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negotiation of bilateral shipping U.S. rather than in foreign
HE strong, five-point pro nation's maritime problems."
Calling for action by Congress agreements that include guaran shipyards.
gram aimed at revitalizing
The Executive Council's
the U.S.-flag merchant marine on the maritime program, the tees that a fair share of U.S.
which was drafted by SIU AFL-CIO Executive Council, international cargoes be carried endorsement of the maritime
program came during the
President Frank Drozak con presided over by President Lane on U.S.-flag vessels.
tinued to pick up steam when it Kirkland said: "The United
• A commitment to restoring Council's annual mid-winter
was endorsed by the AFL-CIO States must remain a major the competitive standing of the meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last
maritime... nation and it needs a U.S.-flag dry-bulk fleet must be month. The maritime program
Executive Council late last
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foreign trade policy that will made by guaranteeing an was part of a statement on
month.
The five-point program insure^—not undercut—that goal. equitable portion of U.S. coal International Trade and Invest
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"Greater priority needs to be exports to American ships.
already has the backing of the
also addressed problems afflict
AFL-CIO Maritime Trades given to solution of problems
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U.S.
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Department as well as the stamp facing the maritime industry,"
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ratify
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of the key seagoing unions which said the Executive Council's
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industries.
make up the AFL-CIO Ad Hoc statement. This can be accom
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. To preserve those vital U.S.
Committee on Maritime Indus plished through action by the
conferences,
which
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help
industries, the Council said,
U.S. government and Congress
try Problems.
restore
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shipment
"government policies and
Aimed at restoring the on the following points:
in
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bottoms
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pracfices in international trade
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American merchant fleet "to the
generated
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U.S.
trade.
and investment must give greater
forefront of world maritime of the U.S. merchant marine fleet
• Finally, there should be emphasis to U.S. interests
shipping," SIU President Drozak by the U.S. Navy for auxiliary
revision of tax incentives and through national actions and
said, the five-point maritime functions.
regulatory practices to encourage cooperation with other nations to
• Reviving the U.S. merchant
platform provides "reasonable,
achievable answers to the marine also requires the the building of new vessels in achieve fair trade."
Price impasse Forces El Paso to Lay Up LNGs
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negotiations between
Algeria and the U.S. over the
price of gas, SlU-contracted El
Paso Co. will lay up its six LNG
ships indefinitely:
Of the six ships, three have SIU
crews .aboard. The other three
have been in Europe for repair
work.
The three ships, the £7 Paso
Southern, the El Paso Arzew,
and the El Paso Howard Boyd,
have also been in Europe in hopes
that a settlement would be
reached. Now that the talks have
been indefinitely suspended the
company is bringing the ships to
Rhode Island where the crews
will be laid off.
The talks broke down last
month when representatives
from Algeria and the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE)
could not agree on a price for
Algerian natural gas exports to
SfU Opposing Bif/ to Allow
Foreign Flag Passenger Service
U,S,—Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The
SIU is strongly opposed to a
recently introduced bill that
would allow foreign-flag passen|:fer vessels to travel between
Puerto Rico and the U.S.
mainland.
Numbered H.R. 1489, the
legislation was introduced into
the House of Representatives by
Congressman Baltasar Corrada
(D-Puerto Rico). The bill is
currently awaiting consideration
before the House Merchant
Marine and Fisheries Committee:
The bill was proposed because,
under the Jones Act, only U.S.flag vessels may trade between
the commonwealth of Puerto
Rico and America.
This legislation was originally
introduced in the last session of
Congress as an amendment to the
ill-fated Omnibus Maritime bill.
Although this particular
passenger provision received
unanimous support from both
Democrats and Republicans, it
was killed along with the
Omnibus Maritime bill.
There is presently no regularly
scheduled marine passenger
service between ports in Puerto
Rico and other ports in the U.S.
The legislation states that
foreign-flag passenger service
would cease as soon as U.S.-flag
passenger service becomes
available. However, the SIU feels
that if foreign-flag ships get
involved in the service, there will
be no incentive for U.S. opera
tors to enter it.
If Congress feels there is a
need for a marine passenger
service between the U.S. ^nd
Puerto Rico then American-flag
operators should be encouraged
to start that service.
The SIU will continue to
monitor H.R'. 1489 and to fight
against its enactment.
America.
Algeria wants the price of its
natural gas to be. comparable
with the world price of crude pil.
That price would bring the cost of
Algerian natural gas to $6 a
thousand cubic feet. This price is
niearly 25 percent higher than
costs set in current U.S.
agreements covering Canadian
and Mejxican natural gas.
El Paso began inporting
Algerian natural gas to the U.S.
in 1978. In late 1979, the
company renegotiated its
contract with that North African
country. The agreement called
for a price of $1.94 per thousand
cubic feet of LNG.
The price was approved by the
DOE which, under law, must rule
(yi the price of any imported gas.
But in the spring of last year
the Algerian government decided
to press fot a higher price than
what had been negotiated.
Imports of Algeria natural
gas stopped in April of 1980.
Soon afterwards, negotiations
broke down between El Paso and
Algeria and the DOE became
the spokesman for the U.S. At
various times, it looked like a
settlement was imminent and
that gas would start flowing
again to El Paso's costly
regasification plants in Cove
Point, Md. and Elba Island, Ga.
That was why for much of that
time, the company kept crews
aboard three of its ships.
Now that the two sides seem to
be far from a settlement the
company has decided to bring its
ships back to the U.S. for lay up.
The 900-foot long high
technology LNG tankers are the
most expensive commercial ships
ever built. To have them laid up is
a terrible waste.
Afso, Algerian natural gas
provides one of the alternates
that America is seeking in its
efforts to diversify energy
sources.
The Union therefore hopes
that an agreement will soon be
reached and that SIU crews will
once again be bringing natural
gas to customers on the U.S. east
coast.
The Log will keep you
informed on any further
developments.
COLA Hike for
Lakes Seahireis
Effective Feb. 1, 1981, Great
Lakes Seafarers working under
contracts with the Great Lakes
Association of Marine Operators,
Kinsman Lines and Boh Lo Co.,
received a cost of living add-on of
cents per hour.
Under the terms of the three-year
Freightship Agreement, which ex
pires this year, COLA's are com
puted quarterly. They are based on
increases in the Consumer Price
Index. For every .3 point rise in the
CPI, Great Lakes Seafarers receive a
one cent per hour wage adjustment.
The February COLA is the first
add-on for 1981. The next cost of
living adjustment date is May 1.
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�SlU Pension, Welfare & A/Sacation
Plans Paid Record $45.5 Million^ in Benefits in 1980
I960 was a banner yaar for benefits for SlU people. The Seafarers Pension,
Welfare and Vacation Plans paid out a record $45.5 million~plus to SlU members,
pensioners and their dependents, representing the highest figure ever paid out in
a single year.
The report of benefits paid (printed below) is a solid reminder of the kind of
benefits and security a member of the SlU enjoys. Andit'san important indication
of the strength and financial stability of all the SlU's benefit plans.
Seafarers Welfare, Pension, and Vacation Plans Cash Benefits
Number of
Benefits
Paid
1980
SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN
ELIGIBLES
Death
In Hospital Daily @ $1.00.
In Hospital Daily @ $3.00......
Hospital & Hospital Extras
Surgical
Sickness & Accident @ $8.00
Special Equipment
Optical
Supplemental Medicare Premiums .....
Amount of
Benefits
1980
142
5,209
5,506
1,814
864
66,610
21
- 1,330
492
$930,505.75
5,284.00
16,518.00
770,732.90
170,842.11
532,831.00
9,400.97
53,209.19
39,349.54
5,783
3,337
3,074
539
1,093
2,703,386:81
196,034.69
554,659.86
219,577.14
703.73
42,135.48
304
3,916
3,355
388
1,050
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68
28,184
860,606.63
675,137.28
373,210.72
89,367.08
41,276.14
1,027.15
18,156.65
20,051.60
278,992.55
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BLOOD BANK PROGRAM
SPECIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT
RESTAURANT & RECREATIONAL BENEFIT PROGRAM
Other Rest. & Rec. Benefits & MIsc
TOTAL SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN ..
SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN
TOTAL SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN .....
SEAFARERS VACATION PLAN
TOTAL SEAFARERS VACATION PLAN
TOTAL WELFARE, PENSIONS VACATION
85
974,715.96
48,674.78
11,727.24
13,661.88
133,214
1,240,146.00
10,891,922.83
37,614
10,491,108.33
15,877
24,096,336.42
186,705
$45,479,367.58
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Johnny Yarmola Dies of Heart Attack at 57
OHN' Yarmola, vice president of
the SIUNA and National
Field Coordinator of the AFL-CIO
Maritime Trades Department, died
of a heart attack March 9 in
Washin^on, D.C. He was 57.
Yarmola, known to everyone
simply as Johnny, was one of the
best known, best liked people in the
labor movement. News of his
sudden death hit his friends and
colleagues in the SIU and the labor
movement very hard.
SIU President Frank Drozak
sadly recalled that Johnny was the
first person he worked with after
coming ashore for the Union more
than 20 years ago. Drozak said,
"Johnny knew more about the labor
movement than anyone I know. He
was totally dedicated to trade
unionism. Johnny was a true and
loyal friend. He's irreplaceable.
We're going to miss him very badly."
Johnny Yarmola was born in
Chicago in April 1923. He began his
long and productive career in the
labor movement in 1950 when he
joined the staff of the Union Label
and Service Trades Department in
Washington.
He had a keen mind for organiza
tion, and in the mid 50's he helped
set up the offices of the AFL-CIO
Maritime Trades Department. He,
along with the late Paul Hall, was
instrumental in bringing new affili
ates into the Maritime Trades
Department and building it up to the
largest, most active constitutional
department of the AFL-CIO.
After nearly a decade as a staff
officer for the old AF of Land the
merged AFL-CIO, Johnny came to
work for the SIUNA as an Interna
tional Representative and special
assistant to former SIUNA Presi
dent Paul Hall. He remained a close
personal friend and confidant of
Paul Hall until Brother Hall's death
June 22, 1980.
Johnny's work with the SIUNA
quickly earned him a reputation
throughout labor as an ace troubleshooter. He was at the forefront of
many of the SIUNA's toughest
beefs.
In 1962, he was sent to Chicago to
help coordinate the famous Chicago
cab drivers beef. The cabbies wanted
to break away from Teamsters Local
777, which was dominated by
mobsters. They approached numer
ous unions to help them. Only the
SIUNA came through. The beeftook three full years. But in the end,
it was won and Yarmola helped
affiliate the cab drivers into the
SIUNA, where they remain today.
In 1967, Johnny returned to
Chicago where he helped organize
the United Industrial Workers
Union of the Midwest. In 1968, he
was rewarded by the UIW of the
Midwest membership by being
elected president of the new SIUNA
affiliate. He has been reelected every
three years since.
Also in 1968, Johnny became a
vice president of the International
and an executive board member of
the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades
Department. In 1977, he was named
National Field Coordinator of the
MTD.
During his years with the SIU,
Johnny performed! many diverse
and extremely difficult tasks for the
Union. He helped set up the educa
tional curriculum at the Lundeberg
School. He even taught at Piney
Point for awhile as Union Ed
instructor.
Johnny was a top administrator in
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addition to his many other abilities
and he handled all his assignments
quickly and professionally.
In addition to his many duties
with the SIUNA and the MTD,
Johnny served on numerous com
mittees for the AFL-CIO, including
the Community Services Commit
tee, the Pension Investment Com
mittee and the Ad Hoc Committee
on Maritime Industry Problems.
Johnny had a secret love of
writing and could have been a damn
good journalist (in fact one of his
first jobs was as a copy boy for one
of the Chicago newspapers). He
always said he wanted to write a
book entitled, "Famous Labor
Leaders Who Knew Me." And
Johnny Yarmola knew them all.
Johnny Yarmola is survived by his
wife, Peggy; son, Jeff; mother,
Anna; sister, Marie, of Chicago, and
his brother, Steve, of Washington,
D.C.
Wakes were held for Brother
Yarmola both in Washington and
Chicago, where hundreds of his
friends from the labor movement,
including AFL-CIO President Lane
Kirkland, paid their final respects.
On Saturday, March 14, 1981,
Johnny Yarmola—devoted husband
and father, labor leader, and a real
special person—was laid to rest at
St. Mary's Evergreen Park "in his
native Chicago.
Smooth sailing Johnny! We all
miss you very badly.
Remembrances of Johnny Yarmola, a True Friend
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N THE last few years, the SIU
has suffered the loss of some of
our most dynamic and dedicated
officials, including Paul Hall, Paul
Drozak, Bull Shepard, Bill Hall, and
just in the last few months Ralph
Quinnonez and Joe Algina.
When it finally seemed as if the
dust had settled, as if the worst had
already happened, Johnny Yarmola
died, suddenly, without warning.His death is a tremendous loss to the
SIU, to his friends, and most of all,
to his family.
For more than 20 years, Johnny
Yarmola dedicated his life to the
SIU. He had official titles, but no
title could describe or do justice to
what he did for our Union.
He was like a human smor
gasbord: he did a little bit of this, a
little bit of that. He lobbied. He
travelled around the country to gain
support for this Union's legislative
programs. He worked with the
research department. He taught at
Piney Point. And when it was over,
the sum of what he did was definitely
more than the total of all the parts.
He was a deceptively complex
man who presented himself to most
people in the simplest of terms. He
was overweight and hearty. He had
an endless supply of bad prepared
jokes, which when told all at once
wore down the listener's resistance.
He was wickedly funny. Like a
squirrel chasing a nut, he would
pounce on a word or a phrase, shock
whoever was within earshot and
force him to laugh.
He had a big moon face that more
often than not was in full smile. He
could disarm the most guarded of
people. He was once asked to lobby
a Congressman on an important bill
concerning the maritime industry.
The Congressman was a "died-inthe-Wool" fiscal conservative who
felt that the U.S. merchant marine
ranked slightly below Alaskan Snow
Conservation in terms of national
priorities. The two men met for a
quick drink.
By the end of the evening, the
prim and proper Republican Con
gressman was drunk, driving all
around Washington, D.C. in his
Mercedes Benz, telling dirty jokes,
saying that he couldn't understand
why this country hadn't done more
to rebuild its badly deteriorated
merchant marine, a national
treasure if there ever was one. He ran
through red lights, drove over
highway dividers, and when the time
came, voted for the vitally important
maritime bill.
Stories like that are not un
common. Johnny Yarmola had a
way of winning opponents over.
People trusted him, felt comfortable
around him, liked him. They would
start off talking about the weather
and wind up telling him everything
—their life story.
He knew exactly what was
happening in the labor movement,
and because he did, the SIU was
never taken by surprise. The late
Paul Hall, for many years president
of the SIU, and Yarmola's close
friend and advisor, often referred to
Johnny as his "secret weapon." "I
don't know how he does it, but he
knows everything. We couldn't
survive without him."
He travelled across the country
with little more than a brief case, two
shirts, two pairs of underwear and a
small bottle of Woolite. He was the
last American Gypsy, travelling,
working, cursing, laughing his way
from Chicago, his home town, to
California, to Washington. He knew
all the labor people throughout the
country and they knew and loved
him.
Despite hjs gypsy feet, he was a
creature of habit. When in Washing
ton he would often find his way to
his two favorite pub/restaurants:
the New York Lounge and the Post
Pub. They were both situated on
Fifteenth Street in Washington,
D.C., just a stone's throw away
from his beloved MTD.
He entered the bar like Pavarotti
mounting a stage. One by one, he
met everyone there: the bartender,
the pressman from the nearby
Washington Post, construction
workers, labor skates. He told
stories, jokes. He was the center of
attention. And when the evening
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�Crews Conference Kickoff Set for Apr. ^20
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EAFARERS are urged to
attend special meetings at
2:30 p.m. on Apr. 16 to elect
delegates to a Union Crews
Conference.
As has been reported in the
January and February 1981
Logs, the meetings will be held
across the country at the halls of
the SIU, Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes,
and Inland Waters District.
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Frank Drozak, joined 9,000 AFLClO marchers to back the United
Mine Workers Union protest of
President Reagan's budget cuts of
Black Lung disease medical benefits
on Mar. 9 in Washington, D.C.
The march route began at the
AFL-CIO Headquarters at 16th St.
N.W. to a protest rally at the
Washington Monument.
The proposed budget cuts (since
modified) make eligibility require
ments more difficult, depriving
many coal miners with valid heajth
claims from compensation. It's
estimated that 4,000 U.S. coal
miners die each year from Black
Lung disease and thousands more
are permanently disabled.
Drozak declared that the "SIU
and MTD were proud to carry with
the coal miners a unified message to
President Reagan."
The SIU chief averred that, "our
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has a black cloud in its silver
lining—Black Lung disease. Mining
is a hazardous job and the disease is
SIU President Frank Drozak and SHLSS Base Commandant Ken Conkiln (r)
lead a contingent of Seafarers who joined in a Washington, D.C. demonstration
to protest the Reagan Administration's plans to cut funding for U.S.
Mineworkers who are victims of black lung disease.
role for U.S.-flag vessels in
the burgeoning world coal
trade was high on the House
Merchant Marine Subcommittee's
agenda as they began a series of
hearings on the coal trade early this
month.
Subcommittee Chairman Rep.
Mario Biaggi (D-N.Y.) opened the
March 4 hearing by noting that
"U.S. steam coal exports experienced
a.dramatic surge" in 1980 and that
those exports "will 0ntinue to
increase significantly."
To prepare for the expansion of
U.S. coal exports—which could be
between four and five times higher
than the current level by the year
2000, according to some estimates—
the Subcommittee will be seeking
solutions to two pressing problems:
• deepening U.S. ports to accom
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in, the lungs of the miners to impair
their breathing and eventually leads
to their deaths."
representation will be as follows:
New York, 12; New Orleans, 6;
Houston, 6; San Francisco, 6;
Baltimore, 3; Boston, 3; Detroit,
3; Jacksonville, 3; Mobile, 3;
Norfolk, 3; Philadelphia, 3; San
Juan, 3; Seattle, 3; Tampa, 3;
Wilmington, 3; St. Louis, 3, and
Piney Point, 3.
If any port fails to elect its
quota, then Headquarters will
hold a special meeting on Apr. 17
at 2:30 p.m. to elect the port's
quota.
Following are the qualifica
tions a deep sea member must
meet if he or she wishes to be
elected as a delegate: (Proof of
these qualifications must be
produced at the special meetings
held on Apr. 16, and if necessary
on Apr. 17).
• Possess a full book with"A"
Oceans Seniority in good
standing.
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with SIU-A&G contracted deep
sea operators in ratings above
entry.
• Have at least 90 days of such
employment in the period from
Apr. I, 1980 to Apr. I, I98I.
"Seatime" will be considered as
any time for which contributions
have_been made toward Pension
and Welfare eligibility.
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Lundeberg School of Seaman
ship in Piney Point, Md. It will be
attended by 69 elected delegates
representing all ports and the
three shipboard departments.
There will be 23 delegates from
each department.
Based on shipping and
registration and the past year's
activities in each of the ports.
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To take place the week of Apr.
20, the Crews Conference will
help the SIU plan for the 1980's,
as well as for the upcoming A&G
deep sea contract negotiations.
The three-year deep sea
Tanker and Freighter/ Passenger
Agreements that were signed in
1978 expire on June 15 of this
year.
The Crews Conference will be
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modate deep draft coal carriers,
and;
• providing for participation by
U.S.-flag vessels in the coal
trade.
"The question arises," Rep. Biaggi
said, "as to what action the govern
ment should take to assure that the
U.S. merchant lleet shares fairly in
the growth brought about by in
creased steam coal exports. Steam
coal is essential to the industrial
and military strength of our Euro
pean allies," he continued, "and it is
imperative that the U.S. assure that
there are adequate U.S. vessels to
supply our allies."
The Subcommittee was briefed by
members of the Interagency Coal
Export Task Force, which has been
preparing a report since the Task
Force was created by former Presi
dent Carter nine months ago.
"U.S.-flag coal ships are necessary
for economic, commercial security
and national defense reasons," said
Dr. James Lisnyk of the Maritime
Administration, an ICE Task Force
member.
