Seafarers Log: Vol. 42 No. 12 (1980-12-01)

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Ralph Quinnonez. One of the Best, Dies at 63
Ralph Quinnonez, Atlantic

Coast and Gulf Director of the
SIUNA affiliated United Indus­
trial Workers, whose career in the
labor movement was as far-
reaching as it was productive,
died suddenly, Dec. 4. He had
been a mainstay of the New York
political scene, as well as one of
the highest ranking native born
Puerto Ricans ip organized
labor. He was 63 years old.

As a young man, Quinnonez
had worked on the docks, where
he earned a reputation for being
tough yet honest. When he joined
the UIW in the early fifties', he
played an instrumental role in the
turbulent waterfront beefs.

Before joining the UIW (then
called the MA WD), he had been
active in the Teamsters Union,
where he made personal contacts
that proved to be indispensable
to the political growth of both the
UIW and its parent organization,
the SIUNA.

He had a reputation for being a
top-flight organizer. He brought
that skill to many important

. campaigns, from the bloody
Roter-Broil organizing drive that
helped establish the UIW as a
potent force in the industrial
worker field, to the Chicago
Taxi Beef, where he served as the
late Paul HalPs right hand man.

He spent much of his time in
recent years directing the UIW's
organizing drive in the Virgin
Islands. Since 1976, he helped to
sign up nearly 4,000 workers
there, half of them in the public
sector.

The UIW had represented the
3,000 workers at the Seatrain
Shipyard in Brooklyn until it was
forced to close down last year
because of the chronic economic
problems facing the U.S.
shipbuilding industry. At the
time of his death, Quinnonez had
been working with representa­
tives from the government and
private sector to help devise a

One of Top Officers of SlU-Affiliated UIW

The late Ralph Quinnonez (right) was a delegate to the 1980 National Democratic Convention last summer. With Brother.
Quinnonez on the Convention floor when this photo was taken were, from the left: Bill Dobbins. UfW Columbus. Qhio: Frank
Pecquex, SlU legislative representative, and Felix Francis, UIW Virgin Islands Area Director.

The late Ralph Quinnonez.

plan that would enable the
Brooklyn y^d to re-open.

He was instrumental in
protecting the welfare of those
workers who lost their jobs when
the yard closed. Largely through
his efforts, the workers were
granted Trade Adjustment
Assistance from the Federal
government, which ^ meant that
tliey could receive 75% of their
base wages for one year, as well as
supplemental funds to learn new
skills.

Dem Convention Delegate

Quinnonez was very active in
both local and national politics.
He was elected delegate to the
National Democratic Conven­
tion in 1976, and again in 1980.
He was a close personal and
political friend of Governor
Hugh Carey of New York and a
key figure in the Labor for Carey
Committees.

His political acumen was
legendary. Associates like to

. recount the time he helped save a
local Congressman from all but
certain defeat by casually
walking into his headquarters on
the day of the election and telling
him where to direct his last ditch
campaign efforts.

He had an amazing gift for
personal intimacy. He was
probably the best liked labor
official in the state of New York.

Associates were stunned by the
news of his unexpected death.

He was one of the.more
colorful members of a If ew York
political scene, not known for its
staidness. He had a compelling
publfc^ image. Huge and irrepress-
ibly funny, he was always the
center of any public gathering.
People naturally gravitated to
wherever he was.

His co-workers found him
warm and concerned. They
remember his almost tireless
dedication to his union member­
ship. Every person associated
with the UIW could recount
countless examples of Ralph
Quinnonez's good deeds.

He became a minor celebrity of
sorts during the 1976 Democratic
Convention when Daily News
Columnist Jimmy Breslin wrote a
story about him that emphasized
his weight. In typical Ralph
Quinnonez fashion, he laughed
and said, "I don't remember
Breslin as being a lightweight."

His good natured personality
often obscured his fierce deter­
mination and complexity.

He achieved success at a time
when it was unfashionable to be
black, let alone Pu^Rican. He
was a sergeant in the Army when
blacks were routinely denied
advancement; a leader among
dock workers when there were

few, if any, black dock workers; a
force in the. New York political
scene when there was just a
handful of black and Puerto
Rican politicians.

He possessed an amazing
breadth of knowledge. He could
recite the most obscure OS HA
regulation as if it were one of the
ten commandments. He was
fluent in at least four languages:
Spanish, English, Italian and
Yiddish. He was perhaps the top
labor negotiator in the industrial
workers field.

He was well known through­
out the labor movement. He cut
across all sorts of lines: racial
religious, linguistic.

He was an active member of
the Latin American Labor
Council. Just before his death he
was named as a Vice President of
the New Jersey State Federation
of the AFL-CIO.

He often said that he was from
"the Old School." His family
came before anything else, and
then his union. He was a devoted
protege of the late Paul Hall, who
for many years was President of
the Seafarers International
Union.

He is survived by his wife of 31
years, the former Mary Harris;
sons Ralph, Jr. and Paul;
daughters Cynthia and Linda; a
brother and three sisters.

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Ground Is Broken for New SiU Hail in Mobile
President Drozak on
Hand for Occasion

Anew SIU union hall
for the port of Mo­
bile, something
which has been on

the drawing boards for quite
sometime, is about to become
a reality. The site for the new
Mobile facility was picked out
a few months ago and work on
the building is set to begin at
anytime.

The new Mobile Hall is an
important part of the SlU's
overall program of improving
and expanding Union services
and facilities for SIU mem­
bers.

SIU President Frank Drozak
got the ball rolling as he
turned over the first shovel of
soil at the groundbreaking
ceremony held on November
12. Drozak told the crowd,
which included numerous SIU
members and top city
officials, on hand for the
ceremony that "the SIU and
Mobile .have come a long way
together," and that "the bond
this new union hall represents
will cement our relationship

With shovel in hand, SIU President Frank Drozak. left, does the honors of turning oyer the first ground at the site which will soon
be the brand new SIU Union hall in the port of Mobile. Drozak is joined in thp groundbreaking ceremony by Mobile City.
Commissioners Gary Guarino and Lambert Mims.

for many years to come."
Work on the hall is expected

to be completed by midv1981.
The building will also house
officers of the Greater Mobile
Area Maritime Port Council.

After the groundbi^eaking
ceremonies SIU Mobile Port
Agent Tom Glidewell hosted a
fine reception for union
members and Mobile County
officials who were in at­

tendance. The festivities were
replete with shrimp and
oysters fresh from the
surrounding waters, not to
mention a little grog. A
splendid time was had by all!

It's lust some arass and a bunch of trees right now. but by the middle of 1981. the new SIU hall for Mobile will grandly fill this space.

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After the groundbreaking, the SIU held a reception for members and their families.
A good time was had by all. Just ask. from the left: Mrs. Choysie Edmonds. Frank E
Edmonds and Tom Clay.,

Here's a photo showing the crowd of SI U.members. SIU families and well wishers
who turned out for the new Mobile hall groundbreaking ceremony . -- AJ y • . •

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Coast Guard Ends Search for Poet
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Ship and Crew of 34 Vanish in the Atlantic:
Board of Investigation Underway

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The the search began, found 4 to 5
miles of visibility as they ranged
1,000 miles east of Delaware Bay.

Other jets from the Azores
scanned the 9,000 hp ship's 3,200
nautical mile-course to midocean
crisscrossing the Atlantic and the
Straits of Gibraltar.

U.S. planes from Rota, Spain
also scoured the sea lanes near
the Straits.

On Nov. 8, the Coast Guard
started the massive search. On
Nov. 3, the SS Poet's owners who
had waited nine days, reported
the steamship overdue to the
Coast Guard! All together, the
shiphad been incommunicado for
14 days before the search started.

The Poet left Philadelphia
early on a clear night on Oct. 24
last radioing the same day off
Cap.e Henlopen, Del. She
carried a cargo of 13,500 long
tons of kernel bulk corn due in
Port Said, Egypt on Nov. 9.

answer to why the 11,421 dwt
SIU bulk-carrier SS Poet
(Hawaiian Eugenia) disappeared
without a trace, after last being
heard from on Oct. 24, remains a
puzzling riddle.

On Nov. 17, the U.S. Coast
Guard "regretfully" ended its
futile air and sea search and
rescue operations for the missing
522-foot bulker with her crew of
34 (24 Seafarers) after 10 fruitless
days.

A dozen Coast Guard, U.S.
Navy, Air Force and Canadian
Argus jets flew more than 70
sorties scouring 300,000 square
miles of the Atlantic with modern
locater devices. Taking off from
bases in the U.S., Bermuda and
the Azores, the search planes
spotted not a "coffee can nor oil
slick nor life jacket" from the
disappeared 36-year-old cargo
vessel. Some planes, a week after

Commanding was Capt. Leroy
A. Warren, 57, of Bel Air, Md.
who sailed the Poet for the last
year on nine consecutive voyages,
next to the last one to Egypt and
back, with the same deck officers
as on the final trip.

The Coast Guard speculates
that the Poet on Oct. 25 or 26
heading on a 36 degrees North
latitude course ran into a big,
freak storm with 70 mph winds
and 20-foot waves plus heavy
rain and maybe became disabled,
drifted off course and perhaps
foundered. The gale drove one
Panamanian ship onto the beach
and demolished homes on the
New Jersey shore.

The Poet carried two lifeboats
for 40 persons each, a popping-
free, inflatable liferaft with
lifejackets and 18 ring buoys. She
also had LORAN (Long Range
Aids to Navigation) and, if the
ship went down, a float-free
longrange radio transmitter
activated by salt water which

Inquest On Poet Disappearance
Philadelphia, Pa.—A Board of
Inquiry into the circumstances
surrounding the disappearance
of the SS Poet began here on
Nov. 19. The Board is headed by
Capt. Herbert G. Lyons, chief of
the Marine Safety Division,
Seattle.

For the first time, the U.S.
Coast Guard (CG) let lawyers
representing the Unions of the
missing men examine and
crossexamine witnesses.

Previously, union counselors
were allowed only to present

Findings Expected in
February

questions to the examining
officers who decided whether
they should be asked and ans­
wered.

The board's findings are due
around the end of February,
when the Poet's sistership, the SS
Penny will be inspected about
Jan. 25, 1981 when she returns to
the U.S. The court feels that the
Penny inspection "...will help
ascertain what corrective mea­
sures are necessay to preclude the
repetition of a similar tragedy
should the ship be considered
lost."

Opening before a packed.
Custom House hearing room
filled with nearly 100 relatives
of the missing seamen, the

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Continues
inquiry focused on the sea worth­
iness of the Poet and possible
negligence in the operation of the
vessel. It also focused on the corn
and the start of search and rescue
efforts.

On the board of inquiry are:
Cmd. Warren D. Snider, chief
inspector, Seattle; Lt. William J.
Morani Jr.^ port operations.
Providence, R.I. and the Na­
tional Transportation Safety
Board's J. Johnson.

Taking the witness stand on
the first day, downriver Pilot
Gary G. Harper, on the Delaware
since 1962, exclaimed that the'
Poet was "2 feet down at the
head" from the stern when he
took her to Delaware Bay. He
added that the master said he
"would correct it" presumably by
moving fuel and water to ballast
the stern.

The next day, SIU Attorney
Arthur A. Abarbanel, with N.Y.
Port Agent Jack Caffey along­
side elicited from the president of
the National Cargo Bureau
(which supervised the loading of
the corn on Oct. 20) that the
cargo was properly and fully
loaded with no "voids" in Nos. 1,
2 and 3 holds forward and
amidships. Also that No. 4 hold
in the stern remained empty
because its hatch cover could not
be opened. This caused the

Poet to be down at the bow.
Further crossexaminations by

the board, ship owner's laywer,
Raymond T, Letulle and ques­
tions posed by relatives to the
cargo loader brought out that
they thought a ship so fully
packed would prevent cargo
shifting to affect the vessel's
stability. A 12 degree list is the
maximum, one testified. They
also discounted a spontaneous
combustion fire, and water get­
ting into the hold.

Following on Friday, Nov. 21,
MEBA Attorney Marvin Barish
quizzed Chief Surveyor Ronald
J. Sullivan, who backed the
testimony of his crew, on "hog­
ging" and "sagging"! This is when
waves lift a ship amidship and at
the bow and stern.

Later, Tug Docking Capt.
Virgil Quillen at the Tidewater
Grain Elevator, South Philadel­
phia, testified that he noticed that
the Poet's bow rode low. He said
he told the captain and some of
the crew.

Reconvening on Saturday,
Nov. 22, the board called the
owner's Philadelphia agent,
Joseph Serverson who said that
"routine repairs were made to the
Poet's boiler room and radio and
a mobile crane taken off." The
32-year-od SS Flora of the
Poet's fleet had boiler.trouble on
Nov. 16 and had to be towed to

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could broadcast distress signals
for two to 10 days.

The Poet was the first U.S.
freighter to disappear since 1963
when the SS Marine Sulphur
Queen sunk with a crew of 39 off
Key West, Fla. In 1973, the U.S.
SS Silver Dove sank in the
Northern Pacific when a sugar
cargo shifted. The crew survived.
In December 1978, the West
German 45,284 dwt SS Muen-
chen. a LASH ship, got off an
SOS but vanished without a trace
500 miles off the Azores.

The ship's owner says he
suspected the Poet had radio
trouble and would have called via
telephone from the Azores.

The Coast Guard said they get
reports of many ships overdue
or in distress, so when a ship is
reported missing they "just don't
jump into a helicopter and go
look." They do a series of radio
communications checks (like
AMVER—American Vessel
Emergency Rescue System) to
see who heard from the ship last.
This they did from Nov. 3 to 7
without luck. That's when they
got worried.

On Nov. 19, a Coast Guard
Board of Inquiry in Philadelphia
began a probe into what
happened. It was still going
strong in mid-December.

Calvin Bethard Roland Courter

Eddie Sylvester Claude Berry

Edward Bradley Earl Whatley

Abraham Murlllo Waller Mitchell



Frank Holland Tracy Walker

24 Seafarers Among the Crew of flte Lost Poet

Thaddeus Noel
Simmons McLaughlin

Aired Schmidt Shawn Gooden

Carl Jackson Stephen Conners

Edward Adams Jerry Batchler

Mosel Myers Hans Peter Zukier

George Ward Otis Hunter

The Log regrets that the pho­
tos of two of the Poet crew were
unavailable.

PHILADELPHIA, PA.—The fol­
lowing is a list of the Seafarers
reported missing at sea aboard the
disappeared SS Poet (Hawaiian
Eugenia) which left this port on
Oct. 24. 1980.

Bosun Adams, Edward Dempsey,
"Rocky", 43, of SlideM, La. Brother
Adams joined the SIU in the port of
New York in 1961 sailing 24 years.
He also sailed as a crewboat captain
from 1956 to 1961 and was a rigger in
the Boilermakers Union. Seafarer
Adams was a veteran of the U.S.
Coast Guard from 1954 to 1956. He
was born in New Orleans. Surviving
is his mother, Mrs. Katherine Francis
of Slidell.

Deck / Engine Utility Holland,
Frank Eugene, 58, of Baltimore.
Brother Holland joined the SIU in
1941 in the port of San Francisco
sailing 41 years. He was also a baker.
Seafarer Holland was born in Balti­
more. Surviving are his wife, Eva; his
mother, Mrs. Josephine F. Davis of
Baltimore and a sister, Mrs. Cath­
erine Balcerowicz, also of Baltimore.

AB Courier, Roland Herbert"Sklp-
per" 39, of Fort Pierce, Fla. Brother
Courter joined the SIU in the port of
Tampa in 1979. He sailed inland on
the Great Lakes from 1977 to 1978
for the Erie Sand Co. and the
American Steamship Co. Seafarer
Courter wias a veteran of the U.S.
Navy from 1957 to 1966. He was born
in Camden, N. J. Surviving are his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert S.
Courter of Port Charlotte, Fla.

AB Zukier, Hans Peter, 32, of
Philadelphia. Brother Zukier joined
the SIU following his graduation
from the Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship (HLSS) Piney Point,
Md. in 1968. He was born in Nortorf,
Holstein, West Germany and was a
naturalized U.S. citizen. Surviving
are his father, Wojciech and mother,
Mrs. James Liselotte Fredette, both
of Philadelphia.

AB Myers, Mosel, 28, of Philadel­
phia. Brother Myers joined the SIU
after his graduation from the HLSS
in 1969. He attended a Piney Point
Crews Conference in 1970. Seafarer
Myers was born in Philadelphia.
Surviving are his wife, Francine; a
daughter, Terase and his mother,
Martha of Philadelphia.

AB Gooden, Shawn T., 26, of
Hempstead, L. I., N. Y. Brother
Gooden joined the SIU in the port of
New York in 1980. He sailed aboard
the SS Mayaguez (Puerto Rico
Marine) from 1979 to 1980. Seafarer
Gooden was a veteran of the U.S.
Coast Guard from 1971 to 1976. He
was born in Manhattan, New York
City. Surviving are his wife, Carol
and his father, the Rev. T. T. Gooden
of West Hempstead, L. I., N. Y.

W iper Simmons, Thadeus Marten,
22. of New Orleans. Brother Sim­
mons joined the SIU following his
graduation from Piney Point in 1978.
He was born in New Orleans.
Surviving is his wife, Wanda.

AB Goff, Carl L., 53, of Warren,
R. I. BrotherGoff joined the SIU in the
port of Boston in 1973. He was born
in the United States. Surviving is his
wife, Hilda.

OS Schmidt, Alfred E. Jr., 23, of
Elkins Park, Pa. Brother Schmidt
joined the SIU after graduation from
the HLS in 1979. He was a former
mernber of the IBU and the Steel-
workers Union. Seafarer Schmidt
was a music fan. He was born in
Philadelphia. Surviving are his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E., Sr.
and Barbara Schmidt of Elkins Park
and his brother. Seafarer John
Egan.

OS Bradley, Edward Eugene, 24,
of Norristown, Pa. Brother Bradley
joined the SIU following graduation
from the HLS in 1979. He sailed in
1978, too. Seafarer Brad ley attended
Slippery Rock (Pa.) State College
for a year. He was born in Norris­
town. Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen and Anne Bradley
of Wyndmoor, J=>a.: a brother. Sea­
farer Robert Bradley and an uncle,
Frank Bradley of Philadelphia.

OS Connors, Stephen James, 23,
of Somerdale, N. J. Brother Connors
joined the SIU after his graduation
from Piney Point in 1978. He shipped
out of the port of New York. Seafarer
Connors was a former member of
the United Brotherhood of Carpen­
ters. He was born in Philadelphia
and had lived in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Surviving are his wife, Cynthia and a
sister, Mrs. Bernice L. Guggino of
Cherry Hill, N. J.

Chief Steward Sylvester, Eddie,
53, of Whistler, Ala. Brother Sylves­
ter joined the SIU in the port of
Baltimore in 1956. He graduated
from the Union's Stewards Recerti-
fication Program in 1977. Seafarer
Sylvester was a veteran of the U.S.
Navy in World War II. He was born in
Mobile. Surviving are his widow.
Marietta and seven offspring.

Chief Cook Jackson. Carl, 53, of
Philadelphia. Brother Jackson
joined the SIU in the port of Phila­
delphia in 1966. He was a veteran of
the U.S. Navy during and after World
War II. Seafarer Jackson was born in
Virginia. Surviving are his wife,
Elizabeth and his mother, Nancy of
Philadelphia.

Cook and Baker McLaughlin,
Noel William, 55, of Coden, Ala.
Brother McLaughlin joined the SIU
in 1944 in the port of Mobile. He was
born in Mobile. Seafarer McLaughlin
is survived by his wife, Mary and his
mother. Louise of Mobile.

Oiler Hunter, Otis Raymond, 29, of
Dallas, Tex. Brother Hunter joined
the SIU after his graduation from the
HLS Veterans Program in 1978. He
was a veteran of the U.S. Navy
during the Vietnam War. Seafarer
Hunter was born in Dallas. Surviving
are his widow. Faye and his father,
Eddie of Dallas.

Steward Utility and 2nd Cook
Whatley, Earl K., 48, of Crichton
Station, Ala. Brother Whatley joined
the SIU in the port of Mobile in 1952.
He also rode the Delta Line and
sailed during the Vietnam War.
Seafarer Whatley was born in
Mobile. Surviving are his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Russell apd Mary Ella
Whatley of Mobile.

Messman and 3rd Cook Batchler,
Jerry Jr., 19, of Philadelphia. Brother
Batchler joined the SIU in 1980 after
his graduation from the HLS. He was
born in Philadelphia. Surviving are
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Sr.
and Uris Jill Batchler of Philadel­
phia: a brother Jeffrey; a sister, Kim
and a grandmother, Mrs. Otis Austin
of Philadelphia.

Messman Walker, Tracy Reed, 23,
of New Orleans. Brother Walker
joined the SIU in 1980 following his
graduation frorh Piney Point. He had
sailed on the S/L Port in 1979 from
the port of Philadelphia. Seafarer
Walker was born in Louisiana.
Surviving are his mother, Louise of
New Orleans and an uncle, Joseph
Walker of Harvey, La.

FOWT Bethard, Calvin Elmo, 54. of
Gretna, La. Brother Bethard joined
the SIU in the port of New Orleans in
1964. He was a veteran of the U.S.
Navy Seabees in World War II.
Seafarer Bethard was also a boiler-
maker and mechanic. And he was
born in Baca County, Colo. Surviv­
ing is a brother, Orville of Orange,
Villa Park, Calif.

FOWT Murlllo, Abratiam Gomez,
54, of Cortez, Honduras, Central
America. Brother Murillo joined the
SIU in the port of New York in 1967.
He also sailed during the Vietnam
War. And he was a carpenter.Sea--
farer Murillo was born in Hon­
duras. Surviving is his wife, Elsa.

FOWT Ward, George Evander Jr.,
45, of Mobile. Brother Ward joined
the SIU in the port of Mobile in 1960.
He was born in Mobile. Surviving are
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George
and Etta Mae Ward Sr. of Mobile.

Oiler Mitctiell, Walter Marten, 60,
of Baltimore. Brother Mitchell joined
the SIU in 1943 in the port of
Baltimore. He was born in Baltimore.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Tillie
Leary of Baltimore and a brother,
John of Parkville, Md.

Oiler Berry, Claude Douglas, 53,
of Citronelle, Ala. Brother Berry
joined the SIU in 1945 in the port of
Baltimore. He started sailing in 1943
in World War II and was an engine
delegate on the SS Poet. Seafarer
Berry was also a veteran of the U.S.
Navy in World War 11. He was born in
Fruitdale, Ala. Surviving are his
widow, Susie; a daughter, Mary and
his mother, Mrs. Bonnie Bell.Weber
of Lucedale, Miss.

AB Sallee, Rickey Alan, 31. of
Philadelphia. Brother Sallee joir)ed
the SIU in the port of Philadelphia in
1980. Surviving is his wife, Dolores.

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U.S. Maritime Hindered By Too Much Gov't
The ability of the maritime

industry and other American
businesses to compete in foreign
and domestic markets is being
endangered by the failure of the
United States government to put
its house in order.

On the one hand, the maritime
industry and other American
businesses are being plagued by
an overwhelming maze of gov­
ernmental red-tape. yetwhenthe
United States government can
make a positive contribution to
the development of one of its
domestic industries, it more often
than not does nothing.

Take the maritime industry. It
is regulated by more than eighty
different-federal agencies and
other entities. With such loving
attention, then surely things must

be looking up. Recovery should
be just around the corner.

No dice! The American flag
merchant marine continues its
decline, even as the United States
government fails to take advan­
tage of promising developments
that could help bring about its
revival.

For example: it is not uncom­
mon for dredging projects to be
delayed two years or more while
several different governmental
agencies review the same applica­
tion. The cost of these unneces­
sary delays have been known to
top $20 million.

Yet these dredging projects are
vitally important. Few, if any,
U.S. ports are deep enough to
handle the larger and more
economical "superbulkers" that

have been built to carry coal.
Without some stimulus to the
dredging industry, the American
coal export industry will remain a
dream.

Most experts agree that the
modernization of existing port
facilities is something that should
be the primary responsibilities of
the Federal government, like the
creation of the highway trans­
portation system was more than
20 years ago. At the very least,
however, these experts would like
to see the federal government
stop hindering the development
of an important new industry by
needless overregulation.

Studies carried out by reputed
authorities, such as the Trans­
portation Institute, a non-profit
organization aimed at promoting

maritime research and develop­
ment, stress the connection
between the renewal of the coal
export trade and the revitaliza-
tion of the American flag.

Yet there is little evidence that
the United States government is
thinking along these lines.

It is even a chore to get the
most rudimentary programs
passed.

Year after year, there is some
serious challenge to the con­
tinuation the construction and
operating subsidy programs. Yet
these two programs are the two
most effective maritime pro­
grams that exist. Without them,
there would be no domestic
shipbuilding industry, nor would
there be any American flag
merchant marine.

EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCIES DEALING
WITH MARITIME RELATED AFFAIRS

Following Is a list of the government departments, agencies,
offices and other bureaucratic entities which in some way have an
effect on the maritime industry and the jobs and job sefcurity of
America's maritime workers.

As you can see by this iist, which numbers over 80 such entities,
the U.S. maritime industry is the most reguiated industry by far in
this country. The SiU's position is that the buik of reguiatory and
other maritime business having to do with the government shouid
be bandied by one department.

it wouid cut down on the cost of government, it wouid hait
unnecessary deiays in getting important maritime programs off the
ground. And it wouid, in genera/ heip, rather than hinder, the
growth of America's maritime industry.

Executive Office of the President
Domestic Affairs and Policy
Office of Management and Budget
National Security Council
Council of Economic Advisors >
Council on Environmental Quality
Council on Wage and Price Stability
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Cabinet-Levei Departments
Agriculture Dept.
Commodity Credit Corporation
Commodity Program and International Affairs
Farmers Home Administration
Federal Grain Inspection Service
Office of the General Sales Manager
International Trade Policy
Office of Transportation

Commerce Dept.
Economic Development Administration
International Trade Administration :
Maritime Administration
National Bureau of Standards
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration

Defense Dept.
Logistics, Manpower and Reserve Affairs
Law of the Sea (Joint Chiefs of Staff)
Joint Transporation Board (Joint Chiefs of Staff)

Army Dept.
Corps of Engineers
Military Traffic Management Command

Navy Dept.
Naval Operations
Military Sealift Command

Energy Dept.
Coal Technology
Gas, Shale and Oil Technology
Leasing Liaison Committee
Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Office of Energy Contingency Planning

(Economic Regulatory Administration)
Oil Pipeline Board

(Federal Energy Regulatory Commission)

Health and Human Services
Public Health Service : ' \

Interior Dept.
Land and Water Resources
Energy and Minerals

Offshore Minerals Regulation > ;
Office of Marine Geology --
Water Resources Division >

Bureau of Mines '
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Bureau of Land Management
Office of Outer Continental Shelf Program Coordination
Geological Survey
Office of Water Research and Technology
Water and Power Resources Service

Justice Dept.
Anti-trust Division
Torts Branch (admiralty and shipping) of Civil Division
Land and Natural Resources Division

Labor Dept.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Employment Standards Administration

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Laud Crew for Saving Great Land From Fire
Yov need C02 and water to

put out any fire. But just as
important, when a fire starts
aboard ship you need quick
decisive action from a crew
trained in fireflghting.

That's exactly the response
which met the cry. "Fire in the
hold" which was sounded on Oct.
30 aboard the SlU-contracted
SS Great Land (Totem Ocean
Trailer Express), enroute to
Anchorage, Alaska.

According to the company's.
Marine Manager Richard Grif­
fith, fire began inside one of the
KFF (Keep From Freezing)
trailers aboard the Ro/Rp vessel.'
The trailer contained alcohol,
ether and other flamniable
hospital supplies. Heaters are
kept in the cargo holds, to keep
the KFF trailers at the proper
temperature.

The fire began "when the
substance in the trailer mixed with
oxygen. A spark from a heater
ignited it," Griffith said.

Since the fire. Totem Ocean
has decided to discontinue the
use of plug-in heaters for KFF
containers.

Eye
Witness Account

But it was the "quick response
and well-executed firefighting
abilities" of the Great Land's
crew and officers which "saved
the vessel from experiencing
greater damage and possible total
loss," said Griffith and company
President Robert B. McMillen in
a message to Great Land Capt.
Charles Walther. "The fact that
all of this was accomplished
without one injury to personnel,"
the message added, "is a credit to
the seamanship of all involved.
We take our hats off to you and
the men for a job well done."

The Log learned the details of
the recent firefighting operation
aboard the. Great Land from
Seafarer John A. Sullivan, Jr.,
engine delegate. Following is
Brother Sullivan's account:

"The routine on the SS Great
Land was shattered last trip by
the dreaded cry all mariners fear
most—"fire in the hold." As the
cry of fire went through the
sleeping quarters, the general
alarm sounded and the crew
knew this was no fire drill.

"As the crew rushed On-deck,
the first assistant engineer hurried
to the engineroom to get the fire
pumps going. The Chief Engineer
rushed to the C02 room and got
the sprinkler system going in the
forward holds.

"Bosun Perry Keliikoa and
Chief Mate Ed Johnson directed
the crew in gathering all fire
hoses. Three and four lengths of
hose had to be,connected to reach
the fire.

"The Chief Electrician Steven
Senteny and QMED Larry
Hines started down the smoke-
filled ramp with the first hoses.
OS Ahmed Baabad and Ms.
Rosenda Arrendondo, also OS,
along with C-hris Fields, mess-
man, picked up the second hoses
and followed the electrician and
QMED down the ramp.

"As Chief Steward Alva
McCullum and Salem Nasser
opened the fire station valves,
streams of water were directed
onto the flames. Capt. Walther
turned the ship so a cross
ventilation could blow the smoke
away. The flames leaped higher.
The deck plating turned cherry
red and streams of water had to
be played on the plates to cool
them down.

senior vice president of Consoli­
dated Foods.

OCT. 1-31,1980

Drozak Named to President's Export Council
SIU President Frank Drozak and

two other top level execs were
named recently to the President's
Export Council by Pres. Jimmy
Carter.

The Export Council is an impor­
tant advisory committee formed to
study export trends and to recom­
mend to the President changes in the
export policies of the United States.

Named along with Drozak to the
Export Council are: Stephen P.
Yokich, of Detroit, vice president of
the United Auto Workers and a
member of the UAW International
Skilled Trades Advisory Commit­
tee; and Thomas F. Barnum, of
Lake Forest, III., president and chief
executive officer of Consolidated
Foods—Frozen Foods Group, and

Algonac (Hdqs.),

Algonac(Hdqs,).

Algonac (Hdqs.).

"The independent pilot, Andy
Warden, looked like something
from outer space, with his bald
head and walrus-type mustache
and with the breathing apparatus
strapped on, ready to rescue any­
one overcome by smoke.

"Little did the crew at the
bottom of the ramp know, but
the rest of the crew, led by
oldtimers ABs Ed Parsely, Virgil
Dowd and Sam McKnight were
fighting a fire, above their heads.

"The fire had gotten so hot that
the paint and tires on the vans
topside had started to burn.
Electric sparks from burntTOUt
overhead wiring were flashing all
over the place. Broken bottles of
hospital supplies made footing
slippery and dangerous. And 55
gallon drums of alcohol (two of
which had already exploded,
blowing the trailer apart) were

burning and in danger of ex­
ploding at any second. Still the
crew of firefighters moved in
closer to the burning trailer.

"Finally, extinguishing the
flames, the bosun and mate gave
the word to take a break. As the
crew climbed out of the smoke-
filled ramp, fire broke out again.
The smoldering tires of the
trailers had burst into flames.
Again the weary crew dashed
down the ramp and took up the
fight. After a couple of hours the
fire wasjfinally put out for good.

"The vesspl resumed its course
to Anchorage. A well-liked and
respected Captain Walther sent
down the greatest compliment a
mariner can hear: "Well done
men, well done.' The ship and its
cargo were safe."

John A. Sullivan, Jr.—S-392
SS Great Land

What's Wrong?

If you can find out and fix it, you've got
great job security and good pay.
So take the Marine Electrical Maintenance Course.

it starts March 2 and continues
through April 23.

Fill out the application in this issue of the Log or contact the
Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship to enroll.

isNldK iHNri fir Ertii MB
'TOTAL REGISTERED

All Groups
Class A Class B Class C

TOTAL SHIPPED
All Groups

Class A Class 8 Class C

DECK DEPARTMENT

"REGISTERED ON BEACH
All Groups

Class A Class B Class C

Algonac (Hdqs.)

Totals All Departments
*'Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month.

**"Registered on the BeaCh" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month.

38 14 2 69 61 0

ENGINE DEPARTMENT

54 21 11

18 9 0 40 29 0

STEWARD DEPARTMENT

37 . 21 4

4 '8 1 24 29 1

ENTRY DEPARTMENT

8 4 2

29 83 10 0 0 0 34 98 33

89 114 13 133 119 1 133 144 50

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SlU Crew Praised for Role in NATO Exercises
But U.S. Flag Must Be

Built Up as Military
Auxiliary

An SlU-contracted ship won
high praise from her cap­

tain and the U.S. Maritime Ad­
ministration (MARAD) for her
recent role in NATO exercises.

The ship, the SS Washington
(Hudson Waterways), was re­
activated during the summer by
MARAD. Formerly the Seatrain
Washington, the converted
Ro/Ro had been in the National
Defense Reserve fleet.

She was broken out in order to
participate in military exercises
in support of U.S. armed forces
in northern Europe, including a
NATO convoy operation called
Reforger '80. (Reforger is short
for Return of Forces to Ger­
many). As part of her work the
Washington offloaded 330
vehicles in the Netherlands.

In a telegram to SIU President
Frank Drozak, MARAD Ad­
ministrator Samuel Nemirow
complimented the performance
of the crew. "The successful
voyages of the SS Washington
..." said Nemirow, "demonstrates
the readiness and the capability
of the U.S. flag merchant marine

to support Department of
Defense requirements."

In a letter to the Masters,
Mates and Pilots (MM&P)
Union, the captain of the ship
said that the ""SS Washington
was the only American ship

• participating in the Teamwork 80
exercise. All other ships came
from other NATO countries."

Capt. E. J. Melis went on to
say, "I am taking this oppor­
tunity to praise all my officers (all
MM&P members), also MEBA
District #2engineers and the SIU
^rew for a job well done."

He also pointed out that
Commodore A. L. Henry, USN
(Ret.) "had much praise for SS
Washington's fine performance,"

Military Role
The job done by the officers

and crew of the SS Washington
supports a point that the SI U and
other U.S. maritime unions have
been making for years. Namely,
that commercial ships operated
by civilian personnel from the
private sector can be used on a
larger scale to support U.S.
Naval and military operations.

Even though the SIU is happy
that the SS Washington was used
in this military exercise, the
Union believes that much more

must be done. It's the SIU's
contention that the only real
reserve fleet is an active reserve.

The inactive reserve fleet does
not come close to showing what
would happen in an emergency.
What is needed is a large fleet of
ships that will be able to respond
quickly.

NATO's former Supreme
Allied Commander in the
Atlantic, Admiral Isaac. C. Kidd,
Jr. has hit at the problem. One
year ago he told the Senate
Subcommittee on Merchant
Marine and Tourism that the
small number of vessels in ready
reserve (20) was hardly adequate
when one considers that 6,000
shiploads a month would be
needed in a NATO war.

He said, "When one thinks in
terms of 20 versus 6,000y that
could, by a critic, be called
'tokenism.' That is better than
poking your eyes with a stick, but
not much."

The point Kidd was making is
that little exercises here and
there, however, useful, are an
evasion of the big problem—the
strengthening and development
of the U.S. merchant marine as a
naval and military auxiliary.

The sealift capability of the
U.S. was the subject of hearings

held late last year and early this
year by Rep. John Murphy (D-
N.Y.), then chairman of the
House Merchant Marine and
Fisheries Committee. (Sealift is a
term coined by the Defense
Department. It includes the
deployment of Navy and mer­
chant ships of the right type and
speed, manned by trained and
dependable crews, capable of
operating together at sea at the
outset of war.)

Taken as a whole, the Con­
gressional testimony of Naval
and defense experts painted a
consistently dark picture. Rep.
Murphy summed it up as follows:

"On the basi^ of the evidence 1
have been citing in this statement
and of the evidence elicited in 22
days of hearings on the Omnibus
Maritime Bill, I have come to the
inevitable conclusion that the
United States is shockingly
unprepared to meet the maritime
demands of an overseas military
confrontation. Our merchant
marine would be totally in­
adequate to the task of reinforc­
ing and supplying our overseas
forces and those of our allies."

Murphy was unsuccessful in
trying to get monies put in the
maritime budget for an actual
sealift readiness exercise.

Joe Goren Retires at 60; Long Time West Coast Official
JOE Goren, a longtime official

of the Marine Cooks &
Stewards (MC&S) Union and
then of the SIU, retired recently.

His last post was as port agent
for the Union in the Los Angeles,
Calif, area. (The MC&S and the
SIU, Atlantic and Gulf District,
merged in 1978.)

Goren, a 60-year old native of
British Columbia, Canada, first
went to sea when he was 17. At
that time, his wages were $67.50
per month with "no overtime for
Saturdays, Sundays or Holi­
days."

A member of the steward
department. Brother Goren
sailed until the early I950's when
he came ashore to work for the
MC&S.

In the mid 1950's he helped
affiliate the union with the AFL-
CIO. He was also instrumental in
establishing the first Maritime
Trades Department (MTD) Port
Council on the West Coast in
1958. He served as the Council's
first president, and for 22 years he
was vice president of the MTD's
Southern Port Council.

In talking about his years with
the union, Goren said, "I guess
the highlight was the successful

8 / LOG / December 1980

Joe Goren
organizing of the Queen Mary
and getting a contract after a five
year strike." There were
numerous appeals by the
company to the National Labor
Relations Board and the courts.
But Goren says the union won
every case and finally received
$145,000 in back pay for the
Queen ^Vfan's employees.

Goren has been active in many
areas concerning the union and
the labor movement in general.
He was vice president of the Los
Angeles County Federation of
Labor, AFL-CIO; delegate to
California State Federation
meetings; delegate to SI UNA
con\entions where he seized as
Resolutions Committee chair-

\

man; administrator for ten years
of the MC&S's Don Hotel for
union pensioners; project
director for 11 years of an MC&S
youth training program, and a
member of every negotiating
committee for MC&S since 1956.

Brother Goren is also a
believer in the need for political
activism on the part of labor. He
served on the Executive Board of
the AFL-CIO's Committee on
Political Education in Los
Angeles County. As Goren says,
"the maritime industry is a
product of legislation and
requires our unions to always be

alert to laws and submit our
recommendations to protect our
jobs and members."

Goren has also been very
involved in community activities.
He was on the California State
Coastal Commission, and the
Los Angeles County Energy
Commission.

Though retired from the
Union, Brother Goren is still
active in the labor movement.
Presently he's working for the
AFL-CIO Human Resources
Development Institute as
associate representative working
out of Los Angeles.

Niarad OK's Subsidy for 2 Ogden Ships
SlU-contracted Ogden Marine

has received approval for construc­
tion subsidies and loan guarantees
to construct two diesel-powered
product tankers from the U.S.
Maritime Administration (Marad).

It will cost SI20 million to build
the two ships, which will be suited to
carry chemical, petrochemical and

The construction of the two
vessels is made possible under
provisions of the Title XI program
of the Merchant Marine Act of 1970,
a bill spearheaded through Congress
by the SIU.

Without this program, American
operators, for the most part, would
not be able to build new ships J \#viicriiiivai ailU llVi UC auic lU UUIIU JIV"

petroleum products. The ships competitively against foreigners,
would also have the capacity to Title XI guarantees 87'/: percent
carry grain. ©f the vessels' estimated actual cost.

The ships will be built at Avon- Ogden is only,{>one of many SH -
dale Shipyard in New Orleans, contracted companies which have
There is no projected delivery date used the provisions of Title XI to

y®*- expand and modernize their fleets.

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Soatarers lincrnational Union of North America. AFL-CK) December 1980 Legislative." Administrative and Regulatory Happenings

MARAD Chief Says U.S. Needs $5B in New Port Facilities
While participating in a panel discussion

before the 69th Convention of the American
Association of Port Authorities in Norfolk,
Sam Nemirow, head of the Maritime
Administration, predicted that 247 new port
facilities would have to be constructed by
1990 at a cost of some $5 billion if this
country is to maintain an adequate network

. of deep sea and river ports.
Nemirow made repeated mention of the

recent National Port Assessment Act, which
directs the Maritime Administration! tb 1

Grants Given for Maritime
Heritage Projects

The National Institute for Historical
Preservation has published the eligibility
requirements for its fourth annual maritime
preservation grants program. The program
seeks to focus attention on this country's
proud maritime heritage by awarding
matching grants to carefully selected non­
profit organizations and public agencies.

The NIHP has to date awarded more than
$5,400,000 for 123 different projects carried
out in 30 states and territories. Applications
for this year must be postmarked no later
than Feb. 6,1981 and sent to: National Trust
for Historic Preservation, 1785 Mass. Ave.,
N.W., Washington, D.C., 20036.

Operators Look to Other
Sources of Fuel for Ships

Speakers at the Propeller Club's 54th
Annual Convention discussed the energy
crisis and how it is affecting the maritime
industry's ability to secure enough fuel for
the operation of its American flag vessels.

Professor Jose Femenia, of the State
University of New York Maritime College,
told the assembled audience that the
dwindling of the world's oil reserves has
made it imperative that industry planners
look to other souYces of energy. "The use of
coal as a marine fuel is a very definitely
economically viable alternative for today
and for the future."

William G. Bullock, Assistant to Di­
rector, Office of Ship Construction,
Maritime Administration, pointed to coal as
^'America's most abundant fossil fuel, (one
that) is being rediscovered by everyone in the
energy business."

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Wnbb«lMi. D.r. TW .SlU Mkt for •
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SPAD lo upfofi tV tkcfioa ««poi|pii of Itfblalen wlie
luvc dMnto • pro ••ritli or rro-Ubar rmrd.

SPAD roabin IV SIL' lo »orA tftclbd> oo IV »H»1
moriliair b«K< lo IV roi«rr». TVir m bsm M hart
a dirtrf iiapact oa IV ioV aii4 job wcoriD of aH StU BwaH
bm. dtcp-wa. laland. aad l.akrs.

TV sin orfrt itr oMrabm lo cnalhiat Ibcfr Car record
of rapport for SPAD. A awaiVr caa coabribalr lo IV
SPAD faad a> V or rV MM Hi. w aulic ao rpalribalioa al
all KHboal fear of rrprbaL

A cop> of IV SPAD report b IM ailb IV Federal Fbc-
lioa Commhrioo. It h araHabk for parrbaie fro« IV FF.C
faiWaibiafloa.D.C.

make ah annual report to Congress on the
state of this nation's port facilities.

Nemirow stressed that the purpose of the
act was not to disturb the long tradition of
local port autonomy that has existed in the

United States. Rather, it is to pinpoint
important national trends so that the U.S.
government and local authorities can work
together in making sure that this nation's
economic interests are well protected.

Maritime Helped Forge New Bond Between U.S.—PRC
The Maritime Administration lauded the

role that ocean commerce and marine
technology have played in helping to
"promote commerce and understanding
Ijetween the United States and China."

The recent thaw between the two coun­
tries can be traced to fears they both have
concerning Soviet intentions. However, vast
political and social differences still exist
which hinder the development of a truly

warm relationship. According to MarAd,
ocean commerce and marine technology
have helped to bridge those differences by
providing the U.S. and China with common
interests.

Trade between the United States and
China totalled $2.3 billion in 1979. That
figure is expected to exceed $10 billion by

"1985. A good portion of that projected trade
'is expected to relate to maritime commerce.

GAO Study Shows Need
The General Accounting Office (GAO)

has published the preliminary findings of a
study it is conducting on this nation's
transportation network. GAO estimates
that nearly a fifth of the total gross national
product, or some $500 billion, is spent on
national transportation.

The preliminary findings seem to suggest
that this country is confronted with some
serious transportation problems. Among
the issues that the GAO study touches upon
are the decline of the American flag
merchant marine, and the desperate state of

to Help U.S. Shipbuilders
the domestic shipbuilding industry.

GAO estimates that more than half of the
26 U.S. shipyards presently in operation will
fold by 1984 unless something is done to save
them.

It also notes that without some sort of
reassessment of this nation's maritime
policy, the American flag merchant marine
will continue its decline.

The GAO plans to conduct a series of
audits to supplement the findings of its
study.

A popular part of the SlU's "A" Seniority
program is the Visit to Washington, D C. where
SlU members have a chance to take a first­
hand look at the SlU's Washington workings as
well as the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Dept., the
Transportation Institute and Congress. Here, on
the steps of the Capitot. is a recent "A" Seniority
Class including (from bottom row): Tirriothy R.

Van Pelt. Norman N. Bull, Jeffrey A. Peltz.
Stanley Vane, Darryl White. Michael Woods.
Gregory A. Poer. Pierce J. Porter. Michael
Tewes, Jesse J. Thrasher. Jaime L. Quinones
and John Picciolo. Accompanying the group
was SlU Patrolman from the port of San
Francisco Trevor Robertson (top. right).

December 1980 ; LOG 9

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Grass Roots Politics Keyed GOP Victory
RECENT gains by the Re­

publican Party in the 1980
Election took most observers by
Surprise. Few people had ex­
pected the G.O.P. to capture
control of the Senate, or to pick
up 33 seats in the House of
Representatives.

liTretrospect, the Republican
resurgence was caused by a
number of short and long term
factors: inflation, unemploy­
ment. and the Iranian hostage
situation. None of these factors,
however, were more important
than the hard work that the
G.O.P. had put into building an
effective grass roots machine.

After Watergate, the G.O.P.
had found itself in pretty
desperate straits. Less than a
quarter of all Americans called
themselves Republicans. The
Democratic Party held what
seemed to be an insurmountable
lead in the Senate and the House

of Representatives.

Moreover, the Republicans
had a serious problem with their
image. Americans seemed to
associate them with Watergate,
the Depression, and Big Busi­
ness.

Rather than ignore their

problems. Republican officials
made some hard, and ultimately
successful, decisions. Instead of
spending all of their resources
on the 1976 Presidential Election,
they chose to concentrate on
building an effective grass roots
machine.

Led by Bill Brock, a former

Senator from Tennessee, they
made slow but steady gains. They
recruited promising young pro­
fessionals and trained them in the
fine art of political campaigning.
They poured money into captur­
ing control of state legislatures,
which are responsible for deter­
mining the boundaries of the
Congressional Districts. They

•fashioned an extensive list of
large and small political dona-
tors, and used the money to
support Republican candidates
in all 50 states.

The Republican resurgence
illustrates something that we at
the SIU have always known: you
have to work hard for everything
you get. Like the Republican
Party, the SIU has spent much
time and effort in developing a
strong grass roots machinery.
We've never taken the jobs of our
members for granted, and we're
not about, to begin now.

The New United States Senate
An asterisk designates a Senator whose term did not

expire this year. A dagger designates a re-elected in­
cumbent Senator.

ALABAMA
Howell Hetlln, O.*
Jeremiah Denton, R.

ALASKA
TedStevens, R.*
Frank H. Murkowskl, R.

ARIZONA
Dennis DeCooclnl, D.*
Barry Goldwater, R.t

ARKANSAS
David Pryor, D.*

\ Dale Bumpers, D.t

CAUFORNIA
S. I.Hayakawa, R.*
Alan Cranston, D.t

COLORADO
Bill Armstrono, R.*
Gary Hart, D.t

CONNECTICUT
Lowell Welcker.R.*
Christopher J. Oodd, D.

DELAWARE
William Roth, R.*
Joseph BIden, D.*

FLORIDA
Lawton Chiles, D.*
Paula Hawkins, R.

GEORGIA
Sam Nunn, D.*
/MackMattlnglv,R.

HAWAII
Spark Matsunaga, D.*
Daniel K. Inouye. D.t

IDAHO
JamesMcClure, R.*
Steven D. Symms, R.

° ILLINOIS
Charles Percy, R.*
Alan J. Dixon, D.

INDIANA
Richard Lugar,R.*
DanQuayle, R.

IOWA
Roger Jepsen, R.*
Charles E.Grassley,R.

KANSAS
Nancy Kassebaum, R.*
Bob Dole, R.t

KENTUCKY
W. D. Huddleston, D.*
Wendell H. Ford, D.t

LOUISIANA
J. B. Johnston, D.*
Russell B. Long, D.t

MAINE
George Mitchell, D.*
William Cohen, R.*

MARYLAND
Paul Sarbanes, D.*
C.McC.MathlasJr.,R.t

MASSACHUSETTS
Edward Kennedy, D.*
Paul Tsongas, D.*

MICHIGAN
Donald RIegle, D.*
Carl Levin, D.*

MINNESOTA
D. F. Durenberger, R.'
Rudy Boschwiti, R.*

MISSISSIPPI
John Stennls, D.*
ThadCochran, R.*

MISSOURI
John Danforth, R.*
Thorn. F. Eagleton, D.t

MONTANA
JohnMelcher, D.*
MaxBaucus, D.*

NEBRASKA
Edward Zorlnsky, 0.*
J. James Exon, D.*

NEVADA
Howard Cannon, D.'
Paul Laxalt, R.t.

N. HAMP.
Gordon Humphrey, R.*
Warren Rudman, R.

NEW JERSEY
H.A.Williams, D.*
Bill Bradley, D.*

NEW MEXICO
PeteDomenlcl, R.*
Harrison Schmitt, R.*

NEW YORK
Daniel Moynlhan, D.*
AlfonseM. D'Amato, R.

