the headache. cial retirement income tax credit (Continued on Page 10) LONG-TRIP TAX PROBtmS �Page Ten Mills Reap DOD Contracts Despite Evidence of Bias \ ft If"|: I '• WASHINGTON—The Defense Department has decided not to cancel multi-million dollar contracts with three big southern textile firms despite findings by a government agency that the companies had discriminated against Negroes and refused to take "affirmative action" to remedy the discrimination. South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond, the former Dixiecrat turned Republican, had strongly protested the proposed cancellations in a telegram to President Nixon. Thurmond was a key supporter of Nixon at the GOP national convention and during the presidential campaign. One of the firms involved was J. P. Stevens and Company, notorious for its union-busting policy involving wholesale firings of union supporters and repeated violations of federal labor law. Also involved were South Carolina plants operated by Burling­ ton Industries and Dan River Mills. The Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Com­ pliance, which is charged with enforcing the executive order barring companies which discriminate from receiving govern­ ment contracts, had found the textile firms in violation of the federal policy. Accepted 'Personal Assurances' Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard, however, said he has reviewed the case and obtained "personal assurances" from the heads of the companies that they would take steps to provide equal opportunity for Negro workers. The Labor Department contract compliance office said it wasn't consulted about Packard's decision and would like to know just how specific the "assurances" were and what they covered. The agency's acting director. Ward McCreedy, said: "Those must have been rather spectacular agreements for them to award the contracts based on what I know of the case." He said he will ask the Defense Department for "a full report." In a related area. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz has before him a report from the contract compliance office that the AllenBradley Company, a Milwaukee electronics manufacturer, has refused to take steps to remedy discriminatory employment policies. The decision on whether to disqualify the firm from govern­ ment contracts was left by former Labor Secretary Wirtz to his successor. Income Tax Guide (Continued from Page 9) ment and applied against your income tax. to be calculated on Schedule B INCOME AVERAGING. A which is to be attached to the Seafarer who has an unusually return. Pensioners undet 65 who re­ large amount of taxable income ceive a disability pension do not for 1968 may be able to reduce the total amount of his tax by have to include such payments on their tax returns. However, all using the income averaging meth­ disability pension payments re­ od. This method permits a part ceived after age 65 are taxable of the unusually large amount of in the same manner as a normal taxable income to be taxed in lower brackets, resulting in a re­ pension. Vacation pay received from the duction of the over-all amount of Seafarers Vacation Plan is taxable tax due. income in the same manner as wages. DEATH BENEFIT EXCLU­ SION. If you receive pension pay­ ments as a beneficiary of a de­ ceased employee, and the em­ ployee had received no retirement pension payment, you may be en­ titled to a death benefit exclusion of up to $5,000. GAMBLING GAINS. All net gains from gambling must be re­ ported as income. However, if The following Items can be more was lost than gained during used as deductions against Income the year, the losses are not de­ (IF YOU DO NOT TAKE THE ductible, but simply cancel out STANDARD DEDUCTIONS): CONTRIBUTIONS. A tax­ the gains. INVESTMENT CREDIT. payer can deduct up to 20 per­ Form 3468 is to be used by a cent of gross income for contribu­ Seafarer claiming the investment tions to charitable institutions, and credit. The credit is allowed for an additional ten percent in con­ investment in tangible depreciable tributions to churches, hospitals personal property used in busi­ and educational institutions. INTEREST. Interest paid to ness. The credit is an amount c ;ual to 7 percent of such invest­ banks and individuals on loans. SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG iruery Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals X'tm to February lit DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B 1 4 31 49 9 11 • 20 13 13 11 17 3 6 6 20 21 67 49 27 14 26 11 75 33 26 15 283 295 Class A Class B Class C 3 0 1 89 68 14 4 3 5 16 11 4 13 10 2 7 14 20 3 0 3 0 8 4 10 0 12 3 9 4 24 14 19 63 18 32 10 6 14 79 229 232 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 9 4 237 117 37 12 146 55 35 17 42 33 36 37 115 54 102 131 139 151 51 13 13 78 51 8 616 1107 E^IGIINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL SHIPPED TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups All Groups Port Class A Class B Class A Class B Class C Boston 0 2 2 0 3 New York 74 74 14 21 57 Philadelphia 9 1 5 1 14 Baltimore ....... 6 13 4 20 24 Norfolk 6 6 3 12 13 Jacksonville 19 10 13 3 15 Tampa 0 9 1 2 5 Mobile 9 1 17 20 5 New Orleans 9 54 47 3 2 Houston 18 3 4 15 4 Wilmington 19 17 12 24 5 San Francisco ... 42 38 41 35 54 Seattle 13 24 11 7 15 103 Totals 202 227 317 180 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 4 5 129 172 6 17 59 105 36 20 25 25 37 19 79 63 163 158 140 108 26 11 13 61 14 30 685 840 . STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups All Groups Class A Class B Port Class A Class B Class C 0 1 2 Boston 2 0 66 18 32 New York 17 11 0 4 1 Philadelphia 6 2 7 7 Baltimore 5 18 11 8 4 Norfolk 4 11 11 Jacksonville 9 13 13 8 5 Tampa 0 2 0 0 3 Mobile 9 5 2 13 18 New Orleans 13 0 12 38 45 Houston 9 3 1 15 15 8 Wilmington 11 11 9 21 29 37 25 San Francisco ... 30 48 3 5 5 9 \ V 15 Seattle 144 130 105 194 187 Totals REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 5 1 89 174 13 11 109 42 19 30 8 25 18 25 33 105 84 186 62 131 26 11 54 18 39 11 911 418 ductible is $150.00. The other mortgages, etc., is deductible. TAXES. In general, you can one-half, plus any excess over the deduct: personal property taxes, $150.00 limit is deductible subject real estate taxes, state or local re­ to the normal three percent rule. The one and three percent lim­ tail sales taxes, state gasoline taxes and state income. taxes actually itations apply in all cases, regard­ paid within the year. You cannot less of your age, or the age of deduct: Federal excise taxes. Fed­ your wife or other dependents. eral Social Security taxes, hunting and dog licenses, auto inspection fees, tags, drivers licenses, alco­ holic beverages, cigarette and to­ bacco taxes, water taxes and taxes paid by you for another person. MEDICAL AND DENTAL EXPENSES. All expenses over three percent of adjusted gross income for doctor and dental bills, hospital bills, medical and CARE OF CHILDREN AND hospital insurance, nurse care OTHER DEPENDENTS. If de­ and similar costs can be deducted. ductions are itemized, a woman Other such costs include such or a widower, including men who items as eyeglasses, ambulance are divorced or legally separated service, transportation to doctors' under a decree and who have not offices, rental of wheelchairs and remarried or a husband whose similar equipment, hearing aids, wife is incapacitated or is institu­ artificial limbs and corrective de­ tionalized for at least 90 consecu­ vices. tive days or a shorter period if However, if the Seafarer is re­ she dies, may deduct expenses imbursed by the Seafarers Welfare paid, not to exceed a total of Plan for any of these costs, such $600, for one dependent, or not as family, hospital and surgical to exceed a total of $900 for two expenses, he cannot deduct the or more dependents for the care whole bill, only that part in excess of: of the benefits paid by the Plan. (a) dependent children under All expenses over one percent 13 years of age or of adjusted gross income for (b) dependent persons (exclud­ drugs and medicine can be de­ ing husband or wife) physi­ ducted. The deductible portion is cally or mentally