http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/31cd554302572138f12aeae0b5d4b4bd.PDF c1c59fc9703e70214ffaedac15e89f42 PDF Text Text Vol. XXXI No, 12 SEAFARERS^#LOC : i OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC. GULF. LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Ff- m . s IP^ ^ •> S '•'*4 • . =5, •• / iV i '' -» /ju\-'/ »"*»/. - I f!«'>;4 I V».v.. •-»'»» v«y . ^ T^rs;-- '.--r-r. »- rn" " I V.l '1%^' .., -4 | .2», V . <,V /«.\rj^*V-^X v>^-, as^iiiT • IBI, i; vi'v- i .>41 >• 5-i!' I i-^'' \'i I ;®ppM �Page Two SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 Total Reaches 354 Five More Seafarers Earn Licenses At SlU Engineers Upgrading School Five more Seafarers from the engine department have been graduated from the School of Marine Engineering sponsored jointly by the SIU and MEBA District 2. All have earned their engineer's licenses following suc­ cessful completion of the com­ prehensive training program Dick Russo Kennedy offered by the school. There are now 354 Seafar­ ers who have completed the the seniority up-grading pro­ Anthony Joseph Russo, 44, School's course and have gone gram. A native of Puerto Rico, served in the engine department on to pass their Coast Guard make his home there with his Seafarer Bonafont continues to licensing examinations. wife, Evelyn. He joined the Un­ as an oiler before entering the James Richard Logan, 35, is ion in the Port of New York School of Engineering in June. a native New Yorker who now in 1961 and sailed in the engine He is a native of Jamestown, department as an FOWT prior New York, and now makes his to his enrollment in the School home in Chicago. Brother Russo of Engineering in June. Bona­ joined the Union in the Port font graduated with a Tempo­ of San Francisco in 1960. From rary Third Assistant Engineer's 1950 until 1957, he served in the Army. Seafarer Russo grad­ License on September 18. Aubrey Kennedy, Jr., 43, is uated from the School of Engi­ a native of Alabama who now neering on October 2 with a lives in Jay, Florida, with his Second Assistant Engineer's Li­ Bonafont Logan mother, Mattie. He joined the cense. All engine department Sea­ lives on Long Island with his SIU in the Port of Mobile in farers are eligible for any of the 1958 and sailed in the engine wife, Carol. He joined the SIU upgrading programs at the Un­ department as an FOWT before in the Port of New York in 1952 ion-sponsored School of Marine enrolling in the School of En­ and sailed in the engine depart­ Engineering, provided they are gineering in June. He graduated ment as an oiler before entering at least 19 years of age and have on September 23 with a Third the Engineering School in June. a minimum of 18 months of Assistant Engineer's License. On September 9 he received his Q.M.E.D. watchstanding time in Second Assistant Engineer's Li­ From 1944 until 1946, he served the engine department in addi­ in the Navy. cense. Carmelo Bonafont, 31, grad­ John Russell Dick, 42, en­ tion to at least six months ex­ uated from the Harry Lundeberg tered the School of Engineering perience as wiper or the equiva­ School of Seamanship in 1961 in June and graduated on Sep­ lent and in 1965 was graduated from tember 11 with a Temporary Any Seafarer who qualifies and wishes to enroll in the Third Assistant Engineer's Li­ school may obtain additional cense. He joined the SIU in the information and make applica­ Port of New York in 1969 and tion for enrollment at any SIU sailed in the engine department hall. Information can also be as an FOWT. A native of New obtained by writing to SIU York, he now lives in Brook­ headquarters, 675 Fourth Ave­ lyn with his wife, Mary. Sea­ nue, Brooklyn, New York farer Dick served in the Army 11232, or by telephoning the WASHINGTON—Helen De- from 1951 until 1953. school at (212) 499-6600. lich Bentley, long-time maritime editor of the Baltimore Sun, was unanimously confirmed by the Senate this month as a member of the Federal Maritime Com­ mission. As reported in the September tee has been meeting daily since With this action completed, issue of the Seafarers LOG, its election on the second deck her appointment to the chair­ Secretary-Treasurer A1 Kerr, in of the Headquarters building in manship of the commission by behalf of the Executive Board, Brooklyn. On numerous occa­ President Nixon was assured. presented to the September sions, officials and members of Mrs. Bentley, who fills the membership meetings of the the Union have met with the vacancy created by the recent constitutional ports a resolution committee to offer suggestions retirement of Admiral John to amend the SIU's Constitu­ as to what changes they thought Harllee, will serve the balance tion. The resolution as sub­ should be made in our Consti­ of his term, which runs through mitted, upon its concurrence, tution. June 30, 1970. The chairman­ called for a Constitutional Com­ Secretary-Treasurer Kerr, in ship had been filled on an in­ mittee consisting of six (6) book his October report to the mem­ terim basis by Commissioner members—two from each de­ bership, requested that those James F. Fanseen. partment—^to be elected in the members having suggestions as As FMC chairman, Mrs. Port of New York, Headquar­ to changes in the Constitution— Bentley will be one of the high­ ters, at a special meeting to be particularly those dealing with est ranking women appointed to held at 2:00 P.M. on September election procedure- or the fi­ a government post by the Nixon 22, 1969. The resolution was nances of the Union—present Administration. carried in the September meet­ them to the committee in the The official reappointment of ings of the constitutional ports. conference room on the second James V. Day to another five- Thereafter, at the special meet­ deck of the Headquarters build­ year term on the FMC was also ing held at Headquarters on ing. announced by the White House. September 22, the following six Secretary-Treasurer Kerr His previous term had expired (6) book members were elected: further recommended to the June 30 but he has continued to Deck Department: Daniel Dean, membership that the Constitu­ . serve on the commission, briefly b-70; Charles Boyle, B-958.En- tional Committee's report be gine Department: John Pasko, presented to the membership at as its acting chairman. Day, IK'ho is a Maine Repub­ P-666; John Dolan, D-124. special meetings to be held in lican, was one of the first ap­ Steward Department: Fazel All, the constitutional ports on Octo­ pointees to the FMC when it A-475; John Graddick, G-313. ber 22. (For the benefit of the was set up in 1962. The Constitutional Conunit- membership, you are requested Senate Confirms Helen D. Bentley As FMCMember Resolutions of MTD Back W]'de«R,^nge of Reforms ATLANTIC CITY—Delegates to the eighth Constitutional Con­ vention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, represent­ ing 42 AFL-CIO unions with a combined membership of 7.5 million workers, adopted a wide-range of resolutions aimed at the resurgence of the foundering U.S. maritime industry and urging progressive legislation to benefit the entire nation as a whole. The convention, chaired by MTD and SIUNA President Paul Hall, unanimously approved an omnibus resolution calling for long-overdue action to revitalize all elements of the nation's mari­ time program-Mleep-sea, Great Lakes and inland waterways shipping, shipbuilding, fishing, and oceanography. The MIT) warned against any piecemeal approach to the various problems of the merchant marine, declaring that it is essential to "move for­ ward on a'broad front in developing a total maritime industry." Re-establishment of the Maritime Administration as an independ­ ent federal agency was strongly urged. In order to combat the runaway-flag shipping problem the MTD called on the federal government to renounce the policy of "effec­ tive control," and revoke the de facto subsidy granted oppor­ tunistic shipowners and their foreign-flag ships. The delegates strongly supported the imposition of taxes, either on the American companies which put their ships under foreign-flags, or on the cargoes these vessels carry, to take the profit out of runaway-flag operations. Congress was called on to rescue the Great Lakes fleet from extinction by providing adequate funds for construction, conver­ sion, reconditioning and/or modernization of that fleet and to grant operating subsidies similar to those accorded shipping lines in overseas trade routes. In recognition of the fact that the Russian merchant fleet is steadily increasing as the United States fleet decreases, the dele­ gates called for an active program of shipbuilding and ship develop­ ment to combat the Soviet menace on the high seas which threatens our commerce and national defense. The convention condemned tax-dodging attempts to build American ships with foreign steel and foreign components, there­ by costing U.S. workmen countless thousands of man hours of legitimate work. Vigorous support was registered for the SIUNA Affiliated Staff Officers' Association of America's continuingly vital program to train Purser Pharmacist Mates to provide shipboard medical care for merchant seamen. Appropriate Senate and House committees were called ufwn to hold public hearings into the closing of Public Health Service hospitals with a view toward enactment of legislation preventing arbitrary and capricious decisions by the Executive Branch of government to deny to American seamen their elemental right to high quality medical care. To combat the problems of the United States fishing and fishcanning industries, the MTD reaffirmed its determination to arouse the support of the public so that the long-overdue revitaliza(Continued on Page Ei^) ' »*• -J -.1 . 11 '•I SIU Constitutional Committee Preparing Report to check the bulletin board in exact dates of the membership the constitutional port you are referendum will be a part of the in for the exact time of the Octo­ Constitutional Committee's re­ ber 22 special meeting in that port that is acted on at the spe­ cial October 22 meetings re­ port.) If at the special meetings to ferred to above. The membership of the Un­ be held on October 22, the membership concurs in the Con­ ion is again encouraged to sub­ stitutional Committee's report mit to the Constitutional Com­ and recomtpendations, it will mittee any suggestions you may thereafter \ i submitted to a have as to changes in our Con­ membership referendum. The stitution. it '1 . i. -• - • • • I;. r An SIU Constitutional Committee, consisting of two book members from each department, was elected at a special meeting in the Port of New York Sept. 22. Elected were (L-R): Deck: D. Dean, C. Boyle; Engine: J. Dolan, J. Pasko; Steward: F. ~Ali, J. Graddick. 1i �October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Three Theme Keyed to Nation's Needs AFl'CIO Convention Sets Course For Challenges of '70s ATLANTIC CITY—The AFL-CIO headed into the 1970s prepared to meet the challenges of a new decade with a program key«<! to the needs of the country and a strong and expanding trade union move­ ment. The federation's eighth con­ vention took a look at the 1960s and reviewed the great and tragic events. But its concern was with the Seventies and was perhaps best voiced by AFLCIO President George Meany when he restated his keynote theme after his re-election to his eighth term: "We have come a long way but we still have a long way to go." In his speech to the opening session of the convention, Meany charged that the Admin­ istration's economic and legisla­ tive policies are threatening to bring on serious unemployment and are critically reducing im­ portant economic and social programs. Meany reviewed the events of the past two years, the develaiew66-in Washington in the past nine months and declared: "We intend to stay in busi­ ness, we do not propose to ac­ cept the proposition that the working people of this country no longer merit full and fair consideration in the resolution of all issues affecting them, and that includes all the pressing issues of the day—tax reform, interest rate, inflation, urban problems, education, civil rights, the whole works." He. told the approximately 900 delegates in the Traymore Hotel convention hall that "no organization in America" other than the AFL-CIO "encom­ passes such a broad range of commitments and no other or­ ganization pursues these com­ mitments with a greater respon­ sibility and consideration for the welfare of the nation as a whole." The AFL-CIO is heading into the Seventies wlff?' ii hew secre­ tary-treasurer, Lane Kirkland, unanimously elected for his first full term, and an expanded Ex­ ecutive Council of 35 members. The convention added six new vice presidencies in a constitu­ tional change and three mem­ bers of the council stepped down, bringing a total of nine new vice presidents to the feder­ ation's top governing body be­ tween conventibns. To assure the integrity of the federation and its aflKliates from dual, rival, raiding organiza­ tions the delegates voted by a 50 to 1 margin on a rollcall vote to expel the Chemical Workers, declaring that the union's affilia­ tion with the Alliance for Labor Action did violence to AFL- CIO objectives and principles. Elections Pose Early Test One of the first challenges of the Seventies—^the 1970 congfes'sional elections—received major attention from the nearly 900 delegates who heard Meany pledge no retreat in the struggle for social gains and voted a series of resolutions carefully s[>elling out differences with the Administration on an issue-byissue basis. They voted support of the President on his efforts to end the Viet Nam war through ne­ gotiations for an honorable peace and heard Defense Sec­ retary Melvin Laird spell out that policy. They heard also from Labor Secretary George P. Schultz on the Administra­ tion's economic policies and from Federal Mediation Direc­ tor J. Curtis Counts on trends in labor-management disputes. In the critical area of ending discrimination across the board, the delegates cheered Bayard Rustin as he assailed Adminis­ tration ^cNH^to slow down in­ tegration in some areas while espousing policies to divide black and white workers and di­ verting them from the necessity of securing jobs, housing, edu­ cation for every American. The delegates and hundreds of guests came to their feet cheering for Israeli Prime Min­ ister Golda Meir who spelled out Israel's case for survival in simple, trade union terms and recalled the close, historic ties of the AFL-CIO and Histadrut, the Israeli Federation of Labor. The 1970 elections were put into perspective also by former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey who spelled out a point-by-point indictment of the (Contiimed on Page Six) Af Eighth Convention MTD Optimistic on Administration's Maritime Pledge ATLANTIC CITY — Orga­ nized labor has set its sights on enactment of a sweeping over­ haul of the nation's maritime laws. This theme emerged from the 8th Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, held here on the eve of White House announce­ ment of a merchant marine pro­ gram geared to the challenge of the 70's. The 45-member Executive Board of the Department, head­ ed by SIU and MTD President Paul Hall, voiced optimism in its report to the 225 assembled delegates that long-overdue re­ forms in the nation's maritime laws would soon be enacted. This optimism, the MTD Board said, was based on a "specific and" definite" promise by the Nixon Administration. It noted, however, that the Administra­ tion program still has not been announced and pledged that the MTD would work "to make certain" that any program which finally becomes law will be "based on fair play for all seg­ ments of this industry—not just a favored few." Convention delegates—^repre­ senting 7.5 million American workers in 42 national and in­ ternational unions concerned with shipping, shipbuilding and allied industries—^took resolved action on all existing maritime problems, from the need for a positive program at home to the growing threat of Soviet seapower and the continued eco­ nomic drain on the U.S. econ­ omy caused runaway-flag shipping. The convention also dealt with a wide range of domestic issues, including the need fm* overhaul of the nation's tax structure to provide economic justice to low- and middleincome wage earners, the grow­ ing propaganda barrage aimed at organized labor by right-wing forces, the need for economic actions to make civil rights meaningful in the United States, and the urgency for action in such areas as housing, educa­ tion, poverty and hunger in America. Typical of the more immedi­ ate domestic issues facing the trade union movement in Amer­ ica today is the nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Although narrowly approved by the Senate Judiciary Com­ mittee since the MTD conven­ tion adjourned, Haynsworth still faces increasin^y strong opposition on the Senate floor which may yet prevent his con­ firmation to the high coiut.) Speaking to the MTD dele­ gates on the opening day of the convention, AFL-CIO President George Meany said Haynsworth was "completely out of line in his philosophy" on labor and civil rights issues, and added that the South Carolina jurist "has not displayed the ethical standards that the American people have the right to expect from a person sitting on the Su­ preme Court." Meany's attack on the nom­ inee came on the heels of con­ vention action in which dele­ gates unanimously approved a resolution asking that Hayns­ worth either step aside volun­ tarily or that President Nixon withdraw his name from ctmsideration, to "safeguard our ju­ dicial system." Copies of the resolution were dispatched to all Senators who were asked to reject the nom­ ination if neither Haynsworth nor Nixon acts voluntarily on this issue. In his speech, Meany cited MTD and SIU President Paul Hall introduces Representative Edward A. Sarmatz (D-Md.), right, who was prominent speaker at Convention. Garmatz told delegates that "Congress would not wait much longer" for Administration's maritime program. Exec. Secretary-Treasurer Peter M. McGavin of MTD is in center. statements made last year by Senators Paul J. Fannin (RAriz.), Jack Miller (R-Ia.), Rob­ ert GrifSn (R-Mich.) and Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) all of whom had opposed the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas as chief jus­ tice. All four had said, in es­ sence, that the appearance of impropriety in a court appointee was as damaging as impropriety, itself. Said Meany: "I think we can rest our case against Judge Haynsworth on the remarks of these very dis­ tinguished members of the U.S. Senate. I don't know whether they still hold those positions. They may have changed their mind in a year or so, but they did at least have this position... in the case of Justice Fortas. We will, of course, be watching with great interest their actions." Concerning problems more directly affecting the merchant marine, the Nixon Administra­ tion came under strong fire from Senator Harrison A. Williams (D-N.J.) for its failure to cmne forward with the maritime pro­ gram promised a year ago. "The country waits and waits for action to back up the prom­ ise," Williams said, warning that, if necessary, legislative ac­ tion would take the place of "executive apathy." The Senator called for action that would balance the nation's maritime program more equitably'between the one-third of the industry that is subsidized and tne two-thirds that is unsubsidized, and the boosting of the tonnage carried on U.S.-flag vessels. At present, American ships carry only five percent of the nation's import-export cargo. Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee, also expressed con­ cern about the Administration's failure to make public maritime recommendations promised dur­ ing the 1968 campaign. "We still are getting word from Administration leaders that such a program is coming, but the target date keeps get­ ting pushed back, and back, and back," he said. "I hope the Ad­ ministration does produce a pro­ gram. If it does, and if it is a good program, it will have my committee's support." Garmatz served notice on the Administration that "Congress will not wait much longer" for a program from the White House, and would produce its own legislation if that becomes necessary. "This is no empty promise," the Congressman de­ clared. "The objectives are clear: More American cargoes in more American ships. The will of Congress to act is clear ... the honeymoon for the Ad­ ministration is over." Senator Qrarles E. Goodell (R-N.Y.) told the convention delegates that the reconstitution of the Maritime Administration as an independent federal agency was essential to the "re(Coatimwd on Page Six) �Pag« Four SEAFARERS Oetober, 1969 LOG AFL-CIO Legal Study Shows: Justiie Dept. Used Double Standard in Whitewash Letter on Haynsworth WASHINGTON — A Su­ preme Court decision last year set a conflict of interest standard that bears directly on the dis­ pute over the judicial ethics of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. An AFL-CIO legal analysis cited the decision in response to a Justice Department letter ab­ solving Haynsworth of impro­ priety in an important labor case involving the Deering Milliken textile chain. The Justice Department said there was no reason for Hayns­ worth to disqualify himself be­ cause a company he served as an officer and director did a $100,000-a-year business with Deering Milliken textile plants. The Justice Department letter did not comment on the fact that Haynsworth did not dis­ close his business connection when the case was before his court. Two Supreme Court decisions were quoted by the AFL-CIO in its refutation of the Justice Department position. One stressed that even if there is no actual bias on the part of a judge, "justice must satisfy the appearance of jus­ tice." In the other decision, cited as a close parallel to the Hayns­ worth case, the Supreme Court overturned an arbitration award because the arbitrator had oc­ casional business dealings with one of the parties to the case. These amounted to only $12,000 in engineering consultant fees over a period of four or five years—a considerably smaller amount than the dollar involve­ ment of Haynsworth's Carolina Vend-A-Matic Corp. with Deer­ ing Milliken plants. But the Supreme Court—^to ' which Haynsworth has been nomiijj^gjj;—set aside the award because the arbitrator had not followed "the simple require­ ment that arbitrators disclose to the parties any dealings that might create an impression of possible bias." By ignoring this pertinent de­ cision, the AFL-CIO charged the Justice Department letter is exposed not as "an even-handed statement of the law" but as a defense of Haynsworth "pro­ ceeding from the assumption that it is sufficient for a judge's actions to meet the rou^ and ready standard of the market­ place" even if it falls short of the higher standards of judicial ethics. And as for the purported ignorance of Deering Milliken officials of Haynsworth's con­ nections with the vending ma­ chine firm and of the judge's claimed uninvolvenient in the deaths of the business, the AFLCIO commented: "In light of the facts that the general manager of Carolina Vend-A-Matic was a former official of Judson Mill, a Deer­ ing Milliken operation which utilized the services of Judge Haynsworth's law firm; that Judge Haynsworth's wife was the secretary of the company; and that the judge was listed as its first vice president and a director, these statements strain belief." Elliot Bredhoff, general coun­ sel for the AFL-CIO Industrial Union Department, also cited the 1968 Supreme Court deci­ sion as directly applicable to the Haynsworth case. In testimony prepared for the Senate Judiciary Committee, he noted that Haynsworth's law firm at the time he was still the senior partner, had represented a major Deering Milliken mill. "Solely on the basis of this," Bredhoff suggested, "Judge Haynsworth should have dis­ qualified himself." By contrast, Bredhoff noted that his own former senior law partner, Arthur J. Goldberg, dis­ qualified himself from the very same case when it reached the Supreme Court. The reason that Goldberg— then a Supreme Court Justice —did not take part in the case, Bredhoff said, is that "many years before, his former law firm had handled unrelated liti­ gation for the Textile Workers Union," one of the parties to the case. SlU WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION PLANS Cash Banefits Paid Report Period: August 1—August 31, 1969 Number off Benoflls SEAFARERS' WELFARE PLAN Schoiarship Hospitai Benefits Death Benefits Medicare Benefits Maternity Benefits Medicai Examination Program Dependent Benefits (Average $474.43) Optical Benefits Meai Book Benefits Gut-Potients Benefits SUMMARY OF WELFARE BENEFITS PAID SEAFARERS' PENSION PLANBENEFITS PAID SEAFARBtS' VACATION PLANBENffiTS PAID (Average $415.04) TOTAL WELFARE, PENSION & VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD — 2,513 26 484 22 Amount Paid $ — 59,364.81 72,523.00 1,934.00 4,400.00 496 14,953.95 2,069 813 91 4,769 98,159.48 10,616.76 911.00 37,544.00 11,283 300,407.00 1,405 324,600.00 1,636 678,999.06 14,324 $1,304,006.06 «"• Carey Sees Threat to U.S. Serarity In Crowing Soviet Merrhant Fleet WASHINGTON—The So­ viet Union is not only outpro­ ducing the United States in mer­ chant ships by more than 2,200 percent; the Russians are also invading and capturing interna­ tional trade to a degree that en­ dangers American commerce and national security. This wdming was issued re­ cently by Representative Hugh L. Carey (D-N.Y.) to a meeting of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, which rep­ resents 42 unions with 7.5 mil­ lion members in shipping, ship­ building and related trades. The Russian threat, the New York Congressman declared, means that the Soviet Union is Cause for Celebration Before handing six SlU veterans their first pension checks at the October membership meeting at headquarters, SlU Vice President Earl (Bull) Shepard (right) had a special announcement to make. Uldarico Merjudio, whose shoulder Shepard is clasping, will become a proud father in May, at the age of 72. Brother Merjudio, who sailed as a steward, met his wife two years ago at a party given by his cousin. Seafarer Merjudio joined the SlU in the Port of New York in 1943. Pensioners are (from left): Joe Parcolla, Anargyros Dokeris, Conrado Navarra, Frank Moran, Merjudio and Hezekiah Donovan. "seeking to dominate the oceans of the world and will be satis­ fied by nothing less than driv­ ing the U.S. and other coun­ tries from the high seas." As the Soviet fleet continues to grow, he said, it will become an in­ creasing menace not only to the U.S. maritime industry but to the American economy itself. Carey offered the following contrasting figures on the Rus­ sian and American merchant fleets: "• Of the major maritime na­ tions of the world, the U.S. was the only country to show a de­ cline in its merchant marine in 1968, while the Soviet fleet was rapidly enlarging. .• The Russian fleet now stands at 12 million tons and the Soviet's program to have 20 mil­ lion tons at sea next year is running ahead of schedule. The U.S. privately-owned fleet, by comparison, is 15 million tons and declining. • Last year 21 merchant ships were built in the U.S. but during that year 17 ships were transferred to foreign flags, leaving a net gain of four. The Soviet Union produced a total of 89 merchant vessels. Only two ships were transferred away from the hanuner-and-sickle flag, both to North Korea. Thus for 1968 the U.S. had a net gain of four merchant ships, the Russians gained 87. • Early in 1969 the Soviet Union had 465 merchant ves­ sels under construction or on order; the U.S. total was 63. Carey called for "a crash pro­ gram to meet today's needs— needs which are assuming emer­ gency proportions in the light of the Soviet drive for world sea supremacy. We need a longrange, comprehensive program, something that spells our com­ mitment to building a new fleet and keeping it strong." i In this way, the Congress­ man said, "we will be able to wkhstand today's Soviet threat on the seas, and we will be bet­ ter equipped to meet whatever other CQmpetition may surface in the future." Bethlehem Steel Plans Giant Basin At Sparrows Point SPARROWS POINT, Md.