N. CAROLINA
Jesse Helms, R.'
John P. East, R.

NORTH DAKOTA
Quentin Burdick, D.*
Mark Andrews, R.

OHIO
H. M. Metzenbaum, D.*
JohnGlenn, D.t

OKLAHOMA
David Boren, D.*
DonNlckles,R.

OREGON
Mark Hatfield, R:*
BobPackvwxxl,R.t

PENNSYLVANIA
H.John Heinz, R.t
Arlen Specter, R.

RHODE ISLAND
Claiborne Pell, D.*
JohnChafee, R.*

S.CAROLINA
Strom Thurmond, R.*
Ernest F. Holllngs, D.t

SOUTH DAKOTA
Larry Pressler,R.*
James Abdnor, R.

TENNESSEE
Howard Baker, R.*
James Sesser, D.*

TEXAS
John Tower, R.*
Lloyd Bentsen, D.*

UTAH ,
Orrin Hatch, R.*
JakeGarn, R.t

VERMONT
Robert Stafford, R.*
Patrick J. Leahy, D.t

VIRGINIA
Harry Byrd, I.*
John Warner, R.*

WASHINGTON
Henry Jackson, 0.*
Gorton Slade, R.

WEST VIRGINIA
Jennings Randolph, D."
Robert Byrd, D.*

WISCONSIN
William Proxmlre,D.*
Robert W. Kasten Jr., R.

WYOMING
Malcolm Wallop, R.*
Alan Simpson, R.*

The New House of Representatives
. Following is a list of the newly elected members of the

House of Representatives. Asterisk denotes incumbent.
ALABAMA (7)

1. Jack Edwards, R.*
?. W. Dickinson, R.*
3. Blli Nichols, D.*
». Tom Bevlll, D. "
5. Ronnie Flippo. D •
4. Albert Smith, R.
7. Ricnar-IShelOy, D."

ALASKA (J)
Al-Large

Don Young, R.*

ARIZ0NA(4)
- John Rhodes, R.*

2 .'/orris UdalLD.*
3. Bob Stump, D.*
4. EldorTRudd. R.*

ARKANSAS (4)
1. John Alexander, D.*
2. Ed BethuneR*
3. J.H.schmdt,R»
4. Beryl Anthony, D*

CALIFORNIA (43)
1. Eugene Chappie, R.
2, Don Clausen, R.'
3-Robert Matsul, D.*
4. vie Fazio, D.*
5. John Burton, D.'
6. Phillip Burton, D.*
7. George Miller, D.*
8. Ronald Dellums, D.*
9. Fortnev Stark, D.*

to. Don Edwards, D,*
11 TomLantos,D.
12. PaulMcCloskey,R.*
13. Norman MIneta. D.*
14. N. Shumway, R.*
15.TonyCoelho,D.*
16. Leon Panetta, D.*
17.C. Pashayan, R.*
IS. William Thomas, R.*
19. R. Lagomarslno, R.*
20. B. Goldwater Jr., R.*
21. Bobbi Fiedler, R,
22. C.Moorhead.R.*
23. A. Bellenson, D*
24. Henry Waxman, D.*
25 Edward Royt>al, D.*
26. John Rousselof, R.*
27. Robert Doman, R.*
«. Julian Dixon, D.*
. A. Hawkins, D • •

-.C' G. Daniel son, D,*
V '.^wn Dymally. O.

32. Glenn Af«ie-"M o.*
33. WaTouOrisham, R.*
34 Dan Lungren, R.*
35. Dave Dreler, R.
36. G. Brown Jr., D •
37. Jerry Lewis, R •
38 Jerry Patterson, D *
39. W. Dannemever, R.*
40. Robert Badham, R.*
41.BIIIL0wery, R.
42. Duncan Hunter, R.
43. Clair Burgener, R.«

COLORADO (5)
1.P.Schroeder. D.*
2. Timothy WIrfh, D.*
3. Ray Kogovsek, D.*
4. Hank Brown, R.
5. Ken Kramer, R.'

CONN. (<)
1. William Cotter, D,*
2. Sam Geldenson, D,
3. L. DeNardls, R.
4. S. McKlnney, R.*
5. W. Ratchford, D.'
6. Anthony Moffett, D.*

DELAWARE (1)
AtLarge

Tltom. Evans Jr„ R,*

FLORIDA (15)
1.EarlHutto,D.*
2. DonFuqua, D."
3. Charles Bennett, D,-
4. BtllChappell Jr., D.*
5. Bill McCollum, R.
6.C.W. Bill Young. R.*
7. Sam Gibbons, D.*
8. Andy Ireland, D.*
9. Bill Nelson, D.*

10.L.A Bafails.R.-
11. Dan Mica. D.*
12. Clay Shaw, R.
13. William Lehman, D.*
14 Claude Pepoer.D •
15- Dante Fascell. D.*

GEORGIA (10)
1. BoGInn, D.'
2. Charles Hatcher, D.
3 Jack Brinkley, 0.*
4. Elliot Levitas, D.*
5 WycheFdwier.D.* .
6. Newt Gingrich, R.*
7. Larr y McDonald, D. •

8, Billy Evans, D.*
9, Ed Jenkins, D,'

10, Doug Barnard, D.*

HAWAII (2)
1. Cecil HafteLD.-
2. Daniel Akaka, D,*

IDAHO (2)
1. Larry Craig, R.
2. George Hansen, R.*

ILLINOIS (24)
1 H. Washington. D.
2. Gus Savage, D.
3. Marty Russo.D.*
4. Ed. Derwinski, R.*
5. JohnFary, D.*
6. Henry Hyde, R.*
7 Cardiss Collins, D.*
8. D, Rostenkowskl, D.*
9. Sidney Yates, D.*

10. John Porter, R,*
11. Frank Artnunzio, D.*
12. Philip Crane, R.*
13. Robert McClory,R.*
14. John Erienborn, R.*
15. Tom Corcoran, R.«
16. Lynn Martin, R.
17.GeoroeO'Brien,R.'
18. Robert Michel, R *
19. TomRallsback, R.*
20. Paul FIndley, R."
21. Ed. Madloan,R.*
22. Daniel Crane, R.*
23. Melvln Price, D.*
24. Paul Simon, D.'

INDIANA (II)
1. A. Benjamin Jr., D.*
2. Floyd Flthlan.D.*
3. JohnHller, R.
4. Dan Coats, R.
5.EIwoodHlllis.R."
6. David Evans, D.*
7. John Myers, R.«
8. H. Joel Oeckard, R.'
9. Lee Hamilton, 0.'

10. Philip Sharp, D •
11.A. j8CobsJr„0 •

IOWA (•)
1. James'.eact' R *
2- Thomas Tauke.R •
3. Coooer Evans. R
4. NealSmith,D.*
5. TomHarxtn, D.*
6. Berkley Bedell 0.*

KANSAS (5)
1. Pat Roberts. R,
2. Jim Jeffries, R,«
3. Larry Winn Jr.. R.«
4. DanGllckman, D.*
5. R. Whittaker. R.«

. KENTUCKY (7)
1.Carroll Hubbard, b.'
2. W. Natcher Jr. D.*
3 Romano Mazzoli, D.'
4. Gene Snyder, R.*
5. Harold Rogers, R.
6. Larry Hopkins, R.*
7. Carl Perkins, D.*

LOUISIANA (8)
1. Bob Livingston, R.*
2. LIndy Boggs, D.*
3 W.J.Tauzin, D.*
4. Charles Roerner. D.
5. Jerry Huckaby, D,*
4.W. H.Moore, R.*
7. John Breaux. D.*
8. GllllsLong.D.*

MAINE (2)
1. David Emery, R.*
2.0lymola Snowe, R.'

MARYLAND (8)
1. Royden Dyson, D.
2. Clarence Long, D.*
3. B.MIkulskI, D.*
4. Marlorle Holt, R.*
5. G. Spellman, D.*
6. Beverly Byron, D.*
7. Parren Mitchell, D.*
8. Michael Barnes, D.*

MASS. (12)
1. Silvio Conte.R.'
2. Edward Boland, D.*
3. Joseph Early, D."
4. Barney Frank, D.
5. James Shannon, D.*
4 N. Mavroules, D.*
7. Edward AAarkey, D.*
8. T, O'Neill, Jr.,D.*
9. JoeMoakley, D.»

10.M. Heckler, R,>
11. Brian Donnelly, D '
12. Gerry Studds, D.*

MICHIGAN (II)
1 John Conyers, D.*
2. Carl Pursell. R.-
3 Howard Wolpe, D "
4 David Stockman. R *
5 Harold Sawyer. R •
6. Jim Dunn, R.
7.0aleKiidee.D.*

8. BobTraxier, D.'
9. Guy Vander Jagt, R.*

10. Donald Albosta. D.*
11. Robert Davis, R.*
12. David Bonlor,D.*
13. George Crockett, D.
14. Dennis Hertel, D.
15. William Ford, D.*
16. JohnDlngell, D.*
17.W. Brodhead. D.*
18.J.BIanchard,D.*
19. W. Brcomfleld, R.

MINNESOTA (8)
1. ArlenErdahl, R.«
2. Tom Hagedorn, R.«
3. BIIIFrenzel. R.*
4. Bruce Vento, D *
5. Martin Sabo.D •
6. Vin Weber, R.
7. A. Stangeland, R.*
8. JamesOberstar. D.'

MISSISSIPPI (5)
1. Jamie Whitten. D.*
2. DavldBowen, D.*
3.G.A/lontoomerv,D.'
4. Jon HInson, R.*
5. Trent Lott, R.*

MISSOURI (10)
1. William Clay, D.*
2. Robert Youna D.*
3. R. Gephardt, D.*
4.lkeSkelton,D.*
5. Richard Boiling, D.*
6. E. T. Coleman, R.»
7. Gene Taylor. R.*
8. Wendell Bailey, R.
9. Harold Volkmer. D.*

10. Bill Emerson, R.

MONTANA (2)
1.Pat Williams, D.*
2. RonMarlenee, R.*

NEBRASKA (3)
1. D. Bereuter, R.«
2. Hal Daub, R.

•3. Virginia Smith. R.*

NEVADA (I)
Al-Large

Jim Santlnl. 0.*

N. HAMP. (2)
1. N. D'Amours, D •
2. Judd Gregg. R

NEW JERSEY (15)
1. James Fiorlo.D.*
2. William Huones, 0 *
3. James Ho'. .rd, D •

4. C. Smith, R.
5.M. Fenwick, R.«
6. Edwin Forsythe, R.*
7. Marge Roukema, R.
8. Robert Roe, D.*
9. H. Hollenbeck, R.«

10. Peter Rodino, D.*
11. JosephMlnish. D.*
12.M. Rinaldo, R.*
13. James Courter, R,*
'4. Frank GuarinI, D."
15. Bernard Dwyer, 6.

NEW MEXICO (2)
I Manuel Lulan, R.*
2. Joe Skcent

NEW YORK (30)
1. WllllamCarnev, R.*
2. Thomas Downey, b."
3. GregoryCarman R
4. Norman Lent, R.*
5. R.McGrath. R.
6. John LcBoutllller, R".
7. Joseph Addabbo, D.*
8. B. Rosenthal, D.*
9. G. Ferraro, D.*

10. Mario Blaggi, D.*
11. James Scheuer, D.*
12. S. Chisholm, D.'
13. Stephen Solarz, D."
14. F. Richmond, D.*
15. Leo ZeferettI, D.'
16. Charles Schumer, D.
17. GuyMollnarl, R.
18. William Green, R.'
19. Charles Rangel. D.*
20. Ted Weiss, D.*
21. Robert Garcia. 0.*
22. J. Bingham, D.*
23. Peter Peyser, D.*
24. R. Ottlnger, D.*
25.H. FIshJr ,R.'
26. 8. Gilrnan, R.»
27. M. McHugh, D.*
28. Samuel Strattoo, D.*
29. Gerald Solomon, R.*
30. David Martin, R.
31. Donald Mitchell, R.»
32. George Wortley,R
33. Gary Lee, R.'
34. Frank Horton, R."
35. Barber Conable, R.*
36. JohnLaFsice, D.r
37. Henry Nowak, D.'
38. Jack Kemp, R,»
39. Stanley Lundlne, D*

N. CAROLINA (II)
1 Walter Jones. D.* ,
2 L H Fountain, D.*
J Charles Whitley. D,*

4. Ike Andrews, D.*
S.Stephen Neal, D.*
6. Eugene Johnston, R.
7. Charles Rose, D.*
8. W.G. Hefner, D.*
9. James Martin, R.*

10. James Broyhill.R.r
11.BillHendon, R.

N. DAKOTA (1)
At-Large

Byron Dorgan, D

OHIO (23)
1. Willis Gradlson.R.'
7. Thomar. Luken, 0.*
3. Tony Hall, D,*
4. Tennyson Guyer, R."
5. Delbert Latta, R.*
6- BobMcEwen, R.
7. Clarence Brown, R.*
8. rhom. Kindness. R.*
9. Ed Weber, R.

10. Clarence Miller, R.«
11. J. W.Stanton, R.*
12. Bob Shamansky. D.
13. Donald Pease, b.*
14. JohnSelberlIng, D.*
15. Chalmers Wiley, R.*
16. Ralph Regula, R.*
17. JohnAshbrook, R.*
18. D. Applegate, D.*
19. Lyie Williams, R.*
20. MR. Dakar, D*
21. Louis Stokes, D.*
22. Dennis Eckart, D.
23. Ronald MoHI.D.*

OKLAHOMA (6)
1.James Jones, D.*
2. MlkeSynar, D.*
3.WesWatkin5,D.*
4. Dave McCurdy, D.
5. M. Edwards, R.*
6. Glenn English, D.*

OREGON (4)
1. LesAuColn, D.*
2. Denny Smith, R,
3. Ron V/yden, D.
4. James Weaver, D.*

PENN.<25)

2. William Gray, D •
f R.Lederer. D.* '
4. C I^ugherty, R.»
5. Richard Schuize, R.*
6. GusYatron 0.*
7. Bob Edgar, D •

8. James Coyne, R.
9. BudShuster, R.*

10. Joseph McDade, R. *
n. James Nelltgan,R.
12. John Murtha, D.*
13. L. Coughtln. R.*
14. William Coyne, D.
15. DonRltter,R.*
16 Robert Walker, R.'
17. Allen Ertel, D.*
18. l3ouoWalgren, D.*
19. W. Goodling, R.*
20 Joseph Gaydos, D.*
21. Don Bailey, D.*
22. Austin Murphy, D.*
23. W.CilngerJr., R.'
24. Marc Marks, R •
25. E.Atkinson, D.*

RHODE L (2)
1.F.St. Germain, D.*
2, C. Schneider, R.

S. CAROLINA (6)
1. Thomas Hartnett, R.
2. FloydSpencc, R.*
3. Butler Derrick, D.'
4. C. Campbell, R.'
5. Kenneth Holland, b.*
6. John Napier, R.

S. DAKOTA (2)
1. Thomas Daschle, b.*
2. Clint Roberts, R.

TENNESSEE (8)
1. JimesQuiilen, R.*
2. John Duncan, R.*
3. M. BouQuard, D.*
4. Albert Gore Jr., D.-
5. William Boner, D.»
6. Robin Beard, R.*
7. Ed Jones, D.*
8. Harold Ford, 0.*

TEXAS (24)
I.Sam Hall, b.*
2. Charles Wilson, D.*
3. James Collins, R.*
4. Ralph Hall, D.
5. JlmMattox, D.*
6. PhllGramm, D •
7. BUI Archer, R.*
8. Jack Fields, R.
9 Jack Brooks, D.*

10 J. J. Pickle, D."
11. Marvin Le8th,D.*
12. JImVJrIght.D.'
13. Jack HIghtower. D."
14 William Pfltmar P

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15. E. dele Garza, D.*
16. Richard White, D.*
17.C.Stenholm,D.'
18. Mickey Leiand, D*
19. KentHance, D.'
20. Henry Gonzalez, D.'
21.TomLoefller, R.*
22. Ron Paul.R,*
2.3, A KazenJr ,D •
24. Martin Frost, D.*

UTAH (2)
1 james Hansen, p.
i Dan .Marriott. R.*

VERMONT (1)
At-Large

James Jeffords, R.

VIRGINIA (10)
1. Paul Triple Jr, R."
2. G Whiteliurst, R.*
3. Thomas Blllev, R
4. Robert Denlel, R.
5. Dan banlel. D.*
6. M. C. Butler, R "
7. J. K. Robinson, R."
8. Stanford Parrls, R
9.W Wampler. R.'

10. Frank Wolf, R.

WASHINGTON (7)
1.Joel Pritchard, R.'
2.AISwlft,D.' ,
3. Don Booker, D.*
4. Sid Morrison, R.
5. Thomas Foley, D.
6. Norman Dicks, 0.
7. Michael Lowry, D.

W.VIRGINIA (4)
1. Robert Mollohan, D.'
2. C. Benedict, R.
3.MlckStafon, R.
4. Nick joeRahall.D.

WISCONSIN (9)
1. LesAspln.D •
2, R. Kastenmeler.D.
3 S. Gunderson. R.
4. C Zablocki.D/
5. Henry Reu«s. D_ ^
6. Tlwmas Petn. R.
7. DavldObey D '
8. Toby Roth. R *
9 Ser.senbrenner R

WYOMING (1)
Af-Largt ..

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A Seafaring Santa pf.-

BY JOE SCUTERI

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Twas The Night Before Christmas
On The Converted T-2

The Crew Was All Sleeping
There Was Nothing To Do

« ' *

Our Stockings Were Hung
Round The Boiler With Care

Not For No Special Reason
Cept They Dry Better There

* *

I Was Lying Half Dozing
All Snug In My Rack

The Porthole Was Open
- A Breeze On My Back -

when All Of A Sudden
Much To My Surprise

I Heard Sleigh Bells Ringing
Somewhere In The Skys

* *

I'm Cracking, I Thought
Or Dreaming, Or Both

But As I Lay Thinking
A Hearty Voice Spoke,

* * ,

"On Bonnie, On Rubble
On Suzy, On Jean

On Roxie, On Trixie ;
On Sweet Genevieve

AvV *.

St. Nick Was A Strange One
Not Like Pictures I'd Seen

With Tattoos And An Earring*
Now What Could This Mean

* *

I'm The Seafaring Santa!
He Said With A Grin

Then Tossed Me A Gallon
Of Beefeaters Gin

He Yelled "Call All Hands"
We've Got Partying To Do

I've Still Got One Ship
Off The Coast Of Peru

* * ''

So I Ran Down Below
Calling All Who Could Hear,

Someone Threw A Soot,
Caught Me Right On The Ear

, » * \

WelfWhenlCarheToo
The Ship Was A Wreck,

With Quart Jugs,And Seamen
Sprawled AW Over The Deck

* * *

And Up In The Heavens
Just A Speck To My Eye

The Sailboat Was Sailing
V Off Into The Sky

On Cindy, On Lois
On Gertrude, On Mae

That Don't Sound Like No Reindeer
I Thought With Dismay

I Jumped To The Porthole
Not Believing My Eyes

A 40 Foot Sailboat
Was Filling The Sky

Christmas Morning Was Quiet
^ . Aboard Our Lost Ship
The Crew Wasn't Talking

They Were All Very Sick
* •

And No One But Me
Could Remember That Night

Except That They Partyed
And Had A Big Fight

, ••
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It Was Decked Real Fancy

And

as uecKed Real Fancy There Might Have Been Girls
With Pine Trees And Bright Light Their Memory Was Hazy
11 Cute Ladies Finally Decided
Dressed In Red And In White ' '^ost Likely Crazy..;

And Out On The Bow
Just As Fat As Could Be

Stood St. Nick And An Elf
They Were Checking Our Lee

* *

And Once They Decided
With The Wink Of An Eye

They Dropped To The Ocean
Right Out Of The Sky

* *

I Ran Up The Stairwell
And Right Out On Deck

They Were Having Some Trouble
Making Fast To Our Wreck

* *

So I Dropped Them A Laddder
And I Lowered A Line

And Pulled Up 4 Seabags
And 9 Cases Of Wine

And Now I Will Leave You
My Story Is Through

But Before I Get Going
Let Me Say This To You

• *

If You're Out On The Ocean
On That Night Of The Year

And Your Being Forgotten
Is Your One Biggest Fear

-* *

Just Remember Who's Coming
' And You Will See I Was Right

Now Merry Christmas My Brother
And To All A Good Night.

r

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December 1980 / LOG / 11

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^Aleeria—El Paso Price Beef Goes On: Crews Stay on Ships
. . ; oo JntprmpHiaries gas.

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The settlement—which a couple
of months ago seemed so close

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between the U.S. and Algeria
over the pricing of the latter's
natural gas, is not so imminent
today.

The impasse, which has gone
on for nearly nine months, has
affected six SlU-contracted LNG
ships owned by El Paso Co.
However, there is some good
news in all this for Seafarers. The
company has extended for two
months the crewing of three of
the sfiips, They are the El Paso
Southern: El Paso Arzew, and
the El Paso Howard Boyd.

The other three vessels are in
the shipyard for repairs.

El Paso still feels confident

that a settlement will be reached
in the near future.

Actual negotiations with the
Algerians are being handled by
the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE). The Department took
over the talks last Spring when
negotiations between El Paso
and Algeria broke down.

Two months ago a settlement
seemed near but negotiations
seem to have hit a snag. The exact
reason is not known but perhaps
the delay is due, in part, to the
recent national elections.
Changes are bound to take place
in DOE when the new Adminis­
tration takes over, and this may
be affecting the negotiations.
Also, the fact that the Algerians

are acting as intermediaries
between the U.S. and Iran on the
hostage situation, may possibly
be playing a part in delaying a
settlement.

The trouble between the
North African country and El
Paso began when Algeria decided
to radically hike the price of its
natural gas early this year.

El Paso's contract with the
Algerians to carry natural gas
was renegotiated last year. (The
company has been importing
Algerian natural gas since 1978.)
It was agreed that the price would
be $1.94 per thousand cubic feet:

This increase was approved by
the DOE which, under law, must
rule on the price of any imported

Meanwhile, however, the
Algerian government decided to
press for an even greater price
increase than what had been
negotiated. Algeria would like
gas prices to be comparable with
crude oil prices of the Organiza­
tion of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC).

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Coast Guard Ends Search for SS Poet
Continued from Page 4

the Azores. On June 21, the Poet
ran aground at Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic. No hull
damage was listed.

At the afternoon session, CG
Petty Officer Joseph Pedrick told

the hearing that on inspection of
the Poet he found oil drums, a
gallon can of kerosene and tanks
of compressed gas and acetylene
lashed to the ship's rails without
proper dunnage to stop sparks.

At the hearing at the beginning

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of the next week. Poet top owner,
Henry J. Bannabel, 55, replying
to why he waited so long to report
the vessel missing explained, it
was "not unusual for a ship on a
foreign voyage to go three, four
or five days and sometimes
longer without communication."

On Nov. 7, he continued, he
asked the Coast Guard to
"increase efforts." Later on when
it looked like the Coast Guard
would end its search, he said, he
sent a message to President
Carter asking that the search be
continued. So did 300 friends and
relatives of the missing send
telegrams. Bonnabd was on the
stand two days.

At this juncture, lawyer Sidney
Zwerling of the Brotherhood of
Marine Officers interjected that
he would give Bonnabel the five
days, but by Oct. 31,he declared,
the Poet's emergency radio could
have called the Azores.

On the day of the last hearing
before reconvening on Dec. 8,
CG Capt. Milton Y. Suzich, chief
of operations of the Atlantic
Rescue Center Headquarters,
Governor's Is., N.Y. said the air
search was held up until they
checked ships and foreign com­
munications centers for the

whereabouts of the Poet. This is
SOP (Standard Operating Pro­
cedure) the Coast Guard says.

Then the head of the Board of
Inquiry, Capt. Lyons said ".... we
will be investigating the search
and information may lead us to
reopen the search..."

As the Log goes to press, a
series of new witnesses were
scheduled to be heard, including:
CG Lt. Cmdr. D.G. Jones, who
inspected the Poet in drydock at
Port Arthur, Tex. in 1974. In
1977, she was inspected there for
stability. She was last inspected
there last March. Also testifying
will be an expert from the
Philadelphia Ship Repair Co.
where the ship was fixed.

The ex-radio officer of the
vessel, Ashley P. Pearson; a
Federal Communications Com­
mission rep, RCA radio techni­
cian William M. Barnes, and
AMVER System expert Edward
Bender will then be heard.

They will be followed by a
surveyor from the American
Bureau of Shipping, the owner s
port engineer, Robert Del Valle,
the owner's representative, Ed­
ward Simon; an ex-master of the
Poet, Capt. Lyle Clemes and an
ex-chief engineer of the ship,
John V. McManey.

