http://seafarerslog.org/archives/files/original/362d3662bb0f08dfe0011e0332ea41ce.pdf 8f47a3c52eb04ee422fe7d233742c906 PDF Text Text / ' Official Pul»lication of tile Sea~rs lnternat i~ Union • Atlantic, GuU, Lakes and bwlnd Waters Duh'ict • AFIA:10 Vol. 46 Mo. U Nov. 1984 ·Reagan Wins Personal Victory , I ·,Seafar.ers Grassroots Campaign Pays Off as . Union-Backed. Candidates Win in House, Se.nate The SIU' s position in the House and the _Senate was strengthened in the November elections as an overwhelming majority of Unionbacked candidates were elected to Congress. Frank Drozak, president of the SIU, praised the SIU mempership .. /~tthi.}ll P~jfieY, ~~d ~~ven f~ .· J']•\'}1J1Ef.~1pftt'§ gi;._as'l.1,rpots political ac0 ,'·, ·,tronprog ram. · •·· At the same time, Ronald Reagal!- s~1r~.~ 11~.u~~;BersQ_naj: _victo ..as, · · ·· •····· . ,v·, ··. '. The Republican Party losta net total of two seats in. the Senate, wh.ich they now control by a 5347 margin. The balance of power in the Senate has. shifted, and. is · nowheld byrnc;iJ:!erat!i.Rtpu~i~s and traditional Deifioqrat~: '{llb,fs group can be expected to check Ute excesses J>f•Mr ..Reagan and ··some of.the riidical cbnservatives in the RepublicaiJ·Par!y. Despite the overwheJmipg~!'lPe•.,,;; o · •·.. · · ·· • ·: ; 1 ,,ct') ,: i I rl:li,~x? Hi- @,..,... (l'lb;.U:m,. he",?~u.s~rdr'Rff- · ec- ' em ·ar•· e • toral College set a record. He de~ els, and even ftu:ther .pehjnp. ,the 1·' ·tftiiR e.tfM'dqjil_al~!.1'.f~t((t~s;,:;,,; •, ·. ' . .·.. .. . .. ~•f. '' . c~~.\iil~'¢,rO'l1Jl:!~v.r~ /: f;J!! ,Y(:•;;:;,,;o,l i;, i .~wHo itapt'iliea 41' · : ·,. ~e,i(:; ,, ,.}Vo~~ 'iit4tionwi~e,, h~ped to pick up e~~llgh seat~ the House to rc:capture the effec: .·: . . . e,:/st <~ ., ',tfil~lil;,tfcir: .... tjve,:qonttol they had in the 97th a-tb,ta of tJe. ec't ·. . ., .tilf'.;t : :st~~ilii.iij;.v;hert they. joined with Mt. Reagan swept every 'm~jtir . coii~tniati~ehIDemoeta,ts"'tl'i:, pass voting block except for the follow- .. the pre;i~ent's tax ,cfuts,"alii!~!e'i .•· . "' ' " ,· '' ing: Blacks, Jews, people making fense increases. · · · undc:r $10,000, the unemployed, Before the election, Republican lfispfiliics. and.Union members. politicians were openly talking . :':'.fm'e:pr.esidylif :~aptµred 48 per: . about a realignment of the two cent ofthe:iUnr0n·vate ~srJit~an party.syi;tem. They were counting. all~out ~id by organi~ed !ab'tir'Clo·· .· ii:rt?Frl{~jdet)JJ~~g~~!(S,'o!t~l!~trfi~ . ,.•.· defeat him. He also did much betpopulantytp,t,ansfpmalil!h1;1.~i(p{'Yf · "· ter than expected among Hispanic into·the ''majority party.'; · ~' vptets. . . The mucb-touted realighment of ~,,, ...,.;g,e~pit,~"',!be ext.ent of Mr. ReaAmerican politics was not ushered ~J-~gajif~ ~p~onaLv ietory, there are · . in on November 6th. Indeed, the · iii~ti;..i:t'i~;:,.ml "' ' 1 ~~J~rs were . prospects for the Republican Party nofgi~i'nic;,hi~,. ,"::rt~yt . · .J~R,·~lmdst oleak 1!1 t~~,11ext.etc• out his p<11ic1ey; ··'1':,f!fo:, o "'" n:~19 of ihe:'$,3.2.S~i'i\l!e publican. :Party did in)lch · ·• , ., f.orci~¢fedtitin · The.re was . a large turnout ib?iti~·c;·econd of the quarterly labor/ poorly than Republicans lfad hopeil. , ..... , ... s";:i::;';•: Y. '~i :; :: . ·. management meeting for Crowley empl()yije,s1 See page 9. for. • ., . • (€6ttfili'ili~ofi"~l~\it4) . . . ·-:,~.,""·,-,. - ..•:,just qne ate, Minnesota, ---'II;_ . - r ;. -·..... : .;. ·/'." :.;,"" ::~~/{t,[~~; ;P~y- - \ i ;, 4 j; •· c" ' �. Tricky Refueling by Falcon Leader Draws MSC Praise In tjme of war or national from astern 10 :~hips near the In refueling from astern, the emergency, naval fleets cannot Persian Gulf, according to Capt. larger ship _must synchronize risk divulging • their ·whereSteven Ford, vice president of speed and direction- so that a abouts, and stopping in port to tanker operations for Seahawk hose from the merchant ship can refuel is too dangerous. Management, the operator of transfer fuel without strain or Taking part in an early autheFalcon Leaderan dhersiste r - slack as the ships continue in tumn military preparedness _ex- · _ship, the Falcon Champion. Both . motion. The crew listened to ercise, the SIU-cont dcted Falships are covered by a five-year tapes and practiced· test_ runs con Leader wiis heaped with _ Military Sealift Command months before the formal perpraise afterskillfully completing charter. formance. radical rendezvous refueling The exercises, said Ford, were - - Congratulations on a job well maneuvers for a fleet of U.S. ''professionally challenging" done go to each member of the ' Navy ships patrolling the Indian with the delicate process oftak- - SIU crew: Ocean. · ing on jet and diesel fuel from Vice Adm. William Rowden _ astern, requiriQ.g ''professional and Rear Adm. JohnR. Batzler, pizzazz, proper planning- and in a telegram to Seahawk Man- professional seamanship. There agemerit, operator of the Leader, is always the chance involved commended SIU seameq for in any radical maneuver such as lending their skillful support to this of polluting the sea,'' said the nation's naval defense. Ford. "After doing a job like -Between Sept. 24 and Oct. this, I think the guys deserve a 14, the SIU members refueled - pat on the back," he added. The SIU-crewed Falcon Leader, Bosun - Joe Donovan _AB_ AB James Lee Jackso_ Othman Vin Chik · AB Robert Lee Coope AB Jerry P. James AB HaninMacip .AB James B. Dawsori Pumpman / Joseph R. Negron QMED George Damey QMED Williard Verzone Chief Steward Brad Otto Chief Cook Sergio Morales Steward Assistant Howard Bickford - Deck Engine Octovianus . Utility Pariama currently under a five-year Military Sealift Command charter, drew high praise for her performance during recent Navy exercises near the Persian Gulf. _ Congress -Goes Home No Hill Action on Re-Flagging or- Alc1skan Oil I?~lr~t; .~int.~ t:ongB: The 98th session of Congress otherwise he :1ai!l up for lack of The ban-~g~i* ~t:~· -- --J,h4epqµ,~;llectjc' 11ote as Con- cargo. AI<tskan oil was·g:!,jnta Jne ·1Q\w··. . •'. · - ' :' ,._,#._ . . - . --- .,, . . -' --, . --.-_ "~-". ,:.,,: ·- -._, . . ~---gre_s"s fifilecf'tcf deal with two' · Iri 1a:d<'ition,,the tedo_cume n• provision oftheExp ettAdtnin °·\ matter,_ W-hil.~ _the:_ adminis.lrau ' . .' is~r~l?,-f,~~i&eJX!~Ji:pp~~C~ffi ---_-_ _istration Act(EA,A ):JJ_e BAA tio11 backecf off from .ar, ..., .,_---_ -·•_-_:,-'.~l8:Y.:1,l,~.:L __·,",.;,.--,..,-_ .,,=_,,. "'t--,;!},._;;f_ii.,_~__ - "_"'_'_'_:,_- ' ' ·t;-··t/1·~. --··:--- < ···!'':"~;~,.. '"~ ... -~:' -.•~~~--11P~lt.1,!" ~::..:;'-~~~7-~,~~ ·-'-_ .. :;i,~ ,... Jiort of Alaskan oil and the re;: V'o __ _ , _ _ __ _ afroil; ifha;.bee11 -- -documentation of two passencreate more than 1,000 seafaring lukewarm at best tow~d:~. llt ger vessels under the American jobs at a time when the U.S.mo ting the ban', _- ,;,\'>, ~, · flag. flag merchant marine is at its -The re-flagging of the two paslowest'eb b. The _ House and the Senate senger vessels had a checkere.cl , The .faH~re of Congress to Bothissue s involve more than pa~§e1i,J~1 ;i~T~~pecti vSV:rsiCJns legi~lative hi~t<:>_ry._. deal with these two issues does ., just the maritime industry and ofth~ ~~";d~ut,» '~!}'l~Jl~b not mean that they are_ deao. le,.t~;;:_;;,,,ta:J!J:I!Jff~J!i,~~ -_ _ "• - _. ;Ii~ The Union intends to make_their have important national secu- come up •with a totnproiri1s€t'i:i:tt!f.;z'~efin,.oes,s Jlifiq th~ -• ount-e'ss wai Congress. - -- - - - _ · _-' contained jn an amendment tc passage a top legislative priority rity consequences. The ban against the export of There was, however, agree_· the House version of the Fiscal in the upcomin~ session of ConAlaskan oil ensures that ment the on the issue on banning , Year 1985 Defense AuthQrjza; gress. United States has an adequate the export of Alaskan oil. At tions bill, but was drop~~~ in According to estimates, the - supply of domestic reserves. present, exports are>being reconference. _ -, ___ -: prohibition against exporting The redocumentatjon of the_ stricted-bythepresitlenttlirc>ugh _ The SIU c;µn~v~f f~foseto Alaskan oil creates a guaranteed two passenger -vessels would tb,i ,,. International Economic •gettit1g the •,provisign attached marketfor as many as 40 Amer- greatly enhance this countty's Elll~genc y Powers Act to- some otherpiec e of legislaican-flag tankers that would sealift capability. (IEEPA). tion, but time ran out. 0 . 1 ·>. ·Qfflt,ial Pub!icit1~nutt '"- S~farers lnttmafional Urnoo oi ·; - Noitfii~•AUailtfc:"" 'Gui( Lakt!s~d-1nland Watm: OIS!rici: :,·~ .,_ --~ . , __ A'Fl,CIO • - - · ' Executiv e Board_ •-- Frank Drozak . President - Joe DiGiorglo Secretary-Treasurer Angus "Red" Campbell :S« Charles Svenson Editor Marietta Homayonpour Associate Editor New YOf/< Ray Bourdlus Ass1slant Editor Lynnette Ma,.,.hall Assistant Editor/Photos 21 LOG / October 1984 ;, Vice President ~~),I Joe Sacco Vice President - Micheli. Paladino .. Assistant Editor/Press Relations Mike Sacco . Leon Hail - Vice_ Pre~fdent_,, - - - · George MpCartney l • Vice Presfdent • ,~,'(>.lffl-f~/1 Washington Deborah Greene • Assistant Editor Ed Turner Executive Vice President Vice President Mike Hall Associate Editor Max ·Hall Assistant Editor -- "' -.,,:, . . ·',II,,;·'." - · ~;~-~,~1~· -• - - _' - ~.'... .•--;--;.,c - - \ ,~,- -- - The LOG (ISSN 016il-204D i~ publlshed monthly by Seafarers lntemJl!ional UnJon, Atlantig.dl'~ifi\if l Lakes and Inland Weters D1stnct, AFL·jllQ, 52_01_. Aulh-Way. •CemP Spnngs, Mdt·20;4__s,_TeltQ9_Jft 067~. Second-class poslage paid at M,S.C. Pnnce Georges, Md. 20700-9998 aQ'o ·a1 alfdJ~onal POSTMASTER: Send address changes to_the LOG. 520~- Auih Way; <;amp_S!Jgt -, 7 ~~~•;s ~~:'"5· �Draws,High,Navy Praise __-.•_, - Keystone State's SIU Crew ·Exceeds Expectations SHLSS· Training ls Key to Professional Operation The recent Navy J-LOTS exercises, conducted off the coast of Norfolk, Va 0 , was an intensive test of the SIU's Keystone State and her crew. · The exercises were conducted continuously from Sept. 18 through Oct. 12, and the crews were on call 24 hours a day. The crane operators handled the cargo unloading operation in I2-hour shifts, while the maintenance, QMEDs, engineers and oilers were on normal shifts plus overtime. The nineman steward department prepared hot meals four times a day. The smoothness of the month-long exercises was at- · tributed. to the professionalism and cooperation of the entire crew. Seafarers worked around the clock in a ''war'' scena,rjg_WQff/: they sup.erbJyexecutedtheirdu. ties,. far exceeding the Navy's · expectations. Seafarers proved ·once again that they can ably a11d efp.cie · 1~ year by the Navy as the first of I I heavy~lift crane ships under charter to the Military Sealift Command (MSC). These crane ships will be able to unload containerships in primitive ports with no lifting facilities, in modern ports where the container cranes have been damaged by enemy action, or "in the stream" without any port facilities. The Keystone State was converted at the Bay Shipbuilding Corporation in Sturgeon Bay, Wis. The three pairs of rotating cranes sit on pedestals all on Each member of the team has been trained at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship to learn the advanced operation, rig-handling and other technical areas of this special equipment. During the exercises off the Virginia coast, the Keystone State met all the tasks set forit by the Navy in the combat situation, and at the same time proved the. workability of privately-opeFated and manned TACS crane ships and their roles as floating docks for construe- ... . "We can take pride in our efforts." - • Frank Drozak t • t • • • .. I I • I I • I I I , I I I , I • I I I •• I I every member of the crew should be lauded for their outstanding performance. The crew bit the bullet and did it, and their diligent efforts have not gone unnoticed." SIU President Frank Drozak also sent a congratulatory letter to the SIU crewmembers of the Keystone State, praising them for their fine service and "demonstrating again that. ,the SIU mariner is the best in the world. I believe that your. achievements will mean additional crane ships will be built and manned by merchant mariners and that the Navy can truly view .our membership as vital back~up and support force in times of both peace and conflict to the U.S. Navy." tr·-~Kiy~r8ne ~ - ,,. The . 2 -0 State was converted earlier this ,.._ ' •· The SIU-crewed Keystone State recently completed her first full-scale _war games off the coast of Virginia, The first of 11 crane ships designed giant crane$, ffie Ship iind Iler crew won high praise from the Military Sealift Command and SIU President Frank Dtozak .. to assist-the. Navy. in carrying and transferring military cargo with its own Novemb.eLl984 /LOG/ 3 ;I '! ' 'I �Delta Sale to U.S. Lines Is in the Works A combination of mounting debts, slumping shipping and a congressional refusal to allow a buy-out of its Operating Differential Subsidy (ODS) contract, has forced Crowley Maritime Corp. to undertake plans to sell its Delta Steamship Lines. A tentative agreement between Crowley-United States Lines for the sale of Delta is close to completion. Plans call for U.S. Lines to purchase 11 Delta ships and its shipping and trade routes, mostly in South America. Six of these ships are laid up. U.S. Lines will lease three new container ships now under construction for Delta in Denmark. No price for the purchase has been revealed. Two years ago when Crowley bought Delta from 24 Holiday Inns, the company paid some $96 million in cash for ships. Many of those ships have been transferred to the Navy's Ready Reserve Fleet. A strong dollar and slumping South American shipping markets have hurt Delta. The company lost about $20 million last year, and experts said it .was losing money at about the same rate this year. Delta did try to save itself from sinking earlier this year when it asked for permission to have the federal government buy out its ODS contract with Delta. If approved, the move could have brought several millions of dollars to Delta and it could have continued. But Congress, after heavy lobbying from opponents, refused to do so. The Lookout With a cast ofa thousand thoughts of yesterday, A million dreams of tomorrow. And I think of you-Mary. The bow is my stage, The stars are my audience. When the weather becomes my critic, You'llfin4_.,meon-the wings SIU Urges Denial of USL's Foreign-Flag Plan -~~!'S~¥g~• The SIU has strongly ob- foreign-flag service, receiving jected to an attempt by_ the · U.S. subsidy, would have on United States Lines (USL), a other U.S.-flag operators. In subsidized carrier, to use forUSL's scheme of things, beneeign-flag ''feeder'' vessels to fill fits would be enjoyed by foreign the decks of its giant new con- as well as U.S.-flag interests, tainerships. but subsidy costs would be borne USL plans to begin an around- solely by the U.S. governthe-world service with their new m.ent," SIU President Frank giant containerships, the largest Drozak told Marad. ever built. Their plans call for Drozak also noted that USL's the ships to make about a·dozen plans to use 13 foreign-flag ships stops at major ports around the on those routes would take away world. The so-called feeder ships some 300· unlicensed jobs, "a would bring cargo from smaller large loss of shipping employports in the area to load onto ment at a time when job opporthe giant vessels. tunities in our industry are deBecause of maritime law,·usL clirting.'' must receive a waiver from. Another objection to the reMarad for its use of the foreignquest concerns national secuflag ships. Along with the SIU, rity: the shrinking pool of trained the National Maritime Union, maritim~ labor, the loss of job the Transportation Institute, opportunities. for smaller miliWaterman Steamship . Corp,, tarily useful U .S.-flag cargo ships Sea-Land Service and several and the lack of an Ain,erican otlier groups have objected to pr_esence in the Persian Gulf; the request. the Straits of Malacca, the In'' An important concern is the dian Ocean and other strategic effect that a combined U.S.~flag/ ar_ea~, • · . Personals . Ray McDonald & Alfred Tousignant _ ~~'i:~~;~1,J~;,:~~~6~~~~~¾fis~~;,,.