— A $15-million "super basin for supertankers" will soon be built for the Bethlehem Steel Corpo­ ration's shipyard here. Planned for completion by the end of 1970, the new facility will be capable of handling tankers larger"" than 200,000 deadweight tons. The basin will be more than 1,000 feet long and have a width greater than that of any vessel ever built to date. It will be one of the larg­ est of its kind in the world. According to Edmund F. Martin, chairman of Bethlehem Steel, the company envisions tankers of up to 500,000 dead­ weight tons in the future. The huge graving dock will enable the company "to participate in the market we foresee for the next 10 years." The new graving basin will not be equipped with ways. In­ stead, it will be flooded—drydock style—^whenever construc­ tion of a vessel is completed. Five major launching ways, ca­ pable of handling vessels up to 830 feet in length, are currently in use at Sparrows Point. The Sparrows Point yard is also undergoing other expansion —including two multimilliondollar building in-ograms. A 90 by 750-foot-long panel shop is being buUt to handle new meth­ ods of ship constniction. •J �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Five LOG 5/C0K4, MTD Demand End to PHS Hospital Shutdowns WASHINGTON — The SIUNA and the AFL-aO Maritime Trades Department, stepping up the tempo of their continuing battle to sa^guard the health of the nation s mer­ chant seamen, have called on Congress to put an end to the government's systematic shut­ down of the network of Public Health hospitals. ' The fight was carried to the powerful Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee by O, William Moody, Jr., admin­ istrator of the 7.5-million-member MTD, and Fred J. Famen, secretary-treasurer of the SIUNA's Great Ei^'-es District. At issue was the recent clos­ ing of the PHS hospitals in De­ troit, Mich., and Savannah, Ga. —the two latest hospitals to be closed down in a continuing undercutting of the mariners' hospital system, which has been reduced from 23 installations in 1949 to only eight hospitals today. "The Department of Health, Education and Welfare and its Public Health Service," Moody told the Senate committee at public hearings, "have been con­ sciously sabotaging the mandate of the Congress to provide med­ ical and surgical care to our merchant seamen, commercial fishermen and active-duty Coast Guardsmen." Yarborough adds Support The SIUNA charge won a quick response from Senator Ralph Yarborough (D-Tex.), committee chairman, who in­ structed the committee staff to prepare telegrams to HEW and the Bureau of the Budget, de­ manding the "immediate reopen­ ing" of the Detroit and Savan­ nah facilities. Giving the SIUNA-MTD testimony his enthusiastic en­ dorsement, Yarborough went on to urge Moody to follow up the appearance with a letter to Pres­ ident Nixon. He suggested that the letter to the White House include the call, in the labor testimony, for "a clear and un­ mistakable long-range commit­ ment by the Administration to the concept and the practice of making Public Health Service hospitals the models for all fu­ ture hospital facilities." The Union's testimony fo­ cused on the urgent need for adequate health facilities to care for seafarers, pointing out that for nearly two centuries the gov­ ernment has recognized its re­ sponsibility to provide such fa­ cilities. "Merchant seamen," he em­ phasized, "must work, for the most part without the availabili­ ty of medical care and treatment while on the job at sea. Their work is transient. They cannot telephone their family doctor who, because of close and long relationship, can make a tele­ phone diagnosis and prescribe medication for many run-of-themill ills. There is no corner drugstore to fill the prescription . . . Except in the most extreme emergencies, illness and inju­ ries await the arrival in port of the patient." Upon arrival at the hospital. Moody told the Senators, the seafarer needs immediate care. If he must wait days or weeks to be admitted for non-emer­ gency, but essential, treatment at an already overcrowded pub­ lic or private community facil­ ity, he is lost to the industry during that period. "Unlike other workers," Moody said, "he cannot stay on the job while awaiting admittance. He cannot ship out without a 'fitfor-duty' slip obtained from an authorized Public Health Serv­ ice physician." Other Detroit area hospitals, to which seafarers are now taken, are reported to have an occupancy of 80 per cent. "But any Detroiter can tell you," the MTD official testified, "that this average means that many times there is over ICQ percent occu­ pancy—and the seafarer can­ not pick and choose his time. He cannot instruct the captain of his vessel to arrive in port only when occupancy is below average. After protracted per­ iods at sea, these men need immediate, available and^ acces­ sible medical and hospital care." Moody contended "it has been budget pressure, rather than effective medical care pres­ sure, that is responsible for the closing of two out of every three PHS hospitals that were in use 20 years ago." Yarborough agreed with Moody that the closings were unjustified ,and commented: "There seems to be a deliberate pattern of attempts to deny mer­ chant seamen their rights under the law to Public Health Serv­ ice care. They closed the De­ troit hospital before Congress could hold hearings, even before Congress could find out about the closing." The Senator added: "Any proposal to send merchant seamen to Veterans Hospitals is a major mistake; the Veterans Hospitals are overcrowded." Moody foreeast that the Seat­ tle Public Health Service Hos­ pital would be the next to be arbitrarily closed. The pattern, said Moody, will follow that established with Detroit and Savannah. "The steps can be predicted," he testified. "First, a budgetary freeze; second, loss of technical and medical personnel; third, patients turned away because of lack of facilities; fourth, a de­ cline in the quality of care; and finally, the Public Health Serv­ ice determines that because these events took place, it will be 'no longer possible to offer at the Seattle Hospital the full scope and quality of services to which the Public Health Serv­ ice beneficiaries are entitled.'" PHS Hospitals Excellent Praising the quality of medi­ cal care and treatment in PHS hospitals as "excellent," the SIUNA-MTD spokesmen de­ plored "the utter incongruity of liquidating established federal medical hospitals universally respected for their high quality, comprehensive medical care and treatment, research and clinical facilities at a time when our country has such a tremendous need for expanded medical care, increased hospital and clinical facilities." Several Senators commented that this point of Moody's was supported by repeated an­ nouncements that the Adminis­ tration plans to propose a leg­ islative program designed to greatly enlarge the American merchant marine. "It is almost imcomprehensible," Moody continued, "that at a time when the health and hospital needs of this country are so apparent—that an arm of the federal government would be taking out of service these essential facilities. We are not insisting that Seafarers have ex­ clusive use of PHS facilities. In fact, while maintaining the pri­ ority given to our members by Congress, we are recommend­ ing that PHS hospitals be given a new and enlarged role in the world of medicine and medical care. These hospitals should be the pioneers in new and vision­ ary techniques. They should be the innovators, the breakers of tradition." Again Senator Yarborough agreed. "This question," he said, "has broadened out beyond the merchant seamen to a concern of the whole nation and the na­ tional cause of better health care. This should be a time of expanding and improving public health facilities, not curtailing them. This Administration seems to be afraid the Ameri­ can people might enjoy better health." Measure Goes to White House 1970 Maritime Authorization Bill Passes House With Senate ttaages WASHINGTON—House passage of a slightly revised Sen­ ate version of the maritime au­ thorization bill for 1970 last month sent the measure to the White House for Presidential action. Termed a "stop-gap measure" by Representative Edward A. Garmatz (D-Md.), chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, the bill, H.R. 4152, authorizes a $384.6 New Full Book Members—October 1969 SIU Vice President Ear! Shepard swears in the October class of Advanced Seamen at the regu­ lar monthly meeting in New York. Proudly displaying their newly-issued full books are (l-r front) W. Statzer, T. Reim, J. Schlein, T. Peterson, C. Clemens and M. Carroll. In back: H. Bar­ low, L Hall, L. Christmas, J. Jackson, T. Kelley and H. Levine. million program for the Mari­ time Administration for the coming fiscal year. Submission of a comprehensive revitalization program for the merchant marine by President Nixon was still expected at any time. Included in the passed bill is authorization of $145 million for ship construction subsidies —an increase of some $129.1 million over the $15.9 million alloted for this purpose in the Nixon budget. This, when added to $101 million in carryover funds unspent from last year's maritime appropriations, is esti­ mated to be sufficient to help build up to 22 new cargo ships. During the House hearings in May, Chairman Garmatz called the $145 million figure "the bare minimum" needed if the nation is to undertake a return to its former status ar a leading world maritime power. In the current discussion on the floor of the House, Garmatz pointed out that, not only are Nixon's revitalization proposals yet to be seen, but even were they presented to the Congress at this time and passed promptly, it would take two to three years before the first dollar could be spent. "We must begin an adequate building program this year to bridge the gap until the longrange program is produced," Garmatz declared. The authorization measure earmarks the sum of $212 mil­ lion for operating differential subsidies. Among the revisions made by the Senate in the orig­ inal House bill were a decrease in authorization for research and development funds from $15 million to $12 million, ac­ companied by an increase of $2.27 million in the amount al­ lotted for state maritime schools. Garmatz explained that the state schools funding would permit the establishment and operation of a merchant marine school on the Great Lakes. Appropriations are the next step. A measure incorporating the authorized funds in the form of actual appropriations will have to be passed by both houses of Congress before the 1970 program can be imple­ mented by the Maritime Admin­ istration. Nevertheless, several recent developments have raised hopes in maritime circles that the de­ cline of the merchant marine may finally be reversed. Among these was the recent voting of a $940 million increase in Navy shipbuilding funds—raising the total to $3.5 billion—by the House Armed Services Commit­ tee. This was seen as one of several indications that the Nixon Administration is pre­ pared to relax its tight budget policy, at least in selected areas. �Page Six SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 MTD Convention Optimistic on Administration Action on Maritime (Continued from page 3) construction and recovery" of the merchant marine. He noted that the bill was "overwhelm­ ingly approved last year by both Houses of Congress, but was killed by a pocket veto." Senator Joseph M. Montoya (D-N.M.) and Representative James M. Howard (D-N.J.) both hit out sharply at the loopholes through which Americap corpo­ rations are escaping ta.xation by registering and crewing their ships abroad. Archibald E. King, chairman of the SlU-contracted Isthmian Lines, Inc., sharply criticized the attitude of the government toward the one-third of the in­ dustry which receives operating and construction subsidies, and the two-thirds of the industry which operates exclusively on private capital. "Whether intentional or not," King said, "various government agencies encourage subsidized lilies to direct their competition against American-flag non-sub­ sidized lines. They obtain some­ what lower rates made possible by subsidy support and they pro­ claim a saving in transportation costs for their department. What they have really done is en­ gaged in a scandalous waste of U.S. government money . .. and they have flouted Congress while doing it" Directing his remarks specifi- commodities carried by a string caliy to the unconscionable cur­ of barges" and pose the danger tailment of services by U.S. Pub­ of "a retardation in this indus­ lic Health Service hospitals, Sen­ try. . . ." The convention also strongly ator Ralph W. Yarborougji (DTex.) reminded the delegates protested the denial to the 2.7 that the federal government has, million American citizens in since 1798, "had a statutory ob­ Puerto Rico of the right to vote ligation to the American seaman in presidential elections. Unani­ to make available to him a pro­ mous convention action came gram of medical care and treat­ after delegates heard pleas for ment made necessary by the pe­ fair play and justice from three culiar nature of his employ­ representatives of the Puerto SI UNA Vice President Steve Edney, who heads United Cannery and Rican government — Governor Industrial Workers of the Pacific, discusses dying fish industry .with ment." Senator John O. Pastore (D- Luis A. Ferre, Resident Com­ Neil Gilbride, left, of the Associated Press and Damon Stetson of R.I.), noting that the "two na­ missioner Jorge L. Cordova the New York Times. Program, sponsored by the AFL-CIO, is broad­ tions we defeated in World War Diaz, and San Juan Mayor Car­ cast on Tuesdays, at 7:35 p.m. on the Mutual Broadcasting System; 11" — Japan and Germany — los Romero Barcelo. The res­ have since outdistanced the olution said that the voting right Edney Calls for Federal Aid: United States in shipbuilding should be extended "in recogni­ capability and production, said tion of the contribution made to this nation must "start thinking" our nation by our fellow citi­ about its own overall maritime zens from Puerto Rico." Other distinguished guests position. Although we must who addressed the MTD's threestart "doing things for our­ selves," the Rhode Island law­ day convention included: Sena­ maker declared, "federal assist­ tor Frank E. Moss (D-Utah), He called for better conserva­ ATLANTIC CITY—SIUNA ance" remains a necessity where Senator Gale W. McGee (D- Vice-President Steve Edney has tion agreements among nations. Wyo.), AFL-CIO Secretaryshipbuilding is concerned. Treasurer Lane Kirkland, Gov­ charged that "indifference and He said that foreign fishing Delegates' recognition of— neglect" by both government fleets, not as closely restricted and concern about— the threat ernor Richard J. Hughes of New and private interests have trig­ on gear and methods as U.S. to the barge industry that would Jersey, Mayor James Tate of gered the rapid decline of the fishermen, "sweep the bottom be posed by the Administra­ Philadelphia, Navy League of clean," catching many immature U.S. fishing industry. tion's projected user tax was the United States President Stressing that U.S. fish con­ and unwanted fish. He said that shared by Senator Albert Gore James M. Hannan, Federal sumption rose 23 percent last such unrestricted fishing can (D-Tenn.). He declared that Maritime Commissioner George year, but more than 76 percent "lead to the further decline" of such a tax—as proposed by the Hearn, Director J. Curtis Counts of the products consumed were this most important natural re­ Interstate Commerce Commis­ of the Federal Mediation and imported, Edney, President of source. sion—would amount to "artifi­ Conciliation Service, and Dr. the SIUNA Cannery and Indus­ The union official said that cial restraints on the number of Robert A. Kilmarx of the Cen­ trial Workers in Los Angeles, few young people are interested ter for Strategic and Internacalled for federal assistance for in entering the fishing industry tion^ Studies at Georgetown the sagging fishing industry. today. "When you have hard University. "What would the avera^ times in any industry," he noted, Membership growth in the MTD over the past two years American think if we had to "people think twice before they was 25 percent, according to import 70 percent of our agri­ invest their lives in it." the Department's officers' report cultural products?" he asked. But, he added, federal assist­ "We would say this is a sad state ance to fishing, as is done for The breakthroughs and the presented to the convention. In summing up the compre­ of affairs . . . Yet, this is true difficulties in the latter areas agriculture, could "revitalize the in the fishing industry." were documented in a dramatic hensive report presented to as­ Edney said that Russian, Jap­ industry so that people can appearance before the conven- sembled delegates. President anese and Polish fishermen, "ap­ make a living," and "many peo­ vention of Mary Moultrie, presi­ Hall said that the period since parently having fished out their ple will come back into it." dent of the Charleston, S.C., the 1967 biennial convention of own banks, are now moving in Government subsidy would also hospital workers' local of the the MTD "has been one of great on ours," while U.S. fishing and productivity." activity help attract badly needed private Retail, Wholesale and Dept. boats are "rotting at the dock" capital into fishing, he added. "It has;" Hall said, "set the Store Union, who was jailed for and many fishermen have been Questioning Edney on Labor defying an injunction limiting stage for the continued growth without work for months. and development of this Con­ News Conference, recorded at picketing. She recounted the Edney appeared on the net­ battle to establish the union and stitutional Department of the Atlantic City during the AFLnational labor federation . . . work radio interview Labor how a united labor movement CIO convention, were Damon which will make it possible for News Conference, broadcast threw its full strength behind Tuesdays, at 7:35 p.m., EDT, Stetson of the New York Times the hospital workers to secure the MTD to face the exciting and challenging times which lie on the Mutual Broadcasting and Neil Gilbride of the Associ­ victory. ated Press. ahead." System. The convention took note also of the creation of two new AFL-CIO organizations since the last sessions in 1967—the GENOA, Italy—SIU Vice provide seamen and their fam­ while in foreign ports, as well Human Resources Development Institute to coordinate the activ­ President Earl (Bull) Shepard ilies with the security necessary as steps to improve "moral pro­ ities of unions in manpower was a representative here last in this era of modem transporta­ tection" for young seafarers in port. training programs and pioneer month of the American mer­ tion. new approaches, and the AFL- chant marine and of AFL-CIO Specific areas earmarked by For the overall better protec­ CIO Labor Studies Center President George Meany at an the conferees for further study tion of seamen in a day and age where special institutes in staff international maritime confer­ included: minimum wages, sea­ of technological change which training and other educational ence. men's welfare, technological de­ calls for review of skills, safety activities will get under way in velopment aboard ship, voca­ regulations, training and welfare The conference, sponsored by December. the International Labor Orga­ tional training, accident preven= programs, etc., the conference There was also the immedi­ nization (ILO), brou^t together tion and crew accommodations suggested that a new convention acy of blocking the nomination union and management officials both at sea and in port. to establish manpower plans for of Judge Clement F. Hayns- front 32 seafaring nations for The conference recommended the merchant shipping industry worth, Jr., to the U.S. Supreme the purpose of suggesting ways that the b^ic international mini- be created. Court, the need to secure mean­ and means to improve the mjuni wage for seamen be raised All projected proposals and ingful tax reform in the Senate, working conditions for seamen from $70 a month to $91 recommendations of the confer­ the Farm Workers' grape boy­ throughout the world. monthly and that greater guar­ cott campaign and efforts to One of the chief concerns of antees for job security be sought. ence will be presented to the an­ prevent the Administration from the conference was the develop­ Other recommendations nual convention of the ILO for ducking out on prosecution of ment of uniform standards that called for improved recreational consideration when it convenes auto manufacturers in an air would both attract new people facilities and other cultural op­ in Geneva, Switzerland in Octo­ pollution conspiracy case. into the maritime industry and portunities for merchant seamen ber of 1970. fi' Decline of Fishing Industry Laid to Indifference, Neglect AFL-CIO Delegates Get Set To Combat Challenging 70s (Continued from page 3) Administration as he called for a renewed drive for liberal, pro­ gressive programs. And indicative of the phys­ ical challenge of the new dec­ ade was the greeting given Col. • Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., the first union man to walk on the moon, who thanked the nation's work­ ers for their skills and tax dol­ lars and brought the miracle of space exploration a bit closer to understanding. The AFL-CIO program for the 1970s was spelled out in more than 100 resolutions adopted by the delegates out of a mass of 274 presented to the Resolutions and other commit­ tees. They covered every aspect of American life with a heavy emphasis on programs and poli­ cies, on the crisis in the cities, the danger of recession and growing unemployment, bring­ ing the poor and minority groups into the mainstream of American life, the need to im­ prove the quality of life and the environment in which it is lived. There was a growing con­ cern also with international trade policies, the trend toward economic concentration and mergers and the continuing, never-ending work of the trade union movement—organizing the unorganized and stepping up and expandihg collective bar­ gaining. Shepard Attends ILO Maritime Conference ti �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Page Seven LOG Jennie Rizzute, Lady SlU Pensioner, Visit to Headquarters w t'VJ BROOKLYN—The pleasant working in a U.S. Army officers' faced, bespectacled woman mess. stood in the center of a group Soon thereafter, Jennie joined of Seafarers fielding their ques­ the SIU in the port of New tions with the aplomb of a Orleans and began the period Willie Mays. she refers to "as the happiest The scene was-at SIU head­ days of my life." Jennie loved quarters here immediately after meeting new and interesting the September membership people and visiting such coun­ meeting and the object of all tries as Puerto Rico, Brazil and this attention was Jennie Riz­ Argentina. She still corresponds zuto, a former stewardess who with many of the friends she has been on an SIU pension for has made over the years in Latin America. the last two years. The last 14 years of her sea "They're all my boys," said the 77-year-y6ung former Sea­ time were spent on the SIUfarer. "They were always nice contracted Del Mar. Upon her to me and called me 'mom,'" retirement, the captain of the Jennie recalled, as her eyes Del Mar presented Jennie with twinkled with the memories of a gold charm as a token of the Delta Line's appreciation of her her many years at sea. long and valuable "service. Jen­ Jennie, who makes her home nie is very proud of the gift and in New 'Orleans, began her career at sea in 1940 when she accepted a job as stewardess with the Delta Line. Her pre­ vious experience as a waitress and hostess was put to good use as she sailed on the Del Brazil for a year-and-a-half. Millidns of dollars of shorefront damages are faced by The start of World War II New York Port Agent, Joe De George is flanked by SIU pensioner Jennie Rizzuto, whose sailing career spanned 28 years, and John Erick- forced Jennie onto the beach states bordering the Great Lakes son, AB, who received full membership book at September meeting. where she spent the war years as a result of high water levels. The problem has become in­ creasingly acute because of suc­ cessive cycles of high and low levels in recent years. A federal study of the situa­ tion has become bogged down by insufficient budget appropria­ tions. Another study by the U.S.-Canadian International WASHINGTON—An Ad­ activity, loaded with strategic ently available to meet future Joint Commission, begun in ministration budget request for supplies and waiting to be used emergency availability condi­ 1964, is also behind schedule funds to build the first three in an emergency. Proponents of tions in defense situations, because of a lack of funds. The of a projected fleet of 30 Fast the FDLs have never stopped friends of the merchant marine U.S. section, scheduled to be Deployment Logistics ships was pushing for their implementa­ point-out that an equivalent ex­ completed in October, 1973, turned down flatly last month tion, hoping to build 30 to 40 penditure of funds could well will require $902,000 to finish. by the House Armed Services of the ships on an "experimen­ be used to beef up the nation's Work on the problem has also Committee. In so doing, the tal" basis. merchant marine, which has the been done by the U.S. Army committee repeated its action of The House report on the bill flexibility of utilization in both Engineers, which issued a re­ last year when it was consider­ authorizing appropriations for military logistics and commer­ port with no recommendations ing the 1969 budget. the military program for fiscal after spending from 1952 to Similar action was taken in year 1970, in the section con­ cial service. 1964 in the field. In addition, the vital flow of the Senate Armed Services cerning the FDL program, Senator Robert E. Stockdale materiel in the current Vietnam of Ohio, board chairman of the Committee, which again deleted states: the program, as it had the year "The President's budget re­ conflict has been 96 to 98 per­ Great Lakes Commission, a before, on the recommendation quest includes $186.7 million cent seaborne—and this with a group comprised of the eight of Senator Richard B. Russell for the first three fast deploy- | merchant marine which is at a states with Lakes borders, has (D-Ga.), chairman of the com­ ment logistics ships of a total low ebb both in numbers of charged undue delay in a mes­ mittee. purchase of some 30. The Sen­ ships and in the advanced age sage to congressmen and sen­ ators from the region and also This marks the third succes­ ate removed this sum from of 80 percent of the fleet. sive year that the controversial the shipbuilding and conversion FDL program—which has been portions of the bill. The com­ strongly opposed by the SIU and mittee concurs in this action, other representatives of mari­ just as it refused to approve time labor and industry—has these funds last year. The com­ Unclaimed wages for former crewmembers of The Cabins been thrown out by the Con­ mittee has not been convinced are being held for the following Seafarers by Texas City gress. that these ships will not be used Refining as of September 11, 1969: in competition with our private The fiscal 1970 budget re­ Anding, Benny Lewis, P. B. quest for FDLs was in the merchant marine. It is essential Baker, Curtis Mackey, Donald amount of $186.7 million. It is that the merchant marine be re­ Brown, Woodrow Marsh, Ben B. estimated that the vessels would juvenated and not further eroded CoiTj', Wm. R. Pritchctt, W. cost some $60 million each; the by Department of Defense ac­ Deal, Wilson Sayles, Bruce D. full program of 30 ships would tions." Fisher, Frank Silva, Alfonso run in the neighborhood of $2 The report was filed by Com­ Furedi, C. Smart, Roy K. billion. mittee Chairman L. Mendel Glover, Alfred Snook, Glenn G. Jackson, Robert Somers, John Originally the brain child of Rivers (D-S.C.). Jordan, Inimie former Defense Secretary Rob­ Opposition to the FDLs in the ert S. McNamara, the FDL idea Senate, led by Senator Russell, Claims should be submitted to L, W. Westfall, Chief was sold to the Military Sea made the additional point that Marine Accountant, Texas City Refining, Inc., Marine Transportation Service and the the program placed the United Division, P.O. Box 1271, Texas City, Texas 77590. U.S. Navy as a floating military States in too interventionist a Seafarets are urged to act promptly as these claims may supply depot arrangement. The posture. be subject to the Texas Escheat laws. Each claim miist giant, mobile warehouses were include the "Z" number, Social Security number and the While proponents of the idea designed to be anchored in con­ claim that an insufficient num­ actual signature of the claimant. venient areas of global military ber of merchant ships are pres­ still wears it on her bracelet. in the cafeteria at the hall enjoying a cup of coffee, Jennie's quick and agile mind was able to reczill ex-shipmates she has not seen in as long as 22 years. "I may not remember all the names but I never forget a face," Jennie said as she greeted yet another visitor to the table. Jennie, who was bom in Manhattan on Febru^ 15, 1892, is here visiting relatives and plans to stay through the end of October. When she gets back to New Orleans, she will spend her leisure time tending to her flower garden and writing her friends in Latin America about her vacation trip to New York City. Mounting Shorefront Damage Faced by Great Lakes States Congress Strikes FDL Ship Funds From Budnet for Third Year in Row Uttclaimed Wages Being HeU to the United States Depart­ ment of State. Stockdale points out that the Great Lakes have gone through successive high and low water levels since 1952. In Lake Erie —as of July of this year—the level has reached a new high water mark, a quarter of an inch above the previous record reached in 1952. Duluth-Superior Import-Export Cargo Declines DULUTH — A decrease in export-import cargo at the Duluth-Superior Docks for the month of August lowered the cumulative total for the first eight months of the year to a level below 1968 figures for the comparable period, the Port Au­ thority here reported. On a 12-month basis, ending August 31, the two ports han­ dled 1.6 million tons of importexport freight, 300,000 tons be­ low the comparable interval a year previous. In the month of August, 348,589 tons of such cargoes were handled; in Au­ gust, 1968, the total figure was 470,766 tons. Contributing to the decline were a drop in exports of grain from 1,418,924 to 1,360,564 tons, a fall in general cargo from 71,750 to 53,100 tons, and a drop in bulk liquids from 18,533 to 16,231 tons. Imports of general cargo were down to 33,473 tons in the first eight months of 1969 from 37,190 tons in the comparable 1968 period. A rise was recorded in scrap iron exports, however, which were up to 58,540 tons from 34,275 a year ago. Also up were grain by-products, 83,251 tons of which were shipped compared with 58,292 tons. �Page Eight SEAFARERS LOG AFL'CIO Ixpels Chemiial Workeis By 50-1Margin for ALA Affiliation ATLANTIC CITY — By an overwhelming 50-to-l margin on a rollcall vote the eighth con­ vention expelled the Chemical Workers from the AFL-CIO, declaring that the union's affilia­ tion with the Alliance for Labor Action, does "violence to the objectives and principles of the federation." The vote on expulsion came on a report from the Commit­ tee on Resolutions. It recom­ mended approval of the supple­ mental report of the AFL-CIO Executive Council calling for revocation of the certificate of affiliation. The vote was 12,482,388 to expel, 244,815 against expul­ sion and 235,024 not voting. The votes against expulsion came from the Chemical Work­ ers, Technical Engineers, Typo­ graphical Union, two of the four Glass Workers' delegates and a minority of the Teachers Union delegation. Two central labor body delegates also voted against expulsion. The resolutions committee's report to the convention said that ICWU President Thomas E. Boyle appeared before the committee and confirmed that his organization had affiliated with the ALA—set up by the Teamsters and the Auto Work­ ers. The former was expelled by the AFL-CIO in 1957 (m charges of domination by cor­ rupt elements and the latter dis­ affiliated earlier this year. Boyle claimed, the committee noted, that "giving aid and com­ fort to the ALA and, in turn receiving aid and comfort from the ALA does not constitute sufficient ground to sever the relationship of the Chemical Workers with the AFL-CIO." The committee stressed "we do not agree," declaring that the ALA is a "dual organization rival to the AFL-CIO and that with complete knowledge of the true nature of the. ALA, the Chemical Workers freely and m Wide Range of Reforms Backed by MTD Delegates! (Continued from Page Two) tion of the U.S. fishing fieet, and the re-employment of displaced fishermen and cannery workers can be accomplished. The conven­ tion called upon the federal government to take whatever actions are necessa^—including economic sanctions against Latin Ameri­ can countries attacking U.S. fishing vessels on the high seas— to assure that these acts of piracy be brought to a halt. In other convention action, the delegates approved resolutions: • Calling for action on improving the quality of housing, health care, education and employment for America's non-white popula­ tion as the surest way to achieve equal opportunity for all citizens. • Condemning proposals to force compulsory arbitration on labor and management—particularly in the transportation field— and warning that such "tampering" would undercut the free collec­ tive bargaining process. • Emphatically opposing the nomination of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth, Jr. to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. A resolution of particular importance to all citizens adopted by the convention dealt with the safeguarding of the basic right to privacy. The MTD warned that a mounting wave of "prying and spying" against the American people, and particularly against American workers, constitutes a "clear and unmistakable danger to our democratic society." It was wholeheartedly resolved that a special committee be appointed to conduct a sweeping study into the full extent of the invasion of the privacy and freedom of the .