He targeted several options,
included in the ICE Task Force
report, which the U.S. can use to
build up a coal fleet. Those options
include: enacting special, dry bulk
legislation; signing cargo preference
bilateral agreements with our trad
ing partners; increasing subsidies for
the fleet, and; reflagging U.S.owned, foreign-registered coal ships.
The House Subcommittee plans
to hold several additional brielings
and hearings in the months ahead
"to consider," Rep. Biaggi said,
"legislative actions to assure the
growth of our ports," and the role of
"the U.S. merchant fleet in the
transport of steam coal."
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Referring to the fact that Furu
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monies in San Francisco mark
ing the 96th anniversary of the
founding of the Sailors Union of the
Pacific (SUP).
Also, in conjunction with the
anniversary, busts of Andrew Furuseth and4larry Lundeberg had been
refurbished and were re-dedicated at
the ceremonies.
Among the half-dozen guest
speakers were SIU President Frank
Drozak, SIU Executive Vice Presi
dent Ed Turner, and SIU West
Coast Vice President George Mc
Cartney.
Other speakers included Henry
Disley, president of the Marine
Firemen's Union, Paul Dempster,
president of the SUP, Albin Gruhn,
president of the California State
AFL-CIO, and John Henning,
executive secretary of the California
Uabor Federation.
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did officers and members from
many maritime unions and a num
ber of steamship companies.
The ceremonies took place in
front of the SUP building where the
larger-than-life busts of Lundeberg
and Furuseth stand.
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Seafarers International Union and
Andrew Furuseth was the founder
of the old InternationkT Seamen s
Union.
Am^riran seamen.
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Drozak recalled his first rneehng
with Lundeberg many years before^
Lundeberg asked Drowktogeto fa
ship in order to work for the Union
in Seattle. President Drozak said
that he little realized at the time that
the meeting between him and
Lundeberg was to become the
beginning of his work as a union
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the refurbished statues which had
become worn over the years Also
present were Lundeberg's children,
Eric, Alette, and Gunnar.
In his remarks at the ceremonies,
Drozak paid tribute to the long
history of strong trade unionism
among the membership of the SUf •
He ^Iso praised the dedication ol
both Furuseth and Lundeberg for
their life-long service on behalf ot
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Furhseth, Ed Turner in his remarks
said that "they fought against tough
odds to make the world a better
place for
lui their fellow man.
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tracted Zapata Corp. recently
Ocean.
sold;
The four vessels, the Zapata
Patriot. Zapata Ranger. Zapata
Rover, and Zapata Courier, were
bought by another SlU-contracted company, Ogden Corp.
Under the new ownership, the
name Ogden replaces Zapata qn
each of the vessels. The ships are
expected to continue on the same
routes they were running for
Zapata.
Ogden will pick up the remain
ing two-and-half year charter on
the-Patriot which is being used by
hauling jet fuel and Other refined
products under charter to the
^avy. The Courier is engaged in
carrying rpetyokum^ products in
the worldwide market.
Ogden has acquired the vessels
from Zapata for $89.5 million,
including $52.9 million in cash
and a $36.6 million assumption
of debt.
The four vessels constituted
Zapata's entire shipping fleet.
Built in 1976 and 1977, the ships
each weigh 35,000 deadweight
tons.
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was "chareed.
"charged, titried and ex
pelled from the SUP" in the 1930's,
Turner said the "trial committee
shouldn't feel too bad. After all, at
the same time General Billy Mitchell
was court martialed and discharged
from the Army because he dared to
disagree 'with his bosses over airpower."
Talking about former SIU Presi
dent Paul Hall, Turner said he was
"a man who had vision, knowledge
and practical know-how. He was a
tough taskmaster, but a truly
dedicated leader."
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?of®|t'^,/s°qua^ victims.
Council, presents $16,000 check to ^'shop Bevilacqua for It^y 9^^ ^
Others in photo are from left: SIU N.Y. Fidd Rep1°";
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N.Y. Port Council; Evelyn Aquilla and Father Basler of the Diocese
Joe Collozo, vice president of ILA Local 18U.
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' SlU-contractcd Ogden Marine
ankers-to bolster its fleet of Amer-
has applied to the U.S Mantime
Administration for construction 3^
ferential subsidy to build two 41,5W
dwt dry bulk ships for operation in
the U.S. foreign trades.
Ogden, which has made several
moves lately—including buying Zapata's four.35,000 dwt product
two new bulkg Avondale Shipyard in New
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S^ihe lwo ships is $133 million.
be equipped with
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Council of Greater New York
and Vicinity collected $16,000 to
be donated to the Catholic Relief
Services. The money will be used
to aid victims of the tragic
earthquake that rocked parts of
Italy
Italv late last year.
vear. That disaster,
among the worst on record, killed
tens of thousands of people and
left countless others without
food, clothing and shelter.
The presentation took place in
a congenial Italian restaurant
located in ^ Brooklyn s
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Gardens section. The commun^y
is home for many
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friends of the dtsaster s
^and to make the presenta^.Y. Port Agent
Caffey, who is also vicepresident of the Port Co^uncil,
^^thony Anastasio, and several
other officials of the Port
Bishop Bevacqua of the
of Brooklyn accepted the dona
tion on behalf of the Ca
Relief Services.
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Legislative. AJministr.itive ami Rel•4^uo^v Happenings
Reagan Maritime Budget Unveiled
. After a long and suspenseful delay,
Ronald Reagan finally unveiled the details
of his Budget in a warmly received State of
the Union address. As predicted, drastic cuts
are proposed in almost all sectors of the
Federal biidget. David Stockman, director
of the OMB, played a leading role in helping
Reagan decide what programs would be cut,
and what programs would be saved.
As it stands right now, the vitally
important Operating Differential Subsidy
Program will jiot be cut, although its sister
program, the Construction Differential
Subsidy, 'will be trimmed by some $20
million from the budget proposed last year
by then Pres. Carter. Shipbuilders are a little
unnerved by the proposed cutback, espe-
cially in light of the recent state of shipyardclosings.
Although it will take time to assess the
impact of the budgehproposals, most people
feel that the maritime industry fared
relatively well, at least in comparison to
other industries. However, the industry was
shocked by at least one proposal: the pro
posal to close the eight remaining USPHS
hospitals by 1982. The USPHS network
dates back to 1798. Not only do the USPHS
hospitals serve an important national
purpose, but they-are cost-effective as well.
It is hoped that in the upcoming months.
when the budget proposals are debated by
the House and Senate, federal funding for
the USPHS hospitals will be reinstated.
Labor Moves to Preserve l^ade Adlustment Assistance
Organized labor launched a counter
attack on the Reagan Administration's
attempt to virtually dismantle the Federal
Trade Assistance, Program, which affects
millions of American workers, including
many who work in the U.S. shipyards and
related maritime fields.
Elizabeth Jager, an AFL-CIO economist,
told the House Ways and Means Trade
Subcommittee that the Trade Adjustment
Assistance Program was "a necessary and
integral jpart of overall trade policy."
Under the present program, workers who
have lost their jobs because of unfair foreign
competition are encouraged to enroll in
U.S. Adds OU lb 8PR
The government has acquired 6.2 million
barrels of oil for the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve (SPR) since it began occasional
spot-market purchases earlier this month.
Is is hoped that the Strategic Petroleum
Reserve will eventually total one billion
barrels of oil, to be used in case the nation
faces an interruption of oil imports, the kind
that occurred after the 1973 Yom Kippur
War and which may yet occur as a result of
the Iran-Iraqi War. The reserve currently
contains about 120 million barrels, which is
less than a month's imports. It is one of those
ironies of history that the U.S., which has.
vast coal and natural gas reserves, is more
vulnerable to foreign pressure than any of
the major industrial powers, most of which
, have spent the past six years quietly building
up their own strategic oil reserves.
The 6.2 miilion barrels of oil is part of an
immediate plan to acquire 8.6 million
barrels through spot market purchases.
Stndd* OtCers nUp BUI
special training programs. They are also
eligible to receive up to $269 millioaa week
in adjustment assistance for at least 52
weeks.
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0iesel Power Allead
In Economic Study
According to a study conducted by A'lan
Rowen of the Webb Institute for the Naval
Architecture for the Maritime Administra
tion and the Baham Corporation, diesel
power is fast becoming the most economic
and fuel efficient type of maritime energy.
The study-predicted that diesel fuel would
become increasingly more attractive to own
ers of merchant vessels in the upcoming
years, and suggested that the U.S. goverfiment should consider speeding up that pro
cess by providing further economic incen
tives to owners who use that form of fuel.
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Johnny Yarmola Dies
The maritime industry suffered a tragic
• loss when Johnny Yarmola, National Field
Co-ordinator for the Maritime Trades De
partment and vice president of the SI UNA,
died suddenly in his Washington apartment.
(See page 5) He had been a mainstay of the
Maritime Trades Department for over
twenty years. Thanks in" part to his hard
work and dedication, the Department was
able to become a leading spokesman for the
maritime industry on Capitol Hill. He will
be sorely missed.
L.A. Coal Terndnal
The. Los Angeles Board of Harbor
Commissioners have approved in theory the
need for a $100 million coal-handling
terminal at the port of Los Angeles. The
Commission's approval is the first step
towards construction of such a terminal,'
which would facilitate the export of
American coal
SPAD is the SlU's political fund and our poli^al arm in
Washington, D.C. The SlU asks for and accepts voluntary
contributions only. The Union uses the money donated to
SPAD to support the election campiiigns of legislators who
have shown a pro-mantime or pro-labor record.
SPAD enables the SIU to work effectively oft the vital
maritime issues in the Congress. These are issues that have
a direct impact on the jobs and Job security of all SIU mem
bers, deep-sea, inland, and Lakes.
The SIU ui^es its members to continue their fine record
of support for SPAD. A member can contribute to the
SPAD fund as he or she sees fit, or make no contribution at
all without fear of reprisal.
A copy of the SPAD report is filed with the Federal Elec
tion Commission. It is available for purchase from the EEC
in Washh^on, D.C.
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Gerry Studds, the Chairman of the House
Merchant Marine Subcommittee on Coast
Guard and Navigation, has introduced H.R.
1774, a bill which would ^courage the
owners of vessels built in U.S. shipyards to
"make applications to the Secretary of
Commerce for Contruction Differential
Siibsidies to aid in the reconstruction or
reconditioning of such vessels...to make
them more energy efficient."
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Congrats on Drozak Election ...
TO THE EDITOR
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Longer He's In, Better He Likes 14: First, I must say it is an honor and privilege to be a member of the
SIU,. I would like to express my gratitude and thanks to all the
people at the Lundeberg School for their patience and understand
ing while I was attending the ABand GEDclasses, and the Alcholic
Rehabilitation Program.
The longer I remain a member of the SIU, I become more aware
of the devotion and contributions of the individuals who founded
the SIU and made it into one of the really unique Unions in the
world.
I alsb want to express my appreciation for the courtesy and
cooperation the local SIU officials have showed me in the way of
requested information and job assignments.
Fraternally^
Randall D. Halsey, H-5748
. St. Louis, Mo.
Plan Pays Huge Bill •
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This is to thank the Seafarers Welfare Plan for payment of the
Doctor and Hospital bills-for my operation. It would have taken a
long time and lots of sacrifice to have paid over$7,000. But after the
Plan paid for everything according to the rules of the Plan, I had
only $150 to account for. My husband is at sea right jiow, and I wish
to pass along our thanks for all the help. '
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I saw-in the Log that Brother Frank Drozak has been elected to
continue "piloting" the SIU-AGLIWD for the next four yeans.
He has been "up front" these many years, and I'm sure it is
gratifying that SIU members wholeheartedly support his endeavors
to solidify and strengthen the SIU.
Congratulations are in order, and I sincerely extend mine, as^yt'ell
as those of the MFOW membership.
Steady as She Goes ...
Fraternally yours,
Henry Dlsley '
President
Marine Firemen's Union
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The SIU members aboard this vessel, iht Zapata Patriot, wish to
thank Captain Joseph E. Stuckens for a smooth and pleasant
voyage #44. Despite the boredorhand monotony of being stationed
here in the Indian Ocean there were no_beefs of any kind. There was
no disputed OT. It is a pleasure to work under the command of such
a capable and considerate captain.
Fraternally,
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I wish to express my sincere congratulations to Frank Drozak on
his recent election as the President of the Seafarers' International
Union-Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.
He h^s the knowhow and the experience to fight for the SIU and
for the labor movement as a whole. I am sure that he will carry on in
the tradition of the Seafarers' International Union and in the work
of the late President. Paul Hall, in the protection of seamen and
their working conditions as well as to achieving a better and larger
United States merchant marine..
On behalf of the membership of the Sailors'Union of the Pacific,
best wishes and a smooth sailing to all in the SIU.
Sincerely & Fraternally,
Paul Dempster
President & Secretary-Treasurer
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Sailors' Union of the Pacific
There are two
courses coming up in
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IP Both begin June 22.I
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and pass a pre-test for
Transportation Institute Diesel
Scholarship. There is ^Iso a'
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We wish to pass along our thanks to Mr. John Russell for all he
has done for our son. Raul Iglesias, while at the Lundeberg School.
He couldn't have done it without Mr. Russell's help and
understanding. There should only be more helpful people around
like him and the world would be a better place to live in.
Sincjerely,
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SIU There When Needed Most
My wife and I wish to thank,the Uniiin for the recent check which
we received towards my expenses while in the hqspital. Frankly, I
don t know what we would have done without the help of the great
SIU. I consider myself very fortunate to be a part of this great
organization and the good it has done for so many members. Again
we thank you.
Yours jn brotherhood,
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HE economy of the United
States is in bad shape. Skyrock
eting interest rates and prices;
inflation; unemployment are all
reaching epidemic proportions.
Nobody disputes .the fact that our
economy is ailing, nor that help is
needed. But as their remedy to the
nation's economic complaints, the
Reagan Administration has pro
posed budget cuts so massive that
they will cut the heart out of social
programs that have long been a
hallmark of American society. And
the consequences of eliminating
those crucial programs could well be
worse than the economic distress
they are supposed to cure.
One of the programs on the
budgetaiy hit list is the U.S. Public
Health Service. If all goes according
to the Administration's plan, the
eight remaining Public Health
Service hospitals and 29 clinics will
be permanently closed down by the
end of 1982.
Since 1798, the Public Health
Service has been providing free
medical care to the nation's mer
chant mariners, uniformed service
personnel and other federal beneficiaries. In 1980 alone, USPHS
served 14,000 seamen on an in
patient basis and 600,000 out
patients.
But, while seamen have remained
the chief beneficiaries of USPHS
they have not been the only benefi
ciaries. The health care facilities also
offer medical services to the com
munities in which they are located;
conimunities which will be dealt a
severe bldw if the hospitals are
forced to close.
USPHS has been a beleaguered
health cafe system for years. In 1960,
there were 15 PHS hospitals operat
ing in the U.S. Ten years later, there
were only eight.
Attempts to reduce or eliminate
.funding for USPHS have occurred
over and over-again throughout the
years. In. 1976, the U.S. Dept. of
Health, Education & Welfare, which
administers the hospitals, sent a
budget request to Congress which
was $25 million short of the funding
gCto.
necessary to maintain USPHS.
After holding hearings on the
issue, the House Committee on
Appropriations concluded that the
eight USPHS hospitals were "an
invaluable resource" and that "to
close any single one of the eight
hospitals would be irresponsible and
unconscionable."
The Committee also lauded
USPHS for the "high quality" of its
"operation, training and research
programs and the care they provide
their beneficiaries despite constant
Official Riblication of the Seafarer* kiternotionol Union of
North America, Atlantic. Gulf, Lakes end Inland Woters District,
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March. 1981
Va(. 43, No. 3
Executive Board
Frank Drozak
President
Joe DiGiorgio
Ed Turner
Secretary-Treasurer
Executive Vice Presidents
Angus "Red" Campbell
Mike Sacco
Vice President
Vice President
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Ray Bourdius
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Don Rotan
WP.V/ Coast Associate Editor
Editor
Edra Ziesk
Assistant Editor
Leon Haik "
Vice President
Joe Sacco
Vice President
Marietta Homayonpour
Assistant Editor
Max Siegel Hall
Assistant Editor
Frank Cianciofti
Director of PholoRraphyl Writer
Dennis Lundy
Marie Kosciusko
Administrative Assistant
George J. Vana
Production! Art Director
Photography
•f»ublished 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 f/0160-2047)
attempts... to undermine the sys
tem."
In fact, the commitment the
USPHS has made to constantly
upgrade its level of service to all its
beneficiaries; the willingness of
USPHS administrators, to seek
solutions to the special health care
needs of merchant seamen, would be
praiseworthy even if there had not
been constant battles to remain
solvent.
The types of services offered at
PHS hospitals and clinics prove that
the system's concern for the welfare
of seamen goes beyond lip service.
In San Francisco, a USPHS
Dental Clinic, Research Program"
began offering free dental care to
retired seamen and their families
two "years ago.
The USPHS hospital in Staten
Island, N.Y. has a modern KidneyBlood Dialysis unit. While com
munity residents aire eligible for the
treatments, merchant seamen get
top priority.
In Philadelphia, the USPHS
Outpatient Clinic has sohie of the
most modern equipment around,
including a blood analysis machine
and a glaucoma testing unit. The
physical therapy program offered at
that clinic is considered so good that
two universities send medical stu
dents there to learn the therapy
techniques.
If quality medical care for—and
sensitivity to—seafarers were not, in
themselves, compelling reasons to
continue the USPHS system, there
are other reasons.
The cost to the- government gf
providing health care to federal
health beneficiaries through
USPHS is way below the cost of
comparable care purchased else
where by the government. Several
years ago. Warren Magnuson, thenchairman of the Senate Labor,
Health, Education & Welfare Ap
propriations Subcommittee queried:
"Why should we spend millions of
dollars for new programs and new
facilities when we should be able to
use a sound PHS hospital system
which is already in existence?"
Perhaps more than any other
federally-funded program, USPHS
has consistently made efforts to earn
its keep; to change with the times
while holding to its initial purpose
and serving its primary benefi
ciaries!
USPHS is an effective health
service that has stood the test of
time. We have fought for the
continuation of that service in the .
past. And we are prepared to fight '
for it in" the future.
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N the last few years the SLU has
lost a lot of good men. Men who
had seen the bad days, the hard days
of the Union's early years.
Sadly, another .one of those
oldtimers passed away early this
month. He Was former SIU official
Joe Algina, a dedicated Union.^man,
a man who took pride and pleasure
in his family, and simply—to the
people who knew him—a nice man.
Brother Algina, who retired early
last year, passed away on Mar. 4 at.
the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in
'""•ston, Mass. He had undergone a
trinlc bypass heart operation the
•Acek before.
Really, the term "oldtimer" does
r;(»t seem completely accurate.
Eiother Algina was 64 years old. In
actual years that is hot so old. But
like other Union officials who have
died lately, Algina was old in terms
jf the years of service he'd given the
SIU.
Starting in 1^44 when he came
ashore as a Union organizer, Algina
served his brother Seafarers in jobs
that ranged from New York port
agent to Headquarters representa
tive to assistant secretary-treasurer.
He also served as SIU safety director
and as a special representative from
the International to its fishing
affiliates. .
Born in Worcester, Mass. on May
I, 1916, Joseph J. Algina first went
to sea when he was 21. Though at the
start he was a member of the steward
department, Algina switched to the
deck department where he sailed as
AB and bosun. During World War
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and second mate.
A member of the International
Seamen's Union, Algina was quick
tojoin the SIU when it was formed tl
1938. He joined in the port of Boston
and his book number was A-1.
After being a Union organizer,
Algina, in the mid 1940's served as
New York deck patrolman and
acting port agent before being
elected New York port agent in
1948, 1949, and 1950.
In the two following years he.was
elected Headquarters representa
tive. In 1953,he was elected assistant
secretary-treasurer, a post to which
he was re-elected seyeral times.
An' active partteipant in many
Union fights. Brother Algina took
part in the Coos Bay beef and.
Monthly Membership Meetings
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he is shown in his early days with the Union. The photo at left shov\^ Brother
Algina in 1970 when, as SIU Safety Director, he went aboard the Ga/veston
(Sea-Land) in Newark, N.J.,, to begin a safety inspection.