~J:'.:t;j~;!s_:_(~~2)843- Seafarers Grassroots ·Efforts Help Keep Maritime Friends in Congress dictates in 25 senatorial races, and oquently addressed the issues that By vigorously defending the 19 of· those candidates won elecare facing the American people. Reagan record, Vice Pre.sicl;e11t Almost immediately after the election, Republican strategists be-. tion. "Most important, he was able George Bµsh was ableJ(f§_~~"rii'.up . gan looking for reasons-for their WedidevenbetterintheHouse. to·conie-up with a framework to suppprtamon:g.con"s1';tvatives'who solve some ofour· nation.al prob- ·• '•h!iq:previpusly vieWe"d him with · poor showing outside of the pres- Of more than 350 candidates that idential sweep. we supported, 90 percent were !ems; most notably in.the areas of ·. great suspicion and even outright arms control, trade and economic hostitity. Robert Michel, assistant minor- elected. SPAD, and our grassroots development, and budget· deliBy campaigning hard on behalf ity leader of the House of Repre- program paid off. sentatives, blames President Rea"On the whole,". said Frank cits. · of·the Mondale-Ferraro ·ticket togan for his decision to go for a 50 Drozak, president of the SIU, "I "Mondale deserved the support ward the end of the campaign, state sweep rather than concen- . · think that we did very well. We've · of this organization. Unlike Reas c _Jesse Jackson and Gary Hart tried to erase the negative public images trate his efforts .on getting more . shored hp our position on Capitol · gari, he has been a consistent sup Republicans elected. Hill. In. additi9n, we've laid the pOrter of· the American-flag merthat they had created during the foundation for a strong grassroots chant marine. · · · 1984 campaign. "Here the s.on of a buck ended up with 59. percent and you bring program. · "Over the past four years, PresDavid Pryor, Mario Cuomo and in (only) 15 seats," he complained. "This involvement on the grass- ident Reagan has eliminated or cut Bill Bradley were being urged by . roots level produced some tangible funding for almost every important Democratic politicians across· the results in this election .. We were maritime progr;im. His neglect cif country to·make a bid for the i988 able. to help elect a more sympa- the maritime industry has brought presidential race. Pryor is a wellthetif Congress. We were also able us to the point where we now have respected moderate from the South; While many political analysts . ·. to piibiicize some of-tile issues that_. · only 406acJive American-flag mer- · · Cuomo had delivered One of the we feel are important chant vessels,'' -Droza:k ·said. most moving keynote addresses in: questioned the showing of orga nized labor in this election, labor · "In addition, we have positioned recent history; and Bradley had ourselves for the 1986 elections * * * defeated his Republican opponent unions did manage to secure 52 by more than 2 to 1 in a state that percent of the Union vote for Mr.. and beyond. A large number of ··. .Perhaps the most significant thing · had gone heavily for Ronald ReaMondale. This figure contrasted · 3.Ilti-maritiaje seats are upfor gra\)s sharply. with the 36 percent vote iri t°986, arid we have a chance to . about the 1984 election is that even gan. These bits of information are that Mondale managed to secure further consolidate the gains that before it ended, people were poin non-Union households. we made this year." sitioning themselves for 1988. .. more than just interesting gossip. · Drozak then.went onto say that Robert Dole and Jack Kemp used They demonstrate that the time to Aside from the presidential race, the SIU did not regret supporting the speeches that they had made organize for 1988 is now. The marthe SIU did very well indeed. Our Union was able to greatly enhance Walter Mondale. at the Republican Convention to itime industry can't afford to be "Mondale ran an admirable position themselves for a 1988 left waiting at the gate, not when its standing on Capitol Hill. campaign," said Drozak. "He .el- Presidential Bid. our very existence is at stake. · The SIU actively supported can(Continued from Page 1.) -· 0 0 4 / LOG / i ;, November 1984 ·.. �More Jobsfor Seafarers · SIU-Contracted Company. to Operate MSC Ship nother newly c9nverted RO/ A RO ship has been add~d to the SIU-conti:acted fleet. Bringing in more jobs for our members is the Cpl. Louis J. Hauge, Jr. which is being op~ erated by a priyately• owned company for the ·MilitarySealift Command. . . This 755-foot. long .vessel is part of the U.S. military's Maritime Prepositioning Ship (MPS) program. Converted at Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Sparrows Point Yard in Maryland, the Cpl. Louis J. Hauge, Jr. has beam of 90 feet, a .draft of 32 feet and a speed of 17.5 knots. She has a low-speed diesel engine and range of 10,800 nautical miles. a During her conversion, the ship was lengthened by·a 157foot mid-body section and was fitted with a semi-slewing stern ramp, side port doors and ramps, and three twin-tandem heavylift cranes. · She is named after an American war hero who posthumously received the Medal .of Honor. Corporal Hauge was killed in action on May 14, 1945 while in Okinawa as a member of the First Marine Division. The new MPS ship can store Itnd deliver one-fifth of the equipment and 30 days' supplies for an entire Marine Corps amphibious brigade. When the ship was converted, a helicopter pad and quarters for military personnel were also added . . Additional sister ships will follow the Hauge. The LOG will run features on'them when they are ready for service . .. ·•· .· . . . ..· . , . bl! the ,ships will be "prepo~ ~~lil~iit~~~fti~lt*1i~tlref~t1antil;li Indian or Pirdfic. Oceans. · · • ·.·. " · · · , A smiling group of Seafarers is shown.aboard the Cpl. Hauge. They are, from the left: Ben Conway, .DEU; George Nason, AB, and Edgar Cortes, DEU. Shown in the crew's mess are three-able-seamen. From the left are Frank Adams, Earl Bergeron and Bob Vranish. Two Seafarers who work as GSUs aboard the Hauge are Tom Misko (I.) and Tony Spain. November 1984 / LOG f 5 'L k �profiles . In Its monthly series of interviews and reports, "PROFILES" will · highlight key government officials instrumental in shaping national and maritime policy. \ Senator Howard Baker Congressman, John Breaux I S N 1966, Senato r Howa rd Baker (R-Tenn.) was the first Republican ever elected to the Senate from the state of Tennessee. He was elected Senate Minority Leade r in 1977 and was re-elected to that office in 1979 by a unanimous vote of Senate Republicans. In the Senate , he is a member of the Committees on Environment and Public Works, Foreign Relations, Rules and Administration and an ex-officio member of the Select Committee on Intelligence. INCE his first election to Congress in 1972, Congress. man John Breaux (D-La.) has emerged as a senior House member widely known and respected for his expertise in en-· ergy, agriculture and maritime issues. In Louisi ana's Seven th Congressional ·District, Breaux territory, containing over 500,000 acres of rice, sugarcane and Sen. Howard Baker Rep. John Breaux soybeans, Breau x supports agricultural . programs to . keep new development. We need a country. They were truly rep- America the "bread basket of comprel;lensi.ve development resentative of the people who the free world ." program for the entire industry. elected them because they played · Breaux advocates a healthy . There is a great Baker has a unique family potential to an integral and active P\ITT in the and expanding .. agricultural revitalize our.fisheries industry. heritage. The senato r's father civic and economic arid social economy; , witb. stro11g export and stepm other both served in Highlr ~ubsiqizedJ01;~ig11 com- · affairs of their constituencies. potential amfa'ii'American merpeti,1:iorifias: ~t~di:tycfake1Harger the U.S. House of RepresentaThey went to Washington tem- chant marine tlfat not only de. and larger shares of our marke t tives. His father-in-law, the late. porarily and they came home.. livers our produc ts throughout · and this trend must be revers Everet t Dirksen of Illinois, was ed. the world, but also provides an The creation of the Republican Leade r of the U.S. Mar.hi e Re0 "We in the Congress are adequate sealift capaci ty during source s Development Bank repSenate from 1959 to 1969. trustees ·of the ultimate sover; national emergencies . resen( s ,the pest chance to fully .Qne of the senato r's personal eignty in this count ry-·theful l The congressman is a senior. ..utilize\filian¢ial, m~age¢~i;it·~i<! goals.as majority leader was to expression of the desires and member of the House Merchant marketini:t expertise for the open the Senate. to television <teniand~ of the American peo- Marine and Fisheries Comin it- · efit of the American fisheries . ¢ame~asJ,:~JAA_~ti&~),~iff,~~~~tP~~;eQui:;, · · •· · · he . · · sec .ub ·c\Wor ·• . ,bus'. t d.. the failed to pass, Balce rwasa ttliit; :p~.'ple:;:q> .. ~,, . ,, .. ,.,,· .. m, •. ,..:,. ', "",_, '~)_:§.., .... ,... ,,-,,n_s:,_,,;_1,~ . forefront of the debate. He sions, '.to transla te the public will He serves as the chairman of Anoth er l~gislative initiative strongly urged his colleagues to into public law on matter s of the Fisher ies and Wildlife Subdesign ed to' assist America's passthebillsaying, "Afternearly· national and international im- committee of the Merch ant Mashrimp fishermen has been signed 18 years in the. Senate, I am portance. rine and Fisheries Committee. into law by the president $'oug' 1 more convinced than ever that In this capacity, Breaux has the tremendous efforfs ...ofJo>J:in the televising of the_ Senate is . "The biggest problem Repub- been able to champion the Breau x .. The Fishet ileii's Proan idea whose time has IQng licans and Democrats have to- American nsheri es h1du~try. . t.~e#v,.ecAc~;.PublicLaw 98-364, since come-.'' day is that too many Americans Recently, the congr~ssman hell! . diretts the federa l government In January 19s3 , Sen. Baker wish a pox on both their houses. hearings on legislation he autto reimburse shrimp fishermen announced he would not be a Politicians are too prone to for- hored establishing a marine refor costs attributed to· the seicandidate for re-election to the get that Americans are smart sources development bank. Unzure of their vessels by afotei gn · U.S: Senate. In making the an- people whoca nseeth rough sham der the B_reaux bill, the bank nation in situations where the nouncement the· senato r said, _ • lil!:.e an X-ray through Swiss would financ:e the. cost of pUrUnited States· either does· not "It has been the greate sfhono r ... dieese . A little less sham and a chasing or constructing new U.S. recognize that nation 's jurisdicof my life to serve the people little more substantive progress, . fishing vessels, shoreside facil- . tion or where the U.S. does of Tennessee in the Senate ." and there'd be plenty ofpolitical ities, re-too lexisti ngvess els and recognize jurisdi ction, but the credit and success to pass around shoreside facilities; finance the foreign nation has exercised its In a recent article in The Wall in both parties. purcha se of fishing gear;· and jurisdi ction. in an illegal manµer. Street Journal, Baker philosoprovid e workin g c~pital neces"Whe n this bill was first phized about Ameri ca's govern· "As I prepar e to leave the sary to success.fully operat e a passed in .1967, it was a help to ment and reflected on his Senate Senate at the end of my term foihing vesse l or shOreside famany fisher men.w hosev essels service. "Almo st from the- be- next year, I'm under no illusion ci\ity.: and cargo were being confisginning of my Senate service, I . that my call for a ·'c;itize n leg-· ','It• is becoming very clear ,c:ated in disputes over jurisdichave been .waging a one~rrian islat.ure' will be heeded any time that while government has been · tion and type of catch. The.ac t crusade to resfore the Congress soon. But after nearly two dec- cQricentrating on regulating our has been changed ro reflec tthe of the United States to its orig= adesin Washington:, I have no U .S, fisheries indust ry, we have · growing . . contro versy over inal and intended character.as a· . doubt. that.it should be."· been f.µHng furthe r behind in shrimping!jn pµlf,v a(ers. Now 'citizen legislature' and not an thf Fishermen'~ P:r'/itec.tive Act assemblage of elected bureau , will prot¢~t ·011,i'&htj111pers as it "For l dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, crats. ·saw the Vision ofthewo rld,and all the wondert hat'wou /d.be; .:!:ias protec ted' '.liiniL fishermen "It hasn't been so lc,ng ago Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,-· ., · ·rroffi'll1&ga1 1e'fzar~tthaf ail too Pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with cosdy b4Jes; • , · .... that members· of Congress were Heard the heavens Ji// with shouti11g, and there rain'.<! a ghastly dew frequently·occur in the Gulf at real people with realjo bs in real From tlienatio n's airy navies grappling in the central blue." the·ha nds of<Mexican authoricommunities throughout the · 'Alfred Lord Tenny',im, L'aci<sley Hall ties;" said Breatix; ·· · 15en~ · 6 I LOG / November 1984 .I., �---- ---- -t . Inland News tug/tow harge/dredge , '❖ • Courts Uphold OSHA Tug Inspections Here's• (left) the 106-foot, 2,900 hp deep sea tug Seneca (Crowley Marine) at Fish Harbor in the port of Wilmington, Calif. last month readying to tow Barge 255 (right) loaded with 50,000 barrels of clean oil for the U.S. Navy across the wide Pacific to a port of call in Sasebo, Japa.n. · After much regulatory confusion, the federal courts have· ruled that in the absence of any Coast Guard action to safeguard health and safety aboard uninspected tugs, that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) can conduct inspections of these vessels. Since. the passage of the Occupational Safety Act, it has been assumed that the Coast Guard would, u nder a compromise worked out with OSHA, handle all · marine equipment safety and health problems. However, in recent years 'the Coast Guard has sought to exercise its Jurisdiction over inspected vessels, tugs, and related marine equipment. Nothing was c!onejn the. area .of safety, . . ·n,i~~e'ilil:i'.i' f5t~lf~~~w,¢&: eg4ipment, the majority of the equipment in the tug field. The Coast Guard only. exercised ju. risdiction on· lifesavii:ig equip. roent and certain license issues. The Jack .of enforcement became clear when an OSHA inspector was barred 'rrom visiting an uninspected tug. The agency took it to court and the federal courts ruled that OSHA had . jurisdiction, in the absence of any rules in safety and health enforced by tile Coast Guard. The SIU has long maintained that the uninspected fleets are a forgotten fleet as far as certification, inspection, manning requirements and occupational · safety and health are concerned, This _ruling is proof that the SIU was right. It appears likely that the Coast Guard will be asked by the industry to set occupational safety and health standards for uninspected equipment. However, the Coast Guard feels it cannot do 80 without a change in its laws. Such a ~hange can,only be done by Congress, wlfon the entire series· oflaws governing Unii:is.J;)ecf!dcJ9PlPme11t.t~oqld ·b:etevie':w~ and bii:oµgl}r,u pto the standata of inspected equipment, as there is little.difference between 'the tradesr' eargo or . horsepowei' of the differ"'ently regt1lafod segm~nts of the maritime industry. The SIU maintains a safety program to monitor safety and health on SIU vessels, tugs and barges. If yo.11 have a problem, eailyour local SIU hall and ask for the safety team .member. He will get your problem corrected. two On deck of the tug Seneca are (I. to r.) Cook Kyle White and AB Tankerman Tom Paige. SIU Bargaining Update Contrac ts Ratified at Curtis Bay Towing New contracts were ratified at Curtis Bay Towing Baltimore, Philadelphia and Norfolk. (See Page 8.) Co. in the ports of. McAllist er Brothers OKs New Agreeme nts McAllister Brothers in both the ports of' Norfolk and Philadelphia has approved new agreements for inland Boatmen. Contrac t Talks on at .Taylor & Anderson In the port of Philadelphia this month, contract negotiations were begun between the SIU and Taylor and Anderson. Negotiat ions Start at GATCO, Marine c. & T. f:,legotiations for new contracts were started at both•ttie Gulf Atlantic Transportation Co. (GATCO) and the Marine Contract and Towing Co. of Charleston, S.C. in the port of New Orleans. At the tanks of ttie tug Seneca's Barge.255 (I. to r.). AB Tankerman. · Emanuel "Slim'' Gazzier. and Lee Egland, Crowtey T. & · T. cargo . operations manager, terid a line to AB Tankerman Joe Muscato below· in the tank. · • Virginia Pilots, M~land Pilots, Northea st Towing for the ..·. Contract negotiatiops beg~i:l'last month &>atman wor:king at Association ofVirg)hia Pilots, the Association of Maryland Pilots and the Northeast Tawiiig Co.·· · ... ' , '{, ; ..:_-· . . . .- . .· November 198'4 !T..OG 7 . I . -- ---- .' ., 'i, �Captains Win Unien~Security . SIU Asks for Ex(Jansion Curtis Bay Members Ratify Contract In votes in Philadelphia, Norstand by the licensed personne l, folk and Baltimo re, licensed and Curtis Bay withdrew its prounlicensed member s of .Curtis· . posal to deny captains the proBay Towing ratified new threetection of a union contract . year agreements covering opThe pacts all call for retention erations in their respective ports. of long-term contract ual gains The pacts followed lengthy negotiations and uncertai nty when as well as future increase s in wages and mainten ance of benCurtis Bay refused to negotiate efits. with the SIU for · Curtis Bay captains. The member ship in all three Hqweve r, after reviewing the ports ratified the agreeme nts by situation, and faced with a united an overwhe lming margin. , Coast Guard Safety Hotline Does Not Go Far Enough ~ A new U.S. Coast Guard by law to make specific inspecsafety.hotline !'cold shoulde rs" tions only on certain vessels . · .. much of the U.S. maritime inthe hotline is an enforcem ent dustry: uoinspec ted vessels (inaid for these areas over which cluding uninspec ted tugs and we have specific statutory aubarges), oil and gas industry thority." : vessels and others. In other words, if your vessel In a recent letter to the Coast is not covered by U.S. Coast Guard, the SIU asked for an Guard regulations, but is inexpansio n of the types qf vesspected by the Occupat ional sels covered by the new safety Safety and Health AdministraMoran Towing of Texas Pact Okayed hotline. Howeve r, Adm. Clyde . tion (see story on page 7), apBoatmen of Moran Towing of Texas in the port of Houston ratified a T. Lusk, chief of the office of. parently a call to the safety new contract with the company early this month. Merchan t Marine Safety, said hotline will not bring a Coast The last three-year agreement for both unlicensed and licensed such a broaden ing was not pos- Guard inspection. . personnel expired on Sept. 30. sible because , "We are limited The SIU supports a hotline that will not discrimi nate against · various types,.of America n mare iners. Any seaman or boatman "ALE RT" is AVA ILAB LE should be able to use the hotline, 24 hours a day, seven days a week • . and it also should be. used to report the conduct of foreignflag ships in U.S. waters. If you do work on an inspected . vessel, here is ·bow the·"hotline . . works. If there is a safety prob. . 0,A- 0! ·'.Clt ..:A..1!!!';8 . ., ., lem !1 your vessel that you be- (80 0} ' · · i ·,r·· ,,·""· .· .'•*'ia ii,1•"•-~r;•r~JJ~· ·. • ,· · · ~ : •· · : · · •.· · · ·· · ·· cai1 Mari ne Safe ty "ALE RT" is a toll-fre e telepho ne service operate d by the United States Coast Guard, an · agency of the U.S. Departm ent of Transpo rtation. The ''ALERT " line pr~vide s mercha nt marine rs and others a way to advise the Coast Guard of . hazardo us or unsafe conditio ns on'boar d U.S. mercha nt vessels . (80 0} 323 -SA FE You can use the "ALE RT." Anyone who has access to a telepho ne can reach the "ALER T" line by dialing (800) 323-SA FE from anywhe re in the United States includi ng Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico: .In · the Washin gton, D.C •.metrop olitan area, the num.be r to call is (202) 426•18 30. I when you call~ You will be asked for: ( 1 ) Vessel name (2) Vessel Nationa lity (3) Vessel Locatio n (4) C~nditi on or problem you are reportin g. , . . . . . (5) 1/essel s anticip ated sa1hng time and next port of call. · ..I 11 r. . questions: ·. · · "' ,.,,,, The·ves sel's name; ,.,, T.h. · l' · al't ,,.. e vesse s na110:i I y; · Y' The vessel's location ; Y' Conditiq norprob lemyoua re reporting ; · Y' The vessel's anticipat ed sail. ing time and next port of call. The safety hotline is available 24-hours a day, seven days a week. You should also call your SIU hall and report this to your SIU safety rep. (BOO} 323 -SA FE Your own ship 's prob lems .c•n"be reporte d with "ALE.R T." One of the Coast Guard's roost importa nt jobs.is preven ting casuatti ec5 on U.S. mercha nt vessels . This is accomp lished by review and approv al of vessel plans at time of const.ru ction and actual inspect ions of the vessel at regular interva ls thereaf ter. It you are·awa re of safety problem requirin g Coas\ Guard •... attentio n, use the «~LER T" line•.The "ALERT ". line is intende d to provide ·the· commu nication . ltnk_ betwee n you and the Coast ·ouard to keep our fleet safe! A WISE MAN "'✓ -71~ • a .su ppo rt You r SIU .Blood Ban k 8 I LOG I November 1984 ··~o5& ~f:lo, -:v mll-frye ·ni:11i1 er (800) 323-SAF Eanywh ereinthe U.S., including Alaska, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands and Puerto· Rko.. .You do not have to give your name. You will be asked these No nam es are nece ssar y \ . .t· ' -'BUY.S I ... and looks fotthe Union Label UNION LA8EL AND $1;'.RVlCE TAAOES OEPA,fU.MEN'r,,A:FL•CIO \ - / �.Aboard the /TB Groton·· [. I I Seafarer · Christos Florous (r,) is · shown on the deck of the . /TB Groton (Apex) while the ship was at Stapleton Anchorage in Staten Island, N.Y. Brother Florous sails as bosun aboard the integrated· tug-barge. . The Ship's Committee·· (below) aboard the /TB .Groton ate, from the left: Christos Florous, chairman; George Nason, deck delegate; · Michael Hamock (seated), engine delegate; Ronald Dawsey, steward delegate; and Marvin Deloatch, secretary-reporter. · More than 40 ·crewrnemhers Mike Worley; and. Representaat Crowley's C1Jr1ot.ffratiof cl1';;,i;,/~~~llfsl:ia!l N p};.ack"' · .