incapable then combined, with other medi­ of caring for themselves; cal and dental expenses which are if such care is to enable the tax­ subject to the normal three per­ payer to be gainfully employed or cent rule. to actively seek gainful employ­ In figuring your deduction, you ment. can deduct an amount equal to ALIMONY. Periodic payment one-half of the insurance premi­ of alimony to a wife in accord ums paid for medical care for with a written agreement between yourself, your wife, and depend­ them can be deducted. ents. The maximum amount de­ CASUALTY LOSSES. The reasonable value of all clothing and gear lost at sea due to storm, vessel damage, etc., for which the taxpayer Is not otherwise compen­ sated, can be deducted as an expense. The same applies to fire loss or losses in auto accidents which are not compensated by in­ surance. These losses are limited to the amount in excess of $100 for each loss. WORK CLOTHES, TOOLS. The cost and cleaning of uniforms and work clothes which ordinarily cannot be used as dress wear can be deducted. This includes pro­ tective work shoes, gloves, caps, foul weather gear, clothing ruined by grease or paint, plus tools bought for use on the job, or books and periodicals used in di­ rect connection with work. UNION DUES. Dues and ini­ tiation fees paid to labor organi­ zations and most union assess­ ments can be deducted. PURCHASE OF U.S. SAV­ INGS BONDS. If you are entitled to a refund, you may apply it to the purchase of Series E. U.S. Savings Bonds. If you check the appropriate box you will be is­ sued as many bonds as your re­ fund will buy in multiples of $18.75 for each $25 face value bond. DECLARATION OF ESTIMATED TAX. The purpose of this declaration is to provide fjr current payment of taxes not col­ lected through withholding, where a taxpayer may have a consider­ able amount of outside income. In such cases, a Seafarer should check the instruction on his tax return carefully, as the "Declara­ tion of Estimated Tax" also must be filed on or before April 15, 1969. - p i -I • :i �March 1, 1969 SEAFARERS Looking the Other Way Page Eleven LOG Govt. Trustees Report Proves; Increased Social Security Benefits Would Not Increase Payroll Taxes Young Seafarer William Pentz, who sailj in engine department, stopped by for blood test in the clinic at New Orleans hall. Conducting test is technician Ann Will. Pentz hails from Iowa. War Fails to Stop Union Organizing Among Fishermen of South Vietnam SAIGON—When the Viet Cong pose as fishermen in the Gulf of Siam to spy for the Communists, Do Minh Toan, a South Viet­ namese fisherman who heads his union's local, fegularly reports their activities to his country's ion's recovery from its mid-1965 military officials. slump to a program it undertook Toan refuses to be intimi­ for the U.S. Agency for Interna­ dated by the Communists and tional Development later that year. he makes no bones about it, At a time when the Viet Cong even though he, his wife and their had cut a number of rail lines and three children face the threat of highways, the union's members Viet Cong reprisals. made an agreement with AID to Toan sees nothing particularly use their fishing junks to haul heroic in his attitude. He says, rice, medicines and diesel oil into "All Fishermen's union officials •South Vietnam ports. do the same thing throughout the Bottleneck Broken country." In the obstacles it faces and the The successful operation broke hardships and dangers its mem­ the Viet Cong bottleneck and bers encounter daily, the Fisher­ helped increase membership in the men's union is typical of most union. But there was a side bene­ labor organizations in South Viet­ fit that helped to bring new dignity nam. to the lives of the Fishermen. Yet the union has grown to be­ Under terms of the agreement come the second largest in the with AID, the union took 10 per­ country despite Communist oppo­ cent of gross income earned in sition, the job-destroying warfare carrying the cargoes and started that has engulfed the land, and a union welfare fund. This pro­ vestiges of feudal-era distrust vided the seed capital for a na­ among the people. tional Fishermen's credit union. The Fishermen, with 65,000 Until that point, fishermen of members, is affiliated with the the country traditionally had been Vietnamese Confederation of La­ lifetime debtors. A credit union bor (CVT), which is incontestably to them was the means of freeing anti-Communist and the best or­ themselves and their families from ganized group for progress in the the village money-lender who had nation. long dominated their economic, social and even political lives. Has Suffered Losses The union conducts training Despite the bravery of Toan programs in all parts of South and thousands of his fellow mem­ Vietnam for its members, officials bers, the union has suffered losses and organizers. One of the most in membership that coincide with successful seminars was recently Viet Cong successes and South held in Rach Gia, where Toan Vietnam instability. heads the local. Organized in 1963, it grew rap­ Attending the 25-days of train­ idly to 40,000 members in one ing sessions <vere many women year but plummeted to 10,000 by members of the union who work mid-1965 during the period of aboard the fishing boats along stepped-up military attacks by the with their men. Viet Cong and a chaotic political Plans are also underway for the situation. Fishermen's union to operate its The union suffered another drop own factory for the processing of in mid-1968 following the Conii- "nuoc mam," a popular fish munist attacks and terrorism that sauce, in Phan Thiet where it has broke the Tet (New Year's) truce, its beadauar*ers. but membership has once more The union's oroanizing and bar­ begun to climb. gaining efforts have greatly im­ As with all unions in South proved fishermen's wa<»es and ben­ Vietnam, there has been a direct efits and have enabled it to oper­ correlation between membership ate three social welfare centers. and security conditions. When Thus, despite the warfare rag­ warfare or Communist oppression ing around them, South Vetnam's eliminates jobs, membership drops. fishermen see a future of hope The Fishermen credit the un- I through their union. WASHINGTON—recent report by the trustees of the Social Security Trust Funds shows the funds to be in sound, healthy condition and "clearly proves" that social security benefits can be in­ creased without any boost in payroll taxes, AFL-CIO Social Security Director Bert Seidman has pointed out. In the report on the cash bene­ increased proportionately with in­ The report singled out by fits trust funds, the trustees cited creases in the general earnings Seidmah covers the two trust two factors accounting for the in­ level, there will be an actuarial funds from which cash benefits crease in the actuarial balance: balance in the fund—about 0.07 are paid—one for old-age and sur­ One, 1968 earnings levels were percent of taxable payroll. vivors insurance and one for dis­ higher than the 1966 levels which Total income to the hospital ability insurance. insurance trust fund in fiscal 1968 were used as a base for estimating The trustees stated that new contributions in determining the was reported at $3.9 billion, about cost estimates show a favorable previous estimated balance. $100 million in excess of outgo. actuarial balance of 0.53 percent Two, use of an assumed 4.25 The fund's total assets were $1.4 of taxable payroll compared with percent interest rate on trust fund billion, an increase of $87 million a previous estimated actuarial bal­ investments instead of a 3.75 per­ over fiscal 1967. ance of 0.01 percent. cent interest rate on which previ­ Steady Increases Expected "This new balance," Seidman ous estimates have been based. Estimates for the fiscal threesaid, "means that Congress could The trustees said that combined year period of 1969-71 looked to grant 5 to 6 percent of a badly- income into the old-age and sur­ needed increase in benefits without vivors and disability trust funds in steady increases in both income any increase in the social security fiscal 1968 exceeded outgo by $2.6 and disbursements. Income to the