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various longshore beefs, the 1946
General Strike, and the Wall Street
and-Isthmian strikes. He was also
very involved in the American
Shipping beef of the mid and late
1956's.
For many years Algina also
serve'd on the Union negotiating.
Committee that-bargained with
employers for Seafarers' contracts.
In 1959, Algina was appointed
SIU safety director. In this position
. he helped establish criteria forsafety
aboard ships, together with the
Coast Guard he, set up Collective
Regulations on Safety. Among
other things, these regulations dealt
with safety equipment aboard ship
and safe loading and unloading
procedures.
One of Brother Algina's most
important tasks.as an SIU official
was the job he was assigned by the
Johnny Yarmola
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was bver, after the people in the bar
had shouted "goodbye Johnny!", he
would walk over to his room at the
Pick-Lee Hotel, read a book,call his
devoted wife Peggy and go to bed.
He had more than one vice, but his
favorite one was reading. He wanted
to know all that he could about
everything there was to know. He
used to say that the best thing that
the SIU ever did was to institute the
GED program at Piney Point. He
had dreams of taking a paralegal
course.
He had an unusually strong sense
of commitment. When Paul Hall
fell ill, he was by his side, everyday,
every night. He stood by his old
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be a special repre.sentative to the
international's fishing and cannery
worker affiliates.
Working with affiliates on, both
the East and West Coasts, Algina
was involved in a program to rebuild
the fishing unions. He was always on
the scene when there were problems
or disputes and he helped negotiate
contracts for the fishing affiliates.
As is clear from his work record,
Algina was a dedicated Union man.
He was also very much a family man
who derived a great deal of joy from
the ,time he spent with his wife and
children. Brother Algina's wife,
Eileen, died a number of years ago
and he was buried in the same
cemetery where she reposes. Holy
Rood in Westbury, N.Y. Surviving
Seafarer Algina are five children:
Kathleen; James; Patty; Dorrie, and
John, and five grandchildren. Al
gina had resided with his daughter,
Dorrie, in East Freetown, Mass.
His son, John, who had been
shipping out as an SIU rhember in
the engine department, has now
earned his third assistant engineer's
license.
One last note before this article on
Seafarer Algina ends. This reporter
knew and admired Joe Algina for
many years. When f first came to
work for the SIU, I wrote for the
fishing affiliates' publication and so
worked closely with Brother Algina.
The other night at home I used an
expression that will remind me of
Brother Algina for a long time
because it's one that 1—and prob
ably a lot of other people—picked
up from him—"Okey-Dokey!"-
Enroll no^in this 4 week Course starting May 25.
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friend and mentqr without any
thought of his own .welfare. And
when Paul Hall died, he cried like a
child.
Today, there are a lot of people
crying for Johnny Yarmola. During
his lifetime, he had touched a great
number of people. There is only one
way to repayall the absurd jokes and
kindnesses, the loyalty and the good
times; and that is to remember what
Johnny Yarmola believed in. He
valued history and continuity.
Though most people didn't knoW it,
his whole life was his wife Peggy and
his son, Jeff. Alone with a friend,
away from the crowd, he would
invariably talk about his son. His
face would light up and he would
become animated. He was proud
that "Jeffie" had joined the SIU, the
organization that his father had
worked for most of his adult life. He
was proud that Jeffie loved to read,
just like him. He was proud that he
had made use of the union's GED
program. He was proud that he had
become one of the youngest
members ever to get his QMEDs
rating, thereby carrying on his
father's love of education and his
dedication to the maritime industry-
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When You Need Help to Upgrade You Get It at SHLSS
math and reading skills. With the
new ABE program, an upgrader
can come to Piney Point Up to a
month before his upgrading class
or GED courses start, to get
tutoring in math and reading.
This could make a big difference
in how well the student will do in
classes and on exams.
Perhap^as you're reading this
article, you gan think of a man
you've sailed with who could
benefit from this course. Have
you ever had to help a shipmate
with the math on his overtime
sheet? Have you ever sailed with a
person who could use Some
reading help? Then encourage
these men to come to school for
some individualized instruction
in these areas.
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Right from the beginning, young men In training to become Seafarers find
that help Is available to aid them In their studies. Here,-Edlth Foster helps a
group of Trainees with study materials for the Lifeboat & Water Survival
course.
Two Seafarers who are among the first to achieve Third Engineer licenses
through the new SHLSS Licensed Engineer prograrn had high praise for
the teachers who helped them with their studies. When they got their
licenses, they wanted a picture with the two teachers wHo helped them
most—so here It Is. SHLSS Engine Instructor Dave Greig, at left,'and
Teaching Specialist Carolyn Smith share the limelight with Third Engineers
Bill Strode, from Port Arthur, and Harold (Slim) Whightsll, from Louisana.
Cindy Meredith works with Seafarers who are preparing for exams to
become QMED's. Cindy has worked at SHLSS for more than five years, and
she knows the needs of the men and women who come to the school to
upgrade. Here, she works with Seafarers Pripce Wescott (left) and Gregory
Johns.
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HE Seafarers Harry Lunde:berg School of Seamanship
is committed to meeting the
broad educational needs of its
^membership. This commitment is
demonstrated through the
Charlie Logan College scholar
ship, the Charles County Com
munity College program, and the
high school equivalency (GED)
program.
Now the academic staff has
developed an Adult Basic
Education (ABE) program to
help upgraders brush up on their
basic math and reading skills.
When stijdents return to
school to upgrade their voca
tional skill or to apply for the
GED program, they often find
they need to develop their basic
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Seafarer John Mitchell has been away from school for a,long time, and he
was worried about being capabJe of keeping up with his studies. SHLSS
Special Instructor Chris Moorehouse puts him at ease through patient help
with study problems, and with encouragement.
When Ben TIdwell arrived at Piney Point back In 1974, It would tiave surprised
the youngster from Knoxvllle, Tenn. to know that one day he would be handed a
Third Mate's license. But, that's what happened. This month. Seafarer Ben
TIdwell became the first seaman to achieve a Third Mate's license through the
new licensed offIper program at SHLSS. Presenting Third Mate TIdwell with his
new license Is Frank Mongelll, vice president of the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
School of Seamanship. Brother TIdwell, 25, sails out of the Port of San
Francisco.
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Mew Tawboat Operators:
SiU Boatmen Achieve Licenses
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security by improving their skills at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of
Seamanship. Displaying their Certificates of Achievement after completing the
course for Pumproom Maintenance and Operation are, from left, Donald Bush,
from the Port of Norfolk; Chris Devonish, New York, and Jonathon Fink, also
from New Yor'k.
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Two more SIU Inland Boatmen eamed licenses as Towboat Operator throuah
a special program at SHLSS established by the Transportation Institute The
new Towboat Operators are (top photo) Don Golden, seen here in the wheelhouse of the Susie Collins with SHLSS Instructor Ben Cusic, and (photo
below) James Stanfield in the wheelhouse of the C.L 2. Stanfield works out of
Detroit, while Brother Golden works with Crowley Marine in Wilmington Calif
Transportation Institute's Towboat Operator Scholarship Program, together
with its Diesel Engineer Scholarship Program, is encouraging many of our
members to upgrade their skills.
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across the white sands and lush greenery of her native Hawaii. Little wonder
men that she was not prepared for the harsh winter winds that blow in from the
Chesapeake Bay and whip up the St. George's River where lifeboat classes get
undervvay rain or shine." But—like other crewmembers of the SlU-contracted
Oceanic Independence—she bundled up and took her turn at the sweep oar
And, like ^e rest of her crewmates, she passed her Coast Guard tests and
earned a Qualified Lifeboatman endorsement.
A Reunion on Pier 45
Dt^er and Mcngelll Recall
Bitter Longshore Struggle
Pier 45 on Manhattan's Lower West Side is where it all began for Johnnv
Dvjyer. And here we are, some 46 years later, at "Pier 45" in PJney Point and
Johnny Dwyer is retired (Seethe Log, February 1981.) JohnnystopiSdorat
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an old friend, Frank KSnaem
who worked very closely with Johnny during the "Longshore t^'Nn
19^ s. With the two old friends here is Johnny's wife Mary.
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As lakes SeasonWears Opwilng
Conveyorm^'^^^^
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ship. They are an hMdti
Lundeberg School of Seamanshipping i^ason nearf(^Sen^na
^reat Ukes
Port of Algonac- Michael
Maynard Baker, from the
and Seafarers School Instr^tor Bm
Al-Samawi, Algonac,
Algonac- Jan Thomnortn o? .
Standing from left are John Barrett,
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SCHOOL OF SEAMANSHIP
UPGRADING COURSE SCHEDULE
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Check-in-Date
Completion Date
Coulrse
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April 27
June 22
August 17
October 12
May 21
Celestial Navigation
July 16
September 12
Novembers
First Class Pilot
May 10
July 30
September 27 December 17
May 24
June 18
July 19
August 13
September 13 Octobers
Novembers
Decembers
Marine Electrical Maintenance July 6
October 26
Marine Electronics
Quartermaster
Third Mate
August 27
Able Seaman
December 17
Bosun Recertlflcatlon
May 25
August 10
November 1
June 25
September 11
December 4
October 5
November 20
July 6
September 11
March 29
April 26
May 24
August 16
October 11
November 22
April 23
May 21
June IS
September 10
Novembers
December 17
April 13
August 10
Junes
October 5
May 11
July 13
September 7
October 12
Julys
September 7
November 2
December 7
April 6
May 11
Junes
Julys
August 10
September 7
Octobers
Novembers
December 7
May 4
Junes
Julys
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August 3
September 7
Octobers
November 2
December 7
January 4
March 26
May 10
June 7
Julys
August 16
September 13
October 11
Novembers
April 9
May 21
June IS
July 16
August 27
September 25
October 23
November 20
July 30
November 19
Diesel (Regular)
March 30
June 22
October 12
April 23
July 16
November 5
Diesel Scholarship
March 30
June 22
October 12
May 21
August 13
December 3
Junes
October 26
July 16
December 3
Automation
March 30
August 3
Aprii23
August 27
Basic Welding
May 25
August 17
June IS
September 10
Pumproom Maintenance and
Operations
Completion Date
June 19
July 16
Septembers 1 October S
May 25
July 2
Septembers October22
I Refrigeration Systems
Maintenance and Operations June 22
October 12
Check-in-Date
Steward Recertlflcatlon
"A" Seniority
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LIfeboatman/Tankerman
Third Assistant Engineer
April 13
August 3
June 19
October 9
Towboat Operator
May 11
July 2
Towboat Operator Scholarship March 30
May 14
June 22
August 6
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Upgrading Application
Date 6f Birth
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Quartermaster
Towboat Operator
Western Rivers
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• Towboat Operator (Over
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• Master
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• Pilot
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STEWARD
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QMED - Any Rating
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Marine Electrical Maintenance
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Automation
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Refrigeration Systems
0 Diesel Engines
0 Assistant Btgineer (Uninspected
Motor Vessel)
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Cook & Baker
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�SIU TRADITION— LEGEND
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SIU PRESIDENT FRANK DROZAK
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|HROUGHOUT its history, the SIU has held its position at the prow of
social, political and economic advancement for the Brotherhood of the Sea.
Our union led the way in formulating comprehensive pension and
welfare programs for seamen; instituted the first vacation plan; established
working programs for trai^qing and upgrading seamen thirty years ago, culminating
with our highly accredited institution at Piney Point, Maryland.
We were the first to develop an effective political action program in Washing
ton, D.C. and the first to establish a union sponsored alcoholic rehabilitation
program for seamen.
These programs were and continue to be landmark achievements for ourjjnioh
and a source of tremendous advancement for SIU members.
Advancement and improvement for our people exemplifies this union. In
accordance with this SIU legacy, the SIU Political/Social/Welfare/Training
Program -offers a broad ambitious plan designed to enhance the quality and
availability of services afforded SIU members', pensioners and their families. This
program also coordinates the political activities in the field with our legislative
staff in Washington, D.C..
The focus of the program revolves around specially qua'lified field represen
tatives who have been assigned to SIU ports throughout the country. Each field
representative has undergone a one month course of intensive study-learning in ,
depth—all aspects of the SIU—union education and history, pension/welfare/
vacation plans. Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship, labor law and
labor's involvement in politics.
Marianne Rogers, the Washington, D.C. based National Director cuordinates
these field representatives. With her at the helm, these field representatives will
apply their broad range of knowledge and by advancing the SIU's general interests
in the Halls of Congress, state legislatures and other local and civic bodies.
These duties and responsibilities includes .
(1) providing personal services to SlUmembers and their families in need
or to those members and their families who, for whatever reasons, are
unable to apply for assistance in person at the Hiring Hall. This will *
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Jacksonville^ Fia.
Marianne Rogers
Bill Itodges
Boston^ Mass.
battle. Wash.
Joe -C^orrigan
Mike Delman
Baltimore, Md.
Robert Anion
Norfolk, Va.
Bin Hulchens
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Bob Hansen
Dalnthi» Minn.
Wavne Brandt
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pertain particularly to the families of those members at sea, pensioners,
and members^of the SIU out on disability pension. Field representative s
duties in this regard may include assistance in processing or expediting
an entitled claim; assistance in resolving any pension/vacation/welfarerelated grievances; assistance in resolving personal or union-related
problems; assistance with any legal problems that an SfU member may .
nave and providing clarification or direction where necessary;
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Maritime Port Gouncils in each port in any area or issue
representatives' expertise will be most beneficial; (4) to represent and further the interests of the SIU. its membership and
at the local, state and Federal level, and at union and labor
tunctions, by actively participating in a wide spectrum of civic
pvernmental anddabor activities. ThisHncludes lobbying in state
le^slatures and city councils, direct invcdvement in community affairs !
apd worthwhile labor/business/government committees and organiza
tions, attending ^social functions and politically-oriented events. r': '
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representati^s will maintain high visibility profiles with Congressional and other public officials and their staffs as part of an ongoing effort to
educate our elect^ governmental representatives as to the vital importance and
urgent needs of the American merchant marine and the U.S, maritime industry.'
.1 he SIU field representatives represent the SIU membership in the field by
serving as a liaison between the SIU -members and their families, and the
surrounding labor/business/governmental communities. They will also assist the
state and central bodies arnd coordinate our efforts with other labor unions in each
state.
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already sound foundation of the SIU organization for the present and far-reaching
future. It is a program that is working for HIS right now, today. And it is a program
that will continue to yield higiT dividends in the decades ahead.
Brooklyn, IV.Y
.Wilmington, Calif.
Tom Messana
Scolt Hanloii
Ciovoiand, Ohio
PhlifMleiphia, Pa.
.Martin V'ittardi
Geoffrey Thompson
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HoHNton, Tex.
Tom Martin
Robert R. Jara .
Afewdersoy
Jim War«l
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Afew Orieans
Steve Jaeksoq
Pat Judge
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representatives concen•on the Internal SIU
organization, slrikes, union-
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They learneji about the
various charactjristics of our
membership anfi where they
are located—deJp sea, inland
waterways. Gull Great Lakes.
At the SHLSS jhe field reps
viewed upgradjlig and recertiUcation andlliade friends
with new recrifijs.
Officials of th| fransportati9n Institute bfjefed the field .
representatives Ion maritime'
legislation andjits ramifica- '
tions throughoujthe industry.
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'egislative rep; Bill Barclift direSoTSvpmml®®* I P°''®yP'ann'ng.TI:
Kilduff, government relations representative Tl -nw® c
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representative.
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ton. D.C., the Field Representatives had
a chance to hear, first-hand, about he
programs and plans of the AFL-Cia
Here Alan Kistler. the Federation s
director of Organizing & Field Services
talked about his area of expertise.
Rep. Trent Lott (R-Mlss.) spoke to the
Field Representatives about maritime
legislation and the inland waterways
ihdustry.
If you want to know who's who (and
what's what) in Congress, Rep. Tony
COehIo (D-Ca.) is the man to ask. Hes
chairman of the Democratic Congres
sional Campaign Committee and he
answered plenty of questions for the
Field Reps.
Leading a questlon-and-answer period
after screening a film on the history and
functions of the AFL-CIQ Maritime
Trades Dept., is MTD Executive Secre
tary-Treasurer Jean Lngrao.
WASHINGTON, D.C.
The field representatives
N Washington, D.C. the
traveled widely
Capitol
field representatives met
Hill, meeting legislators and
, with various organizations
attending conferences and
and groups directly involved
committee meetings.
in the legislative process
By the end of their stay in
which, as you Vnow, has a
the
Nation's Cap-ital, they
rhajor affect upon the fortunes
realized that the only road to
of the SIU "and the maritime
success for the ^lU and the
industry.
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maritime industry rested in
They gained valuable jnobtaining and effectively ap
sight info the hisfory and
plying "VVashington Political
workings of the labor move
Clout."
Only with such clout
ment, ahd of the SIU's integral
could they, as field represen
paftfcipation in, and "contri^ bution to that great m'bvement. i tatives, help to solve social
security^ pension,, welfare and
V AFL-CIO officials outlined
other problems of SIU mem
the federation's COPE (Com^ mittee on Political Education) - bers on Jhe local, state and
Federal level.
pperation and structure.
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Directing a videotape session during the
training program is SHLSS Director of
Public Relations-Charles Svenson. All
the panel discussions and presentations
were videotaped and will be used during
future SIU conferences.
.he Field Reps abou. the wide variety of «.uca.lonal and ,e.ea..h
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The poimcal am of tha AFL-CIO is the Committee on
Political Education (COPE). During the Washington
part Of the Field Rep conference. COPE Director Ai
Barkan talked about how COPE works.
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photographer Dennis Lundy. The videotaped ^presentatio^
program will be used during future Union conferences.
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SlU Headquarters In Brooklyn, N.Y., has a sophisti
cated computer Data Center. Director Pete McDonald
explained the Center's functions to Field Reps, and
how it could be of use to therh in their everyday work
administrator of the Seafarers
Welfare, Pension & Vacation Plans, discusses the SlU
benefit plans. '
/n-Afeiir York, the Field
Reps were filled in on the workings of the SlU Welfare
Plan by Supervisor Tom Cranford.
NEW YORK CITY
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Headquarters, the field
representatives met union
officials and administrators
of the various union pro
grams.
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Talking about the results of the 1980
elections is the SlU's Political & Legisla
tive Representative for N.Y. andN.J Phil
Piccigallo.
They learned about the
wide-range of services and
benefits available to the mem
bership and their families
under the SIU's excellent
Pension, Welfare and Vaca
tion Plans, and, more impor
tantly, how to make such
services and benefits avail
able to SIU members.
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The field representatives
also learned about labor law,
employment retirement and
the Employment Retirement
Income Security Act (ERISA),
and.Iegal services available to
SIU members.
In the end, they recognized
how significantly all phases
of their training interact and
relate with one another, there
by producing a well-rounded,
well-informed, well-equipped
grass roots field rep"-T-one
who is all the more able to
assist directly SIU members
in the ongoing struggle to
improve the quality of their
lives.
Fieldreps werebriefedori eaUecttvebargalnlrig _and delinquencies to fringe
benefit plans by SIU Associate Counsel
Charles Monblatt
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24 / LOG / March 1981
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Directory
SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes
& Inland Waters
United Industrial Workers
of North America
Frank Dro2ak,./;resirfeAj/
Joe DiGiorgio, secretary-treasurer
Leon Hall, vice president
Angus "Red" Campbell, vice president
Mike Sacco, vice president
Joe Sacco, vice president
till
IM»patch»r« Baport for D^^oa
JAN. 1-31,1981
Port
*TOTAL REGISTERED
All Groups
ClassA ClatsB -ClassC
TOTAL SHIPPED
AIIGroups
ClassA ClassB ClassC
DKK DEPARTMENT
Boston
NewYprk..
Philadelphia
Baltimore
''REGISTERED ON BEACH
_
AIIGroups
ClassA Class B CfastC
HEADQUARTERS
675 4 Ave., Bklyn. 11232
(212) HY 9-6600
A LOON AC, Mich.
520 St. Clair River Dr. 48001
(313) 794-9375
ALPENA, Mich. . .. .800 N. 2 Ave. 49707
(517) EL 4-3616
BALTIMORE, Md.