· the Southern Califorma area met,·· · '.1'1\'e · me:e11ngs are held quarwith Crowley and SIU repreterly to improve communicafion csentatives to discuss the status between the membership and of the company at a union-manthe company. age.ment)neeting ,held Oct. 25 At the meeting a wide range in Wilriifi':rgtQn, Calif. At the of ·issues were· discussed, in° meeting were high level repreeluding competifion facing the sentatives ofCrowlefMaritime, CTI Southern California operheaded by Crowley Vice Presations, the operation of the boats ident Brent Steinaker; Labor and barges, and what the future holds. in terms o( addifional types Relations Director Bill Sikora, and Southern California Man- of work. · · ager Randy Collar. Representaert Thdinpson, a f:lT caping the SIU were West Coast tain,reviewedarepei:(bfanad Vice President .·. George Mchoc committee set up to conCartney, as well.as Port Agent sider a request bythe company Chairing the quarterly meeting for SIU Crowley members were (I. tor.) Blll Sikora, Cr.owley Labor Relations; Bob Vahey, SIU presidential assistant; Randy Collar; Squthern California .· m,mager for .Crowley; George McCartney, S(U1 vice president; BrentS.telneker, Crowley vice president; Mar.shall Novack, SIU rep, and Capt B.ert Jnompson: To Protect All Members'.Rights SIU Files Labor Board Charges Against I. 0. T. The SIU has filed a National Sonat have begun. In the meanLabor Relations Board (NLRB) time, the company has unilatcharge regarding the contract erally cut off all benefit payments and contractual rights for negotiations at Interstate Oil so-called "supervisory" cateTransport (I.O.T.), a Sonat subgories at I.O.T., without a vote sidiary.· of the membership and without As a result of the charges, which ha,ve a direct impact on consideration of.the harmful imthe course of contract negotiapact of their ac~· ons on.long.time tions at I. 0. T., ballots for the members. Man SIU members are only now l aming of these proposed Unlicensed Agreement will not be counted until . problems cause by the comthe situation is clarified. In the pany's action. ~ meantime, all terms and condi- · The compan 's ,desire .for "flexibility" app rently led to tions of the present c.ontract the move to.deny· IU contract apply. . rights to captains\ mates and The SIU's action is a consebarge captains. Tne company quence of the company's an~ seeks the .flexibility, to demand noun.cement shortly before the absolute loyalty to the comcontract expired that it would not negotiate for captains, . pany, to ·guarantee;at newly · designated supervis s will not mates and barge captains at oppose cuts in crew or condi1.O.T. The SIU thus had little tions, and that they \will look time to prepare legal action befirst to the company'~ welfare fore tire contract expired. before their crews' wt\lfare. Now, however, legal action The Union-free environment to protect the long-term contract gains of SIU members at I.O.T. seeks also means the freedom to do whatever ifwants to:Jh~tlil:iployies at I.OIT. and . ,; ·• .. now Mariner. The company has announced it will pursue the same course at Mariner when the current •contrai::t . expires. Negotiations are expected· at for amendments in the contract Mariner Towing in lateNovemto respond to economic needs ber. Except for its marine diviin· the Southern California masion, Sonat is a non-union comrine market. The amendments pany. It has little experience are now being voted upon. with union contracts or condiAll agreed that the quarterly tions and took over the Intermeetings have opened up a strong state companies only four years diaj.ogue that will hopefully lead to · better labor-management ago. I The SIU plans further acfion communication and a more efto contest the legality o~ the ficient operation as a result. The next quarterly meeting ·steps Sonat is taking invtjlving its SIU members. I will be early in 1985. The 'Second quarterly meeting betwee]l Crowley employees and- management was held recently in the United Industrial Workers Hall in Wilmington, Calif, Here (l..to r.) Capt. Mark Miller and Deckhand Stewart Keddie discuss a question with .Brent Steineker, a Crowley vice president. November 1984 /LOG / 9 �SIU. ·Joins •·:Fl.cJri'Ela -Alliance -·· To Stop Cross-Gulf Pipeline The SIU, together with other Florida interests, continues to wage a battle to halt the CrossGulf products pipeline that would mean the loss of hundreds of SIU members' jobs on SIUcontracted tugs and barges engaged in the Gulf products trade. _ So far, the battle has involved some wins and some losses. At the federal level, the courts, despite repeated challenges, have upheld the right of the pipeline to go forward. However, in Florida, opposition continues to a pipeline that would cross the state from the Western Panhandle to the East Coast and as far south as Port Everglades. The line would originate in Baton Rouge, La. Broward County has passed an ordinance against conversion operations associated with the pipeline. Other counties are considering similar ordinances. All of the counties in the route of the pipeline are concerned about oil leaks that would contaminate scarce Florida ground water used for drinking water. • The SIU is part of the Florida . Alliance fighting the pipeline. It is a broad coalition of Florida· maritime, port and labor interests. · At stake is the future of waterborne oil product movement to Florida from the Western Gulf. If the pipeline goes through, it ,will wipe out these movements by water and leave the pipeline in a monopoly position to .charge Florida consumers all the market will bear. The SIU believes that once Florida conservationists, retirees, consumers, and others learn the dangers of this pipeline they will all move to oppose it. Such grassroots opposition to the pipeline will demonstrate to· Florida counties that fuey should continue their opposition to the line. William Patrick .O'Donoghue, 68, Newman ·Lee · Jones, 63, joined joined the Union in the port of New Orleans in 1968 sailing as a mate and tankerman for the Orgulf Transportation · Co. in 1966. Brother. O'Dono·ghue was born in Hardinsburg, Ky. and is a resident there. the ·Union in the port of Philadelphia in 1970 sailing as a tankerman for JOT in tt 1970 and for the Delmar Oil Co. from 1956 to 1970. Brother Jones is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard during World War II. He was born in Virginia and is a . resident of Parksley, Va. Harold William Post Sr., · 64, joined the Union in the port of Philaqelphia in 1968 sailing as a deckhand and tankermah for IOT in · 1964. Brother Post is a veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard in World_ War II. He was born in Virginia and is / a resident of W~nonah, N.J. . . ;,, .·. the Union in the port of Norfolk in 1961. Miller was . born in North CarQlina and is a resident of Chesapeake, Va. Hugo'H'-'~tsch, 61, joined the Uhion .in' t~e port._ol ,New York. Joseph · · Adolf "in 1960 sailing as a rhotomian Rakowski, 55, for the Penn-Central Railroad from 1946 to 1984. He was a joined the Ul'lion in the port of Bal, former member of the Masters, timore . in 1956 · Mates 13,nd Pilots Union,,:1nJ! the; sailing as a deckAssociated Maritime·· WdnlrerS\, hand for the Union, Local 1 from 1958 to•· .In .Memoriam Pensioner John Louis Zuzich, 83, Raymond Clyde Miller, 62, joined daughter, Janice Burnside of Little Rock, Ark. and his father, ,I I I ' - :ttff:~;~~r!~~~r~it~~~ft~~ti~~~t~,~~ lilt~.~ ~~i~1trn;ifiL$1~~;;~~~~; .J ~ failure in the Pens10ner Harvey Grey Buie, t980to 1'984::'Brother Rakowski · World'War It A'nat1ve of North > Diplomat Health Care Center Evergreen Park Ill. on Oct. ' 2. Brother Zuzichjoined the Union in the port of New York in 1960 sailing as deckhand and a cook for the N. y. Central Railroad from 1920 to. 1965. He was a former member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union from 1920 to 1960. Boatman Zuzich was born in Union City, N.J., and was a resident of Evergreen, Ill. Burial was in the Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, Ill. Surviving are a daughter; Catherine A. Holt, and a niece, Joanna, both of Chicago, Ill. a Lecil George Clark, 48, died of a heart attack in Port Arthur, Texas on June 2. Brother Clark joined the U nioii in the port of Port Arthur in 1976 sailing as a pilot for National Marine Service f~om 1978. to 1979, and for Higman Towing from 1979 to 1980. He was born 'in Arkansas and ·was a resident of Kountze, Texas. Burial was in Lakeside Cemetery, Desarc, Ark. Surviving are his widow, Juanita; a 10 /LOG/ November 1984 I .} 69, passed _a~a~ on Sept. _12. Brother Bme Jomed the Umon in the port of Norfolk in 1961 sailing as a captain for the Lynch Brothers Co. from 1~46 to 1~50 and for Gulf Atlantic Towmg (GATCO) f:om 1950 to, 1972. He also sailed as a mate for Allied Towing from 1972 to 1980. Boatman Buie was a former member of the United Mine Workers Union in 1951 and was a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War II. Buie was born in Wilmington, N.C. and was a resident there. Surviving are his widow, Margaret; two sons, George and Donald, and a daughter, Cynthia. . Pensioner Alton Glenn Piland, 80, succumbedto cancer _at home in Oriental, N.C. on Sept. 15. Brother Piland joined the Union in the port of Norfolk in 1961 sailing as a deckhand and mate for Curtis Bay Towing from 1951 toJ969. He was·a:former member of District 50 in 1951. Boatman Piland was born in Beaufort City, N.C. Burial was in the Oriental Cemetery. Surviving are his widow, Annie and a daughter, Elizabeth. • ---•·· .__ .·_ .. was born in Maryland and is a resident of Baltimore. Bergen, N,J., he is a resident of Little Ferry, N.J. SIU Takes Outreach Marine to Court The SIU in the port of Baltimore took Outreach Marine, formerly · McAllister Brothers, to court on Nov. 7 to protect the job rights of the laid-off Union Boatmen. On' April 15, McAllister Brothers sold its four boats in the port to a "newly-formed company," Outreach Marine, laying off its employees. Outreach hired new employees at lower wages. Afterwards the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in a complaint that Outreach Marine was an "alter ego" of McAllister's.· If the complaint is upheld by an NLRB hearing examiner, the laid-off SIU · Boatmen will get back pay, payment of fringe benefits and their jobs back. ThetNLRB also found that Outreach was in fact a successor company, so the laid-off Boatmen wm have priority for jobs in the new company, if the complaint is upheld. - • Maract Lets Crowley Marine Boost Fleet Marad gave the green light to Crowley Marine recently to boost its fleet up to 224 barges and 21 passenger-carrying vessels in the domestic trades. This was an increase of 49 •barges and six vesse.ls. Two years ago when Crowley acquired the Delta Line, it was given the go-ahead to operate up to 175 barges and 15 passel]ger vessels. I I �F------~--------•·=··~•=·=·=====================::::=====:::-:::::::: ,.I ,r I Mariner Fleet Crews Conference H:elcf in P;iney Polnt . A Crews Conference for wo!'kers employed in SONAT Marine's Mariner fleet was held at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. · The conference followed the same format as the .ones~ held for the Green fleet. While a wide range of topics was· discuss.ed, most of the delegates were interested in the upcoming contract talks with the company. The current contract is set to expire on Dec. 7, 1984. A great deal of attention was . paid to the current status of the Green fleet negotiations. The company reversed more than 20 years of stated company practice by refusing to talk with the Union aboutthe wages, benefits and working conditions of the following .groups of workers: . captains, mates and barge captains. There are indications that the company is going to take the same approach with the White . fleet. It has already sent a letter to the Union stating that it will not negotiate with the Union on behalf of those workers it con- · siders to be "supervisors." · The Union received the company's final proposals on the Green fleet contract on Aug. 14, '1984. Given the intense nature of the nt;;gotiations and the difficulty of the issues involved, it decided to canvass the unlicensed membership on the company's proposals. While AB Louis Longnecker and his wife, Carla, attended workshops, their children were •cared for by a babysitter provided by the Union. Dispatchers Report for Inland Waters OCT. 1-31, 1984 ''{OTA!. REGISTERED AU Groups . Class.A Port Gloucester ............................ .. New York ....•...................••..... Philadelphia ............................., Baltimore................... . ....... . . •.; -~ _-)~~-- - Class B 1 6 ·O 0 3 O 2 ~- · -- TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class C Class A 0 1 O. Jacl<sonville .'. '. '. '. '. '. '. :: '. '. '.: '. '. '. '. :: '.:: '. '. '. '. :: San Francisco .......................... . Wilmington .. , .................. : .. ... , • ,._,speattle. ,, : ... ,.: ...... , ................. . .· , .uerto R,cq ............................ . . ~ii~~::;\?::: .. ::/::::::,:::::,::: St. Louis .. .. .. .... Pin~ Point............ .."•·; c;:.:r,y-, ...,. ·· • Tota s.............. ,; •·.. ·..... ,.,.. , .. Port Gloucester ............................. . New York .............................. . 'Pfllladelphla . , .......................... . Ba.ltimore .......................... ., ... Norfolk .••...•.........•.............•.. Mobile: .. •..... , ........ : ............. .. New Orteans .......................... .. Jacksonville ... : ..... ·......... , . ; ...... .. San Francisco ....... ., ............... ,. .. . Wilmington ................. ; : ......... _; Seattle ................................ . Puerto Rico ............................·.. · Houslon ............................... . Algonac .............................. : .. St. Louis .............................. . Piney Point ........................... .. Totals ................................ .. Port Gloucester .............................. . New York .........•......... : ..••. Philadelphia •.•.........•.... '.·.. . Baltimore ....................... , . . .. .. . Norto\k ........................ : ....... . -Mobile ............................. , ... New Orleans ......................... : .. . Jacksonville ............................ . San Francisco .......................... . Wilmington ........................... .. _ Seattle ................................ . Puerto Alco ........................... .. Houston ..•.•...••.•.••...•.•........... Algonac ............. , ................. . St. Louis ............... ; ............. .. Piney Point ...... ; ..................... . Totals ....•..............•..... ,,., .... .. 1 3 8 0 4 0, 0 1' :0 0 2 0 .4 . 0 ·.. 3. 0 .L ... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 · oo.. 0 :o 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 J~{, I g,/ .x&; g :{ 0 o l 0 0 0 o o- . ,a g 0 0 0 1. 0 0 0 0 0 0 g 0 -h 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 2 0 6 < 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 . • o o o o· · o o· O O 0· D. 0 1 · 0 4 0 o ..... 0 ·.· . o,... '·~3-· -12· 0. 7 o o. Class B Class C 1 .6 ' 0 0 3 0 0 1 0 ~r•s•c••~~~,"~"~"~·, ~~·~1· w1•~•: o. 1 o 0 0 0 Class A 1 . , ,. .,.~~~0"'·"''''''- 0 2 Class B Class C DECK DEPARTMENT 0 0 0 0 0 ·· 0 .. REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups 0 0 0 ENGINE DEPARTMENT 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals All Oepart~~nts ..... .. : ... :·...... ·.: 25 · 13 ; )3,(,'.;',' . 1 o • "Total Registered" means tl)e nuJn~ir .of ,:neh.who-ac(ually registered for sh\pp_lng at,th~ PQct last.month. " "Registered on the Beach" mean,s .th.eJgJal Q~ip~ec.of.menregistered at th~ port a! 'ih{M'iiJ(Jast month. 5 . ·. 9 18 .. 4 0 9 0 o 0,ec, ·a: " JO, 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 STEWARD DEPARTMENT 0 0 . /0 o , ·o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 · 0 · ·o 6 0 80 0 0 0 5 0 .1 4 ...-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 .0 0 1 0 5 0 6 0 1 20 32 91 0 0 0 · o · · .5o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 1 O 13 0 ·o 0 0 37 12 o :2· · - 0 1 0 0 ,~\,7~'16' · , 3 0 4 1 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 fr 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 183 -- -··... :. . . ,,, . . ~ ,;;_·. -." '.·· ''. -· •,lffre'''ftsutvcof th'a:t vbte has. ..been put on hold while the SIU pursues charges it has filed in conjunction with the company's stand on, the supervisory personnel issue. , .,, ,;_;; The Mariner conference· was geared toward giving the delegates a comprehensive view of the benefits they presently en- · joy. '.(here was a detailed di~. cussion of both the pension and. welfare plans, which are generally considered to be among the !Jest of their kind. The Union felt it was important to go over these issues because the company has indicated a desire to cut back on its · pension and welfare costs. The Union wants the m_embers to understand the benefits they have right now in case the company . tries to offer.an alternative plan. Personals 0 Tom Curtis 0 The Tom Curtis who sailed on the National Defender is asked to get in touch with William Calefato, 2318 Second Ave., Seattle, Wash. 9&121. 0 0 0 0 7 0 1 20 97 33 113 0 ". : 0 2 0 0 William Delesline, cook, takes a lo.Qk at th.e LOG. .· ,.. : :. 