HaU
Not one of fame or fortune
Nor gathering place for pictures old
Not a passage way thru misfortune
Nor an empty-corridor cold

Bpt a mighty force of human sympathy
Tunneled thru a single hall
An access to human dignity
A corridor of dreams . . . called Paul

A. Sailor
S.S. Robert E. Lee

12 / LOG / December 1980

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Kirkland: Labor Will Continue to Articulate Workers' Needs

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The 1980 Elections have
altered the political landscape of
Washington, D.C The conse­
quences go far beyond individual
changes in the composition of
Congress.

Already, the effects are being
felt. The role that organized
labor plays in the political
process has undergone a subtle
change, though to what, only
time will tell. One thing is readily
apparept: Lane Kirkland,
President of the AFL-CIO, has
assumed a much more visible role
in articulating the needs of

American workers.
Kirkland, a long time associate

of the late George Meany, has
always been a staunch supporter
of the American worker. Before
this election, however, his voice
was part of a choir. With the
defeat of a record number of
Democratic Senators, the choir
has far fewer members.

He has been singled out by
political commentators as being
one of the few public officials
who has the potential to revitalize
the old Democratic coalition.
People point to his formidable

intellectual skills, which were
much in view last year when he
helped formulate the historic
"National Accord."

A modest man, with a wry
sense of humor and a speaking
manner reminiscent of the late
Adlai Stevenson, Kirkland
seems oddly miscast as a knight
in Shining Armor.

But already he is making his
presence felt.

Last month, he wrote an
eloquent letter of congratulations
to President Reagan which stated
that organizgd labor "stands

ready to cooperate with the
Administration" in solving the
many serious problems that
challenge this country.

He has made it clear, however,
that the price of that cooperation
does not include forsaking the
needs of American workers.
Speaking at the installation of
new officers of the Postal
Workers, he noted that "the
American labor movement
intends to vigorously pursue its
responsibility to serve as the
aggressive advocate of workers
and their interests."

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T,L Study: Coal Could Bring US Flag Resurgence
THE Transportation Insti­

tute, one of the leading
centers for maritime research in
the United States, has published
the results of a study it conducted
on the ways that the expanding

APL, Los Angeles
Launch Joint Bffort
To Build Terminal

SlU-contracted American Presi­
dent Lines has announced a big
agreement to build jointly with the
City of Los Angeles a 100 acre
container Terminal on John S.
Gibson Boulevard on the West
Basin of L.A. Harbor.

\^en completed, the terminal
will be the biggest such facility on
the West Coast. It will have two 960
ft. deep sea berthing docks and the
facility will be capable of handling
6,000 containers.

APL is planning to move to the
new facility in 1983. That will work
out just fine for the company which
is also building three new diesel
powered containerships at Avondale
Shipyards in New Orleans. Those
ships will be completed in 1982.

Penoaal*
Lester Reeves

Please contact, Mrs. Louella Arrlng-
ton, 1010 Lincoln Avenue, Cincinnati,
Ohio. Urgent!

Mack C. King

Please contact, Thomas (Tommy) E.
• Markham, P.O. iiox 971, Reno,

Nevada 89504.

Asa E. Moore
Please write, Gayle, P.O. Box I1I36,

Macon; Ga. 31212.

James Lee Camp
Please contact, Mrs. Judy Camp

Bolton, GafTney, S.C. Tel. (803) 489-
1532. Urgent!

James A. Nesler
Please contact, the Log office, editor.

Tel. (212) 499-6600 Ext. 242.

Herbert R. Newell .
Please contact, Mary Newell (c/o

Parker) 330 W. Ocean Blvd., Apt. 511,
Long Beach, Calif. 90802.

coal export trade can be expected
to affect the maritime industry.

The study breaks new ground
by approaching a familiar subject
through a slightly different
perspective.

America's coal reserves have
been a hot topic of conversation
fof several years now. But few
experts have discussed the effect
that these reserves can have on
other sectors of the American

Philadelphia

JOT and Southern Natural Resources (SNR) of Birmingham, Ala. late
last month signed an agreement for SNR to buy lOTs 51 coastal tank
barges and 37-tugs.

The $100-million plus purchase is expected to be completed by the end
pf the year.

^ SNR has interests in interstate natural gas pipelines, offshore drilling,
oil and gas production.

Algonac, Mich.
The tug Ohio (Great Lakes Towing) last month helped to tow the ST

Peter A. Widenel. loaded with storage grain; down the Detroit River
enroute to the port of Buffalo.

Norfolk
Contract negotiations began At the Carteret Towing Co. and the

American Towing Co. of Wilmington, N.C.
New Orleans

Going into their yearly winter layups soon are the SS Delta Queen and
Mississippi Queen (both Delta Steamship Co.).

The Union is working with the Bay Houston Towing Go. here which
recently bought the Whiteman Towing Co. The company will go into full-
swing operations at the first of next year.

St. Louis
Two new asphalt tank barges built and delivered for and to the

National Marine Service will really keep things cooking in this port.
Like a pizza delivery van, the barges keep the cargo hot while they are

moving down and up the inland waterways in this neck of the woods.
The 297-foot, double skinned barges will handle 2,436,000 gallons of

asphalt hot enough to pump. The heat comes from a volcanic heater
which heats oil instead of water. The heated oil then is pumped through a
system of pipes in the barges to keep the asphalt hot.

Later the asphalt is pumped out of the barges at 2,800 gallons a minute.
It takes IV2 hours to offload each barge.

Pachicahf Ky.
Tennessee River barge traffic, with average tow size going to 7.39 barges

last year from^ 1978's 6.83 barges, hit a record 4.7 billion ton miles in 1979.
The record means a 300 million-ton-mile increase over the 1978 tally.
The total was 33 million tons in 1979 over 1978's 31 million tons. Mostly

in the Kentucky-Pickwick D^ areas.
In 1979, 81,518 barges locked through the dams, the highest figure

since 1944.
The hikes were due to the increased movement of coal and the greater

use of the economical inland water transport. Transportation costs for
the water movement are the lowest for bulk coal, chemicals, some
petroleum products, steel and others.

economy.
The study conducted by the

Transportation Institute ex­
plicitly recognizes that the United
States has a highly, developed
economy. What happens in one
industry will have repercussions
that will go beyond that one
industry.

The study maintains that the
United States government,
through careful planning, can use
the expected boom in coal
exports to bolster other segments
of the American econqmy, most
notably the maritime industry.

Careful management of the,
coal export trade can lead to a
renaissance of the American-flag
merchant marine; That would
mean the creation of thousands
of additional jobs for American
workers, new tax revenues
more favorable balance of
payments figures, and an
improved defense posture.

The TI study made the
following recommendations:

1. There must be a commit­
ment from shippers and the
government that an equitable
share of exported coal will move
on US flag vessels.

2. Ports must be improved to
handle the vastly increased ~
quantity of coal exports, and the
larger vessels needed to carry
those exports.

3. Improvements must be
made in the inland waterways, or
else they may become overly
congested.

4. The United States should
enter into bilateral trade
agreements with its major
partners in the coal trade to
assure them a long time supply of
U.S. coal.

5. The United States govern­
ment should assure the U.S. flag
Merchant Marine an equitable
share of the cargoes generated by
the coal export boom.

December 1980 . LOG 13

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ter. Mass.

NE year ago this January the Atlantic Fisher-

O men's Union merged with the SIU, establishing
a relationship of which the Seafarers is espe­
cially proud.

These are seamen in the true sense of the word, working
each day in close contact with the sea as they set and haul
their nets off the New England Coast.

Many of them come from families who've engaged in
commercial fishing for several generations. And many
have experienced the tragedy of losing a close friend or
relative to the sea.

Yet, they continue their honorable profession year in
and year out, supplying food for the tables of America.

Though most of the 50 some odd fishing boats of the
former Atlantic Fishermen's Union hail from the Port of
Gloucester, on Massachusetts' picturesque Cape Ann,
others set out each day from the ports of Boston and New
Bedford. Hundreds of fishermen crew these boats, and all
of them now enjoy increased security and improved
benefits as members of the SIU.

When weather conditions prohibit going out beyond
the breakwater in search of cod, haddock and whiting (or
other species of fish), there is always plenty of
maintenance work to do in port, as these pictures taken
recently in Gloucester show.

Benny Cianciola, engineer on the
Serafina II, was awarded the Glouces­
ter Mariner's Medal in 1 967 for
attempting to save another fisherman
who was swept overboard.

Sabastian Scola. a fisherman for almost 50 years,
mends net on the St. Peter III. Looking on is 18-year-
old fisherman Tom Favaszza Giousesterman engineer Serafina Pallazola. Fisherman Thomas Linquata of the Rosanne-Mana.

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Part of the Gloucester fishing fleet for many years, the SIU-contracted Rosanne-
Maria and the Serafina II;

Warming up in the foc sle of the S/. Peter III are. I. to r.. Tom Favazza. ,
Scola. Captain Tom Favazza. Anthony Gallo. Joe Piccatello (captain of the
contracted American Eagle), and SIU Gloucester Port Agent Mike Orlando

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Gloucester Port Agent Mike Orlando, second from the left helps mend net on the with Massachusetts Governor Edward King at the recent dedication ceremony for
Hosanne-Maria. the new freezer on the Glouscester State Fish Pier.

Vinnie Ciancinino hoses down the deck of the Italia. Louis Biondo.
boat's captain Stephen Biondo, left, and engineer = Joe Misuraca, cook on the Sf. Pe/er///, was snapped
' . bringing on stores for the galley.

Crewmembers of the SlU-contracted stern-trawler /fa//a.
Engineer Tony Gallo mans the winch on the St. Peter III. Gallo. a fisherman with
50 years' experience, has worked on the St. Peter III for the last 25.

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Helped Thru Tough Time
My husband, Curtis Southwick, an SIU member since 1944 was

hospitalized in April of this year to have surgery for a ruptured disc
in his lower back.

While he was unable to work, the Union helped us by sending
S&A benefits and then by taking responsibility for the hospital bills
and doctor bills when the PHS denied responsibility for them".

I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to the SIU for
helping us to get through a difficult time. The SIU is truly a great
Union.

Sincerely,
^ . Deborah Southwick

Jam^port, N.Y.

New Daddy Will Help
Union Grow

I would like to thank the SIU personally for helping my family
and myself obtain maternity benefits for my wife and new daughter.
The Union's actions have shown that the SIU truly believes in the
welfare of its members.

I hope to be able to help the SIU grow in size and strength in the
future years to come. They have certainly helped my family grow.

Fraternally,
Dan Hiltgen
Santa Barbara, Calif.

Holiday Wishes From Oldtimer
I sincerely wish to send my best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving

and Christmas Holiday Season to our President Fank Drozak, and
all the staff at Headquarters, especially the Log.

I also wish all my seafaring brothers—whether they be retired or
active Seafarers on land or at sea—the very best in this Holiday
Season and the best for the New Year. My thoughts are with them
all the time at the approaching New Year.

Fraternally,
Paul Capo, Retired
Metairie, La.

Many Acts of Kindness
I am writing this letter to express my thanks to the Union and to

George Costango, port agent in Baltimore, for the many acts of
kindness rendered to me at the time of my husband's death. He
passed away on July 18, 1980 and since that time I have learned
what a great and caring Union my husband was associated with.

Without the help of Mr. Costango I would have been lost. He is a
-man with a very big heart. He really cares. 1 am glad I have him as a
friend. May God bless him and all members of the SI U because this
is a Union that really takes care of its men and also their survivors.

I have two sons who are members of the SIU and we can't begin
to express our thanks.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Leonard Roman
Baltimore, Md.

'Thank God for
American Seamen'

I look forward each month for the Log. I read every article and I
am so proud of all the SIU's fine wonderful people.

I was a resident of Baltimore and the wife of a merchant seaman. I
take cruises at different times and what I have learned has fitted me
for seatime. I was so proud to know that one of our supertankers,
the Williamsburgh, was instrumental in the rescue of nearly 500
passengers aboard the Primendam (foreign-flag passenger liner,
Dutch officers, Indonesian crew) last month near Alaska.

God bless each man on the Williamsburgh who stood by for the
safety of those people.

Sincerely,
C. M. Alread ,
Kenbridge, Va. '

LNG Crew In 'Holding Pattern'
As you are well aware the crews of the El Paso fleet have been in a

holding pattern for quite some time waiting for the price agreement
on Algerian gas to be officially announced so we can resume
hauling LNG into the U.S. East Coast,

I am taking the trouble to write to you to letyou know what a fine
job the SIU crew has done on this vessel during this period of
waiting we are experiencing in the Greek port of Scaramanga. This
crew under the leadership of Bosun Frederick Walker, ship's
chairman, has continued to cooperate and keep this vessel in
readiness to start moving LNG into the States once we get the
orders to move out and load up.

Sincerely yours,
Jerome G. Benyo
Master
EL PASO HOWARD BOYD

$200 to SPAD—Gladly
In reading the Log and talking with old shipmates, we all agree

congratulations are in order for a job well done on the part of the
SIU.

With pleasure, I am sending SPAD $200 with more to come in
the future.

I hope some important building will be named after our great
leader Paul Hall, who led us through some very trying times and
put dignity and security in the lives of seamen for the first time in
history. It is important to teach the young seamen the fight we had
to get where we are today.

I was sorry to see that President Carter lost out. But our fight
seems to be eternal. But at least I got 11 votes out for him.

Fraternally,
Lawrence McCuilougb
Miami, Fla.

Del Viento Crew Save 7 Cubans
This is written in response to the excellent display of seamanship

and lifesaving procedures carried out by the crew and officers of the i
SS Del Viento in the rescue of seven repatriated Cubans on their
way from Miami to the Cuban port of Mariel. These seven men,
which were on their way to retrieve their families in Cuba started,
their trek in two boats. One broke down and the transmission on
the other failed. Being out there for three days, they were sighted by
the personnel on watch while the ship was enroute to Venezuela via
Miami.

The Chief Mate J. Rose quickly took charge with the 3rd Mate
Montelone and Seafarers Dan Marcus, Charles Dallas, Georgel
Burke, and Milton Alvarez to complete a flawless rescue. The!
Steward provided food and shelter and the Purser providedl
medical assistance. On behalf of the officers and crew we thank allj
that participated for the excellence and precision.

Sincerely,
Delta Line

16 / LOG / December 1980

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Commentary, In Verse

A Few Thoughts at Christmas Time
As the Log goes to press in the month of December,
And Christmas is close on our heels once again.
It's a time for reflection, a time to remember.
The troubles and triumphs of seagoing men.

In this space is usually found,
Your Union's position on matters weighty.
But just this once we're breaking new ground.
To bid farewell to ninteen-eighty.

So fill the cups with Christmas spirits
And deck the decks with fir and yew.
We propose a toast—let's hear it
For the men and the women of the SlU.

Here's to the cooks, here's to the bakers.
Here's to the FOWT's.
Here's to the Boatmen, here's to the Lakers,
Here's to the guys who ship deep sea.

Here's to the crew of the Williamsburgh
for the greatest sea rescue in history.
And here's to the Virgo—she's number 14
In the Union-crewed fleet of LNGS.

Raise a glass, a Yuletide wassail.
Toast to the advent of an era.
Marked by Sea-Land's D-9 vessels
Built 'cause fuel is growing dearer.

In 1980 we saw quite a few
new tugs, new barges and new ships.
Crewed up by the SlU,
And launced upon their maiden trips.

The UST Pacific came down the ways.
And three more LASH's from Waterman.
The American Mariner crewed in May,
(She's a bulker on the Great Lakes run).

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The Oceanic Independence,
with her well-trained Union crew.
Marked the passenger fleet's renaissance.
May all U.S. cruise ships be SlU!

Construction on new Dam & Locks
At Alton, III., got underway.
Trade with Russia, it was blocked.
But a pact with China was okayed.

A Coast Guard cutter, she collided
With our tanker Capricorn.
Twenty-three Coast Guardsmen died
Aboard their vessel, the Blackthorn.

As for politics, this year was jumbled.
Some you win, and some you lose.
That's the way the cookie crumbled—
Here's a rundown of our views.

This year was a time to mourn.
For many who we loved and knew.
The Poet, Egypt-bound with corn.
Disappeared with her Union crew.

Here's to our departed brothers.
Stop the engines! Toll the bell!
Here's a toast, a last hurrah for
Them, they served their Union well.

The hard-fought Ocean Mining bill
Was enacted into law.
Jobs for U.S. seamen will
Come with the mining of the deep sea's floor.

A price war on Algerian gas
Is holding up El Paso tankers.
The U.S. DOE must pass
a judgement before they can weigh anchor.

Most of all, here's to the man
Who's likes we'll never see again.
We won't forget you soon, Paul Hall,
Our leader. Union brother, friend.

December, 1980
Official Publicoflon of fhe Seoforerj bteTnotionol Union of

North America, AtlonHc, Gulf, Lakes end inljsnd Waters District.
AFl-CIO

Vol. 42, No. t2

Joe DiGiorgio
Secretary- Treasurer

Executive Board
Frank Drozak

President Leon Hall
Vice President

Angus "Red" Campbell
Vice President

Mike Sacco
Vice President

Joe Sacco
Vice President

James Gannon
Editor

Ray Bourdius
Assistant Editor

Edra Ziesk
Assistant Editor

Mike Gillen
Assistant Editor

' Don Rotan
West Coast Associate Editor

Marietta Homayonpour
Assistant Editor

Max Siegel Hall
Assistant Editor

Frank Cianciotti
Director of Photography j Writer

Dennis Lundy
Photography

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Marie Kosciusko

A din in istrat ive A ss istant
George J. Vana

Production!Art Director

Published monthly by Seafarers International Union. Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters
District, AFL-CIO, 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11232, Tel, 499-6600. Second class postage

paid at Brooklyn, N.Y. (ISSN #0160-2047)

Here's to the unsung heroes who.
With courage and humanity.
Have never gotten their just due.
For rescues they performed at sea.

Here's to Frank Drozak, to Joe DiGiorgio,
Here's to Jack Caffey, to Leon, to Red.
Here's to John Dwyer and Joe and Mike Sacco
To all Union officials—full speed ahead.

A salute to George Meany, here's luck to Lane Kirkland
And to all at the AF of L-CIO. ?
Our holiday greetings, our seasonal best to
Schulman, Abarbanel and Jean Ingrao.

Here's to our Union, it's strong and it's growing.
Here's to the future! Here's to success!
Here's to calm seas, to fair winds a'blowing.
Merry Christmas and God Bless. - nL'.''

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A History of the SIU, Part HI

Bom of Strikes, Depression Era Violence
by John Bunker

THE Seafarers International
Union was born in the hectic,

strike-ridden days of the Great
Depression, the world-wide eco­
nomic slump of the 1930s.

The founders and many of the
early members of the SIU came out
of the International Seamen's
Union, founded in 1892 as a
federation of a number of seamen's
unions on the four coasts of the
United States.

JThe great achievement of the ISU
was its support of the long-time
battle to improve the legal status of
seamen and of safety and living
conditions aboard ship. This fight
culminated in passage of the
Seamen's Act of 1915.

But the union's history, unfortu­
nately, was plagued by frequent
internal strife, a continually weak
financial sitaation, and the not-
always-successful effort to speak for
its various autonomous parts, which
could not always agree on common
objectives.

In I9I3, for instance, the ISU
revoked the charter of the Atlantic
Coast Seamen's Union because it
would not support a national
legislative program. The Eastern
and Gulf Sailors Association,
headquartered in Boston, was
chartered to replace it.

There was a continual change­
over in the make-up and leadership
of unions within the ISU. In the
space of a few years, as an example,
the Atlantic Coast Seamen's Union
became the Sailor's Union of the
Atlantic, and then the Sailors and
Fireman's Union of the Atlantic.

' Thanks to the shipping boom of
World War I, the ISU enrolled more
than 115,000 dues paying members
and enjoyed a brief period of
financial prosperity. One of its
major successes was the strike of
1919, which resulted in a base wage
of $65 for ABs and $90 for firemen,
all all-time highs for deep sea sailors
in peace time.

But this war-generated shipping
boom soon ended, there was a
world-wide shipping depression,
and by 1921 membership rolls of the
ISU had shrunk to 50,000. Owners
refused to renew contracts and
decreed wage cuts of up to 25
percent, which the ISU refused to
accept. An all-ports strike started on
May 1, 1921.

Companies Finked Out Unions

Shipowners set up their own
hiring halls and hired non-union
men or those who had dropped out
of the union, a situation made more

John Bunker is director of the
Seafarers' Historical Research De-
partmeni.

An overturned t'u'ck and mounted police bear witness to violent action rn San

favorable for the owners because of
the big reservoir of jobless seamen.
After two months the strike
collapsed and the wage cuts
prevailed.

This defeat weakened the ISU. It
was further crippled by the
continuing disruption by such
radical groups as the Industrial
Workers of the World (IWW) and

with Pier 38 as a start. Trucks were
driven to the pier on the afternoon of
the second of July, with the drivers
being evacuated from the water end
in a launch.

On the morning of Thursday, July
3, more than 5,000 longshoremen,
seamen, and curious onlookers had
gathered on the Embarcadero near
Pier 38. At about noon a convoy of Workers oi tne worm

the Marine Workers Industrial loaded trucks came off the pier

Union (MWIU).
For about ten years after the ill-

fated 1921 strike, the ISU was
relatively dormant. But it was
projected head first into the violent
West Coast longshoremen's strike of
1934 despite the reluctance of its
leadership to get involved.

The ILA West Coast dock-
workers had gone on strike May 9,
1934 for more money, a 30 hour
week, union-run hiring halls and a
coast-wide contract. West Coast
seamen walked off their ships in
support of the dock workes and
presented demands of their own for
higher wages, union recognition in
collective bargaining, and better
conditions aboard ship. East Coast
officials of the ISU then decided to
support the strike in all areas,
asserting that 1933 demands for
better wages and conditions had
been ignored by shipowners.

The owners rejected all demands.
Shipping in San Francisco and

other West Coast ports was soon at a
stand still. Within a few days more
than 50 ships were idle at their docks
or at anchor and piers were filled
with cargo that could not move to
its destination.

Shipowners and other business
interests then determined to open
the port and plans were made
through the Industrial Association
to run trucks through the gauntlet of
pickets and get cargo off the piers.

under police escort and headed for a
warehouse on King Street, passing
unmolested through the picket lines.

Francisco during 1934 maritime strike.
The unions retaliated by calling a

general strike on July 16. This
action paralyzed the city. Nothing
moved. Stores closed. Only a few
restaurants were permitted to open.
Business life came to a standstill.

The strike was called off on July
19 when the Joint Strike Committee
representing 120 striking unions,
agreed to put all demands to
arbitration. The President had
designated a National Longshore-
mens Board to arbitrate the dispute.

Pickets Killed
This operation was repeated

several times to the growing
discontent of the pickets. Finally,
the strikers could stand it no longer
and when the trucks again tried to
run the gauntlet the longshoremen
and the sailors bombarded truckers,
and police with bricks and stones.
Police counterattacked with clubs
and tear gas. The battle had begun.
When it was over one picket had
been killed and many hurt.

There was no action on Indepen­
dence Day, but by 8 a.m. on July 5
some 3,000 pickets had gathered on
the Embarcadero and when a Belt
Line locomotive came along with
cars for the pier, the battle began
again. Pickets set, cars on fire,
hundreds of policemen charged the
massed pickets, and a full-scale
engagement began, with bricks and
bullets, clubs and tear gas on near­
by Rincon Hill, a knoll along the
waterfront. When police charged up
the hill to chase the pickets away,
shots were fired and two pickets
were killed. Scores were wounded.

When the National Guard moved
in that night and took over the
waterfront, the Embarcadero
became a no-man's land.

The 1934 strike, which lasted 39
days, resulted in substantial gains
for both longshoremen and seamen,
with the latter obtaining wage
increases, a three watch system on
board ship and better living
conditions.

Although the strike seemed to end
with satisfactory results for all
concerned there were more strikes to
come in those troubled days of the
Great Depression, with labor unrest
only one phase of the social
fermentation and upheaval.

Labor unrest included a new form
of on-the-job protest called the sit-
down strike, in which men literally
sat down on the job. There were a
number of sit down actions in the
maritime industry, with seamen
preventing ships from sailing as a
means of getting immediate
response from owners on demands
for higher wages and union
representation.

Two new maritime unions.
Seafarers International Union and
the National Maritime Union were,
born in these hectic times, ot
sprang out of the old ISU, w ic
faded away as an organizatio
which had served its purpose an
had outlived its time.

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Seafarers , * ^
HARRY LUNDEBERG SCHOOL

OF SEAMANSHIP
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Piney Point Maryland

Boatmen Earn Engineer Licenses Under
THE first group of SIU

boatmen to participate
in the new Engineer
Scholarship Program

are now undergoing training at
the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship in Piney
Point.