supplementary tax, shared equally by employer billion. Assets of the two funds medical insurance trust fund in and employee." totalled $28.1 billion at the end of fiscal 1968 was $1.4 billion, while The trustees also submitted to the fiscal year. outgo was $1.5 billion, the trustees Congress reports for fiscal 1968 In the five years ahead, the reported. But this high outgo, it covering Medicare hospital insur­ trustees forsaw income to the ance and supplementary medical funds exceeding expenditures by was pointed out, was due to a big backlog of claims for services ren­ insurance (doctors bills) under so­ about $45 billion. dered in the early period of the cial security. Based on the present tax sched­ program's operation. Trustees for the funds in the ule and taxable earnings level, While total assets of the fund fiscal year were Social Security they predicted that the funds will decreased from $486 million to Commissioner Robert M. Ball and have sufficient income from con­ $307 million between June 30, three members of the Johnson tributions to meet the cost.of bene­ 1967, and June 30, 1968, the re­ Cabinet: Treasury Secretary Jo­ fits and administrative expenses port noted that assets were back seph W. Barr, Labor Secretary "for the next 15 to 20 years and up to an estimated $446 million Willard Wirtz and Health, Educa­ for the distant future." by December 31, 1968, as the tion & Welfare Secretary Wilbur In the report on the hospital in­ result of an increased premium J. Cohen. surance trust fund, the trustees rate and payment of some govern­ said there would be an unfavor­ ment contributions for past years. able actuarial balance—0.29 per­ The trustees indicated that the cent of taxable payroll—based on financial future of the supplemen­ an assumption that the present tary medical insurance program taxable earnings base, $7,800 a depends upon rates of utilization year, remains unchanged. of doctors services and costs, par­ , However, the trustees empha­ ticularly how much doctors' fees sized that if the earnings base is continue to increase in the future. MARAD Insures Loan of Funds For Two Junkers WASHINGTON —The Mari­ time Administration has approved ship construction loan and mort­ gage guarantees for two 61,000deadweight ton American-flag tankers. Both will be built at the Beth­ lehem Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland for the SlU-contracted Maritime Overseas Corportation. One is scheduled for an August, 1970, delivery and the other is to be delivered in November of the same year. According to MARAD, the guarantees amounted to about $12 million for construction and $14 million for mortgages for each of the two vessels. The ships, capable of 16 knots, will be 733 feet long and will be placed in the worldwide and domestic trade. There will be a $14 million public bond issue for each vessel. This brings to 14 the number of tankers for which MARAD has approved federal ship mort­ gage insurance in the past two years. The latest loans were made possible by the passage, in June, 1968, of a bill which removed the six percent interest ceiling on loans and mortgages insured un­ der Title XI of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936. The Secre­ tary of Commerce, under the amendment, was given the au­ thority to approve such higher interest rates as he determines to be reasonable, taking into consid­ eration the rates of interest pre­ vailing in the private market for similar loans. Lack of Signed Contract Bars Widow from Pension NEW YORK—^A widow's claim for a pension was ruled illegal here recently because tbe contribution made by her hus­ band's employer was not covered by a written agreement as required under the Taft-Hartley Act. The decision came from the 2nd U. S. Circuit Court of Ap­ peals in a case involving Kathleen Moglia, the widow of John J. Moglia; his employer, Elmhurst Contracting Company, Inc., and the pension fund of Teamsters Local 282. The local's fund was set up in 1955 to cover various employers with collective bargaining agreements, with a clear provision that only union employees covered by contracts could participate in it, the court said. Despite this, according to the court, Elmhurst, a non-union employer, made payments into the fund on behalf of Moglia and other employees over a period of 11 years, without objections from the fund trustees. Pension Refused When Moglia retired in 1965, he filed an application for a pension with the fund, which the trustees refused, on advice of counsel, due to the lack of a bargaining agreement with the employer. In 1966, after he died, his widow was likewise refused a pen­ sion and she brought suit to compel the trustees to make pay­ ment of the pension. Mrs. Moglia's claim was denied by the U. S. Southern District Court of New York and the contributions made by Elmhurst on behalf of Moglia and others were returned to the employer. In upholding the lower court, the Appeals Court said the law's Section 302 clearly requires a written agreement specifying the basis of payments in order for an employer to contribute to a union fund. "As compelling and as appealing as the claimant's case was," the court concluded, "the structure of the law and intent of Congress preclude any inroads . . . into its specific requirements." �Page Twelve SEAFARERS March 1, 1969 LOG taking A Breather On Oceanic Tide A problem of shifting sailing board time is the only beef reported so far aboard the Del Mar (Delta Line), according to Darrell G. Chafin, meeting secretary. The crew adopted a motion that the mate be responsible for changing the sailing board time instead of the deck hand on watch. They also called for an improved Orlando Hoppe, became ill and restricted to the ship while in Wu launch service schedule on future had to be hospitalized in Saigon. Chi Chang, Taiwan, because the voyages to Santos, Brazil. The The entire crew gave a vote of company failed to send a clear­ well-attended meeting—31 mem­ thanks to the steward's depart­ ance request to the Taiwan gov­ bers took part— also heard ship's ment for a well-prepared holiday ernment. Finally, a letter from delegate Juan menu and generally fine menus. headquarters was read by Meet­ Cruz report that ing Secretary George O'Berry con­ the captain was cerning action taken by the Un­ well-satisfied with ion on the mail situation. the crew on this Jimmy Nayior, meeting secre­ voyage. Ship's tary aboard the Cuban Victory movie director, (Alcoa), got a Mail service to the Robin James Tucker, special treat while Sberwood (Moore-McCormack) got a unanimous his ship was has been poor vote of thanks berthed in Da Chafin throughout the from the crew af­ Nang. His son, entire voyage, re­ ter he reported there was $185.60 who is stationed ports William Mcin the movie fund. Seven arrival there with the Connell, meeting pools accounted for $85 of the U.S. Army, vis­ chairman and fund. A discussion was also held ited his dad on ship's delegate. on the retirement plan. Brother board the ship He also said that Crowley Cruz relayed a message from the and they spent the ship's library captain to the Seafarers that the several memorable days together. is in need of some ship was scheduled to go to the The crew made up a nice collec­ McConnell new books. Meetshipyard in New Orleans after the tion for him, reports M. Darcy, voyage and then lay-up. A vote meeting chairman. Joe Crowley, ing secretary Harry Schultz re­ of thanks was given to the entire ship's delegate, reported that there ported to the members attending steward department "for a fine were no beefs on the trip, and the meeting that he had been in­ Christmas dinner, and for good that the captain was very co-oper­ formed by Seafarers who were food throughout the entire voy­ ative about draws \and in gener­ aboard on the last trip that a number of repairs that were or­ age." ally looking out for the crew's dered were not taken care of while welfare. A unanimous vote of the vessel was in the shipyard in thanks was given to the steward Meeting Chairman Oreste Vola department "for a job well done." December. He said that these in­ cluded spare parts and fans, re­ reported that the captain of the