^erican people, and that this committee present periodic interim reports to the MTD Executive Board prior to a final report which will be presented to the Ninth Constitutional Convention of the MTD in 1971. Additional areas of vital concern to all trade unionists were considered as convention delegates adopted resolutions: • Reaffirming support of the "politics of participation" that has been successfully carried out by the AFL-CIO Cbmmittee>on Po­ litical Education, and by the political education arms of the MTD's respective affiliates. • Calling on Congress to repeal Section 14(b) of the TaftHartley Act which allows states to enact compulsory open-shOp laws. • Pledging continued support of the construction trades unions in their fight for on-site picketing rights. • Directing that all international unions affiliated with the MTD notify their local unions that, wherever MTD Port Councils are establi ed, die local unions should affiliate and become active in Port activities. • Condemning the practice of American companies contracting and purchasing foreign-made, off-shore drilling rigs. • Pledging anew its Unstinting support of the Farm Workers Organizing Committee in its boycott activities against California table grape growers. voluntarily embraced it and aligned itself with it." • SIU President Paul Hall who is also president of the AFLCIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment, told the delegates that the "basic issue is quite simple: Do you do you not support the. trade union movement as rep­ resented by the AFL-CIO?" The fact that the Chemical Workers are among the smaller unions has nothing to do with the issue of expulsion. Hall said. He noted that the AFL-CIO had not hesitated to expel a much larger union, the Teamsters, on the basis of principle. The Executive Council's re­ port to the convention traced the development of the ALA as "a dual organization, rival to the AFL-CIO." It cited statements of objectives clearly indicating "the aggressive and disruptive designs of the ALA" towards AFL-CIO unions. And it re­ peated the warning issued by the council nearly a year before the Chemical Workers chose to join the ALA that affiliation consti­ tutes grounds for expulsion from the AFL-CIO. Steelworkers President I. W. Abel, chairman of the conven­ tion resolutions committee, moved the adoption of the com­ mittee resolution to expel the Chemical Workers—an action requiring a two-thirds vote. AFL-CIO President George Meany told the convention that the expulsion action is not to "punish" the Chemical Workers but to resolve "an organizational impossibility." The AFL-CIO constitution requires affiliates to respect the organizing jurisdiction of other affiliates. The ALA "right now" is raiding AFL-CIO unions, Meany noted. October, 1969 Sailing Days Over Pedro C. Esteban, left, a new SIU pensioner, receives his first pension check from SIU representative Paul McGaharn, at New York hall. Esteban, who sailed in the steward department as a cook, has been with the Union for 22 years. His last ship was the Steel Worker (Isthmian). Brother Esteban is a native of the Philippine Islands. Organization Key to Survival, Metal Trades Unions Warned ATLANTIC OTY—A vig­ orous campaign to organize every worker in the jurisdiction of the AFL-CIO Metal Trades Department and its 22 affiliated unions was voted by delegates to the department's 54th con­ vention. "Organization is absolutely necessary, not only to our growth but also to our survival," President Maywood Boggs said in his first convention report as presiding officer. He took office three months ago as successor to B. A. Gritta, who resigned and was named president-emer­ itus. During a two-day period the convention welcomed into mem­ bership the Elevator Construc­ tors, a new department affiliate; voted full cooperation in a Na­ val shipyard campaign by the Cooperative Committee on Or­ ganizing Federal Employees and the AFL-CIO Department of Organization; mandated a sim­ ilar drive in private industry and called for unifonn rules of pro­ cedure and responsibility for all affiliated Metal Trades councils. ATLANTIC CITY—Con­ Boggs reported a major prob­ sumer boycotts launched by the lem in a "vicious raiding cam­ Meat Cutters against two mid­ paign by an unaffiliated organi­ west companies were endorsed zation at the Norfolk, Va., Na­ by the AFL-CIO in convention val Shipyard, where the depart­ resolutions. ment represents 7,600 workers. Union members are on strike The department will, he said, at three plants of Poultry Pack­ continue to press for a federal ers, Inc., and the convention shipbuilding program in the urged union families not to buy Navy and Merchant Marine. the company's Blue Star label SIU President Paul Hall, who products. The company sells is also president of the AFLabout 70 percent of its products CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ to the armed services. Another resolution backed ment, urged the assembled the boycott against Iowa Beef metal trades delegates to "keep Packers, Inc., which has been pressing" for an independent struck since Augpst 24. The maritime agency and a massive company has been known as a program to build more ships in foe of organized labor and uses U.S. yards—ships flying the non-union firms for its construc­ American flag, manned by U.S. crews and carrying more Amer­ tion work. AFL-CIO President George ican cargoes. AFL'GIO President George Meany wired the company of Meany told the convention that the convention's action and urged them to come to the bar­ "if inflation continues, the drive gaining table and negotiate a for higher wages is going to continue because we expect to cx)ntract. Meat Cutters Win AFL-CIO Backing In Two Boycotts move forward and not stand still." Boggs announced that the Metal Trades Department and the new AFL-CIO Labor Stud­ ies Center are planning a semi­ nar on collective bargaining for unions which represent federal employees. The convention adopted re­ ports: • Approving continued co­ operation with the AFL-CIO on radiation standards adopted by the Labor Department to pro­ tect uranium miners. • Expressing strong opposi­ tion to any interference by gov­ ernment agencies in the admin­ istration of joint apprenticeship training programs, and any ef­ forts to "discriminate because of race, creed or nationality." 1 Scott and Griffin Are New Leaders Of Senate GOP WASHINGTON — Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan are the new leaders of the Republicans in the Senate. Scott WM chosen as minority leader to succeed the late Sen­ ator Everett McKinley Dirksen, Scott defeated Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr., of Tennessee, 2419, at a party caucus. Scott's election marked the first time that the Senate GOP, traditionally dominated by the conservative wing, has elected a moderate as their leader. Baker, Dirksen's son-in-law, became the candidate of the conservatives when Senator Ro­ man L. Hruska of Nebraska withdrew from the leadership contest in favor of the Tennessean. Following Scott's election, the caucus chose Griffin to replace Scott as assistant leader or whip. Baker again was the loser. This time the final vote against him was 23-20. A •f �October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Nine 23 Seafarers Added to Growing List of SlU Pensioners The swelling ranks of SIU pensioners has been increased by 23 additional Seafarers who last month ended their long ca­ reers as professional men of the sea, Conrado Navarra is ending a 40-year career at sea. A native of the Philippine Islands, Brother Navarra makes his Navarra Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed as an AB in the deck department. His last vessel was the Eagle Traveler, Brother Wyman is a native of Massachusetts, Nils S. Larsson, 63, is a na­ tive of Sweden who now makes his home in San Francisco, He joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the deck department as a bosun. His last vessel was the San Juan, Brother Larsson has been sailing since 1928, George Harold Helmond, 63, joined the Union in the Port of Houston, A native of Galves­ ton, Texas, Brother Helmond continues to make his home there with his wife, Agnes, He sailed in the engine department and last worked for G and H Towing Company, Samuel Emil Ratz of Rahway, • home in New York City, His last vessel was the Steel Age, Seafarer Navarra sailed in the steward department as a chief cook. He joined the Union in the Port of New York, Crisanto Garfin is also a na­ tive of the Philippine Islands and now makes his home in New Orleans, He sailed as a cook and his last vessel was the Del Rio, His sailing career began 44 years ago. Seafarer Garfin joined the SIU in the Port of Larsson Helmond New Orleans, Anargyros Dokeris joined the SIU in the Port of New York, New Jersey, joined the SlU in He is a native of Greece who the Port of New York, He is a now makes his home in the native of Jersey City, New Jer­ Bronx, New York, with his sey, and now lives in Rahway wife, Triantafilio, Brother Dok­ with his wife, Geraldine, He eris is a veteran of 48 years at worked as a bridge motorman sea. His last vessel was the for the Pennsylvania Railroad, From 1942 until 1945 he served Marymar, in the Army, John T, Daly, 58, is a native of New York who now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey with his wife, Evelyn, He joined the Union in the Port of New York and worked as a bridgeman for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad, Mariano Arroyo joined the SIU in 1940 in the Port ^ of Dokeiis Moore New York and last sailed in the Charles Pate Moore of Pearl River, Louisiana, joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore, He is a native of German Town, Tennessee, and now lives in Pearl River with his wife, Idahlia. He sailed as a bosun in the deck department and last shipped aboard the Del Mundo, Brother Moore served in the Ratz Daly Navy from 1938 until 1945, Jesse Andrew Shonts, 63, is a native of Aurora, Illinois who deck department as a bosun. His last vessel was the Balti­ now lives in New London, Con­ more, A native of Puerto Rico, necticut with his wife, Max he still makes his home there with his wife, Tomasa, William Herman Thompson, 67, is a native of Saxton, Penn­ sylvania who now lives in New Orleans. He joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1944 and sailed in the steward de­ partment, His last vessel was the Chatham, Shonts Wyman Edward Granderson is clos­ Ellen, Seafarer Shonts was a ing out a sailing career that has bosun in the deck department spanned more than 25 years. and last sailed aboard the Jack­ Bom in Louisiana, he still sonville, For 13 years—^from makes his home there. Brother 1925 until 1938—^he served in Granderson, v/ho shipped as a the Coast Guard, Brother messman, joined the SIU in the Shonts has been sailing for 44 Port of New Orleans in 1945, years, , His last vessel was the Robert Trent, Lester Wyman, 71, lives in oined the George Edward Palm joined fif Arroyo Thompson the SIU in the Port of Frank­ fort, Michigan, in 1953, He sailed in the deck department as an AB, His last vessel was the Ann Arbor. Born in Michi­ gan, Brother Palm now lives in Wisconsin with his wife, Ruth, Oswald Seppet of Baltimore, Maryland, sailed as an AB in the deck department. He is 62 years old and was born in Estonia, now a republic of Rus­ sia, Brother Seppet joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1942 and last sailed on the Seamar, He had been sailing the seas for 44 years. Hillard Lee Trahan, 60, is an oldtime member of the Un­ ion who joined the SIU in the Port of Galveston in 1938. He was bom in Texas and still makes his home in the Port of Galveston, An oiler in the en­ gine department. Seafarer Trahan last sailed aboard the Walter Rice. He served in the Manesis Moran Parcolla judio joined the SIU in the Port sailed aboard the American Vic­ of New York in 1944. He has tory. been sailing since 1942, Sea­ Dominick Di Giovanni, 65, farer Merjudio served in the is a native of Texas who now Navy from 1919 until 1924, lives in Westwego, Louisiana, Oliver T, Cullen of Philadel- with his wife, Katie. He joined the SIU in the Port of New Orleans and sailed as chief cook in the steward department. Brother Di Giovanni last worked for Amicus Carriers, Jan Piorkowski is a native of Poland who sailed as a mess­ man, wiper and ordinary sea­ man, Brother Piorkowski, who has completed 45 years of sail­ Merjudio Cullen ing, joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1946, He last phia is 62 years old and a native of Delaware. He was an oiler in the engine > department and last, worked for P. F. Martin, Inc. Seafarer Cullen joined the Union in the Port of Philadel­ phia. Joe Parcolla, 64, joined the SIU in the Port of New York soon after the end of World DiGiovanni Piorkowski War II, He is a native of Manila, Philippine ' Islands, and now sailed aboard the Brooklyn, Sea­ makes his home in Brooklyn, farer Piorkowski and his wife, A messman in the steward de­ Helen, make their home in partment, Brother Parcolla last Farmingdale, New Jersey, Rep. St, Germain Warns: Granderson Palm Army from 1928 until 1936, Antonios E, Manesis of San Francisco, joined the SIU in the Port of New York, He is a native of Greece and sailed, as FWT in the engine department. Brother Manesis last worked for Sea-Land Service in 1968. Frank Moran, 64, was bom in Maryland and now lives in Edgewater, New Jersey. He joined the Union in the Port of New York and sailed as an AB in the deck department. In 1961 he was issued a picket duty card for active participa­ tion in the New York harbor Seppet Trahan beef. Brother Moran's last ves­ sel was the Seatrain New York, He had been sailing since 1927, Uldarico R, Merjudio has sailed as chief steward and cook and last shipped out aboard the Overseas Anna in 1968, He was born in the Philippine Islands and now makes his home in New York City, Brother Mer- Fleet Faces Covt. Takeover Unless Congress Acts Now WASHINGTON — A mem­ ber of Congress has wamed that the U.S. merchant marine faces a "government takeover," unless Congress acts to encour­ age new private, investment in cargo and passenger vessels. Speaking at a luncheon spon­ sored by the AFL-CIO Mari­ time Trades Department, Rep­ resentative Fernand J. St. Ger­ main (D-R.I.) favored passage of pending legislation which would allow all ship operators to put earnings aside in tax-de­ ferred construction reserve funds. This privilege is now enjoyed by the 14 subsidized Americanflag shipping companies. It is not available, however, to the two-thirds of the industry which is unsubsidized. St. Germain noted that both the subsidized and unsubsidized segments of the merchant marine favor ex­ tension of this tax deferment to all ships in the U.S. fleet. "Unless we are prepared to nationalize the merchant marine (and) to have the government take over the building and oper­ ating of our cargo and passenger ships," the Rhode Island Con­ gressman declared, "then we must devise a program that will stimulate the investment of pri­ vate capital in building new ships to replace the over-age, obsolete ships now in our com­ mercial fleet." St. Germain recommended action on the tax-deferred con­ struction reserve legislation, cosponsored by more than 80 members of the House and Sen­ ate in the 91st Congress, with­ out waiting for Administration maritime proposals and without "wrapping our maritime pro­ gram up in a single omnibus bill," The weakness of the omnibus approach, St, Germain said, is that "we've done nothing at all to help alleviate the problems of our merchant marine." The Congressman said he "vigorously" opposed nationali­ zation of the fleet, adding that solutions could be found that would "continue to stress a civilian - built, civilian - owned and civilian-manned merchant marine. The tax-deferred construction reserve legislation meets this test, he said, because it empha­ sizes private investment, thus easing "some of the pressures on the tax-paying public for more federal investment," �Page Ten SEAFARERS OcioHer, 1969 LOG . n Trapped! PAY NOW, DIE LATER by James Gollin (Penguin—$1.25) When Gollin, a former insurance agent, first wrote this book a couple of years ago he caused no little amount of commotion in the life insur?.fifiitf2dKStry, Viewing life insurance and the industry supplying it as "in­ tegral parts of the American Dream," Gollin sees the industry as "perhaps the best entrenched, most privileged and most pow­ erful" of our private enterprises. Gollin presents a history of the life insurance industry as well as a description of its organizational structure. He offers advice to the prospective buyer which includes a warning to keep the agent away from the kitchen table. Once he gets you there he is well on the road to breaking your resistance down. The author fimds the industry filled with "bureaucratic misfunctionings, malodorous marketing practices and unresponsive­ ness to the public welfare." He believes much of the trouble lies in the basic belief of Americans in business leadership. We are "almost too willing to entrust great power to top management—whether in profitmaking corporations like General Motors or in our huge life insurance companies." Through their power and their public service image, life in­ surance companies are able to write their own ticket regarding legislative control, Gollin declares. More than 120 million Americans own life insurance. The total assets of the industry is over $150 billion. Gollin believes individual citizens do not express enough concern over how those billions are handled or invested. There is too great a tend­ ency to pass the buck to the companies, who in turn pass it right bade to us, he maintains. This book—now in paperback—offers valuable advice for anyone who owns life insurance or is thinking of buying some. • The wording of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is explicit. It reads, in part: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be vio­ lated " This is as it should be. Every American should feel secure in his indi­ vidual privacy—or, as Justice Louis Brandeis once termed it, his "right to be left alone"—as not only a matter of law but as his basic natural right. However, in the United States of 1969, it is no longer possible for our citizens to enjoy this fundamental guarantee which is the cornerstone of all the other freedoms embodied in the Bill of Rights of which it is a part. The privacy of Americans today, particularly working-class Americans, is being steadily whittled away by insidious electronic gadgetry and so-called psychological techniques which are deliberately designed to pry into our in­ nermost lives. Hidden microphones, peepholes, camera, bugs and wiretaps—used not only by law enforcement authorities and government agencies but by private corporations and unauthorized individuals as well—are at work recording our thoughts and movements no matter where we turn. ^ready wmmonplace in factory and office, this unconstitutional affront to human dignity has also found its way into the'home and even invaded the bedrooms and bathrooms of a helpless and largely unsuspecting America. Clandestine surveillance has become a booming industry against which there is at present no real defense. Secret dossiers on millions of citizens everytime they make a purchase, apply for a job—often unsuccessfully because of "credit agency" files on them—or fill out an application for anything from a loan to a club membership. Children in school are pumped about intimate family matters through probing questionnaires disguised as "guidance" tools. Although the growing encroachment on, freedom of privacy has been the subject of spasmodic Congressional investigation and occasional articles in the printed media, nobody has yet dug into this spreading epidemic of un­ checked snooping deeply enough to get anything done about it. Recognizing that if the American people lose their privacy they are in dan­ ger of losing their freedom as well, the recent convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department unanimously approved the creation of a spe-^ cial committee within the department to conduct a sweeping study of the invasion of privacy and explore possible means of effectively fighting this clear and unmistakable threat to our democratic society. Positive action such as that taken by the delegates was long overdue. We wish them Godspeed in their efforts. • * * THE LABOUR MARKET ($1.95) This Penguin paperback is a rather technical study of a tech­ nical subject—^labor econornics. Part of the Penguin Modem Economic Series, the book is a collection of sixteen articles covering such subjects as labor supply and demand, unions, collective bargaining, unemployment and inflation. While writ­ ten for the British economy, the book has some good points for the colonies. Almost 400 pages long, the book is edited by B. J. McCormick and E. Owen Smith. iki * i » COMMITMENT TO WELFARE by Richard M. Titmuss (Pantheon—$6.95) Richard M. Titmuss is recognized as an authority of the wel­ fare state. An expert on British welfare, his scholarly essays carry timely and informative messages for us as well. This is not the kind of book to hold the attention of the casual reader, but for those interested in all the aspects of welfare, it is worthwhile reading. At one point, Titmuss writes: "In the ultimate analysis society may have to choose between 'the sense of community' on the one hand, with which is equated small-scale and often ineffectively preventive poor-quality serv­ ices, and larger social groupings offering better quality services and more freedom of choice for consumers, but with the recog­ nized dangers of larger bureaucracies and professional power units." Here we have the crux of the matter. As with other phases of our society, we are faced in welfare with the choice between local ^jontrol and commitment—^the county home and churchsponsored soup kitchen—and the more adequate, but less per­ sonal, state and national welfare programs. The definition of "welfare" extends far beyond the charitable implications which too many attach to it. The welfare «f an individual is his well being. Taken in this light, one could even classify the oil depletion allowance as a form of welfare benefit for the already wealthy oilman. ; It is the collective welfare of the citizenry that determines the welfare of the community, state or nation. In most; cases the needs are far greater than what society is willing to commit; to­ ward meeting them. This leads the author to label hll welfare programs a fofm of rationing. • Titmuss calls social security "one of the great social inven­ tions of the twentieth century." By encouraging individual participation, social security programs remove the stigma of shame attached to charity. * r] * EQUAL APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNITIES ($1.25) The labor movement is making wide distribution of this pub­ lication. Published by the Institute of Labor and Industrial Re­ lations, P.O. Box 1567 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, the book­ let deals with apprenticeship programs and the Negro. An anal­ ysis of one successful program and suggestions for attracting more Negroes are made. •i �/Growing • Number of Consumer Luws October, 1969 SEAFARERS UNO Huve Burely Srrukhed the Surfure mUUWAIT "Easy terms" sign doesn't indicate for whom they are "easy". Nor does it figure what the total tab will be when the high interest rates and compulsory insurance are added on. And if you miss a payment, you may lose your purchase and have to pay for it besides. The highest interest rates greatest recent improvements since the Civil War and other have been made. "But credit problems still confront the U.S. practices are still so wasteful consumer despite a "decade of and deceptive," he says, "that accelerated activity" in his be­ it also is the area of most urgent half, Sidney Margoiius writes in need for further reform." the September issue of the Truth-in-lending, requiring American Federationist. disclosure of true annual inter­ Margoiius, author of several est rates, is the major achieve­ books and a widely-read weekly ment, Margoiius says, but un­ newspaper column on consumer fortunately it does not reduce affairs, cites consumer credit, interest rates. And at present food prices, auto insurance and high interest rates are biting into utility rates as prime targets for such vital U.S. programs as improvement. loans for college students, Mar­ Consumer credit, Margoiius goiius notes. says, is the area in which the Sp>ecific abuses which Margo­ iius says should be removed in­ clude the "holder-in-due-course" doctrine which enables finance companies to escape responsi­ bility for lack of performance by the seller, the seller's right to repossess and also get a de­ contribution base (earnings on ficiency judgment; subsequent which social security taxes are garnishment to collect the defi­ paid) from $7,800 to $15,000 ciency judgment and high-priced in three steps between 1970 and life and health insurance re­ 1974. There is a provision for quired for the duration of the automatic adjustments begin­ loan. ning in 1976. These accompanying insur­ An important feature of the ance policies are providing 35 bill would bring the government percent of the total profit for the in on helping to finance social nation's 37 top finance compa­ security. The present employeremployee paid program would nies and banks, Margoiius points become tripartite with the fed­ out. Food prices have soared 5.5 eral contribution increasing un­ til it paid for one-third of the percent in the past year, the au­ thor says. Most of the cost has total cost in 1980. Gilbert stressed that actuaries been added by processing and have studied his bill and found distribution which are now get­ it to be "financially sound." He ting 60 cents of each consumer pointed out that increased costs dollar while the farmer is get­ would be more than offset by a ting 38 to 40 cents. strengthened economy and sav­ One result of the "hard-sell" ings on relief programs for the on food products is the irrational elderly. method of packaging, in which AFL-CIO Social Security Di­ Margoiius cites such sizes as rector Bert Seidman described 5.25 ounces and the "classic" Gilbert's bill as being "com­ 71 different sizes of potato pletely in line with the recom­ chips. mendations on social security Truth-in-packaging did cut adopted by the AFL-CIO con­ tho^e potato chip sizes from 71 vention in 1967." to 48, but White House con­ The measure's "strong im­ sumer adviser Virginia Knauer provements" in social security noted recently that there are still benefits aind Medicare, he said, "would have the effect of all no regulations to control slack but wiping out poverty among fill, cents-off labeling, size stand­ elderly citizens and assure them ards and labeling of ingredients. of decent health care." "The bill contains goals the AFL-CIO has long sought and Jimith Appointed to Fill we intend to work with the el­ derly and other groups in se­ DIrksenSenute Vurunry curing its passage," Seidman de­ WASHINGTON — The Re­ clared. publican speaker of the Illinois President Nelson H. Crtiik- House, Ralph T. Smith, has shank of the National Council been appointed to the U.S. Sen­ of Senior Citizens termed the ate seat vacated by the recent bill's provisions "bold, imagina­ death of Everett M. Dirksen. tive and even daring—^worthy Governor Richard Ogilvie (R) of an America that is accus­ named Smith after State Attor­ tomed to thinking big." ney General WilliiuMi J. Scott Pointing out that the legisla­ said he didn't want the job. The tion is along the lines of a pro­ appointment runs only through gram advocated by the council 1970. In the 1970 general elec­ convention earlier this year, he tion, Illinois voters will choose said, "I know that I can pledge a senator to serve out the four you the full support of our or­ years that will then ronain of ganization." Dirksen's term. Gilbert Bill Revamps Social Security; Would WipeOutPoverty Among Aged r 111" I'*'* |i * K ri WASHINGTON — Legisla­ tion designed to virtually wipe out poverty among the nation's elderly by raising total social security benefits at least 50 per­ cent by 1974 has been intro­ duced in Congress. The measure, initially spon­ sored by Representative Jacob H. Gilbert (D-N.Y.) of the House Ways and Means Com­ mittee, drew inunediate support from the AFL-CIO and the Na­ tional Council of Senior Citi­ zens. In explaining his bill at a press conference and on the House floor, Gilbert termed it "the most comprehensive social security bill ever submitted to Congress." He pointed particularly to its increase in minimum benefits that "will place nearly all bene­ ficiaries above the poverty level," general increases in ben­ efits and "sufistantial" improve­ ments in Medicare. Meanwhile President Nixon announced that he will send a request for a 10 percent increase in social security benefits to Congress next week. That is 3 percent more than he had pre­ viously proposed. Nixon made the announce­ ment in signing a bill extending a federal support program for local projects that employ older Americans. He did not elabo­ rate on his announcement ex­ cept to say he would ask that benefit increases be effective AprU 1, 1970. The need for "substantially" raising the general level of so­ cial security benefits, Gilbert said, "becomes very clear to everyone who looks at the low level of present benefits and considers the fact that most ben­ eficiaries have very little other income." "T^e bill recognizes for the first time," he added, "that the elderly have a ri^t to live their deplining years in dignity and in reasonable comfort." Under the bill the minimum social security benefit would be Page Eleven Sidney Margoiius Writes: E-Z TERMS I' LOG increased by 87 percent, going from its present level of $55 a month to $80 in January 1970, to $90 in January 1972, and to $103 in January 1974. Other benefits would be raised by 10 percent, 12 per­ cent and 14 percent over the same three steps. Benefits for dependents and survivors would be increased proportionately. For the first time there would be cost-of-living protection un­ der social security, with benefits automatically adjusted annually for each 1 percent increase in the cost of living beginning in 1975. The medical insurance part of Medicare, now paid for part­ ly by the retiree, would be fi­ nanced through contributions paid during the beneficiary's working years, in the same way hospital insurance is now fi­ nanced. The present insurance cover­ age under Medicare would be expanded to include the cost of prescription drugs, and the en­ tire program would be extended to include persons under 65 who are receiving disability ben­ efits under social security. These provisions would take effect in January 1972. Gilbert cited these other pro­ visions: • The maximum lump-sum death payment would be raised from $255 to $500, effective in January 1970. • The amount of earnings a person can have in a year and still get a full social security benefit would be increased from the present $1,680 to $1,800, effective in January 1970. • Improvements in widows' benefits; higher benefits for those who retire under the Social Se­ curity Act before age 65; per­ mitting a retiree's benefits to be based upon his highest 10 years' earnings out of any 15 consecu­ tive years after 1950; reduction of the disability benefit waiting period from six months to three. The bill would increase the The author calls for a solution through "unit pricing," which requires the seller to spell out the price per pound, ounce, pint or other standard measure. In this area, Margoiius says the most progress has been made in New York City where "a sur­ prisingly knowledgeable Con­ sumer Commissioner, former Miss America Bess Myerson Grant, is moving toward a pio­ neering requirement of unit pricing of some packaged goods." Auto insurance has received intense attention, the article points out, with concentration on arbitrary cancellations of policies and premium increases which often sail through state regulatory agencies without be­ ing questioned. In several states, labor and credit unions are ex­ ploiting group buying as a way to reduce auto insurance costs. Senator Lee Metcalf (DMont.) is trying to get Congress to establish a utility consumers' counsel, Margoiius says. At present, utility companies "are represented by phalanxes of ex­ perts, completely out-manning state commission staffs" on rate increases. Margoiius sees some hopeful signs in consumer affairs, in­ cluding the appointment of Mrs. Knauer and her stand on fat content in frankfurters and other issues. Some innovative state legis­ lation is also encouraging, Mar­ goiius says. These include the licensing of home improvement salesmen in Michigan, the 12 percent retail credit ceiling in Washington and court injunc­ tions barring deceptive practices on auto repair and furnace in­ stallations in Rhode Island. SEAFAItEBS^^i:.00 October 1969 • Vol XXXI. No. 12 Offlclsl Publication of the Seafarera International Union of North America. Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes arid Inland Waters District, AFL-CIO Sxeeutive Board PAUI. HALL. President EARL SHEPARD GAL TANNER VicerPrssident Exoe. Viee-Pree. LINDSBT WILLIAMS AL KERR Vice-President Ste.-Troat. RORERT MATTHEWS AL TANNER Vice-President Viee-President Editor HARRY WITTSCHEN Assistant Editors WILL KARP CHARLES SVENSON FRANK BlARuiGTTA AL COHEN MARIETTA CRISCI Staff Photograpkor ANTHONY ANBALOI nUbM BNtlihr at no Ibsds Islaad AIMM •.E.. 0. C. 20018 kfttsSMljr. wt litoriMtlMal Uslsa. AUaatlt. OM, Ukts sad laiaad Walm DMrlst. AFL-M. m Fswtk Amis, irsaUifa. i.V. U292. TM. HVailatli ».