The new diesel engineer
program—like the Towboat
Operators program—was estab­
lished by the Seafarers Interna­
tional Union and the Transpor­
tation Institute to meet the needs
of the inland waterways industry.

and to provide boatmen with a
program to advance their careers.

The intensive two-month
course will prepare our boatmen
students for Coast Guard
examinations to become licensed
Chief Engineer, and Assistant
Engineer for uninspected motor
vessels.

During their two-month
training program, boatmen will

U/SIU Scholarehip Plan
tors. They will also benefit from
actual experience and training
aboard the schools boats and in
the machine shop.

The scholarships are available
to all qualified SIU boatmen. To
be eligible, applicants must be,
U.S. citizens with normal color

get classroom instruction ia-all vision, corrected vision of 20/30
aspects of diesel engine operation in one eye and 20/ 50 in the other,
and maintenance under the and at least 20/100 without

Engineer must be 21 years of age,
and at least 19 years old for
Assistant Engineer. In addition,
all applicants must pass a
physical examination.

All interested boatmen who meet
the basic requirements for the
licenses, are urged to write to the
Scholarship Selection Commit­
tee, C/O The Seafarers Harry
Lundeberg School of Seaman-

guidance of experienced instruc- glasses. Applicants for Chief ship, Piney Point, Md. 20674.

Chuck Krumboltz (left) works for the G & H Towing out of Houston. Ernie Trotter works relief
for Taylor & Anderson Towing and Lightering Co. out of Philadelphia.

Al Smith works for Taylor & Anderson Towing and Lightering Co. out of
Philadelphia.

Bob Hurst (left) works with the Virginia Pilots Association out of Norfolk.
Here he works on a diesel ehgine under the guidance of SHLSS
Instructor David Grieg.

Walter Bickel works for G & H Towing out of Corpus Christi.

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SHLSS Preparing Study Pregram
For Associate of Arts Degrees

WITHIN the next few
months. Seafarers will be

able to complete requirements for
an Associate of Arts degree at the
Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship in Piney
Point. Academic staff members
are now putting the final touches
on a new General Studies
Curriculum which will include
English, math, sociology and thr
humanities.

In explaining the program,
SHLSS Academic Director
Jacqueline Knoetgen explained
that trainees and upgraders earn
college credits during their
vocational training. Most trainee
and all upgrading courses are
accredited by Charles County
(Md.) Community College.

"With most of our guys, they
have gone as far as they can with
their vocational courses," Ms.
Knoetgen said. "What they need
now are the academic courses to
complete their requirements for a
degree, and this is what we will be
able to provide for them."

During their basic programs,
trainees earn about 27 credits
toward the degree requirements.

Upgrading courses can supple­
ment all of the remaining
"elective" courses toward the 62-
64 credits needed.

The program being developed
at SHLSS calls for individualized
study which will include assign­
ment of planned study materials
and frequent evaluation by the
teachers.

SHLSS Academic Department teachers Tracy
Aumann and Lois Knowles review library study
materials as the Seafarers School prepares to
offer four mew college-level courses in the
Spring of 1981. The new courses will enable
Seafarers to earn Associate of Arts degrees
from Charles County (Md.) Community College.

The academic course will also
be available to SlU members who
may not be interested in an
Associate of Arts degree, but
want to learn more about math,
science and the humanities to
enhance their careers or broaden
their own intellectual horizons.

Guiding the Qeneral Studies
Program through its formation
are SHLSS teachers Tracy
Aumann, Lois Knowles and Sandy
Schroeder.

Initial transscript evaluations
made by the SHLSS Academic
Department reveal that more
than 150 upgraders who have
recently completed courses at the
school are very close to fulfilling
the requirements for a degree,
lacking only the required
academic courses.

Some courses are already
available: sociology, psychology,
biology, political science, art, and
physical education (sailing).
Four new courses—two in
English and one each in math and
sociology—and a humanities
course (music) will be included in
the curriculum in the Spring of
1981.

Pensioner Earns H. S. Diploma
YES, Brother Seafarers, there

is education after 65.
Eugene Sieradski is a veteran

Seafarer, a 67 year^old pensioner,
and a brand-new high school
graduate.

You'd never guess he was 67.
He still carries the ramrod
straight posture of the Polish
cavalry in which he once served.
And he still very much displays '
Jhe European courtliness that is
sadly gone out of style.

Brother Sieradski came to

Piney Point from his home in
Miami to go back to school. "It's
been 50 years since I was in a
classroom, and there's a lot of
cobwebs that need to be cleared
away," he said once during a
brief moment of doubt.

But, if he had any doubts about
succeeding, his teachers had
none. All of them were encour­
aged by his willingness to work
and with the ease with which
he grasped new ideas.

Change and the acceptance of

. High School Graduafe Eugene Sieradski expresses his gratitude to his teachers after he
successfully completed the examinations. And that feeling of gratitude was mutual From left

_ fhft SHLSS teachers are Tracy Aumann. Mary Coyle. Sandy Schroeder Lois Knowles and Cindv
Meredith . '

new ways is not unfamiliar to
Brother Sieradski. He had to find
a new way of life after he fled his
native Poland during the great
purges of the Stalinist era. He
had to find a new way of living,
and so he went to sea.

After a number of years sailing
aboard vessels flying the flags of
many different nations, he found
himself in 1958 aboard the
Liberian Wang Trader when that
ship was sold and came under
U.S. registry. It was in that year
that he joined the SIU and began
helping to organize other ships
under the SIU banner.

Learning the English language
was not an easy thing for Eugene.
In spite of this, he studied and
earned ratings until today he
holds every engine rating there is,
including Qualified Member of
the Engine Department.

Eugene Sieradski has lived a
full life, and what is good is that
he lives the full life today. Getting
his high school diploma was just
the beginning, he says. He
phoned his teachers a couple of
weeks ago. He said: "I'll be
coming back in the Spring." We'll
be looking for him.

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From Oeki^ Seamansli/p to LORAN:

STANDI>
today's

sophisticated
is not what it
wheelsman
is expected t
than simple

That's w
specialty co
master comes
seafarers for
The four-we(
require a sp
examination
that graduate
about the el(

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HLSS Offers Quartermaster Course
} wheel watch on
arger and more
ocean-going ships
ised to be. Today's
r quartermaster-
know a lot more

commands,
ere the SHLSS
rse for Quarter-
in to qualify deck

demanding job.
course does not

ial Coast Guard
)ut it does require
know a great deal
;ronic navigation

equipment to be found in today's
ships.

Successful completion of the
Quartermaster course leads to a
certificate of competance. The
course is open to all Seafarers
who hold a U.S. Coast Guard
endorsement of "Able Seaman

Unlimited Any Waters."
Some of the areas covered in

the course are use of the magnetic
and gyro compasses; rules of the
road; emergency procedures,
including firefighting; interna­
tional codes and signals; aids
to navigation; use of radar.

LORAN, fathometers and RDF;
and weather, tides and currents.

Successful completion of the
Quartermaster course also
entitles student to six college
credits.

The next Quartermaster
course begins March 2.

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Seafarer Allan Swanson gets instruction on
radar scope plots from SHLSS Instructor
Harry Coyle. Students learn the use of radar,
LORAN, fathometers and REP during the
four-week Quartermaster course.

Instructor Harry Coyle demonstrates the
proper use of parallel rules to plot a course as
Seafarer Albert Pickford watches Intently.
The SHLSS Quartermaster course provides
a wide range of wheelhouse skills.

Seafarer Charles Boles (left) who ships on
the Great Lakes, goes over a course plotting
in the Straits of Mackinac with Seafarer
Angel Urti. Bolep hales from Detroit while
Brother Urti's home is in New Qrleans.

SIU Tow

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THE latest

towboat p
SIU inland
sections of the
including the
Coast and the

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ates are (l-r b
Teller, G&H
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Baltimore; Cra
Corpus Christ!

duating class of
ots represents
anies from all
United States,

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Brown, Q&H
eonard Fuller,

G&H, Houstc ; David Do-
mangue, CroW:
and R- G. I
Houston.

In the back r# are
Jordan, Cresce
Orleans; Steve
Corpus Chris
G&H, Houston
meyer, Crescer
Orleans; Mic
Crescent Towin
and Paul Allma
head of the

Long Beach;
rdett, G&H,

(l-r) David
Towing, New

Nelson, G&H,
Larry Nixon,

Arthur Grund-
Towing, New

Orillion,
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•'nstructor and
^HLSS deck

department.
The towboat pilot program,

like other beginning and upgrad­
ing progranis at the Seafarers
training center in Piney Point, is
a statement of the SIU's
commitment to provide the
inland waterways industry with
the best trained and most
qualified boatmerr possible.

To this end, the SIU's towboat
pilot program includes both
classroom and on-the-job in­
struction, with emphasis on
practical problem-solving. The
towboat pilot course is six weeks.
Students are provided with all
study materials, and are guided
by experienced instructors.
Special help is also available
from the SHLSS academic
department in the areas of math,
and reading and study skills.

The next towboat pilot class
will begin on March 16 at the
Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship. o

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at the Seafarers Harry

Lundeberg School of Seaman­
ship provide additional upgrad­
ing opportunities to Seafarers,
and they are in good measure the
reason why SIU deep sea sailors
and inland boatmen are the best
qualified maritime workers
anywhere in the world.

One of these courses is
Pumproom Maintenance and
Operation, a six-week course
which is open to Seafarers who
hold a QMED Any Rating
endorsement, or an endorsement
as Pumpman.

The course includes classroom
and practical instruction on the
maintenance and operation of
valves, emergency procedures,
cargo pump operations and
loading procedures, cargo
measurement, discharging and
ballasting procedures, tank
cleaning and inert gas systems,
fire fighting and safety, pollu­
tion control, and cargo control
systems.

The course also entitles those
who successfully complete the
course requirement to receive six
college credits. The next class
begins Feb. 16.

Pumproom Maintenance Course
Provides Special Engine Skills

Seafarer John Fink is learning-by-doing by adjusting the
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valves on a pump. John ships out of the port of New York.

Don Bush (wearing safety goggles) does lathe work as part
of the pumproom maintenance course. Seafarer Bush
makes his home in Norfolk.

Seafarer Chris Devonish makes a
linkage adjustment on a reciprocating
pump. Chris ships out of the Port of
New York.

SHLSS Instructor Jim Sheaffer (left) works with Seafarer John Fink as they set up a job on a lathe. The six-week course covers
all aspects of safe operations and maintenance of shipboard pumprooms.

Railroad Industry Looks At SIU Alcohol Rehabilitation
THE nation's railroad indus­

try together with the various
unions comprising the railroad
brotherhoods are looking at the
SIU's alcohol rehabilition
program as a model for new
rehabilition policy for their
industry.

In a recent visit to the Seafarers
Alcoholic Rehabilition in Piney
Point, Md., representatives of
railroad industry and labor, and
the U.S. Department of Trans­
portation met with the SIU's staff
and toured the Center.

In the photo at right, SIU
Rehabilition Counselor Mary
Lynn Rogers and SHLSS Vice
President Frank Mongelli talk

22 / LOG / Dec^ber 1980

with Daniel M. Collins, labor-
management specialist with the
Federal Railroad Administra­
tion, and Washington con­
sultants Philip C. Fedewa and
Lawrence J. Fedewa.

Also attending the orientation
visit to the SIU's facilities were
Daniel W. Collins, director of
education for the United Trans­
portation Union, and J. A.
Paddock, senior consultant on
alcohol and drug abuse programs
for a Washington consulting
group.

The Seafarers Alcoholic
Rehibilitation Center was
established in Valley Lee,
Maryland in 1973 to provide for
the needs of SIU members who

are suffering from the disease of discussions with a strong
alcoholism. The SIU's program emphasis on the principles of
uses counseling and group Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Dispatchers Report for Deep Sea
OCT. 1-31,1980 *TOTAL REGISTERED

All Groups
Class A Class B Class C

Port

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk I
Tampa
Mobile !
New Orleans i
Jacksonville /
San Francisco
Wilmington /
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Piney Point
Yokohama
Totals

Port

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile •
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco

• Wilmington
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Piney Point
Yokohama
Totals

Port

Boston
New York
Philadelphia •
Baltimore
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco
Wilniington
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Piney Point
Yokohama
Totals

Port

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco
Wilmington
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Piney Point
Yokohama
Totals

TOTAL SHIPPED
All Groups

Class A Class B Class C

DECK DEPARTMENT

^•REGISTERED ON BEACH
All Groups

Class A Class B Class C

7 4
97 57
10 11
18 9
16 8
14 11
18 2
77 25
33 12
60 24
28 23
45 13
8 1

ft 39
1

0 0
497 240

8 3 14 7
66 1 147 84
6 1 14 13
12 2 37 15
12 0 25 9
19 1 25 8
5 . 0 32 6
36 1 135 43
7 1 61 23
38 5 92 25
20 4 43 34
44 11 51 14
9 0 14 0
25 5 129 \ 56
11 1 0 0
1 1 0 0

319 37 819 337
ENGINE DEPARTMENT

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•, /• 2 2 0
/ 89 46 6

7 0 0
23 6 0
15 7 2 ... t 7 6 2
18 7 0

• / / 45 17 4
20 5 1
33 21 4
14 7 2
31 18 6 .
4 1 0
61 15 5
3 1 0
0 1 0

372 160 32

1 0 6 5
30 0 157 , 93
0 0 >U9 6
10 0 41 17
5 1 24 14
7 2 7 13
3 0 28 11
13 0 94 32
5 0 40 9
13 2 55 30
13 2 22 12
13 10 35 24
6 0 11 3
24 0 99 28
3 0 • 2 0
1 0 0 1

147 17 640 298
STEWARD DEPARTMENT

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1
35
2
9
5
4
5

19
16
26
13
17
3

27

4
28
2
2
5
1
2
6
0

22
0
4
4
7

0 7 0
0 0 0

182 94
1

31

1 5 2
26 133 32
2 19 4-
10 35 12
4 21 6
5 23 4
4 21 3
32 47 6

nV-' , ' 9 19 12
12 69 42
4 26 34
9 32 21 • I'M-' 7 17 1
19 55 17
0 45 1
0 0 0

144 567 197

4 0
46 10
6 0
7 2
8 1
4 • 1
2 0
10 2
4 1
26 21
9 6
6 8
6 0
11 0
1 0
0 0 1

150 52
ENTRY DEPARTMENT

Totals All Departments ,1.195 1,061 314 1,105 709 85

'^®gistered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month.
Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the |::|ort at the end of last month.

3 14 8
40 265 133
3 42 7
20 65 29
6 41 21
6 25 13
5 45 5

45 88 27
21 63 21
25 98 82
8 48 107

1-4 39 43
11 32 4
22 83 49
0 4 0
1 0 0

230 952 549

2,041 1,737 772

^ ' ipping in the month of October was good in most A&O deepsea ports. A total of 1,899 jobs were shipped last
i/h" S"J-contracted deep sea vessels. That's an increase of 237 jobs over the previous month. Of these 1,899

s oply 1,105 or slightly more than half, were taken, by "A" seniority members. The rest were filled by "B" and "f""
eniority people. Shipping is expected to remain good for the foreseeable future.

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SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes

& Inland Waters
United Industrial Workers

bf North America

Frank Drozak, president
Joe DIGIorgio, secretary-treasurer

Leon Hall, vice president
Angus "Red" Campbell, vice president

Mike Sacco, vice president
Joe Sacco, vice president

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PORTLAND, Or.
421 S.W. 5th Ave. 97204

(503) 227-7993
PADUCAH, Ky 225 S. 7 St. 42001

(502) 443-2493
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 S. 4 St. 19148

(215) DE 6-3818
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St. Mary's County 20674
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PORT ARTHUR, Tex. .534 9 Ave. 77640
(713) 983-1679

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.
350 Fremont St. 94105

(415) 626-6793
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(314) 752-6500

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. (813) 870-1601

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(419) 248-3691

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408 Avalon Blvd. 90744

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ST Bay Ridge

Seatrain Lines Inc., has gotten the okay from the Federal government
to repay construction subsidy monies on the supertanker Bay Ridge.
clearing the way for operation of the Bay Ridge in the Alaskan oil trade.

Federal law prohibits vessels built with U.S. construction subsidies
from operating in domestic intracoastal trade. But last February the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that Seatrain could operate another supertanker,
the Stuyvesant, on the Alaskan oil run pending repayment of $27J2
million in government construction subsidies.

The Bav Ridge will enter the Alaskan oil trade as soon as she leaves a
San Francisco shipyard where she's being repaired after a collision with a
tug.

Houston, Tx. x
Sea-Land Service Inc. marked two milestones at the port of Houston

last month. First, the company's multi-million dollar, 40-acre container
terminal was dedicated by Sea-Land President R. K. Johns. The new
terminal, located at Harbours Cut, ranks as one of the largest in the
nation. During the dedication ceremony, the Sea-Land Express, one in
the company's new line of D-9 vessels, arrived at the port.

The second milestone was noted during the dedication ceremony:
last year, Houston outranked all other U.S. ports in foreign commerce
for the first time.

New Orleans
The Maritime Administration dedicated their new Merchant Seaman

Fire Training Center here on Nov. 19. Like the other Marad firefighting
schools around the country, the New Orleans facility will offer both
classroom and hands-on training in firefighting. Open to all personnel
involved in waterborne commerce, the Center offers two courses:
firefighting on barges and firefighting on ships.

Buried Treasure
A marine historian who has determined that no fewer than 633 vessels

have gone down off the Delmarva Peninsula, near Ocean City, Md.; is
determined to salvage one of them.

Donald Stewart, president of the Atlantic Ship Historical Society,

formed a corporation and raised over $100,000 to find and salvage a 60-
gun Spanish warship which went down in a hurricane more than 200
years ago. . . . u

Stewart says the vessel held $40 million in gold, silver and gems and he
believes the loot is still aboard. Using a specially equipped research vessel
called the Bloodhound. Stewart believes he's detected the sunken
Spanish ship. "I know within a mile radius of the site where the remmns
of that ship are located," he said.

The salvage operation is slated for this spring but Stewart isnt
revealing either the location or the name of the Spanish wreck—he
doesn't want anyone to "try and cash in" on the operation.

Mofson Navigation
Palm trees may be more common in Honolulu than their cold-

loving Evergreen cousins but therell soon be plenty of pine on
Hawaii.

Matson Navigatiorrwill ship a total of 175,000 Christmas trees in 275
refrigerated containers from Seattle to Honolulu during the month of
November. ^

On Nov. 6, the first shipment of 25 containers left Seattle aboard the
SS MaunawUi. arriving in Honolulu Nov. 13. The SS Maunaleileft Nov.
20 with 45 containers. The largest shipment, 180 containers, was loaded
on the MaunawUi Nov. 22 for transshipment to the SS Manukai. The
MaunawUi then back-tracked to Portland and Seattle for a final load of
25 containers, arriving Honolulu Dec. 11.

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Matson's 55 Luriine is scheduled for conversion from a strictly Ro/ Ro
vessel to lift-on/lift-off as well. She went into the shipyard in Chester,
Pa., last month and the conversion is expected to be finished by the end of
the year.

Boston, Mass.
Ground was broken last month on Boston's Massport Marine

Terminal, an $80 million terminal that is expected to boost the port's
container-handling capacity by 50 percent. The facility, which will be
completed in 1993, will pump some $10 million into the region's
economy.

The container terminal will cover 47 acres and will include a four-
berth, five-crane container port. It will also include a bulk and general
cargo facility which could be ready for use by 1985.

Adding to the port's fortunes is another containership terminal, now
under construction at Castle Island. The $15 million facility, a single-
berth, two-crane operation, will add 15,000 containers a year to the port's
capacity. It will be finished next summer.

Here's the second installment of a
fiew Log column dealing with Social
Security. We will try to keep you
informed of rules and regulations,
changes in the law. and of course
your benefits under the Social
Security Adtninistration. We hope
you enjoy the column. If you have
any suggestions concerning this
column please drop us a line.

Family Benefits After Yoiir
Death

If you are insured by Social
Security when you die, no matter
what your age, monthly survivor
benefits are payable to:
• Your widow, or widower, at age

, 65 (or age 60 if reduced benefits are
elected);

• Your widow or widower at any
• age who is caring for your child—

under 18 or disabled—who is
entitled to benefits.

• Your disabled widow or wid­
ower 50 or older.
• Your unmarried children under

18 (or 22 if full-time students), and
those 18 or over who become
disabled before reaching 22;
• Your dependent parents 62 or

older;
• Your divorced wife if she is not

married and is (1) caring for a child
(under 18 or disabled) who is
entitled to benefits on your Social
Security record or (2) age 60 (50 if
disabled) and was married to you for
10 years. (A divorced woman mar­
ried less than 20 years will have her
benefits reduced by the amount of
any pension she receives for public
employment not covered by Social
Security.)

In general, each surviving depen­
dent, other than an aged widow or
an aged parent, receives three
quarters of the monthly benefit
amount you would have received if
you had lived to retire at age 65 (or,
if you had already retired at age 65
or later, the amount you were
receiving as a monthly benefit).
However, there is a "family maxi­
mum" which js the top amount that
can be paid to your survivors taken
together.

Your widow or widower who
starts getting checks at 65 is entitled
to the amount you would have been
receiving had you lived (or were
receiving when you died), although a
nondependent widower will have his'
benefits reduced by the amount of
any pension he receives for public
employment not covered by Social
Security.

A sole surviving child is entitled to
a benefit not less than the primary
amount. A dependent parent will
receive 82'/2% of your age-65 benefit
amount. (If there are two dependent
parents, each is potentially eligible
for 75%.)

Deposit in the SIU Blood Bank—Its Your Life

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As with retired workers. Social
Security payments to a surviving
dependent are reduced if the depen­
dent works and earns more than the
earnings limit for the year (in 1980,
$5,000 for those over 65, $3,720 for
those under 65). However, work by a
parent does not affect the benefits of
surviving children under that par­
ent's care.

Lump-sum death benefit—In
addition to the monthly benefits
survivors receive, the deceased
worker's spouse living in the same
household is entitled to a lump-sum
death payment of $255. If there is no
such spouse, this payment can be
made to the person who paid burial
expenses, or directly to the funeral
home if the expenses have not been
paid.

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Pix From the Ships At Sea...
ON every ship there's at

least one crewmember with
a .camera snapping pix of his
shipmates and happenings on the
vessel.

The Log is happy to receive
any and all photos from our ships
and boats. We can't publish all of
them. But well do our best to
publish as many as we can
depending on availability of
space.

So keep those cards and letters
and photos coming in. Com­

munication is a two-way street.
And the more communication we
get from the ships at sea, from the
Lakes and from our boats
operating in the harbors and
inland waterway system, the

. better.
Send the photos to Log,

Seafarers International Union,
675-4th Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
11232. If you wish the photos to
be returned to you, please include
a forwarding address where they
may be sent.

Here's a shot of the LNG Libra and LNG Leo side by side at sea. The Libra
transferred her cargo to the Leo at sea after she had lost use of her propel­
ler. According to Tom Brooks, bosun on the/-/bra, the operation went smoothly
and professionally (phale-tyir OS John Edwardsnn)

The SlU steward department on the SS President Pierce (American P resident
Lines) gather for a friendly photo. They are Sam Brown, 2nd cook; Jackson
Garland, chief cook; Doyle Jorgenson, 3rd cook; Catherine Harris, saloon
waitress and Carl Rosander, chief steward.

This dramatic photo shtrws the at sea refueling of the Navy ship USNS
Mispillion in the Pacific. The job was accomplished by the crew of the SIU-
manned Ogden Charger (photo by Seafarer Wallace Stephens).

PJglails in the Pantry
(A S6m Chmtey tor our SlU sisters)
Pigtails in the pantry,
Mascarra on the deck.
Panty hose and lipstick down below.
Perfume in the passage
Hairpins in the sink
Dainty things hung where they will not show.

So Why's the bos'n shouting?
What's brought him to the brink?
I've never knowri his nerve to fail.
Did the crosstree topple?
Blocks come crashing down?
No! Mary Sue just broke another nail.

Grease on pretty eyebrows
Red lead sprinkled through the curls.
Tallow mixed with talc
Stand back. Chief, and make way for the girls.

Recall the old days, sailors.
The bitter and the hard,
The heat, the dirt, the snarling mates galore.
And bless our SlU sisters.
They've brought us things we never had l)efore.