pair of sanitary lines^ overhaul of Steel Scientist the meat box to maintain proper (Isthmian Lines) has agreed that Jen7 Gorman, ship's delegate temperature, adequate galley vents draws will be put on the Monticcllo Victory (Mon- and replacement ofixJeck plates in out if there ii no ticello Tanker the engine room.:! The drew also pay-off within 24 Co.), reported noted that the- ship l was not hours. The ship's that the captain equipoed with kick-out panels, and delegate, Eugene has agreed to pay vot-'d to make a full report to the Hayden, said that off any crew boardinq oatrolman when the ship there were no member under ties up in Savannah this month. Vola beefs or disputed mutual consent, overtime, and reported that a sug­ providing the crew member gestion was made by Seafarer Di I upays the transporWilliam Harrell that crewmemBlakenship tation of the relief bers bring up any beefs they have at pay-off after the crew has set­ man to join the ship there. How­ tled other business with the patrol­ ever, there was general discussion Joseph Moore, born December man. Meeting Secretary F. S. regarding such mutual consent 23, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. payoffs, reliefs and transportation, Omega reported that one Seafarer, and it was agreed that the ship's Joseph W. Moore, Roseland, La. . delegate would call SIU headquar­ ters for clarification on these mat­ Dana Theriot, born October 4, ters. Meeting chairman William 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Blakenship brought out that oc­ Murphy J. Theriot, Breaux casionally, when payoffs were Bridge, La. made outside the continental lim­ its of the U.S., crew members have Edward Stoudemire, born No­ been forced to accept second-class vember 27, 1968, to Seafarer and transportation to the States instead Mrs. Dallas E. Stoudemire, Wil­ of first-class jet fare. The crew mington, N.C. also discussed the matter of being 5; <I> iI vl> Marjorie Traux, born Decem­ ber 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. William G. Traux, Toledo, Ohio. SIU WELFARE, VACATION PLANS January 1-January 31, 1969 J f Hospital Benefits (Welfare) . .. Death Benefits (Welfare) Disability Benefits (Welfare) . . Maternity Benefits (Welfare) . . Dependent Benefits (Welfare) . (Average: $571.99) Optical Benefits (Welfare) . . . Out-Patient Benefits (Welfare) SUMMARY (Welfare) Vacation Benefits (Average: $424.80) Total Welfare, Vacation Benefits Paid This Period . . . Number of Amount Benefits Paid 2,446 26 974 4 1,458 211 4,563 9,682 1,703 11,385 $ 27,018.12 73,264.95 222,525.00 600.00 83,395.64 2,029.80 36,194.00 445,027.51 723,434.24 $1,168,461.75 James Degeberg, born Novem­ ber 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. James W. Degeberg, Duluth, Minn. <1> Kathleen Ferguson, born No­ vember 4, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Arnold J. Ferguson, Hub­ bard Lake, Alpena, Michigan. Toni Costango, born February 4, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Frank Costango, Eatontown, N.J. Scott Eshelman, born Decem­ ber 8, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vernon D. Eshelman, Duluth, Minn. Seafarers on the Oceanic Tide take a breather during their recent trip to Okinawa. From the left are: Edward Troughton, Jim Hart, Ron Carraway, all ABs, and second electrician Richard Monterusso. ffrst Trip Aboard Tucson Victory Seafarer Martina's Fulfilled Dream Ever since he can remember, Seafarer Anthony Martina has had a strong yearning for the sea. Bom in New Orleans, he used to watch the ships moving down the Mississippi and in the harbor as they headed out to sea for ^ far away ports of call and he the necessary qualifications, was dreamed that one day he would given a ticket to join the crew of the Tucson Victory which was be aboard one of those vessels. After leaving high school last loading at San Francisco for a Far June, Tony got a East run. He signed on the ship job at a looal in November as ordinary seaman. amusement park. The Tucson Victory left San Fran­ bound for Seattle to pick But he was rest­ cisco up additional cargo, and then less, And then headed tor Subic Bay. when his two The first two weeks out of Seat­ closest friends shipped out he tle were not quite what Tony had decided that it expected. "We had heavy weather was time for him for those two ,weeks, and I wa? Martina to realize his seasick the whole time," he re­ calls. dream. He went to the SIU Dall in He soon got over his sicj^ness New Orleans and, after meeting however, and the rest of the trip was a good one. "We had an ex­ cellent crew, and the food was good, especially Christmas and New Year's dinners," he said. "I worked hard, but I was doing what I wanted to do and in some Angela D'Amico, born January ways the trip seemed almost like 7, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs"! a vacation. It was my first time Charles D'Amico, Jr., .Houston, away from home, on my own, Texas. and I learned a lot. It was very interesting to visit those far away Stacy Lynn Ainsworth, born places that I had only read about January 15, 1969, to Seafarer and before." In Honolulu, he walked the Mrs. Woody L. Ainsworth, Gal­ veston, Texas. sands of Waikiki Beach, and spent an afternoon with the ship's stew­ ard, William Alvaro, at the home Trazell Johnson, born October of the steward's sister. He also 6, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. had time for sightseeing at Da Ralph E. Johnson, New Orleans, Nang. Subic Bay and Panama. La. After his ship paid off in Brook­ lyn, Tony said he planned on a Carmen and Carmella Morrow, few days sightseeing in New York born January 15, 1969, to Sea­ before heading home, where he farer and Mrs. John A. Morrow, lives with his mother, Mrs. AurNorfolk, Va. dean Boulden. After a couple of Weeks at home, Tony says he plans to go Bonnie Vieira, born January back to the SIU's Harry Lunde8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. berg School of Seamanship in New Edwin Vieira, Metairie, La. Orleans for further upgrading studies before shipping out again. <1> -i/ Guy Meyer, born December 16, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bern­ ard C. Meyer, Addison, Illinois. Billy Joe Schultz, born October 7, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Donald J. Schultz, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. ATTEND, MEETIN6S �Maich 1, 1969 SEAFARERS FINAL DEPARTURES Francis R. Harvey, 55; Brother Harvey died at home September 5, 1968, after a brief illness. He was a native of New Orleans and continued to make his home there. Brother Harvey served as deckhand and ^ mate aboard tugs of the Inland Tug Co., and joined the SIU at the Port of New Or­ leans in 1964. Seafarer Harvey is survived by his wife. Aline, his mother, Catherine, and a brother. Merlin. Services were held at Mothe Funeral Homes, in New Orleans. Burial took place at McDonogh Cemetery in Gretna, Louisiana. Donald Forrest, 65: Heart dis­ ease claimed the life of veteran Seafarer Forrest at the USPHS Hospital in Se­ 'im attle on January J 17. Brother For' rest held all rat­ ings in the steward department. ^ His last ship was the Anchorage. Born in Mansfield, Ohio, he main­ tained his residence in Seattle unCONVECTICirr (Oriental Exporters). February 9—Chairman, Tom Ballard; Secretary, Joe Ballard. $87.60 in shin's fund. Few hours disputed OT in engine department. Beef regarding replacements to be taken up with patrolman. VANTAGE HORIZON (Vancor), Jan­ uary 26—Chairman, M. D. Green; Secre­ tary, O. Farrara. No beefs were reported by department delegates. NORTHWESTERN VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), February 1—Chairman, A. H. Reasko; Secretary, G. Connor. Some disputed dT in engine and steward departments. Ship needs new wafer foun­ tain on main deck and new washing ma­ chine for the crew's use. Boarding Pa­ trolman to check on same. YELLOWSTONE (Oriental Exporters), January 26—Chairman, J. W. Simmons; Secretary, Maximo Bugawan. Some disputed OT in engine department to be taken up with boarding patrolman at payoff. All crew members have heen re­ quested to leave their quarters clean for the next crew. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. ROBIN HOOD (Moore-McCormack), February 4—Chairman, L. Decker; Sec­ retary, Aussie Shrimpton. Brother Rob­ ert Bradus was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to Brother P. Flanagan, former ship's delegate, for a job well done. $124.00 in ship's fund to be spent to pur­ chase a TV set for the crew raesshall. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Discussion held on full retire­ ment plan. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), Septem­ ber 29—Chairman, M. P. Cox; Secretary, J. Sutherland. Brother Frank V. Fromm was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $123.66 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by department delegates. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), January 81—Chairman, J. Sutherland; Secretary, M. P. Cox. $116.66 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck and engine depart­ ments. Beef concerning chief mate to be taken up with patrolman. Vote of thanks to Ihe ship's delegate for a job well done. til the time of his death. Brother Forrest joined the SIU in the Port of Seattle in 1948. Services were held at the Booth Ashmore Funeral Home, in Seattle. Brother Forrest is survived by a sister, Mrs. Elsie May Selby. LOG Page Thirteen Seafarer-Hero Wins Highest Award For Gailant Rescue of Four at Sea The highest honor for heroism that can be awarded to a merchant seaman was presented to Seafarer Charles S. Darter in San Francisco recently. Brother Darter received the Merchant Marine Meritorious Service Medal for assisting in saving the lives of four men at great risk to hjmself. The heroic act took fplace aboard the tug E. Whit­ ney Olson, Jr. in 1966, The citation, which tells of Darter's heroic action, reads: "On November 15, 1966 the WilUam G. McMahon, 55: tugboat E. Whitney Olson, Jr. was Brother McMahon succumbed to standing by the Jalisco, 387-foot pneumonia at the USPHS Hospital non-propelled cement freight ves­ in Staten Island, sel, which had grounded during New York, on heavy weather on Cortes Bank, January 20 fol­ off the coast of California. The lowing a brief ill­ Jalisco, with 40 to 50-foot swells ness. A native of breaking over her structure, was Hoboken, New in dangerously shoal water and in Jersey, he main­ immediate danger of sinking with tained his home four men aboard. The Master there with his wife, Katherine. maneuvered his tug into the lee Brother McMahon sailed for 39 of the Jalisco's bow, and holding years with the Erie Lackawanna this position, yelled for the men R.R. as deckhand on the tug to jump onto his bow. One of the A hero is honored. Seafarer Charles I. Darter is presented the Mer­ Hornelle. He joined the Union at men jumped, slipped and fell into the Port of New York in 1963. the turbulent waters. Suddenly, chant Marine Meritorious Service Medal by Captain S. W. Galstan, Burial services were held at Holy huge seas swept the other three District Ship Operations Officer, MARAD, Pacific Coast District, left, and Thomas J. Patterson Jr., Assistant Director for Operations, Name Cemetery in Jersey City. men into the sea. MARAD, holding citation. Presentation was in San Francisco. "With complete disregard for Besides his widow. Seafarer Mc­ Mahon is survived by a daughter, his own safety. Darter hung pre­ cariously from the side, amidst Mrs. Virginia Lutz. heavy seas breaking over his ves­ most recent trip on an SIU vessel can be awarded only with the sel, and helped pull the four men was aboard the Cosmos Trader approval of the Secretary of Com­ safely aboard. The outstanding which took him to Camranh Bay merce. It may be awarded to any John C. Chatinski, 57: Great courage and determination dis­ in Vietnam. While there, the person serving in the United Chkes Seafarep Chatinski died played by Darter in successfully Cosmos Trader came under at­ States Merchant Marine for a meritorious act, conduct or serv­ suddenly Septem­ effecting the rescue of four hu­ tack by the Viet Cong. ber 2, 1968, at his man lives under extremely haz­ In an interview with a LOG ice in line of duty when that act ,, home in . Cleve- ardous contitions merit great reporter. Darter described the is one of "heroism, bravery, de­ land, Ohio. At praise, and are in keeping with the operation for which he received votion to duty involving extreme the time of his highest traditions of the United the Meritorious Service Medal in danger (actual or in mind)." death he was States Merchant Marine." his own words. The medal may also be pre­ serving as line­ The citation was signed by J. "The seas on Cortes Bank were sented under the following cir­ man aboard Dun­ W. Gulick, Acting Maritime Ad­ some of the roughest I have ever cumstances: to a master of a bar & Sullivan ministrator. seen," he recalled. "The rescue U.S. merchant ship when his ves­ tugs out of Cleve­ Following the presentation. operation took a full day because sel is granted the Gallant Ship land. A native of Cleveland, Brother Darter remarked: "I was the height of the swells made it Award; to a person who per­ Brother Chatinski joined the SIU only acting in the line of duty. nearly impossible to maneuver forms an act of life-saving while there in 1961. His wife, Marie, In a situation of this kind one the tug near the Jalisco. Clifford aboard ship at sea and not in a died in 1964. He is survived by does not stop to think about per­ Miller, the captain of the tug, did harbor, at the dock, or other­ a daughter, Helen, and a son, sonal danger." the most beautiful job of seaman­ wise idle. However, the act of John Jr. Brother Chatinski served No stranger to courage in pre­ ship I have ever seen. In all my heroism may be either at sea or nearly four years in the U.S. Air carious situations. Darter earned years at sea I have never seen in port if it involves an effort di­ Force during World War II, re­ a Silver Star for action at Okina­ such beautiful work." rected toward saving the ship or ceiving an honorable discharge wa while serving with the Navy Darter himself was in the water cargo. Also, any such act should in 1946. Burial was at Holy Cross during World War II. He has twice that day. "I was scared," be one not directly entitling the Cemetery, Cleveland. been sailing since 1938 and his he confided, "but no matter how individual to other medals—such scared we were, every man did as the Carnegie Medal, the Coast Guard Medal for life-saving, etc. his job." Presenting the medal and cita­ Darter's heroic act was ac­ tion were Thomas J. Patterson, knowledged as more than meeting Jr., Assistant Director for Opera­ in full the requirements of the tions of the Maritime Adminis­ award. The Seafarer makes his tration and Captain S. W. Gal­ home in Newport Beach, Califor­ stan, MARAD'S Pacific Coast nia, where he lives with his family, Charles E. Pippins Harold J. Bliss District Ship Operations Officer. including three sons between the Please contact your mother at Your wife is anxious to hear The Meritorious Service Medal ages of five and eight years. Route 2, Box 211, Pascagoula, from you as soon as possible. Mississippi, as soon as possible. Please contact her at 4213 Stickney St., Cleveland, Ohio 44109. <1> Fred MacMurray Contact your wife at 838 Bank Avenue, New Iberia, Louisiana, as soon as possible. Jerry L. Broaddus It is important that you con­ tact your mother as quickly as possible'. Write to Lock Springs, Missouri 64654. 