«600L Ssaaad slaM pMiaia laM at Watklailsas. D. C. PMTMSTErO ATTE8TI08: sards sksald Is scat ta Isafarart latmatkaal Ualsa, Atlaatls. Oalf. Lakst ^ laM Watrn DMrlst. AFL-CIO. €75 FsMtb Assaas. OrsstUa. I.T. 11298. �Page Twelve SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 Congress Askedto Haltexploitation, Labor Dept Figures Show AntHabor Abase of Green-Carders Union Workers Far Ahead What is a union contract worth to the average worker? parel plants, he told the subcom­ In 1966, according to the Labor Department it was worth mittee,-they make up as much $1.14 an hour or about $2,371 a year. as 50 percent of the total force. That was the difference in the average hourly compensation For the most part, Sanchez of non-office workers in establishments with union contracts said, green-card holders are not and those without union contracts. union members, so when a The dollar difference is almost certainly greater now, but strike situation arises or a strike the 1966 data was the latest available when the Bureau of occurs "they take the em­ Labor Statistics published its report "Employee Compen­ ployer's side and continue to sation in the Private Nonfarm Economy." work" for fear of losing their jobs. Part of the difference was in the basic straight-time wage rates. The Mexican alien knows he The average union worker made $2.62 an hour at the time might be fired by his employer of the survey, as compared to $1.88 an hour in non-union for "union activities" and "he 40,000 Commnters employment. might not be able to find other Sanchez estimated that more work in the U.S. or even in But the union worker also got substantially more vacation than 40,000 green-card holders Mexico, where unemployment time, holidays, pension benefits, health insurance and other . work for U.S. firms along the is widespread," Sanchez pointed fringe benefits. border during the day, then re­ out. That brought his total hourly compensation—^the amount turn to homes in nearby Mexi­ The ACWA official noted the employer pays out on his behalf—^to $3.37 an hour. For can communities at night. that most green-card workers in the worker without a union contract, the comparable figure In many El Paso men's ap- the U.S. are hired at the "mere was only $2.23 an hour. $1.60 an hour minimum wage" Since the union worker puts in fewer hours on the job be­ but this makes him relatively cause of his longer vacations and added holidays the differ­ ence is even gre.ater when measured in terms of total com­ well-off if he lives in Mexico. pensation per hour actually worked. The Labor Department Living costs in Mexico are figures for that category boost the union differential to $1.29 much lower than in the U.S. an hour more than the non-union worker. and Mexicans with green cards are actually earning fotu- or five times as much as a worker Labor backed the project LAREDO, Tex. — Project in Mexico. HOPE, which has brought med­ when it was first getting started How about organizing the ical care and training to de­ and over the years AFL-CIO green-card workers? veloping nations around the affiliates and members have world for 10 years, has initiated helped provide funds. "I have tried to explain to its first domestic health educa­ In recalling the hospital ship's them the various benefits of un­ tion program. accomplishments, Walsh said: ion representation," Sanche/ FirrSBURGH—The federal Standard Corp., New York; the The program announced by said. "They do not argue or government has won a price-fix­ Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis.; two "We now feel that HOPE Dr. William B. Walsh, HOPE'S should turn some of its talent disagree with my reasoning. ing conviction here that could American Standard executives— founder and president, will use and experience inward and But always it is the same story. bring civil suits seeking billions Joseph P. Decker and Daniel J. teaching techniques learned work among our own minority They need a little more time to of dollars in damages against the Quinn and Norman R. Held, a abroad to better enable the groups to give them the hope thinic it over." nation's largest manufacturers Kohler executive. community to deliver health and confidence to survive and They were found guilty of fix­ of plumbing fixtures. "We have been told by a services. progress in our society. We ing the prices on such fixtures as "This case," a Justice Depart­ number of sources," he con­ Laredo was chosen with the know this can be done by edu­ ment attorney commented, bathtubs, toilets and sinks during aim of improving health care for cation, particularly in the health tinued, "that this reluctance to "makes all the other price-fixing a four-year period between Sep­ Mexican-Americans and other support fields. We have trained join the union is due to intimi­ cases seem pale by comparison." tember 1962 and the date of the members of minority groups. If hundreds considered untrain- dation by their employers who Convicted by a U.S. District government's indictments, Oc­ the program proves successful, able and have successfully have warned them that if they Court jury after five hours of de­ tober 6, 1966. HOPE expects to duplicate it bridged the cultural gap with join the union they will lose liberation were Borg-Wamer U.S. District Judge Louis Ro­ elsewhere. our approach." their jobs." Corp., Chicago; American senberg ordered an investigation before sentencing the defend­ Local people will be trained ants. He could hand out maxiin nursing, laboratory tech­ Seafarers All mun fines of $50,000 to each niques, community health and defendant and maximum prison other fields. In addition, HOPE sentences of one year to each will offer high school equivalen­ individual. cy training and establish a Mex­ The defendants, who an­ ican-American cultural studies nounced they would appeal the program. conviction, were the last of 15 Cooperating with the pro­ corporations and eight execu­ gram are the University of Tex­ tives indicted. as; Laredo hospitals, medical When the 12' other corpora­ groups and schools; the Laredo tions and five of. their executives Vocational Rehabilitation OflSce entered no contest pleas last and the Texas state government. year. Judge Rosenberg levied The program is planned for fines totaling $370,000 and im­ a three-to-five-year period at an posed jail sentences on four of estimated cost of $1^ million. the executives. Local and state agencies will The government said that the assume administration of the price-fixing involved about $1 program at the end of the billion in sales—or about 98 period. percent of the enameled cast iron plumbing fixtures and 80 Project HOPE is the prin­ percent of the vitreous plumbing cipal activity of The People-tofixtures sold in the United States People Health Foundation, Inc., during the four-year period. of Washington, D.C., which has sponsored the hospital ship In describing the scope of the S.S. HOPE since 1959. case, a government official esti­ mate that more than 300 pri­ Supported by contributions, vate triple-damage anti-trust the ship has conducted medical suits have been filed against the teaching and treatment pro­ Noboru Furuta, right, president, Muroran District, All Japan Seamen's Union, addresses AFL-CIO Mari­ plumbing manufacturers as a grams In eight nations i)n four time Trades Department. Listening are, from left, Peter McSavin, MID executive secretary, O. William continents. It has trained more Moody, MTD administrator (standing], and Akira Iwata, director. Planning Department, All Japan Sea­ result of the government's case. The suits ^ve been filed by than 5,100 physicians, sur­ men's Union. Top leaders of the 180,000-member All Japan Seamen's Union were honored guests at a re­ almost every state, many cities geons, dentists, nurses and tech­ cent MTD meeting in a move toward exploring ways and means of building closer ties of international and numerous private builders. friendship and fraternalism between the Japanese and American maritime unions and their membership. nologists. WASHINGTON — A Mexi­ can-American ofiBcial of the Clothing Workers has given Congress a vivid look at the way U.S. employers exploit alien green-card workers from Mexico. The witness before a Senate Labor subcommittee was An­ tonio M. Sanchez, a Mexicanbom, 17-year resident of the United States who is an ACWA business representative in El Paso, Tex. Sanchez and ACWA Vice President Howard D. Samuel supported bills before the sub­ committee to prohibit employers from using workers under greencard permits to undercut wages and working conditions or act as strikebreakers. Holders of green cards tech­ nically are supposed to be resi­ dent aliens in the U.S., but widespread evidence indicates many of them are "commuters," working in the U.S. and living in Mexico. The measures to crack down on employer abuses of the "green-carders" were previously endorsed by the AFL-CIO in testimony from Organizing Di­ rector William L. Kircher. -fj Project HOPE Begins Work On Domestic Health Program Plumbing Companies Convicted Of Widespread Price-Fixing -ri < \ )! I �SEAFARERS October, 1969 Page Thirteen LOG #ET YOOR 5HIPS COMMjnii HE SIU Ship's Committee serves as the allimportant pipeline of communication between TSlU-contracted vessels at sea and the Union's vital activities ashore, The committees, made up of a ship's chairman, secretary and one delegate each from the deck, engine and steward departments, holds weekly shipboard meet­ ings to keep crewmembers fully up to date on all matters concerning die membership. Erazo. left, Secretary Anqel RoT^" Delegate Nick Damln+ ^ cx T^? P«e on dect afte, discnsd?,"'^ &. r 1 y-' 1- 111 V der/a;%='>/rrf' "• report a PENNMAR-^this committee keeps the crew up to date on what the SlU is doing. From left are L Garabedlan, ship's secretary, L Contlcello, deck delegate, I. V. Rooms, oteward delegate and Clarence Brockett, ship's chairman after condvipting a successful ship's meeting. FANWO-OD—Beefs aboard this Waterman vessel are In good hands with an alert ship's committee. From left are Engine Delegate R. L. Karns, Deck Delegate H. S. Lee, Ship's Chairman E. J. Brannan, and Steward Delegate T. E. Markham after one of their meetings at which reports from all the departments were heard. BALTIMORE—Weekly meetings are conducted by this ship's committee: Francisco Cornier, deck delegate, Ernesto Rublo, engine delegate, Billy Burke, ship's chairman, Joseph Powers, ship's secretary and Pete Vlahos, steward delegate. They reported smooth trip. �Page Fourteen i SEAFARERS October, 1969 LOG Census Bureau Estimates for 1968 Many Whites hscape from Poverty Expanded Federal Controls Over Unsafe Toys Urged But 33% of Negroes Are Stiff Poor WASHINGTON—The AFL-CIO has called for legislation to expand the Food and Drug Administration's authority to remove hazardous toys from the marketplace. The FDA now has the power to ban toys, and other articles intended for children, that are found to be toxic, corrosive, irritating, sensitizing, flammable, pressurized or radiational. An interim report of the National Commission on Product Safety, submitted in February, called for legislation that would extend the agency's power and permit it to remove toys that contain electrical, mechanical or thermal hazards. The commission cited testimony by consumer experts calling attention to "grave inadequacies in the protection of children against death and injury from hazardous toys." It described toy stoves that heated up to 800 degrees Fah­ renheit, electronic science kits with "dangerously live termi­ nals," unsafe chemistry sets and a blow gun in which the dart might be inhaled by a child. In a letter to a House Commerce subcommittee consider­ ing the commission's proposals, AFL-CIO Legislative Direc­ tor Andrew J. Biemiller said: "the sooner Congress moves as the commission has recommended the better." The law, he emphasized, "must be expanded ... to protect unwary and irmocent children against additional hazards which unfortunately are present in toys and other items on the market." Biemiller's letter also included AFL-CIO endorsement for another bill before the subcommittee that would extend the life of the commission until June 30, 1970. It was created by Congress in 1967 and without extension will expire in No­ vember. •"'^•^^MVASmNGTON—The Cen­ 1968, compared with $3,412 in • Sizable gains have been sus Bureau estimated that 25.4 1967 and $2,974 in 1959. made in recent years in the pro­ million people were living in Of the total 25.4 million poor portion of persons—male and poverty in 1968—a decline of people, 17.4 million were white female, white and Negro—hav­ 2.3 million from the year be­ and 8 million were from Negro ing at least a high school educa­ fore. tion. In 1966, for example, the and other minority groups. percentage of Negro males 25 The total represented 13 per­ While the percentage of poor to 29 years old who had com­ cent of the nation with incomes people has been declining over­ pleted high school was 49 per­ below the government-defined all, it has increased for persons poverty level at the end of the over 65 in the past decade. The cent. The figure is now 60 per­ year. But among Negroes, 33 report revealed that the poverty cent. • One-fifth of the population percent were in the ranks of rolls for the aged rose from 15 percent in 1959 to 18 percent in —about 36 million persons— the poor. 1968. moved during the 12-month pe­ The report showed marked Children accounted for about riod ended March 30. About gains in the economic status of 20 percent of all poor persons two of the three movers re­ poorer families in the past dec­ in both 1959 and 1968. About mained in the same county. ade. For the nation as a whole, 41 percent of all poor children • The average size of house­ 22 percent were classed as poor were members of races other holds in the country continued in 1959, including 56 percent than white in 1968, the Census to decline. Since 1964 the aver­ Bureau noted. of the Negro population. age size per family dropped , The bureau also pointed out from 3.33 persons to 3.19 per­ In the past year, about 1.6 that as a result of changes in the sons in 1969. million white persons and 800,method of establishing the pov­ 000 Negroes and persons of • Ratios of own children other races moved above the erty level, the number of poor under five years old between persons in 1967 was some 1.6 1960-69 per 1,000 women de­ poverty level, the bureau re­ million higher than originally clined about one-fourth for ported. figured. The number of families whites and about one-third for The report, based on a sam­ included in the category was Negroes, the bureau reported. ple survey taken in March, boosted by about 360,000. came—^by coincidence—on the Originally, the poverty index fifth anniversary of President was based on the Agriculture Johnson's signing of the Eco­ Department's definition of a nomic Opportunity Act that "nutritionally adequate" -food launched the "war on poverty." plan. The Census Bureau now bases the poverty threshold on It showed that nearly 11 mil­ the Consumer Price Index as a lion persons have climbed above whole, rather than on these items T]|e top executives of Ameri­ dend units" which were valued the poverty level since 1964,' alone. ca's''biggest corporations may at $68,000. That's $13,000 including 3 million Negroes. The Census report further deplore what they call "infla­ more than the previous year. But most experts agree that disclosed that the median fam­ tionary" wage demands by un­ The top man in International the reason for the gains is more ily income rose 8.3 percent last Telephone and Telegraph picked ions. , a result of the boom in the econ­ year to an all-time high of up a $50,000 pay hike and an But a survey by Business omy, rather than the govern­ $8,600. But after adjustment additional $25,000 in bonus for Week magazine found that most ment's anti-poverty programs. for the rise in prices, the gain of them were able to keep a big a total compensation of $559,Coupled with the economic in purchasing power for the step ahead of the rise in living 820. But the chairman of Amerexpansion, said Director Nat average family was only 3.9 costs last year through fatter Goldfinger of the AFL-CIO percent over 1967. pay checks, bigger bonuses and Department of Research, are Median earnings of white a growing assortment of other the greater number of jobs, re­ families in 1968 amoimted to forms of compensation. duction of unemployment and $8,937 and $5,360 for Negro The nation's biggest corpora­ higher wages. All these were families, or about 60 percent tion, General Motors, did well factors in lifting the millions of of that for whites. The bureau by its board chairman. His pay persons out of poverty, he em­ noted, however, that Negroes OAKLAND, Calif. —Con­ went up nearly $42,000 to phasized. cerned psychiatrists, psycholo­ have been gaining in income $225,000. In appreciation of gists and psychiatric social work­ Taking increases in the cost steadily for the past several his services, his annual bonus ers employed by Alameda of living into account, the gov­ years toward parity with white was raised $33,750 to $42,750. County have joined the Service ernment now sets the poverty workers. And on top of that, there level income for a non-farm The Census Bureau also re­ were various stock credits that Employees in hopes that higher salaries will help them maintain family of four at $3,553 in ported: brought his total compensation their professional standards. to $795,000. Two other GM The 40 professionals are with officials also topped the $700,the psychiatric clinic at Ala­ 000 mark. meda County's Highland Hospi­ Textile workers may be to­ tal. Psychiatrists hold M.D. de­ wards the bottom of industrial grees; psychologists have Ph.D. pay scales. But the chairman of degrees and social workers have Burlington Industries earned a masters' degrees. Leaders of state legislatures favor direct, popular election pay hike of $65,000 to bring of the President of the United States, according to a poll Their salaries in Alameda his base salary up to $225,000 taken by Nation's Business magazine. County average 7.5 percent be­ —plus an extra $12,467 in a The Chamber of Commerce publication surveyed delegates low other California metropoli­ profit-sharing plan. Four other to the National Conference of State Legislative Leaders and found that: Burlington executives were over tan areas for like professional the $100,000 mark in salary categories, SEIU Social Work­ • By a 6-1 margin, they favored changes in the present ers Local 535 reported. alone. Electoral College method of electing the President. Because of sub-standard sal­ • Two-thirds of those favoring a change support direct Uiere was no wage freeze at election of the President—far more than the number support­ the E. I. du Pont headquarters. aries, the count}' has been un­ ing any other plan. / J> Not only did its president get a able to fill many psychiatric • Of those favoring a direct vote, 75 percent were of the $62,000 pay raise to $193,300 posts, the union noted, and the (pinion that the houses of the legislature in which they serve and a $32,000 increase in his situation is expected to worsen would ratify a constitutional amendment to that effect. bonus to $117,000, but he also this summer when mental health received something called "divi­ care services will be expanded. Salury Hikes, Bonuses, Stoik Deuls Keep Top Exoiutives Aiive und Well Psychiatrists Join Service Workers In Salary Quest State Leaders in Support Of Direct Presidential Vote ican Telephone and Telegraph had to settle for a $50,000 sal­ ary increase, to $295,833. And Republic Steel's Chairman prac­ tically was in a rut with only a $7,500 salary increase to $322,500. Things were better in the dime store business, though, with the F. W. Woolworth chair­ man earning a $31,000 raise to $333,000. And in the soap field. Proctor and Gamble's president stayed ahead of rising living costs with a $100,000 pay raise to $425,000. The company also set aside $60,000 for him in something called a profit-sharing trust. That's more than $12,000 above what they put in the pre­ vious year. Business Week reports that companies are coming up with new varieties of stock option plans, including something called "phantom stock." This is intended to save an executive from paying for stock out of his own pocket to take advantage of a stock option. The company just "makes believe" he bought the stock and five of 10 years later pays him his "profits" in cash. At a General Motors stock­ holders' meeting, some killjoys proposed limiting bonuses to ex­ ecutives to 100 percent of base pay. GM's bonus and salary committee indignantly retorted that setting such a limit on com­ pensation would discoura^ ex­ ecutives from making a maxi­ mum effort �Oetober, 1969 SEAFARERS HLSS Lifeboat Class No. 25 studied hard during this evening review session the day before they took the test. Their hard work paid off as every man in the class passed with flying colors—most with 90% plus. LOG Trainee James Adkins, from Bakersfield, Calif., goes over his answer sheet with HLSS Instructor Tom Brooks as Chief Jack Slaughter, CoastGuard examiner, checks the.scores. More than half passed with scores of 100. ^^TRIUNEES WIN URBOH TICKEIS MORE TRAINEE CLASSES have earned their endorsements as qualified lifer FIVE boatmen after successfully completing a thorough program of classroom and prac­ Page Fifteen CLASS #24—(Front row, l-r): Roger Fleming, Alvin Martin, Jimmy Truitt, Edward Patfon, John Jordan, Manuel Johnson. (Second rpw): Charles Bailey, Richard Scott, James Higgins, James Shields. Michael Jez. (Third row): Willis Laimbert, John Weil, "Phillip Davis, Theodore Reim, Gary Saccucci. (Fourth row): Stanley Reed, Terry Shortridge, Pheo Smith, George Wilson, Robert Sickles. (Fifth row): Jay Bell, Caleb Leonard, B. Murphy, Tom Lovejoy, Wm. Hardage, C. A. Smith. tical instruction at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship at Piney Point. This latest group brings to welhoVer 1,000 thfe total number of trainees who have passed the Coast Guard examination and demonstrated their proficiency in lifeboats. ITie HLSS lifeboat course includes 14 hours of classroom instruction and 30 hours of practical experience in the boats. , UBsa CLASS #23—(Front row l-r): Jarry Barnes, Richard Knox, James Pearston. Richard Rucki, Guy Register, Horace Scott, Joe Szekely, Robert Davis. (Second row): Tony Bryant, Jeffrey Morgensen, Craig Day, Dennest Hamm, N. Parsons, Stan Cherry, Sid­ ney Vaiton. (Third row): Spencer Miller, Warwick Lambe, Charles Metzler, Phillip Barry, Bryan Dunlap, Vincent Riley. (Fourth row): Jose Vivas, Julio Evans, Johnny Trehern, Timothy Pearson. Most graduates had scores of more than 90 percent. CLASS #22—Donald Allison, Wallace Beckett, Julius Bounds, George Booker, Rob­ ert Boykin, Peter Cirillo, Larry Cole, Paul Crum, Leroy Fitchett, Gerald Garnto. Andrew Gore, Bruce Gray, James Gray, Patrick Grooms, Craig Huntley, Cecil Leasure, Theodore Lee, Michael Levan, Ercell Manuel, Wayne Moore, Gregory A. Nagel, Robert Patrick, William Pitt, Anthony Purdin, Glenn Roberts, Ray Roberts, James Sejda, Reginald Smith, Russell Standley, James O. Stanley Jr., and Garrett Wilson. CLASS #26—(Front row, l-r): Instructor Tom Brooks,- Dennis Edwards, Keith Dealer, Donald Layne, Samuel Bates. (Second row); Herbert Spencer, Michael Day, Kent McKenna, William Washington, Joray Dale. (Third row): Alan Hall, John Connelly, Marshall Cumberlidg^i Charles Blakley, Ronald Roper. (Top row): Mike Griffin, Joseph Sciacchitano, Donald Hall, Joseph Harris, Joseph Carter. Class #26 graduated 100%. CLASS #25—(Front row, l-r): Lloyd Vallery, Steven Foster, Rodney Couto, Ware Newby, Richard Sawart, Wendell Gettridge, Patrick Poinsotte. (Second row): Paul H. Juzang, Roger Williams, George Peteusky, Felipe Martinez, Daniel Herrick, Raymond Backer. (Third row): James McGovern, Robert Kisacky, Phillip Melfi, Kevin Flanagan, James Adkins, John Viarengo. (Fourth row): Kenneth E. Lloyd, Doyle W. Ellette, Ronald L. Forth, Daniel Monillas, Harold G. Cumbee. More than 1,000 young men have received lifeboat endorsements at the Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. f) �Pace Sixteen October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG T he 225 delegates who attended the re­ cent convention of the AfL-CIO Maritime Trades Department heard many speakers voice optimism that iong overdue reforms in the nation's maritime policies would soon be established. The delegates represented 7.5 million American workers in 42 national and international unions. On this page are photo highlights of the MTD Convention, ^ This was the scene at opening of the Eighth Constitutional Convention of the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department, The 225 delegates pledged to carry on the fight for a maritime program based on fair play to all segments of the maritime industry. The convention also dealt with a wide range of domestic isSues. Alvin Heaps, secretary-treasurer of RWDSU, chats with SlU Presi­ dent Paul Hall, MTD Becutive Secretary-Treasurer Peter McGavin, and SlUNA Vice President John Yarmola at convention recess. Robert Powell, Vice President Laborers International Union SlU President Paul Hall welcomes the convention lead-off speaker, AFL-CIO President George Meany, Meany strongly denounced the nomination of Judge Clement Haynsworth to the U.S. Supreme Court charging that he was "completely out of line with labor's philosophy on labor and civil rights," In the photo at left. President Hall greets Gov, Luis A, Ferre, of Puerto Rico, as Keith Terpe, president of the SlU of Puerto Rico, looks on. Gov, Ferre won support in his efforts to secure the right to vote in presidential elec­ tions for the 2,7 rhillion American citizens in Puerto Rico, Gov, Richard Hughes New Jersey SlUNA Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr greets Senator Har­ rison Williams (D-N,J,), Senator Williams was among the^many congressional leaders who spoke to delegates. Senators Gale W, McGee (D-Wyo,), left, and Frank E, Moss (D-Utah), center, chat with Dave Turner, secretary-treasiirer of Sheet Metal Workers, during a convention break. MTD Administrator O, William Moody, left, holds a discussion with Senator Joseph Montoya (D-N,M,). Senator Montoya was a speaker at the convention. Morris Weisberger, SlUNA vice president, gets together with Page Groton, of the Boilermakers Union, for a chat as another session of the MTD Convention prepares to open. Sen, Charles E, Goodell (R-N,Y,) Sen, Albert Gore (D-Tenn.) Archibald King, Chairman Isthmian Lines Rep, Edward A, Garmatz (D-Md.) Sen. Ralph Yarborough (D-Texas) Mayor James Tate Philadelphia, Pa. Sen, John O. Pastore (D.R.I,) Rep. James J. Howard (D-N.J.) Sharing table during convention session were Don Rotan of Marine Cooks (left), SlU Sec.-Treas, Al Kerr and Ed Turner, of the MCS. Seated at Kerr's �October, 1969 SEATARERS LOG Pag© President George Meany keyed the opening of the Eighth Convention of the AFL-CIO to meet the chal­ lenges of the 1970s. Meany reviewed the events of the 1960s and told the delegates: "We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go." T he Eighth Convention of the AFLCIO, recently concluded In Atlan­ tic City, put the American labor movement in high gear to meet the challenges of the 1970s with a pro­ gram designed to meet the needs of the nation and encourage an expanding trade union movement. Pictured on this page are some of the scenes of the convention. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey spelled out a pointby-poiht indictment of the present Administration, and urged a new drive for liberal, progressive programs for the nation. SlU President Paul Hall greets Astronaut Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. Aldrin narrated a film of the historic moon landing for the delegates, and told them the skills and tax dollars of American workers made a large contribution to the success of the program. h r AFL-CIO President Meany and Vice President A. Philip Randolph get together for a discussion during a brief convention break. SlU President Paul Hall addresses Convention delegates, AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland is at right. Mrs. Golda Meir Prime Minister of Israel Getting together for an informal chat with San Francisco tvtayor Joseph Alioto, right, are SlUNA Vice Presidents Ed Turner and John Yarmola, and SlUNA Secretary-Treasurer Al Kerr, There was time for levity, too, as Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey shares a joke with Secretary-Treasurer Robert Diefenbach, left, and President Ed S. Miller, center, of HRE&BIU. Melvin Laird U.S. Secretary of Defense Bayard Rustin, Director A. Philip Randolph Institute Newly-elected AFL-CIO Council members pose with top officers. From left: Vice Presidents Thomas W. Gleason, Peter Fosco, John F. Griner, Charles Luna, Jerry Wurf, Sec.-Treas. Lane Kirkland, Pres. George Meany, and Vice Presidents Frederick O'Neal, Louis Stulberq, Peter Bommarito, Floyd Smith. George P. Shultz U.S. Secretary of Labor �Page Eighteen SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 ENGINE DEPARTMENT ^"11™™.,,,^ ' ®fv- 3* last year alone, an _ engine department • 1 fiSj if!' the training that enables e g ' BSiillf Ti/ " i5' .3 sonnel to man ^ program, like t^ose . „.. ^, T:heengiin«upgrato^ V > ,uneensiii«"i'&—° and^ steward: stewarQ.l ^ ... j— -maat^ned to^provt^^^^^a„,e^ to^provr^^ ., , Nmaint^ned ^^ , ^ : i:iLSs }r.Wng ' aepartmeptr . profi- S^EIBB^EH; pT.;°s «»~;,:E,ssss: • •':• • SrSia riaiOT -tmer^yei^^^ Coast Guard Examiner D ^ completed tra.n.ng for. an eie •- Crovetto, and R. Wiiiiamb 1„ brth ett»^ !SSrin.tmt»r. SiSliS'Sit 5- «"»tions. .^.M.E.D. Glass September In the back row (l-r) are Fred Tlerney. ;:^| ' Cox. Chester and William Ohler. ::; /e .. :J ard Donovan. Tin^thy ® Lawrence r • : v;«v:row: Coast Guard Warren Lander. ^ ;> r j son. Michael Dawson, . .| Harold Downs, and E. Polk and T. Vincent. front are Artie Banes. H. Salazar, t. . _ , • . • .'• • ••••-• b:M.E.D:g«s i s :. Ne«. '•' gel . !' i.i'v-' • , ..••,• • . -.,'•' Ml ^MlXS* Instriictbr Ed ,Ellison, SS.jKsSSSH?SB. ;rP..o.hy Speld-r. Beckley. . Sant Arthur, Ennis Charles. Charles. Steven oi thpmas Duke, and ^ary , ,, <:? Corde,. ,^"9- P . , , ^^ , • ^ . - ..: ,. •,. . , ... ",r �SEAFARERS October, 1969 Air/iae Pilots Score Sofsty Hazards, Propose Own Solutions to Industry ATLANTA—The aviation As chairman of ALPA's air industry "is very late" in facing traffic control committee, he up to mounting safety problems stated that controller and cock­ and it cannot expect continued pit workloads are "intolerable." progress imtil it solves them, The control system, Muirheid President Charles H. Ruby of said, is converting pilots into the Air Line Pilots warned here parrots, "which are birds that recently. talk a lot but don't fly well." Captain Earl R. Waggoner, ALPA insists that these prob­ chairman of the union's objects lems be solved and it will con­ tinue to propose solutions at detection committee, said a re­ safety meetings and before con­ duction of airplane hijacking gressional hearings, Ruby told calls for defensive equipment the union's annual Air Safety on aircraft and a means of re­ turning hijackers for criminal Forum. prosecution. The four-day forum, which He expressed an opinion that Ruby keynoted, dealt with such , frequency of violence on planes critical problems as air traffic is directly related to the public­ control, congestion, certification ity it gets and urged news media of airports and airport man­ to "realize the disservice they agers, collision avoidance and do" by playing up hijacking. cabin safety. The forum was attended by more than 400 pilots and repre­ sentatives of aircraft manufac­ turers, airlines and government. The union's Steward and Stew­ ardess Division also held its an­ nual forum here at the same time. Until the industry develops WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO collision prevention techniques. Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirk­ Ruby pointed out, the collision land has been named by De­ h^ard must be minimized by fense Secretary Melvin R. Laird enlarging old airports and build­ to a 16-member panel that will ing new ones. make a year-long study of the The airport danger, he noted, Pentagon's management, re­ is demonstrated by the fact that search, procurement and deci­ jet aircraft are regularly being sion-making machinery. squeezed into 4,500 and 5,000The panel, headed by Gilbert foot runways when ALPA's W. Fitzhugh, chairman of the analysis, based on pilot experi­ board of Metropolitan Life In­ ence, dictates 6,500 feet as a surance Company, will then safe minimum. make recommendations for re­ The forum received a num­ forms. Educators, attorneys and ber of reports from ALPA's business executives make up the various committees which func­ bulk of the panel. tion throughout the year in as­ Its formation comes at a time sembling material on safety and when the Defense Department seeking ways to improve it. has been imder criticism from Traffic Control Needs Congress for underestimating Captain Clyde Muirheid, Jr., costs of major programs. In announcing the panel's reported that congested voice makeup. Laird said he was con­ frequencies, inefficient use of airspace and an intermix of fident that its work "will enable planes with widely varying per­ the department to perform its formance capabilities are parts nation^ security mission better, ^ of the air traffic control problem and save the taxpayer money by ' "in most urgent need of correc­ eliminating wasteful practices of the past." tion." Kirkland Assigned To Study Panel On Defense Costs ./! r Tl • , , ANYTIME-ANYIVHifti ^ MEAliS NOMORESHfPS Captain Vic Hewes, chair­ man of the rescue and fire com­ mittee, announced that the National Fire Protecticm Asso­ ciation has for the first time set requirements for fire and rescue equipment at airports that meet ALPA standards. Equ^ment Nfl He said a committee survey revealed that 22 airports han­ dling twin-engine jet service and nine handling three-engine jets had no fire and rescue equip­ ment as of March 1969. Ruby, on the recommenda­ tion of the union's board, has notified the managers of the 31 airports, that ALPA members will make every effort to discon­ tinue operations at these air­ ports by May 1970 unless firecrash equipment is installed by them. The Stewards . and Steward­ esses Division forum heard Rob­ ert J. Serling, an aviation author and air safety consultant, urge airlines to strengthen the safety messages delivered by cabin attendants to passengers. Pleading for safety conscious­ ness, he said, "If you tolerate carelessness, indifference, lack of responsibility, you have no right to criticize any one else in aviation for compromising safety.'' •' r- Page Ninet LOG 12,000 Carolinians March In Demand for Union Jobs RALEIGH, N.C. — About 12,000 union members marched 25 abreast down Raleigh's main street here in an unprecedented demonstration of trade union solidarity in support of unionwon wages, standards and work­ ing conditions. Building tradesmen marched shoulder to shoulder with shop and office workers from Me­ morial Auditorium to the capitol and back again. Unionists of white, black and Indian origin —about 20 percent were Ne­ groes—took part in the march and in meetings with state offi­ cials and private employers. The North Carolina AFLCIO and the state Building and Construction Trades Council sponsored the march to protest the importation of non-union labor to construct more than $681 million in new facilities for the Carolina Power and Light Company, the state's big­ gest public utility. From all over the state, work­ ers converged on Fayetteville St. for the demonstration. Many of them bore signs demanding, "Jobs—We Want Jobs — We Want Union Jobs." Men and women, some carry­ ing children and pushing baby carriages, lined-up for nearly a mile behind the march leaders. Pausing before the power com­ pany's headquarters, the demon­ strators pushed on to fill the four-block parklike setting of the capitol. Thousands of spectators lined the streets and waved from win­ dows. Some returned the V-forvictory sign, many applauded the signs and posters carried by the marchers. One union committee met with power company spokes­ men, another presented a reso­ lution to an aide of Governor Robert W. Scott (D) calling on Scott to use the state's influence to prevent destruction of ^ionwon standards. Carolina P and L recently awarded construction contracts in Asheville, Wilmington, Roxboro, Lumberton and Bruns­ wick county to Brown and Root Construction Co., Texas build­ ers accused of discrimination against unions. A company spokesman told newsmen it will employ workers "without re­ gard to whether they are mem­ bers of any union." ^ Baek Pay Awm-d For K4 Cmphyee Totals $35,000 BUFFALO—^A member of the Service Employees who was fired after he had a heated argu­ ment with his immediate boss at a Veterans Administration Hospital was ordered reinstated with full backpay and benefits estimated at $35,000. Thfr victory for Frank A. Palumbo of 'SEIU Local 227 in Buffalo culminated a four-year fight by the union. The final decision was handed down by the U.S. Civil Service Commis­ sion Board of Appeals and Re­ view. Pdumbo had been discharged in January 1965 after he was charged with making "certain disrespectful remarks" to his supervisor. The appeals board foimd that Palumbo was in a work situation "inappropriate to his condition" and that the relationship be­ tween him and his supervisor was "unacceptably poor." It further noted that "these things constituted substantial provoca­ tion." The backpay awarded to Pal­ umbo amounted to nearly $29,000 and accumulated sick leave and annual leave brougjit the total to more than $35,000, Lo­ cal 227 President James E. Lindsay reported. 12,000 members of North Carolina unions joined to march in historic demonstration for union conditions and to protest the award by Carolina Power and Light Company of a multi-million dollar construc­ tion contract to a non-union employer, the Brown and Root Company. �Page Twenty Union-Busting by J. P. Stevens Hit In Seventh Adveise Ruling by NLHB WASHINGTON—J. P. Stev­ ens and Co. has, for the seventh time, been found guilty of vio­ lating the legal rights of employ­ ees to join or form a union of their own choosing. The latest finding against the big textile firm—a. major gov­ ernment contractor—^was by Robert E. Mullin, trial examin­ er for the National Labor Rela­ tions Board. Mullin found after five days of hearings that offi­ cials "at every level" of Stevens' Gulistan plant at Statesboro, Ga., joined in a campaign of threats and firings to defeat the Textile Workers Union of America. He recommended that Stev­ ens be ordered to bargain with the union on the basis of cards signed by a majority of employ­ ees, and also because manage­ ment illegally smashed the on­ ions majority and caused it to lose an election. The examiner ruled, subject to NLRB review, that Stevens must reinstate three fired union supporters with full backpay to the date of their discharge; em­ ploy a woman whose job appli­ cation it rejected because her brother and brother-in-law were union members, and pay her for all lost time. The company also would be directed to: • Mail a copy of the NLRB order to every plant employee. • Post copies in conspicuous places for 60 consecutive days. • Read the order to all em­ ployees during working time, by departments and shifts, or let a board agent do so. OclDber, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Feeders on the Robin Gray • Give the union and its rep­ majority but rather by a desire resentatives reasonable access to "to gain time within which to bulletin boards for a one-year destroy the union's majority." The NLRB's right to issue a period. bargaining order in such circum­ TWUA President William Pollock said that Stevens has un­ stances has been upheld by the successfully fou^t every ex­ Supreme Court in four other aminer's decision in the seven cases. In April, the NLRB asked litigated cases, every NLRB or­ that Stevens be cited for con­ der and every decision that has tempt oi court for refusing to reached the courts. It has been compelled in addition to pay comply with two previous or­ nearly $1 million to date to ders of a federal appeals court Members of the efficient steward department aboard the SlU-conworkers it has fired in violation to stop interfering with employ­ tracted Robin Gray relax on deck as the vessel nears the Panama Ca­ ee rights at other plants. A deci­ nal. From left are Carlton Grimes, steward; Albert Kennedy, messman; of the law. sion has not been announced. Angelo Reyes, chief cook, and Barney Johnson, who sailed as baker. The latest findings against Stevens stem from charges of anti-union actions during a TWUA organizing campaign at Statesboro 17 months ago. The imion applied for recog­ nition on the basis of signed cards in February 1968 and was turned down. It applied again WASHINGTON—The U.S. tended to build grassroots busi­ sions that have required com­ in March, after more employ­ Chamber of Commerce has ness support" for the national panies to negotitate with unions ees had been signed, and again asked businessmen to use their organization's program, the before introducing "cost-reduc­ its request for recognition was "influence" with the Nixon Ad­ Chamber's labor relations man­ ing methods" and before clos­ refused. Stevens insisted on an ministration to "reform" the Na­ ager said. ing "a factory that was losing election, whose result was later tional Labor Relations Board The "NLRB Reform" pam­ money" and asserts that "free­ set aside by the NLRB re­ so as "to protect the right of phlet boasts that the Chamber's dom is limited" when the NLRB gional director because the management to manage . . . "massive promotional cam­ tells a company it can't warn company refused to provide an without undue interference from paign" has "inspired" numerous its employees during an election employee name-and-address list, union bosses." campaign that "excessive union articles in the press. as it was legally required to do. The Chamber's top priority And for those who don't want demands" can force a company Said the examiner in his rul­ legislative goal for what it calls to bother reading the three pages to close down or lay off people. ing: "... from the outset of the "labor law reform" is to strip of solid type in the pamphlet, "And on top of all this," a organizational campaign until the NLRB of all jurisdiction the Cham^r has a cartoon cartoon page emphasizes, "there after the election, every level of over unfair labor practices. It booklet, entitled "What Is Push­ is the burden of more and inore the [company's] supervisory also wants to rewrite the basic ing Up Prices and Holding Back strikes and slowdowns" causing hierarchy was involved in num­ federal labor law to eliminate Progress?" "inconvenience and hardship" erous . . . acts of interference, all language "encouraging" col­ It complains of NLRB deci- to businessmen. lective bargaining. And it is all "because the restraint and coercion." Unfortunately—from the NLRB has been going too far." The company's insistence on The belief that collective bar­ a board election, the examiner Chamber's viewpoint—the pres­ ent Congress shows no signs of gaining contributes to industrial ruled, was motivated "not by a enacting union-busting legisla­ peace, the Chamber suggests, is good faith doubt" of the union's tion. So the Chamber is starting one of those "naively Utopian" to beat the drums for the elec­ .concepts of the early 1930s. The tion of "reform-minded" con­ experience, it concludes, has gressmen and senators in the been "quite the contrary." 1970 elections. Nevertheless, the Chamber NEW YORK — Back pay But the business federation won by the Textile Workers adds, "collective bargaining is a isn't putting all its union-busting Union of America for em­ useful institution" even though eggs in a single legislative bas­ ployees of J. P. Stevens and Congress shouldn't "encourage" ket. Company, who were discrimi­ it. HAMILTON, Bemrada—^An insurance company here is It suggests in a new "NLRB Some of the Chamber's other nated against by that firm for soliciting building contractors throughout the United States announced goals for changing Reform" pamphlet that "the union activity in violation of the to sign up for a strike insurance program endorsed by the least disruptive and most grad­ federal labor law include: law, is now nearing the $1 mil­ Associated General Contractors of America. ual approach" would be for the lion mark. President William • A ban on union recogni­ The program was approved by the AGC at its March President to appoint people to tion by card check. Pollock announced. convention and designed to inden^y contractors for losses the labor board who would • Outlawing of information­ Pollock said a second round from work stoppages due to any type of labor dispute. bring about the changes that the al picketing. of claims against Stevens has Five-year individual policies are being offered by Arch of Commerce favors. Chamber been settled, with 18 workers • Allowing employers to sue Insurance Company Ltd. of Hamilton, Bermuda. Policy "The businessman has great sharing a gross payment of a union for damages. Applications accepted by October 31, 1969 will become ef­ influence" with Congress, the $187,798.71 in lost wages. fective Jan. 1, 1970 if there are enough applications to • Removing all restriction on pamphlet notes. It then adds Combined with an earlier settle­ what an employer can teh his constitute a "sufficient spread of risk." However, no claims pointedly, "He sometimes may ment involving 71 workers, the workers before a union repre­ will be payable before July 1, 1970. even have the confidence of key total paid out by J. P. Steveps sentation election. Contractors can select policies that will give them insur­ figures in the Administration, in line with National Labor ance indemnities of from $300 to $120,000 a day, with • Prohibiting unions from which today may afford the most Relations Board directives now premiums ranging from $900 for the minimum coverage to fining members who work dur­ immediate reform of the stands at $854,784.27. $360,000 for the maximum, plus a minimum premium re­ ing a strike. NLRB." tained by Arch Insurance Company. The $1 million mark is cer­ • Limiting penalties that can To further its twin goals of tain to be passed when the J. N. Matich of Colton, Calif., who headed an 18-month be imposed by the NLRB. putting pressure on the Nixon NLRB's order in a third Stevens study by an AGC committee, is chairman of the Policyholders' • Compelling unions to take Administration to pack the case, involving 17 more work­ Advisory Committee. He said that the insurance plan should a secret ballot strike vote when NLRB and trying to arouse ers, is complied with. Pollock expedite settlement of labor disputes and bring about "less requested by management. public opinion for anti-labor leg­ said. exorbitant increases in construction labor costs." • Returning "management islation, the Chamber has step­ The policy defines a labor dispute as including any union Two of the workers benefiting ped up its propaganda efforts. from the most recent payments rights" to employers. organizing, union recognition drives, various forms of boy­ cotts and picketing, strikes during the term of an agreement • Changing rules for deter­ As it did last year, it will take by Stevens collected checks in or during negotiation of a contract and lockouts of a multi­ a Raveling roadshow of anti- excess of $20,000 before taxes'. mining units to take into ac­ employer group. labor speakers to put on "labor Juanita Faulkenberry of Great count management as well as In promoting its policies in the United States the insurance law reform workshops" in cities Falls, S. C., received $20,444 union desires. company stresses the advantage of a non-U.S. company as throughout the natiop. while the award to John R. These and other changes, the "beyond the reach of American labor unions or political The workshops, co-sponsored Fulbrig^t of the Dunean Plant Chaniber said, are needed "to pressures." by state and local chambers of in Greenville, S. C., was $20,- restore balance to labor-man­ commerce, "are primarily in­ 369.70, Pollock said. agement relations." Strike Insurance Plugged Building Contractors Chamber of Commerce Mounts Drive To Make NLRB Management's Tool Nearly $1 Million Won in Back Pay At J. P. Stevens -f �October, 1969 SEAFARERS Farm Wages Still On Lowest Level Says Labor Dept WASHINGTON — Farm 4- workers still are among the na­ tion's lowest paid wage eamI' I ers, the Labor Department noted. The national average farm wage for 1968 was $1,43 an hour, without room or board, up 10 cents from 1967, the depart­ f ment reported. It compared this with the production workers' average of $3.01 an hour in manufacturing, an increase of 18 cents over the 1967 wage. Production workers hired in off-the-farm plants to process farm products were better paid, but still were not up to the aver­ age pay for manufacturing, the report showed. Workers in froz­ en fruits and vegetables aver­ aged $2.23 an hour, up 13 cents in a year's time. Workers in the canned, cured and frozen fruits industry averaged $2.36, an in­ crease of 15 cents an hour. Both hourly and piece rates increased for most of the 172 farm labor categories reported I c. on by state employment security agencies. Passage of Fair Labor Stand­ ards Act amendments in 1966 extended minimum wage cover­ age to a limited number of farm workers. The first $1 minimum moved to $1.15 in 1968 and to $1.30 by February 1, 1969. The act covers about 400,000 farm workers—about a third of the armual average number of hired farmhands. A 1968 Labor Department study showed that the federal minimum wage for farm work had a significant impact on wage rates. Despite this trend, more than half the areas still have some workers employed below the minimum, the department said. I 1^ i- LOG Page Twrenljr One Would Throw Enforcement into Courts Mew Job-Bias Plan Called Bights Sarrender WASHINGTON —An Ad­ ministration proposal to send job discrimination cases into the federal courts has been termed "another civil rights surrender by members of the Senate Labor Committee. The Nixon proposal would authorize the Equal Employ­ ment Opportunity Commission to go to court to enforce anti­ discrimination laws when con­ ciliation fails. It would not, however, give the EEOC the power to issue cease-and-desist orders on its own, as would a labor-backed bill sponsored by Senators Har­ rison Williams (D-N.J.). and Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.). Various EEOC officials have sought the power to issue ceaseand-desist orders since the com­ mission was created under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. However, William H. Brown III, the present EEOC chair­ man, testified in favor of the Administration bill, everi though he had termed cease-and-desist orders "absolutely essential" during his confirmation testi­ mony after he was appointed last April. Brown testified on the Williams-Javits bill just three days after the Administration pro­ posal was presented to the Sen­ ate by Senator Winston L. Prouty (R-Vt.). Javits recalled Brown's testi­ mony of last April on the im­ portance of the EEOC's having cease-and-desist orders and Sen­ ator Walter F. Mondale (DMinn.) referred to a speech Brown had made the previous week in which he reaffirmed the necessity. "It appears to me you've had some kind of death- Getting Trimmed |tr SlU Pensioner T. E. Muller takes time out for a trim and a chat with barber Jimmy Gaeteni during one of his regular visits to SlU Head­ quarters. Brother Muller sailed for many years as chief steward be­ fore his retirement to the beach. He last shipped aboard the Kent. bed conversion," Mondale told Brown. Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.) cited Administration actions in regard to southern textile mills, voting rights and school desegregation and told Brown the Administration pro­ posal on the EEOC "is just an­ other surrender, purely and sim­ ply. It's another backdown by the Administration in the civil rights field and you're an un­ witting handmaiden," Eagleton said. "You must have a trou­ bled conscience." "I assure you, Senator, I sleep well at night," Brown countered in admitting his previous stand. Brown said he considered the Administration plan "a more effective and quicker approach." Brown first announced his preference for the Administra­ tion plan after meeting with two Justice Department aides. That meeting came a few days after Brown issued the call for cea^eand-desist orders in the speech quoted by Mondale. Later in his testimony, Brown said he had been for the court method all along and said he had fought for it through the highest ranks of the Adminis­ tration. One of the Justice Depart­ ment officials with whom Brown had met. Deputy Attorney Gen­ eral Richard D. Kleindienst, testified that 15 years of prac­ ticing before the National Labor Relations Board convinced him that cases would move faster through the federal courts. "A lawyer can assure his client of three to four years delay in an NLRB case," Klein­ dienst said. "In the federal dis­ trict courts, however, a decision can be obtained in nine months to a year and more importance is attached to it than to a ceaseand-desist order from an admin­ istrative agency." Two of Brown's fellow mem­ bers of the EEOC disagreed sharply with this position. "Any legislation that grants less than cease-and-desist au­ thority to our commission would be the perpetration of a cruel hoax on women and minorities in this country," said Clifford L. Alexander, Jr. Alexander is a former chairman of the EEOC who resigned last spring after Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (R-Ill.) accused him of "harassing" business. Another EEOC member, Vmcente T. Ximenes, called the Williams-Javits bill "the most comprehensive and meaningful job discrimination legislation ever proposed." Hearings on the WilliamsJavits bill will continue after the congressional recess, with the AFL-CIO scheduled to testify then. Besides authoriang the cease- and-desist orders, the WilliamsJavits bill would also give the EEOC authority to investigate discrimination charges brought by employees of state and local governments. It would also transfer federal discrimination cases from the Civil Service Commission to the EEOC. Discrimination against public employees in both the local and federal governments was brought up by two studies re­ leased during the hearings on the Williams-Javits bill. President Nixon issued an executive order urging all fed­ eral departments and agencies to tak? the initiative in "con­ tinuing affirmative programs" to prohibit discrimination. Nixon also proposed recruitment and special training to help the dis­ advantaged. Nixon's executive order was accompanied by a Civil Service Commission report which said that while members of minority groups are broadly employed by the federal government, most of them hold menial jobs. The report, signed by Robert Hampton, chairman of the Civil Service Commission, said a re­ cent study showed that almost 20 percent of 500,000 federal employees were minority group members. Non-white employ­ ment in the federal government is almost 50 percent higher than in the nation's work force over­ all, the report said. In a similar study, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights re­ ported that serious job discrimi­ nation exists among employees of local and state governments. The report concluded that such employees should be brought under the protection of the EEOC. The survey, which covered 243,000 employees, said minor­ ity-group members are denied access to responsible govern­ ment jobs and in many localities "are totally excluded from em­ ployment except in the most menial capacity." The report said discrimina­ tion was highest in police and fire departments of the 600 local and state governments surveyed. "Some 27 percent of all central city jobs surveyed were in these two (police and fire) depart­ ments," the report said, "but only 7 percent of all Negro em­ ployees were either policemen or firemen, and very few of these held officer rank." Jerry Wurf, president of the State, County and Municipal Employees, said his union joined the Civil Rights Com­ mission in calling on Congress to extend federal anti-discrimi­ nation laws to employees of state and local governments. "We sincerely hope that the commission's concern will result in a concerted campaign to bring to these 8 million forgot­ ten working Americans the same protection against job dis­ crimination that is available to workers in private industry," Wurf said. AFL-CIO Charges: Runaway Shops Supported By Use of Federal Grants WASHINGTON—The AFLCIO has charged that federal funds are being used to encour­ age "runaway companies" along the Mexican border and the "erosion of U. S. jobs and wages." Legislative Director Andrew J. Biemiller strongly protested a $60,000 grant from the Depart­ ment of Housing and Urban De­ velopment to help establish a bi-national planning commission for El Paso, Tex., and Juarez, Mexico. He asked Representative Wil­ liam A. Barrett (D-Pa.) chair­ man of the housing subcommit­ tee of the House Banking Com­ mittee, to investigate the award which "is the second such grant" made by HUD along the Mexi­ can border. ExplMting Mexicans The planning conunissions are ostensibly set up to deal with common problems of wa­ ter, sewer, housing and other facilities. But, Biemiller stres­ sed, "the end result is that the U.S. government is helping to subsidize a growing abandon­ ment of U. S. plants and work­ ers and, in turn, to exploit Mex­ ican workers for the sole bene­ fit of U. S. corporate profits." Biemiller noted that in Juarez, RCA is building a $7 million plant "which will employ 3,000 Mexican workers who will as­ semble electronic components for sale in the American mar­ ket." He charged that "the sole purpose of the plant being in Juarez is to take advantage of its sanctuary from American standards." Other major firms are doing likewise. "Despite the growing threat posed by this mass loss of jobs," Biemiller said, "HUD sees fit to financially assist areas whose problems are aggravated be­ cause workers are recruited throughout Mexico and brou^t to these border communities to work in plants at jobs that were recently held by Americans." Biemiller asked the subcom­ mittee to urge HUD to halt any further border community grants and suggested that the Housing Act be amended "to make clear the intent of Congress was not to encourage the loss of U.S. jobs or to undercut American stand­ ards in wnges and working con­ ditions." �•I ^ SEAFARERS Page Twenty Two LOG Jobs and Training for 4,000Blatks Set by Chiiago Building Trades Plan CHICAGO—The Chicago Building and Construction Trades Council is moving ahead vwth a four-point program to provide job and training oppor­ tunities for 4,000 more black workers in the city's construction industry. The council announced it would open an office in Chica­ go's largely Negro South Side to proceed with the recruiting program despite rejection of the plan by the Coalition for United Community Action, made up of a number of black organizations in the city. The plan was spelled out by construction unions and man­ agement in a series of negotia­ tions with the coalition follow­ ing demonstrations that closed projects here involving nearly $100 million. The proposal, issued jointly by the Building and Construc­ tion Trades Council and the Building Construction Employ­ ers Association, offered to; • "Endeavor to obtain em­ ployment at once" for 1,000 qualified black journeymen and asked the coalition to help re­ cruit them. • Find probationary employ­ ment for another 1,000 blacks with at least two years experi­ ence in a particular craft and assign them after 30 days to the equivalent of the apprenticeship rate applicable to their experi­ ence. • Recruit 1,000 blacks with no previous training or experi­ ence for a one-month prepara­ tory training period along the lines of the Outreach program to help them enter the existing apprenticeship programs of all crafts. • Launch an on-the-job training program for 1,000 more Negroes who choose not to en­ ter pre-apprenticeship training or who fail to pass the tests in­ volved. In full-page advertisements in Chicago newspapers, the em­ ployers and unions outlined their program and recited continuing efforts to attract black workers into the construction industry. Checks Being Held Income tax refund checks are being held for the SIU members listed below by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Building, 450 Harrison Street, San Francisco, Cali­ fornia, 94105. Waiter Andiony Angutiis M. Browning (Two Chedts) Wilitem T. Cooper (Two Checks) Pder E. Ddan (Two ClMcks) Davis W. Dwyer Chflrics R. HnmiiMd, Ir. Pao C. Lee (Two Checks) Colin A. McPhem Joseph Pftette (Two Checks) This is achieved through the Apprenticeship Informatitm Center set up by the federal government aad in cooperation with the Urban League under the Apprenticeship Outreach program, which has placed 459 apprentices over a 3(Kmonth pe­ riod. "We have organized bus trips for hi^ school students to job sites," the union-industry state­ ment said. "Want ads for skilled tradesmen are run daily. We have worked through social agencies in the black commu­ nity and through the Ulinois State Employment Service. We have done our best to alleviate the labor shortage in every way we know. Yet all these efforts have resulted in pitifully few black applicants—^far fewer than the number we have been ready to accept into our ranks." The Coalition for United Community Action, whose orig­ inal demands were for employ­ ment of blacks eventually in 30 percent of all construction jobs, rejected the union-industry pro­ posals as "unrealistic" and "totally unacceptable." A spokesman for the coali­ tion, the Rev. C. T. Vivian, in­ dicated a central issue in the dispute was the control of hiring and training. "We would not be in control of our own program, and we must reject it," Vivian was quoted by the Associated Press. The union and industry nego­ tiators advised the coalition that they would welcome its partici­ pation in dealing with recruit­ ing, counseling and motivational problems but would not accede to demands that would put re­ sponsibility for hiring, training and construction "in inexperi­ enced hands." Thomas Murray, president of the Building Trades Council, and Arthur O'Neil, president of WASHINGTON — Appren­ ticeship programs in 1968 en­ rolled a record 103,000 en­ trants, almost 6,000 more than a year earlier, Labor Secretary George P. Shultz reported. Yet, the number of skUled workers being graduated by the programs is still not meeting the needs of the nation's growing economy, Shultz said. He noted that the appren­ ticeship training system certified 33,700 completions last year— a 9 percent decline "at a time when skilled workers were in great demand." The record number of re^ trants in apprenticeship pro­ grams will have no immediate effect on the need for skilled workers, he added, since most apprentices work four-year terms to gain necessary skills. "Thus, the bulk of comple­ Newest Gallon Club Member the employers' association, both expressed disappointment that the coalition leaders had "sum­ marily dismissed" the proposals. O'Neil called the plan a "break­ through" that could add 25,000 skilled black craftsmen to the construction program in the city over the next five years. In developments elsewhere: • The Black Construction Coalition in Pittsburgh withheld further job-site demonstrations as negotiations continued with construction employers and un­ ions over a job and training 'Mt didn't hurt a bit," says AB Alfred M. Peiton at SIU clinic, as program. The Pittsburgh plan Nurse Mary Larsen displays pint of blood which made Seafarer Peiton differs in detail from the Chi­ the 10th member of SIU Gallon Club. Peiton, who sails in the deck cago proposals, but contains department, says more Seafarers should visit the SIU clinic and donate similar provisions for recruiting blood to protect themselves, their families and other Seafarets and admitting black journey­ who might require the precious fluid in a medical emergency. men, for pre-apprenticeship pro­ grams and for on-the-job train­ ing. ' • In Philadelphia, Business Manager James L. Loughlin of the local Building and Construc­ "Organized labor had no WASHINGTON — Twenty tion Trades Council took sharp Latin American trade unionists skilled, trained people to under­ exception to frequently-quoted •graduates of the American stand, the broad economic prob­ estimates showing a dispropor­ Institute for Free Labor Devel­ lems of their own countries." tionately low rate of minority opment's third training program "You are the third group to employment in the various for labor economists — were go through this long, extensive trades. Loughlin appeared be­ urged by AFL-CIO leaders to AIFLD course . . . hopefully to fore a Labor Department panel be the "voice of the people" answer the argument of Cara­ on the Philadelphia pilot plan when they return to their own cas," said Beime, who is secre­ tary-treasurer of the AIFLD. announced by the department nations. The course for the group was "You are the trained, skilled which would in effect set quotas conducted by the AIFLD in for employment of minorities cooperation with Georgetown people with the overall view of economics and the politics of under government construction University. this hemisphere: contract. He put total member­ In addressing the graduates. "Maybe there will be just one ship of unions in the council Communications Workers Presi­ of you who will go back and say at about 36,000 and said a re­ dent Joseph A. Beime accused T want to get into the power view of the individual crafts re­ certain Latin American labor vealed that more than 11,000— ministers of "hypocrisy" in stmcture <rf my nation,' who will recognize that people are over 30 percent—are blacks. promises to seek labor participa­ more important than profits— Without considering the Labor­ tion in making policy affecting human rights much more im­ ers' Union, which has a sub­ the people. When the question was raised portant than property rights." stantial proportion of Negro at the last conference of the Role of Unions members, the remaining craft labor ministers in Caracas as to AFL-CIO Research Director jurisdiction in the city includes •how effectively these promises Nat Goldfinger told the audi­ about 12 percent black workers, were being carried out, Beime ence that "trade unions serve to he said. said the "official" answer finally humanize the economic system came: —^to represent the needs and aspirations of workers on the job and also before the agencies Advertisers Shut Off of government and the legisla­ Scab LA Newspaper ture." To do this properly he said, tions this year represent mostly Sea­ "unions must be armed with the LOS ANGELES those who began four years needed facts and figures . . . gram and Calvert distillers ago," Shultz said, "and we with the needed concepts and announced plans to shut off only had 68,500 new starts in analysis to advance the interest the Hearst Herald-Examiner 1965." —^to the cheers of 2,000 strik­ of the workers and the popula­ -He expressed optimism oyer tion in general." ing and locked-out newspaper current figures that indicate a unionists. Qass representative Aviz do cancellation rate of 38 percent, A. Valcnte of Brazil urged the The two distillers said they "a heartening note when you will discontinue advertising in AIFLD to organize and finance consider that it is usually almut the Hearst paper when scat­ similar training courses in Latin 50 percent most of the time." American countries, saying, tered ads still pending under The 238,000 apprentices reg­ "Our unions need hundreds of contracts have run, reported istered with the Labor Depart­ technicians in all fields and at William J. Farson, executive ment and state apprenticeship vice president of the News­ all levels of knowledge, especial­ agencies as of January 1 also ly in economics. But we can­ paper Guild. was the highest since records on not wait for long. We need them the programs were kept, begin­ Farson said negotiations ning in 1941. continue with five other ad­ in short order." CJraduates of the program vertisers to pull put of the Minorities accounted for 7 Herald-Examiner, which has cmne from Argentina, Brazil, percent of the total nun^r of been publishing with the aid Chile, Costa Rica, Dcaninican registered aj^rentices and slight­ of professional strikebreakers Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador* ly more than half of these were Htmduras, Mexico, Nicarogiun^ for 18 months. Negroes, the Labor Department Panama, Peru and said. Apprentice Program Increases But Need Outruns Graduates / October, 1969 AiFLD Graduates' Role Set: Become 'Yoke of the People' [l �October, 1969 Umpire Calls Break Legal In Beef On World Series J J •\ SEAFARERS i PALliMDES PARK, Calif.