5 0 Dave Bierma Please get in touch with your daughter, Sue Foster, 2514 E. Calhoun, Seattle, Wash. 98112. November· 1984 / LOG / 11 �_Changes at·seamen's Church Many Seafarers are disappointed when they pull into the port of New York and head for the Seamen's Church Institute in lower Manhattan . There's no . . room at the Inn. To avoid further-di sappoint- ment, we want to let our Seafarers know that the Institute, whichis located at 15 State St., no longer has sleeping facilities available. Thelnstitu te is selling the. State Street building and looking for another location, preferably also in lower .Man·hattan. However, the Institute still has. baggage storage and mail facilities available at the State Street address and will continue to maintain those services when it moves. Also, ff you are looking for a place to stay in New York for a long period of time, _the Social Service office at the Institute is maintaining a list of inexpensiv e . facilities. According to Chaplain William Hayneswo rth, most of these facilities are roQms in homeS-:-mainly in the New York City boroughs of Queens and Staten Island. If you are interested in these rooms, go to Room 314 at the Institute: The telep).ope 11llPJPer the. Sel¼JU~p;_s, chuiclt"I- nitimte: is: '(2i'2)'269• 2710. at Clean· Sweep on _Bellatrix For short~term housing in Manhattan , the insµtute recs ommends the.following: • East Side Pickwick Arms 230 East 51 st St. Telephone: 355.0300 Price range: $33 to $35 a night Roger Williams 28East 31st St. •.. Telephone: 684-7500 Price: $214 a week When SIU Patrolman Niel\: Celona paid off the ·usNS Bellatrix in New Vanderbilt. YMCA Orleans recently, Bosun Duke Duet, right; _raised the broom-meaning 224 East 47th St. a clean sweep (no beefs): With Duet is Steward Bob Fraiser. Telephone: :755..2410 Pric~- range': $30 to $35 a. night; • . semi~private bathrpom . . West Side Royalton 44 West 44th St. Telephone: 730-1344 Price range: $43 to $~3:a night .I I At Sea Iffe\~IT TJ@u® -- ,. . Sea-La nd to Buy $ New D-17s; Jumboi ze 12 D-9s 1 l Sea-Landwill_soon let contracts to bui.ld six new big D-17 container·l!hips, worth up to $400 million, In the Far East. The ships will be able . .• • to carry·~ ,800 40°foot. (?Qx~ foi', use~jrcr the F\11,e~.ie::tr:ad.es...· · .. · The new ships are scheduled to go into service in 1'987 and 1988 at Mansfield the same .ports of call. 10 West 44th SL Sea-Land will also jumbo{ze 12 U.S.-flag, diesel-powered D-9 conTelephone,:. 944-6050 tainerships at a cost of $76 million. They were .built in 1980 and used Price range: $44 to $55 a night on the Atlantic 1;1nd Pacific runs. . . . Each of ,the ve1>sel$ will be cut in half and new mid-body ir;i_~JJ%f, Sloan House YMCA thereby increasing their capacity from 904 40-foot containers.lo 1,236·; 356 West 34th St. containers. · Telephone ; 760--58/iO . . The juml>olzing will start Jn the last half of --_. ·_,_,' 1985 and .·:-, ' .- ·•.., .. .:;;;.; _.-_. --.> ..-~-~--"--.-take 12 months a Pric.e range: $31):'t~h$35 a2niglit; · --.· ]ti:u;ri.1§_11_-:~f(JapraD;~- ~--<~1.;,~~:w;~~~~~?~~--;~¥1;~~~-~-_::~~:~-~-:;:~ ,:. ,:.:•1\:;;&;~::rtllim ; ·- J! · Previpusly, Sea:Land ordered three new containerships in January to semi-private bathroom be built in U.S. shipyards, worth $100-mlllion, for its Alaskan service. · World War II Mercha nt Marine rs Remem bered Don' t Freeze Your lEam ing Po,wer or Abilit ies A newspaper clipping from Seafarer Ernest L. Seaford of Teaneck,· N.J. tells us that a monument was dedicated last month to honQJllfie -men who served in the U.S. Merchant Marine during _World War II. · The unveiling of a one-ton. cast iron anchor and plaque came at a Mt. Vernon (N.Y.) City' Hall ceremony attended by local, state and federal officials. The American merchant marine l!Upplied and delivered food, medicine. and ammunition for the Allied war effort overseas. About 5,000 merchant mariners on 600 ships lost their lives in the. war. · ·. '• Crowle y Mari_ne Gets U.S. Navy Job Tak h R fri ·. · Marad last month awarded a $150,000 contract to Crowley Marine to e t e e g~ratlon o· _ · maintain three U.S. Navy T-I tankers in Ready Reserve Force (RRF) Systems Maintenance and Operations · status for the next 1o years. Course Offered at SHLSS, The RAF is part ot the National Defense Reserve fleet·of ships that February 22, 1985 - April 12, 1985 For more details contact the · Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship; Piney Point, Md. 20674 or fill out the application in this issue of the LOG. can be activated for sealift operations on five to.10 days notice. The Navy tankers to be maintained by Crowley Marine are the USNS Nodway, USNS Alatna and the USNS.Chattahochee. Maintenance could include activation, operation and de-activation of one or all of the vessels upon notification by the U.S. Navy. Two of the ships will be laid up in Japan. and one in Hawaii. All will · be dehumidified with cathodic hull protection. 3 SIU Crews, 4 Ships and Skippers Cited As Sea-Land founder Malcolm P. McLean recefved the yearly Admiral of the Ocean Sea Award (AOTOS) last month in New York, four crews, · ships ana masters were 9ited foroutstanding seamanship during rescue operations, and seven seamen got rosettes for outstanding courage and devotion to duty. Honored were Seafarers and Capt. L. A. Hansen of·the SS President Pierce (APL), S~afarers and Capt. Frederick Groepler of the SS Lurline (Matson Line), crewmembers and Capt. Ernest Serra of the SS Meton (Keystone Shipping), and Se.afarers and Capt. George Nichols of the SS Ogden Yukon (Ogdon Marine) . • 12 /LOG/ November 1984 .; l 1 'J �Sea/arers ~~~~~- IUNo,~f •~), . HARRY LONDEBERG SCHOOL_ ••(0 Of SEAMANSHIP tr' '-''-AM•~•~'•'-.. ,i ~.,...,,._n Piney Point Maryland I New SHLSS Radar Program Pjots a,.course for the future In keeping up with the needs of the Maritime industry, the· Seafarers Harry Lundebi:rg Sehool · of Seamanship is now offering a· Radar Observer course. The course· covers basic radar information yet it is geared tow.ird the specific needs of mariners sailing either inland; Great Lakes, or deep sea. The course consists of the following: an. eight-day prog!llin for unlimited oceans· and ·Great LakcS, a five-day program for inland waters, a three-day refresher. for inllinc,l or unlimited oceans,. and a one-day recertification program for either inland or unlimited oceans .. 'The course of study consists of radar theory, observa,.tipn,,. . , ; >,' r; _;, .. :· . operation and use, interpretation and plotting, advanced radar plotting, collision avoidance and navigational exercises. The , instructor teaches the co.urse thiough lectures, audio visuals and state-of-the-art radar. equipment. The students' radar scope is at.tachecl to an instructor controlled .. _computer. console which enables the teacher to set up any given situation and control the speed and direction of the vessels ,showing up on the radar scope. The students co1;1trol and maneuver their° vessel, plot the coul:se of all vessels wd maneuver the ship to . safety without jeopardizing the safety of the ·.·. ,,., ' .. '" . ' ' _The course is designed to provide training for SIU members who are applying for an original license as a deck officer; those licensed deck officers who are upgrading and/or renewing their licenses wd those licensed deck officers who are seeking to increase the scope of their licenses for service on vessels of 300 gross' tons wd over. As a licensed deck officer you should be a competent. radar observer. · • Use of radar is required by RULE 5 of the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Rules, under "]?ART B Section I - Conduct of Vessels in any Co.ndition of Visibility," which obligates the mariner to use ". . . all available means appropriate.:' _ The SHLSS Radar Observer course is approved by the U.S. Coas,t Guard- and graduates receive a Radar Observer ,Endorsement. . '/ .. The Radar' class practices plotting on radar plotting paper. From I. to r. are Instructor Abe Easter, Thomas Doherty, Thomas Calahan and Marshal McGregor. Thomas Calahan (I.) and Marshal McGregor practice direct pl~lting on,the radar. SHLSS Radar Instructor, Abe Easter runs a computer console which Is linked to, and controls the student's radar scope. November 1984 I LOG I 13 �f To wb oa t Op era tor Co.urse,·~ ... ' ,·, · ~' ::.:,: Meeting the needs of the Tow ing Industry The. course of instru ction leading w i lice11Se · as either Towboat Operator Second Class, O,!' Towboat Operator Uninspected Towing Vessels on inland waters, oq:ans, · or oceans not more than 200 miles offshore, consists of both classroom and practical work in the following areas: rules or the road, use of a magnetic compass,· operation and use of navigational instru ments and accessories, emergency signals, practical use of ~charts in. navigation, aids to · navigation, laws applicable to the operation ofthe towing vessel and pollut ion prevention and control. Included in the eight week Towboat Operator course is a total of 32 hours spent in First Aid, CPR and Firefighting. A mariner who · is seeking an unlim ited oceans license is required to take a course in Celestial Navigation, which is an. additional five weeks. Eligibility The eligibility requirements are , as follows: All applicants for Second Class Operator must be at least 19 years of age.··· · · All applic ang must be citizens . ' of the United States. All , applicants must pass an approved physical examination. All applic ants must have normal color vision. All applic ants must have 20 / 100 vision in both eyes, corrected to 20/20 in one eye and 20/40 in the other eye. All applicants' for Second Class Opera wr must have evidence of eighteen month s service on deck. on a towing vessel. This service must have included training or duties in the wheelhouse. All applicants for Towboat Operator must show evidence of three years service on. vessels 26 feet in length or over, and one year on deck of any towing vessel. This service must have included traini ng or dutie s in the wheelhouse. . All applicants must have at least ~ee (3) month s service in each .particular geographical area for which application fot licensing is made. · Upon satisfactory·completion of the course, the stude nt will be prepared to take the U.S. Coast Guard Li~ensing exam. SHLSS Instructor, Jim Brown (r.) assist s · Ken Hudgins, who is 1earnin9 to plot a position on a navigational chart. · Nelson Breaux gets experience operating the SHLSS towboats. Towboat Operator class members·; (I. to r.) Sob Tyler, Frank Coyle, J". Paul; Fuller and Rory Wix practice navigational problems in preparation for the U.S. Coast Guard License exam. iffllf!Rati6ii~1;~,,~~1-,aW~·~n1~~r@~t~' . . . ;. : Come taste our culinary delights. The SIU and the Seafarers Harry Lunde berg School of Seam a:nshi p . are cop.st antly looking toward ways to improve, or expand their programs to better meet the needs of the membership. The Intern ationa l Pastri es course is the newest additi on to the Steward Depar tment . This course centers on precis ion European pastry work and ,cake decor ating. Stude nts are grade d daily and create pastries such as tortes , petit fours, nap9leons, zuppa -ingle se, canno li, sacher tortes and patisseries, to name a few. The course is design ed to Thomas Plalania puts the finishing touches on a coffee ring and a coffee bar. · 14 / LOG I November 1984 meet the specific needs of each stude nt. An inexp erienc _ed deco rator starts at the introductory level and comptetes as a finished decorator, while an experienced decorator is taugh t more advan ced decor ating techniques. The course can be cpmpleted within five to six weeks. arid graduates . receive a Pastry'· Chef endor semen t. This course · is -available to SIU members who have a Second Cook and Baker, Chie( Cook, or ·Chief Steward endorsement. Laura Gillespie rolls out and trims pie crusls. �St~ward Recertification·. Program Computer instruction Is the newest addition to the Recertifica' lion program. From I. to r. are Instructor Roger Francisco; Ezekie_l Mack Hagger, Teny Smith and Willie Smith. Typing is one of.JI)~ _skills taught during .the Ste~ard <CPR/first aidinstruotor, Janet Cook discuss proper applica• Recertification Program_. From I. to r. are Louis Vrdal, lion of a sling with James Barnett (c.) and Frank Barlett. , James Bartlett and Collre Loper Jr. . · \ I ' Eleven more SW Chief Stewards are attending the Steward Recertification Program at .the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. The program includes four weeks of instruction at SHLSS and two weeks at the SIU headquartets building. The Steward Recertification. Program at SHLSS stt~es work scheduling, requ1stt10ning, inventory control and menu planning. Typing, writing and math skills, communication techniques, CPR/first aid, firefighting and an introduction to computers are some of the subjects taught while at SHLSS. · During the two week cycle at headq1,1arters the Stewards meet with Union Officials and discuss the state of the maritime industry, the . Union's Wl!Shington operations and the SW perlsion and welfare plans. Upon completiori of the program the Stewards. will travel to New York for graduation and receive their diplomas during the Union's· monthly membership meeting. Eligible Steward Department members are encouraged to apply p' h.YS;lC.a • I,).·o·,;Jl.(iM,fllrR . . · . .. ,t.~~ql~Jli~•llGJ:U,~11p:eil'ftte-;fl,11-t•$~••.';;Con,f~ct, . . . • , .', . . for !JI; Recertification P,,rogf=· 4 • ..· . , . D _yo~u:r' ,', SI_u, 'F1~ld ,,-,ij'!i'i,~L..., Representanveformoreinformaoon '',' ., for Upgrading. . . -and an application. 4; -"·"-· ..,.. ,,.,,:,e•""" '}'";;ii[~~/ >·.· -.•h,,. ,,.,. ,, , ,.,., 1'~~ p't of ,«Jiilif~ . ,..,.~, • ·· ,-~-__ ,ft'll _ . . . _ • · . otl'~~ ....; . - ~ - - ~ - (i/1111!.,;. ~ · . Physical examinations are "" """.:.. QfflH~••=~\,Jl,I!'-oa--""' required to upgrade . to i A,bl~ . ; . ,.. --l~ : .o ~i-t ..... Seaman, Tankerman, Fireman; ' \''' : •~;!!"""" ... ....-.t()r'lt~."'Qt~ ,..ai<I<''"\·~~::::-~:.~~ -~~~~ --:.,,.w.,.---~"° ' Watertender and· Oiler, and "'"'--,,.......1-1 . .~,-- ~ .... ~......-~~~~~i't~~-1 -···-,~~-=:~ .... QMED endorsements, and for all ,..,.t.1.------~~.-- ~ 1 ~ ' 1 _.,,.c.,..:;;...&,1[11,~l),ll~~C' ' deck and engine licenses. The -- ' ~ c;.,-.:::,,.,_ original . physical forms are -~~~ ~~ required by all U.S. Coast Guard Regional Exam Cente1'$. as proof of ' • 1...---, physical, competence required to \ -·--\i"""~ .. sit for the endorsement or license _'\ "' examination. It is the members' ~ ·1.-....,. . responsibility to produce an i {~ ,· - . -. ;x, the ~ ~ ~ oeftJ.ty that- J: blrN ~ ft ~ original physical to the U.S. Coast ~ n.te d p11IOI ot birthl o,lci @! hiiir at .,_, Guard or SBLSS Admissions office ~ 1-~~rn:= when they apply to sit o_r to attend "td!:S: ~ (h') Ciil ~ the ~ . WilUaliM ~ \ "£•'"' l'.9Mlim er P.J:.l'. to:o. out Mt -0.:S) 'l!Mt. an upgrading or lice.nse course. _Viaionwi.t:1'¥lut~; . Vidonw.Uh9~ Rf4,t:ey,e1--,:r..ft;.=SW Clinic physical form.s are not 9'M' EARS: WitQQ- i::Maltl1 -ltnal •· ~ : - · ·\ ,. <lL'di.rllity ~ t i a u r.tl Wt feet 1 Ia.d o::wffldiltkti; .. ~ . t.t:1 .utt. . acceptable physical forms to sit for U.S. Coast Guard endorsement!! or ""'!'•:--=:-,- - - - - - - - - - - ~ license examinations. SW clinics 0 I are not responsible to submit your \• physical form .to the U.S. Coast '\ Guard or to Piney Point. You, the member, are responsible. If you plan to attend one of the above upgrading or license courses and need a Coast Guarq physical form, pick one up at the nearest U.S. Coast Guard Office, or &OI.IJR VISIBN rmai WITH AH X-CHROII m,s IS IIOT request one from: The Director of il£C£PTABt£. Vocational Education, SHLSS, Piney Point, Maryland 20674; ' ,;:~(II~. ~ ... ' ' ~-!,,tt ~o• ~\.<>- \ .. ~ ~ \ , : t ! , l > ~ ;.... \ ... -- First Ballot Cast in . the SIU Election at Piney Point ,, ...... _ .,. ·= \ - -~ .tlteillrsb:1 ' • ' \ I i I, I I I . ~. - . ();:w:r • I t l ,:::olQ:- zq9l .by. ~")'!el- . tldt.,ey,111 _.. ~ _f$1,t ~ Piney Point Port Agent, Carl Peth (I.) explains and supervises the SIU voting proceedures. The first ballot was· cast by Robert Leyva center rtght. November 1984 /LOG/ 1.5 �------·----.,~====-o===== i .Recertification· Programs Following are the updated course schedules for November 1984 through January 1985 at the Seafarers Harry · Lundeberg School of Seamanship. For convenience of the membership, the course schedule is separated into five categories: engine department courses; deck department courses; steward . department courses; recertification programs; adult education courses. The starting and completion dates for all courses are also listed. · Inland Boatmen and d~ep sea Seafarers who are preparing to upgrade are advised to enroll in. the courses of their choice as early as possible. Although every effort will be. made to help every member, classes will be limited in size-so sign up early. . . Class schedules may be changed to reflect membership demands. SIU Representatives in all ports will assist members in preparing applications. · · The following classes will be held through January 1985 as listed below: . Engine Upgrading Courses -~- : ~ .-_,,,' ·· r"-,ch'eck-'.in Course Date· 'Completion· Date Welding Pumproom Maint. - & Operation _ Marine Elect. Maintenance Conveyorman Third Asst. Engineer November 2 January 4 December 7 . February 22 January 4 Celestial Navigation/ Master/Mate _F.T. Celestial Navigation/ Third Mate Celestial Navigation/ Towboat Operator First Class Pilot Quartermaster February 8 March 15 Check-In Date Completion Date November 9 December 14 November 9 December 14 November 9 December 14 January 4 January 11 March 1 March 1 · ·Steward ·upgrading Co~rses Course Check-In/. . Completion Date · Length of Course Assistant Cook Cook and Baker Chief Cook Chief Steward . bi-weekly . bi-weekly bi-weekly monthly varies varies varies varies ,., 1 LOG / November 1984 Steward Recertification January 25 March 4 Adult Education Courses Check-In/ Completion Date Course Developmental St_udies October 29. . ,...,.-:,_ ... . Length of Course l\lovember 2 The following cou·rses will need to be taken either before or after an upgrading course or with firefighting, C.P.R. and First Aid. (GED) High School Equivalency Program _ _ (ESL) English as a Second Language (ABE) Adult Basic Education ...,,_ :< -.----. ,_~~ :,_t .. ~ . Open-ended Open-ended Open:ended ..;:. -. --,,, -·- -""~~-~~~~'1.-'ii'x ··- ,;" -..: ._.:f -,-~-:~N--~~k_.;·-~ -:•··- ~, _,...,. ·- ,,_-:-•-,:;:::"'-... ;f "' .· . ., ~'~.,:i~ ... Bus Schedule March 8 Deck Upgrading Courses Course Course - - January 4 January 4 Completion Date Check-In Date. Monday Through F·riday Only De~art Lexington Park 6:20 A.M. Arrive Washington D.C. 8:20 A.M'., De~art Washington, D.C. 4:.30 A.M. Arrive Lexington Park 6:15 A.M .. 