1216 E. Baltimore St. 21202
(301) EA 7-4900
BOSTON, Mass. .... 215 Essex St. 02111
(617)482-4716
CHICAGO, ILL.
tl;
9402 S- Ewing Ave. 60617
(312) SA 1-0733
Norfolk
?l
CLEVELAND, Ohio
Tampa
15
1290 Old River Rd. 44113
Mobile
5
New Orleans
7
(216) MA 1-5450
Jacksonville
*
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COLUMBUS, Ohio
San Francisco
fS
4937 West Broad St. 43228
Wilmin^on
•••••••••
49
Seattle
28
(614) 870-6161
Puerto Rico
f|
DULUTH, Minn.
Houston
15
705 Medical Arts Building 55802
PineyPoint
72
Yokohama....
9
(218) RA 2-4110
FRANKFORT. Mich
Ro. Box D
415 Main St. 49635
Port
(616) 352-4441
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
Boston ........
GLOUCESTER,
Mass.
New York........
5
11
9
Philadelphia
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63 Rogers St.0l903
66
38
Baltimore
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3
(617) 283-1167
3
Norfolk.. ......r .
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14
HONOLULU, Hawaii
1
Tampa
•*•••••••
7
7
6
Mobile
5
707 Alakea St. 96813
7
7
New Orleans
l®
9
(808) 537-5714
4;
Jacksonville
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5b
62
13
HOUSTON, Tex.... 1221 Pierce St. 77002
San Francisco
.
"
ix
7
A
Wilmington
(713) 659-5152
27
/l7
Seattle
1§
JACKSONVILLE, Fla.
5
4
Puerto Rico ...
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29
10
3315 Liberty St. 32206
Houston
12
6
3
PineyPoint ...^.
(904) 353-0987
29
'14
JERSEY CITY, N.J.
1
5
1
1
99 Montgomery St. 07302
284
139
(201) HE 5-9424
STEWARD
DEPARTMENT
MOBILE.
Ala.
..IS.
Lawrence
St. 36602
Boston
0
4
NewYork ......
0
(205)
HE
2-1754
1
7
46
20
2
Philadelphia:.:;:;;
0
0
45
NEW
ORLEANS,
La.
50
1
0
38
Baltimore
1
6
4
6
13
630 Jackson Ave. 70130
3
1
Norfolk
0
1
16
3
7
6
5
Tampa
I
I
(504) 529-7546
2
4
4
9
2
Mobile
3
0
5
4
NORFOLK,
Va
115
3 St. 23510
8
2
1
0
1
Neworieans.::;;;
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7
3
36
1
6
(804)
622-1892
0
1
Jacksonville
......
37
25
16
6
5
n
3
PORTLAND, Or.
San Francisco.';
11
11
17
4
17
0
10
Wilmington..
65
16
421 S.W. 5th Ave. 97204
10
40
6
29
Seattle
9
9
10
15
20
10
4
(503) 227-7993
15 1
Puerto Rico
38
20
4
4
0
14
3
Houston..
2
PADUCAH.
Ky
225
S. 7 ^t. 42001
4
34
2
12
0
I PineyPoint
26
16
(502)
443-2493
0
18
3
2
0
Yokohama
0
38
0
0
0
0
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 S. 4 St. 19148
Totals
••
1
0
0
216
0
86
11
29
268
217
(215) DE 6-3818
145
Port
76 1 PINEY POINT, Md.
ENTRY
DEPARTMENT
Boston
St. Mary's County 20674
4
12
4
NewYork ...;;
5
(301) 994-0010
4
21
93
32
Philadelphia
32 ' 218
3
20
2
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. .534 9 Ave. 77640
Baltimore.
9
31
13
28
10
Norfolk
(713) 983-1679
18
74
5
25
9
Tampa
9
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.
57
0
8
1
Mobile .
2
15
2
15
0
NewOrleans
350 Fremont St. 94105
12
29
32
48
16
Jacksonville .
(415) 626-6793
51
100
12
19
5
Sari Francisco.
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20
SANTURCE,.P.R.
45
13
35
50
Wilmington
37
106
6
21
39
Seattle...
1313 Fernandez, Juncos,
6
44
18
29
7
I Puerto Rico :;
18
Stop 20 00909
49
6
21
1
Houston....
19
41
18
(809) 725-6960
53
6
P'neyPoint
30
80
0
46
0
Yokohama...
SEATTLE, Wash. .....2505 I Ave. 98121
0
1
1
3
1
Totals
1
(206) MA 3-4334
3
154
476
183
269
897
ST.
LOUIS,
Mo.
4581
Gravois
Ave. 63116
Totals All Departments
1.
1,185
872
289
968
626
(314)
752-6500
70
2,188 1,557
786
TAMPA,
Fla.
2610
W.
Kennedy
Blvd.
33609
number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month.
(813) 870-1601
g tered on the Beach meansthetotalnumber of men registered at the port at the end of last month.
TOLEDO, Ohio ... 635 Summit St. 43604
(419) 248-3691
WILMINGTON, Calif.
niom'h tirSlc
deepsea ports. A total of 1,664 jobs were shipDed lasf
408 Avalon Blvd. 90744
V.l^-contracted deep sea vessels. That 's a slight decrease of jobs shipped over the previous month. Of the« I 664
(213) 549-4000
jobs only 968 or slightly more than half, were taken by 'A" seniority members. The rest
were filled by "B" and "C
YOKOHAMA, Japan
RO Box 4^9
eniority people. Shipping is expected to remain good.
Yokohama Port P.O. 5-6 Nihon Ohdo"ri
Naka-Ku 231-91
201-7935
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Tk^ainees learn how to raise the llfeboafs sail.
Survival at Seal They Don
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by Mike Gillen
that it
goes far
beyond« just
Survival! That's what the two- preparing you for a Coast Guard
week Lifeboatman course at the examination.
The Lifeboatman course is a
Seafarers Harry Lundeberg
case
in point. It goes far beyond
School of Seamanship in Piney
you how it's done on
Point, Md. is all about; survival showing
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at sea should you ever have to paper. And it goes far beyond the
basic technique involved in
abandon ship.
The thing that sets the , launching a lifeboat.
What it gives you is the added
Lundeberg School apart from so
ingredient
that only thorough
many other maritime schools is
and expert practical instruction
Mike Gillen is co-director of can give: confidence.
Knowledge and confidence go
the SeafarersHistoricalResearch
hand in hand and, taken
Department,
together, they increase the odds
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of what is the bottom line no bones about the right or
objective of the Lundeberg wrong way of doing things—nre
School's Lifeboatman course: experts in the art of ocean
your survival in the inhospitable survival.
environment of the open ocean.
From them you'll learn more
The
established its
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isvuvj*^! has
ims caiauiisiicu
lis
than the "how to" of launching,
reputation for being a cut above getting underway and command
the rest on the fact that it doesn't ing a lifeboat. And you'll learn
draw the line at the bare more than the ins and outs of
minimum required to satisfy the liferafts. Yoq'll also learn such
Coast Guard. In the case of the
Lifeboatman course, it aims to
provide you with no less than the
tools you'll need to sav^ your life.
As a result, you'd be hard
pressed to find anywhere else the
kind of up-to-date, practical
instruction (as well as top-notch
classroom instruction) that you
find at the SHLSS.
Perhaps the besi example of
this is the instruction trainees and
upgraders receive in the use of
lifera/ts.
Where else could you learn—
by doing—the correct method of
righting, by yourself, a 25-ntan
liferaft should it inflate upside
down?
Where else could you learnby doing—the proper technique
for hauling an injured person into
a liferaft?
And where else could you learn
—by doing—the best way of
jumping into the drink and then
boarding a liferaft?
At the Lundeberg School, and
perhaps no other place, you learn
how. We do not exaggerate when
we say its program of instruction
is both unique and equals or
surpasses the best.
The school's instructors,
though perhaps not expert in the
Into the drink! Trainees learn
art of diplomacy—for they make doing
at the SHLSS.
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the Toledo-Detroit coal run. The company also has tentative plans to
begin running the Sam Laud in early March.
Alpena
Fitting out from the port of Alpena is Huron Cement's S T. Crapo. The
cement carrier has been laid up for the past month.
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^holarships to the George Meany Labor Studies Center in Silver Spring,
Winners of the Gorden Singelyn Scholarship were chosen by a drawing
during a recent meeting of the Michigan AFL-CIO Executive Board The
names of trade unionists included in the drawing were submitted by
executive board members.
total for 1980 of 143,995,061 net tons was 12.5 percent below the
164,737,929 net tons moved in 1979. Shipments of iron ore through Nov.,
1980 totalled 67,195,499 gross tons, a drop of 21 percent from 1979's
85.549,388. Coal totals declined from the 1979 figure of 42,853,640 net
tons to 39,197.703 for last year. The only increase over 1979 was in grain
shipments, up slightly from 26,068,974 net tons in 1979to 29,538 400 in
1980. An additional seven million tons of U.S. grain was carried from
U.S. Great Lakes ports to the St. Lawrence grain transfer elevators bv
Canadian-flag vessels.
PCS Pollution
More and more stories of toxic waste contamination have been hitting
the headlines in newspapers throughout the country recently Helpless
citizens from coast-to-coast have been finding out that their houses were
built over landfills where toxic wastes were dumped; that leaks or
accidents have allowed carcinogens to enter the food-chain.
The Great Lakes area is sitting on a time-bomb contained in hundreds
of thousands of barrels holding PCB-contaminated wastes which are
stored throughout the region.
PBCs (polycholrinated biphenyls) are colorless, odorless chemicals
which were widely used in adhesives, paints, varnishes, sealants and for
insulation until they were banned in 197Z They are highly toxic and have
contaminated most of the Greaf Lakes through rain and snow. In
addition, PCB-laden chemicals w^re simply dumped intotheGreat Lakes
tor many years.
Now the U.S Food & Drug Administration advises people not to eat
Great Lakes fish containing more than five parts per million of PCB
The problem of how to get rid of PCBs has still not been answered
Incineration is the only method of disposal for high level PCBs
authorized as safe by the Environmental Protection Agency. Though the
technology exists to build such incinerators, public opposition and other
factors have prevented any of them from being approved for commercial
use in the U.S.
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to the population.
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was returned^to service at the end of December when repair work
necessitated by the Chiefs collision with the St. Ignace dock was
, 'u "IS'","''Guarit certified her fit for service and a week later
Ae Michi^n Dept. ofTransportation released the funds necessary to run
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70-year-old hand bomber was thelw"
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Buffalo
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Colk^ p?ogr'am.''°"'''"'''"^
(including seamen) to earn a
State's Off-Campus
The program began at Wayne State University in Detroit under the
sponsorshipof the UAW. Because of the success of the Detro t pro^^^^^^^^
It was recently extended to Buffalo.
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""program.
To be a full-time student, participants are required to take three
courses. Each course meets once a week; there are TV courses which
coordinate with classwork and there's also a special weekend course
meeting three times per semester on the Buffalo State College campus' '
tleVhY^r
H usually earned
the three credits
instead of ^
from college courses.
Many different degree programs, as well as financial aid and v-teran's'
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information abou, the Off-clmpu^
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Tonnage Totals
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Tonnage totals for 1980 m basic bulk commodities-iron ore.coal and
gram took a dramatic dip from the 1979 figures. The overall bulk cargo
A report released in mid-January by the Maritime Administration says
U.S. Great Lakes ports could play a key role in a U.S. coal export
program because those ports provide a "competitive alternative" to
traditional Atlantic ports.
In the report, titled Great Lakes Ports Coal Handling Capacitv and
Export Poterttial, Marad said "if world coal demands continue to in
crease and U.S. East Coast ports continue to be congested, the Great
Lakes-St. Lawrence route will be a competitive alternative."
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The report noted that rail and port facilities necessary for coal exports
already exist in seven locations on the U.S. Great Lakes: Ashtabula
Conneaut, Sandusky and Toledo, Ohio; Erie, Pa.; South Chicago 111 •
and Superior, Wise.
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Compiled in response to a request from the Council of Lake Erie Ports
and other Great Lakes maritime interests to determine whether Great
eoncTuded"
coal exports, the report
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the most eompetiti.ely priced source. Also cost competitive is
Appalachian coal Via Conneaut.
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Lakes-St. Lawrence River could act as "blending
lacihties for coal originating at a variety of Great Lakes ports on Lakes
Superior and Erie.
• U.S. rail and port facilities are already in place .serving U.Sdomestic and U.S.-Canadian coal trade.
1.1^1. ^consportation rates from mine to overseas destinations are slightly
Coast'no'm H
L'-wronce Seaway than competing East
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I •iwrence'!ingestion) the Great Lakes/.St.
Lawrence route is price competitive.
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export coal rail rate were established from origin mines to Great Lakes
tra*de"new ma'''"Pcralors are to gain a share of the export coal
trade, new maximum cubic capacity vessels must be built
exp7 coai'moL'ir''' Til' ^^'''''SC "f 'he total 40 million tons of
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HE ink was scarcely dry
on its charter before the
new Seafarers Interna
tional Union began win
ning benefits for its members and
proving its intention to play an
aggressive role in maritime labor.
In 1939 SIU crews Jjegan a
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drive for morp adequate bonuses
on ships sailing into war zones.
The union also signed improved
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contracts with the Savannah Line and other operators.
An 11-day strike against the
big Eastern S.S. Co., operator of
passenger ships and freighters,
resulted in a contract for better
wages and working conditions. A
strike began against the Peninsu
lar and Occidental Line (P&O),
which operated. car-f6rries and
passenger ships between Florida
and Cuba. This strike lasted 14
months and was finally successful
for the S1.U, although the
company later put its ships under
foreign flags. The P&O beef
showed that the new union could
"hang together" when tl?e going
got rough.
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its members in the war bonus out two ofT^r'bSlkter^!'uter^®SSJ!j
M thte''TOre^'L^^^
port
after
a
torpedo
had
blasted
into
them
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beefs that iS^gan in 1939. These
bonuses were for extra "hazard for militant action taken by SIU seamen were now on the front
disputes. It also recommended
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Robin *Line's
ous duty" pay for men sailing crewmen
lines of the war and there they
creation of a three-man War
ships to South and East Africa S.S. Algio 'in July of 1940, when served until VJ Day in 1945.
Emergency Maritime Board for
they walked off the ship,,
and the Red Sea.
When there was no progress in
maritime mediation, which was
The September 18, 1939 issue demanding a bonus of $1 a day • talks with operators and the
approved
by the President. This
of the Seafarers Log carried this from the time the ship left port in government, the SIU initiated
Board handled bonus matters for
the United States until her return all-out action in September of
headline:
the
duration of the war.
'SW Strikes Ships For home.
1941, starting with ships in New
The NDMB granted an
The/I/g/c action came after an _ .York that were loaded with cargo imitiediate
Bonus.
increase in war
Crews walked off the Eastern announcement by the German for new bases in the Caribbean.
bonuses for unlicensed personnel
Steamship liners Acadia and St. Navy that it had planted mines in The tie-up soon extended to from $60 a month to $80 a month
John and the Robin Line . African waters.
vessels in Boston, New Orleans, and an increase in special
As the war spread and both - Mobilje and Tacoma. Within a
freighter Robin Adair. The St.
bonuses for the port of Suez and
submarine
and air attacks were few days more than 20 ships were
John and Acadia had been
other
Red Sea and Persian Gulf
tied up.
chartered for returning American intensified, the SIU pressed for
ports."
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citizens from Europe and for a still more adequate war bonus
The U.S. Maritime ComniisNeedless to say, the West
carrying American construction for seamen endangering their sion struck back by seizing three Coast s unions and the National
Alcoa sliips and placing govern Maritime Union were powerful
workers to air base projects in lives in war areas.
SI U men again hit the-bricks in
Bermuda.
ment-recruited crews on board allies with the SIU in its bonus
July
of
1941,
tying
up
the
and threatening to requisition all battles, with the NMU respecting
These actions resulted in the
Flomar,
Shickshinny
and
Robin
privately-operated merchant SIU picket line's, even though it
shipowners agreeing to a 25
Locksley
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New
York
to
show
vessels.
percent bonus for voyages to
did walk out of an important
President Roosevelt told the union-industry Washington,
certain Atlantic and Middle East they meant business. The ships
were later released and allowed to union that the ships "must move bonus conference in 1941.
war zones.^
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else." The SIU was up against
In September of 1940 the SIU sail when operators and the or
If it had not been 'o«
for strong
strong
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government
agreed
to
sit
down
hog carried a hea,dline of vital
the Federal^Government, so on and militant action by the Union
and negotiate.
interest to seamen:
September 25 seamen met at 14 before United States entry into
SIU ports and voted to release the war, American merchant sca
"SIU Gets Increase to 33 1/3
SIU Ship First Sunk
the ships pending negotiations to men would probably have been
percent in Bonus for African
The urgent need iar action on
run.
end the dispute.
sailing dangerous cargoes
bonuses was emphasized with the.
Hearings
began
in
Washington
through hazardous seas for
There pfobably would have
torpedoing of the SlU-manned
which ended in a victory for the regular pay. In its war bonus
been no increase if it jiad not been
Robin Moor about 700-miles seamen, for on October 5 the light, the SIU proved that it
south of the Azores in May of
newiy-crSStedJSational Defense could pinpoint an issue, "ihove
John Bunker is director of the 1941. She was the first American
Mediation Board recommended the troops" and use the power of
Seafarers Historical Research De flag merchant ship sunk in World
partment.
increased bonuses and set up a well organized action to win iusi
War 11. American ships and
procedure for avoiding future compensation for its members.
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Patrick J. Sergi, 69, died on Sept. 22.
burial was irt West Cemetery, Bristol,
Following are the cleath notices of our brothers from the former Marine Cooks and . Conn. Surviving are three sisters, Mrs".
Stewards Union who died recently. All of these brothers were pensioners when they Marion Lavhero, Mrs. Frances Carpen
ter and Mrs. George Hemond.
died.
Bert Taylor, 56, died on Aug. 5.
Benjamin Mitchell, 75, died on Dec.
Tony V. Blando, 77, died on Aug. 15.
William Hickmap Jr., 67, died on
Cremation took place in Evergreen
12, 1979. Burial was in Evergreen
June 5. Burial was in Olivet Cemetery,
' Burial was in the Metro Cemetery,
Cemetery, Oakland, Calif. Siirviving
Cemetery, Los Angeles. Surviving are
Colma, Calif. Surviving is a sister, Mrs.
Manila, P.I. Surviving are three daugh^
are his widow, Lee Etta; a son, Bert Jr.
his widow, Florence and a brother,
Ora Lee Thompson.
ters, Mrs. Rosita Robledo, Mrs.
and two daughters, Darlene and VerJohn.
James Hou, 75, died on June 21.
Adelaida Mangdapat and Mercedes.
dell.
Interment was in Olivet Cemetery,
Edward E. Bowers, 71, died on July
Jacincto
S.
Tomas, 76, died'on June
John^S. Moore, 89, died on Aug. 27.
Colma, Calif. Surviving are his widow,
28. Cremation took place at the Olivet
16.
Interment
was in Holy Cross
Burial was in Cypress Hill Cemetery,
Yueh and a son, John.
Memorial Park Cemetery Crematory,
Cemetery, Colma, Calif. Surviving are
Petaluma, Calif. Surviving is his widow,
Colma, Calif. Suriving are his widow,
Yung G. Lee, 77, died on June 25.
his
widow, Dionisia and a sister,
Juanita.
Lillian; a son, John and a daughter,
Burial was in the Ning Yung Cemetery,
Francisca.
,
Keith L. Noble, 61, died on May 18.
Mrs. Lois Harris.
Colma, Calif. Surviving are his widow.
Ludovico Valiente, 76, died on July 3.
Interment was in Hillside Cemetery,
RamonJ. Casilla, 74,diedonJan. 13,
Fay and a son, Benjamin.
Interment
was in Calvary Ceipetery,
Eastport, _Me. Surviving are his widow,
i980. Cremation took place in WoodLos
Angeles.
Surviving is a sister,
Mary;- three sons, John, Tela andMonroe Levy, 74, died on Ctec. 4,
lawn Crematory, Bronx, N. Y. Surviving
Francisca.