Charles Bortz

No*. 11, isao M'SMIIO NortMW
Nonama

Monthly Membership
Meetings

Deep Sea
Port Date Lakes, Inland Waters UIW

New York Jan. 5 2:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Philadelphia Jan. 6 2:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Baltimore Jan. 7 2:30p.m. 7:00p.m.
Norfolk Jan. 8 9:30a.m. 7:00p.m.
Jacksonville Jan. 8 2:00p.m. —
Algonac Jan. 9 2:30p.m. — •
Houston Jan. 12 2:30 p.m. 7:00 p.m.
New Orleans Jan. 13 2:30p.m. 7:00 p.m.
Mobile Jan. 14 2:30p.m. —
San Francisco Jan. 15 2:30p.m. . —
Wilmington Jan. 19 2:30p.m. \ '

Seattle Jan. 23 2:30p.m. —
Piney Point Jan. 10 10:30 a.m.
San Juan Jan. 8 2:30p.m. —
Columbus Jan. 17 — 1:00 p.m.
Chicago Jan. 13 — —
Port Arthur Jan. 13 2:30p.m. —
St. Louis Jan. 16 2:30 p.m. . —
Cleveland Jan. 15 • —
Honolulu Jan. 8 2:30p.m. —

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LNG ARIES (Energy Transport),

October 25—Chairman, Recertified
Bosun F. Pehler; Secretary J. Kundrat;
Educational Director John Ponti;
Steward Delegate Martin E. Buck. No
disputed OT. The Log was received.
Chairman made a few remarks about
the Union election of officers. Report to
Log: "On September 30, 1980 SIU
crewmembprs helped rescue 21
Vietnamese boat people. That same
night one of the women gave birth to a
baby girl as was reported in a letter from
Singapore on October 5, 1980."

SEA-LAND LEADER (Sea-Land
Service), October 11—Chairman,
Recertified Bosun A1 Whitmer;
Secretary R. Macareeg; Educational
Director William R. Burgess. No
disputed OT. Chairman read the Union
oath of obligation to refresh memories
and to remind the younger members
what is to come when they upgrade and
become full members. Talk was given on
duties to our Union and all were urged
to work for the Union's continued
growth. Chief Mate, T. Moulton, sent
down words of praise for the entire deck
department and thanked them for a job
well done. The steward department was
commended for the little extras that go
into making a good ship better.

SEA-LAND GALVESTON (Sea-
Land Service), October 25—Chairman,
Recertified Bosun John Japper; Sec­
retary Norman Johnson. No disputed
OT. Chairman discussed the im­
portance of donating to SPAD and of
practicing safety aboard ship at all
times, liie steward will be getting off in
December to attend the Stewards
Recertification at Piney Point and
encourage all men to take advantage of
the programs the Union offers. More
trading means more money in your
pocket. Next port Naha.

SEA-LAND PATRIOT (Sea-Land
Service), October 26—Chairman, Re­
certified Bosun Emilio Sierra; Secretary
C. E. Bell; Educational Director Robert
Henley Jr.; Deck Delegate Jam» W.
Fultz; Engine Delegate Raymond
MachaJ; Steward Delegate Harold
McLeer. No disputed OT. Chairman
asked all crewmembers to refrain from
smoking on deck during refueling in
Long Beach. Requested all entry rating
to upgrade and for everyone to take
advantage of the courses offered at
Piney Point. The Log was received and
it was suggested for all to-read to keep
up with what is going on in the Union. A
vote of thanks to the steward depart­
ment and the deck department from the
engine department for their coopera­
tion. Report to Log: "Vessel will go to
shipyard on the 20th of November. It
will remain in the shipyard for 20 days.
The crew will fly home from the
shipyard and the vessel will recrew on
December 10, 1980 according to the
company. Next port Long Beach.

26 / LOG / December 1980

SEA-LAND SEATTLE (Sea-Land
Service), October 11—Chairman,
Recertified Bosun William Robinson;
Secretary Eddie Hernandez; Educa­
tional Director Don Pase; Deck
Delegate W. Matthews; Engine
Delegate Dominic Cavallo. No disputed
OT. Chairman gave a talk to the
members about the opportunities they
have to better themselves in this Union
through Piney Point and how important
it is for us to donate to SPAD. Report to
Log: "The only unusual thing that
happened two trips ago was that coming
from Puerto Rico a wj[iale got tangled
up on the ship's screw and held us up for
a few hours so we have to go to the
shipyard." Observed one minute of
silence in memory of our departed
brothers.

ACHILLES (Newport Tanker
Corp.), October 26—^Chairman,
Recertified Bosun Michael Casanueva;
Secretary R. D. Bozeman; Educational
Director C. R. Langford. No disputed
OT. A discussion was held on Piney
Point. Some of us older members think
it is a good thing and everyone who can
should take advantage of the opportu­
nity to better themselves. The younger
men who come from training at Piney
Point are needed. Report to Log: "We,
the crew of the SS Achilles who have
been on here a long time would like to
say thanks to Captain R. Wolfe. He has
done a great job on this ship. He has
seen to it that most repairs were taken
care of. You should have seen this ship
when he came on. He has cleaned it up,
got new refrigerators, icemakers, deep
freezes, you name it, he has done it."

BALTIMORE (Sea-Land Service),
October 26—Chairman, Recertified
Bosun Jose L. Gonzales; Secretary
George W. Gibbons; Educational Direc­
tor W. J. Dunnigan. $15.25 in ship's fund.
No disputed OT. Chairman reported that
the ship ran into bad weather coming
from Boston, Mass. If there are any
repairs necessary due to the storm they
should be reported immediately. Voting
is now going on at the Union halls to
elect a President and other officers. Read
the Union Paper, the Log, to know what
is going on from time to time. A vote of
thanks to all department delegates for a
job well done. Next port Elizabeth.

WASHINGTON (Hudson WaterwaysX
October 26—Chairman G. Cojrelli;
Secretary H. Scypes; Engine Delegate M.
Beny; Steward Delegate David Horton
Jr. No disputed OT. Chairman spoke to
Red Campbell and Leon Hall and they
received word that the ship's crew
performed their duties well. The Captain
extended to the crew a job well done and
hopes to sail with the same men again. A
special vote of thanks to electrician
Rogers for showing movies by video tape
for crew. The video machine and tapes
were Rogers own set. Observed one
minute of silence in memory of our
departed brothers. Next port Beaumont.

UST ATLANTIC (Interocean Mgt.),
October 5—Chairman, Recertified
Bosun G. Mattioli; Secretary Clyde
Kreiss; Educational Director L. C.
Gayle; Steward Delegate Nelson Rodri­
guez. No disputed OT. Chairman
reported that a letter received from Vice
President Red Campbell in regards to
the fire aboard ship was read'. Discussed
the importance of upgrading and
donating to SPAD. Noted that there
was a good crew on this trip and that
everyone was doing his job. A vote of
thanks to the steward department for a
job well done.

COVE TRADER (Cove Shipping),
October 19—Chairman T. Gailas;
Secretary M. Bruschini; Educational
Director J. Rodriguez; Deck Delegate
Ronald S. Davis. Some disputed OT in
deck and steward departments. Secre­
tary reported that everyone who
qualifies should think about going to
Piney Point to upgrade for better jobs
and job security. At the present time
anyone who goes to SHLSS to upgraide
will have his transportation expenses
refunded by the school. Educational
Director wants the latest information
about the courses at Piney Point so they
can be posted on the ship for everybody
that is plajining to upgrade. A vote of
thanks to the steward department for a
job well done. Next port Baton Rouge.

OGDEN LEADER (Ogden Marine),
October 19—Chairman J. R. Col-
angelo; Secretary Ernie Hoitt; Educa­
tional Director Alan R. Gardner. No
disputed OT. Secretary read the consti­
tutional amendment. He also advised
that we will be getting 90 days store this
voyage in the states. Educational
Director reported that Piney Point has
temporarily closed the QMED and
FWT programs. Also that there should
be no smoking on deck at anytime while
at a loading or discharge dock. $34.50 in
ship's fund. A vote of thanks to the
steward department for a job well done.

OGDEN MERRIMAC (Ogden Ma­
rine), October 19—Chairman T. S.
Barnes; Secretary O. Esquive; Educa­
tional Director M. Akoon. Some
disputed OT in engine department.
Chairman requested all members to get
all your repair lists ready so they can be
turned over to the boarding patrolman.
Payoff will be in Norfolk either Tuesday
or Wednesday morning. Discussed the
importance of donating to SPAD. All
members who qualify should go to
Piney Point to upgrade and if you have
the time, and .not the money to get there,
the Union will pay transportation if you
finish the course you are taking. Ob­
served one minute of silence in memory
of our departed brothers and sisters.

OGDEN WILLAMETTE (Ogden
Marine), October 12—Chairman,
Recertified Bosun Sven Jansson;
Secretary George W. Luke; Educational
Director Jerry Windham; Deck
Delegate John Donaldson. No disputed
OT. $150 in movie fund. There was a
communication that was received that
had some answers of questions we asked
of SIU Vice President Red Campbell.
Better attention should be given to those
who are sick or injured and being sent to
a doctor while in Panama. A vote of
thanks to the steward department for a
job well done. Observed one minute of
silence in memory of our departed
brothers. Next port Baton Rouge, La.

PUERTO RICO (Puerto Rico
Marine), October 4—Chairman F.
Goethe; Secretary H. Ridgeway;
Educational Director J. Barry. No
disputed OT. Chairman suggested that
everyone read the Log and know what
your Union is doing for you. A vote of
thanks to the steward department for a
job well done.

BENJAMIN HARRISON (Water­
man Steamship), October 17—Chair­
man, Recertified Bosun Jimmy Garner;
Secretary Thomas Liles, Jr.; Educational
Director Charles Henley; Deck Delegate
Norman D. Gillikin; Engine Delegate
Daniel W. Clifford; Steward Delegate
Ronald R. Moore. Some disputed OT in
deck and steward departments. Secretary
reported that the crew list was mailed to
Headquarters from Jeddah. Also, that all
crewmembers should upgrade at Piney
Point. There are some forms available
also some forms for benefits. It was re­
ported that the jacks on the crane are very
dangerous. They don't work properly.
The storing of the crane is also unsafe. A
vote of thanks to the steward department
for a job well done. Observed one minute
of silence in memory of our departed
brothers and sisters.

Official ship's minutes were also re­
ceived from the following vesscts;

Ses-Land Liberator
Bay Ridge
Overseas Juneau
Houston
Dd Mundo
Aredbo
Del Viento
Btuinqpien
Bayamon
Montpdicr Victoiy
SM-Land Resource
Sea-Land Economy
Mt. Vernon Vktmy
Mount Washbigton
Sea-Land Pioneer
Del Campo
Sea-Land Maifcet
Ultnunar
Golden Monarch
Ogden Potomac
Cove Trader
Sea-Land Exchange
Overseas NataMe
Tamara Guflden
Point Julie
Svita Mercedes
Overseas Joyce
Sea-Land Commerce
Santa MagdUena
Smta Cruz •
Ihmscolorado
Overseas Aleutian
Ogdoi Ihivder
StonewaO Jadtson
Sea-Land Indepmdence
Newark
DdRio
Cove Tide
Sea-Land Omsumer
Delta Norte
Sea-Land Producer
Walter Rice
AguadiBa
Dd Viento
Santa Juana
Mayaguez
Sea-Land Pacer
Tanqn
Sugar Islander
Sea-Land Trade
Sea-Land Defender
Brooklyn
Sea-Land Express

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EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCIES DEALING
WITH MARITIME RELATED AFFAIRS

Continued from Page 6
State Dept.
International Boundary and Water Commission

U.S. and Mexico
Office of International Trade
Office of Fisheries Affairs
Office of Marine Science and Technology Affairs
Office of Oceans and Polar Affairs
National Security Council Interagency Group

for Law of the Sea
Office of Maritime Affairs
Transporation Dept. ^
Maritime Policy Advisor, Office of the Deputy Secretary
U.S. Coast Guard

Office of Marine Environment and Systems
Office of Merchant Marine Safety
Marine Safety Council

Research and Special Programs Administration
Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation
Treasury Dept.
U.S. Customs Service
Inter-American Development Bank
Internal Revenue Service
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Monetary Fund

Independent Agencies
Civil Aeronautics Board •
Environmental Protection Agency
Export-Import Bank of the United States ^
Federal Maritime Commission •
Federal Trade Commission
U.S. International Trade Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
National Aeronautics and Space Adminstration
National Labor Relations Board
National Transportation Board
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Office of Personnel Management
Panama Canal Commission
Small Business Administration
Water Resources Council
Federal Communications Commission ^
National Science Foundation ' "
Nuclear Regulatory Commission •
Delaware River Basin Commission
Susquehanna River Basin Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
International Development Cooperation Agency
Agency for International Development

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Cove Sailor Committee

Here's the Ship's Committee of the ST Coi^eSa/'/or (Cove Shipping) last month at
the Exxon Dock, Bayway, NJ, They are (front I. to r.) AB R. L. Cooper, deck
delegate; Chief Cook La' France Smith, steward delegate and Chief
Steward/Baker John Miller, secretary-reporter. In the back row (I. to r.) are
Recertified Bosun Jim Elwell, ship's chairman and Edward Henry, engine
delegate.

Santa Barbara Committee

SlU Rep Teddy Babkowski (seated 2nd r.) got a friendly welcome late last month
from (on his r.) Crew MesSman Julio Kotan at a payoff aboard the SS Santa
Barbara (Delta Line) at Port Newark. NJ The Ships Committee and
crewmembers are (seated I. to r.) Cook,-'Baker Jimmy Mann, steward delegate.
Wiper John McLain and 2nd Electrician Tim Stagg Standing (I. to r) are AB Luis
Morales, deck delegate: R(3certifled Bosun Stan Jandora. ship s chairman: Chief
Steward C. White, secretary-reporter and OS David Ace Aelick

THE TANKERMAN TEAM
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Welt trained Seafarers acc^ting
challenge ... To Be The Best!

To get the Job done!

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A skilled tankerman is necessary
to move liquid cargoes, maintain
pollution control and prepare the
vessel for CISCG inspection. Safety
and firefighting are also taught.

A tankerman course starts every 2 weeks

beginning Jan. 15; Jan. 29; Feb. 12.

December 1980 LOG 27

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Raymond Earnest Haulcomb, 52,
joined the Union in the port of
Mobile in 1956 sailing as a chief
engineer for Mobile Towing from

^ 1946 to 1980. Brother Haulcomb was
born in Flamington, Ala. and is a
resident of Mobile.

Joseph Holman Roberts, 63,
joined the SlU in 1946 in the port of
Baltimore sailing as a general ste­
ward utility. Brother Roberts was
born in North Carolina and is a
resident of Hackensaek, N.J.

Julio Indalicio Santiago, 63,
joined the SlU in 1941 in the port of
New York sailing as an AB. Brother
Santiago walked the picket lines in
both the N.Y. Harbor beef and the
1965 District Council 37 strike. He
was born in Puerto Rico and is a
resident of Catano, P.R.

Eugene William Repsch,62,joined
the Union in the port of Philadelphia
in 1960 sailing as a cook for McAllis­
ter Brothers from 1950 to 1980, P.F.
Martin & Co. from 1956 to 1968 and
Curtis Bay Towing Co. Brother
Repsch was a member of the Tile-
setters Union, Focal 1800 from 1946
to 1952. He was also a member of the-
NMU. Boatman Repsch is a veteran
of the U.S. Army in World War II.
Born in Minersville, Pa., he is a
resident of Philadelphia.

Charles Gordon Shaw, 62, joined
the Union in the port of Norfolk in
1967 sailing as a captain for McAllis­
ter Brothers from 1965 to 1980 and
for Moran Towing from 1962 to
1965. Brother Shaw sailed 39 years.
He was a former member of the
NMU Local 333. Boatman Shaw
was born in Richmond, Va. and is
a resident of Norfolk.

Raymond Joseph Kane, 73, joined
the Union in the port of Detroit in
1970 sailing as a cook. Brother Kane
also sailed during World War II. He
at one time cooked in a Russian-
American restaurant. Born in Lex;
ingt(^, Kyi, he is a resident of Mt.
Clemens, Mich.

EIrIck Harrison Horsman, 65,
joined the Union in the port of
Philadelphia in 1961 sailing as a
deckhand and captain for Curtis Bay
Towing from 1941 to 1980 and for
Red Star Towing from 1937 to 1941.
Brother Horsman was a former
member of the MM & P and the IBL
Union Local 1700. He was born in
Baltimore and is a resident of
Salisbury, Md.

Charles Francis McGovem, 65,
joined the Union in the port of New
York in 1960 sailing as a bridgeman
for the Brooklyn (N.Y.) Eastern
District Terminal from 1950 to 1960.
He was born in Jersey City, N.J. and
is a resident of Point Pleasant Boro,
N.J.

Eldred John Stark, 67, joined- the
Union in 1938 in the port of Pt.
Huron, Mich, sailing as an AB.
Brother Stark sailed 20 years and for
Kinsman Marine. He was born in
Marine City? Mich, and is a resident
of Algonac, Mich.

John Smith Parkin, 63, joined the
Union in the port of Norfolk in 1962
sailing as a pilot and mate for
McAllister Brothers from 1965 to
1980. Brother Parkin was born in

f Beaufort, N.C. and is a resident of
5 Deptford, N.J.

Frank Joseph Raleigh, 71, joined
the Union in the port of Philadelphia
in 1961 sailing as a captain for Cur­
tis Bay Towing from 1946 to 1980.
Brother Raleigh was a former
member of the MM & P and the
ILA. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy
in World War II. Boatman Raleigh
was born in Philadelphia and is a
resident of Yeadon, Pa.

Luke B. Scariano, 66, joined the
Union in the port of New Orleans in
1956 sailing as a deckhand and chief
engineer for Crescent Towing from
1951 to 1980. Brother Scariano was
bom in New Orleans and is a resident
there.

John Miller Retiring After Wild and Wooly Sea Career

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Anyone who thinks that Amer­
ica's merchant marine isn't this
nation's 4th Arm of Defense, just
ask SIU steward/baker John
Miller.

He'll open a drawer in his
foc'sle and proudly pull out his
U.S. Maritime Service Bars from
three wars.

He has service bars from
World War II from three theaters
of war, the Atlantic, the Mediter­
ranean and the Middle East.

He also has service bars'from
the Korean and Vietnam con­
flicts. A twist to Brother Miller's
sea history is that he also spent
time in the Army during the
iCorean War as a paratrooper. He

I PertmuOs 1

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James Mulcahy

Please get in touch with Angelo
Liquori, Seafarers Accounting. You
have a $50 hahy hond waiting to he sent
out to you. But the Union does not
know where to send it since you have
moved and failed to give a forwarding
address. You can write the Union, 675-
4th Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. II232, or call
212-499^6600.

Walter George Kaulhack

Your family requests that you call
home on an urgent matter. The
telephone number is: 804-543-4377.

k

28 / LOG / December 1980

was captured by the enemy and
tortured by having part of a
finger cut off. He spent 18
months as a POW.

But Seafarer John Miller has
come through it all in fine shape.
Presently, he's sailing aboard the
Cove Sailor. But on Jan. 4, 1981,
when he turns 55, Brother Miller
is going to call it a day and take a
well deserved Early Normal
Retirement.

M iller's first trip was as a wiper
on the Liberty ship John W. Hoyt
in 1943. And the run? You guess­
ed it! Murmansk. His ship never
made it through. It was tor­
pedoed, but Miller made it
through in one piece. .

As he looks forward to retire­
ment, Brother Miller has no
regrets. He will be kept more than
busy running a small import-
export business in Clearwater,
Fla. with his wife, Jean.

Miller, who ships primarily out
of Tampa, is well known in the
Gulf as a strong union man ready
to step forward for any cause of
the SIU.

One more thing; he's a damn
good cook and well liked by all
his shipmates.

People like John Miller make
the SIU what it is today, a strong,
growing, colorful union.

Here's our best to Seafarer smooth sailing and good-luck
John Miller, We wish him the years ahead.

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Steward/Baker John Miller, donning his trademark of chefs hat and neckorohiof.
shows off his Merchant Marine Service bars representing action in throe wars for

,the American merchant marine.
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Algonac

The
Lakes

Picture
SlU-contrarted American Steamship Co has scheH.,i<.H 11 u- .

the winternavigation season this year Thevarethl / ships for
Clair, H. Lee White. Sam Laud BuffalJ ^ f^^rbor. St.
Mariner. Roger M. Kyes. Belle River Adam^'^E r^^'f
Detroit Edison. Cornelius and the

slated for a winter run and Huron Cement will (Litton) is
carriers. That brings the number of SITI r- ""I or two cement
expected to participate in winter navieatin" vessels

The reason' for th'e un^"c^n
SIU Algonac port agent Jack Bluitt is that "bu.inl l shipping, says
picked up. There's a big demand fo^ o"
stockpiles. • "Mostly to replenish

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earliest o.L„g da,.TnX ?"sUO~

0.h^«. '^°~on Clubs, among

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and...critical habitats " ^ ^ ^ grounds

ship traffic. brought on by icebreaking and
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Day'j;e"BMtTi;,oojrt^7^ 7'" " n ° ""
lost his Con Jill ^ ^ Democrat, Rep. Robert M. Carr

aaid, "Carr vited ^;™7^;^J''"<^"«»' °«'^"'"a«twoyears,-Blui„

forme'? MM77emblvman' the, election of
14th C D wi?? ??. 7 P°""" f™" Michigan's _in f^.u. with the strong backing of the Union.

Frankfort

bo7h7rm.tXt^Th1 a^'TM-r ̂ "e
about a week Z tht m?u™ ̂ o^m^^Sr H
She s being readied for use should the voIurJl 7K inspection,
of a third carferiy. volume of business demand the use

Chicago

ribbon-cutting ceremonv Thio 'locked at the terminal for the
servicing visit. ceremony. Chicago port agent Joe Sigler paid her a

Octrcrft

went down with all ha^s^fn Lake^^lD? ^mund Fitzgerald v/hich
with ceremonies herl ^975, was marked

wr?a'L°'td''t^!7e"Mrnt?'S^^^ »'«> ™4morial
sanctuary bell was tolled 29 times on?? f" 77" "ic
crewmen. f"' ^''l' »f <hc Fitzgerald's

Chm?h'''Ws'l7???^St\rag^'7'tto^ Mariners
of what the Great Lakes are amf th? n • '' " recognition Lakes are and the personnel who work them" he said.

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quSLntal!?.ta'??tmh''tLTrr^ »
the carfeny collided with the dock at St IgI,Me"'Mch°Th""®^
injuries to the SIU crew but the rA/a,A„o " There were no
and she's stiU thete ">» aWpyard for repaits

Now the state is pondering her future Thf»ir'ro ^ • j •
her to diesel. They're also considerin« " • ^ considermg converting
^-.plac7oftheCi???rh=3r^^^

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1st Pension Check for Deloatch

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fsj Pensio^Seck /7fS?P"D^'oatch when he picked up his
fceived his check I" of Jacksonville, Fla. Brother Deloatch. left,
Icoatch 'srnooth JlS B°"ser. We all wish Brother 'luoin saiim in his retirement years.

Testiag, tMtiiig...

com???; trb^UTlatomyo^ l""rt an Ohio
pro^am' next ycTrL
testing a fuel made from finelv prmmH i ° Canton, will be
fuel oil. Severaldiffer»Tooal ?ifr?^ in heavy marine
one is actuaUy used on a Great Lake7e" v«s'd ThZ '7°'"^
part of an on-going studv to determine K 1 T Costing program is
affect the Perf.frmaL"tV:ptS

Coal Futures

and^LS^fn mttrgfe" XuSsTf ""'7^"
coal deposits is expected to become a ma' States, with abundant
pr^ueing chough ?or b1t?°d« 7,3

June, President Carter and ,?rCe?s o7 ,tr 7™'^
Kingdom, Canada, Germany and Japan agreed tL nT®' the United
"chief producer and exnnrtfr rsf i <• would be the

size can really begin program of major

Lakes. The port of Erie Pa now hac Q f ® Great

".ri-Tra Shortly. The plan calls for construction nf ! 7 J" ® released

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December 1980 / LOG / 29

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Boat People, Saved, Clothed, Fed By SIU Crew
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WHEN Christmas time
nears, the spirit of brother­

hood is supposed to be rein­
forced. But the crew of the SIU-
contracted Transcolorado
(Hudson Waterways) didn't need
the spirit of Christmas last
August to practice brotherhood
of the sea.

It was on the morning of Aug.
11 when the crew of the Trans­
colorado spotted a 40-foot boat
drifting in the choppy and rain-
beaten waters of the South China
Sea. On board were 67 Viet­
namese refugees.

A full story on the incident ran
in the September issue of the Log.
But last month the Log received
photos of the refugees from
Seafarer Phillip Livingston, cook
and baker on the ship, and we
decided to recap the story to go
along with some of the pictures.

A heavy squall was in progress
when.the refugees' boat was seen
about 50 yards from the ship. The
Transcolorado, which is chart­

ered by the Military Sealift
Command, was on her way from
the island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean to the U.S. Naval
Station at Subic Bay in the
Philippines.

According to SIU Bosun
Victor Ardowski, a pilot ladder
was used to bring the stronger
refugees on board while a
stretcher was used for the
children, babies, and those who
were sick.

On the night of the rescue,
Ardowski reported, a Special
Meeting was called at which the
SIU brothers took up a voluntary
collection to help the boat
people.

The contributions were used to
buy items for the refugees from
the ship's Slop Chest, such as,
toothbrushes, toothpaste,
combs, candies, gum, cigarettes,
and some Tee shirts.