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. (Prtnf information) NAME Dexter Worrell Please get in touch with Warren R. Gammons in New Orleans as soon as possible. Richard D. Tapman Your wife, Margaret, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at .2000 Ramblewood Road, Baltimore, Maryland 21214. James Alan Burch Please get in touch with your mother at 136 North Street, Jer­ sey City, New Jersey 07307, as soon as possible. Herbert A. Miles it is important that you contact your nephew, John Young, Jr., as soon as possible at 4166 No. War­ ren St., Fresno, California 93705. STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE ZIP. TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old lubocriber and have a change of addreat, pleaie give your fanner addreit below: ADDRESS OTY STATE ZIP. .i �Page Fonrteen SEAFARERS Growing Seafarers Pension Roster Adds Ten More Veteran Oidtimers The SIU Pension roster continues to grow as ten more Seafarers close out their long sailing careers. The latest list of SIU members who have become eligible to collect SIU pensions includes: John McCarthy, Hughes Townes, Harry Roslund, Julius Smythe, Albert Jensen. Matthew Eurisa, Vance Reid, Francisco Carabba-' and was also qualified as ship's Carabbacan sailed as 2nd cook, can, Charles Uribe and Ralph carpenter. His last vessel was the and his last ship was the Overseas Guito, Rambam. Dinny. He joined the Union in John McCarthy was bom and 1947 in the Port of New York. Albert Jensen, 67, is a native still makes his home in Jersey City, N.J. A mate, he was em­ ployed by the Pennsylvania Rail­ road at the time of his retirement. Brother McCarthy joined the Un­ ion in the Port of New York. Hughes Townes will spend his retirement at his home in New Orleans. Bom in Georgia, he joined the SIU in Savannah. Brother Townes, who served in Eurisa Rosfaind Smythe the Army from 1928 to 1934, had Charles Uribe, 67, is a native sailed as AB. His last ship was the of Norway and now lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his of Chile, who now makes his home Walter Rice. Harry Roslund joined the Un­ wife, Charlotte. Brother Jensen in New York City. A member ion in 1940 in the Port of Mobile. join^ the SIU in the Port of New of the engine dqiartment. Brother He sailed as AB and bosun. A na­ York in 1944, and had sailed as Uribe held an electrician's rating. tive of Sweden, Brother Roslund FOWT. His last ship was the Steel His last ship was the Jacksonville. Ralph Guito is retiring after Scientist. Matthew Eurisa is retiring to more than 30 years at sea. Bom New Orleans, the city of his birth. in Key West, Florida, Brother Brother Eurisa, rated bosun and carpenter, last sailed aboard the Dd Rio. He is a Navy veteran, having served three years during World War U. Vance Reid, who was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, McCarthy Townes looks forward to taking it easy now lives in Mobile. He last with his wife, Ruth, at their home shipp^ on the Del Santos. in Norfolk, Virginia. Brother Reid Carabbacan Julius Smythe is retiring to his Reid's last ship was the Portmar native New Orleans with his wife, and he sailed as FOWT. He joined Guito now makes his home in Pauline, after a long career at the Union in Norfolk in 1948. Tampa with his wife, Mary. He sea. Brother Smythe joined the Francisco Carabbacan, a native sailed as steward, and was the Union at the Port of New Orleans of the Philippines, now makes his recipient of a safety award in 1960 in 1942. He held a bosun's rating home in San Francisco. Seafarer NAM Gloomy Over Chances To Gut National Labor Act The National Association of Manufacturers recently reported : to its big business affiliates that industry's "high priority" goal of gutting the National Labor Relations Act is "unlikely" to be achieved in the next two years. However, the NAM's government relations staff didn't use the blunt word "gutting" in its evaluation of the legislative outlook. In more roundabout language, it referred to its proposals for "re­ vision" of the law "to redress the present imbalance in favor of labor unions." il But the conservative employer group saw no likelihood of ac­ complishing this "unless public opinion changes sharply as a result of major strikes or other developments." It noted that neither the House nor the Senate Labor Commit­ tees, both controlled by liberal Democrats, could be expected to ^iprofve the changes the NAM wants. And it added the opinion that "the Administration, which is expected to seek ways to ac­ commodate at least some labor demands, is not likely to send Ctmgress measures which would diminish the power of unions." The report also expressed the NA.M's concern that Congress will move ahead on its own with job safety and health bills, con­ sideration of federal workmen's compensation legislation, strcn^hening the enforcement powers of the Equal Employment Oppofnuuties Commission, stronger pollution control and new consumer laws without awaiting the views of the new Republican Adniinali alionIt wanted its membsts, too, that new proposals for raising the mammum wages are likely to be made in this Congress and "could he dse doams&at Industrial relations issue of the second session." The NAM staff expressed relief that "the near hysteria that iwMnrfriM passage tite Wholesome Meat Act and other health has waned." Bex. it. found cause for concern that the leading proponents of smsRg cotmuaa protection laws in the House and Senate "all wnw m ffte bat Novembers elections and "can be expected to Kcfc tite Iradiglit again." M ai tesdt, the NAM report noted sadly, "the outhwk for conSagawd meaesmes to "prottxt the consumer is Imllidi.'' m Uribe March 1, 1969 LOG GoHo while sailing aboard the Alcoa Ranger. His last ship was the Steel Executive. FTC Seeks Rules Curbing Deception In Game Gimmicks WASHINGTON—The Fed­ eral Trade Commission has pro­ posed new rules to halt "unfair and deceptive practices" by the food retailing and gasoline indus­ tries in promoting games of chance. The agency said that, based in part on a staff study of the games, it has reason to believe such prac­ tices "are widespread in the in­ dustries involved." One proposed rule, applicable to both supermarket and gasoline station games, would make it an unfair and deceptive practice for industry members, promoters and manufacturers to "manipulate or rig a game so that prizes are dis(tersed on a pre-determined basis." Further, it would require clear disclosure of such material facts as the exact auoiLer of priz» in each category or cash denomina­ tion to be awarded in a sp&afkd area during a ^tecified period of time. Seafarers* Gift Receives Thanks Seafarer Sees Continuing Strength To the Editor: On behalf of the Lucas County Child Welfare Board and the Miami Children's Cen­ ter, we would like to thank Ronald McGinn, ship's dele­ gate and the crew of the Steam­ er Charles C. West for their donation of $65. You can be sure that this generous donation certainly helped to brighten Christmas for the children. Thanks again, it was very thoughtful and generous of all of you. Sincerely, Charies H. Kllppstehi Executive Director Mianri Children's Center Maumee, Ohio. To the Editon Being a writer I often times find myself looking at things, simple things that have • been taken for granted by the ma­ jority, and sometimes I'll admit, even very unimportant things, and Til make an attempt to dissect them in search of their major components, their vital organs let's say, so that they can be more thoroughly investi­ gated as to their real meaning for us. There are two psychological functions of our human anat­ omy that have both accused and broken men and sometimes even caused wars — these are pride and respect. Any man that has ever fought back at — 4,— Filibuster Still Haunts Senate To the Edttor: Apparently the Senate will continue to be in a position where a minority which makes common cause against some legislation can prevent—not its passage—but even its consider­ ation. Despite two attempts to change the rules so that fili­ busters can be stopped short without requiring a two-thirds vote, the senatorial talkathon remains a weajxin whereby the minority can stymie business in the most august body of the Congress. This is a sad commentary on the legislative process in the greatest country on the face of the earth. It makes the Senate every bit as ineffectual as the French Chambre of Deputies ever was, and holds us up to ridicule everywhere. And so the filibuster remains a tool on which the reaction­ aries of both parties can com­ bine to haunt and hamper the majority. Even the threat of a filibuster is enough to weaken such measures as those which protect the consumer. For this, we should hold the Republican leadership responsible. They had it in their hands to go along with rules reform; they chose to continue the archaic and hampering status quo. Sincerely, James O. HoOowefl —4,— Widow Grateful For SIU Benefits To the EdRon I wish to sincerely thank the SIU for both of the checks I received in the mail yesterday —ray husband Jim's disability and death benefit payments. As we had no other insurance at all, it certainly was a Godsent blessing. My husband was always a good Union man. He was for­ ever telUng me the good things the Union has done. I thank you, again. Siuccrcty, Bin. JauKs Babecker any other man or any circum­ stance for any just cause has witnessed the sensation of pride and more than likely suffici­ ently understands it as it per­ tains to him; hut respect is a more mysterious and hidden factor of our makeup and de^ serves at least a smsdl amount of our attention. As Seafarers we have a tradi­ tion of strong bodies, hard sweat, and a stern existence, but a large portion of this tradition has lacked the respect of those ashore as well as a percentage of our employers. Well men, things have changed. The men of this union have labored long and fought hard for the condi­ tions that we have now and the promise of even better things to come. You have chosen your leaders from among your group, you have organized your de­ mands, and you have placed a higher standard on your labors. Through this organizing and through your actions you have made great progress. Men who have been to sea for twenty and thirty years are noticing the change more now than ever before. Jobs that used to be done by hand they are now finding machines to help them. The hours that we work are being rewarded in kind and the food and living conditions improve constantly. A Seafarer finds that he now has extra money (hat can be saved and many are taking advantage ^f this. The oldtimers are helping the new men at every turn—there is no more worry of the younger taking his job away because of the new job security and seniority programs. There are new schools for faster advancement if one shows the initiative and talk of retirement and further pay raises in the future. We are demanding respect and we are getting it. . . . Sure we find men that still stick to the old ways and some employ­ ers who refuse to completely accept our new position but these are small men and will find themselves looking up to us in spite of themselves or left behind. "A worthy game gains the respect of the most persis­ tant of hunters." Rick Bartraa SMp^s Ddevate SS. �cb 1, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Fifteen ii DE SOTO (WBterman), Pcbruary 2— Chairman, J. F. Castronover; Secretary, I. H. Rossow. Discussion held regarding Duality and quantity of slopchest. Also fliscussed was the matter of salt in drink­ ing water. Discussion held on pension plan. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate, Brother T. L. Sloan; •deck delegate. Brother E. Morris; engine Idelegate, Brother M. A. Miller, and ste, |iif^)gward delegate. Brother L. B. Power. COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service). I January 26—Chairman, Charles Scott; 'Secretary, Tommy Moore. Ship's delegate t; reported that it was a very good trip 5 with the exception of a few repairs which rhave not been completed. The matter will I be brought to the attention of the patrolrman at payoff. Vote of thanks was ex( tended to Brother Albert R. Wills, ship's |. delegate and to the entire steward defpartment for a job well done. $12.00 in I ship's fund. _ LYNN VICTORY (Victory Carriers), I January 26—Chairman, ,T, Altatatt; Sec! retary, M. Townsend. Very good crew , on board with a minimum of beefs. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward. Brother W. Herrin, and his entire de­ partment for the good food, the service and the general cleanliness of the messhall, pantry and galley. BEAVER VICTORY (Bulk Transport), January 26 — Chairman, Lawrence A. Banks; Secretary, John J. Kane. There were no beefs and no disputed OT was reported by department delegates. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), Janu­ ary 80—Chairman, V. J. Ardowski; Sec­ retary, John L. Munnerlyn. No' beefs and no disputed OT reported by depart­ ment delegates. .i •M •II DIGEST Of SIU SHIP PRINCETON VICTORY (Columbia), January 12—Chairman, John C. Reed; SeciKtary, F. C. Gonzalez. Brother Gon­ zalez was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. MAURY (Crest Overseas), January 26 —Chairman, F. R. Kaziukewicz; Secre­ tary, H. R. Crabtree. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. CANTON VICTORY (Columbia), Feb­ ruary 2—Chairman, Charles T. Chandler ; Secretary, William F. O'Brien. Brother James Loe was elected to seiye as ship's delegate. $27.00 in ship's fund. Discussion held regarding pension plan. No. beefs were teported. PENN VANGUARD (Penn), February 9—Chairman, John Benitez; Secretary, Paul Arthofer. Crewmembers would like the patrolman to check the stores for next voyage. No beefs were, reported by depart­ ment delegates. CUBA VICTORY (Alcoa), February 2 —Chairman, M. Darcy; Secretary, Jim Naylor. Discussion held regarding retire­ ment benefits. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for a job well done. MONTICELLO VICTORY (Monticello Tanker), February 9—Chairman William B: Blankenship; Secretary, George A. O'Berry. Some disputed OT in deck and engine departments. General discussion held regarding shortage of men, mutual consent payoffs, reliefs and transporta­ tion. Ship's delegate will contact head­ quarters in regards to the above topics. J DEL NORTE (Delta), December 22— Chairman, Robert Callahan: Secretary, Bill Kaiser. Brother Robert Callahan was elected to serve as ship's delegate. $69.14 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was ex­ tended to the steward department for the fine food throughout the entire voyage. i TRANSCOLORADO (Hudson Water­ ways), December 16—Chairman, S. Hacker; Secretary, J. H. Dietsch. $15.00 in ship's fund. Minor beef regarding the menus and the ordering of stores. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), January 18—Chairman, Paul Franco; Secretary, D. Missimei. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Brother Mike Curry was elected to serve as ship's dele­ gate. ij; l E iHK TRANSGLOBE (Hudson Waterways), February 10—Chairman, Arthur G. An­ derson : Secretary, Joseph A. Morrison, Brother Larry Scott was elected to serve J? ship's delegate. $20.00 in ship's fund. beefs were reported by department delegates. DEL MAR (Delta), February 5—Chair­ man, Juan A. G. Cruz; Secretary, Darrell G._ Chafin. $30.00 in ship's fund Cap­ tain pleased with the conduct of this crow. Vote of thanks was extended to the ship's delegate. Several minor beefs to be taken up with the boarding patrol­ man. Vote of thanks was extended to three department delegated and to the entire steward department for the good food throughout the voyage and par­ ticularly the fine Christmas dinner. , SIU Aflanfic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRESIDENT Paul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tanner Earl Shapard Al Tanner VICE PRESIDENTS Lindtay Williams Robert Matthews SECRETARY-TRE>VSIJRER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS........47!! 4fh Ave., Bklyn. (212) HY ?-t400 ALPENA, Mich. 127 River St. (517) EL 4-3614 BALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Baltimore St. (301) EA 7-4?00 BOSTON. Mass 443 Alllantic Avenue (617) Rl 2-0140 BUFFALO. N.Y. 735 V/ashlngton St. SIU (716 TL 3-9259 IBU (716 TL 3-9259 CHICAGO, lli; 93(13 Ewlng Ave. SIU (-112) SA 1-0733 IBU (:II2) ES 5-9570 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1420 W. 25th St. (216) MA 1-5450 DETROIT, Mich 10225 W. Jeffsrson Ave. (313) VI 3-4741 DULUTH, Minn 312 W. 2nd St. (218) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich P.O. Box 287 415 Main St. (616) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex 5804 Canal St. 1713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. 2408 Pearl St. (904) EL 3-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. ... . 99 Montgomery St. (2i)l) HE 5-9424 M08ILE, Ala I South Lawrence St. (205) HE 2-1754 NEW ORLEANS, La. .. 