7.55 P.M. 5:55 P.M. . The Gold Line Bus is.the only bus which travels between Washington D.C. ·and the nearest bus stop in Lexington Park. This bus line travels Monday through Friday only. Lexington Park to the It is necessary to .take a cab .from - _, Seafarers HarryLundeberg School ofSeamanshlp In Piney Point. - . The Gold Line Bus Station is located at 12t_h and New York, Northwest, D.C. Telephone Number in Washington, D.C.: (202) 479-5900 The Gold Line Bus Station Is located In Lexington Park at the A&P Grocery• Fare: $10.30 (One Way) . . . ·. Friendly Cab Company, Lexington Park, Maryland Telephone Number: 863-8141 · Fare from Lexington-Park to SHLSS Is: $11.00 (1 or2 occupantsfone way. �.,,,,,------=---.-,-,-_·-~- ~-------- --- --=--- Upgrading Course Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship Upgrading Application Name (Last) (first) Date of Birth (Middle) Mo.I Day/Year Address'-----------'-----------,,==--'--'----;:_-------------(City) (State) Deep Sea Member • Telephone - = = =~----(Area Code) (Zip Code) Inland_ Waters Member • Lakes Member • Pacific tJ Social Security# __________ Book# __________ Seniority __________ Date Book Port Presently Was lssued----,------,---Port Issued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _~ .egistered In _ _ _ _ __;__ __ ,: Endorsement(s) or License(s) Now Held _ _ _ _ _ __;__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _- ' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - • Are you a g(aduate of the SHLSS Trainee Program: No Yes • .. (if yes, fil I in below) Trainee Program: From - - - - - - = (dates =·t o==-----attended) Have you attended any SHLS& Upgrading Courses: • No D (if yes, fill in below) Yes Course(s)Taken _ _ _ _ _ _~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - j~~i~.f1~:f'.~~Jtfqli1]1{ttfi(~t~f4f"if~fiij$]tlr,J~~vfik No • ' •• •• ••• • •• • ves No • I Ani interested in the Following Course(s) Checked Below or Indicated _Here if Not Listed •• Tankerman AB Unlimited AB' Limited DAB Special • D Quartermaster • _Towboat Operator Inland • • ·• • • • • • • Towboat Operator Not More Than 200 MIies Towboat Operator (Over 200 MIies) Celestial Navigation Master Inspected Towing Vessel Mate ·1nipected Towing Vessel 1sf Class PIiot Third· Mate Celestial Navigation Third Mate Radar Observer Unllmlted . No transportation will be. paid unless you present original receipts and successfully complete the course. • 0 • • • • • • • • -• • FOWTQMED-Any Rating· Marine Electronics Marine Electrical Maintenance Pumproom Maintenance & Op_eratlon Automation Maintenance ot Shipboard Refrigeration Systems Diesel Engines Assistant Engineer (Unlnspected Motor Vessel) Chlo! Engineer (Unlnspected Motor Vessel Third Asst. Engineer (Motor Inspected) c ALL DEPARTMENTS . · ENGINE • • •• • ~;;ifiHting: E:i'Yes No •·- CPR: Date Available for T r a i n i n g - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - .DECK •••' •• .. -· • Welding Llleboatman ADULT EDUCATION DEPARTMENT • • Adult Basic Education (ABE) High School Equlvalency Program (GED) D Developmental Studies English as a Second Language (ESL) • STEWARD • • • • • Assistant Coc>k Cook & Baker _ Chia! Cook Steward Towboat Inland Cook COLLEGE PROGRAM • • Nautical Science· Certlllcate Program _Scholarship/Work Program RECORD OF EMPLOYMENTTIME-,(Show only amount needed to upgrade in rating noted above or attach letter of service; whichever is applicable.) · VESSEL RATING HELD. DATE SHIPPED DATE OF DISCHARGE SIGNATURE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _,---_DATE _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ RETURN COMPLETED APPLICATION TO: Seafarers Harry Lundeberg Upgrading Center, Piney Point, MD. 20674 ........................................................................................................................... - - November 1984 /LOG/ 17 �SIU Executive Vice President Ed Turner, right, assists the launch captain in unloading the food and supplies. Brotherhood of the Sea Food and supplies purchased from funds raised · by members of the SIU and other maritime unions were delivered to the Taiwanese seamen from aboard the Oakland Pilot, whose services were donated by Western Tug & Barge Corp. SIU Executive Vice President Ed Turner, ce'nter, and Frank Lauritsen of the Marine Engineers' Beneficial Association, District ·1, right, talk with newspaper and television reporters aboard the marooned Panamax Nova. Maritime Unions Assist 'Taiwanese· Seamen . T 1 ~ . HE first week of November should be a happy one for the 27 members of the crew of the Taiwanese freighter Panamax Nova if they arrive, as · scheduled, in their home port of Kaohsiung after being marooned on their vessel for nearly two months off the coast of Northern California. The Panamax Nova, wi.th its 1 1 " ~'rgcf1if,S5,,000 metric foi'!s of · ~oal, had been aiicli.or 'in Sah Francisco Bay since Sept. 7. Before that it was anchored in Drake's Bay, off the Marin coast, for 42 days,· marooned because of its owner's (Way Wiser Nav. igation Co. of Taiwan) financial difficulties. The New York representative for the . shipping line, Eddie Shipping Agents, is also financially unstable and had provided no funds for pilot or wharfage · fees for the 60,000-ton vessel-· · and most importantly, had provided no food or supplies to the crew. at ' ' . With . the exception of two hours in Panama,· the crewmem- · bers had not set foot on land in more than six weeks. They had been without pay since the beginning of the year, and had been out of touch with family and associates in Taiwan. Running snort of food, water and fuel, they were surviving on dried fish and seagulls. ,,-, •.-: • _;.•~~"- _, -t,/,- 0Y!7;t'.t~'~k>:>J';t,lf(s ~ . On ,Aug. i9 ,, ,.a'1«1>ali:joa. l~li' " by SIU Executive Vice. President EdTurnerand Frank Laur- Fish caught from the decks· can be seen drying in the sun aboard thi · itsen of the Marine Engineers' ship. The crew subsisted on dried fish and seagulls until help came.. • · · Beneficial Association, District 1, gathered more than 100 cases bers of the SIU, MEBA, Sail- leased from federal custody afof food-including desperately or's 'Union of the Pacific; Mas- .ter.the vessel's owners paid some needed fresh fruit and vegeta- ters, Mates & Pilots, Marine overdue fuel bills, · and was bles-and delivered the supplies Firemen's Union, and other. scheduled to. set saiJ•for Taiwan on Oct. 8, ,pending permission to the demoralized and hungry · American trade union groups. from the U.S. Coast Guard. Assistance also came from men. In a farewell.letter of thanks, American President Lines, MatTurner· pointed out that the the Panamax Nova's first enson Navigation Company and delivery was a "seamen to seagineer, Su Wen-Yuh, wrote, San Francisco's Delancey Street men movement, and maritime Founclation; The services of "We had a lot of concern, industry · to maritime industry Western Tug"& Barge Corp. 's friendship and brotherhood from movement." · · launch, Oakland Pilot, were also. all the American seamen's Funds were raised from memunions." donated to the effort. And that's what the "BrothIn late September, the rusting, 16-year-old bulker was re- ·erhood of the Sea" is all about. Members of the Panamax Nova help carry the food up from the launch. Therewere fresh greens, cantaloupes, strawberries, canned vegetables,' potatoes, .peanuts, lemons, oriental noodle soup and more. · PanamaJ< Nova Capt. C. L. Lin, second frbm right, thanks the many unions and steamship companies who helped with the delivery of faod · ta the. stranded ship. From the left are: Jim Gist of the.SIUNA Sugar Workers; Ed Turner, executive vice president of the SIU; Capt. Lin,.and John. Ravnlk, SIU field. rep in San;Francisco. �_____='--------------.::::-------------------------~-----------~-~~~-~-------~--~-----'""""'."' SIU Charges Ruling Is Unfair U.S. Fishermen Lose· Rich Grounds on Georges Bank In World Court '.Give Away' Decision_ to Canada . GLOUCESTER, MASS . ... A recent decision by the World Court on U.S.°Canadian fishing boundaries has greatly angered SIU fishermen here as well as fishei:men throughout New England and along the East Coast. In a strongly-worded telegram to U.S. Fishing Ambassador Edward Wolfe atthe State Departmep.t, Mike Orlando, SIU Fishing Rep. here said, "The decision that was pass.ed at the World Court ... on the U.s.-· Canadian boundaries is unac. ceptable to us." He called · the debision an "outright giveaway to the Canadians of the most fertile and best produce area on Georges· Bank" The telegram said: "We object strongly . . . because we. think we were sacrificed and betrayed by our negqtiators.'' · The decision referred to in the· telegram was one reached _· .- _. -: ·.:> •. > On its face, the decision sounded like a good one for United States fishermen since 75 percent of Georges Bank was given_ to U.S. fishermen. However, the portionthat was allotted to Canada-65 miles known as the Northeast Peak-is the richest and most fertile part of the Bank. · As SIU fishing representatives in Gloucester said, "The Court gave the Canadians what was historically American fishing grounds. Sure, the Court gave us the biggest part of the Bank, but it gave the Canadians the richestpart." According to American fishermen, the Northeast Peak contains half of the Georges Bank's haddock and pollock, 25 percent of the cod, 35 percent of the. yellowtail flounder and scallops and the best swordfish and lobster. The dispute o-v.er the grounds· (IJ J:Y ,-J~---.-;:5 I :_ - -_ ·-.-: ___. __ -_ :-:.- __ :· after many.months deliberation. Tl?-e World Court-also known as the International· Court ,of Justice-is the prindpal judicial organ of the United ·Nations. Under dispute between ,the U.S. and Canada •was the large andfertileNorthAtlanticfishing grounds called Georges Bank. Located_ in the Gulf of Maine, Georges Ban}c stretches east for 200 miles an,q is centered east of Cape Cod, Mass. _ -_:· _:'__:: · _ ·- -_---~~'-- _~: _·.' · -{fACH/AS SEAL/. i7. Yarmouth c :Z 1./J '."(' I \ ,, (IJ '."C' Portland ,-.:. 0 ~ 1 Gulf of Maine N.H.,,__+------'---.::,l---'-----1M Atlantic Ocean 0 . . . _ . _.. _ . Miles . 100 - __ , .. · _>> _ - ~:· _ ':_'-_'. :_ ·_,:: - . ::- _· ___ _;: _. _ .. __'.'-~opyn~t-.-~- _19:34:_~Y The·N~w:_ ')!orlt _T_i111es Company_. Re,nnted by pernusston." 0 ~~~~td.8~~.d~&1~,1::!;.~it&~;:1it~!at~~~~~!1~)~,it,~~~~¼-"Tt:~Tutl' K'n\~ri6a~ ~sh~~~en - N"ethetlands· on Oct. 12, 1984 shore fishing limits to 200 miles, have been facing from the Ca.- ___- _· __ I) MAINE thus creating some overlapping nadians. That is the problem of claims. At the World Court, imported Canadian fish. Canada claimed al:/out. half of - Canadian fishermen are sub~ the northern section of the Bank. · sidized by their government, and The U.S. claimed the whole the cheaper prices they can Bank. America argued that New charge for fish here· has deEngland fishing fleets developed pressed the prices for American the grounds in the nineteenth fishermen. century and had used it excluThe U.S. is the major market sively until the 1950s when for- for Canadian fish, and the Caeign fleets joined them. nadian government plans to The World Court decision spend $22.3. million over the comes on top of another prob- next five years promoting their . . fish products here. The SIU has been working to increase the tariffs on imported fish in order to give a fair deal to fishermen inJh,is country. . · The boundary decision by th.: · World Court went into effect on Oct. 26. Now any boat wishing to fish in the zone not reserved for its country must apply for special licenses. The arrange ments for these licenses are still up in the air an<,!. mu/it be worked out between the United .States and Canada. 0 Tougher lnspections,•·Jfishermen Benefits in Sanctuaries Bill, One of Few Laws to Clear ·congressional Maritim~ Log-Jam Tougher vessel inspections The safety 1tspects of the leg- not heard from a vessel within which a fisherman must be aland reporting requirements and islation call. for: 48 hours or believe the ship may lowed to file- a claim for a loss. several provisions to help U.S . . ,,,, Operaforstori~tifytheCoast· be lost or in danger. Y' AnextensionoftheSecretary fishermen were -approved when Guard at least 30 days bef()re a Some of the key elements for of Commerce's authority to use the House passed the Marine vessel's certific_ate ofinspection ·fisberme_n include: foreign fishing fees in the FishSanctuaries amendments late last is due to expire; -- . eries Loan Fund which may be Y' An increase from 25 to 50 month. j,_. New penalties andir1creases_ . percent for compensation due used to make loans to U.S. The amendments were con· tained in S. 1102, a bill which in current penalties to ship owns commercial fishermen for dam- fishermen in order to avoid depassed the Senate earlier this ers who operate.a vessel without ages to the vessels and gea.r and faults on some loans and cover summer after several other a valid certificate o(inspection; economic loss resulting from oil some operating expenses. ·pieces of maritime -legislation, Y' Vessels to report back to their and gas exploration, developThe legislation was sent back including the 1982 House 'Ver- owners or· agents at least once . ment and production in areas of to the Senatela~t month for final the Outer Continental Shelf. sion of the Marine Sanctuaries every 48 hours; . · action. Because much compros bill, were incorporated into S. . Y' Ownerstoimmediatelynotify Y' An increase from 60 to 90 mise had already been reached, 1102. the Coast Guard if they have days the. minimum period in it cleared the Senate easily. · November 1984 /LOG/ 19 · -, �Job Security and Safety at Stake Insurance Crisis Plagues U.S. Fishing Industry i ! '' ; ; : : ,.. ' / 1 . . . SIU fishermen in Gloucester; ~ass. are facing serious probe !ems due, to an insurance crisis in that city. In some cases, insurance pre•miums on our fishermen's boats are being raised astronomically; in other cases policies are not being renewed by the insurance· companies. The result: fewer vessels ,available oil •which our members can work. Another problem plagujng our SIU fishermen in Gloucester is thatpersonalinjuryclaimshave 'risen sharply. The resulting increases in insurance premiums have meant that boat· owners are employing fewer fishermen aboard their yessels. The reason for the boat insurance problem is the unusual number of fishing boats that have sunk over the last several years. In the last four years alone,._ 35 Gloucester boats have sunk. That compares with fewer than 30 sinkings during the previous 10 yeani, according tq the Gloucester Daily Times. · Since the beginning of this . year, seven older Gloucester owners af$1.64 million, went There have been no injuries for more than the boats are down in deep water. While being because of the sinkings which . worth. With the fishing industry repaired, another Gloucester were usually due to flooding or in so much trouble, the tempboat that had nearly sunk burned fire. In most cases, a nearby tation can be great to collect in drydock. · . fishing boat picked up the fish- that insurance money-lcgitiAnthony Verga, executive di- ermeti. on the sinking vessel. mately or not. rector of the city-operated Not counting lobster boats, Of the 35 Gloucester boats Gloucester Fisheries Commis- the Gloucester fleet usually con- that sank in the 1980s, several sion, said that boat owners are sists of between 150 and 175 had been disabled and needed having enormous difficulty find- vessels. These are mainly trawl- Coast Guard assistance a numing insurance coverage. ers that drag for ground fish such ber of times in the months beIftheydofindinsurance, then as whiting and haddock. fore the sinkings. the premiums are very high. The increased insurance rates . This situation brings in the According to Daniel Arnold, ex- . are not solely due to the sink- whole question of maintenance ecutive director of the Massa- ings, however. Premiums have andsafety.Ifaboatisnotmain• chusetts Inshore Draggermen's also increased because of the tained properly, the greater is AssociaUon, ''inmost cases [the large number of expensive per- the likelihood that she will meet rat~ increases are] eliminating sonal injury settlements, be- · with disaster. Because of the whatever profitability the boat cause of losses off the coast of high price of fuel, insurance and was experiencing." Alaska, and because of overall gear, and the low prices of fish, Claims in New England are higher operating costs. many boat owners put off main- · Nationwide there has been a tenance longer than they should. supposedly costing marine in· surance companies $2.50 and $3 sharp increase in lost fishing Just one example of poor fish for every $1 they receive in vessels over .the tast'few:years. prices is the codfish situation. premiums. In order to make up Accordiilg Coa:st'Guard; . The price being paid for codfish for their losses, the insurance 270 boats were lost in 1982. ·That is arou.nd 30 to 50 cents a pound. companies n;i.ve increase4 rates is a casualty rate of 8.2 boats- That's just what it was 10 years from 40 percent to 100 percent, per 1000, the highest rate loss ago. depending on the. age and type since 1971: Also,cheapfishfroinCanada, of vessel. Part of the problem is. the · wh.ere the government su:bsi• Of the seven vessels that sank insurance ", cortipanies· them- dizes its fishenneµ, ·1s>sharply . in 1984, four were lost over a selves. They encourage the boat cutting into the Aineiitan mar~ to the ~~~u~~~~1iit~~~0:~~w~?{~vrfP~~,~!f,,~~~!~~~~~:,~•;,,~·m~~f~,~~,. ··:"~~'.it,~";~.7,·t?\$;. Italian Gold Hauls Stickwater New Marad Uaison Appointed ,, , The SIU-contracted Italian Gold will continue to help out the city"of Gloucester's ove~•faxed and oyerload.ed city sewers i)Y hauling "stickwa:ter" from the .Glou~ster Marine Pmtein Inc. (GMP)factory oufto se~. GMP , processes fish waste and pogies into fishmeal. to accommodate both the plant, which must run at'full capacity· during pogie season, .and .the city, which cannot handle the 23,000 gallons a day,of the ''.stickwater" from the plant, the company contracted the Italian Gold to run twice a.day some 12.miles off,shor.e to dump,the material. 20 / LOG I November 1984 John Gaughan has been ap~ pointed to the flew post of Director of External Affairs of the Maritime Administration, Adm. Harold E. Shear announced. As director, Gaughan will be . re,sponsible for fostering an open dialogue with the maritime industry, the public and Congress. iirr the .new position, he will . 