Stanley and a daughter, Kristine.
1979. Interment was in Memory Gar
is his widow, Ruth.
dens Cemetery, Livermore, Calif,
William E. Crawford, 72, died on July
Raoul Valladares, 90, died on Feb.
Jack P. OTJay, 79, died.on June 15.
Surviving are a son, Robert; a daughter,
16. Burial was in Holy Cross Cemetery,
Cremation took place in the Westmin 24, 1980. Brother Valladares' remains
Mrs. Helena Holt and a brother,
Colma, Calif. Surviving are a son, Ricky
ster (Calif.) Cemetery. Surviving are his were given to the University of Southern
William.
and a^sister, Mrs. Jennie Lagler.
widow, Lillie and a sister, Mrs. Pauline California's School of Medicine, Los
Merle H. Daugherty, 68, died on Aug.
Angeles. Surviving are his widow, Rosa
Garson.
Yen W. Lim, 76, died on July 16.
.26. Interment was in Fairview Ceme
and
a daughter, Mrs. Verna Campbell.
Pablo T. Pascua, 70, died on Mar. 1,
Burial was in the Ning Yung Cemetery,
tery, Vinita, Okla. Surviving are his
Wallace
E. Walker, 80, died on June
1980.^urial was in Espiritu Cemetery,
Colma, Calif. Surviving are his widow,
widow, Maxine; two sons, Richard and
Ilocos Nortre, P.L Surviving is his 16. Burial was in Woodlawn Cemeteiy,.
Mee; a son, James; a daughter, Miranda
Philip and two daughters, Linda and
Colmh, Calif, surviving are a brother,
widow,
^alvacion.
and a brother, Lau Sum.
Yvette.
Raymond and two sisters, Mrs. Vyola '
Angle Romano, 79, died on July 30. Miller and Mildred.
Henry Dixon, 64, died on Aug. 29.
Boyd D. Lucas, 56, died on June 18.
Interment was in'Woodlawn Cemetery,
Burial was in Skyview Cemetery,
Burial was in Bahra Valley Cemkery,
Calvin Whltlock, 79, died on Mar. 31,
Colma,
Calif. Surviving are a brother, 1980. Interment was in Olivewood
Vallejo, Calif. Surviving are three
Novato, Calif. Surviving are his widow,
Innacio and a niece, Sandra.
daoghters, Mrs. Delpris Johnson, Mrs.
Mary and three sisters, Mrs. Marie
Cemetery, Riverside, Calif. Surviving
Yock Q. Sam, 64, died on June 30. are his widow, Elese and a daughter,
Patricia Curry and Mrs. Jean Terrell.
Howad, Mrs. Vivian White and Mrs.
Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery, Thelma.
Luis D. Ebueza, 86, died on Aug. 16.
Vera Parlis.
Colman,
Calif. Surviving are his widow,
Interment was in Tablon Cemetery,
Joseph Maldonado, 82, died on Aug.
Cheung Wan and a son, Wai Yuen.
Cagayan de Oro City, P.l. Surviving are
15. Interment was in Woodlawn Ceme
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his widow, Rosario; a daughter, Lautery, Colma, Calif. Surviving are his
Charles H. Scott, 77, died on Sept. 26.
rene and a sister, Mrs. Minda Jacutin.
widow, Noemuy; five sons, Victor,
Burial was in Acacia Cemetery, Seattle.'
Herman Enz, 75, died on July 17.
Peter, Harry, Reginald and Gerald and
Surviving are his widow, Esther; a son,
Interment was in Soquel (Calif.)
four daughters, Verna, Regina, Sylvia
Charles Jr. and a daughter, Mrs. Shirley
Cemetery. Surviving is his widow, Eva.
and Shirley.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
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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 are posted and available
- in all Union halls. If you feel there has been any violation
of your shipping or seniority rights as contained in the
contracts between the Union and the employers, notify
'the Seafarers Appeals Board by certified mail, return re
ceipt requested. The proper address for this is:
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Angus "Red" Campbell
Chairman, Seafarers Appeab Board
275 - 2«h Street, Brooklyn, N.V. 11215
Full copies of contracts as referred to are available to
you at ail times, either by writing directly to the Union
or to the Seafarers Appeals Board.
CONTRACTS. Copies of .all SIU contracts are avail
able in all SIU halls. These contracts specify the wages
and conditions under which^you work and live aboard
your ship or boat. Know your contract rights, as well as
your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper
sheets and in the proper mannef. If, at any time, any SIU
30 / LOG / March 1981
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATJONS. Copies of the SIU constitution are available in
all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this
constitution so a's,to familiarize themselves with its con
sents. 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 affected
should inimediately notify headquarters. -
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,
Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered
in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund
agreements. All these agreements speciTy that the trustees
ih 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.
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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS
patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails
to protect your contract rights properly, contact the
nearest SUJ port agent.
EDITORIAL POLICY — THE LOG. The Log has
traditionally refrained from publishing any article servingi
the political purposes of any individual in the Union,
officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing
articles deemed harmful to the Union or its collective
membership. This established policy ha&been reaffirmed
by membership action at the September, I960, 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, from among its ranks, one individual to'
carry out this responsibility.
PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid
to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an
official Union receipt is given for same. Under no 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 receipf, or if a member is required td make a
payment and is given an official receipt, but feels that he
should not have been required to make such payment, this
should immediately be reported to Union headquarters.
EQUAL RIGHTS. All members are guaranteed equal
rights in employment and as members of the SIU. These
rights are clearly set forth in the SIU constitution ahd'in
the contracts which the Union has negotiated with the <
employers. Conseque'ntly, no meml^er may be discrimi
nated against because of race, creed, color, sex and na
tional or geographic origin. If any member feels thai 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. All
contributions are vofuntary. 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 youf economic, poli
tical and social interests, and American trade union
concepts.
If at any time a member feeb that any of the above rights
have been violated, or that he has been denied his
constitutional right of access to Union records or infor
mation, he should immediatdy notUy SIU President Frank
Drozak at Headquarters by certified maO, return receipt
requested. The addrem b 675 - 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Pensioner John
Roger Dixon, 69„
died of cancer at
home in High
Point, N.C. on
Oct. 5, 1980.
Brother Dixon
joindd the SIU in
1946 in the port of
Norfolk sailing 3s a chief cook. He'
worked on the Hydro-Atlantic Shoregang in the port of New York from 1971
to 1972. Seafarer Dixon hit the bricks in
the 1961 N.Y. Harbor strike. And
Dixon was a veteran of the U.S. Army in
World War 11. He was bom in Reidsville, N.C. Interment was in Oakwood
Cemetery. High Point. Surviving is his
wiaow. Hazel.
. Julian 'Theo
dore Alderete, 27,
was reported lost
at sea off the ST
Overseas leutian
(Maritime Over
seas) near Puerto
Armeuell, Pana
ma on Apr. 20,.
1980. Brother Alderete joined the SIU.
following his graduation from the HLS
in the port of Houston in 1970 sailing as
an AB. He sailed for G&H Towing in
1979. Born in Houston, he was a
resident there. Surviving are his widow,
Susana; a daughter, Erika. and his
father, .Julio ofHouston. The SIU crew
of the ST Overseas Aleutian spread the
blanket to collect donations totaling
$390. which was sent to Mrs. Alderete
with a letter from the Maritime Over
seas Co.
Terrence Michael
- Downes, 22, died
of multiple injuries
in La Place, La. on
Pensioner Irwin
Oct. 26, 1980..
Francis Miller,85,
Brother Downes
succumbed ' to ~
joined the SIU
heart disease in the
after his gradua-,
VA Medical Cen
tion from Piney
ter, Lebanon, Pa.
Point in 1974. He sailed as an AB. ,
on Dec. 18, 1980.
Seafarer Downes was born in Maryland
Brother Miller
and was a resident of Baltimore. Burial
joined the Union
was in the Garden of Faith Cemetery,
in the port of Baltimore ip. 1958 sailing
Baltimore. Surviving are asonr, Shane of
as an AB for Moran Towing from 1942
Baltimore; his mother, Mrs. Mary Cala
to 1952 and for G&H Towing from
of. Baltimore and his father, Terrence.
1952 to 1965. He was a veteran of the
U.S. Army's 108th Machine Gun Bn.,
Co. E, 20th Div. in World War 11. Bom
Paul Ed win
in Hamburg, fa., he was a resident of
Bailey, 56, died of
Lebanon. Bprial was in Hillside Ceme
injuries in the San
tery, Roslyn,.'Pa. Surviving are a son,
Frapcisco General
Bruce and two daughters, Mrs. Darlene
I Hospital on Oct.
Walker of Blackwood, N.J. and Sally.
'23, 1980. Brother
Bailey joined the
Terry Ernest
SIU in the port of
Claytoii,
28, died
.Baltimore in 1955
in Flint Goodsailing as an AB foii34 years. He was
• ridge' Hospital,
born in Beech. Grovfe, Ind. and was a
New Orleans on
resident of San . Francisco. Cremation
June 5. Brother
took place in the Bah^ Valley Cemetery
Clayton joined the
Crematory, Novato| Calif. His ashes
SIU following his
were scattered oyer the sea. Surviving
graduation
from
are his mother, Marte of Beech Grove,
the HLS in 1971. He sailed as an FOWT
and a sister, Martha of Indianapolis,
and sailed during the Vietnam War.
Ind.
_
S.
Seafarer Clayton was born -in New
Pensioner Ben- Orleans and was a resident there. Burial
nie Irving, 51, died
was in Providence Memorial Park
of heart-lung fail Cemetery, Metaire. La. Surviving are
ure in the San
his widow, Emily; a daughter, Terez
Francisco USPHS Monique; a stepson. Robert Maurice.
I
; Hospital pn Nov.- Ventress; his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
8, 1980. Brother
Marshall and Shirley Scott Clayton;
irying joined the three brothers, a sister and his grand
MC&S in the port
mother, Mrs. Pearl Garner, all of New
of San Francisco in 1952 sailing as an
Orleans.
assistant cook. He \vas a veteran of the
U.S. Army after World War II. Irving
Pensioner
was born in Oklahoma and was a
Charles Wilson
resident of Berkeley. Calif. Burial was in
Bartlett, 59, "suc
Rolling Hills Cenwtery, Richmond,
cumbed to cancer
Calif. Surviving are Jiis widow, Irene of
in the USPHS
Richmond and two daughters, Debra of
Hospital, Brigh
Berkeley and Elpise of Richmond.
ton, Mass. on
Sept. 17, 1980.
v. Pensioner Con__________
Brother Bartlett
sraijLOIflf Schmidt,
joined
the
SIU
in
the
port of Boston in
67,'died on Dec.
; 24, 1980. Brother 1951 sailing as an AB and during the •
/Schmidt joined the - Vietnam War. He hit the bricks in the
Union in the port 1961 Greater N.Y. Harbor beef.. Sea
of Toledo, Ohio farer Bartlett was a veteran of the U.S.
sailing as a con- Army in World War II. B&rn in
veyorman and Hingham. Mass., he was a resident of
FOWT for the Reiss Steamship Co. He Dorchester, Mass. Cremation took
sailed 38 years. Laker Schmidt was born place in the Forest Hills Crematory,
in Washington is.. Wise, and was a Boston. Surviving are his mother, Mrs.
resident of Sturgeon Bay, Wise. Surviv Arlene Baumeister and a sister, Shirley,
both of Dorchester.
ing is his widow, Leone.
Charles Ray
V BaTnesJr.,29,died.
of injuries sus
tained in a truckcar crash in Sangti;
Calif, on Oct. 3,
1980. Brother
Barnes joined the'
SIU following his
graduation from Piney Point in 1968.
He sailed as a- QMED and earned his
GED diploma at the Point. Seafarer
Barnes was a veteran of the U.S. Marine
Corps during the Vietnam War. He was
born in Jasper, Ala. and was a resident
of Dinuba, Calif. Burial was in the
Smith Mountain Cemetery, Dinuba.
Surviving are his mother, Louise of
Dinuba and his father. Seafarer Charles
R. Barnes Sr. of Manteca, Calif.
Pensioner
Thomas Albert
Piniecki, 81, died
of lung disease in
Church Hospital,
Baltimore on Jan.
7. Brother Piniecki
joined the Union
.
•
in the port of Balti
more in I960 sailing as a captain for the
B&O Railroad from 1925 to 1962.
Brofher Piniecki was a former member
of the MM&P Union. He was born in
Baltimore and was a resident there.
Interment was in St. Stanislaus Cem
etery,-Baltimore. Surviving are his
widow, Anna and two sons, Thomas Jr.
and Richard of Baltimore.
Pensioner Wil
liam Lawrence
Brfibham, 73, died
of a stroke in the
Memor^l Hospi
tal, Charlotte, S.C.
on Dec. 17, 1980.
Brother Brabham
^
J joined the SIU in
939 in the port of Philadelpliia sailing
^ a bosun. He also sailed during the
<?ietnam War. Seafarer Brabham was a
veteran of the U.S. Army's Coast
Artillery in World War II. A native of
Colleton County, S.C., he wasa resident
of York, S.C. Burial was in Lakeview
Gardens Cemetery, York. Surviving are
his widow, Lula; a son, William Jr. and
a daughter, Marie of York.
Pensioner Ray
mond "Ray" Arden Thomson, 62,
died of heart fail
ure in the Clear
water (Fla.) Com
munity Hospital
on May 27, 1980.
Brother Jhonison
^Dined the Union in the port ofDuluth,
Minn, in 1961 sailing as an oiler for
Moiand Brothers from 1940 to 1948 and
for Great Lakes Towing. He was
f reudent of the IBU Local 2 Tug and
Dreoge Section iri 1964. Laker Thom
son was a former member of the
Teamsters Union Local 288 from 1938
to 1952. In 1964, healso ran forsheriff in
Superior, Wise. Thomson was a veteran
of the U.S. Army's Armored Corps in..
World War 11. Bom in Wisconsin, he
was a resident of .Port Richey, Fla.
Cremation took place in the Tri-Co
Service Crematory, "Tampa. Surviving
are his widow, Laimi; a son, Kenneth
arid a daughter, Carol.
WJ
Pensioner
Woodrow Asa
Brown, 67, suc
cumbed to leiikejmia in the Tampa
General Hospital
on Dec. 3, 1980.
Brother Brown
joined the SIU in
1946 in the port of New York sailing as
an oiler.
He_ was a veteran of'the ,U.S.
\
Army in World War IL Seafarer Brown
was born in Dothan, Ala. and was a
resident of Tampa. Burial was in the
Garden of Memories Cemetery, Tampa.
Surviving are three sons, George,
Byron and Raymond; two daughters,
Kathryn and Regina and a sister, Mrs.
Grace B. Mixon of Tampa.
Pensioner Alex
Anagnostou, 8l,
passed away in
Volos, Greece on
Oct. 10,1980. Bro
ther Anagnostou
joined the SIU in
the port of New
York sailing as an
FOWT for 33 years. He was born in
Volos, was a naturalized U.S. citizen
and was a resident of Volos. Burial was
in Volos. Surviving are his widow,
Sirago of Volos; a ison, Angelos; a
daughter, Helen and a brother, Glfefterios of New Y ork City.
Pensioner Paul
Clayton Carter,
63, died of a hedrt
attack in the
Tampa General
Hospital' on Oct.
30, JI980. Brother
Carter joined the
SIU in 1946 in the
port of Norfolk sailing as a chief steward
and pastry chef. He was on the
picketline in the 1962 Robin Line beef
and attended the Piney Point 3rd
Educational Conference. Seafarer
Carter was a veteran of the U.S. Coast
Guard before World War II. Born in
Tarpon Springs, Fla., he was a resident
of Tampa. Cremation took place in the
West Coast Crematory, Clearwater,
Fla. Surviving is his widow, Bernice.
Pensioner
Ralph Joseph
Denayer, 8 0,
passed away from
injuries^- in St.
Mary's Medical
Center," Los An
geles. Brother
Denayef joined
the SIU in 1946 in the port of New York
sailing as a bgatm. He was a former
member of the I L\^ Local 13. Seafarer
Denayer was bom in Chicago, 111. and
was a resident of Long Beach, Calif. He
was a veteran of the U.S. Army's
Cavalry after World War I. Burial was
in Pacific Crest Cemetery, Rendondo
Beach, Calif. Surviving are a daughter,
Brigette of Bremen, West Germany and
a sister, Mrs. Marguerite Priest of
Torrance, Calif.
March 1981 / LOG / 31 .
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Summary Report for Tug & Dredge Pension Plan
/
• J,l
rl
• I
i
from the plan administrator, on
request and at no charge, a state
ment of the assets and liabilities of
the plan and accompanying notes,
or a statement of income and expeiises of the plan and accompany
ing notes, or both. If you request
a copy of the full annual report from
the plan administrator, these two
statements and accompanying notes
will be included as part of that
report.
ments of $385.198.
This is a summary of the annual
Plan expenses were $228,633.
report of Great Lakes Tug& Dredge
Pension Plan. 13-1953878. for These expenses included $142,194in
January 1. 1979 to December 31. benefit payments, and $86,439
1979. The annual report has been representing administrative expen
filed with the Internal Revenue ses, insurance premiums for Pension
Service, as required under the Benefit Guaranty Corporation and
Employee Retirement Income Secu other fiduciary insurance as re
quired by federal law, communica
rity Act of 1974 (ERISA).
tions with participants, and Cus
The value of plan assets, after
todian
fees. .
subtracting liabilities of the plan was
You have the right to receive a
$3,979,998 as of January 1. 1979.
copy of the full annual report, or any
compared to $4,528,336 at Decem
part thereof, on request. The items
ber 31. 1979. During the plan year
listed below are included in that
the plan experienced an increase in
report:.
its net assets of $548,338. This
1. An accountant's report
included unrealized appreciation
2, Assets held for investment
and depreciation in the value of plan
To obtain a copy ofthefullannual
assets; that is, the difference between
report, or any part thereof, write or
the value of the plan's assets at the
call the office of Mr. A..Jensen,.675
end of the year and the value of the
Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New
assets at the beginning of the year or
York, 11232. The charge to cover
the cost of assets acquired during the
copying costs will be $1.00 for the
year. During the plan year, the plan
full annual report, or $.10 per page
had total incoine of $905,563
for any part thereof.
including employer contributions of
You also have the right to receive
$520,365 and earnings from invest
You also have tlie right to
examine the annual report at the
main office of the plan, 675 Fourth
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11232,
and at the U.S. Department of
Labor in Washington, D.C., or to
obtain a copy from the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor upon payment of
copying costs. Requests to the
Department should be addre*ssed to
Public Disclosure Room, N4677,
Pension and Welfare Benefit Pro
grams, U.S. Department of Labor,
200 Constitution Avenue. N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20216.
Dispatchers Report for Iniand Wateis
JAN. 1-3.1,1981
' r?4
•TOTAL REGISTERED
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
"i
TOTAL SHIPPED
' All Groupsr
Class A Class B ClasSC
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Norfolk
Tampa
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco
Wilmington
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Port Arthur
Algonac
St. Louis
Piney Point •
Paducah
Totals
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$
0
0
0
3
0
5.
0
3
1
0
2
0
0
5
19
0
4
7
1
50
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0
0
0
3
0.
•2
T
1
0
0
5
0
0
3
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1
25
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0
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. 2
0
3'
0
. 6
1
0
0
0,
1
2
6
0
6
4
19
50
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
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21
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Tampa
Mobile
New Orleans
Jacksonville
San Francisco
Wilmington
Seattle
Puerto Rico
Houston
Port Arthur
Algonac
St. Louis
Piney Point
Paducah
Totals
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0
2
0
5
0
8
1
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0
4
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12
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8
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41
91
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
2
0
0
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1
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0
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0
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9
22
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0
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0
0
0
0
0
2
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
1
0
a
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.
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0
0
0
4
0
3
2
4
1
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11
0
1
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Port
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0
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ENGINE DEPARTMENT
Port
I
••REGISTERED ON BEACH
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
DECK DEPARTMENT
Port
LOG . Mrnch 1981
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114
Legal Aid
In the event that any SIU members
have legal problems in the various
ports, a list of attorneys whom they can
consult is being published. The mem
ber need not choose the recommentled
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.
Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg,
Engelman & Belgrad
Sun Life Building
Charles & Redwood Streets
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Tele. #(301) 539-6967
HOUSTON, TEX.
Archer & 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, Hehning,
" Walsh & Ritchie '
100 Bush Street, Suite 440
San Francisco, California 94104
Tele. #(415) 981-4400
Philip Weltin, Esq.
Weltin A Van Dam
, No. I Ecker Bid.
•
San Francisco, Calif. 94105
Tere.#(415) 777-4500
ST. LOUIS, MO.
Gruenberg & Sounders
721 Olive Street
St. Louis; Missouri 63101
Tele. #(314) 231-7440
v
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)^33-4904
DETROIT, MICH.
Victor G. Hanson
19268 Grand River Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48822
Tele. #(313) 532-1220
GLOUCESTER, MASS.
Orlando & White
Two Main Street
Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930
Tele. #(617) 283-8100
SEATTLE, WASH.
Vance, Davies, Robens.
Reid & Anderson
100 West Harrison. Pla/a
Seattle, Washington 98119
Tele. #(206) 285-3610
CHICAGO, ILL.
Katz & Friedman
7 South Dearborn Street
Chicago, Illinois 6(1603
Tele. #(.312) 26^63.30
�f'i.r 9''
Former SlU Black Ganger Going for 1 st Assf, Engv
desire to advance himself
Rodela said. He wasn't aware of he's missed. He's never j^een to
and a curiosity about other
the bomb until he came off Australia and he'd love to visit
countries and~*cultures have
watch. But he later heard the mainland China. With the recent
characterized the sailing career of
bomb had been defused and that bilateral pact signed between the
Charles Rodela;
some of the Viet Cong had been U.S. and China, Brother Rodela
A former member of the SlU, •
killed.
is likely to get his chance. And
Brother Rodela has just taken the
Though Brother Rodela has considering h's career record thus
Coast Guard test for First
traveled' to many places around far, he's likely to go there as Chief
Assistant Engineer-Steam after
the world, there's still a few places one day.
studying at the District 2 MEBA
School in Brooklyn, N.Y. And if
he passes this exani, Rodela is
"definitely" planning to go on for
his Chief's license. As he says,
»vh''n 1 retire. I want to ref re as
Steward Department have never been bet
Charles Rodela ,
Chief.'
During all this time. Brother
ter. Make these opportunities your own.
It's this type of attitude that's
been a recurring theme in 51-year Rodela, who is a WW II veteran,
Upgrade your skills in the Steward
old Rodela's life. Before going to has gotten a chance to see many
Department at SHLSS.
sea in 1947 and "in between of those countries he had wanted
ships" after that, he studied to visit. He especially liked the
Assistant Cook—July t3
architectural engineering at the architecture of Japan and the
Cook and Baker—July 13
attitudes toward work and child
University of Houston.
Chief Cook—April 20
Though he ,wasn't able to get rearing that he found in Ger
Chief Steward—June 1
his degree at the time, Rodela many.
Between
1966
and
1972,
as
the
hasn't forgotten about it. He's
For more information, contact your SIU
planning to go back to college in Vietnam War raged, Rodela
Texas or California so that he can made one or two trips every year
Representative or contact Seafarers Harry
to
that
Southeast
Asia
country.
earn his B.S. degree. Moreover,
Lundeberg School of Seamanship, Admis
Rodela hopes to use his degree to Once, in 1966, while his ship was
in the port of Qui Nhdn,
sions Office, Piney Point, Maryland
teach architectural engineering.
Vietnam,
a
time
bomb
was
found
His interest in architecture was
20674,(301)994-0010.
one of the reasons that propelled near the ship, apparently placed
Rodela into shipping out. He there by Viet Cong frogmen.
wanted to see the architecture of
.other countries, as well as to
observe other cultures, forms of
government, and religions.
In 1956 Rodela joined the SIU
JAN. 1-31, 1981
•TOTAL REGISTERED
TDTALSHIPPED
••REGISTERED ONBMCH
in the port of Houston. (Rodela is
All Groups
All Groups
All Groups
Class A Class B Class C
Class A Class B Class C
Class A Clas'B Class C
a native and resident of Laredo,
. DECK DEPARTMENT
Tex.) He stayed in the Union for
Algonac (Hdqs.)
22'
3
2
3
2
0
41
10
6
nearly 13 years as a Seafarer in
ENGINE DEPARTMENT
the engine department. Then in
Algonac
(Hdqs.)
15
6
'
1
12
12
. 0
29
.10.
5
1968, after attending the MEBA
STEWARD DEPARTMENT
District 2 School, Brother
Algonac (Hdqs.)
5
2
0
2
3
0
•
8
7 _
0
Rodela got his Third Assistant
ENTRY DEPARTMENT
.
'
Engineer's license.
Algonac (Hdqs.)
30
31
8
0
0
0
44
'61
22
Nine years later he went back
Totals All Departments—
72
42
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to the School and received his
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SEA-LAND GALVESTON (SeaLand Service), .January 18 -Chairman.
Recertified Bosun John Japper: Sec
retary J. Mqjica; Educational Director
L. Petrick: Deck Delegate John Barone;
Steward Delegate Reinaldo Rodrigues.
No disputed OT. Chairman read all the
communications that were received and
posted them. Discussed the importance
of upgrading .at Piney Point and of
donating to SPAD. Observed one
minute of silence in memory of our
departed brothers. Next port Yoko
hama.
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SEA-L. .ND FREEDOIM (Sea-Land
Service; January I Chairman. Re
certifies Bosun E. D. Christian.sen;
Secretary C. M. Modellas; Educational
Director K. Peterson. No disputed OT.
Chairman reported that everything was
running well. Reminded members that
- during fireboat drill two or three men
were required on the hose for back up
men. Next port Seattle.
INTREPID (Coscal Marine). Jan
uary 24 Chairman F. R. Schwarz;
Secretary T. J. Smith; Educational
Director D. Vaughn; Deck Delegate T.
D. Seager; Engine Delegate N. P. Davis;
Steward Delegate J. Forbes. No dis
puted OT. Chairman recommended
that all drew members who qualify
should upgrade at Piney Point. Appli
cations are available from the secretary.
A vote of thanks to the steward
department for a job well done. Next
port Boston.
ZAPATA PATRIOT (Zapata Tank
ships). January 4 Chairman, Recerti
fied Bosun .V. Grima; Secretary W.
Wroten; Educational Director C.
Merritt; Deck Delegate B. Mrciak;
Engine Delegate A. Campbell; Stewaixl
Delegate A. Azez. Secretary reported
that there are reading materials in the
recreation room that were sent from
New York and urged all crew members
to read them to fully understand what is
going on in the Union and the industry.
Discus.sed the importance of donating
to SPAD. The Log was received and
passed around. No disputed OT. A vote
of thanks to the steward department for
the holiday diiiners and barbecues.
SEA-i.AND OAKLAND (Sea-Land
Service). January 4 Chairman Rune
Olsson; Secretary S. Kolasa; Educa
tional Director H. A. Kobits; Steward
Delegate Rayfield Crawford. No dis
puted OT. Chairman advised anyone
who wished to upgrade, to apply to
Piney Point. A vote of thanks to the
steward department for a job well done.
Christmas Day and Christmas dinner
were most enjoyable.
LONG LINES (Transoceanic
Cable), January 4—Chairman, Recerti
fied Bosun Roy Theiss; Secretary Ira
Brown. Secretary reported that a
meeting was held on board with SIU
reprsentative Frank Boyne in Yokohoma. Advised men that are qualified
and have time in to apply for upgrading
at Piney Point. The Log was received.
$250 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT
in deck, engine and steward depart
ments. A vote of thanks to Brother
Fryefte who volunteered to act as movie
director for remainder of voyage.
Report to Log: "The Long Lines was
ready to pay off in Wilmington. Calif,
but at the last-minute it was decided to
pay off on the East Coast around
January 28."
34 / LOG / March 1981
LNG LIBRA (Energy Transport).
January 4 -Chairman, Recertified
Bosun~Thomas Brooks; Secretary
Frank Costango; Educational Director
J. Dernbach; Deck Delegate Tom
Redes; Engine Delegate Fred Reyes;
Steward Delegate Mike Haukland.
Some disputed OT in deck department.
Secretary reported.that the future of the
seafarer looks bright for the coming
year and the years to follow. He urged
everyone to take a more active interest
in our entire program, SPAD,
upgrading, articles for the Log,
feedback to headquarters of suggestions
and shipboard activities. A new
treasurer, Mary Ann Warriner, GSU
was elected and we have $131 in ship's
fund. Steward added that the three
GSU's Andrea De Muro, Mary Ann
Warriner and Robert Grimes are doing
an excellent job and you can see that the
training program at the Harry
Lundeberg School is paying off. Special
attention was given to communications
that were posted on narcotics, directory
for Union halls, constitutional
amendments on regular dues, SPAD
donations, the SIU in Washington. Also
the latest rates of pay and the special
notice on credentials that should be
carried by those flying abroad. A vote of
thanks to the steward department for a
contimiing good job. Report to Log:
"To the Editor and Staff" "We wish to
thank you all and at the same time
extend a hearty thanks to Mr John
Bunker for his article on Union history.
How can anyone appreciate the Pork
Chops today when they know so little
about our fore brothers who fought so
hard to make them possible." Next port
Nagoya, Japan.
LNG GEMINI (Energy Transport),
January 4 —Chairman. Recertified
Bosun R. Schwarz;. Secretary G. De
Barre; Educational Director B. Gillis;
Deck Delegate M. Horan; Steward
Delegate D. Pappas. Chairman asked
that all members please pass around the
Log for all to read. Several members,
who wrote to Piney Point about
information on upgrading and have not
heard from them yet. were advised to
write again. Safety committee suggests
that members handling wire should
wear gloves. A vote of thanks to the
steward department for the fine food
aboard this ship. Next port Osaka.
LNG AQUARIUS (Energy Trans
port). January 5 - Chairman Joe Morri•son: Secretary Duke Gardner; Educa
tional Director M. De Nardo; Steward
Delegate George Taylor. No disputed
OT. Chairman noted that we should be
going to sea trials .somewhere between
January 18th and January 2Lst at which
time we will have a new .skipper and a
new mate. A di.scussion was held on
where to put the basketball net. The
.swimming pool to be squared away as
soon as possible and benches will be
made when we get some lumber. A vote
of thanks to the steward department
especially for Christmas dinner.
COASTAL KANSAS (Coscal Ma
rine), January 4—Chairman, Recerti
fied Bosun J. Richburg; Secretary W. G,
Williams; Educational Director Wiley
L. Yarber; Deck Delegate Charles
Lambert; Engine Delegate P. E. Payton;
Steward Delegate M. C. Dale. No
disputed OT. Chairman reported that
this ship was in idle status for 18
months. All members should take more
intere.st in respect to safety, firefighting
and repairs. Also that more entry
ratings should apply for training at
Piney Point. A vote of thanks was given
to all delegates for their cooperation. A
notice about the wage increase and the
^President's message were posted. Secre
tary sent a letter of appreciation to the
Stella Maris Maritime Center in New
Orleans for Christmas presents donated
by local ladie.s. A vote of gratitude to
Captain Bechtel for wine donated for
the holidays. Next port Boston.
OGDEN CHALLENGER (Ogden
Marine). January 11 Chairman, Re
certified Bosun R. D. Thoe; Secretary
R. De Boissiere; Educational Director
H. Callien; Deck Delegate C. L.
Hickenbottam; Engine Delegate A. S.
Hernandez; Steward Delegate William
Karpiak. No disputed OT. Chairman
advi.sed all tho.se who qualify to upgrade
at Piney Point. The new ships are now
on the line and ready to go and men are
needed with the knowledge of these
ships. This can mean more jobs and
more pay. The word in Washington
should be "make the merchant marine a
COVE NAVIGATOR (Cove Ship
stronger fourth arm of defenseand more
ping), January 3 - Chairman, Recerti
modernLstic." This issue talks about
fied Bosun E. La Soya; Secretary C.
President Reagan's support and we
Corrent; Educational Director G.
should write to our Congressman and
Kuglov. No disputed OT. Chairman
Senators to let them know how we feel.
extended compliments to the crew for
A vote of thanks to all delegates for a job excellent cooperation when a collision
well done! Report to Log "Our special
occurred with a small craft. On collision
vote of thanks to two old profes.sionals
signal, the crew was alert with their
Chief Steward R. De Boissiere and
lifejackets on and ready to meet any
Bosun R. D. Thoe. We were in a .storm
emergeiKy. Advised all members to read
with 75-mile-an-hour winds and 30
the Log so you will be aware of what is
degree rolls and sub-zero weather and
going on in the Union. Report to Ltyg;
they performed their cfuties and main "This crew gives good membership
tained a safety record with no one hurt
attention and openly will discuss
and everything secure. God bless and
controversial subjects." Next port Fall,
keep them both."
River.
OGDEN LEADER (Ogden Marine),
January 4 —Chairman J. R. Colangelo;
Secretary H. Donnelly; Educational
Director Alan R. Gardner. $90 in ship's
fund. No disputed OT. Secretary
reported that the ships library contains
various pamphlets that were received iri
New York during the Steward Recertification program about Union activities
for the benefit of the membership. They
are mo.st informative and should be read
and discussed'. Educational Director
suggested that the SIU should publicize
that smoking on barges by boatmen
while transferring fuel is highly danger
ous for themselves and the shipthey are
.servicing. All communications includ
ing the Log that were received were
posted for all to read. The membership
discussed the sinking of the Poet as
some had friends that were lost and
.stood a special moment of .silence in
their memory. Next port Baytown.
SEA-LAND DEFENDER (SeaLand Service), January 18—Chairman
R. Ray; Secretary A. Reasko; Educa
tional Director Neathery. Chairman
noted, that the ship was going to
Tamano and all beefs were to be
discussed with Frank Boyne, Port
Agent. He also noted the importance of
donating to SPAD. Applications for
upgrading or LNG schools are available
for those who are interested. $225.00 in
ship's fund. No disputed OT. All
members when leaving ship were asked
to clean their rooms and strip theif
bunks. An SIU ship is a clean ship.
Official ship's minutes were also
received from the following vessels:
Transcolorado
New York
Sea-Land Economy
Seattle
Del Sol
Del Oro
j
Benjamin Harrison
Sea-Land Consumer
Sam Houston
Overseas Joyce
William Hooper
S'
u
Tampa
Sea-Land Pacer
Santa Mariana
Sea-Land Finance
Santa Cruz
Edward Rutledge
Ogden Charger
Monticello Victory
Cove Trader
Sea-Land Voyager
Boston
Sea-Land Market
Santa Lucia
•'A,'
. Jacksonville
Mount Washington
Arecibo
Santa Barbara
Charleston
Cove Engineer
Del Campo
Delta Mar
Overseas Harriette
Mount Washington
Sea-Land Producer
Ogden Willamette
Puerto Rico
Sea-tand Resource
Delta Norte ^
Sea-Land Developer
Overseas Arctic
Achilles
Del Viento
Sea-Land Galloway
Del Mundo
Tamara Guilden
�Timothy C. Donoghue
,
Seafarer
Timothy G
Donoghue, 21,
graduated from
the HLSin 1979.
In 1980, he up
graded there to
F O W T; He
holds the fire
fighting. life
boat, CPR and first aid endorse
ments. A native of Long Island,
N.Y., he lives there and ships out of
the ports of Seattle and New York.
Daniel Laitinen Jr.
Tom M. Arriola
Sea f a re r
Tom M. Arriola,
26, graduated
from the Piney
Point Entry Pro
gram in 1974.
Brother Arriola
sailed aboard
the U.S. Coast
Guard Culler
Oauniless out of Miami, Fla. from
1972 to 1973. He passed the courses
for tankerman, lifeboat, firefighting
and CPR. Arriola is a veteran of the
U.S. Army National Guard's 143rd
Airborne Division and the Coast
Guard in the port of Houston. Born
in Houston, he lives and ships out
from that port.
Mark E. Simpson
Seafarer
Mark E. Simp
son, 25, gradu
ated from the
Seafarers Harry
Lundeberg
School of Seam a n s h i p
(SHLSS) Entry
Trainee Pro
gram, Piney Point, Md. in 1978.
Brother Simpson now sails as a chief
cook, last on the LNG Aquarius.
(Energy Transport). He has the
LNG, firefighting, lifeboat, cardio
pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and
first aid documents. Before attend
ing Piney Point, Simpson graduated
from the Culinary Institute of
America, New York City. He was
born in Newark, N.J., lives in
Rungoes, N.J. and ships out of the
port of New York.
i
Seafarer
Daniel Laitinen
Jr., 27, is a 1969
grad of the HLS.
He sails as an
AB. Brother
Laitinen earned
the CPR, life
boat and fire
fighting tickets.
He is a veteran of the U.S. Army and
he resides and ships out of the port
of New Orleans.
James Venskus
Seafarer
James Venskus,
25, graduated
from the HLS in
1976. Brother
Venskus sails as
an AB. His endo resements in
clude 3rd cook,
firefighting, life
boat and CPR. He was born in
Fort Leavenworth, Kans., lives in
Springfield, Va. and ships out of the
port of New York.
Richard C. Rosati
Sea f a rer
Richard
C.
Rosati, 26. is a
1977 graduate of
the HISS. In
1978, he upgrad
ed to FOWT in
the port of New
York and to
QMEI) last year
at Piney Point. Brother Rosati al.so
earned his CPR, firefighting and
lifeboat tickets. Born in Long l.sland.
N.Y., he .ships out of the port of New
York.
Joseph Artis
Seafarer
Joseph Artis, 24,
is a 1975 gradu
ate of the H LSS
Entry Trainee
Program. He
upgraded to AB
at the School in
1980. Brother
Artis holds the
lifeboat, firefighting and CPR
endorsements, Artis was born in
Santa Ana, Calif., lives in San
Diego, Calif, and ships out of all
West Coat ports.
Richard S. Borden .
James Bo Koesy
Seafarer
Richard S. Bor
den, 22, was a
graduate of the
HLS Entry Pro
gram in 1978.
The same year he
upgraded there
to LNG and
sailed on the
LNG Aries (Energy Transport) and
the LNG El Paso Souihern in 1979.
Brother Borden, last year, upgraded
to AB at Piney Point sailing aboard
the El Paso Arzew. He is a native of
Washington, D.C., lives in Anna
polis, Md. and ships out of the ports
of Baltimore and New York.
Sca f a rc r
James Bo Koesy,
22, graduated
from Piney
Point in 1978.
Brother Koesy
"enjoys the sail
or's 'lifestyle!"
He upgraded to
FOWT ^t the
HLS in 1979 and LNG and QMED
there in 1980. Koesy was in the
original crew of the LNG Gemini
(Energy Transport). He holds the
LNG. firefighting, tankerman.
lifeboat and CPR endor.sements.
Born in Panama City, Fla. he ships
out of the ports of New York and
New Orleans.
Larry Jay Gorden
Seafarer
Larry Jay
"Flash" Gordon,
25, is a 1975 grad
of Piney Point.
He then also
earned his GED
diploma there.
^ . Brother Gordon
i in 1977 upgrad
ed to FOWT and took the Basic
Welding course. Last year he
upgraded to QMED. Gordon also
earned the firefighting, lifeboat and
CPR tickets. He plans to take some
advanced math courses soon at
Piney Point. Born in Pennsylvania,
he ships out of the port of Baltimore.
Philip D. Poole
Seafarer
Philip D. Poole,
27, joined the
former IBU in
1975 in Port Ar
thur, Tex. He
then graduated
from the HLS
Trainee Pro
gram for deepsea in 1977 upgrading to AB there
the same year. Brother Poole earned
the firefighting, lifeboat and CPR
documents. He was born in Long
Branch, N.J.. resides in Monmouth
Beach, N.J. and ships out of the port
of New York.
It Ain't the Same Old Job
So the Same Old Skills
Won't Do ...
Take the
Towboat
Operator
Scholarship
Program which
starts June 22.