—Sargent Industries violated the ground rules of a contract when it threw out a practice of giving workers an extra half-hour lunch break with pay to watch the World Series, labor-management umpire Melvin Lennard said. The company had provided television sets and had given the additional lunch period to employees for the past 15 or 20 years. The practice was maintained even in 1966 and 1967 after the company changed hands. When the practice was dropped in 1968, Machinists Local 1571 filed a grievance. It contended that watching the b^eball championship playoff on company time "was a pre-exist­ ing condition and that the employees are entitled to watch the . . . World Series pursuant to such condition." Arbitrator Lennard agreed but said the company did not have to provide the TV sets any more. Rising Car Insurance Prices Target of Texas AFL-CIO AUSTIN, Tex The Texas AFL-CIO has opened a drive against the rising cost of auto in­ surance in the state by attacking the accounting methods used by the insurance companies and so far accepted by the State In­ surance Board. The auto insurance industry in Texas has asked for an 11 percent increase in rates while the Texas AFL-CIO has called for a 10 percent reduction based on factual accounting. The "so-called 'statutory' method of accounting used by the insurance companies gives a false appearance of their finan­ cial situation," State AFL-CIO President H. S. Hank Brown charged at a board hearing. If the board will look through "this acounting smoke screen," he added, it will find that the in­ dustry is in excellent financial health, that its bid for a rate in­ crease is not justified and that car insurance costs can, in fact, be lowered. Brown described the statutory accounting method as one in which a company reports as "in­ come" only that portion of the premium actually earned by the passage of time while ignoring income that has actually been received. At the same time, he said, the method permits a firm to re­ port as "losses and expenses" the entire anticipated amount (from a premium) "even though any loss will not occur, if at all, until some time in the future." "This method is completely contrary to the normally accept­ able accounting methods used by business," Brown declared. He urged the board to ex­ amine the "real financial situ­ ation" of the industry and par­ ticularly to include investment income in calculating insurance company profits and losses be­ fore setting rates. In 1967, Bro.wn noted, the auto insurance industry reported a $273 million national loss as far as premiums and claims were concerned "but actually realized a $1.7 billion investment profit." "It is ridiculous to claim a loss, and a rate increase, when the industry profited by almost $2 billion," he pointed out. Brown cited the example of a Texas company. Gulf Insur­ ance Company, which reported a loss of more than $4.8 million in 1968 but then paid out over $4.5 million in dividends the same year. "The company has increased its dividend by 500 percent since 1963 while showing a loss," he stated. If the board grants a rate in­ crease in view of the industry's genuine profit picture. Brown said, "it will not be fulfilling its duty to the people." "Instead," he concluded, "it will be continuing to give thevinsurance industry the preferen­ tial and discriminatory positionthat it has enjoyed in Texas for years." Page Twenty Three LOG Solution to Teen-Age Unemployment Not lower Wages, Analysis Shows High teenage unemployment can't be blamed on the federal wage'flt't»i" iaw, regardless of what some opponents of a high­ er minimum wage say. An AFL-CIO analysis of the Fair Labor Standards Act pin­ points the cause as a combina­ tion of factors, including a sharp rise in the number of 16- to 19year-olds in the labor force and a decline in the number of parttime jobs traditionally filled by teenagers. The analysis, by Francis X. Burkhardt of the AFL-CIO leg­ islative staff, appears in the July issue of the American Federationist. "Many employers would be more happy to hire teenagers at a lower wage than adult work­ ers," Burkhardt noted. This is because low-wage employers are the ones who are affected most by the minimum wage. However, millions of adult workers would lose their jobs under a two-step minimum wage that allowed a lower rate for teenagers. The advocates of a lower minimum wage for teenagers contend that the younger worker is less productive than the adult. But this would bring four clear social disadvantages, Burkhardt points out. They are: • Displacement of working family heads. • Discrimination against young workers. • A loss of dignity in the work performed by teenagers. • Higher profits for employ­ ers who hire teenagers in lieu of adults to give them an unfair advantage over other employers. The roots of the teenage un­ employment problem of the 1960s can be found in the sharp rise of the birthrate after the end of World War II, the author ob­ serves. And although the total employment of teenagers has in­ creased in the '60s, it has not been enough to match this in­ flux. Between 1948 and 1958 the number of teenagers in the labor force actually declined—reflect­ ing the low birthrate of the de­ pression years of the 1930s. "But in the 10 years—195868—the number of 16- to 19year-olds in the labor force sky­ rocketed 50 percent, from 4.3 million to 6.6 million," Burk­ hardt writes. Another factor is that many part-time jobs, once held by teenagers, have disappeared. Farm mechanization abolished many teenage farm jobs. The decline of small neighborhood stores also dried up many job opfKjrtunities for the younger workers. "In addition, there has been the increasing participation in the labor force of married wom­ en—35 years of age and over— which results in some degree of job competition with teenagers," Burkhardt says. Non-white teenagers have suffered even more from unem­ ployment, which in recent months has been running almost three times higher than the rate for the white younger workers. The two major factors affect­ ing the higher joblessness among young Negroes are racial dis­ crimination in education and hiring and the high rate of migration of Negroes from the rural South to the cities, Burk­ hardt reports. Burkhardt recommends a fed­ eral program of public service employment—^for both adults and teenagers—^for. long-term unemployed and seriously un­ deremployed to meet the needs of services in parks, recreation centers, hospitals; schools and other public and private non­ profit facilities. Expanded efforts in the Neighborhood Youth Corps and the Job (Torps are recommended earning Their Way Two boys from Kentucky who earned one week in camp by spending three Saturday afternoons cleaning up city parks and playgrounds receive their reward from, left to right, Boy Scout leaders Durwood Bishop and Bob Combs, and Ray Hayden, president of the Owensboro Council of Labor. Owensboro AFL-CIO members selected 23 boys from GEO lists. They expect to expand program to 100 next year. as a means of cutting the unem­ ployment problem. base of increasing teenage employment of the 1960s and the start of federal aid for education, manpower training and youth employment programs should be continued and improved," he urges. "Such continued progress and the expected leveling off of the rise of teenagers in the labor force in the coming years could begin to solve the teenage unem­ ployment problem. But what should not be done is to estab­ lish a special, lower minimum wage for teenagers," Burkhardt warns. New Pact Allows HospitalWorkers Chance to Learn BOSTON—At least 335 lowpaid workers in three hospitals here will be trained and up­ graded under agreements signed by the State, County and Mu­ nicipal Employees and city and hospital officials. The pacts are part of SCME's over all training program to bring new job opportunities and higher pay to 1,000 workers in Boston, Cleveland and Milwau­ kee hospitals with a grant of $1.2 million from the Depart­ ments of Labor and Health Edu­ cation and Welfare. Mrs. Betty Miller, assistant to SCME President Jerry Wurf and national director for the program, described the project as significant for two reasons: "This is probably the first time that public institutions in the country have agreed to pay their lower level employees while they train. It also opens dead-end hospital jobs to ca­ reer employment." The hospitals involved here are Boston City, Mattapan and Long Island. They will provide classroom space and all equip­ ment needed for training. Hos­ pital personnel will serve as in­ structors. Trainees here, picked by joint union-hospital committees, will spend half of their 40-hour work-weeks in training. Midway through his course, a trainee will receive 50 percent of the difference between his present wage and the higher-paid job for which he is being trained. He will get the full higher rate once training is finished. MONEY DUE Wages due former crewmembers of the Galacia Navigator, which was sold | I at auction in Japan, are now | available. Seafarers may obtain checks for the money due I them by writing to Bill Mitchell at headquarters in Brooklyn. . �Page Twenty Four SEAFARERS October, 1969 LOG Pay-off in Jacksonville Violations Termed 'Unconscionable' Crackdown on Wage-Hour Cheaters Called for by AFL-CIO Pres. Meany WASHINGTON—AFL-CIO President George Meany has called for more wage-hour investigators to ferret out cheat­ ing employers and told the Labor Department that its pri­ orities were mixed up if it de­ pended on an education and information program to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act. At the same time, Meany an­ nounced a step-up in the AFLCIO's own campaign to protect workers, "organized or unorga­ nized," from employers who vi­ olate the wage-hour and equal pay laws. Meany wrote Labor Secretary George P. Shultz that the $89 million in imderpayments to more than 477,000 workers last year couldn't be ascribed to em­ ployer "ignorance" of the wagehour law. "These violations are uncon­ scionable," Meany stressed. "America has had a Fair Labor Standards Act for 31 years and no responsible employer can be ignorant of the law's intent and his duty under it." Meany said he "emphatically" disagrees with a statement by Wage-Hour Administrator Rob­ ert D. Moran that finding viola­ tions is not his division's goal. Moran said he is "more con­ cerned with improving the level of compliance through informing employers and employees of their rights and obligations." Information programs are commendable, Meany said. But he insisted that "finding viola­ tions must be the goal of the di­ vision if the intent of the law is to be observed and the mini­ mum wage, overtime pay and equal pay for equal work provi­ sions are to have any real mean­ ing." Meany noted that the grow­ ing number of wage-hour viola­ tions makes even more urgent the AFL-CIO's recommenda­ tion earlier this year that the number of investigators be in­ creased by one-third. "The facts make it abundant­ ly clear that the most effective way to get full compliance is through full enforcement by an adequate investigating and en­ forcement staff," he told Shultz. In a letter to AFL-CIO state and local central bodies, Meany urged that labor's own enforce­ ment program initiated in 1967 be continued and expanded. "Fair labor standards are be­ ing flouted, ignored or under­ mined by employers," Meany told the central bodies. "In fact, only about half the violators are caught each year. The Wage and Hour Division of the Depart­ ment of Labor does not have enough investigators to achieve full compliance." Because of this, Meany urged, each AFL-CIO central body should: • Set up or reinvigorate a wage-hour enforcement commit­ tee to receive and help process complaints. • Publicize the work of the committee and stress its avail­ ability to all workers, including the unorganized. • Help workers bring their Chamber Adopts New Tack To Fight Job Safety Law WASHINGTON—The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has come up with a new line in its fight against federal job safety legislation. The Chamber, in its Wash­ ington Report on Labor, now contends that if federal safety laws are passed "unions may try in the name of on-the-job s^ety to force the closing of a plant being operated during a strike." Its apparent position is that plants should be permitted to operate during strikes with strikebreakers whether they are safe or not. The recent nationwide strike of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers against the oil indus­ try, the Chamber said, illustrates its point. The business group com­ plained that the OCAW issued public statements saying that operation of struck facilities by management personnel was ex­ tremely hazardous to those in the plants as well as nearby res­ idents. State and local officials were urged to move to curtail the plant operations. "Adoption of proposed fed­ eral occupational safety legisla­ tion would be an open invita­ tion for unions to use this same tactic as a stranglehold on an employer at the bargaining table," it claimed. The Chamber is also upset that since federal job safety rules were recently set for govern­ ment supply contractors some unions have announced that they are planning to use their own equipment to measure noise, dust and chemical levels in plants. Unionists, on the other hand, note that the Chamber has pointed with pride at the U.S. industrial safety record which shows 14,000 on-the-job deaths last year and some two million injuries. complaints to wage-hour investi­ gators and press for prompt ac­ tion by the government. • Keep a record of the dis­ position and outcome of all cases. "The AFL-CIO has an obli­ gation it will fulfill—^to assure the effective enforcement of the minimum wage laws," Meany concluded. Moran's report shows that the number of establishments checked by inspectors dropped from 75,022 in fiscal 1968 to 72,520 in 1969. Department inspectors rarely visit more than a small percentage of business places in any one year and must rely largely on complaints. The $89 million in underpay­ ments breaks down as follows: $27.5 million in minimum wages, $55 million in overtime, nearly $2 million due employees of federal suppliers under the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contracts Act, and $4.6 million under the equal pay law for work performed by women at lower rates than comparable work by men. The figures for the previous fiscal year were $20.4 million, $55 million, $2.6 million and $2.4 million, respectively, for a total of $80 million. The report showed nearly half the underpaid workers— 207,234—did not get the mini­ mum wages they should have been paid. The fiscal 1968 total was 169,000 workers. Overtime pay violations af­ fected 208,000 workers in 1969 as against 296,000 the year be­ fore. There were 14,000 Service Contract Act violations com­ pared with 12,000 in 1968 and 16,100 in equal pay violations versus 7,000 in 1968. Moran praised more than 1,000 compliance officers for working "tirelessly and under all types of conditions" to ferret out law violations. However, he noted, "finding violations is not our goal. We are more con­ cerned with improving the level of compliance" through infor­ mational programs. At the conclusion of a successful voyage, Seafarers aboard the Loma Victory (Delta Lines) took time when the ship paid off in Savannah to have their picture taken. From (l-r) are A. Ruiz and R. Whaley of the Steward Department: A. Aronica, Jacksonville Pa­ trolman; Butch Walker, Chief Cook; and L. Richardson and R. Welch. Rail Accidents Hit New High; Need for Tougher Laws Seen A rail union safety expert Chesser warned that under called for broader, tighter fed­ present conditions, the shipment eral safety laws to roll back the of phosgene gas that is currently mounting toll of train accidents stirring hot public debate, "is that last year reached an all-time absolutely unsafe." high. "We think that if this gas "Ninety-five percent of all rail must be shipped, it is much accidents are caused by factors safer to ship it on the railroads not subject to federal control," than it is by air, or by truck on said A1 H. Chesser, national the highway, if the right pre­ legislative director for the cautions are taken," he added. United Transportation Union. Chesser, chairman of the committee on safety of the Rail­ way Labor Executives' Associa­ In 21 Years tion, is a member of the Task Force on Railroad Safety named by Transportation Secretary John A. Volpe. Derailments, Chesser said, figured in most of the more than 8,000 reported train accidents last year that killed and injured nearly 27,000 employees and passengers. WASHINGTON — The gov­ Questioned by reporters on ernment invoked the Taft-Hart­ Labor News Conference, Ches­ ser blamed the sagging railroad ley Act's national emergency safety record on "too much de­ disputes procedures 29 times ferred maintenance of track and between 1947 and 1968, the roadbed ... far too little inspec­ Bureau of Labor Statistics re­ tion of equipment" and the use ported. of "a great deal of old" and im­ These are the procedures properly maintained equipment which permit the enjoining of that "just will not stand 70 mile- industry-wide strikes for an 80per-hour speeds." day "cooling off" period. Five of the disputes were re­ solved without a work stoppage Editor, and 13 were settled during the SEAFARERS LOG, "cooling off" period. In three 675 Eourth Ave., other cases, an agreement was Brooklyn, N. Y. 11232 reached without a strike after I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG—please put my the 80-day period had expired. name on your mailing list, (frtnt intormMmn) In seven cases, sbi involving longshoremen on the Atlantic or Gulf Coasts, workers struck aft­ NAME er the 80-day injunction had , expired before winning an ac­ STREET ADDRESS ceptable settlement. STATE. ZIP. The Taft-Hartley Act re­ CITY quires that the employer's "last TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are ae oM Kjbscribar and have a change offer" be submitted to the work­ of eddreaa, pleaae give your fonnar addreca below; ers for a. vote if no settlement is reached during the-80-day period. In every one of the 12 ballots that were held and tal­ lied, the employer offer was cnv Taft-Hartley Act's Injuctlon Used On 29 Occasions . ! �SEAFARERS Ocloljer, 1969 J / . 1 A radiogram was sent to Union headquarters upon mo• tion of the full crew of the Bradford Island (Stuart Tankers) asking that a Union represent­ ative meet the I ship at Danang, Hagmann Charles L. Shlrab, meeting secretary reports. The crew says the vessel is becoming unseaworthy. The matter was also discussed with the American consul in Singapore, who re­ ceived statements from various crewmembers testifying to the ship's condition, and that dip­ lomatic member was to wire the Coast Guard in Saigon to have the ship inspected in Da­ nang. The meeting was chaired by Robert N. Fulk. L. P. Hag­ mann, Jr. is ship's delegate, Paul Ward, deck delegate, Rob­ ert E. Pickett, engine delegate and Hany D. Silverstein stew­ ard delegate. per 60 numbers, with a grand prize of $200 and two $50 con­ solation prizes. Ship's fund at about $16 and contributions were requested to beef it up. <t> Aboard the Andrew Jackson (Waterman) the crewmembers discussed pre­ cautions to be taken in port, writes Meeting Secretary John W. Mims. Ship's Delegate Juan W. Fernandez warned Seafar­ Self ers to keep all screen doors closed in port and use only the door to the gang­ way. No natives will be allowed inside of the midship house or quarters aft. Nor are they to work for members of the stew­ ard department—not even to take garbage aft for the galley or pantryman. A water line will be run to the deck for native use. The meeting chairman was Thomas L. Sdf. Juan Fernan­ dez is deck delegate; Lucius A. Arano, engine delegate, and Richard Ramsperger, steward Three crewmembers of the delegate. Steel Vendor (Isthmian), which is on the long <|> run to India, H. Mobley chaired the meet­ were hospital­ ized in Calcutta, ing aboard the James (Ogden Marine) and Clinton H. made a motion Ward, ship's which was sec­ delegate an­ onded by the en­ nounced at the crew to go tire Holt meeting. They on record for a are J. J. Lookabetter Retire­ bill, AB; D. Fletcher, AB and ment Plan and R. Lang, wiper. The crew voted also more main­ unanimously not to accept plas­ Garner tenance and care tic pitchers for sanitary reasons; pay when sick. This has been they want aluminum or stain­ $8.50 per day for as long as less steel which is easier to any can remember. Also, Meet­ clean. The fresh fruit will be ing Secretary C. Garner writes put out so long as it lasts. Meet­ ing Secretary P. S. Holt reports. Brother Mobely said a Seafarer A. Hansvedt was meeting chair­ should be able to go tp any hos­ man; R. M. Grantham is deck pital for needed care without delegate and Joe Brown steward having to wait until all Coast delegate. Some disputed OT Guard and Navy men are taken was reported in the engine de­ care of. David Ramirez moved for a pension of $350 per month partment. after 20 years in the Union with 15 years seatime. "As of now," he noted, "You see a Seafarer retire one month and he is a A stop was made at Midway Final Departure the next." A in order to provide medical at­ discussion was held on crew­ tention for three members talking about Union [crewmembers, meetings topside. Everyone John H. McEl- thinks such discussions should 1 roy, meeting sec­ be kept within the crew. R. N. retary, reports Kelly is ship's delegate; David B. Ramirez, deck delegate; John J from the Ralelg^i S.Higgins, engine delegate, and UCrest). Accord- Otis Pasc^, steward delegate. 1 ing to Ship's Delegate Dan Ticer M. Ticer, Sr., At the meeting aboard the there was one case of pleurisy, National Defender (Beaufort one minor burn case, and an OS, Agency) a sug­ E. Junold, was left behind with gestion was an eye injury. Junold may re­ made that all join the shjp in Vietnam. The Seafarers fill out chief engineer asks the Seafarers the Pension to use water sparingly, as there Questionnaire is no cool water and letting it and send in their run will not help. Otherwise, ideas. Meeting Secretary Jose rationing of water may become Pierce M. Nava writes. necessary, he said. The Anchor Fool will be organized at live Ernest W. Pierce, ship's dele- Page Twenty Five LOG seatime was reached. Also for an increase of in-out patient hospital benefits from $8 per day to $12 per day. Repair lists were issued to all department delegates so that necessary re­ pairs would be taken care of at the beginning of the voyage. A very co-operative steward de­ partment, with no beefs, was noted. One day room allowance was granted all hands due to lack of hot water for over 20 4/ hours. Department delegates The SIU Vacation Plan was aboard are: Howard R. Harvey, discussed aboard the Halcyon deck; Peter Drivas, engine, and Tiger (Halycon) Jadr Brian, steward. at a meeting chaired by <1> Ship's Delegate An appeal for crewmembers Anthony B. on all SIU ships to contribute Barnes, Meeting to the Hurricane Secretary Mi­ Camille victims chael Toth rewas sent out by ports. Toth Barnes Seafarers aboard Stressed the ne­ the Iberville cessity of filling out the Pension (W aterman). questionnaire. He also explained Meeting Secrethe 20-year "bust-out." No one Itary W. L. KMwas in favor of the 20-year gore says the "bust-out" and all agreed that Cisiecki Iberville Sea­ the present SIU plan remain farers agreed to make up such basically as is.^Sentiment was a fund at a meeting at which expressed for lowering the 65John Cisiecki presided. Floyd year age requirement to 58 years, provided the required Hungate, ship's treasurer, re­ gate, was meeting chairman. A motion was made by C. S. Quinnt, seconded by Raymond Potorski for reiigepient after 20 years seatime. Nick Vidoijak is deck delegate, Hulan Ware, Jr., engine delegate and Ray Potorski, steward delegate. Del­ egate Pierce reported the cap­ tain will not pay an extra day for crossing the date line to those who signed on in Japan. SANTORE ( Venore), August 30— Chairman, J. J. Connors; Secretary, T. A. Jaekson; Ship's Delegate, J. J. Connors; Deck Delegate, A. Ali; En­ gine Delegate, W. Walker; Steward Delegate, S. Cabildo. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of,thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. Vote of thanks to the Union for the best raise of all times." CALMAR (Calmar), August 30— Chairman, Jack Geller; Secretary, J, A: Johnson; Deck Delegate, Charles C. Longerbeam; Engine Delegate, Thomas E. Fiazier; Stew'ard Delegate, H. C. Benne. Brother, ;J. Johnson, steward, extended a vote of thanks to the deck and''engine departments for keeping pantry and -messhall clean. Motion was made 'that headquarters keep the mem­ bers informed on progress of the welfare and pension plans. BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart Tankers), August 26—Chairman, v; Robert Faulk; Secretary, Charles L. iiShirah; Ship's Delegate, L. Hag:mann; Deck Delegate, Paul Ward; Engine Delegate, B. E. Pickett; Steward Delegate, Daniel C. Pette. ^No beefs and no disputed OT. . DE SOTO (Waterman). August 524—Chairman, J. Tanner; Secrejtary, J. Castronover. $6.66 in ship's |fund. No beefs were reported by 'department delegates. TRANSCOLUMBIA (Hudson Waterways), August 10—Chairman, Arthur Beck; Secretairy, R. Kali ah; Ship's Delegate, Arthur Beck; Deck Delegate, James Fultz; Engine Del­ egate, William H. Reynolds; Stew-" ard Delegate, Larry Trosclair. Dis­ puted. OT and other beefs to he taken up with boarding patrolman. COLUMBIA BARON (Columbia), August 3—Chairman, Joe Ortiguerra; Secretary, Alton B. Booth; Ship's Delegate, Rafael V. Saldana; Deck Delegate. M. C. Foster; Engine Delegater Joe Kordick; Steward Del­ egate, O. R. Breanx. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL APPRENTICE (Isthmian), August 24—Chairman, Anthony Torsado; Secretary, Paul P. Lopez; Ship's Delegate, Anthony Torsado; Deck Delegate, T. Klinne; Engine Delegate, M. Eimar; Steward Del­ egate, M. Caampued. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. $80.00 in ship's fund. TAMARA GUILDEN, (Transport Commercial), August 3—Chairman, K. Gahagan; Secretary. Raymond Palacios; Ship's Delegate, G. Milia; Engine Delegate, F, A. Torres; Stew­ ard Delegate, Antonio Linaco. $6.70 in ship's fond. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. Vote of thanks to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. OVERSEAS CARRIER (Maritime Overseas), August 24—Chsdrman, G. 2Brady; Secretary, T. D. Ballard; ; Ship's Delegate, Gal- S. Thompson; ;; Steward Delegate, Robert Black; *$10.00 in ship's fund. Repair list . to be turned in to Captain. IBERVILLE (Waterman), August :24—Chairman, John Cisiecki; Secfretary, W. L. Kilgore; Deck Deleuetrantes. iiiverycmng is going fine iwith no beefs. $10.00 in ship's fund. COTTONWOOD CREEK (Ogden Bulk Transport), A-ugust 10—Chair­ man, M. D. Bisendle; Secretary, F. :Quintayo; Ship's Delegate, Frank P. Scouricea's; Engine Delegate, G. B. Enzey; Steward Delegate, W. Matsiickes. Discussion held regard­ ing pension plan. No beefs were reported by deportment delegates. CONNECTICUT (Connecticut ^Transport), August 9—Chairman, J. i Urzan; Secretary, L. W. Moore; J Ship's Delegate, L. W. Moore; ^ck [Delegate, G. R. Scott; Steward Del:?egatej'T. Dansley, Jr. No beefs were , J ,— lenartment delegates.!^- TBANSSUPBRIOR (Hudson Waterways), August 10—Chainnan, William Field; Secretary. Aloiizo Battis; Ship's Delegate, John W. Mullis; Deck Delegate, Tony Rebago; Engine Delegate, D. K. MacKenzie; Stewards' Delegate, R. Alston. Some disputed OT in deck and steward department. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, John Alstatt; Secretary, Wayne G. Larson; Ship's Delegate. Ben O. Buck; Deck Delegate, R. L. Copenhaver; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. Some dis­ puted OT in deck and engine delartments. ported $10 in the ship's fund. No beefs were reported from delegates. Robert G. May, deck department. Van Whitney, engine department, and Stavros Petrantes, stewards. <I> A warning to stewards buy­ ing stores in Aruba to beware of Ship Chandler Joy was sounded by Robert Black, steward delegate aboard the Overseas Carrier (Maritime Over­ seas). Brother Black says Joy Brady will make his de­ livery 30 minutes before sail­ ing time with what Black calls "junk" — including mislabeled meat boxes. Meeting Secretary Thomas Ballard reports 25 members at the meeting at which George Brady was chair­ man. Complaint was made that the rooms, mess hall and galley haven't been painted in over two years and are in bad shape. Carl Thompson, ship's delegate, cautioned the crew to be care­ ful with American money in India. DAGAMA (Crest), September 6— Chairman, Floyd E. Selix; Secretary, Sherman Wright; Ship's Delegate, Jimmie A. Beem; Deck Delegate, Eldon Wenslow; Engine Delegate, Clay Webb. No beefs were reported by department delegates. STEEL VENDOR (Isthmian), Anist 16—Chairman, A. Hanstvedt; .jcretary, P. S. Holt; Ship's Delerate, C. H. Ward; Deck Delegate, JL. M. Grantham; Steward Delegate, Joe , Brower. $6.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in engine depart­ ment, otherwise everything is run­ ning smoothly. 1^ I" BRADFORD ISLAND (Steuart), September 1—Chairman. R. N. Faulk; • Secretary, C. L. Shirab; Ship's Delegate, F. Hagmann; Deck Delegate, Paul Ward; Engine Dele­ gate, R. E. Pickett; Steward Dele­ gate, Harry D. Silverstein. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. CHOCTAW (Waterman), August 31^—Chairman, Jack Yates; Secre­ tary, Alvin L. Doud; Ship's Delegate, Frank Timmons; Deck Delegate, James Fisher; Engine Delegate, Louis Schewing; Stewards' Delegate, John Indorf, No beefs were reported by department delegates. Vote of^ thanks to- the steward departmsnt| for a job well done. Also, vote of| thanks to AB (Moon) Mullins for| the use of his TV., K BUCKEYE ATLMJTIS (Buckeyes Steamship), August 31—-Chairman,| John Bashan; Secretary, Jamesi Temple; Ship's Delegate, Charles^; Terry; Deck Delegate. Lester W.| Hall, Jr.; Engine Delegate, G. L.| Taylor; Steward Delegate, Barryr Lee Deemer. OT beef in engrine and| steward department. Vote of thanks^ was extended to the steward depart-| ment for a job well done. * NATIONAL DEFENDER (Beatf-p fort), August 31—Chairman. Ernesto Pierce; Secretary, Jose Nava; Ship's^ Delegate, Ernest W. Pierce; Engine| Delegate, H. Ware, Jr.; _ Stew^ Delegate, Roy Potorski. $21.00 _i!ii ship's fund. No beefs and no dis-s puted OT. , TRANSERIE (Hudson Water­ ways), August m—Chairman. J. Ringo; Secretary, W. B. Yarbrough;Ship's Delegate, V. Hakka^ines; Deck Delegate, George Forrest; Steward Delegate, R. W. Elliott. IBERVILLE (Waterman), August 31—Chairman John Cisiecki; ^Sec­ retary. W. L. Kilgore. $10.00 in ship's fund. $141.00 collected for; hurricane fund to be turned in tos the Port of New Orleans. Motion| was made to cut down on meetmgs| aboard ship. Once-a-week meeting felt not necessary, i , -JI �Page Twenty Six SEAFARERS LOG October, 1969 A Baker Gets His Dough Louis V. Santiago Please contact your wife, Guadalupe, as soon as possible. The address is 31, St. B-33-2, SienfT Bayamon, P.R. 00619 <I> Benigno Guzman Your wife, Elvia, asks that you contact her as soon as pos­ sible at 387 South 5th Street, Brooklyn, New York 11211. <l> Irvin Ranew Please contact Bill Von Salzen at the Life Insurance Com­ pany of Virginia, 4219 South Claiborne Avenue, New Or­ leans, Louisiana, at your earli­ est convenience. ^ Herbert M. Parsons Your wife requests that you contact her as soon as possible at 4638 Laurel Street, New Or­ leans, Louisiana 70115. possible at 20 Iris Lane, Balti­ more, Maryland 21220. <1>—- \1> William Zangler Please contact your attorney, Mr. Davis, as soon as possible. John M. Yates Please get in touch with your wife, Margarita, at Box 616, Aurora, Illinois, in regard to a very urgent matter. Antonio Escoto Please contact Treasury De­ partment, Bureau of Customs, Baltimore, Maryland. Your coins have been released by the Joe Meyercheck Department and can be picked Andy H. Reasko asks that up in Baltimore or will be mailed you contact him in care of the to you if you notify them of S.S. Beauregard, Sealand, your proper address. A.P.O. 96312, San Francisco, —— California. WlUie White Billy W. Keller Please contact H.' Monroe Please contact your mother at Houtz, attorney at law, at 35 N. 2002 Cranford Drive, Garland, Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, Texas 75040. Pennsylvania 18701, as soon as possible. ^ ^ Dexter Worrell Dorothy Worrell of 200 Michigan Avenue, Mobile, Ala­ bama, would like you to get in touch with her as soon as pos­ sible about an important matter. Her phone number is 432-7864. ^ Frank G. Strickland Your daughter, Helena R. Graves, requests that you con­ tact her as soon as possible at Rt. 3, Box 165, Ml. Pleasant, Texas 75455. —— Joseph E. Bailey Please contact your wife, Irene, as soon as possible, in care of: General Delivery, Lebanon, Virginia 24266. Earl McGee Bernard Rolnick asks that you contact him as soon as pos­ sible at Rolnick Ezratty and Huttner, 299 Broadway, New York, New York 10007. .1^ — Maynard L. Farsbetter Please contact your daughter. Amber Farsbetter, as soon as possible at 1428 Orizaba Ave­ nue, Long Beach, California 90804. —— Frederick Mitchell Your sister, Mrs. Golda Baker, asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possi­ ble at 1109 Pacific, Salinas, California 93901. <|> Bernard Silkowitz Please contact your mother at 400 Marshall Drive, Hoboken, New Jersey, as soon as possible. ^ John Anthony Duiuie Please contact your wife at 1921 E. 32 Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55407, as soon as possible. The telephone number is 722-3866. Charles E. Raulings Please contact your brother, Howard C. Raulings, at the Apostleship of the Sea at 399 Fremont St., San Francisco, Calif. Telephone GA 1-7845 or write. Urgent. William (Bill) H. Perdue Please contact your brother, Lamar, at 427 Pine Street, Marysville, California 95901, as soon as possible, Overdale Street, Orlando, Flor­ ida 32809. «.jyaber E. Tuckhom Robert B. Rowen asks that you get in touch with him as soon as possible at Box 337, Springville, Iowa 52336. Donald Thomas Watson Please contact your father, Marvin, as soon as possible,. The address is: 2419 Meadow Lane, La Marque, Texas 77568. Ricardo E. Vasquez Your wife, Maria, asks that you contact her. as soon as poissible at 221 E. 111th Street, New York, New York 10029. Waber J. Zale^ Mrs. Gertrude Zaleski asks that you get in touch with her as soon as possible at 740 North 10th Street, #4, Las Vegas, Nevada 89101. Robert Ducote Your father, Neal, requests that you contact him as soon as possible at 225 Gordon Ave­ nue, Harahan, Louisiana 70123. John Chiorra, left, seems happy to be initiated into the ranks of the pensioners as he receives his first check from Al Bernstein SIU Welfare Director at the New York Union Hall. A baker. Chiorra last shipped on the Commander. He makes his home in Allentown, Pa. DISPATCHERS REPORT September 1, 1969 to September 30, 1969 DECK DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED TOTAL SHIPPED Port Boston New York . .4.... Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile ,, New Orleans Houston ..... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals All Groups Class A Class B 8 4 122 110 17 24 66 43 30 26 41 43 8 13 50 36 116 93 62 77 30 49 116 122 40 40 706 680 All Groups Class A Class B Class C 7 4 8 72 61 9 - 15 17 0 40 6 34 16 16 4 24 32 13 2 0 4 22 2 21 69 0 44 50 57 7 33 61 7 90 82 15 6 41 31 77 472 473 . Ray MorrdI, Jr. Y^our mother asks that you *ret in touch with her as soon as James (Jimmy) Simmons Your brother. Chick, asks that you contact him as soon as possible at Route 3, Box 181, Clinton, North Carolina 28328. — .1, Deimis Maupin Please contact your sister, Mrs. Betty Meier, as soon as possible. The address is: 1606 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 3 7 171 217 30 23 75 157 35 30 24 32 24 15 24 74 110 142 128 112 41 2 22 84 43 25 657 993 ENGINE DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Port Class A Class B Boston 7 5 New York 148 113 Philadelphia 27 12 Baltimore 60 58 Norfolk 10 26 Jacksonville 19 48 Tampa 9 5 Mobile 30 50 New Orleans .... 99 91 Houston ....... 62 86 Wilmington 47 35 San Francisco ..'. 96 , 103 Seattle 29 26 721 580 TOTAL SHIPPED All GroupIS Class A Class B Class C 2 4 5 13 87 60 3 21 1 31 2 40 4 21 15 11 25 11 0 6 7 4 35 18 7 56 50 13 69 52 29 13 30 35 88 57 23 21 lei 123 494 368 REGISTERED on BEACH All Groups Class A Class B 2 6 148 136 22 11 84 61 57 12 26 13 8 8 43 65 89 81 74 82 11 18 12 68 13 29 589 579 STEWARD DEPARTMENT TOTAL REGISTERED Donald E. Leight Important mail is being held for you at SIU Headquarters in Brooklyn. Please get in con­ tact with Amie Braitman at Headquarters as soon as pos­ sible., Atlantic, Gulf & inland Waters District Port Boston New York. ..... Philadelphia Baltimore ....... Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans .... Houston .... Wilmington San Francisco ... Seattle Totals Class A Class B 3 5 95 62 14 8 27 58 11 18 20 33 0 7 36 15 53 95 53 52 19 15 79 64 34 11 383 504 TOTAL SHIPPED Class A Class B Class C 3 5 5 23 47 48 3 6 11 18 27 21 12 22 15 19 14 12 0 1 7 12 1 22 41 55 1 35 16 35 9 10 15 66 71 37 10 9 21 304 299 327 REGISTERED on BEACH Class A Class B 3 3 61 157 8 10 31 84 26 33 21 15 9 12 24 53 120 52 36 80 6 21 72 26 14 52 317 712 \ �October, 1969 Question of 'Maru' Comes up Zero If . . . . , To the Editor: Over the years, I have taken note of people grap­ pling for the meaning of the Japanese word "Maru." I hope the following will help to clarify it for readers of the Seafarers LOG. In the Publication, "Procff^dings," the Merchant Marine Council, U.S.C.G., dat^d July 1956, "Maru" is defmed thusly: "It's a term which accompanies the name of all Japanese vessels and carries the hope or assump­ tion of perfection c(i' completeness. Its original mean­ ing was a circle or sphere," My Japanese dictionary defines it, "circle, ring, zero, fuUy." Anyone familiar with the Japanese language will agree that they don't waste words and as much is implied as is actually said. Thus, "Mam" means the hope that the ves­ sel has a long, safe and successful life. Anyone's variation on the - same theme in words would be correct. The Japanese . language is like that and this is why, when asked or V pressed for an exact defini­ tion, a Japanese will look off ^" into the wild blue yonder. My Japanese wife, Fumiko, assures me of the correctness of all this, but again, there she is looking off into ,' the wild blue, etc., etc. Maxwell Wadlington (W-407) , St. Petersburg, Fla. ^ * Widow Thanks SlU For Death Benefit To the Editor: I wish to thank the SIU for " the check I received so ' promptly following the death i of my husband on May 28. I would also appreciate continuing to receive the " LOG, please. Mary Pritchord Baldwin Paric, Calif. . ^j> ' Seafarer Appreciates Tribute to Mother ' To the Editor: I want to take this oppor­ tunity to thank the Union for the wreath that they sent to my mother's funeral. I had wanted to thank the Union by attending the meet­ ing on September 8, but I had to make the plane at . 4:10 P.M. that afternoon. However, I did get a chance to talk lo Brothers Earl Shepard and E. B. McAuley and explained that I had to be on my way. So, I want to take this op­ portunity to thank the SIU . on behalf of my brothers and all the members of my ' family. I retired from the sea one ~ year ago this month, and I have been receiving my Pen­ SEAFARERS sion Checks every month promptly. Also, I want to say this to all members—those checks really come in handy. I wish you and all members of your staff the best of luck, and I say "Keep up the good work." Thank you again. Fraternally Yours, Shaia, (S-604) ^ Reports on 'Camille' By Ham Operators Boon to SIU Crew Sheldon Isadore, bom August 19, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. ilfred Isadore, Jr., New Or­ leans, La. — Antoinette Bunn, bom De­ cember 17, 1968, to Seafarer and Mrs. Eugene J. Bunn, New Orleans, La. ^ To the Editor: Julie Melton, bom July 26, Here is something we on 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Wil­ board the Delta Brazil think liam F. Melton, Mobile, Ala. is a note of interest to the LOG, and we hope that you Yvette Lewis, bom July 19, publish it in the LOG. 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ham radio operators John W. Lewis, Eight Mile, Ala. around the world, but espe­ cially those in the United —J,— Rachel Hmgis, bom August States and aboard this ship 21, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. deserve a great deal of credit. Charles J. Hargis, Lake Charles, Some of our people really La. don't realize the great work that these fellows actually do. ^ During this last hurricane Erica Hughes, bom July 6, season, as you well know, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. "Hurricane Camille" devas­ John W. Hughes, Baltimore, tated the Gulf Coast of the Md. U.S. Well it so happened that many of our brother Sea­ Elliott Huirtley, born August farers come from that part of 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. the country—around Mobile, Everett D. Huntley, Bronx, N.Y. New Orleans, and the real sore spots—Gulfport and Patrick Rogers, bom August Pass Oiristian, Miss. 18, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Well we have two ham op­ James S. Rogers, Baltimore, erators on board. One, in the Md. person of Mr. Joe Pinot the regular ship's radio operator, Joseph Soresi, born Septem­ and bur own Union Sanders, ber 8, 1969, to Seafarer and chief electrician. These boys Mrs. Thomas J. Soresi, Staten deserve a vote of thanks as Island, N.Y. well as the many operators . —— listed on the bottom of this Venus Douglas, born Septem­ letter who really did this ber 3, 1969, to Seafarer and ship's crew and officers and Mrs. David Douglas, San Fran­ many others, as I can under­ cisco, Calif. stand, a very great favor, with all kinds of information about the storm, their families and Melissa Cavazos, bom Au­ generally what was happen­ gust 26, 1969, to ^afarer and ing at home. Mrs. George A. Cavazos, Hous­ ton, Texas. I would also like to add my own personal thanks although I live in New Orleans, and John Taylor, born July 17, didn't suffer any damages, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. I would like to say, "Thank Robert G. Taylor, Mathews, God there are ham opera­ Virginia. tors," and may they always —— have the right to obtain li­ Debra Fuller, born August censes to 4)ractice their hob­ 15, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. by, because at this particular Roy S. Fuller, Sr., Baytown, time, it was a very worth­ Texas. while hobby which performed ^ a humanitarian service. Wesley Kenum, bom July We give special thanks to 28, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. our friend "Jay" with call Bobby E. Kenum, Mill Valley, letters K.5.K.L.N, at New Calif. Orleans, where most of the information came from. Also, Michdle Alvarez, bom Au­ in order of their place of ori­ gust 24, 1969, to Seafarer and gin and their call letters, we Mrs. Pedro F. Alvarez, Seattle, give many thanks to: Washington. Baton Rouge, La., "Pope" K.5.Z.O.Z. Renee Bambeart, bom July California (for relay work) 23, 1969 to Seafarer and Mrs. "Cicel" W.6.E.R.C. Elmer C. Bamheart, Jr., RanMobile, Ala., "Jim" W.4. dallstown, Md. F.B.Z. Bay Minette, Ala., "Dan" Shelia Renea McHale, bom K.4.K.D.Z. April 25, 1969, to Seafarer and and of course our own Mrs. WUliam F. McHale, Jack­ Joe Pinot W.5.P.Z. sonville, Fla. Union Sanders K.4.T.E.Z. With the best of everything ^ to the staff of the Seafarers Mark Alan Rivers, bom LOG, I remain fraternally, March 8, 1969, to Seafarer and Midiael J. Dunn Mrs. Edmund R. Rivers, Brook­ Sl^'s Chainnan lyn, N.Y. <I> Page Twenty Seven LOG Nasser Hamad, bom April 14, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Mahmoud I. Hamad, Washing­ ton, N.C. Je Taun Hemy, bom May 20, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Henry, Jr., New Orleans, La. ^ Tammi Kim Thonq>s<Mi, bom August 29, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Emmett A. Thompson, Portland, Oregon. Jeffrey Pena, bom June 10, 1969, to Seafarer and Mrs. Al­ fredo Pena, New Orleans, La. —— Following Manhattan Breakthrough: Year-Round Opening of Lakes And Other Waterways Urged WASHINGTON — Programs nificant stride in overcoming the to keep all of the nation's water­ elements to build a worldwide ways open to navigation on a transportation network." "In particular," he said, "this year-round basis have been achievement is welcome news called for by Senator William for those who live in the Mid­ Proxmire (D-Wisc.). The De­ west. Up until now, this region partments of Interior and Trans­ has been sealed off from mari­ portation and the Army Corps time traffic for the winter season of Engineers were requested to due to the freezing over of the institute the work involved. Great Lakes and the St. Law­ "If 800 miles of frozen sea rence Seaway. Each year, on or on the Northwest Passage can be about December 15, all traffic transited," the senator noted in on these waterways has halted a letter to Secretary of Trans­ not to resume until April 1 of portation John A Volpe, "it the following year. Needless to should be child's play to open say, this has imposed a terrific up the Great Lakes and the St. economic burden upon people Lawrence Seaway on a year- living in this part of the coun­ round basis." try." Proxmire was referring to the Proxmire saw the Manhattan recently-concluded successful breakthrough as an opportunity voyage of the Manhattan, which to "usher in a new era of com­ cleared the ice-locked Arctic merce for the Great Lakes." route to the north slope of His message to Volpe stressed Alaska. A member of the Sen­ the role of the Department of ate Appropriations Committee, Transportation in applying the the Wisconsin legislator said he new knowledge gained and in would bend his efforts to make instituting programs to imple­ the necessary funds available ment this knowledge. He also for the program he envisaged. asked to be notified of any added appropriations "required In his letter to Volpe, Prox­ mire emphasized the importance to get such a program under­ of the Manhattan's achievement way" prior to the Transporta­ in "forging through ice that had tion Department's appropria­ previously been regarded as im­ tions bill reaching the Senate penetrable" and called it a "sig­ floor. 50 Years of Happy Sailing <I> <1> Seafarer Tony Sosa and his wife Bertha, recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Tampa, Florida. Brother Sosa joined the SIU in Tampa and soiled 25 years as Chief Steward before retiring. �AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), July 13—Chairman, Hans J. Jacobsen; Secretary, W. H. Underwood. $9.70 in ship's fund. Dis­ cussion held on draws. No beefs reported by department delegates. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), July 20<^Chairman, Hans Jj^acobsen; Secretary, W. H. Under^BR; Ship's Delegate, John Boldiszar; Deck Delegate, Gerard E. Bellenoit; Engine Delegate, Clarence B. Troy; Stewards' Delegate, Claude Hollings. $49.70 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, Manual Loudron; Secretary, H. L. Bennett; Ship's Delegate, William Wallace; Stew­ ards' Delegate, M. P. Nolacco. No beefs. AMERICAN VICTORY (Hudson Waterways), August 20—Chairman, Hans F. Jacobsen; Secretary, W. H. Underwood; Ship's Delegate, John Boldiszar; Deck Delegate, Gerard E. Bellenoit; Engine Delegate, Clarence B. Troy; Stewards' Delegate, Claude Hollings. Discussion held regarding pension plan. $9.70 in ship's fund. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well done. PEARY (Marine Traders), August 17—Chairman, Eligio Lasoya; Sec­ retary, Virgil Swanson; Ship's Dele­ gate, Eligio Lasoya. Discussion held regarding poor ventilation in crew's quarters. OVERSEAS DINNY (Maritime Overseas), August 24—Chairman, James M. Foster; Secretary, Louis J. Gayton; Ship's Delegate, James M. Foster; Deck Delegate, C. F. Bartler; Engine Delegate, Charles Martinsen; stewards' delegate, John H. Dietsch. No beefs or disputed OT. BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), July 20—Chairman, C. Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Deck Delegate, Mario Garcia Lopez; En­ gine Delegate, Anthony J. Pramo; Stewards' Delegate, N. Williams. No beefs were reported. Everything is running smoothly. Vote of thanks extended to steward department for job well done. October, 1969 SEAFARERS LOG Page Twentr Ei^t RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, John Alstatt; Secretary, Wayne Larson; Ship's Delegate, B. D. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. One man missing in engine department. Beef to be taken up with boarding patrol­ man. INGER (Reynolds Metals), August 10—Chairman, Santos Garcia; Sec­ retary, P. Shauger; ^Ship's Delegate, Santos Garcia; Deck Delegate, Tom­ my R. Sanford; Engine Delegate, Santos Garcia; Stewards' Delegate, G. Martinez.. No beefs were reported by department delegates. Some re­ pairs have been taken care of. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 13—Chairman, John Al­ statt; Secretary, John Givens: Ship's Delegate, Ben D. Buuh; Engio^KWlBgate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Paul L. Hunt. No beefs and no disputed OT. PECOS (Ogden Marine), August 10—Chairman, J. Boland; Secretary, R. Ceiling; Engine Delegate, Donald E. Smith. $27.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck department. No major beefs were reported. ROBIN SHERWOOD (Moore-McCormack), August 16—Chairman, R. Theiss; Secretary, E. Sims; Ship s Delegate, R. Theiss; Deck Delepte, R. Theiss; Engine Delegate, J. T. Gaskins; Stewards' Delegate Ernest Sims. Discussion held regarding safety program. Discussion was held regarding cleaning fresh water tanks. Some disputed OT in each department. OVERSEAS PROGRESS (Mari­ time Overseas), August 10—Chair­ man, B. McGowan; Secretary, J. Sumpter; Ship's Delegate, B. Mc­ Gowan; Engine Delegate, J. G^lagher; Stewards' Delegate, Jack B. Maulden. $14.50 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks extended to the entire steward department for excellent preparation and serving of meals. The steward thanked the crew for their co-operation in keeping the pantry and messhall clean between meals. Entire crew is extremely pleased with the increase in pay and fringe benefits. GENEVA (U.S. Steel), August 3— Chairman, Fred Bischoff; SecreUry, Frank Allen; Ship's Delegate, Fred Bischoff; Deck Delegate, Bruce E. Ruggie; Engine Delegate, Paul E. Huggins. $18.40 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. BUCKEYE PACIFIC (Buckeye), August 17—Chairman, Leon M. Kyser; Secretary, Wilmer E. Harper; Ship's Delegate, Bill Cullen. No beefs and no disputed OT. COLUMBIA (Ogden Marine), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, B. J. Woturski; Secretary, M. S. Sospina; Ships Delegate, Thomas L. Farrell; Deck Delegate, Richard Heffley; Engine Delegate, Joseph E. Brooke. No beefs reported by department delegates. Vote of thanks extended to the en­ tire steward department for a job well done. Discussion held regard­ ing pension plan. SAN FRANCISCO (Sea-Land), July 27—Chairman, Arne Larsen; Secretary, Henry A. Galicki; Ship s Delegate, Michael LaCross; Deck Delegate, Charles Johnson; Stew­ ards' Delegate, Joseph A. Long. $30.00 in Movie Fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. Brother Mike F. Curry was elected to serve as new ship's delegate. RICHWOOD (Richwood), July 27 —Chairman, Edward Adams; Sec­ retary, William Karpiak. Vote of thanks extended to the steward de­ partment for a job well done. Vote of thanks also extended to patrolmen Frank Boyne and Ed Morris for a job well done. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 24—Chairman, Manuel Laudran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett. $10.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks extended to the steward department for a job well done. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 24—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, John Cal­ houn. Everything is running smooth^ly with no beefs and no disputed OT. OVERSEAS EVA (Maritime Over­ seas), July 27—Chairman, I^y.Boi­ ling; Secretary, Bertrand Wright; Ship's Delegate, Ray Boiling;. Deck Delegate, L. C. Wilson; Stewards Delegate, Bertrand A. Wright. Few hours disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Motion was made that all • ships goin^ into hot climate should be air conditioned. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 17—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, John Cal­ houn. No beefs reported by depart­ ment delegates. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water­ ways), August 10—Chairman, W. Kuchta; Secretary, J. Hunt. Brother L. B. Kelly elected to serve as ship's delegate. No beefs or disputed OT. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), August 24—Chairman, Alfonso A. Armada; Secretary, William H. Rhone; Ship's Delegate, William E. Richardson. No beefs reported by department delegates. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), August 9—Chairman, Ray Hodges; . Secretary, Floyd Mi^hell, Jr. No beefs and no disputed OT reported ;by department delegates. WARRIOR (Sea-Land), July 27— Chairman, L. Ramirez; Secretary, W. Lescovich; Ships Delefi^ate, Walter Lescovich; Deck Delegate, O. Ortiz; Engine Delegate, Luis A. Ramirez. No beefs were reported by depart­ ment delegates. AMERIGO (Crest), July 13— Chairman, B. Anderson; Secretary, C. Hall. Department delegates re­ ported that everything is running smoothly. Brother B. Anderson was elected to serve as ship's delegate. ALCOA VOYAGER (Alcoa), July 20—Chairman V. W. CMary; Sec­ retary, M. P. Cox; Ship's Delegate, Edward L. B'lanton. $122.75 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT reported by department delegates. MIDLAKE (American Bulk), Aug­ ust 10—Chairman, Charles Allen; Secretary, Frank Kustura; Ship's Delegate, Charles Hueburt; Deck Delegate, Charles H, Allen, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Thomas C. Hopkins; Stewards Delegate, Robert F. Grant. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment, otherwise no beefs. LYNN VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 20—Chairman, W. Mat­ thews; Secretary, Howard Flynn; Ship's Delegate, W. Matthews; En­ gine Delegate, Oliver N. Meyers; Steward Delegate, G. A. Brown. Dis­ puted OT in deck and engine de­ partments. ••'J - BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 3—Chairman, C. Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Deck Delegate, Mario Garcia Lopez; En­ gine Delegate, Anthony Pramo; Stewards' Delegate, N. Williams. No beefs. Everything running smoothly in all departments. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 27—Chairman, John Al­ statt; Secretary, Wayne Larson; Ship's Delegate, B. D. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. No major beefs were reported by department delegates. OVERSEAS EXPLORER (Mari­ time Overseas), August 10—Chair­ man, Gerald McCray; Secretary, Peter Morreae; Ship's Delegate, Gerald McCray. Some disputed OT in deck department to be taken up with patrolman. CITIES SERVICE NORFOLK (Cities Service), August 26—Chair­ man, Allen Manuel; Secretary, War­ ren Manuel; Ship's Delerate, War­ ren Manuel; Deck Delegate, M. Welch; Engine Delegate, L. V. Springer; Stewards' Delegate, Allen Manuel. Few hours disputed OT in deck and engine departments. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), July 27—Chairman, George E. Annis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon; Ship's Delegate, George E. Annis; Engine Delegate, D. Saxon; Stewards' Dele­ gate, F. R. Stickel. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward depart­ ment for a job well done. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. CITY OF ALMA (Waterman), July 13—Chairman, Lonnie Cole; Secretary, Frank L. Schackelford; Ship's Delegate, D. A. Norris; En­ gine Delegate, F. L. David. No beefs and no disputed OT. RICE VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), July 6—Chairman, John W. Alstatt; Secretary, John W. Givens; Ship's Delegate, B. 0. Bush; Engine Delegate, John P. Lyons; Stewards' Delegate, Paul L. Hunt. No beefs and no disputed OT. BESSEMER VICTORY (South Atlantic & Caribbean), July 20— Chairman, Carlton Moore; Secre­ tary, A. W. Hutcherson; Ship's Delegate, Charles G. Ashcom; Deck Delegate, E. Luzler; Engine Dele­ gate, Robert Davis; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Frank Kumiega. Everything running smoothly with no beefs. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Au­ gust 17—Chairman, Manuel Laudran; Secretary, Harris L. Bennett. $10.00 in ship's fund. No beefs and no disputed OT. MAIDEN CREEK (Sea-Land), Au­ gust 10—Chairman, George E. An­ nis; Secretary, Joseph E. Hannon. Few hours disputed OT in deck de­ partment, otherwise everything run­ ning smoothly. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for job well done. PUERTO RICO (Hudson Water­ ways), July 20—Chairman, Harry Baum; Secretarj^ D. Archia; Deck Delegate, Ralph J. Denayer. $4.25 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by department delegates. HALCYON TIGER (Halcyon), Au­ gust 3—Chairman, A Barnes; Sec­ retary, Michael Toth; Ship's Dele- ' gate, Anthony B. Barnes; Deck ^ <1 Delegate, Howard R. Harvey; EnU gine Delegate, Jack H. Brian. Discussion held regarding Vacation and Welfare Plans. ROBIN TRENT (Moore-McCor- mack), July 20-Chairman, F. J. Mears; Secretary, C. J. Nail; Ship s Delegate, P. Rubish; Deck Delegate, ' F. E. Parsons; Engine Delegate, Claude D. Berry; Stewards' Dele­ gate, A. R. Bailey. $34.70 in shipj"fund. Some disputed OT in steward department otherwise everything is O.K. Discussion held regarding re- » tirement plan. Vote of thanks to the steward and his galley gang for a job well done. NOONDAY (Waterman), August 31—Chairman, T. Martineau^; Secre­ tary, J. Morton; Ship's Delegate, Tom A. Martineau; Deck De egate, Fred Serrahn; Engine Delegate, Henry B. Pedersen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Rafael A. Rios. Motion was made that the Union have a dental clinic. Some disputed OT in department. $2.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the steward department for a gob well done. ' ^ - ANDREW JACKSON (Water-4 man), August 31—Chairman, Thorn- as L. Self; Secretary, John W. , Mims; Ship's Delegate, Juan V. ^ Fernandez; Deck Dele^te, Juan V. Fernandez; Engine Delegate, L. Aranco; Stewards' Delegate, Rich- ard Ramsperger. $22.00 ®' fund. No beefs were reported by ^ department delegates. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), August 3—Chairman, J. Ken­ nedy; Secretary, D. M. Woods; Ship's Delegate, J. C. Northcut; Deck Delegate, R. A. Cory; Engine Delegate, E. Boyce; Stewards' Del­ egate, G. H. Burns. Vote of thanks to steward department. POTOMAC (Ogden), August 24— Chairman, Arnie Horde; Secretary, William J. McNeely; Ship's Dele­ gate, H. A. Smith; Deck Delegate, H. A. Smith; Engine Delegate, R. McKnight; Stewards' Delegate, Henry McCullough. Crew would like the patrolman to check the old fans in foc'sls. WALTER RICE (Reynolds Met­ als), September 1—Chairm^ W. W. Lawton; Secretary, L. J. Bwle; Ship's Delegate, Paolo Pnngi; Dock Delegate, John Talbot; Engine Dele- ' gate. Jay C. Cohen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Charles Lampman. Everything is O.K. with no beefs and no dis- ^ puted OT. ALBION VICTORY (Bulk Trans­ port), July 13—Chairman, L. A. Bchm; Secretary, G. H. Coker; Ship's Delegate, G. H. Coker; Deck Delegate, G. H. Coker; Engine Dele­ gate, M. Beasley, Jr.; Stewards' Delegate, Harry D. Hommond. No beefs or disputed OT reported. ELIZABETHPORT (Sea-Land), August 10—Chairman, Thom E. Kelsey; Secretary, Herb Knowles; Ship's Delegate, Tom E. Kelsey; Deck Delegate, C. B. Testes; Engine Delegate, A. M. Lindsey; Stewards' Delegate K. Miller. Discussion held on division of OT for the oilers and firemen under the new contract. No beefs reported by the department delegates. DEL ALBA (Mississippi), August 10—Chairman, William Aycock; Secretary, Peter Gebbia, Jr.; Ships Delegate, Thomas L. Harrell; Stew­ ards' Delegate, John A. Schultz. $8.50 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Everything is running smoothly. WINGLESS VICTORY (Consoli­ dated Marine), August 10—Chair­ man, C. Mize; Secretary, J. Calhoun. Some disputed OT in deck d^artment One man missed ship in Hono­ lulu. TRANSPACIFIC (Hudson Water­ ways), July 13—Chairman, William G. Cofone; Secretary, John C. Hunt. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. Motion niade to have air-conditioners instalmd in messhall and that a larger AC gen­ erator be installed to allow for pri­ vate air-conditioners and refrigera­ tors while this ship is on the tropic run. Vote of thanks to steward de­ partment for job well done. VANTAGE HORIZON (Venore), July 27—Chairman, Richard Schaeffer; Secretary, Louis W. Pepper; Ship's Delegate, W. Smirmoff. Some disputed OT in deck and engine de­ partments. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), April 29—Chairman, J. Levine; Secretary, C. G. McLellan. No beefs were reported by department dele­ gates. OAKDALE (Oakdale Shipping), August 3—Chairman, N. H. Eldridge; Secretary, Robert H. Pitcher; Ship's Delegate, Chester C. Sey­ mour; Deck Delegate, Chester J. Seymour; Engine Delegate, Edward P. Arard; Stewards Delegate, Vin­ cent Pezzelolo. Discussion held re­ garding pension plan. No beefs and no disputed OT. STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), July 27—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, S. Segree. $9.00 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. Brother K. Price was elected to serve as ship's delegate. SS STEEL CHEMIST (Isthmian), August 3—Chairman, None; Secre­ tary, S. Segree; Deck, Delegate, James Christie; Engine Delegate, Ishmaul Ramos; Stewards Delegate, Stanley Faunthrop. $9.00 in ships fund. Everything is in order with no beefs and no disputed OT. ERICKSON (Crest), August 3-Chairman, Bill Butts; Secretary Al­ bert H. Richards; Ship's Delegate, Bill Butts; Deck Delegate, Paul Chattley; Engine Delegate, Louis Greaux; Stewards Delegate, Donald Thompson. Crew extend a vote of thanks to all SIU . represe^atiyes for the raise in pay and OT. Written motions and resolutions sent to headquarters. No beefs were re­ ported by department delegates. JAMES (Ogden Marine), August . 31—Chairman, H. OMey; Secretary, C. Garner; Ship's Delegate, R. N. Kelly; Deck Delegate, David B. Ramby; Engine Delegate, John S. > Higgins; Stewards' Delegate, O. Paschal. Discussion held regarding retirement plan and new contract. No beefs were repp^ed by depart- • ment delegates. $37.36 in ship s fund. ALCOA TRADER (Alcoa), August 10 — Chairman, Donald Chestnut, Secretary, Delegate J. D. Cantrell, Jr.; Deck Delegate, O. W. Elliott; Engine Del­ egate, Carlos Vega; Steward, A. Ronlin. No beefs were reported by department delegates. . * , ^ RALEIGH (Crest), August 31— Chairman, Dan hL Ticer, Sr., Secre­ tary, John H. McElroy; Ship's Dele­ gate Dan M. Ticer, Sr.; Engine Delegate, Donald J. Henson; Stew­ ards-Delegate, E. E. Davidson. $16.00 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a job well done. JAMES (Ogden),'August 24 — Chairman, H. Mobley; Secretly, C. Garner; Ship's Delegate, R.. N. Kelly; Deck Delegate, David B. Ramby; Engine Delegate, John S. Higgins; Stewards' Delegate, Otis Paschal. $28.80 in ship's fund. Vote of thanks was extended to the stew­ ard department for a job well done. Discussion held regarding retire­ ment plan. NOONDAY (Waterman), Septem- , her 7 —Chairman, T. Martineau; Secretary J. Morton; Ship s Delegate, T. Martineau; Deck Delegate, ' Fred Serrahn; Engine Delegate, . Henry B. Pedersen; Stewards' Dele­ gate, Rafael A. Rios; $37.00 in ship'sifund. Some disputed OT in engine department. No beefs. �lOetober, 1969 SEAFARERS Waiiam Flllin^in, 41: Sea­ farer Fillingim died on August 7 as the result of an auto acci­ dent on Friendsw o od Link Road, Texas. He was a native of Alabama and made his home there in Chicka­ saw. An AB in the deck de­ partment, his last vessel had '' been the Albion Victorv. He joined the Union in the Port of •> Mobile in 1941. Brother Fil­ lingim is survived by his father, " Emanuel. Burial was in Wolf Ridge Cemetery, Whistler, Ala. bama. u r Joseph John Vuitech, 62: Seafarer Vujtech passed away as a result of ar­ teriosclerosis on July 20 in Har­ bor Emergency Hospital, San Francisco. He was a native of Michigan and was living in San Francisco when he died. Broth­ er Vujtech joined the SIU in the Port of Baltimore in 1946. He was a chief cook and last sailed aboard the Raphael Semmes. Seafarer Vujtech, who began his sailing career in 1923, is sur­ vived by a daughter, Sonya Lee Van Deventer. Robert Hill Trail III, 19: Brother Trail died in action on February 25 during a battle 'in Quang Tri Province, Viet­ nam. He had temporarily left the SIU to join the Mari ne Corps in 1968. A native of Baltimore, Mary­ land, Seafarer Trail joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1967. He sailed as a wiper in the engine department and last shipped aboard the Alcoa Market. Brother Trail is survived by his mother and father. . \1> Homer Lee Addingtmi, 63: Brother Addington died of a heart attack on August 13 at the Sunny Point Army Terminal, North Carolina. He was a native of Nickelsville, Virginia, and was making his home in Gate City, Virginia at the time of his death. He sailed in the deck department and last shipped aboard the Grethe in January of this year. Sea­ farer Addington joined the Union in 1957 in the Port of Baltimore. He is survived by his father, Sam. Demetrio Gomaza Zemido, 72: Brother Zerrudo, an SIU pensioner, died of heart diseasf on August 10 in the USPHS Hos­ pital at New Or­ leans. Born in the Philippine Islands, Brother Zerrudo had made his home in New Orleans. He had been sailing nearly 31 vears when he retired in 1961. Brother Zerrudo sailed as stew­ ard and his last vessel was the Del Alba. He joined the Union in the Port of New Orleans. Burial was in Garden of Mem­ ories Cemetery, Jefferson, Louisiana. Seafarer Zerrudo is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Rosita Penton. ,1, Robert Sallier, 57: Seafarer Sallier died on August 3 in Park Place Hos­ pital, Port Ar­ thur, Texas. A chief engineer for Slade, Inc., Brother Sallier made" his home in Orange, Tex­ as, with his wife. Dorothy. He joined the SIU in Port Arthur in 1964. Burial was in Evergreen Cemetery, Orange. Besides his wife. Sea­ farer Sallier is survived by two sons. Robert and Jerry. Broth­ er Sallier waS a native of Louisiana. Page Twenty Nine LOG gia and joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1955. Burial was at Garden of MemCemetery, New Orleans. ^ Paul Chase Norton, 63: Brother Norton was - an SIU pensioner who passed away on September 10. Seafarer Norton had sailed as an AB in the deck department for many years. He last sailed aboard the Duke Victory. A native of Maine, he was making his home in Boston at the time of his death. Brother Norton joined the SIU in the Port of New York in 1938. Cremation took place at Forest Hills Cre­ matory, Boston. Lloyd James Thomas, 58: Brother Thomas, an SIU pen­ sioner, died in Charity Hospi­ tal, New Orleans, on August 17 from a lung di­ sease. A real oldtimer in the SIU, he joined the Union in 1938 in the Port of Norfolk. A native of West Virginia, Sea­ farer Thomas had sailed as an AB in the deck department. His last vessel was the Trans India. Brother Thomas was living in New Orleans at the time of his death. He is survived by a sis­ ter, Gladys Caldwell. Burial was in Tampa, Florida. Brother Thomas first went to sea in 1929. <I> James Walker, 58: Seafarer Walker died in USPHS Hospi­ tal, Staten Island, on August 31. Leroy Samuel Jackson, 55: He joined the Seafarer Jackson died on Sep­ SIU in the Port tember 13 in of New York in New Orleans. 1947 and worked Death was in the steward caused by department. His drowning. A last vessel was member of the the Jacksonville. A native of SIU since 1939, South Carolina, Brother Walker Brother Jackson was living in Bronx, New York, sailed as a chief with his wife, Beatrice, when he steward. His last vessel was died. In 1961 he served the mid­ the Calmar. He was a native of South Carolina and still made night to 8 a.m. watch in the his home there with his wife, greater New York harbor strike. Gwendolyne, at the time of his In 1962 he was issued a picket death. Brother Jackson joined duty card. Burial was in Woodthe SIU in the Port of Savannah. lawn Cemetery, Bronx. Walter Beck Orr, 60: Broth­ Edward Anthony Lukowski, er Orr died suddenly on August 67: Brother Lukowski was an Samuel Chamberlain Law­ 25, 1968 in San SIU pensioner Francisco. He rence, 51: Brother Lawrence who died on died in San had been a cook September 20 in Francisco on in the steward USPHS Hospi­ February 2 of department and tal, Staten Is­ pneumonia. Sea­ last sailed land. A native farer Lawrence aboard the of Brooklyn, he sailed as a wiper Mount Vernon was living there in the engine de­ in 1968. Sea­ with his wife, partment. His farer Orr, a native of Arkansas, Anna, when he died. Brother last vessel was was making his home in Wil­ Lukowski had joined the Union son, Oklahoma at the time of the Eliza Port. He was bom in in the Port of New York and his death. He joined the SIU in Pensacola, Florida, and made the Port of Baltimore in 1952. his home in Oakland, Califor­ sailed as a bosun in the deck A man with a B.A. degree. nia. Brother Lawrence joined department. His last vessel was Brother Orr was once an ele­ the Union in the Port of New the Seatrain Louisiana. In mentary school teacher. He is York in 1961. Burial was at 1961 he participated in the suiwived by his father, Olin, Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Tampa, greater New York harbor strike. From 1919 until 1921 he served Florida. and a cousin, Christine. in the Navy. Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, New York. Hughes Patterson Townes, 56: Seafarer Townes succumbed r to heart disease on August 22 at the USPHS Hos­ pital in New Or­ leans. He was an SIU pensioner who made his home with his wife, Rosella, in New Orleans. Brother Townes sailed as an AB in the deck de­ partment and the last vessel he sailed on was the Walter Rice in 1968. He was born in Geor­ Thomas Lewis Thompson, 57: Brother Thompson died Au­ Jack Theo Waldtop, 17: gust 11 in the Brother Waldrop died of pneu­ USPHS Hospi­ monia in USPHS tal in San Fran­ Hospital, New cisco. A mem­ Orleans, on July ber of the SIU 31. Young Wal­ since 1951, he drop had grad­ joined the Union uated from the in the Port of Harry LundeNew York. Sea­ berg School of farer Thompson sailed as a 2nd Seamanship in cook. Bom in New York City, 1968 and was sailing as a wiper Brother Thompson was living in in the engine department. His San Francisco at the time of his last vessel was the Alcoa Cbmdeath. Burial was in Ocean mander. A native of BrookView Cemetery, Staten Island. haven, Mississippi, Seafarer Waldrop was still making his home there when he passed away. Survivors include his mother, Dorothy. Burial was in Antioch Cemetery, Brookhaven. Hamilton Dailey, 47: Brother Dailey died on November 23, 1968, at Gradu­ ate Hospital in Philadelphia from acute bron­ chial asthma. He was born in Vir­ ginia and joined the SIU in the Port of Norfolk in 1941. He sailed as a messman in the steward department and last worked aboard the Pro­ ducer. At the time of his death. Seafarer Dailey was living in Philadelphia with his mother, Minnie Young. He served in the Army from 1943 until 1946. Jacobus Nuvelstyn, 70: Sea­ farer Nuvelstyn died from a hemorrhage at Jersey City Med­ ical Center on August 27. He was a native of Holland and was making his home in Jersey City, New Jersey, widi his wife, Susan, when he passed away. Brother Nuvelstyn joined the Union in the Port of New York in 1963 and worked as a deckhand for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad. Thomas Stephen Johnson, 50: Brother Johnson died sud­ denly on Au­ gust 30 aboard the Burbank f ^ Victory on which he was sailing as a steward. Death was caused by a heart attack. Bom in New Jersey, he had been living in Philadelphia. Seafarer John­ son was single and joined the Union in the Port of Tampa, Florida in 1949. Burial serv­ ices were held in Philadelphia. Prue G. Vaughn, 51: Brother Vaughn died of heart disease on September 12 in Norfolk Gen­ eral Hospital, Norfolk, Virgin­ ia. Seafarer Vaughn was born in Belton, South Carolina, and made his home with his wife, Delia, in Chesapeake, Virginia. He shipped as a third cook in the steward department and last sailed aboard the Ames Victory. Brother Vaughn joined the Un­ ion in the Port of Norfolk in 1955. Burial was at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Norfolk. �Page Thirty SEAFARERS FINANCIAL REPORTS. Hie constitution of the SIU Atlantic, Guff, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes sjiecific provision for safeauardina the membership's money and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditina committee elected by the membership. Ail Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Brooklyn. TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund aareements. All these aareements specify that the trustees in charae of these funds shall equally consist of union and manaaeraent representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust fun^ are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shippina riahts and seniority are protected exclusively by the contracts between the Union and the shipowners. Get to know your shippina riabts. Copies of these contracts are posted and available in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation of your shippina or seniority riahts as contained in the contracts between the Union and the shipowners, notify the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return receipt requested. The pnmer address for this is: Earl Shepard, Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 17 Battery Place, Suite 1980, New Yorit 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 Seafaros Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avaUable in aU SIU balb. These contracts specify the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboara ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights prop­ erly, contact the nearest SIU port agent. EDITORIAL POLICY—SEAFARERS LOG. The LOG has traditionaUy refrain^ from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Unions officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deoned harmful to the Union or its collective membership. This established policy has heea reaffirmed by membenhip action at the Septembers 1960s meetings in all constitu­ tional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is vested in an ^torial board which consists of the Executive B^d of the Union. The Executive Board may delegates from among its rankSs (me individual to carry out this responsibility. IDdNOT Seafarers and their families are urged to support a consumer boy­ cott by trade unionists against various companies whose products are produced under non-union conditions, or which are "unfair to labor." (This listing carries the name of the AFL-CIO unions in­ volved, and will be amended from time to time.) Stftzel-WeUer DistfUcriM "Old FitzKerald," "Old Efk" ."Cabin StUl," W. L. WcUcr Bourbon whldtcys . (Distillery Workers) — KIngsport Press "World Book,** "Chfldcraft" (Printing Pressmen) (Typographers, Bookbinders) (Machinists, Stereotypers) B: d> Boren Clay Products Co. (United Brick and Clay Workers) Ik Gypsum Wallboard, American Gypsum Co. (United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers International) R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Camels, Winston, Tempo, Brandon, Cavalier and Salem cigarettes (Tobacco Workers International Union) (International Union of United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drinks and Distillerv Workers) A1> Pioneer Flour MID (United Brewery, Flour, Cereal, Soft Drink and Distillery Workers Local 110, San Antonio, Texas d> An California Table Grapes (United Farm Workers) "mS" bthnd men's clothes _ Kaynec Boyswear, Jndy Bond Uonws, Bancs Knitwear, Randa He*, BOM Giovei^ Rklunaa Magic Chef Pan Pacific Division (Stove, Furnace and Allied Appliance Workers International Union) 4> 4, ABantic Prodncts Sports Goods (Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America) Fisher Price Toys (Doll and Toy Workers) Jamestown Stofing Cocpu (United Furniture Woiters) PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU nnlesa an official Union receipt is given for ume. Under no circumetancea chould any mraiber pay any money for any reaaon unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been required to make such payment, this should immediately be reported to headquarters. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publbhea every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarise themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obli­ gation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify headquarters. RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, including attend­ ance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meet­ ings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functicms, in­ cluding service on rank-and-file conunittees. Because these oldtimen cannot take shipboard anpl<vment, the membership has reaffirmed the long-standing Union p<dicy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. EQUAL RIGHTS. All Seafarers are guaranteed equal rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These riirfats are clearly set forth in the SlU 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 ori^n. If any member feds that be is denied the equal rights to which be is entitled, he should notify headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATIONS. One of the basic riadits of Seafarers is the rteht to pursue legislative and political objectives which wiU serve the best interests of themselves, their famaies and their Union. To achieve these objectives, the Seafarers Political Activity Donation was establisbed. Donations to SPAD are entirdy voluntary and constitute the funds throuidt which legislative smd political activities are conducted tor the benefit of the membership and the Union. If at any time a Seafarer feab that any of the above rights have boon vMstod. or that ho has been denied bM constttntioaal right of accoso to Union records or infomution, ho ahonid imniediataly notify SIU President Panl BaU at bcadgnarters by eertified nwU. retam recdpt rcgi —^ Econmny Famitnre Co. AniOdownMa^ Weston Provindai Bflt-Rite (Upholsterers) : Waterways), AuKust 10—Chairman^ Jaclc Kennedy; Secretary, D. M,; Woods; Ship's Delegate, James Ci* Northcut; De.clc Delegate, It. Corey; Engine Delegate, E. Boyce; • jjStewards' Delegate, G. H. Burns. No beefs reported by department dtele-^ gates. Everything running smoothly, BEATRICE VICTORY (Victory Carriers), August 10—Chairman, Cw ' Webb; Secretary, W. Lovett; Ship's> Delegrate, Mario Garcis gine Delegate, Anthony J. rramo; Stewards* Delegate, N. Williams." Everything running smoothly in alii * departments. Vote of thanks to*! steward department for Job well' done. ~ i " . KENYON VICTORY (Columbia), . August 3—Chairman, J. Kuchta;| Secretary, Leo M. Morsette; Ship's Uelesate, John Kuchta; Deck Dele-f> ate, Thomas J. McGinn; Engine delegate,']^bert Brooks; Stewards' pslegate, Harry C. Downing. No beefs were reported by department» delegates. S STEEL ENGINEER (Isthralan), June 23^—Chairman, Jan Bayes, Jr.; ' . Secrfitary, Angel Seda; Ship's Dele- , gate, Jan Bayes, Jr.; Engine Delegate, Maunce Rosenthal $7.00 Im , ship's fund. No beefs. Some disputed OT in deck and engine d«partm< to be taken up vrith patrolman. COLUMBIA (U. S. Steel), Aug 17—Chairman, B. J. Waturski; r«tary|_^M. S. Sospina; Ship's Dele gate, Thomas Darrell; Deck Dele gate, Richard Heffly; Engine Dele gate, Joseph E. JBrooke; Stewards! Delegate, T. Sayer. No beefs. Eve thing running smoothly in all d partments. ' SIU-AGUWD Meetings RIchman Bros, and Sewell Suits, New Orleans Nov. 11—2:30 p.in. Wing SUrts Mobile Nov. 12—2:30 p.in. (Amalgamated Clothing Workers Wilmington Nov. 17—^2:00 p.in. of America) San Fran. .. Nov. 19—2:00 p.m. Seattle Nov. 21—^2:00 p.m. <|> New York Nov. 3—^2:30 p.ni. Philadelphia Nov. 4—2:30 p.in. White Furniture Co. Baltimore .. Nov. 5—2:30 p.m. (United Furniture Workers of Detroit .... Nov. 14—^2:30 p.m. America) Houston ... Nov. 10—2:30 p.m. ^ —- October, 1969. "I Comet Rice Miiis Co. products Genesco Shoe Mfg. Co. Work Shoes . . . Sentry, Cedar Chest, Statler Men's Shoes . . . Jarman, Johnson & Murphy, Crestworth, (Boot and Shoe Workers' Union) LOG United Industrie Workers New Orleans Nov. 11—7:00 p.m. Mobiie .... Nov. 12—7:00 p.m. New York Nov. 3—^7:00 p.m. Philadelphia Nov. 4—^7:00 p.m. Baltimore .. Nov. 5—^7:00 p.m. tHousttm .. Nov. 10—^7:00 p.m. Great Lakes SIU Meetings Detrcdt .. Nov. 3—2:00 p.m. Alpena .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Buffalo .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Chicago . Nov. 3—7:30 p.m. Duluth .. Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Frankfort Nov. 3—7:00 p.m. Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Section Chicago ... Nov. 11—^7:30 p.m. tSauH Ste. Marie Nov.. 13—^7:30 p.m. Buffalo Nov. 12—^7:30 p.m. Duluth Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Cleveland , Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Toledo ... Nov. 14—^7:30 p.m. Detridt • • - Nov. 10—^7:30 p.m. MOwaukee Nov. 10—^7:30 p.m. SIU Inland Boatmen's Union New Orleans Nov. 11—5:00 p.m. Mobfie .... Nov. 12—5:00 p.m. Philaddphia Nov. 4—5:00 p.m. Bdtfanore (Bcensed and un­ licensed) . Nov. 5—5:00 p.m. Norfolk ... Nov. ti—5:00 p.m. Honstmi ... Nov. 10—5:00 p.m. Railway Marine Region PhOadelpiiia Nov. 11—^10 am. & 8 p.m. BaUimoK Nov. 12-7-^10 a.m. ft 8 p.fn. •Noifblfc Nov. 13—10 aju. ft 8 p.m. Jeney CHy Nov. 10—10 a.m. ft 8 pjn. t Hooting held at Labor Temple, Snnit Ste. Mario, Mich. * Meotiag held nt Labor Temple. Nowport Mews. IMootiag hdd at Gahreefam whmrrm. STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian)! J* luly 13—Chairman, J. Nelson, Jr.tl^ Secretary, O. Vola; Ship's Delegate! ^ Sugene Hayden; Deck Delegate^ * Thomas I. Walker; Engine Delegate^ forge E. Griffith; Stewards' Delei' "" rate, F. S. Omega. $20.00 in ship's!. fund. No beefs or disputed OT. SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes & Inland Waters Inland Boatmen's Union United Industrial Workers PRfiSIDENT Psul Hall EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT Cal Tenner Esrl Shopard Al Tannsr VICE PRESIDENTS Llndioy Wlll|smi Robart MaHhawi SECRHARY-TREASURER Al Kerr HEADQUARTERS 47S 4tli Ave., ikim. (212) HY t-4M0 800 N. Second Ave. (517) EL 4-3414 •ALTIMORE, Md 1214 E. Raltlmoro St. (301) E«, 7-4f00 BOSTON. Mail MI Atlantic Avenue (417) 482-4714 BUFFALO, N.Y 7IS.WaihtMton St. SIU (714) TL 3-T2ST IBU (714) TL 3-f25t CHICAOO, III T3BI Ewlne Ave. SIU (312) SA 1-0733 IBU (312) ES 5-TS70 CLEYELAND, Ohio 1410 W. 2Stli St. (214) MA I-S4S0 DETROIT, Mich IBIH W. Jefterion Ave. (313) VI 3-4741. DULUTH, Minn .... 2014 W. 3rd St. (2IB) RA 2-4110 FRANKFORT, Mich. P.O. Box 107 4IS Main St. (414) EL 7-2441 HOUSTON, Tex M04 Canal St. (713) WA 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE, Ha. 2408 Pearl St. (t04) EL 3-0117 JERSEY CITY, N-l. ... It Monteomory St. (201) HEB-t424 MOBILE, Ala I South Uwronco St. (205) HE 2-1754 410 Jackion Avo. NEW ORLEANS, U. (504) S21-7544 NORFOLK, Va MB Ird St. (703) 422-l8t2 .. 1404 S. 41b St. PHILADELPHIA, Pa (lis) DE 4-3SIB r;?BTEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian)! liAugnst 3—Chairman, George L,fjHayes; Secretary, Johnny P. Bali< Hnv: Ship's Sbiti'H Delegate, Delesrate. George ueorire L. A day; Hayes; Deck Delegate, James F. Shi-: rah; Engine Delegate, David !. Gow-^ er; Stewards' Delegate, Philip Swing. $51.66 in ship's fund. Trip: has Just begun and everything istu i| running smoothly. i I A STEEL SCIENTIST (Isthmian)^ ' July 20-r-Ch8irman, J. Nelson, Jr.; • „ i Secretary, O. Vola; Ship's Delegate, i Eugene Hayden; Deck Delegate, ; Thomas J. Walker; Engine Delegate, i Jorge Griffith; Stewards' Delegate, ! F. Omega. $20.00 in ship's fund. No ! beefs or disputed OT. ALPENA, MICH PORT ARTHUR, Tex IMS Sovonlb St. SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., 1531 Mluton St. (415) 424-47t3 SANTURCE, P.R ISIl Fomandox Jonco* Step 10 724-2848 WSA'S® -""SSTMSi STEEL DIRECTOR (Isthmian), „ August 10—Chairman, George L. Hayes; Secretary, .Tohnnv p. BaVi^day; Shm's Delegate, George LV 'Hayes; Deck Delegate, James F. sShirah; Engine Delegate, David •Gower; Stewards' Delegate, Philip Swing. Discussion held on new con­ tract. Vote of thanks to our efficient Union raprescntatives, $51=66 m ship'ia fond. Everything running;; smoothly with no bpefs. STBIBL; SCIKNTIBT (Isthmian, „July 27—Ghairman> J. Nelson, Jr.! ISecfotary, 0. Vola; Ship's Delegab Sugehe Hayden; Deck Delega IThomas Walker; Engine Delega Idrge Griffith; Stewards' Delegate " Omega, $20.00 in ship's fund uerything is running smoothly. e«reta$y?^L'P. sXday afo, odprgB L. Hayes. ,Ste, J^ss Shiraht : David Gower; sfesw' jfatu;';VhiIlp.. Bvring..-.Mdmade that Bfeiphdard a month shdul4r ha Jn.khip'S'afondAl; r4.irtsiiSi WILMINOTON, CalHj, 4W .$«««• Aye. Terminal liland, Calif. (213) B32-73K YOKOHAMA, Japan. .Itwa Bld^. Room 801 1-2 Kalaan-Dorl-Nakafcu 1»l<4t7l fat. 281 •Delegate, yh^»:;.repprted 3 �SEAFARERS October, 1969 if.- > Page Thirty One LOG "'•'i t'r " • • W'f-" iM ARRY SCHULTZ, 70, went on s Pension in June after a long sniliAg H career. Ehiring his Jast two years at Ma he bad heard about the Hany Lundebe g School of Seamanship at Piney Point, ar d he had met some of the trainees and u])graders who came aboard ship. Last month he decided to come down to tlie Point and see the school for himself. .After a two-day tour, during which time J he had an opportunity to inspect all of • the training facilities, and the farm arei, he said; "I am greatly impressed. It's a wonderful thing. I only wish that we hzd this kind of training program when I was a young fellow, and I hope that the your g men down here realize what a wonderf ul opportunity they have. All of us have eveiy right to be proud of what the SIU building here to secure the future of the new young men coming into- our Union, our active members who are still sailing, and the oldtimers like me." ' yr,. '••Ai ^ -iTi Pensioner Harry Scliul+2 and HLSS Lifeboat • instructor Tom Brooks watch an able crew of trainees as they come into the dock - ' after a long and hard afternoon of practice.' ; -. . : • y:.y. < iy m'. ' 'Hv. ,;fT1 s - t;, SchwIta-'pOifits'to the chart to show.what a M firlman's wage's were when he was tailing in Ri:-the engine room m 1945—$14? a month! To­ ll^/: day a fireman's wages are $470,33. Looking on are (1-r) Richard Scott, James Shields, Charles ^Bailey. The. trainees were very in listening- to his- experiences. Plih Hall shows Pensioner ScHdifz mw^fplb^^ I'iiiormitory ; home which will be available for pertsiom^ / Pfrs;" Schultz exprsMed a - great deal of interest in )\e plans fpr a thbd^n and complete pensioner villagie.; Schultz samples a freshly picked watermelon presented t6 him by SIU RepreMntative, Frank M Schultz spent an afterrwon look-ysg ing around the school's farm which supplies^; much of the school's fruits and vegetables. :y �r'Vol. XXXI No, 12 SEAFARERS^jfeLOC Octobor 1969 < I OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO> { [ II CnrSERVKEMRFOlK smugMr I hrtofPineyPoiirt r -- - T HE 35,000-TON cities Service Norfolk stopped at Steuart Petroleum at the Port of Piney Point to discharge a part of her cargo of gasoline. The SlU'contracted supertanker had just completed a 65-day voyage that began at Norfolk and included ports in Venenzuela, Arruba, Pan­ ama, Guam, and Houston, Texas. SIU Represent­ ative Bill Hall, HLSS Instructor Tom Brooks, and a LCXJ photographer spent an afternoon visit­ ing the ship and talking with members of the crew. Two crewmembers, Larry Scott and Willis Single­ ton, both recent graduates of the HLSS school at Piney Point, stopped by to talk with some of the trainees, and tell them of their experiences. I ^ ISIU Representative Bill Hall holds an informal meet• ing with some of the crewmembers. Standing left to IFather and son sailed together on deck on the Nor- Iright are Macon Welch, deck delegate: Warren Man-. |foik. Mike Anding, sailing as O.S., and his father,.Iuel, ship's delegate: Mario Cepeda, AS: and Hoyt IB. J. Anding, take time out to look over the latest |Hackney, engine delegate. The crew was pleased with Iissue of the LOS. This was the first trip for Mike. |the surprise visit, and happy to receive the new LOS. The steward department was on hand for the LOS pho­ tographer. Left to right are Seorge Mates, chief stew-1 ard: Allen Manuel, steward delegate: Rodolfo Pinoin, | pantry: Berley Willis, third cook: and Jimmie Higham, i chief cook. The crew had high praise for the steward department of the Cities Service Norfolk. I I Two crewmembers of the Norfolk, both HLSS gradI uates, took time to pay ^ visit to the School at 1 Piney Point and talk to a class of trainees. Larty ICrewmember Mario Cepeda takes a supply of welfare 5 Scott, making his second trip as wiper, attended the I forms for the crew brought to the ship by SIUI school in February. Willis Singleton, seated, was ! Representative Bill Hall. Looking on is Tom Bropks,^| making his first trip as messman. He graduated in ^ . two chief pumpmen on the Norfolk took time out • lifeboat instructor at the Harry Lundeberg School • July. Looking on are HLSS instructors Bill Hall, and Ion deck to pose for this photo. Billy J. Brewer, |of Seamanship at Piney Point. The crew reported. Paul McGaharn, Scott, and Singleton both, had high i J left, and William Beatty reported a smooth trip.|a smooth voyage all the way with no problems.." praise for the HLSS training and education program. I I V* � 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. 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Title A name given to the resource October 1969 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SIU CONSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEE PREPARING REPORT AFL-CIO CONVENTION SETS COURSE FOR CHALLENGES OF ‘70S MTD OPTOMISTIC ON ADMINISTRATION’S MARITIME PLEDGE JUSTICE DEPT USED DOUBLE STANDARD IN WHITEWASH LETTER ON HAYNSWORTH CAREY SEES THREAT TO US SECURITY IN GROWING SOVIET MERCHANT FLEET JUSTICE DEPT USED DOUBLE STANDARD IN WHITEWASH LETTER ON HAYNSWORTH CAREY SEES THREAT TO US SECURITY IN GROWING SOVIET MERCHANT FLEET SIUNA, MTD DEMAND END TO PHS HOSPITAL SHUTDOWNS 1970 MARITIME AUTHORIZATION BILL PASSES HOUSE WITH SENATE CHANGES JENNIE RIZZUTO, LADY SIU PENSIONER, PAYS HAPPY VISIT TO HEADQUARTERS CONGRESS STRIKES FDL SHIP FUNDS FROM BUDGET FOR THIRD YEAR IN A ROW AFL-CIO EXPELS CHEMICAL WORKERS BY 50-1 MARGIN FOR ALA AFFILIATION GROWING NUMBER OF CONSUMER LAWS HAVE BARELY SCRATCHED THE SURFACE GILBERT BILL REVAMOS SOCIAL SECURITY; WOULD WIPE OUT POVERTY AMONG AGED CONGRESS ASKED TO HALT EXPLOITATION, ANTI LABOR ABUSE OF GREEN CARDRES SALARY HIKES, BONUSES, STOCK DEALS KEEP TOP EXECUTIVES ALIVE AND WELL 125 MORE TRAINEES WIN LIFEBOAT TICKETS AIRLINE PILOTS SCORE SAFETY HAZARDS, PROPOSE OWN SOLUTIONS TO INDUSTRY UNION BUSTING BY JP STEVENS HIT IN SEVENTH ADVERSE RULING BY NLRB CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MOUNTS DRIVE TO MAKE NLRB MANAGEMENT’S TOOL NEW JOB BIAS PLAN CALLED RIGHTS SURRENDER SOLUTION TO TEENAGE UNEMPLOYMENT NOT LOWER WAGES CRACKDOWN ON WAGE-HOUR CHEATERS CALLED FOR BY AFL-CIO PRES. MEANY CITY SERVICE NORFOLK STOPS AT PORT OF PINEY POINT Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 10/1969 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. 12 1969 Periodicals Seafarers Log