The 67 refugees taken aboard
the Transcolorado had been at
sea three days, a relatively short
time compared to the length of

time some boat people spend on
the water.

Although they were in good
physical condition, the captain of

the ship said the refugees "looked
utterly bedraggled and fatigued
when they were picked up, but
were very well behaved."

One little tellow salutes tor the camera in this photo aboard the Transcolorado
(Hudson Waterways) with some of the refugees and Seafarer Adolph Lamonthe,
pantryman (seated)..

Photos taken by Seafarer Phillip Livingston.

A young Vietnamese refugee appropriately displays a bar of Lifebuoy soap
aboard the ship that became the "lifebuoy" to him and 66 of his countrymen.

Though some of the clothes they got on board ship may not fit just right, the
refugees-shown here two days after their rescue-don't seem to mind one bit.

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR UNION

DONT
GET

TANGLED
UP

WITH
DRUGS

IF
CAUGHT
YOU LO$e

YOUR
RAPER$

FOR
LIFE/

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Timothy Ray Van Pelt

Seafarer Tim­
othy Ray Van
Pelt, 22, in 1978
graduated from
HLS. He now
sails as an
FOWT. Brother
Van Pelt up-

I graded to
FOWT in Piney

Point, Md. in 1979. He is a holder of
the lifeboat, firefighting, LNG and
CPR tickets. Van Pelt lives in
Baltimore and ships out of that port
and the port of New York.

Norman Bull

Seafarer Nor­
man Bull, 23,
graduated from
the HLS Trainee
Program in 1978.
Brother Bull up­
graded to AB
there this year.
He has the life­
boat, firefighting

I CPR endorsements. Bull ships
from the port of New York.

Michael Woods

Seafarer
Michael Woods,
27, is a HLS
Trainee Pro­
gram graduate.
He upgraded to
FOWT there in
1977. Brother
Woods earned
the firefighting,

lifeboat and CPR tickets. Mike lives
in Chevy Chase, Md. and ships out
of the port of Baltimore.

Jaime L. Quinones

Seafarer
Jaime L. Qui­
nones, 29, grad­
uated from the
Lundeberg
School in 1973.
He now sails as a
cook and baker.
Brother Qui­
nones holds the

lifeboat, firefighting and CPR
endorsements. Seafarer Quinones
was born in Ponce, P.R. and is a
resident there. He ships out of the
port of New York. •

John R. Picciolo

Seafarer John
R. Picciolo, 24,

) graduated from
the , HLSS in
1973. He sails as
an AB, a rating
which he earned
this year. He also
earned the CPR,
firefighting and

lifeboat endorsements. He was born
in Miami. Brother Picciolo attended
college studying for a B.S. in
Business Law. Seafarer Picciolo is a
former member of the Musicians
Union. He says he recently wrote a
leather-bound book, entitled "Emo­
tional Access*' ready for New York
publication next year. He lives in
Miami Beach, Fla. Picciolo ships
out from all ports.

Gregory A. Peer

Seafarer
Gregory A. Poer,
23, graduated
from the HLSS
in 1978. He up­
graded to AB
there this year.
Brother Poer
also sails as a
tankerman in the

inland field. He holds the lifeboat,
firefighting, LNG and CPR tickets.
Poer lives in Lynnwood, Wash, and
ships out of the port of Seattle.

Stanley Vane

Seafarer Stan­
ley Vane, 22,
graduated from
the Lundeberg
School in 1978.
Brother Vane up­
graded to FOWT
there in 1979. He
has the lifeboat,
firefighting and

CPR schooling. Born in the port of
Baltimore, he ships out of that port.

Jesse J. Thrasher

Seafarer Jesse
J. Thrasher sails
as a chief stew­
ard. a rating
he upgraded to in
1978. Brother
Thrasher holds
the CPR, LNG.
lifeboat and fire-

' • fighting tickets.
He ships out of the port of Seattle.

Pierce J. Porter

Seafarer
Pierce J. Porter,
56. sails as a
FOWT since he
upgraded to that
rating at the
Lundeberg
School in 1978.
Brother Porter
has the firefight­

ing. lifeboat and CPR tickets. He
ships out of the port of Norlolk.

Jeffrey A. Peltz
Seafarer Jef­

frey A. Peltz,
26, graduated
from the HLS
Entry Trainee
Program in 1975.
Brother Peltz
upgraded to fire-
man-watertender
therein 1977 and

got LNG training in 1978. He earned
the firefighting, lifeboat and CPR
endorsements. Peltz says he's "wait­
ing to get into the next available
QMED class." He lives in Massa-

pequa, N.Y. and ships out of the
port of New York.

Michael Tewes

,Seafarer
Michael Tewes,
24, is a 1978
graduate of the
Harry Lunde­
berg School of
Seamanship
(HLSS) Entry
Trainee Pro-

• gram, Piney
Point, Md. Brother Tewes upgraded
to AB there the same year. He has
the cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
(CPR), firefighting and lifeboat
tickets. And he is a veteran of the
U.S. Navy. Tewes lives in Brooklyn,
N.Y. and ships out of the port of
New York.

Notice On Job Coil Procedure (inland)
When throwing in for work

during a Job call at any SiU
Hiring Hail, boatmen must
produce the following:

• membership certificate
(where possessed)

• registration card '

• clinic card
• seaman's papers

INLAND

...AND MAKE MONEY. The cargo doesn't move
without the skill and say-so of the Chief Pump­
man. ffe's top man. So he earns top dollar for his
skills.

Get those skills
Get your Chief Pumpman endorsement

Take the Pumproom Maintenance and Operations
course at SHLSS. It starts Feb. 16 and continues
through Mar. 26.
To enroll, see your SIU Representative or contact
SHLSS.

December 1980 / LOGi 31



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Larry Dockwiller Bill Wroten Donald Ga Nung Willie Wilson Bud LeClaIr Henry B. Donnelly

Floyd Mitchell, Jr. Rudy DeBolsslere Ronald Fluker Bob Scarsborough Junior Hughes Andrew Reasko

12 More Complete Steward Reoert Program
-ri^„ *OX lI-»_ xr il . . . .. The recent Steward Recerti-

fication Class ended on an
upbeat note, with the mem­
bers of the graduating class
receiving their certificates at
the monthly membership

they had obtained from taking
the Program to help their
fellow shipmates.

The Stewards were involved
in vigorous two month intern-iii^iiiuc;i oi 11 u ^

meeting at the Headquarters ® divided their time
Building in New York City. between the Seafarers Harry

Upon receiving their dipio- Lundeberg School of Sea-
mas, a number of Stewards "Tranship and Headquarters.

pledged to use the knowledge Among other things, the

Stewards studied the various
benefit plans available to
members of this union. When
they go back to their ships,
they will be able to rustle up
plenty of know-how with their
usual quota of fine meals.

The Stewards were also
exposed to the union's Wash­
ington operations in a one day
visit to the nation's Capitol.

During their visit to Wash­
ington D.C., the Stewards
visited the Transportation
Institute, a non-profit organi­
zation aimed at promoting
maritime research and devel­
opment, and the AFL-CIO
Maritime Trades Department,
where they \yere given an in-
depth briefing on the SlU's
legislative activities.

Help Your Brother Down the Road to Sobriety
Seeing a blind man walk down a street makes the rest of us thankful

for our sight. Perfect strangers, as well as friends, don't hesitate to offer a guiding
arm to the blind because we all think it must he a terrible thing to he unable to see
where you're going.

An alcoholic can't see where he's going either, only alcoholics
don't have friends. Because a friend wouldn't let another man blindly travel a
course that has to lead to the destruction of his health, his job and his family.
And that's where an alcoholic is headed.

Helping a fellow Seafarer who has a drinking problem is just
as easy—and just as important—as steering a blind man across a street. AH
you have to do is take that Seafarer by the arm and guide him to the Union's
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center in Valley Lee, Md.

Once he's there, an alcoholic SIU member will receive the care and cohnseling^^
he needs. And hell get the support of brother SIU members who are Fighting ijj

•the same tough battle he is hack to a healthy, productive alcohol-free life.
The road hack to sobriety is a long one for an alcoholic. But because of

ARC, an alcoholic SIU member doesn't have to travel the distance alone.
And by guiding a brother Seafarer in the direction of the Rehab Center,
you II be showing him that the first step back to recovery is only an
arm's length away.

I
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center

I am interested in attending a six-week program at the Alcoholic
Rehabilitation Center. I understand that all my medical and counseling
records will be kept strictly confidential, and that they will not be kept
anywhere except at The Center.

Name Book No.

I
I
I Address
I
I

(Street or RFD) (City) (State) (Zip)

Telephone No
Mail to: THE CENTER

Star Route Box 153-A
VaUey Lee, Md. 20692

or call, 24 hours-a-day, (301) 994-0010

W:
32 / LOG / December r980



Seafarers Pluck 17 Off Stricken Panamanian Ship
S-L Patriot Crew Keys
At'Sea Pacific Rescue

ITs not just good seafaring
skills that make American

seamen the best in the world. It's
also the fact that U.S. merchant
mariners are ready and willing to
offer assistance to those aboard
distressed vessels any time,
anywhere.

A recent case-in-point was the
role the SlU-contracted Sea-
Land Patriot played last month
in the at-sea rescue of 17 crewmen
from a foreijgn-flag break
bulk/container vessel.

Mid-morning on Nov. 13, the
Patriot's master, Gapt. David R.
Patterson, received a message
from Coast Guard headquarters
in Honolulu that the Panaman­
ian-flag ship Sunshine Island was
without power in rough seas.

The Patriot was en-route to
Yokohama, about 1500 miles
east of Japan when they received
the distress call. The Sunshine
Island was without power some
237 miles west of the Patriot's
position.

When they arrived at the
Sunshine Island's location, the
crew of the Patriot learned that a
fire in the Panamanian vessel's

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Part of the SlU crew aboard the Patriot
to pass lines to the. Sunshine Island, in
engineroom had caused the
power failure. The crew of the
foreign flag ship was without
food and other vital supplies and
the Sunshine Island's lifeboats
were inoperable.

Hampered by stormy weather,
the Sea-Land Patriot accom­
plished the rescue operation as
efficiently as possible. Crewmen
from the Patriot passed a line to
the disabled Sunshine Island and
hauled 17 of that vessel's crew to

as they prepared
background. vessel,
safety aboard the Sea-Land
containership.
, Food, batteries and other
supplies were then passed via
liferaft from the Patriot to the
crewmen who were remaining
aboard the Sunshine Island uniW
a tug, dispatched from Osaka,
Japan, arrived to tow them in.

Bygone o'clock that afternoon

Photos by Seafarer Emlllo V. Sierra

the Sea-Land Patriot had
completed the rescue and was
once more en-route to Yoko­
hama. She arrived on schedule
Nov. 17.

Hats off to the SlU crew and
the officers of the Sea-Land
Patriot for acting in the finest
tradition of the Union and the
U.S. merchant marine.

2 Stowaways Arrested on S-L Resource

The Sea-Land Patriot was enroute to Yokohama when she learned the
ranamanlan Sunshine Island (above) was in trouble and needed help;

British police cornered two stow­
aways on the SlU-manned Sea-
Land Resource after several hours
of a hide-and-seek search through­
out the ship.

One of the stowaways was armed
with a rifle, but the two gave up
without a shot being fired when it-
was inevitable that they could not
escape.

The stowaways were discovered
by one of the Resource's crew
members as he inspected the ship's
cargo of containers. The stowaways
had apparently set up camp with
food and bedding in one of the
containers.

The crewmembcr notified the

captain of the unwanted guests as
the ship was enroute from Bremer-
haven to New York in the English
Channel. The captain notified the
British Coast Guard which in­
structed the vessel to be brought
into Berry Head where she would be

^boarded by police and immigration
officials.

The cat-and-mouse chase took
place with the stowaways scurrying
among the maze of containers below
deck..The cops finally cornered the
duo who were promptly arrested.

One of the stowaways .said he was
Swiss while it was believed that the
other was on the run from the
Foreign Legion.

S'L Voyager, New D-9, Working Far East Run
"Voyager" is the name of the All of the vessels have been

unmanned spacecraft that re- christened and many of them,
.centlyjourneyed millions of miles like the Sea-Land Voyager, are
to the planet Saturn and beyond. already in operation. The ships

A new SlU-contracted ship— should all be crewed within the
though she'll be bound to this next few months,
planet Earth—is also named The building of these 12 vessels
Voyager." It's an appropriate represents the largest single

•appellation, since the Sea-Land
(Sea-Land Service, Inc.)

will hopefully be traveling over
thousands of miles of ocean
propelled by her fuel efficient
diesel engines.

She's one of 12 new D-9 class
diesel-powered containerships to
he built this year by the company
and to be manned by Seafarers.

containership construction pro­
gram ever to be undertaken by a
private carrier.

The Sea-Land Voyager, like
her sisterships, weighs 23,424
DWT and can handle five times
the cargo volume of a C-1. Yet
she does it with far greater
efficiency and travels one-third
faster.

Each of the new D-9 class
containerships operates at a
service speed of 22 knots. The
vessels can make a round trip run
between the U.S. West Coast and
Asia without refueling. They are
expected to provide a 35 percent
improvement in fuel efficiency
over steam turbine vessels of
comparable size and speed.

According to the company,
these diesel ships can also burn a
wider variety of fuels, including
the least expensive ones.

Like her 11 sisterships, the Sea-
Land Voyager can carry both 35-
ft. and 40-ff. containers. The 745-

,ft. ships have an 839-container
capacity with 165 slots allocated
for refrigerated cargoes and 34
for bulk liquid tanks.

The Sea-Land Voyager was
built at the Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries shipyard in Kobe,
Japan as were two other D-9's.
Four of the ships were con­
structed by Mitsubishi at their
yard in Nagasaki, Japan. Three
of the containerships were con­
structed at the Mitsui Engineer­
ing and Shipbuilding Co. yard in
Tamano, Japan, and two were
built at the Hyundai Industries
Co. shipyard in Ulsan, Korea.

December 1980 / LOG / 33

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crewmen to the Patriot and supplies back to the foreign-flag

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Cops Cite Seafarer for Saving 2-Year Old
There's a two-year old girl in

Sacramento who will grow up to
be a healthy, and hopefully
happy, young lady thanks to the
heroic efforts of Seafarer Joseph
English.

English saved young Christine
Keller with mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation after she was hit by
a car while playing in a toy
wagon.

The 59-year old Seafarer wit­
nessed the incident and rushed
to the girl's aid. When he reached
her, she was unconscious and

Deposit in the SIU

jL^Biood Bank-

It's Your Life

didn't appear to be breathing
regularly. So Brother English
used mouth-to-mouth resuscita­
tion to restore regular breathing
until the ambulance arrived to
take over.

Brother English's heroism and
quick action did not go un­
noticed. About a month after the
incident, he was presented with a
Citation for his lifesaving efforts
by the Sacramento Police De­
partment.

Attending the ceremony, feel­
ing fine and frisky, was two-
year old Christine Keller with her
mom.

Brother English, who said it
was the first time he ever had to
use mouth-to-mouth resuscita­
tion, stated emotionally that little
Christine "is now a part of my
life."

Our hats are off to Seafarer

Joseph English for displaying a
cool head and deep concern for
his fellow man when it counted
most—when a little girl's life was
on the line.

USPHS Has 24-Hour
Toll Free Number

Seamen and boatmen can use a
toll free number 24 bours a day to
locate the nearest Public Health
Service hospital outpatient clinic,
contract physician, or emergency
health services. The service is
provided from the Nassau Bay,
Tex. PHS hospital.

Anywhere outside of Texas,
the number is 800-231-SHIP.
From inside Texas, the number is
800-392-SHIP. Also, the Tele­
phone Company requires that
when you call long distance you
first dial the number 1.

Dispatchers Report for Inland Waters
OCT. 1-31,1980 •TOTAL REGISTERED

All Groups
Class A Class B Class C

Port

Boston — i
New York t
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk....
Tampa
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco..
Wilmington
Seattle «...
Puerto Rico —
Houston
Port Arthur
Algonac ..................................
St. Louis
Piney Point
Paducah
Totals ....................................

Port

TOTAL SHIPPED
All Groups

Class A Class B Class C

DECK DEPARTMENT

••REGISTERED ON BEACH
All Groups

Class A Class B Class C

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
3 7 1 0 0 0 12 12 3
0 . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 1 4 2 1 3 5 4 3
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
1 3 4 1 5 6 1 7 16
0 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 2 2 1 1 0 4 7 7
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 5
8 4 4 1 1 0 12 8 11
20 2 4 19 4 1 38 , 6 11
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 2 5 0 1 3 4 . 5 10
0 10 0 0 9 0 0 1 0
3 0 20 0 0 5 , 13 - 7 116
44 31 44 25 22 18 92 60 184

ENGINE DEPARTMENT

Boston
New York ;
Philadelphia
Baltimore —
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile ...
New Orleans
Jacksonville '.
San Francisco
Wilmington
Seattle ....^ —
Puerto Rico ;
Houston
Port Arthur
Algonac ...
St. Louis
Piney Point
Paducah
Totals

Port

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore—
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile I....... —
New Orleans
Jacksonville •
San Francisco
Wilmington —
Seattle ..'
Puerto Rico —
Houston
Port Arthur. .....; ....
Algonac
St. Louis
Piney Point — ...•
Paducah ". — ..•
Totals •

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0' 1 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 0 0
1 0 2 1 0 2 . 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 a 2
0 0 0 0_ 0 0 . 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 0 0 1 0 3 1 1
0 0 0. 2 0 0 3 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 2 4 3 1 2 9 2 6

STEWARD DEPARTMENT

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ,0 0
0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0
I 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 .0 0-^ 0 0 0 0
1 0 0 0 0 0 1 D 1
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 3
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 0 3 0 0 0 2 0 15
7 2 10 1 3 2 11 1 21

?3 35 58 29 26 22 112 63 211 Totals All Departments

•"Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month.
••"Registered on the Beach" means the total number of men registered at the port at the end of last month.

34 •/ LOG / December 1980 • ' • ;. • .'-y-

Legal Aid
In the event that any SIU members

have legal problems in the various
jjorts, a list of attorneys whom they can
consult is being published. The mem­
ber need not choose the recommended
attorneys and this list is intended only
for informational purposes:

NEW YORK, N.Y.
Schulman & Abarbanel
350 Fifth Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10118
Tele. #(212) 279-9200

BALTIMORE, MD.
Kaptan, Heyman, Greenberg,
Cngelman & Belgrad
Sun Life Building
Charles & Redwood Streets
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Tele. #(301) 539-6967

HOUSTON, TEX.
Archer «Sc Peterson
Americana Building
811 Dallas Street
Houston, Texas 77002
Tele. #(713) 659-4455

TAMPA, FLA.
Hamilton & Douglas, P.A.
2620 W. Kennedy Blvd.
Tampa, Florida 33609
Tele. #(813)'879-9482

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
John Paul Jennings, Henning,
Walsh & Ritchie
100 Bush Street, Suite 440
San Francisco, California 94104
Tele. #(415) 981-4400

Philip Weltin, Esq.
Weltin & Van Dam
No. 1 Ecker Bid.
San Francisco, Calif. 94105
Tele.#(415) 777-4500

ST. LOUIS, MO.
Gruenberg & Sounders
721 Olive Street
St. Louis, Missouri 63101
Tele. #(314) 231-7440

NEW ORLEANS, LA.
Barker, Boudreaux, Lamy,
Gardner & Foley
1400 Richards Building
837 Gravier Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70112
Tele. #(504) 586-9395

LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
Fogel, Julber, Reinhardt &
Rothschild
5900 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, California 90036
Tele. #(213) 937-6250

MOBILE, ALA.
Simon & Wood
1010 Van Antwerp Building
Mobile, Alabama 36602
Tele. #(205) 433-4904

DETROIT, MICH.
Victor G. Hanson
19268 Grand River Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48822
Tele. #(313) 532-1220

GLOUCESTER, MASS.
Orlando & White
Two Main Street
Gloucester, Ma.ssachusetts 01930
Tele. #(617) 283-8100

SEATTLE, WASH.
Vance, Davies, Roberts,
Reid & Anderson
100 West Harrison Pla/a
Seattle, Washington 98119

. Tele. #(206).285-3610
CHICAGO, ILI..

Katz & Friedman
7 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
Tele. #(312) 263-63.30

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SIU Tug Enterprise Makes Living in Gulf Oil Trade ..L'.'/I

The tugboat Enterprise (lOT)
and her crew of SIU boatmen
were seen in Port Everglades,
Florida on one of their frequent
stops in the area. They were in

port awaiting a load of oil for facilitate towing. Needless to say,
their huge tow, the barge Ocean the Enterprise tows a shipload of
262. The barge is actually the oil.
forward end of an old T-2 tanker Regular stops on the Gulf run
which was cut off and modified to for the Enterprise, besides Port

goula and Gulfport, Miss. The
vessel is part of IOT*s deep-
seagoing Mariner fleet.

^ ' fli •

Aboard the lOT tug Enterprise at Port
Everglades, Fla., is tug Captain Joseph
W. Berryman.

Whipping up a chicken dinner in the
Enterprise's galley is cook Joe "Pete"
Pietras.

Catching some Florida sun as he does
some painting on the Enterprise's deck
is AB Bob Tyler.

Pretty as a picture. lOT's tug Enter­
prise. snapped dockside in Port Ever­
glades. Fla.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SlU

Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District makes
specific provision for safeguarding the membership's
money and Union finances. The constitution requires a
detailed audit by Certified Public Accountants every three
months, which are to be submitted to the membership by
the Secretary-Treasurer. A quarterly finance committee
of rank and file members, elected by the membership,
makes examination each quarter of the finances of the
Union and reports fully their findings and recommenda­
tions. Members of this committee may make dissenting
reports, specific recommendations and separate findings.

TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic,
Gull. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered
in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund
agreements. All these agreements specify that the trustees
in charge of these funds shall equally consist of Union
and management representatives and their alternates. All
expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made
only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust
fund financial records are available at the headquarters of
the various trust funds.

SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and senior­
ity are protected exclusively by the contracts between the
Union and the employers. Get to know your shipping
rights. Copies of these contracts arc posted and available
in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation
of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the
contracts between the Union and the employers, notify
the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return re­
ceipt requested. The proper address for this is:

Angus "Red" Campbell
Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board "

275 - 20th Street, Bropklyn, N.Y. II2I5

Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to
you at all times, cither by writing directly to the Union
or to the Seafarers Appeals Board.

LONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are avail-
i'hlc in all SIU halls. The.se contracts specify the wages
and conditions under which you work and live aboard
your ship oi boat. Know your contract rights, as well as
your obligations, such as filing for O'l" on the proper
''bcjis and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any SIU

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS

patrolman or other Union olficial, in your opinion, fails
to protect your contract rights properly, contact the
nearest SIU port agent.

EDITORIAL POLICY —THE LOG. The Log has
traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving
the political purposes of any individual in the Union,
olficer or member. It has also refrained from publishing
articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective
membership. This established policy has beer, reaffirmed
by membership action at the September, 1960. meetings
in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for Log
policy is vested in an editorial board which consists of
the Executive Board of the Union. The Executive Board
may delegate. Irom among its ranks, one individual to
carry out this responsibility.

PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid
to anyone in any olVicial capacity in the SIU unless an
otlicial Union receipt is given for same. Under no circum­
stances should any member pay any money for any reason
unless he is given such receipt. In the event anyone
attempts to require any such payment be made without
supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a
payment and is given an olficial receipt, but feels,that he
should not have been required to make such payment, this
should immediately be reported to Union headquarters.

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGA­

TIONS. Copies of the SIU constitution are available in
all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this
constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its con­
tents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempt­
ing to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation
by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc.,
as well as all other details, then the member so aflfected
should immediately notify headquarters.

EQUAL RIGHTS. All members are guaranteed equal
rights in employment and as members of the SjU. These
rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution and in
the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the
employers. Consequently, no member may be discrimi­
nated against because of race, creed, color, sex and na­
tional or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is
denied the equal rights to which he is entitled, he should
notify Union headquarters.

SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION
—SPAD. SPAD is a separate segregated fund. Its pro­
ceeds are used to further its objects and purposes includ­
ing, but not limited to, furthering the political, social and
economic interests of maritime workers, the preservation
and furthering of the American Merchant Marine with
improved employment opportunities for seamen and
boatmen and the advancement of trade union concepts.
In connection with such objects, SPAD supports and
contributes to political candidates for elective office. AH
contributions arc voluntary. No contribution may be
solicited or received because of force, job discrimination,
financial reprisal, or threat of such conduct, or as a con­
dition of membership in the Union or of employment. If
a contribution is made by reason of the above improper
conduct, notify the Seafarers Union or SPAD by certified
mail within 30 days of the contribution for investigation
and appropriate action and refund, if involuntary. Sup­
port SPAD to protect and further your economic, poli­
tical and social interests, and American trade union
concepts.

if at any time a member feels that any of the above rights
have been violated, qr that he has been denied his
constitutional right of access to Union records or infor­
mation, he should immediately notify SIU President Frank
Drozak at Headquarters by certified mail, return receipt
requested. The address is 675 - 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
11232.