430 .lackson Ava. (504) 529-7546 NORFOLK, Va 115 3rd St. (703) 622-1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa 2404 S. 4th St. (215) DE 4-3818 PORT ARTHUR, Tax 1348 Sevanth St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 35(i Fraamont St. (415) DO 2-4401 SANTURCE, f.R. .... 1313 Farnundez Juncos Stop 20 724-2848 SEATTLE, Wash 4105 First Avenua (206) MA 3-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo 805 Del Mar (314) CE 1-1434 TAMPA, Fla 312 Harrison St. (813) 229-2788 WILMINGTON, Calif., 450 Seaside Ave. Terminal Island, Calif. (813) 832-7285 YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Iseya BIdg., Room 801 1-2 Kaigan-Dori-Nakaku 2014971 Ext. 281 SIU-AGLIWD Meetings New Orleans Mar. 11—2:30 p.m. Mobile .... Mar. 12—2:30 p.m. Wilmington . Mar. 17—2:00 p.m. San Francisco Mar. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Mar. 21—2:00 p.m. New York .. Mar. 3—2:30 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—2:30 p.m. Baltimore . . Mar. 5—2:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 14—2:30 p.m. Houston .. . Mar. 10—2:30 p.m. United Industrial Workers New Orleans Mar. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobile Mar. 12—7:00 p.m. New York . . Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Mar. 4—7:00 p.m. Baltimore . . Mar. 5—7*ftO n.m. ^Houston .. Mar. 10—7:00 p.m. Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stitzel-Weller Distilleries "Old Fitzgerald," "Old Elk" "Cabin Still," W. L. Weller Bourbon whiskeys (Distillery Workers) — Great Lakes SIU Meetings Kingsport Press Detroit .... Mar. 3—2:00 p.m. "World Book," "Childcraft" Alpena .... Mar. 3—^7:00 p.m. (Printing Pressmen) Buffalo .... Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. (Typographers, Bookbinders) Chicago .... Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. (Machinists, Stereotypers) Duluth Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Frankfort .. Mar. 3—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Dredge Section Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Chicago .... Mar. 11—7:30 p.m. Slatler tSault St, Marie Men's Shoes . . . Mar. 13—7:30 p.m. .farman, Johnson & Buffalo .... Mar. 12—7:30 p.m. Murphy, Crestworth, Duluth .... Mar. 14—7:30 p.m. (Hoot and Shoe Workers' Union) Cleveland .. Mar. 14—7:30 p.m., Toledo .... Mar. 14—7:30 p.m. Detroit .... Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. Boren Clay Products Co. Milwaukee . Mar. 10—7:30 p.m. (United Brick and Clay Workers) SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Mar. 11—5:00 p.m. "HIS" brand men's clothes Mobile .... Mar. 12—5:00 p.m. Kaynee Boyswear, Judy Bond Philadelphia Mar. 4—5:00 p.m. blouses, Hanes Knitwear, Randa Baltimore (licensed and un­ Ties, Boss Gloves, Richman licensed) . Mar. 5—5:00 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Norfolk .... Mar. 6—5:00 p.m. of America) Houston . . Mar. 10—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region Jamestown Sterling Corp. Philadelphia (United Furniture Workers) Mar. 11—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Baltimore —— Mar. 12—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. Richman Bros, and Sewell Suits, •Norfolk Wing Shirts Mar. 13—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Jersey City of America) Mar. 10—10 a.m. & 8 p.m. \1> <I> t Meeting held at Labor Temple, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. * Meeting held at Labor Temple, New­ port News, t Meeting held at Galveston wharves. FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU AtUntie, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes specific ptovision for safeguardinK the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected by the membership. All Union records are available at SIU heatiquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU AUantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accc>rdance with the provisiona of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees in charge of these funds shall equally consist of union and mansgement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The proper address for this is: Earl .Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite' 1980, New York 4, N. Y. Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract righte, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract righte prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article swving the political purposes of any individual in the Union officer or member. It baa also refrained from publishing artiues deemed harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This esteblished policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960, meetings in all institu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy te vested in an ^itorial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry out this responsibility. <1> Baltimore Luggage Co. Lady 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) <|> 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 All California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) <1> 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) Atlantic Products Sports Goods Owned by Ouett Peahody (Amalgamated Clothing Workers) 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 imyment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as deiJing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the nxembership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union pol­ icy of allowing ^em to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal righte in employment and as members of the SIU. These righte 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 righte to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic righte of Seafarers is the right to pursue legislative and political objectives which will serve the best interests of themselves, tneir faodlies 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 fe^ that any of the above righte have been violated, or that he has been dsnlod his constUntlonal right of access to Union records or in­ formation, he should immediately nettfy SIU President Paul Hall at headquarters by certified mail, return receipt requested. �SEAFARERS»LOG March 1, 1969 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION . ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT » AFL-CIO M>fne I ,• Phm _ J. Cf^ m EM ''I' Around table at payoff (l-r); Nick Kratsas, AB; Ray Perez, steward; Jim Garner, AS; Bob Davison, ship's delegate: Chas. Howell, AB; Salvatore Brunetti. AB and New York Patrolmen Ted Babkowski and Pete Drewes. One reason why the crew cheered the excellent job done by the steward department is shown in the group above, left to right: Miguel La Fon­ taine, chief cook; Fernando Zavallo, messman and Wm. Elvaro, steward. V_/' 1 El I #• vaC, Another section of the steward department, left to right: H. D. Laiche, cook; Emile Bourdeois, 3rd cook; E. D. Strait, baker and William Elvaro, steward. Laiche is checking evening meal before going ashore. Again the steward department, this time the younger set. Left to right, in rear, are: Mike Langford, messman; Russ Allen, saloon pantry, and Floyd Furr, pantry. Messman Jose Gonzalez is smiling Seafarer in front. m II i: k i A I- ta^ety •'l/ena ve-.e. aboard ezs ^ays ' � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 1, 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: AFL-CIO TO CO-OPERATE WITH NIXON PROVIDED CORRECT PROGRAMS ARE SET MTD’S EXEC. BOARD SEES NEW HOPE FOR STRONGER US MERCHANT FLEET MARAD ASKS US FLAG OPERATORS FOR 5 YEAR SHIP CONSTRUCTION PLANS US FLEET NEEDS MASSIVE REBUILDING IF MERCHANT MARINE IS TO SURVIVE GOVT TRUTH-IN-LENDING REGUKATIONS ISSUED TO MERCHANTS, MONEY LENDERS BOARD MEMBER SCORES PUBLICATIONS FOR SLANTED ANTI-NLRB PROPAGANDA HEALTH PROBLEMS OF US POOR ARE NATIONAL DISASTER RUNAWAY FIRMS HOPPING TO MEXICO AS US CITIES TOUT 30 CENT WAGE INCREASED SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS WOULD NOT INCREASE PAYROLL TAXES SEAFARER HERO WINS HIGHEST AWARD FOR GALLANT RESCUE OF FOUR AT SEA HOME AGAIN FROM VIETNAM 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 03/1/1969 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. 5 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log