'serve as .'the agency's liaison with the maritime industry, oversee Marad's public affairs activities and maintain contacts . with.the Congress on maritime legislative issues. A former Coast Guard eutter commander .and Federal Mari. time Commission attorney, Gaughan~brings "Hill" experience te the position,· having served in the office of the SecretarY.· of Transportation . as Congressional Relations·Officer . for Maritime Programs and as a memeer ofthe U.S, Coast Guard · Congressional. Affairs staff. �-·· -- -- -. SHLSS Training Pays Off A Fall ·Overboard ·Leads· to Textbook Rescue. • 7 •• • Jose Molina, a 23-year-old ordinary seaman on the Sea-Land Adventurer (Sea" Land Service), coul9 look up and see soft blue sky. With the view of waves curling to crescents in the rolling sea, salt-drenched breezes that cool the brow, sailing on the open deck can indeed be splendid. · It seemed to be so for Molina; for much of the mid-summer journey to Rotterdam, Holland. But when skies turned overcast on -July 26, the calm of the sea broke into a sudden passage to hell and back. There was no explanation for the incident. All anyone knew was that at 1545 hours in latitude 45°45'N, longitude 29°W, Molina's work companion, breathless after dashing six stories· to the bridge, reported Molina had disappea,red over the side of the ship. Crewmembers abpard the ship heard the alarm that echoed eerily down the ship's corridors. In the galley, pots were left . steaming.· In the. engin e room, Chief Engineer Kevin Shyne directed engineers to pull back on the engines as the ship prepared to steer into a Williamson rescue turn. Reaching the top deck, Seafarers stood by the rails . peering out to sea for their lost ·shipmate.• "I couldn't help thinking there was a guy my &ge ·out there all alone ," said· Robert. Beaurea gard, -a cadet in training from Massac:husetts Maritime Academy who saw the life ring and smoke!,omb thrown from the bridge>.heard the aliyin and had a sinking feeling they might-not be able to find .Molina. Photos From Aro1,.1nd. the World · In the time if had ,taken to give word to the bridge, the Adventurer, cruising at 20 knots, was a mile further from the Seafarer. There was a limit to how long a seaman could survive the _cold ocean temperatures. Nearer to England than the port of Charleston, S.C~ where the Adventurer set sail, temperatures had dropped steadily, and the water was significantly colder. As the ship slowly followed in its own wake, retracing its . path in the Williamson turn, Molina was growing numb from the cold. And weary. Using his pants, he tried to make a life preserver. The corduroy would not hold:air but his tennis shoes, bogging him ·down, slipped off easily. In the summer, a Seafarer can survive an hour, perhaps an hour- / Sea1iif3tfrrrtarHJS Job a.· Snap 0 I ·s!iil~ng(att)l.e -tiQ.1e: he too)(; the pllotogra.phs during a run to India two years ago delivering a cargo of grainc. From pictures of longshoremen working grain · ships in Chittagong, . Bangla- . desh, to ships rising out of a fine mist, the show is. open to the ·public. It is as much a story about the. nation and people of India as it is a story about life as it is viewed from the bridge and in passing glances by Seafarers who eamt heirl iving traveling the world. if<'<,., .. ' ·• • _;I ' ' ; . , . •·.. ~ ,- - SIU member Leonard Earl behalf.. of Lufth ansa Gernjm. overleaps the language l;farJohnson. grew up in .the. mid- Airlines and anoth er by the Jn- rier." western 'village'; Ullin in ternational Trade Mart of New American Photographer, the southern Illinois. Today, John- Orleans. professional magazine of phoson travels the'world. Artists and musicians have. tographers, counts the opening In 1974 he joined the Seafar been the subjects of his work,. of Johnson's most recent exhiers International Union and has· among them the folk musician · bition among the best shows to been shipping out, working ir · Pete Seeger who wrote: "Kee p · see in the nation this fall. the steward department of SIU- clicki'ng, Leon ard, the pen may The latest exhibit, at Oregon contracted vessels ever since. not have vanquished the sword State University, titled "Eclipse He still returns to Ullin, the nor the banjo the bomb, but. of the S.S. Ultramar," takes its 1 place he describes as a small your photograph y may; it name from thesh ipJoh nson was _town (400 people and 27 dogs), a town where. everyone ·knows everyone. Th6ugh Ullin will probably never appear on any map of the world Johnson )'Vill ever see, the world has come to know Johnson. · During his time away from . the ship, Johnson began i:o photograph city life by the harbor. and.the romantic life of the sea.· His pictures have gained him world acclaim .. '· In 1982 Citicorp sponsored Anthony· Ferrara the ·first of many exhibitions of ''Your si~ter would like you to Johnson's "stre et photogra- • contact her as soon as possible. phy, " a school of photography that focuses on people and. the Arthur Fontame Jr, · way they relate to their envi):'lease contact your daughter, · ronment. The New York show . L onard E. John son Leslie, at 203 Holly ·.Road, was .followed by an exhibit on (photo by •Robert Rohr) W.:akefield, R,I. 02879. of ~ and-a-half if he has enough stamina. In the winter, hypothermia can shut down the body.· in minutes, depending on the temperature. Molina had learned both estimates in a safety class at-the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. Tired and cold, he tried to remain calm. That.was something elseh ehad learn edfro mSH LSS safety instructor Jim Moore. . At 1614 hours, only 20 minutes after he had fallen, a shaken but otherwise · healthy SIU member, Jose Molina of Brooklyn, N.Y. , was recovered from the sea. His yellow raincoat, taken off and spread in the water to attract attention, . was seen from a lifeboat launched from the Adventurer. He was immediately treated for shock anct'exposure, glad to be alive. The view of the Ad~ venturer was splendid. Being on de<;:k, paradise. - .personals· - · November_ 19641,L0(:3 / 21 ,, �Rose City Saves Refugees Rescue of 86 Boat People Brings U~N. Award I... r'' On Sept. 23, 1983, the SIU- graduate, and others took the crewed Rose City spotted a boat- refugee boat away from the ship load of 86 Vietnamese refugees to search for other survivors. bobbing in the South China Sea. That's when he spotted the lt was near dusk and the people flashing lights of' the life ring. on the small boat were ou_t offood Despite sufferingfrom a case of and only had a bit of water for seasickness after hours on the . 'the children. More than 10 sliips, rough seas during the rescue, one with crewmen waving at the Kass handed one end of a line refugees, had passed them by. But to a fellow crewmember and · only the Rose City stopped. dove into the water. The Rose City spied the boat It was a long and d.ifficult swim, but finally he reached the at 6:35 p.m., and at 10:47 p.m. the last of the refugees was on pair as they clung to the life ring -~1 deck. The entire crew of Seafarers and officers took part in the rescue and should be commended. Last month in Geneva, Switzerland, twoSeafarers,ABsJeffrey Kass and Gregg Turay and ship's Capt. Lewis M. Hiller were awarded the Nansen Medal by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees for their efforts that day. Earlier this month the three . men were awarded presidential citations for their heroic activities. Because Kass and,Turay were aboard ship, Capt. Hiller accepted the citations for all three. ln additign, J!/fprt~ .are, f,.ei11g wad.e to_·. .. . ~*·'',;;-~ ,:· ·1l1ttig,m1"fh"n-;,::,ii'e"wGr1ttildti~r· ""$ ~ _later this year for a personal pre- ·. sentation. This is their story. By the .time they had come close to the refugee boat, it' moved toward the stem of the tanker. Kass later told Seattle Port Rep. George Vukmir that the thought _of the Rose City's giant screws slowly turning as the ship maintained its position scared him. But after the hourslol).g rescue, Kass and Turay made it back to the deck of the Rose City. "It was an 800-foof swim. Whyn · he came back he _was Kass' mother, Lita Colligan, said that he told her during a visit this summer, "It's great to get a medal for saving someone's life instead of taking a life." She said he ·had· mentioned the rescue at the end of a letter home, but did not explain .the danger and details of the rescue. She didn't find that out until a . representative of the United Nations called her. "You know, if I had known what he had really done, I might have heen furious,''...J;he ·said .. . This was how Kass describyd the rescue in his letter. "We did encounter something that was bigger than each of us, but not greater than all of us. In the South China Sea, headed for Dunai one night, we spied, and then rescued, in poor weather and somewhat heavy seas, 86 Vietnames~Boat People. I can't here describefall th~ events or emotions that evening, but suffice to say that I am not .the same; that there is moreto me than me, part of a whole something that we all ·,;·s'h"'·re'd· •ha· ht· ·· ··~·"•· ' ' ·' ·· . ,,-· . __ -;'__Ul.~-:,__,'./::!li ._·....·t•n1·•g· ·....;,:,;,,~,,.. '·~ ,--· .:_· .'_"Incredible it \vas, pulling' suckling babies from their mothers' arms and hoisting' them' ;JI manually up ladders: a human chain of crying children, bewildered youngsters, stupefied p'arent's all scared· and htihgry, and if not for us and our ship surely they would have perished-out of food and water for a day and a half. It was quite incredible and indelible to most of us." ,.. -'C.· . ~ f • Chua Quach and his eight'" year-old son were supposed to be the first of the 86 Vietnamese refugees to climb aboard the Rose City (Apex Marine) from their overloaded rickety wooden boat in the South China Sea. Chua Quach had Jost his gii.p on his son and dove in after him. Two ho11rs later they were 800 feet from the ship, c;lingihg to a life ring, bobbing in the eight-foot seas. The Hansen Medal The life ring's signal lights were flashing. "But the time . and began pulling them back to spent;'' Capt. Lewis M. Hiller safety. told the SIU LOG. passed and nobody came. The Kass and Turay•both Ship out AB Gregg Turay, 27 years old. Rose City got smaller and While international and presand an SHLSS grad, was busy of Seattle, and Vukmir said he smaller, and I came to lose idential awards went to three of too. When he spotted a·survivor really wasn't surprised that the hope. . . . I made up my mind floating away from the scene, two would risk their lives in the the men aboard the Rose City, to throw away the lifesaver and he jumped into the water with middle of the ocean. "Both had the entire crew made the rescue to hold my son and die quickly an unsecured line and began his · the.training; they'd always come possible. together,'' Quach tole The New Along with Kass and Turay, · swim to the refugee clinging to to somebody's aid. I know York Times. another of the ship's life ring's Gregg, anytime ·we asked him AB Charles Allen and OS Craig . During those two hours, SIU crewmen and officers aboard that the. SIU crew had tossed · to do something for the Union Caffee boarded the refugee boat ~ ·'\. the Rose City brought the other overboard. Kass saw his ship- · he was there to help us. They to help calm the panic-stricken refugees onboard by forming· a mate in trouble, without a se- . srud they both looked at each -passengers as heavy winds and human chain on the ship's rope cured line, and he dove into the other and saw people going un- waves bounced the small boat . ladders and handing the surviv- water a second time, and an· der. Gregg said, 'I never thought alongside the tanker. As Seaors up toward safety on the three struggled through the · we'dgetamedalforit, wewere farers and officers pulled people choppy seas to make it back to just ·doing our job'," Vukmir off the small boat, crewmein---\ tanker's deck. AB Jeffrey Kass, (Continue«r on Next Page) safety. said. 31 years old and a 1972 SHLSS Entire Crew Performed Heroically 22 / LOG , November 1984 '· �!!!!---~-----------~----------(Continued from Previous Page) bers George Smith Jr., Larry Long, Mike Ingram, · Perry Greenwood, Steve Mason, 3rd Engineer Mike Sippo and Kings Point cadets Clem Marino and Dave Cubberely descended to the refugee boat to help .. After all the refugees had been helped aboard the Rose City, Greenwood, Sippo and Caffee joined Kass and Turay as they took the boat away from the Rose City to search for more survivors. During that time, Caffee was washed from the small boat and pulled back aboard by Sippo. It was Mike Ingram aboard the Rose City who manned the searchlight which spotted the single surviv.or Turay and then Kass dove into the water to save. The entire crew of the Rose City proved once again that Sea. farers are a special breed. I I '.l ' Rose City Captain Didn't Hesitate·to Help. No one knows how many Vietnamese refugees have died trying to flee their country on boats of questionable seaworthiness. Tens of thousands have made the journey; thousands of others have ·perished. Sometimes ships sailing in those sealanes have passed them by. Because Rose City Capt. Lewis M.Hiller stopped his ship and initiated and organized the rescue, 86 people were saved. During the Nansen Medal awards ceremony, Poul Hartling, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, spoke of what he called the Moral Law of the Sea, which Capt. Hiller followed without hesitation. Jeffrey Kass (above), along with Gregg Turay, dove into a stormy South China Sea last year to help rescue Vietnamese refugees. The pair, along with Rose City Capt. · Lewis M. Hiller, was awarded the Nansen Medal by the U.N. The Moral Law of the Sea is to give help to those in need. Seamen have followed that moral law for years. But .in recent years Vietnamese Boat People have told· stories of ships passing them by, leaving them in the mi9dle of the ocean. Ten ships passed the boatload of refugees before Capt. Hiller brought the · Rose City to the rescue. "I am sad and disturbed about so many reports that ships are passing by refugees in trouble. I felt totally obliged to stop and offer any assistance I could,'' Hiller said. u. s. Flag Role Urged· in National. Energy Plal1 Drozak opposed botn oil im- regulation as harmful to the na. Any national energy plan must Energy Plan. We urge that U.S.-· req:,gnize the iQlportance of flag carriage of U.S. coal port fees and natural gas de- tion's energy consumers. · U.S.-flag maritime assets, from exports be emphasized in any ·tran8:portation of current energy energy proposal submitted to needs to development ofmod- Congress," Drozak said. ern energy alt~rnatives, SIU • J.?1:qzak also urged the nafyesi<;lfnfr~~:l1-~lfA2~~,t9'Jf,,~~... tion;s31,.~tategic· Pt;troleurp ReDepartment of"~J:fergy .(DOE)' seive"(SPR) be filled at the rerecently. quired rate of 220,000 barrels Drozak was asked by the DOE per day. ''The faster the SPR is to comment on the country's filled, the sooner we will have The LQG, official publication of the Seafarers International National Energy Plan for 1985.' a cushion against the use of ail Unkm, won t!ie highest a:ward 1nits category in a nationwide · The main ppints he raised re- as a political weapan,•~ he said. ·· • sw,vey conducted by the AFL~CIO's International Labor garded coal'exports, ocean mfoOrozak also noted ·that some Communications.Associatian. · ing, use of the Strategic Petro- · 36 Jones Act tankers are curA total of 135 labor publications representing virtually leum Reserve and Alaskan oil. rently idle or laid up. and that every AFL-CIO national union in the United States and ''Our concern stems from the another 20 to 30 are only ocCanada entered the contest this year. lack of badly needed emphasis casionally employed. Those The LOG was selected for ''First Award-General Exceland understanding of the role ships would provide a sizable lence" among the more than 80 newspapers in its dass. This . that U.S. maritime assets should fleet to move SPR oil if a drawaward is based on an overall evaluation of the publication, play in a coherent National En- down of the SPR was needed. including writing, graphics, photos, design and, most imporergy Plan,'' Drozak told DOE In addition, he said that if.there tantly, the scope of its coverage of activities and issues of Secretary Donald Hodel.. were a shortage of Jones Act interest to the union's membership. Because of the amount arid tankers, many CDS-built tankIn citing the LOG.for its overall excellence, the judges had the variety of American coal, it ers could be granted temporary this to say: · could become a major interna- waivers to move SPR oil if "The Seafarers LOG is a comprehensive monthly report tional energy source. But of needed. that provides its members a full picture of a wide variety of c:ourse the coal must be moved One of the major cushions activities and issues in the maritime industry. Its focus on from mine portal to customer. against foreign-oil blackmail is legislative affairs, international trade, health and safety, and Drozak said that improvement the nation's Alaskan oil fields. collective bargaining is highly commendable, and a service in the nation's inland water- Currently thatoil cannot be exto its members." ways, railroads and port facili- ported. But several attempts in Judges in this year's ILCA Journalistic Awards Contest ties are necessary to help. the past few years have been were: Leonard Apcar, Wall Street Journal; Regis Louise " ... Emphasis on transpor- made to export the oil. An exBoyle, University of Maryland; Nelson Lichtenstein, Catholic tation modernization.should not port ban is contained in the University of America; Saul Miller, former Director of Instop at the water's edge.ft makes Export Administration Act, but formation for the AFL-CIO; Josephine Pacheco, George no sense for a country so de- that has been tied up in HouseMason University; Peter Perl, Washington Post; Bob Rodden, pendent on ocean-borne com- Senate conference since earlier special assistant to the president, International Association merce, with high hopes of in- this year. Drozak urged that the of Machinists; Donald Stillman, director of international and creasing ·· .caal exports, to export ban be maintained. government affairs, United Auto Workers, and Louise Walsh, advocate short-sighted,. costly . Ocean energy thermal coneditor.and research coordinator for the AFL-CIO Department user fees, or worse, to,omit the version is one area of new en. for Professional Employees. need for the .essential U .S, iners ergy technology that should not ' chant marine from the National· be ignored, Drozak said. Seafarers;~og Win·s Top Award ln':cNatiohal Labor Press Survey . . I - - ----------·-·-· .. �Seafarers Welfare Plan Adds Rules on Eligibility and Other Areas The Seafarers Welfare Plan Board of Trustees has added a few changes in the rules and . regulations of the plan on eligibility, covered · employment, maternity, optical and sickness and accident benefits: The new rules added on eligibility and covered employment are: • "Effective Jan. 1, 1985, fo · order to maintain eligibility for benefits under the plan, a sea~ men whose employer is contrib-~) uting at least $26.22 per man per day to this plan can have a minimum 120 days of covered employment in the calender year immediately preceding the date the claim accrues." ·Previously, 125 days of covered employment were · required. • "Unless otherwise specified, the covered employment shall include time during which an , employee . . . is attending ¼;I The Seafarers Pension Plan Board of Trustees has made some changes in the rules and regulations of the plan on days of service and on the death benefit. · The changes in the _rule on days of service are: • ". . . service shall include all time during which an employee is attending any upgrading courses at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship." • "Effective June 16, 1984, a seaman who has accumulated at least .3,000 days of actual seatime shall be eligible to receive credit for a day-and-aquarter (!