Tony O. Vargas
Seafarer
Tony O. Vargas,
29, graduated
from the HLS in
1975. Brother
Vargas upgrad
ed to FOWT
therein 1976. He
has the lifeboat,
firefighting and
CPR papers. Vargas is a veteran of
the U.S. Army during the Vietnam
War. A native of Brooklyn, N. Y., he
ships from the port of New York.
if you
don't qualify
for the Towboat
Operator Scholarship
Program, you may take the
regular Towboat Operator
Course, which starts May 11.
See your SlU Representative for details.
Mnrrh '981
LOG
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35
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�Seafarers
This is a summary of the annual
report of Seafarers Pension Plan
ID. #13-6100329 for January I.
1979 to December 31. 1979.
e
annual report has been filed with the
Internal Revenue Service, as re
quired under the
'J®''';
ment Income Security Act of 1974
'
...
representing administrative expenses, insurance premiums for
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and other fiduciary insurance as
required by federal law, commun.
cations with participants, and
custodian fees and other investment
'^"itasic Financial Statement
The val" of plan assets, a ter
subtracting liabilities of the plan,
was $151,436,402
1979 compared to $167,418,
of December 31. IS™. During the
plan year, the plan experieni^d an
increase in its
.
$15 982,336. This included un
realized appreciation and
tion in the value of plan assets, th
is. the difference between the ™ ue
of the plan's assets at the end of the
year and the value of the assets at the
beginning of the year or the cost of
assets acquired during the year^
• During the plan year, the plan had
total iLome of $33,287,337 includ
ing employer contributions^
$19,188,255 and earnings from
investments of
gj 321
Plan expenses were $10,583 J21_
These expenses included
H ^.554.357
« 098 964
in benefit payments and $l,028,v&4
renort from the plan administrator,
P
statements and accom^ni be included as
^
report. The charge to
p
copying costs given above
it charge for the
does m
copyi^
Avenue, Brooklyn, New York
11232, and at the U.S. Department
of Labor in Washington, D. C., or to
obtain a copy from the U.S. Depart
ment of Labor upon payment of
copying costs. Requests to the
Department should be addressed to
Public Disclosure Room, N4677,
Pension and Welfare Benefit Pro
grams, U.S. Department "f Labor,
200 Constitution Avenue, N. W.,
Washington D. C. 20216.
charges.
furnished without charge.
You have the right to receive a
also have the right to
copy of thefull annual report, or any
^
^ual report at the
pan thereof, on request. The items examine^^^^
,in office of the plan, 6/3 rou.iu
listed below are included m that
report:
1. An accountant's report
2. Assets held for investment
To obtain a copy of the full annual
report, or any part thereof, write or
call the office of Mr. A. Jensen, 675
Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn, New
York 11232. The charge to cover
copying costs will be $1.00 for the
full annual report, or $.10 per page
for any part thereof.
You also have the right to receive
from the plan administrator, on
request and at no charge, a state Recetlilied Bosun Elmer Eaher (from
ment of the assets and liabilities of Champion (Ogden Marme).sw,mtt^^^^^
the plan and accompanying notes
or a statement of income and
expenses of the plan and accom
panying notes, or both. If you Harvey Barlow, deck delegate.
request a copy ot
of the
tne full
luii annual
annua.
Ogden Champion Committee
,^3,, Chief Pumpman
^
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Your Brother Down the Road to Sobnety
.1
4. .rwf .ic thankful
peeing a Wind man walk down a
offer a guiding
S for our sigh.. Perfec.
"f'"'thing .o be unable .o see
arm to the blind because we all think It must ne
.C«EHA»tnAnd that's where an alcoholic
drinking problem is just
Helping a f#"""
1"° ^,aering a blind man across a street All
rorbl^rd^tsmkTtCtaf^rhy tbe arm^^^^^
Alcoholic Rehabilitation f'"'"y^'^^^ber will receive the care and counseling^
Once he's there, an f hobc SlU
^^^^ers who are ftghting
^
he needs. And bell get the '"PP/'f
productive aicobol-free life.
the same tough battle be is bac
^
aicoboiic. But because of
The road back to sobriety ts a long one for an
^
ARC, an alcoholic SIC """"h"
direction of the Rehab Center.
And b, guiding a
recovery is only an
you11 be showing him that the tirst siep
arm's length away
Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center
anywhere except at The Center.
Book No.
Name
1
1
I Address
1
1
(Street or RFD)
(City)
(State)
Telephone No.
Mail to: THE CENTER
Star Route Box 153-A
Valley Lee, Md. 20692
call, 24 hours-a-day, (30J ) 994-0010
or I
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�65, joined
0J
r
Of Baltimore in
1956 sailing as an AB. Brother
Apostohdis sailed 30 years and
rode the Isthmian Line in 1955.
He hit the bricks in the I960
Greater N.Y. Harbor beef. Seaforer Apostohdis was born in
Greece and is a resident of
fcuboea, Greece.
Pedro Rafael Arteaga, 62
joined theSIUin l945inthepor;
ofNew York sailing as a cook. He
sailed for Bull Line and Robin
Line in 1957. Brother Arteaga was
born in Guayaquil, Ecuador and
IS a resident of Philadelphia.
Paul Francis Arthofer, 59
|J?"fdtheSIUinl941inthepor;
p of New Orleans sailing as an AB
k Brother Arthofer also sailed as a
ship and deck delegate during the
Vietnam War. He received a 1961
Union Personal Safety Award for
saihng aboard an accident-free
ship, the SS Del Oro (Delta Line)
Seafarer Arthofer is also a printer
and cook. Born in Dallas, Tex. he
IS a resident of Monroe, La
Isidore Carmen Dongen, 65
joined the SlUin 1948 in the port
of New York sailing as a FQWT.
Brother Dongen sailed 42 years
He was born in Paramaribo,
Sunname (Dutch Guiana) S A
is a naturalized U.S. citizen and
IS a resident of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Joseph George Edwards, 68
joined the SlUin the port of New
Orleans in 1958 sailing as 3rd
cook and waiter. Brother Ed
wards sailed 30 years. He is a
veteran of the Louisiana National
Guard from 1933 to 1938. Sea
farer Edwards was also an office
manager and junior executive.
Born in New Orleans, he is a
resident there.
Ola Ekeland, 63, joined the SIU
in the port of Philadelphia in 1950
sailing as an AB. Brother Ekeland
sailed 48 years. He was born in
Skare Kongshamn, Tromoy,
Arendi'l, Norway and is a resident
of Brooklyn, N.Y.
Walter Alexander Kuchta, 60
joined the SIU in the port of
Wilmington in 1957 sailing as a
bosun. Brother Kuchta sailed 37
years. He was born in Sharpsburg, Pa. and is a resident of
Pittsburgh, Pa.
Cecil Bernard Wiggins, 52,
joined the SIU in 1945 in the port
of Mobile sailing as a bosun.
Brother Wiggins received a Union
Personal Safety Award in I960
for sailing on an accident-free
ship, the
Alcoa Ranger.
Seafarer Wiggins was born in
Alabama and is a resident of
Theodore, Ala.
Arthur Joseph Margiotta Jr
53, joined the SlUin the port of
New Orleans in 1953 sailing as a
cook. Brother Margiotta sailed
27 years. He is a veteran of the
U.S. Army in World War 11. Sea
farer Margiotta was born in
New Orleans and is a resident of
River Ridge, La.
Heinz Seel, 68, joined the
former MC«&S Union in the port
ofSan Francisco in 1962 sailingas
a chief steward on the .95 Maria
from 1977 to 1978. He graduated
from the MC&S Stewards Train
ing School in 1959. Brother Seel is
a former member of the Waiters
Union Local 30. Born in, Ham
burg, West Germany, he is a
resident of Petaluma, Calif.
James Perry "J.p." Bratcher,
55, joined the Union in the port of
Houston in 1960 sailing as an
oiler, deckhand and captain for
the WvD. Hoden Co. from 1952 to
1963, Coyle Lines and G&H
Towing from 1963 to 1980.
Brother Bratcher is a veteran of
the U.S. Navy in World War 11.
He was born in Washington'
County, Fla. and is a resident of
Houston.
Henry Culmer McKinney, 56
joined the SIU in 1945 in the port
of New Orleans sailing as an AB.
Brother McKinney sailed 35
years. He is a veteran of the U.S
Army during the Korean War.
Born in Wauchula, Fla., he is a
resident of Lacombe, La.
John Alexander McLaughlin,
61, joined the SIU in 1943 in the
port of New York sailing as an
AB. Brother McLaughlin sailed
42 years. He received a I960
Union Personal Safety Award for
sailing aboard an accident-free
ship, the SS Francis. Seafarer
McLaughlin was born in Stayner,
Ontario, Canada, is a naturalized '
U.S. citizen and is a resident of
Seattle.
Jesus Villaueva Garcia, 63
joined the SIU in 1948 in the port
of New York sailing as a FOWT.
Brother Garcia was born in Fort
Worth, Tex. and is a resident of
Fort Lee, N.J,
Herbert Milzer Parsons, 72
joined the SIU in the port of New
Ojleans in 1967 sailing as an AB.
; Brother Parsons sailed 28 years!
He is a former member of the
ILA, Local 1418. Seafarer Par
sons is a veteran of the U.S. Army
in World War II. Born in the
British , West Indies, he is a
resident of Metairie, La.
George Lenard Gill, 76, joined
the SIU in the port of New
Orleans in 1954 sailing as a 2nd
cook. Brother Gill sailed 25 years.
He helped to organize Cities
Service. Seafarer Gill was born in
Port of Spain, Trinidad, B.W I
and is a resident of Fairhope, Ala
George A. Rosholt, 65, joined
the SIU in 1956 in the port of
Jacksonville sailing as a chief
steward. Brother Rosholt sailed
for Cities Service from 1961 to
1976 and for lOM from 1980 to
1981. He is a veteran of the U S
Army in World War 11. Born in
New York, he is a resident of
Holly Hill, Fla.
Peter Ruedeski, 65, joined the
Union in the port of Detroit in
I960 sailing as a wiper. Brother
Rudeski was born in Plymouth,"
Pa. and is a resident there.
George Luc Esteve, 57, joined
the SIU in 1943 in the port of New
Orleans sailing as an AB. Brother
Esteve sailed 38 years. He was
born ip Louisiana and is a
resident of New Orleans.
Arcangel Saavedra, 65, joined
the SIU in 1939 in the port of
Miami sailing as a chief pump
man and saloon messman. Bro
ther Saavedra was born in Puerto
Rico and is a resident of the
Bronx, N.-Y.
Ernvel Frederick Zeller, 60,
joined the Union in the port of
Frankfort, Mich, in 1953 sailingas
a cook for the Ann Arbor ( Mich.)
Carferries from 1961 to 1980.
Brother Zeller .sailed 36 yeans. He
is a wounded veteran of the U.S.
Army in World War 11. Laker
Zeller was born in Merrill. Wise,
and is a resident of Elberta, Mich.
Warren Theodore Miller, 62,
joined the Union in the port of
Philadelphia in 1956 sailing as a
captain and mate for the Warner
Co. from 1950 to 1955 and for
Independent Towing from 1955
to 1980. He also sailed as a mate
for'P.F. Martin in 1958. And he
was a former'member of the
. MM&P Union, Local 14 from1943 to 1960. Boatman Miller
also .sailed deep .sea on the Bull
Line fro.m 1938 to 1940 and the
Robin Line from 1940 to 1942. He
is a veteran of the U.S. Navy in
World War 11. A native of
Fredericksburg, Va., he is a
resident of Willow Grove, Pa.
Alberto Angel Yado, 65, joined
the SIU in 1940 in the port of
Tampa sailing as a cabin steward
and bellman for 42 years. Brother
Yado was born in Key West, Fla.
and is a resident of Miami.
Jacobus "Jack" Gerardus Lakwyk, 64, joined the S1U in t he port
of New York in 1952 .sailing as a
chici steward. Brother Lakwvk is
a former member of the Marine
Cooks & Stewards Union. He is a
veteran of The Netherlands Navy
before World War 11. Seafarer
Lakwvk was born in Holland and
is a naturalized U.S. citizen. He is
a resident of Houston.
i
Josip Matre Tramontanic, 64,
joined the SIU in 1948 in the port
of New York sailing as a QMED.
Brother Tramontanic is a veteran
of the U.S. Coast Guard in World
War 11. He was born in Yugo^ slavia, is a naturalized U.S. citizen
and is a resident of Biloxi, Miss.
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Below Is a reprint of an article from the West German
magazine, Geo. It says a lot atmut why 'ilag-of-convenlence"
ships have by far the worst safety record on the high seas. We
sincerely hope that those Congressmen and Senators who
protect these fleets at the behest of the oil companies read this
article and then take strong action to curb the growth of "ffagof-convenlence" fleets. Right now, "flag-of-conyenlence"
ships, like the one In this article, carry more than SO percent of
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marks ($53) each from the captains as well. I had gone to another big
of ships under flags of convenience port and found the Panamanian
in the harbor of Hamburg—I stood consul there, this one less scrupulous
before the Panamanian consul in than the first. Over the rattle of the
his Hamburg office. Smelling of typing of two secretaries he asked,
perfume and sporting a well-groom "How big is the ship on which you
ed beard. Consul General Caspar G. are a mate now?"
Wittgreen carelessly pushed my
"Fifteen hundred tons," I said, ly
papers aside. He wanted to see my ing; the Dutchman's ship I had sup
German license. "I don't have one," I posedly been hired on was a mere
day when Captain Deligiannakis said, "otherwise I wouldn't be sitting 300 tons. "But couldn't you make it
A Mate for the
asked me to fix our position with the here."
five thousand tons in the license?
''Aladin B."
sextant, I said, lying, that I hadn't
"But those are the rules," he said That's the size of a ship that travels
Christian Jungblut was utterly used one in years and would he in a soft voice. "Don't you at least as far as the Mediterranean."
unqualified to be a ship's please show me how. Without have a certificate of hire as an
"Two hundred," he said quietly,
saying
another
word,
he
turned
his
officer?"
officer. But he bought himself
almost to himself. (He njeant 200.
"How could J have a certificate of guilders—$100.)
the papers he needed and back. I continued my lookout.
"Two hundred," I echoed sheep
signed on a "flag-pf-cdnven- Suddenly, he walked up to me. "I hire as an officer if I don't even have
take
it,"
he
hissed,
"you
have
never
a
license,"
I
replied
rudely.
ishly.
ience " oil tanker as the third
before traveled on a ship." Looking
"I don't know myself," he admit
"Yes, two hundred," he repeated.
mate.
out to sea, I replied as casually as ted, "but those are the rules."
I
thought
to myself that in Ham
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possible, "You are free to think
So I set out to get what I needed. I burg, the telegrapher's license had
Christian Jungblut
whatever you like."That was the end heard of a Dutch shipowner who cost a quarter of that amount.
"In that case, make it captain," I
EAD slow ahead!' The pilot of our conversation. He took no might "hire" me without an officer's
action
whatsoever.
I
stayed
on
the
license.
I
inquired
aboard
his
ship
insisted.
barked his command from one
"You have a certificate of hire as
wing of the bridge. The captain bridge. Later, in the officers'mess, and got his telephone number. 1
he
voiced
his
suspicion
repeatedly,
second
mate. ..."
called,
and
without
laying
eyes
on
turned to me, ordering me with a
"Sowhat!"
\
glance to operate the engine-room but after a few days nobody paid any me or any license, he mailed me a
attention.
telegraph.
certificate of hire as second mate of
"You are out of your mind," he
The ship was the Aladin B.. built his ship. (Much later we happened to said reproachfully. Shifting in his
It's a simple job. You push a lever
to the reading "Dead Slow." Noth in 1966 and sailing under the colors meet, and I asked him why he did chair, he continued: "Well, this is the
of the Republic of Panama, a flag of that for me. "Everybody started
ing to it. I grabbed the handle and
best I can do for you. Ill put in first
convenience.
Like
Liberia
and
some
from the bottom once," he said.)
shoved it—almost too far. Nobody
mate. " For a moment he closed his
other
countries,
Panama
collects
Next
I
turned
to
one
of
the
admin
noticed my panic. They were all too
eyes. "Three hundred," I heard him
busy casting off. The gangway had little or no income tax from the ship istrative offices of the city of Ham whisper. With'my eyes, I signaled
owners (of many different nationali burg. I chose the days between agreement.
been pulled up 15 minutes before. I
ties)
who register vessels there and Christmas and New Year's. I went to
had passed the point of no return.
In a few minutes I was racing
has
been
lax
in
checking
the
seawor
the
Department
of
Sports
at
the
We were leaving the oil dock in
down the seven flights of stairs
Curacao, destined for Marcus thiness of the vessels it registers. I Ministry of the Interior. The officials clutching my new license. It had
had long wanted to see up close an there were working at half speed, I taken my father six years to earn his
Hook, near Philadelphia.
A slight vibration went through
tanker sailing under one of these presented a license I had earned as a mate's license.
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further .suspicion ihadi teenager sailing a dinghy and said I
I immediately began to look for a
the ship as the engines started deep
brought me aboard the Aladin 8. I planned to bring a schooner from
job. In that city, however, none were
below. Some 15,000 metric tons of
had
signed
on
to
find
but
whether
it
available,
so I headed for Piraeus in
Turkey, and that they surely under
steel and 525,000 barrels of crude oil
Greece.
in 10 huge tanks were set in motion. I is true that many ships flying flags of stood all the Oriental rules and
convenience
are
operated
by
officers
Standing next to one another
regulations. The officials nodded
was standing on the bridge, which
who wouldn't qualify under the laws agreeably, and in a holiday mood
along Akti Miaouli, a street winding
was as tall as the roof of a six story
of
many
countries
to
steer
a
motorits way for about a mile and a half
they issued a document stating that I
building, and 800 feet of ship lay in
along the harbor of Piraeus, are the
front of me. I could hardly make out boat. Would I myself be allowed had "several years of experience as a
responsibility
for
the
running
of
the
offices of international banks and
skipper." It was true, but as a
the men hauling in the lines on the
ship?
shipping lines. Among them are
foredeck.
skipper of sailboats no more than 15
many of the lines that fly flags of
My "career" as a ship's officer had feet long.
Why on earth did we have to cast
Now I went back to the Pana convenience and that operate a third
off during my watch? I was the newly begun five months earlier, when I
of the tanker fleet of the Western
hired third mate, but I knew barely decided to get myself instantly manian consul. The certificate of hire
certified.
world. In Piraeus, to find a job an
from the Dutch shipowner met with
as much about seamanship as Julio
unemployed seaman has^ to go
I had no intention of spending his approval. However, when he saw
the messboy. Twenty years before, I
through
one of the hundreds of
three
years
as
a
sailor
and
three
the document from the city of
had been a deck boy on a small
shipping masters, or agents, in the ^
freighter, but not once since then additional mandatory years at a Hamburg, he hesitated: "But here it
city.
There were about 3,000 seamen
maritime
academy,
as
German
law
says 'Department of Sports.' "
had I set foot on the bridge of a ship.
demands. But neither was I as lucky
And now I was to help navigate a
"And farther down it says 'skip in the city, a motley crowd from all
as
a
man
I
shalbcall
Peter.
A
dropout
tanker of 85,000 deadweight tons
per,'and that should be adequate," I continents—many Chileans, Afri
through the tricky waters of the after a few semesters at an engineer replied. As he began to protest that cans and Pakistanis. And there were
. Caribbean. Of course, the harbor ing school, he became second en
he was not inclined to lose his job for nearly as many agents, huddled like
gineer
on
a
Ghanese
freighter.
The
pilot and Captain Petros Deligian
my sake, I tossed across the desk a moles in tiny "offices" the size of
shipowner, a Dutch industrialist,' certificate that qualified me to oper storage closets. But the agents were
nakis were up there with me, and
Kolakko, a sailor, took the helm. had agreeed in the contract of hire to ate a radiotelephone. I had recently able to push the seamen around just
as ruthlessly as did the crimps who
But r was grateful for every minute provide Peter with "all necessary
taken a three-day course to get it.
documents"
except
a
passport.
I
had
made their living shanghaiing sailors
that the pilot wac on board and
"Well,
this
is
a
different
matter,"
for shipowners in the era of tall
every hour that brought me closer to seen his contract and was amazed. I
the consul said. "What would you ships.
would
have
no
such
luck.