December 1980 I LOG / 35

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Pension e r
Edelmiro "Ed"
Albarran, 63, died
of natural causes
in the USPHS
Hospital, Staten
Is., N.Y. on Aug.
23. Brother Al­
barran joined the
port of Baltimore

sailing in the steward department for
Sea-Land and Puerto Rico Marine. He
hit the bricks in the 1961 Greater N.Y.
Harbor beef and the 1965 District
Council 37 strike. Seafarer Albarran
was born in Yauco, Ponce, P.R. and was
a resident of the Bronx, N.Y. Burial was
in St. Raymond Cemetery, the Bronx.
Surviving are his widow, Angelita; his
mother, Mrs. Maria Morela and two
sisters, Aida and Julia Morel.

Pensioner
Osvaldo Rivera
Delgado, 74, .died
of hepatitus in the
Fernandez Me­
morial Hospital,
Bayamon, P.R. on
Aug. 18. Brother
Delgado joined

the SlU in 1947 in the port of New York
sailing as a FOWT. He was born in
Mayaguez, P.R. and waS a resident of
Bayamon. Surviving are his widow,
Alicia; a son, Ferderick and two
daughters, Ruth and Maria.

Francis "Frank"
Winthrop Draper
Jr. Ill, 28, died on
Sept. 12. Brother
Draper joined the
Union in the port
of St. Louis in 1979
sailing both inland

I and deep sea as a
chief engineer and chief electrician on
the Tug Adventurer (Crowley Marine)
for Hydro of Delaware and for Sea-
Land. He was a veteran of the U.S. Air
Forces. Seafarer and Boatman Draper
was born in Washington, D.C. and was
a resident of Jacksonville. Surviving are
his widow and his father, Frank of
Jacksonville;

Harry Leonard
Oakes, 56, suc­
cumbed to heart
disease at home in
New Orleans on
May 1. Brother
Oakes joined the
SlU in the port of
Baltimore in 1955

sailing as a FOWT for the Delta Line.
He was born in Haverhill, Mass.
Seafarer Oakes was also a member of
the SUP. Interment was in Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans. Surviving are
his widow, Betty of San Francisco; three
sons. Seafarer Frank Oakes, David and
Mark of Chesapeake, Va.; a daughter,
Jane; his mother, Ethel of San Pedro,
Calif, and two sisters, Camile of
Lawrence, Mass. and Mrs. Wilma
Johnson of Jacksonville.

36 / LOG / December 1980

James Walter
Sumpter Jr., 53,
died of heart-lung
failure in the New
Orleans USPHS
Hospital on Aug.
15. Brother Sump­
ter joined the SlU
in 1945 in the port

of New Orleans sailing as a cook and
chief steward for the Waterman Steam­
ship Co. and the Delta Line. He was on
the Delta Shoregang from 1975 to 1980.
Seafarer Sumpter was a veteran of the
U.S. Army in the Korean War. Born in
Kokomo, Ind., he was a resident of
Metairie, La. Cremation took place in
the St. John Crematory, New Orleans.
Surviving are his widow, Helen Yvonne;
three sons, Michael, Van Vlaenderen of
New Orleans and James Jr.; four
daughters, Catherine, Barbara Jean of
New Orleans, Mrs. Margaret Anii
Hirstuius of Metairie and Deborah
Louise.

Albert Ray­
mond Kennedy,
28, died in Slidell,
La. on June 29.
Brother' Kennedy

I joined the SIU in
1969 following his

I graduation from
the HLS, Piney

Point, Md. He sailed as an AB and
QMED. Seafarer Kennedy upgraded in
1971. Bom in Bogulusa, La., he was a
resident of Pearl River, La. Burial was
in Evans Creek Cemetery, Pearl River.
Surviving are his widow, Denise; a son,
Albert Jr.; a daughter, Brandie; his
father, Luther of Pearl River; a brother,
Alvin and a sister, Rosa, both of Slidell.

Hector Rene
Rosado, 29, died
of pneumonia in
the Nasisau County
Medical Center,
East Meadow,
L.L, N.Y. on Aug.
5. Brother Ro-

I sado joined the
SIU in the port of New York in 1967
sailing as an AB for Sea-Land, Puerto
Rico Marine and Dixie Carriers. He
graduated from the HLS in 1966.
Seafarer Ro^do was a Vietnam War
veteran of the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry
Div., Co. E and holder of the Bronze
Star and Air Medals. A native of
Mayaguez, P.R., he was a resident of
Sayville, L.L, N.Y. Interment was in
Guanica Municipal Cemetery, Guay-
anilla, P.R. Surviving are his widow,
Gricel; a son. Hector Jr. and his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Guillermo and Olga
Rosado of Guayanilla.

P e n s i on e r
Paul Kronbergs,
74, succumbed to
pneumonia in St.
Mary's Hospital,
Hoboken, N.J. on
Apr. 19. Brother
Kronbergs joined
the SIU in 1944 in

the port of Norfolk sailing as a bosun.
He sailed 44 years. And he walked the
picketline in the 1961 N.Y. Harbor beef.
Seafarer Kronbergs was bora in Latvia,
USSR, was a naturalized U.S. citizen
and was a resident of Hoboken.
Cremation took place in the Rose Hill
Crematory, Linden, N.J. Surviving is a
niece, Mrs. Peter (Christine) Aron of
New York City.

Pensioner
Eugene Frederick
Seuthe, 67, died of
cancer in the Buf­
falo (N.Y.) Medi­
cal Center on Aug.
19. Brother Seuthe
joined the Union
in the port of

Cleveland in 1953 sailing as a bosun for
the American Steamship Co. He was
a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers in both World War II and the
Korean War. Laker Seuthe was born in
Alsace Lorraine, France and was a
resident of Buffalo. Burial was in Mt.
Calvary Cemetery, Cheektowaga, N.Y.
Surviving is his widow. Rose Marie. .

Pensioner
Henry Trowell
Buckner, 67, died
of pneumonia in
the New Orleans
USPHS Hospital
on Mar. 6. Brother
Buckner joined the
SIU in 1938 in the

port of Savannah sailing as a bosun. He
sailed 50 years. Seafarer Buckner was
born in Hampton, S.C. and was a
resident of New Orleans. Burial was in
Greenwich-Bonaventure Cemetery,
Savannah. Surviving is a brother, James
of Savannah.

Blagglo Faml-
gllo, 64, died of
lung failure in the
New Orleans
USPHS Hospital
on July 12: Brother
Famiglio joined
the SIU in the port
of New Orleans in

1960 sailing as a waiter for the Delta
Line for 29 years. He was a veteran of
the U.S. Army in World War 11.
Seafarer Famiglio was born in New
Orleans and was a resident of Arabi, La.
Burial was in Cypress Grove Cemetery,
New Orleans. Surviving are a brother, •
Paul of New Orleans and two sisters,
Mrs. Jerome-J. (Marguerite) Abodieof
Arabi and Nancy.

Bryant Layton
Holloway,21,died
from injuries in a
fall before arrival
at Christian Hos­
pital N.E., St.
Louis County, on
Aug. 2. Brother
Holloway joined

the SIU in 1977 following his gradua­
tion from Piney Point as class bosun. He
sailed as an AB since 1979. Bora in St.
Louis, he was a resident there. Inter­
ment was in Valhalla Cemetery, St.
Louis County. Surviving are his mother,
Carol and his father, James of Hazel-
wood, Mo.

Pensioner
John Joseph Kane,
76, passed away
from heart and
kidney failure in
Providence Hos­
pital, Mobile on
Mar. 14. Brother
Kane joined the

SIU in 1938 in the port of Mobile sailing
as a bosun. He was on the picketline in
the 1965 Di.strict Council 37 beef.
Seafarer Kane was born in California
and was a resident of Mobile. Burial was
in Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile. Surviv­
ing is his widow, Nelle.

Pensioner
Arthur George
Boyd, 75, passed
away from kidney
failure in the
Lutheran Medical
Center, Wheat
Ridge, Colo. On
July 27. Brother

Boyd joined the SIU in the port of New
Orleans in 1955 sailing as a cook for 22
years. He received a Union Personal
Safety Award in 1960 for sailing aboard
an accident-free ship, the SS Del Valle
(Delta Line). Seafarer Boyd also
worked as a butler and chauffeur. Born
in New Orleans, he was a resident of
Lakewood, Colo. Interment was in
Dallas, Tex. Surviving is his widow,
Beulah.

Peter Marvin
Blanchard, 54,
died of a heart
attack on arrivalat
East Jefferson
Hospital, Me­
tairie, La. on Apr.
26. Brother Blan­
chard joined the

SIU in the port of New Orleans in 1951
sailing as a chief steward. He sailed 36
years. Seafarer Blanchard received a
1960 Union Personal Safety Award for
sailing aboard an accident-free ship, the
SS Del Sol (Delta Line). And he was a
veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War
II. A native of Laurel Valley, La., he was
a resident of Kenner, La. Burial was in
St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New
Orleans. Surviving are a daughter,
Geraldine Anita Rodriguez and a sister,
Mrs. A1 (Margaret) Blazio of Metairie.

Atanaslo Donex
Espino, 81, passed
away from a heart
attack in the San
Francisco General
Hospital on Sept.
5. Brother Espino •
joined the SIU in

I the port of New
York in 1955 sailing as a chief steward.
He sailed 22 years and walked the
picketline in the 1961 N.Y. Harbor beef.
Seafarer Espino was born in Policarpio,
Espino, P.I., was a U.S. naturalized
citizen and was a resident of San
Francisco. Interment was in Holy Cross
Cemetery, Colma, Calif. Surviving are
his widow, Dorothy; a son, Robert of
San Francisco and two daughters,
Maria and Georgia.

Recertified
Bosun Leo Wil­
liam Gallagher Jr.,
54, died of heart
failure on the
North Atlantic
aboard the S-L 7
Galloway on Apr.
2. Brother Galla­

gher joined the SIU in 1946 in the port of
Boston. He graduated from the Union's
Recertified Bosuns Program in 1976.
Seafarer Gallagher sailed 37 years and '
rode the CjS Long Lines (Transoceanic
Cable). And attended the 1972 Piney
Point Educational Conference. He was
a U.S. Navy veteran of World War 11
and helped to organize Cities Senice.
Gallagher also did some private Hying.
A native of Chelsea, Mass.. he was a
resident of Jal, N.M. Interment was in
Kermit, Tex. Surviving are his father.
Leo of Chelsea and a sister. Evelyn also
of Chelsea.



liv ;; ̂ .

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Oefeo Osro Boyd,
passed

>1 from hear. J '* faiP„„ "^fr-frng

Boyd joined the

fr the
K">«s Daughters-
Hospital, Brook-
fc»>'on. Miss, on

^"S- 8. Brother ~ -.ct i-iug. ^ p , ^"iy 26

"Ll-t."- -"V^SS

fr^nsioner
J,

i""?"' 83. passed
3way from a heart
®^ack m Baptist
Hospital, Miami,

I "" •'"'J' %
5 .®™ther I.0P52

in

V

. Robert William Powell 45 ^
'n the Mississippi River'Ju
f(Allied TZZ) " '"S

Exxon Docks, East Bat off the

l^nion ,n the port of NZ^ J
fn AB. He aJso sailed for^
last year. Boatman Pnu, Towing
Hew York aZZlT"ora
Horfolk. Burial tvas "f

, "Si oner
John Heniy Mor-

64, died in
Candler General
W^Pital, savan-
"ah on Sept. 14
Brother Morris

FrL\" ' 'EZ^ '
DeBoch.,®"?;'
''•eti of a lung ail-'
ment in Hunting.
I", «<>»P"at

,B«"in.o,e and Oh^fond for the
/i™- H-Y. from 1939 f„ Beook-
•"pen a union m™ij He had
nattveofAvon,Ma» h
of Huntington inf '™" resident
BPWok Cettety'Sr" «'
"»8 is a tiaughto rr"""-
Hantington. ' BPH"™ Jean of

Norfbllc. ® '•esident of ^^e SIH in
Cemetery, Norfolk c'" Cawn u '" ^"^ing as a hn
widow, Ann Flore are his Savannah and u/
Wr. and Z Eva Parent B"rial Z in T "

'wrs. Evan and Eucv Pouf«ii l^emorial GarH. Lawn

" tfirAorid?^® 26, died wfliam '•> the Florida Hospftm s 'j '
of injuries sustaiS jS""""' °'''P»<'o.
iP'-and-run truck wh-f" "™ok by a
Orlando, Fla on a ^ walking in
Mardones joined the Bother

/—' ^'3. on Anr 70 la ® " .a """•
Wardones joined the iJnL - -Pensioner Ram Ch- r.

"Tampa in 1978 sailinc a" diseas"
started sailing in IQ?-''He Q"een Elizabeth u " at the
_Mardones sailed for Cro \ Kong on Feb Rowloon,
from 1978 to 1979 anZ^ ^^ West ri first
Mariner. He was bnm ^/T' ^ messman He '^"*0 saihW
a resident of Orlando r Francisco. CremaT^ ^ ^sident of San
place in the Carey Hanw^0"g- Surviv n°" m

Intennent was fn Mrs. Charlotte D sf
Tark Cemetery, MiaZV l^°°^'awn '^ava, Hawaii and Si/ "fKailua

-''er, Nilved Of Miamr^"^ ^u: cffTo::^:-^' ^ San"
Pensioner

passed away from Moore, 84
^'frabeth, N. J attack i'n
Moore joined the UnionAA
t'le port of Phijad_. . " ̂ C^^al isooin
^s en oiler on the ,"«l sailing

M South Wha the
Co., from (independent

8orninDila,S^™^„f ?82, He was
H J. and teas a resld^m "r"^^'' <=''""'Y.

bStTif

'^^'SCO first sailina San
,'" '¥• He sailed Coast
ant dayman and BR an assis-

^a-^PLandttefi'a' "•= Matson
r^'iay was 60™^ Ha "an Mail Li„e.

Natiomr, Memo^tTcem ".™' "'aa
Baaflc, Honolulu H ^Vofthe
are tiro brothers r ""' B"rviving

and aisrets, M° and Samuel
and Mrs. Bella c» ' F'hnoe Mitchell
lulu. "alia Stanton, all „f „„™l

„l'bnsioner
r Harold Barker,

64, died in St. Eliz­
abeth Hospital,
Beaumont, Tex
™ I^. 6, 1979.'
.Hfother Barker
Joni^ the Umon

Tex. in 1964 P°rt Arthur
2nd engineer on
(Slade Towing) from 1950^'^^ ^rown
fr>f the Eeland Bowm ^ ° and
to 1950. Boatman BTT ^^48
oT the U.S. Army in WoAw « ®

bom in FoZ I He '
resident of Orange TL T \ a
m Doyle Cemeten^ Stark!
ying are his widow nr ' 5^" ^tirvi-
William, Michael RichZ'
two daughters Barh Caiy;
stepdaughter, km S^^''®sfrnnda

r„f fas'oner
^b James Piih.

8". passed
sway from i„
fa'Inre „
Petersburg (Va.,

general Hospital
I— °a-inly26.Brother

BiH 'n 1939 in the port of Hf ""
as a waiter and saLn sailing
Years and duting wZlT'T «

'be PieketlfnriJ He was
Harbor beef. finr„ • '^61 N Y
Indies, he was a natura^^®"*'®^ ^^st
and was a tesident Sf a'' ®' "'fren
WM in the James M W^Jk? Ba-fal
«l Park Cemetery 'pete if""" Bfemor-
regare two gran^ugS"? ®°™'Y-
Dixon and Barbara r5 ! Annette L.
Mass. Jamaica Plains

Pensioner Salvador H i u
succumbed to cancer in?' .
25, 1979. Brother ich ^^fttle on Nov.
the West Coast in 19^3 on
cook for the Alaska Sif assistant

capis,trs^^";
resident of Zt7j% " ih^fMobL s^r " Srs„"™'- srssi"

«Zr "" -"si-s
arey Micham CO .. . rnc-dent of Cold S^ri ' ^

Hubert "Tinv"
.^Bon KemtX
61, succumbed to
cancer in the

SPHS Hospital,
Nassau Bay, Tex
on Mar. 24, 1979'

Kennedy
^,^:*^ intheportofMAbf«
chief steward. He sailed ^

.Pensioner
WiHiam
Reynolds, 66, died

failure in
Providence HOS

f'f^s Mobile on
^"'3^ 2. Brother

- joined
IJtheportofMobilesamn^ '^^9

'"'led 32 years SZ^^'"FOWT.
^s borninAlLama anH""
oT Mobile. Inter^enf "^^^^^^^Ment
/Memorial Gardens Cem?
'"S are a son Gr. Surviv-
^"Shter, Mrs.' Laura ®
Mobile and a brother
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Norma Diane andn. ^°tma,
his mother, Sula ""®°^Mobileand

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the port of Elberta M" Z
as a deckhand OS sailing
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Upgrading Class Schedules
For Jan.-June Are Announced
Upgrading class schedules for the first six months of 1981 are

announced by the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship.

To register for any of the following courses, use the Upgrading
Application form which is published in this issue of THE LOG.

January 1981
LNG: Jan. 5-Jan. 29.
QMED: Jan. 15-April 9.
FOWT: Jan. 29-Feb. 26.
Marine Electronics: Jan. 5-Feb. 12. ^ ^ ^ ;
Diesel (unlicensed): Jan. 5-Jan. 29.
Diesel (Licensed/T.I. Scholarship): Jan. 5-Feb. 28.
Conveyorman: Jan. 5-Jan. 29.
Towhoat Operator (T.I. Scholarship): Jan. 5-Feb. 26.
Able Seaman: Jan. 5-Jan. 29. ^
Lifeboatman: Jan. 2-Jan. 15; Jan. 15-Jan. 29, Jan. 29-Feb. 12.
Tankerman: Jan. 2-Jan. 15; Jan. 15'-Jan. 29; Jan. 29-Feb. 12.

February 1981
Pumproom Maintenance & Operation: Feb. 16-Mar. 26.
Lifeboatman: Feb. 12-Feb. 26; Feb. 26-Mar. 12.
Tankerman: Feb. 12-Feb. 26; Feb. 26-Mar. 12. ,

- .-.u,'... March 1981
LNG: Mar. 2-Mar. 26.
FOWT: Mar. 26-April 23.
Marine Electrical Maintenance: Mar. 2-April 23.
Refrigeration Systems, Maintenance & Operation: Mar. 2-April 9.
Diesel (unlicensed): Mar. 20-April 23.
Diesel (Liccnsed/T.I. Scholarship): Mar. 20-May 21.
Automation: Mar. 30-April 23.
Welding: Mar. 2-Mar. 26. ^
Towhoat Operator (T.I. Scholarship): Mar. 30-May 14.
Celestial Navigation: Mar. 2-April 2. -
PUot: Mar. 16-May 7. v
Quartermaster: Mar. 2-Mar. 26.
Able Seaman: Mar. 27-April 23.
Lifeboatman: Mar. 12-Mar. 26; Mar. 26-Ai^il 9.
Tankerman: Mar. 12-Mar. 26; Mar. 26-April 9.

April 1981
LNG: April 27-M,ay 21.
Able Seaman: April 24-May 21.
Lifeboatman: April 9-April 23; April 23-May 7.
Tankerman: April 9-April 23; April 23-May 7.

May 1981
QMED: May 7-July 30.
FOWT: May 21-June 18.
Marine Electronics: May 25-July 2.
Welding: May 25-June 18.
Towhoat Operator: May 11-July 2.
Celestial Navigation: May 25-June 25.
Able Seaman: May 22-June 18.
Lifeboatman: May 7-May 21; May 21-June 4.
Tankerman: May 7-May 21; May 21-June 4.

June 1^81
LNG: June 22-July 16. _ « , , an
Refrigeration Systems, Maintenance & Operations: June 2-July 30.
Diesel (unlicensed): June 22-July 16.
Diesel (Licensed/T.I. Scholarship): June 22-Aug. 13.
Pumproom Maintenance & Operation: June 8-July 16.
Towhoat Operator (T.I. Scholarship): June 22-Aug. 6.
Quartermaster: June 19-July 16.
Lifeboatman: June 4-June 18; June 18-July 2.
Tankerman: June 4-June 18; June 18-July 2.

Courses may be added or cancelled, and dates may be changed,
depending upon the particular needs of our membership and the
special requirements of the industry.

38 / LOG / PecQfn^r 1980
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Two ships that pass In the day-the Del Campo (Delta) enroute to the port of
Newark was snapped from the deck of the Ogden Challenger. In the background,
the famous New York City skyline. In -the foreground of course is "Old Glory.'

Notice On Shipping Procedures (Deep Sea)
man who possess Lifeboat­
man endorsement by the
United States Coast Guard.
The Seafarers Appeals Board
may waive the preceding sen­
tence when, in the sole Judg­
ment of the Board, undue
hardship will result or extenu­
ating circumstances warrant
such waiver."

Also, all entry rated mem­
bers must show their last six
months discharges.

Further, the Seafarers Ap­
peals Board has ruled that "C
classiflcatien seamen may
only register and sail as entry^
ratings in only one depart­
ment."

When throwing in for work
during a Job call at any SlU
Hiring Haii, seanien must pro­
duce the foiiowing:

• membership certificate
(where possessed)

• registration card
• clinic card
• seaman's papers
• vsdd, up^o-date passport
in addition, when assigning

a Job the dispatcher will com­
ply with the following Section
5, Subsection 7 of the SlU
Shipping Rules: ,

"Within each class of senior?
Ity rating in every Depart­
ment, priority for entry rating
Jobs shall be given to all

Would you like to get your
High School Diploma?
We would like to help you.

Here's all you have to do:

Come to the Seafarers
Harry Lundeberg School

of Seamanship
If earning your diploma is W
something you have been
putting off, delay no more.
Fill out this coupon and

send for your application kit.

NAME

ADDRESS

PHONE

Are you an SiU member Dyes Dno

book number

• Please send me an application and pretest packet.

• Please send more information on the GED program.
>

, ̂ Address to: Tracy Aumann
GED Department

» Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship
Piney Point, Maryland 20674

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Apply Now for an SHLSS Upgrading Course
; (Please Print)

S Name.
(Last)

• Address.

Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship
Upgra(ding Application

(Please Print) [

(First) (Middle)

(Street)

Date 6f Birth.
Mo./DayAear

(City) (State) (Zip Code)
Telephone. :

(Area Code)

[ Deep Sea Member Q
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1 : ,

Inland Waters Member Q Lakes Member Q
1 Book Number Senioritw

Date Book
Was Issued Port Presently

— Port Issued Qoni^*.>»>.4 i«

Social Securitv # Endorsements) or
—— ^ License Now Held

1 . " " . • , • • •

Piney Point Graduate: • Yes No • (if yes, fill in below) r >

Entrv Proaram: From to if
• (dates attended)

Upgradina Procnram: From
Endorsements) or

— to License Rereii/eri
(dates attended) - :—

Do you hold a letter of completion for Lifeboat • Yes No p Firefighting: • Yes No • CPR • Yes No •

Dates Available for Training

• I Am Interested in die Following Course(s). • '
I DECK • —— •
; • Tankerman
••AS 12 Months
! Q AS Unlimited
; • AS Tugs & Tows
I • AS Great Lakes
S (• Quartermaster
! O Towboat Operator
; Western Rivers
S • Towboat Operator Inland
I • Towboat Operator Not
• Morethan 200 Miles
: • Towboat Operator (Over
I 200 Miles) .
! • Master Q Mate
!Q Pilot
i • Third Mate

ENGINE STEWARD

• FWT • Oiler
• QMED - Any Rating
Q Others.
Q Marine Electrical Maintenance
Q Pumproom Maintenance and
Q Operation
• Automation ---
• Maintenance of Shipboard

Refrigeration Systems

B Diesel Engines
Assistant Engineer (Uninspected

Motor Vessel)
O Chief Bigineer (Uninspected

Motpr Vessel)

• Assistant Cook
• Cook & Baker
• Chief Cook
• Steward
• Towboat Inland Cook

ALL DEPARTMENTS

• LNG
• LNG Safety
• Welding
• Lifeboatman
O IP'""® Fighting

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I"'-*?-..'-'! •

I RECORD OF B^PLOYMENT TIME —(Show only amount needed to upgrade in rating noted above or attach letter of service, •
S whichever is applicable.)

RATING HELD DATE SHIPPH) DATE OF DISCHARGE

• SIGNATURE DATE

Please Print
RETURN COMPLETED APPUCATION TO:

Seafarers Lundeberg Upgrading Center
PINEY POINT. KD. 20674

December 1980 / LOG / 39



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