¼) of service for each day of actual seatime earned subsequent to June 16, 1984 provided that the seaman is working for an employer that is contributing at least $26.22 per man per day into the Seafarers Wei- \ fare Plan." . • On optical benefits, "an eligible employee shall be entitled to . receive · the optical benefit, once every two (2) · years for. himself and each of his depend _ents to help meet the cost of eye examinations and/or eyeglasses. The benefit shall be paid more frequently in case of dependent children if new eyeglasses are required for patho- · logical reasons. "The amount of the benefits any upgrading courses at the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg shall be: School of Seamanship, pro(a) for employees at Contrivided that such courses had been bution Rate I: $200 and 80 successfully completed. percent of the reasonable and "Class attendance at the Sea- customary covered medical exfarers Harry Lundeberg School penses. of Seamanship will be consid(b) For employees at Contriered covered employment for . bution.Rates A and B: $200. those classes that have been (c) Hospital room and board_ successfully completed, only and hospital extras will be paid when the employee has met the in addition to the above and will eligibility requirements for wel- be paid as per Article 13 (I) (A) fare benefits in the year prior to (B) for the respective contrithe employee's attendance at bution r!J,tes." the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg • "Hospital and medical exSchool of Seamanship." penses incurred by eligible emThe new rule changes.on maternity, optical and sic~ness and ployees or spouses of eligible employees on ac.count of pregaccident benefits are: • ''The maternity benefit shall nancy shall be treated in the be paid when an eligible em- same manner as expenses inployee or the spouse of an eli- curred for non~pregnancy regible employee gives birth to a lated illnesses . or · injuries for child in the United States, Can- eligible employees or spouses ada, Puerto Rico or the Virgin of eligible employees respectively .., Islands. • On the sickness and acci. dent Benefit, "change the amount of the In-Patient Benefit and the Out-Patient Benefit from $8.57 per day to $9.17 per day." under this article if the death is caused directly or indirectly by: (a) intentional self-inflicted injury. (b) participation in a riot or the commission of a felony. (c)conduct evidencing a reek! less disregard of personal health: or safety. - (d) the employee knowingly subjecting himself/herself to an unreasonable risk of injury." The. changes in the rule on the death benefit are: • Effective Feb. 1, 1984, all pensioners who are receiving pension benefits from this plan and who have credit for at least 125 days of covered employment in the calendar year immediately preceding the year in which they become eligible and applied for a pension are eligible for the death benefit. . . . " • "The Standard Death Beuefit shall be paid upon the death of an eligible pensioner, or an active employee who died at a time when he would have been eligible to receive a pension from this plan and who - satisfied the eligibility requirements listed. ; . . The death benefit will be paid to his designated beneficiary, if the beneficiary is in any of the (listed) relationships to the deceased." • "The Limitations of the Payment of (Death) Benefits" say "No benefits shall be paid 0 " ... add the words ·up to' before the specified dollar amount." "A bill from a liqmsed optician, optometrist or ophthalmologist and/or a bill for the purchase of eyeglasses." Aboard the S.S. Newark . . Support SPAD 24 /LOG/ November 1984 It's smooth sailing in Seattle. Just ask John Carson aboard the S.S. . Newark (Sea-Land Service). (Photo by Tillman Churchman) Sam Thomas fishes off the S.S. Newark (Sea-Land Service) in Ko~ diak, Alaska "just for the halibut." (Photo by Tillman Churchman) �- ts ·mgton • I I I I I I I Seafarers Internatio nal Union of North America. AFL~CJO · I I I I I November 1984 Legislative. 17-dministrativc and Regulato ry Happenin gs One potentially disruptive issue--t he of the American-flag merchant marine, of Construc_tion Differential Subpayback whic,h had fallen to a post-war low of 406 left. victory e landslid 's Reagan Ronald sidies-w as put on the back burner. H.R: active vessels. bit little a just gton everyone in Washin 5712 was signed into law. It contained a The biggest disappointment had to be provision that prohibited tire enforcement confused. the inability of Congress .to come to grips Politicians on both sides of the aisles of any promulgated CDS payment until with two important issues: the export of Was vote. the of meaning the over argued May 15, 1985. Alaskan oil and the redocumentation of it a green light for President Reagan to go Allowing vessels in the deep-sea fleet under Princess and s Countes 's the Cunard or ahead with his own legislative agenda, to pay back their CDS loans and to operate the American-flag registry. Getting these was it merely the electorate saying that it in the coastwise trade would diminish what two issues resolved is expected to be the rily necessa not but Reagan, Ronald liked is left of this country's ocean-borne fleet Union's top legislative priority in the next ? all of his· policies and unsettle the domestic trade. · . session of Congress, for. together they several The truth won't be known for involve riearly 2,000 seafaring.jobs. months (the 99th session of Congress conOpponents of the maritime industry convenes in late January). Yet there are sev- . tinued their relentless effort to cut back INDUSTRIAL POLl~ Y the that suggest that eral developments the scope of the Jones Act. The Union In a perceptive article for The Washingelection was anything but mandate. was able to beat back most of these atPost, Henry Kissinger, who served as For one thing, Reagan waged a rela- . tacks, though toward the end of the ses• Secretary of State under Presidents Nixon tively issueless campaign. He· did not de- . sion, Congress enacted H.R. 89, a bill and Ford, called this country's lack of an fine the issues so much as create an upbeat permitting foreign-flag vessels to carry industrial policy the single most important national mood. passengers between Puerto Rico and the issue facing the American people. More important, perhaps, was the relU.S. mainland. Kissinger noted that ahµost every inatively poor showing of the Republican The harsh effects of H.R. 89 were mitdustrialized nation other than the United Party. igated somewhat by a Senate amendment States has come up with some kind of While. Reagan was busy wracking up predicating foreigncflag participation on plan to deal witµ the changing world marmajorities .in 49 st~tes, the Republican the lack of availability of U.S.-flag alterketplace. While he underscored his comParty lost two seats in the Senate. It also · natives. An American-flag vessel of a simmitment to free trade, he noted that such managed to pick up only 14 seats in the ilar size, or oile offering comparable serva thing does not now exist, nor is it likely Ho~se, which left it more than 70 seats . ices, would knock the foreign,flag vessel future. · · to exist in the near . ' behind its Democratie c9unterpart. .. .· .· -out g,fJb{ttl12e, ,c, i i< /. ', 1..;c;,g, 0 · r,rol'a'.ctfuri was takeri 60: Port Development or on the · diversion of American ONE YEAR LATER people to the House and the Senate who cargo through Canadian ports. In addition, shared his views on the issues. The Reagan administration had a big no action was taken on the Boggs Bulk celebration marking the year anniversary biU, which many in the maritime industry of the invasion of Grenada. All but lost in felt would have gone a: long way in prothe selfccongratUlatory rhetoric was the THE srv· 1N-WAsemcj,r~N·. viding the country with an effective cargo real ·message behind the invasion: the _ pro·motion policy. the raee, tial A;lde from the presiden United States was able to sustain the · Nothing was done to halt the erosion of SIU did very well in the November elecaction because the action was close to our this country's shipbuilding base. Attempts tions: shores, and because we were facing an in the House and the Senate to reinstate the for ed support we people 25 the Of opponent who did not possess, any sealift the Construction Differential Subsidy proSenate, 19 were elected. ty whats:o.t capabili .-,,, iver; gram were thwarted by the administration. And of the more than 350• candidates we endorsed for the various House elections, more than 90 percent won. Given that record, the SIU is now in a better position to protect the interests of SPAD is the SIU's political fund and our political arm in its members. Washington, D.C. The SIU asks for and accepts voluntary _ While seamen still can't count on the . contributions only. The Union uses the money donated to administration to do anything for the mar. SPAD to support the ~lection campaigns of legislators who itime industry, they can count on our allies have shown a pro-maritime or pro-labor rl!Cord. in the House and the Senate to tone down SPAD enables the SIU to work effectively on the vital the anti•labor, anti-maritime excesses of maritime issues in the Congress. These are issues that have the president and his conservative cronies. WASHINGTON REPORT I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I a • I I I .1 I I I I I I I I I I I. 1,.. 'A,~d\~~~!~1f;!~~~e~t~1J :!~~i~: I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I • -I I I I I I I 1· I I I I I I I I I I 98TB SESSION OF CONGRESS AD.JO VQS • The 98th Session of Congress ended on a hectic note as members attempted to take. last0 minute action on several unfin, ished spending measures . .The. members had on~ eye on the interests of their constituents and another on the November· elections. ·· In terms of the maritime industry, it · was a mixed record. Nearly a dozen maritime bills were passed. Yet most of these bills did not address the long-term decline ton O a direct impact on the jobs and job security of all SIU mem• hers, deep-sea, inland, and Lakes. The SIU urges 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, 1>r make no contribution at all withoutfear ,of reprisaL A copy of the SPAD report is filed with the Federal Elec, tion Commission. It is available for purchase from the FEC ' . in Washingt~n,D.C. I' ,' .. . e o .. . - NovembE!r 1984 / LOG I 25 -----· -·-- --- �This Is Where the Seagoing Jobs Are. , Ex-Waterman RO/RO Joins Navy; SIU Crews Will Man TAKX Ship M Following extensive modification by the Navy, the Sgt. Matej Kooak recently crewed UJJ at the Port Hueneme Naval Base Jn California. (Photos by Dennis Lundy) ORE than 100.seagoingjobs are available to SIU Seafarers as the result of Navy charters awarded to Waterman Steamship Co. The first of three converted RO/RO's was delivered to Waterman and is·crewed by SIU .. She is the USNS Sgt. Matej Kocak. Launched in 1981 as the John B. Waterman, this vessel was jumboized and extensively modified by the Navy with heavy-lift cranes and re-designed cargo holds. The Sgt, Matej Kocak will join other civilianmanned T AKX military support ships which are being pre-positioned in all parts of the world for rapid deployment of military supplies to any trouble spot within our nation's strategic defense zones. i i l i I Dan Buckley, AB, attaches the shower curtain in the shower room of the ship's gym. All the new galley equipment in order, tlie Steward department is now ready to do their stuff. Picture_d here, from the left, are: Courtney "Sabu" Rook, steward; A. Fachini, chief cook; Marc Sholar, steward assistant; Tim Yancey, steward assistant. ' · This is one of the helicopter pads aboard the Sgt. Matej Kocak. Our · '-''- bosuns are being specially trained at the SHLSS in Piney Point to assist in helicopter landings. 26 /LOG/ November 1984 ·-~ ' ;., Military vehicles make up part of the ship's cargo. �Pat Hawker, bosun .aboard.the Sgt. Matej Kocak, explains that the 100ton cranes can place a tank on the ship's deck. f' ! I ABs Raymond Lopez (I.) and Chris Von Robinstein check the supplies on one of the ship's lifeboats. This·view ofthe Sgt.'M1#Eii Koca,k shows the 200-ton ramp off the stern whi.ch will easily enable vehicles to be driven on arid off the ship. · AB Hal Jensen (I.) and Willie Zisis, DEU, get some work done on deck. · l First-tripper Marc Sholar (1.), steward assistant, gets a lesson from old pro Courtney "Sabu" AB Richmond Matthews (1.) stops for a quick Rook, steward. Marc was in Class 393 at Piney Point. chat.with Bosun Pat Hawker. QMED Robert Hines cheeks out the control room. / November 1984 / LOG / 27 �lI - Health Talk .Alcoholism: ·A Treatable Disease LCOHOL is the most A widely used:--and abuseddrug in America. majority of A Americans drink alcoholic beverages. Most drink in moderate amounts. But nearly nine million Americans suffer from alcoholism .. And these ill people, in turn, affect the lives of nearly 40 million others-family members, friends, fellow workers and · associates. , What is Alcoholism? _; "Alcoholism is a disease. It can be treated." That statement, made by past SIU President Paul Hall, was the premise under which the· Seafarers Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center, in Valley Lee, Md., ~as established. An old theory of alcoholism held that an alcoholic person was emotionally disturbed. It was only during the 1950s that alcoholism began being diagnosed as a "disease." And only as recently as 1971 did · the American College of Physicians of~ci!!}IY chi,ssify, alco.llolism.Jl~ it·Ofs·eaise__: :'.: ~t¥'.t l'-.i~ ··',_,:{. --· _:-. -'-/"'it:,:~£Jr:-~~ Alcoholism is an.illness over which a person has no control. · It is not caus.ed by a desire to hurt otbers,. or. a weakness of will, or immorality. It is a real · -.;;. disease, and society is now rapidly accepting that fact. Alcoholism is when you can't stop after one drink. It is a progressive disease, and when not treated can be fatal. While itis not always easy to tell the difference between a heavy social drinker and an al· coholic, the differentiation is very important. For just like any other disease-diabetes, cancer, hypertension-the sooner .the disease 'is diagnosed, the sooner treatment can begin, and the easier it is to control. causes No one seems to know for sure what causes alcoholism. The illness' probably has no single cause. Rather, there appear . to be a number of physical, ~\ psychological and social fac,tors that . determine the onset and progress of the disease, The search for the causes of alcoholism continues. In the "-'\ meanwhile, the U.S. Depart- Operated by the Seafarers Welfare Plari, the Alcoholic Rehabilitation Center in Valley Lee, Md. is a six-week rehabilitation program specifically geared toward Seafarers. people who cannot, develop alcoholism. For once a person.has lost control of his drinking, he is said to have become an alcoholic individual-or to have developed the illness of· alcoholism. Alcoholism is sometimes re~ ft;rred to as "alcohol dependence." A.lcoliol is a drug. AQd · like any other drug, it can create physical,and psychological addictions. · Alcoholics will deny that they ha~e any clrinking problem or that their problems are caused ' ·by drinking. The alcoholic does not want to hear that he is o.ne. He will do everything he can to convince himself and the people around him that he is not an alcoholic, that his drinking is u nd er control. This qenial factor is a clear signal th c;ttt9e~ is a problem and that the person needs help. :1 · ·· Alcoholics often live in 'the .past, ,,,bta'gging . ahGU:t • cpast acliievements .or blawng'$'Jitt~J\i$i, lems in .the past for present· , , problems. The alcoholic person "'-~lim~ie».ds t.Q'J.S'l')erida,lot oftime:, · ·' ment of Health, Education and · words, there is no typical alWelfare's National Institute on coholic American .. Alcohol Abuse and Akoholism , There is >a belief,:-,howevet1 studies has come up with three that alcoholism tends to run in facts: families, and new evidence is 1. Most people who drink alpersuasive that heredity andgecoholialc behveli:ages(·Adbo not d7~ Rnetics dp pla~ an importhant;role. velop co o sm. out one m ecenf.:stUdies cite t, al alco10 will.) holicsare more likely than non2. Although one cannot de- alcoholics to have an alcoholic ,,.~~J?~~~?:~@lisJI\ :w~tb9µJ;clrin~~,... fa~~~i;,1 ffi!U}~~{.~~,..,:~~·' ~ng,,&;~e0hctb1•thf<,,, bever,ge; \!i>,Y,r, ,.if •",,i, 'ti, "• • _c;,.. ;, .· 'ki'ix,};:, D;1rr ' '~~1'~iSuti~i!i:i~g',"'and!· . 1tself1s. not enough to cause-tJ;,i:e · . . . . . · .· planning where llntl?when he is illness.. . Symptoms and' goingto get his next drink, • , Other familiar s.ignals thatal3. .The types of people af- Warning Signals· . fected by alcohol are as varied · as life itself. Alcoholism usually develops· coholism is developing include . over a period of years. There when .a pei:son gulps drink~; are,· therefore; · many ,opportuc:: drinks.· 'alone,· dtink.srl<ifl:;,; the nities for the drinker·. and those . m9rnirig;,or•.(ltiµk;s, before facing Who IS Affected? close to him to becolhe'a'Waite ::'faistE~sifi\lF~tu:ation. ·: '.