I
would
the end of my watch.
like, a seaman's book or a license to
I was told by one of these latterSomehow before it ended, I have to get my papers through
operate the radiotelegraph?" I chose day crimps to be at his office at ten
consulates
in
big
city
ports.
managed to obey an order to take a
the telegrapher's license, with no A.M. I arrived and was put off until
Equipped with my old seaman's
bearing using the radar. The next
restrictions. With it I could work noon. Then I was told to return in
book,y which
showed my year
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Christian Jungblut is a 37-year-old deck boy, and with three other doctankers. The fee was 50 marks. My casually put off until the next day.
German reporter and writer whoput uments confirm ing my services as a
cousin's husband had trained for
He was teaching me a lesson: No
in many years as a laborer before he sailor for a total of three years— I
five years to earn one.
commission,
no ship—that was the
turned to journalism.
had bought them for 100 deutsche
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magazine, Geo. It says a lot atmut why "flag-of-convenlence"
ships have by far the worst safety record on the high seas. We
sincerely hope that those Congressmen and Senators who
prot^t these fleets at the beftest of the oil companies read this
article and then take strong action to curb the growth of "flagof-convenlence" fleets. Right now, "flag-of-convenlence"
ships, like the one In this article, carry more than SO percent of
all America's oil Imports.
marks ($53) each from the captains as well. I had gone to another big
of ships under flags of convenience port and found the Panamanian
in the harbor of Hamburg—I stood consul there, this one less scrupulous
before the Panamanian consul in than the first. Over the rattle of the
his Hamburg office. Smelling of typing of two secretaries he asked,
perfume and sporting a well-groom "How big is the ship on which you
ed beard. Consul General Caspar G. are a mate now?"
Wittgreen carelessly pushed my
"Fifteen hundred tons," I said, ly
papers aside. He wanted to see my ing; the Dutchman's ship I had sup
German license. "I don't have one," I posedly been hired on was a mere
day when Captain Deligiannakis said, "otherwise I wouldn't be sitting 300 tons. "But couldn't you make it
A Mate for the
asked me to fix our position with the here."
^
five thousand tons in the license?
"Aladin B."
sextant, I said, lying, that I hadn't
"But those are the rules," he said That's the size of a ship that travels,
Christian Jungbiut was utterly used one in years and would he in a soft voice. "Don't you at least as far as the Mediterranean."
unqualified to be a ship's please show me how. Without have a certificate of hire as an
"Two hundred," he said quietly,
officer. But he bought himself saying another word, he turned his officer?"
almost to himself. (He meant 200.
"How could J have a certificate of guilders—$100.)
the papers he needed and back. I continued my lookout.
"Two hundred," I echoed sheep
signed on a "flag-pf-conven- Suddenly, he walked up to me. "I hire as an officer if I don't even have
take
it,"
he
hisSed,
"you
have
never
a
license,"
I
replied
rudely.
ishly.
ience" oil tanker as the third
before traveled ort a ship." Looking
"I don't know myself," he admit
"Yes, two hundred," he repeated.
mate.
out to sea, I replied as casually as ted, "but those are the rules."
I thought to myself that in Ham
Repjint of Article by
possible, "You are free to think
So I set out to get what I needed. I burg, the telegrapher's license had
Christian Jungbiut
whatever you like."That was the end heard of a Dutch shipowner who cost a quarter of that amount.
"In that case, make it captain," I.
EAD slow ahead!' The pilot of bur conversation. He took no might "hire" me without an officer's
action
whatsoever.
I
stayed
on
the
license. I inquired aboard his ship insisted.
barked his command from one
bridge.
Later,
in
the
officers'mess,
and
got his telephone number. I
"You have a certificate of hire as
wing of the bridge. The captain
he
voiced
his
suspicion
repeatedly,
called, and without laying eyes on second mate. ..."
turned to me, ordering me with a
but
after
a
few
days
nobody
paid
any
"So what!"
me or any license, he mailed me a
glance to operate the engine-room
attention.
telegraph.
certificate of hire as second mate of
"You are out of your mind," he
The
ship
was
the
Aladin
B.,
built
his ship. (Much later we happened to said reproachfully. Shifting in his
It's a simple job. You push a lever
to the reading "Dead Slow." Noth in 1966 and sailing under the colors meet, and I asked him why he did chair, he continued:"Well, this is the
ing to it. I grabbed the handle and of the Republic of Panama, a flag of that for me. "Everybody started
best I can do for you. Ill put in first
shoved it—almost too far. Nobody convenience. Like Liberia and some from the bottom once," he said.)
mate. " For a moment he closed his
Next I turned to one of the admin eyes. "Three hundred," I heard him
noticed my panic. They were all too other countries, Panama collects
little or no income tax from the ship istrative offices of the city of Ham whisper. With' my eyes, I signaled
busy casting off. The gangway had
been pulled up 15 minutes before. I owners (of many different nationali burg. I chose the days between agreement.
had passed the point of no return. ties) who register vessels there and Christmas and New Year's. I went to
In a few minutes I was racing
has been lax in checking the seawor the Department of Sports at the down the seven flights of stairs
We were leaving the oil dock in
thiness of the vessels it registers. I Ministry of the Interior. The officials clutching my new license. It had
Curacao, destined for Marcus
had
long wanted to see up close an there were working at half speed. I taken my father six years to earn his
Hook, near Philadelphia.
A slight vibration went through oil tanker sailing under one of these presented a license I had earned as a mate's license.
I immediately began to look for a
the ship as the engines started deep registries..A further suspicion had teenager sailing a dinghy and said I
brought
me
aboard
the
Aladin
B.
I
job.
In that city, however, none were
planned
to
bring
a
schooner
from
below. Some 15,000 metric tons of
steel and 525,000 barrels of crude oil had signed on to find but whether it Turkey, and that they surely under available, so I headed for Piraeus in
Greece.
in 10 huge tanks were set in motion. I is true that many ships flying flags of stood all the Oriental rules and
Standing next to one another
was standing on the bridge, which convenience are operated by officers regulations. The officials nodded
who
wouldn't
qualify
under
the
laws
along
Akti Miaouli, a street winding
agreeably, and in a holiday mood
was as tall as the roof of a six story
of many countries to steer a motor- they issued a document stating that I
its way for about a mile and a half
building, and 800 feet of ship lay in
boat.
Would
I
myself
be
allowed
along
the harbor of Piraeus, are the
had "several years of experience as a
front of me. I could hardly make out
offices of international banks and
the men hauling in the lines on the responsibility for the running of the skipper." It was true, but as a
ship?
shipping
lines. Among them are
foredeck.
skipper of sailboats no more than 15
many of the lines that fly flags of
My "career" as a ship's officer had feet long.
Why on earth did we have to cast
begun
five
months
earlier,
when
I
convenience
and that operate a third
Now I went back to the Pana
off during my watch? I was the newly
of the tanker fleet of the Western
hired third mate, but I knew barely decided to get myself instantly manian consul. The certificate of hire
certified.
world. In Piraeus, to find a job an
from the Dutch shipowner met with
as much about seamanship as Julio
unemployed seaman has to go
I had no intention of spending his approval. However, when he saw
the messboy. Twenty years before, I
through one of the hundreds of
had been a deck boy on a small three years as a sailor and three the document from the city of
shipping
masters, or agents, in the additional
mandatory
years
at
a
Hamburg, he hesitated: "But here it
freighter, but not once since then
city. There were about 3,000 seamen
had I set foot on the bridge of a ship. maritime academy, as German law says 'Department of Sports.' "
demands.
But
neither
was
I
as
lucky
And now I was to help navigate a
"And farther down it says 'skip in the city, a motley crowd from all
tanker of 85,000 deadweight tons as a man 1 shall-call Peter. A dropout
per,'and that should be adequate,"I continents—many Chileans, Afri
after
a
few
semesters
at
an
engineer
through the tricky waters of the
replied. As he began to protest that cans and Pakistanis. And there were
Caribbean. Of course, the harbor ing school, he became second jenhe was not inclined to lose his job for nearly as many agents, huddled like
gineer
on
a
Ghane.se
freighter.
The
pilot and Captain Petros Deligianmy sake, I tossed across the desk a moles in tiny "offices" the size of
shipowner, a Dutch industrialist,' certificate that qualified me to oper storage closets. But the agents were
nakis were up there with me, and
Kolakko, a sailor, took the helm. had agreeed in the contract of hire to
ate a radiotelephone. I had recently able to push the seamen around just
as ruthlessly as did the crimps who
But r was grateful for every minute provide Peter with "all necessary
taken a three-day course to get it.
documents"
except
a
passport.
I
had
made their living shanghaiing sailors
that the pilot wa« on board and
"Well, this is a different matter," for shipowners in the era of tall
seen
his
contract
and
was
amazed.
I
every hour that brought me closer to
the consul said. "What would you ships.
would have no such luck. I would
the end of my watch.
like, a seaman's book or a license to
I was told by one of these latterSomehow before it ended, I have to get my papers through
operate
the radiotelegraph?" I chose day crimps to be at his office at ten
consulates
in
big
city
ports.
managed to obey an order to take a
the telegrapher's license, with no A.M. I arrived and was put off until
Equipped with my old seaman's
bearing using the radar. The next
restrictions. With it I could work
book, which showed my year as a aboard passenger liners and super noon. Then I was told to return in
the afternoon, at which time I was
Christian Jungbiut is a 37-year-old deck boy, and with three other doctankers. The fee was 50 marks. My casually put off until the next day.
German reporter and writer whoput uments confirming my services as a cousin's husband had trained for
He was teaching me a lesson: No
in many years as a laborer before he sailor for a total of three years—I
five years to earn one.
commission,
no ship—that was the
turned to journalism.
had bought them for 100 deutsche
A week later I had a mate's license rule. He leaned across his desk, close
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38 / LOG / March 1981
enough for me to count the bristles
of his beard, and quietly named his
;'-y.
x-.
jobon 'Flag-of-
Portside was still there. It was oil
[$450], he said. You must undefs udge, shifted by Joe from one tank
stand, we get the smallest share of
to another through interconnecting
the pie. Five thousand go to the crew
pipes. Now that sludge wouldn't
manager of the shipping company
budge A reading with a gauge
who will move your applicatbn
showed that there were 10 inches of
from the bpttom of the pile to flie
there. It had accumulated in
top. Six thousand are for the port
miiks^Jha,
had
been properly
captain of the shipping line, to get
him-to give you a good ship. I^ive
^ The captain appeared. He and Joe
thousand go to immigration so thev
had
a lively and long conversation. .
will take care of passports. Only four
Joe kept turning valves as they
thousand are for us. This yop pay
spoke—in Greek, which of course I
when you sign the contract."
did
not understand. Then the
"How about a receipt?" I asked
captain
left. Joe pulled the measur
He gave me a cpndescending look
ing gauge out of the tank. The
"That's impossible. You know, this
reading
was now two/inches.
IS illegal here. You have to trust me "
J*
And the lifeboats?
When
inspectors
for
the refinery
3rs
I handed over the money, thinking
seemed that every day someone was came aboard to verify that the tanks
that all I had to show for it was the I.ZT
f-' " Manfred
risking our safety.
had been emptied, it was raining
privilege of spending my days wait
cats
and dogs. This was to Joe's
• At long last we reached Delaware
"feboat
ing on a chair in his office.
Bay, and I breathed a sigh of relief. advantage. I -watched carefully as
lutes' ,^'"'"''''"8 '» international
they got to Number 4 Portside. Joe
We had to drop anchor, because 65
A month passed before I was nues^ tbey must be held once a
owered the measuring gauge into
nauttcal
miles
upstream
our
berth
ordered to Athens to undergo the
was taken by another tanker. We the tapk and as a knot: passed
_ Manfred laughed again. "Not on
physical examination required for a
through his fingers, he immediately '
had
been at sea for only a week, but
this
ship;
no
lifeboat
drills
or
fire
job—as mate aboard the Fadi A, a
stopped the line from dropping *
We have no drills whatsoever.
tanker. However, no contract fol drills.
iNone. You understand?"
by the day. We were out of vege- farther. When he pulled up thf lowed, and waiting around at the
tables. The next day, there was no gauge. It showed only a few drops of
agent's office, I happened to hear
Whenever 1 began to wonder how meat. Finally we found nothing but
oil in the tank, whereas I knew that
that an Arab had been signed on in
I was ping to get out of this mess a sandwich oa our plates.
two inches were still in there. But
my place. I asked about this and was unpathed, I reminded myself that
where
did Joe put the other eight
I was about to raise hell when 1
told that nothing had been decided. before I came, the crew had always
learned that we were out of drinking inches? He told me later that the
A week later, the agent said: "There managed to reach port. The odds, I
captain had ordered him to pump
IS a tanker in Genoa, the Amer B., concluded, were in my fayor as long water. For the past three days we the oil sludge into the bilge below the
had been drinking the turbid muck pump room.
youH get on that ship." When I as I didn't make a big mistake during
from the Delaware River, which not
checked with the shipping company, my watch.
Now I began to understand the
even
the evaporator could purify
the answer was, "The ship will be in ,
meaning
of an earlier incident
I decided to be even more on The captain ran the risk of making
Piraeus tomorrow. Nobody will be guard than before. I missed no
During my watch one night, when
his entire crew ill in order to save the
signed on."
we were at about the latitude of
opportunity to learn. I wanted to see cost of using the services of a water
The agent sent me to Athens the pump room, to be familiar with
Charleston, South Carolina, the
boat. Nobody complained. When I
again. By i^ow the bus drivers were all ^important valves, switches and
ship s course was changed, without
'
lashed out. I was told, "Hey man, if
greeting me with handshakes. In
anybody
telling
me
about
it,
to
take
locks. I wanted to be prepared for'an you. want to survive on this ship
Athens I was told that there was a emergency, to be able to prevent an
us farther out to sea. In entering our
don t hear nothing, don't see nothbeautiful tanker, 14 years old, but in overflow of oil at the docks-a
position on the charts, the first mate
mg, don't say nothing You're only
very gopd condition. I no longer responsibility that was part of a
didnt use dividers because they
here for the money."
eave holes in the paper and could be
accepted any old mate's job, in fact.
• -•T.,
The
advice
came
from
Joe,
the
ship^This tanker, they said, travels
detected later. Umpteen barrels of
Jwo nights later, I got the feeling pumpman, who had warned me Oil sludgeowere dumped into the sea
the Caribbean between Curacao and'
-r-r'.
the United States. I would have to we would never reach port. In a once before. Joe was from Ghana
during this change of course. They
He
was
six
feet
six
and
the
only
grayish-black haze, our visibility
y o Curacao, where it was in port
came from the bilge, where the
African
on
board.
He
ate
in
the
was
only
two
nautical
miles.
We
Its name was the Aladin B.
remaining eight inches of oil sludge
were on a much traveled route near officers mess, but he was quartered
from
Number 4 Portside were now
belqw with the crew.
stored.
•
the
American
coast.
When
I
was
first told by his mates about the
condition of the vessel."This tanker about to switch on the radar,
Such were the favors Joe did for
.When at long last we docked at
the captain. Later, I visited Joe in his '
js somewhat rusty, but otherwise it's another officer said, in all serious Marcus Hook, the captain gave his
cabin. He was sipping whiskey
'n good shape." said Manfred, the ness, "Don't. We have good visi commands, as usual, over the twobility."
f ven to him by the captain, and
•rst engineer, as a pair of cock
way radio in Greek, a language
brooding. "IVe got to get away from
roaches crossed one wall of. his
I tried to explain that we did not understood on the foredeck only by
here, was all he said. I nodded. *
l^hin^ I had been taken to* hirh have enough time to change course if the first mate. The harbor pilot
Joe and I were still on board as we
mediately upon arrival because he we had to avoid another ship. If the •asked me, "What is he saying now?"
crept out of port. As usual with .
ho J
other German on pthpr ship were traveling at our I replied, "I understand as much as
sailors,
it^is easier to stay.
oard. Compared with' the rust speed,,!5 knots, our vessels would be you do," whereupon he promptlv
Guard was satisfied.
buckets I had seen.the Aladin B. was approaching each other at 30 knots, left the ship.
They
had
boarded
during the
me ship, but in its decliifmg years, and if we were two miles apart at
Joe was our only pumper. It was
unloading and approved the log.
here was a crew of thirty-four men first sighting, the big crunch would his job to pump the oil—type
Their
only other concern was with
rom nine nations aqd four con- occur in four minutes.
"Bonny Light," a stuff almost as
Iments.
two-cables hanging fore and aft,
fluid as gasoline—from the ship into
which
can be used to tow the ship
All he officer had to say was. the
the dockside
dockside tanks
tanks of
of British
British Petro
PetroVou know the rule of thumb?"
out of port as fast as possible in case
*
an^red asked. "Five years under. ' There s plenty of time for a full ,eum. This job shonj^not have
of fire. Nobody was much interested
turn. I execntcd one only this , taken more than 24 houA Nonethe
reek ownership or under a Greek
morning..
You'll
See.
it
will
be
okay."
Jess,
a
day
jl'
in
us. In any port, everybody prefers
pain and a ship is done for,
to
see such ships leaving instead of ^
cause nobody does anything to In my mind's eye, I sa.w a man in a not even half empty. A man fromThe
coming.
her m shapr. This ship has been car without brakes racing toward a BP control room cLled meOT^the
wall and still supposing he could radio, but Joe said. "Don't pay no
As for the people at the refinery .
haH^f
years—the Japanese make a sharp turn only a few feet attention to him "
P y no they breathed a sigh of relief when
tu/n '
other words, she has
the dock was finally available again'
•
away. I don't scare easily, but cold .
Another 24 hours passed and the
0 more years to go."
fear wgs getting hold of me. It last oil in the last tank. Number 4 for another tanker to discharge its
cargo.
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Seafarers Log Issues 1980-1989
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Volumes XLII-LI of the Seafarers Log
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HEADLINES
SOME BUDGET CUTS TARGET MARITIME PROGRAMS
AFL-CIO BACKS 5-POINT PLAN TO BOOST MARITIME
PRICE IMPASSE FORCES EL PASO TO LAY UP LNGS
SIU OPPOSING BILL TO ALLOW FOREIGN FLAG PASSENGER SERVICE U.S.-PUERTO RICO
COLA HIKE FOR LAKE SEAFARERS
JOHNNY YARMOLA DIES OF HEART ATTACK AT 57
REMEMBRANCES OF JOHNNY YARMOLA, A TRUE FRIEND
CREWS CONFERENCE KICKOFF SET FOR APR. 20
SIU JOINS MINERS TO PROTEST BLACK LUNG CUTS
COAL TASK FORCE: U.S. SHOULD BUILD COAL FLEET
SIU SHIP IS NEW AMBASSADOR TO ECUADOR
SIU HELPS SUP CELEBRATE ITS 96TH ANNIVERSARY
OGDEN BUYS 4 ZAPATA TANKERS
N.Y. PORT COUNCIL RAISES $16,000 FOR ITALY’S QUAKE VICTIMS
REAGAN MARITIME BUDGET UNVEILED
LABOR MOVES TO PRESERVE TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
DIESEL POWER AHEAD IN ECONOMIC STUDY
U.S. ADDS OIL TO SPR
L.A. COAL TERMINAL
STUDDS OFFER SHIP BILL
PHS MUST NOT BE CHOPPED BY BUDGET AX
ALGINA (A-1), CHARTER MEMBER, RETIRED OFFICIAL, DIES
SIU TRADITION- LEGENDARY IN ITS OWN ERA
SURVIVAL AT SEA! THEY DON’T CALL IT A LIFEBOAT FOR NOTHING
HISTORY OF THE SIU, PART V; SIU’S FIRST BIG VICTORY-WAR BONUS
SUMMARY REPORT FOR TUG & DREDGE PENSION PLAN
FORMER SIU BLACK GANGER GOING FOR 1ST ASST. ENG.
SUMMARY ANNUAL REPORT FOR SEAFARERS PENSION PLAN
NEED A LICENSE? GET ONE CHEAP WITH GRAFT, THEN GET A MATE’S JOB ON ‘FLAG-OF-CONVENIENCE’
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Vol. 43, No. 3
1981
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