· As defined. by" the World of the illness before if ha~"go'ne · ·A:s'.iiis ciiseasb progresses, the Health Organization, an alco- too far. alcoholic person will often have holic is "a person whose chronic _. Each individual is different. · blackouts and not be able to use of alcohol causes any trou- But one of the first clues that remember what happened while ble in any major area of life- alcoholism· may be developing he was drinking. his job, his home life, or his .. is when a p~rson,finds that a As the illness gets worse, the health." Another, definition is few drinks do not have the effect common "hangover" that often that an alcoholic is '"a person on mood and sen1ation that they . results from·too much d,rinking· who cannot on any given o❖ once had. Inste.ad,''i'tak. es more m.ay . be replaced by the more casion predict how much he will and more alcohot \efore the serious and painful symptoms drink." , changes th~t tbe drin~ seeks ~f ~'VfithdrawaL" Th.ese may Many people believe that the take pl~ce. ".. . • \ , mcl~de extreme. nervousness, typical alcoholic individual is a Contmued dnnkmg may be- anxiety, s~eating, nausea, skid-row bum, a derelict. In fact, gintointe~':rew_iththep~rll<;m's trembling o~ the "shakes/' . the homeless alcoholic 1)eople health, dnvmg, Job, family ll{e, · · '.fhese P!llnful symptoms mon .skid-row make up a very or life in the community. H~ dicate that the body has become small portion of the total alco- may be arrested for drunken\ so accustomed to alcohol that holic-and problem drinking pop- driving, a physical check-up may \ it has trouble managing without · ulation-from 3 to 5 percent. show some enlargement of the ·llie drug. This is why an alcoAlcoholism affects all kinds Iiver; he may begin to miss. a:. hl\iic !ndividual o_ften takes a of people. It is certainly one. of number of Mondays at work; dna.,k 11J the morning. Once he the great equalizers.in American quarrels at home may increase. gets \the drug back into. his society, striking both rich and Many drinkers are able to , , bloods\feam, the trembling and poor, black and white, young heed these warning signals and other uncomfortable sensations and old, male and female, la- ehange the way they drink or _are relieved and he can start to borer and executive. In other stop drinking altogether. Those function agi),in. Trouble is,.four ~ 28 /LOG/ November 1984 -- . . . �\ hours later he will need another liver occurs about six times more , What can Be Done? ''stabilizer." And so it goes • often in alcoholic people than in moderate or non-drinkers). throughout the day. One often-asked question is,· After years of drinking, the And alcohol interferes with sex"Is Alcoholism Curable?" The akoholic individual may start to ual function. Impotence and/or neglect his diet, health and per- . reduced sexual drive are found answer to this question depends on the definition of "curable." sonal appearance. Withdrawal in 70 to 80 percentof alcoholics. If curing .an alcoholic means symptoms may worsen to the Alcohol affects the central • returning that individual to nor~ point that if the individual goes nervous system. It is not surwithout a drink for several.days prising, therefore, that there is . mal social drinking, the answer and the body burns up its supply a definite link between the mis-- is "no." If curingthem means of alcohol, delirium tremens use of alcohol and the occur- ·that they will never take a di:iqk again, then the answer "yes." (DTs) may result. The person rence of accidents. may complain of extreme thirst, Some authorities prefer the Accidents on our streets and run a fever, hear and see terriword "control" rather than fying voices and sights that do highways claim about 50,000 "cure." They note that even not exist, panic, thrasli about American lives each year and the. patient who achieves total violently, or go into convul- another 150,000 permanently · sobriety may still have to"Ieai-n sions. Delirium tremens is a po- disabled. One-half of these tra- to cope with the personal and tentially .fatal condition .that re- gedies are alcohol-related. social problems underlying his quires immediate medical care. Alcoholics are five to 13 times . drinking. They feel that the sue-, In the most advanced stages . more likely to die from falls and cess is achieved when the paof the illness, the. alcoholic per10 times more likely to die in tient regains control of his life . son cannot function at all as· a fires than non-alcoholics. by re-establishing and maintainmember of society. He is totally ing a good family life, a producinvolved in getting drunk and - Alcoholism can be fatal-not tive work record, and a respectonly as the result of the abovestaying drunk. mentioned acts, but because a able position in his community. large enough overdose of alcohol can interfere with the cenEffects of ters of the brain that control Treatment Heavy Drinking breathing,. and result in death. The most direct result of too Death commonly occurs during People used to think that an much.drinking is physical harm untreated episodes of delirium tremens. alcoholic person had to hit "rock J~-igqe body. While drinking al..,s"'cohol in moderation appears to While the most direct results · bottom" before he could accept _do the body no permanent harm, of too much drinking are seen or benefit from any kind of treat-. . . . when taken in J::i,rge doses oyer in .· harm to tl:t~. b,qdy,, :WCOh!-"11.. merit ':i::9ga'M 'Xe know that many (long periods crf time, it ean be abuse also' affects family life. aldoh•lic. pefsoris are. intensely !'.....,___ physically destructive, often re- · The rate of separation and di- relieved to learn that their all ~c:lµcing a person's life span by vorce among alcoholics is seven coholism is ail illness, arid that it is treatable. And like other as much as 12 years. times that of the general p9pu .. •C@c~rs of the mouth, tor1gue, lation. And two out of five do- illnesses, the earlier it is diagpharynx and esophagus are more mestic relations court cases in° nosed and treated, the better common in alcoholics than in volve alcohol. Alcoholics also the chance for recovery. non-alcoholics. Alcohol alters commit suicide-six to 15 times Many people who suffer from stomach acid secretions. which more· frequently than the genalcoholism can be treated as probably help to account for the era.I population-but whether stomach problems so common , that is caused by depression, outpatients (private physicians in alcoholics. It also has been ·which is common among alco- or community facilities) or as shown that too much alcohol is holics, or whether the depres- inpatients (hospitals). Whichinvolved in damage to the heart, sion causes them to drink has ever, the road to recovery is not brain, muscles, liver and other not been ·proven with any cer- an easy one. It takes time, work· and a lot of help from others. major organs "(cirrhosis of the tainty. But most important, it takes desire-the desire to breakfrom a lifestyle dominated by alcohol and 'a desire to retlini. to the mainstream of society. ·· is 0 ,. With the help and suppprt of professionally trained counselors and .fellow Seafarers, the alcoholic individual can accept responsibility for his drinking and take that important first step of giving up alcohol. One of the oldest and largest programs available today for treatment of alcoholism is Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): AA is a· voluntary fellowship of alcoholic people whose sole purpose is to help themselves and each other get sober, stay sober, and mend their lives. Membership is open and free of charge to anyone who needs help with an alcoholic problem, and groups can be found in virtually every city in every state in the country. · . Alcoholics Anonymous depends primarily ·on a spiritual . approach and the unselfish devotion of recovering and recovered alcoholic members to help one another. The person joining AA admits that he is "powerless over alcohol,'' and that his iife "is unmanageable." And working on his problem "one day at a time,'' he can, always count on a fellow AA member for support. The ARC · In March 1976, ti).e Seafarers Alcoholic Rehabilitation.Center (ARC) was established in Valley Lee, Md., near the Piney Point training and upgrading facilities. Based on the philosophy of -th~ AA recovery program, the ARC is a six-week rehabilitation program specifically geared toward Seafarers._ There is only one major requirement an SIU member needs to collie here: the desire to stop drinking. No one can force that on you.· Getting sober, staying sober, and beginning recovery are difficult jobs. But witli the help of the counselors, alcoholic Seafarers can accept responsibility for their drinkirig and can thus begin a_ totally new life with positive attitudes, values and principles-·and a feeling of self- worth. · A competent and professional staff works with each new member to assist him in coming to grips with his illness and. in ;:,. building a new life without alcohol. Fellow Seafarers-both on the staff at the center and in • treatment for the same . disease-support him in his decision not to drink. And this support is often what keeps a person there. For while "putting the. cork in the bottle" is the first step to rehabilitation, and education is an essential part of it, simple compassion and understanding are most important. Through-the Seafarers Welfare Plan, the SIU has established the ARC as a way to help our. members recover from the disease of alcoholism. And with . the help and support offered there, alcoholic SIU members are getting well and building new lives. Don't· be afraid to ask for help. Just as you would see a doctor for a broken leg, check in at the ARC if you have a drinking problem. There is always someone there to·give you. a helping hand. - November 1984 / LOG / 29 �-· 7 \ Deep Sea 1949 in the port of New York sailing as a ship delegate, cook Edward "Ed" and oiler. He was a member of Charles · Biedrthe Wall St. Workers Union in zycki, 57, died on 1948. Seafarer Cole wa~ a Union Sept. 28. Brother employee from 1951 to 1954 and Biedrzycki joined received a .SIU P~z:sonal Safety the SIU in the _·Award in 1961 for riding an portofNe wYork accident-f ree ship, the SS Seain 1952 sailing as train Georgia. Born in New York a bosun. He City, he was a resident of Yonworke · on the New Orleans kers, N.Y. Surviving are his Sea-Land shoregang from-1968 widow, Sylvia; a son, Bruce, . to 1984. Seafarer Biedrzycki was and a daughter, Constance C. a PFC veteran of the U.S. Army _ Toni· of Woodstock, Conn.-a after the Korean War serving as .1955 Andrew Furuseth Schol...J an auto ·mechanic in the motor arship Award winner,-s tudying pool. He earned the Good Conat the lJ niversjty of gon.necticut duct Metal. Born in New Jersey, in Storrs. .. . ' . •. . he was a resident of New Gretna, Pensioner N.J. Surviving are a son, MiHarry Lee Colchael of New Gretna, and his lier, 72, passed mother, Lottie of Jersey City, awayonSe pt.14. N.J. Pensioner Brother Collier Joseph Dennis joined the SIU in Blanchard, · 63, 1943 in the port died on Sept. 15. of Baltimore sailBrother Blaning as a chief • •··chard joined the steward. He hit the bricks in the · SIU in 1948. in• 1962 Robin Line beef. Seafarer the part of New Collier was born in Union City, York sailing as an Tenn. and was a resident of.St. AB. He atten.ded the Unign's Albans, N.Y. Surviving are his 5tJ;i , Pine&;,P,0iO:t E.d'.U,:(fit!I1f»li' ! ~ E : , e. · ' ""' tef;; Conference. And he was a vet- Beverley Rossef ,.,,. , eran of the U.S. Navy duri!1g a 1971 SIU Charles Logan World War II. Seafarer BlanScholarship winner-at tending chard was born in New Iberia, . Cornell University in Ithaca, La. and was a resident of New . N.Y. .,.,_ Orleans. Surviving are his widow, Beatrice and a sister, James Monroe Alice B. Dorsey of New Iberia. Dodd, 49, died of heart-lung failure George Selden inJohns Hopkins Cayton, 55, died : Hospital, Baltirecently. Brother . more on Sept. 16. Caytonjoined the Brother Dodd SIU in 1947 in joined the SIU in the port of Mo... tht?•..RQrt.of Nor-. .· · bile sailing as a folk in 1964 sailing. a cook . chief cook. He hit and AB. He was born in North .the bricks in the Carolina and was a resident of 1946 General Maritime beef. . Baltimore. Interment was in the Seafarer Cayton was a veteran Arbutus Park Cemetery, Baltiof the U.S. Army d_uring the more County. SurvJvlng are.his Korean War. Born in Mobile, . widow, Emily; his mother, he was a resident there. Surviv- Catherine of New York City, ing are his father, John and a and an aunt, Hessey King of sister, Corrine, both of Mobile. Norfolk. 0 as . PensionerJohn Joseph Cole, 77, succumbed'to injuries sustained • when hit by a car in _Palovas, France on Sept. 27. Brother Cole joined the SIU in 30 / LOG / November 1984 . Pensioner . Owen Herschel Herring, 65, died of a heart attack in Winchester, Va. on Sept. 18. Brother Herring joined the SIU in 1949 in the port I of New York sailing as art AB shop No. 3. And he was a veteran and 3rd mate. He walked the ofthe U.S. Army in World War picket line in the 1946-General II. Born in Philadelphia, he was Maritime beef, the 1947 Isth- a resident there. Surviving is a mian strike, the 1948 Wall St. ·brother, John of Philadelphia. beef and the 1961 Greater N.Y. Harbor strike. Seafarer Herring Pensioner Anwas a veteran of the U.S. Armed drew Morales, 82, .Forces.A nativeofE lkton,..Ya ., passed away on he was a resident of Winchester. Sept. 9. Brother Burial was in the Pine Grove Morales joined Cemetery, FredeJick Cty., Va. . the SIU in 1939 Surviving are his mother, Erma intheport ofNew of Winchester; a brother, GranYork sailing as a j ville, also of Winchester; a siscook. He was on ter, Irene V. Bain of Bunker. the picket line in the 1961 N.Y . Hill, W. Va., and.anoth er relaHarbor beef, Seafarer Morales i tive, Ray L. Herring of Winwas born in Puerto· Rico and I chester. • was a resident of Manati, P.R. .I Pensioner Surviving are his widow, AnHarvey Charles drea and a daughter, Veraliz of Hill, 72, passed Manati. away from heart Manuel Perry, failure in the (i2, died on Oct. Loma Linda 16. Brother Perry (Calif.) Commujoined the.SIU in _ .nity Hospital on 1946 in. the .port ~ Sept. 28. Brother of New York H!ll joined the SIU in 1940 in sailing as an AB the port of Baltimore sailing as for Sea-Land. a recertified bosun. He was a walked th~~i~e veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard. line in both the 1946 General Seafarer Hill was born in Mis- Maritime beef and the 1947 lsths;2,~1£µ~~~-~-~~en~ of; ~aJ-.;•: •,1mjan ·~,ttik,~,. :Seafarer Perry was • ~ ·.0 t0u:$'a:':lifoa'd:i'!i®lJlim 1 rCremat10n born i:n ·Rhode"illslim'd!iiaM;l"'waf""'' .. took place in the Pomona (Calif.) a resident of Kent, Wash. Sur;; Crematory. Surviving are his viving are his widow, Mei arid · widow, Cleta and a brother, his mother, Isabelle ·of NewDavid of Yuma, Ariz~ma. port, R.I. I HN . Pensioner Pensioner . William . Denny · Evari~to Rosa, 65, Johns, 67, died on died on Oct. 3. Oct. 15. Brother Brother Rosa Johns joined the joined the SIU in SIU. in 1948 in 1943 in the port the. port of Mo.of Mobile sailing bile sailing as a .as an AB and deck engineer for FOWT. He hit the Energy Transport Co. :He the bricks in the 1962 Robin was _born in Alabama and was Line beef. In 1960 he received a resident of Clanton, Ala. .. Sur-. a Union Personal Safety Award viving are his widow, Glennie · for .sailing aboard an accidentand an aunt, Callie Williams of free ship, the SS Yaka. Seafarer Pensacela, Fla. ·Rosa was born in San Juan, P.R. and was a resident of Country Pensio~er Club, P.R. Surviving is his Alexander James widow, Francisca . · McElhenny Jr., 68, passed away William · ou Oct. 4. Thomas Rose, 72, Brother Mcsuccumbed to a .Elhenny joined heart attack at the SIU in the home in · Baltiport of Philadel. moreonA pril30. phia in 1963 sailing as a cook. .Brother Rose He began .sailing at the age of joined the SIU in 16. Seafarer. McEJhenny at1944 in the port tended the 1971 Piney Point Ed- of .Boston_, Mass. sailing as a ucational Conference, Work(Continued on next page.) . I �< > Pensioner (Continued from Preceding Page). chief steward. He was on the· picket line in the 1946 General Maritime beef. Seafarer Rose was born in New Bedford, Mass. Cremation took place in the Green Mount Crematory, Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery, Baltimore. Surviving is a daughter, Beverly Gregory of Castalian Springs, Tenn. \ Pensioner Bernard Joseph Shultz Jr., 58, succumbed to a liver ailment at home in. San Francisco on July 14. Brother Shultzjoined the SIU in the port of New.York in 1953 sailing as an AB. He was born-in Pennsylvania. Burial was in the Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery, HigWan,cl Pa.rk, Pa. Surviving are tw.o :b'rothers, Harry of L,an$downe, Pa. and Gerald .·of'Norwood, Pa. ·. farer Zlateff was born in Bulgaria and was a naturalized U.S. citizen. He. resided in Miami Beach,· Fla. Cremation took place in the Lithgow Crematory, Miami. Surviving are a brother, Asen of Varna, Bulgaria and a sister, Minka Buzdoganova of Burgas, Bulgaria. Richard Bernard Tucker, 56, died 19. on Oct. Brother Tucker joined the SIU in 1943 in the port of New York sailing as an AB. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army after the Korean War. Seafarer Tucker was born. in Alabama and was a resident of Mobile. Surviving are his mother, Winnie and a brother, Ernest, both ofMobile. Great Lakes Jaines Francis Gabier, 31, died on Aug. 23. Brother Gabier joined the Union in the port of Cleveland, Ohio in 1981. He sailed as a deckhand for ·the Lakes Transportation Co. from 1980 to 1981 and the Upper Lakes To_wing Co. in 1983. He was born in Escanaba, Mich. -and was a resident of Bark River, Mich. Surviving is his father, Frank of Perronville, Mich. Pensioner Charles Zlateff, . Evan 86, passed ·. away from arteriosclerosis in the Arel) Creek Nursing Home, North Miami, Fla. on July 14. Brother Zlateff joined the SIU in the port of Philadelphia in 1957 sailing as a cook. He began sailing in 1950. Sea- Pensioner Raynald "Ray" Octave Peltier Sr., 81, passed away from cancer at home in Hermantown, Minn. on Sept. 20. Brother Peltier joined the Union in the port of Duluth, Minn. in 1961 sailing as a tug FOWT. He was born in Minnesota. Burial was in .the Park Hill Cemetery, Duluth. Surviving are two sons, Raynald Jr. arn;l Gary. Pensioner William Lee Warenton, 58, succumbed to cancer in the U.S. Veterans Adminis- · tration Medical Center, Jackson, Miss. on Aug. 21. Brother Warenton joined the Union in the port of Ashtabula, Ohio. in 1954 sailing as an AB. He was born in Alabama and was a resident of Columbus, Miss. Burial was in Friendship Cemetery, Columbus. Surviving are his mother, Grace L. Loftis and an uncle, Alton Frye, both of Columbus. Atlantic Fishermen Pensioner Harding T. Eustis died on Sept. 24. Brother Eustis joined the Atlantic Fishermen;s Union in Gloucester, Mass. He retired in 1971. Fisherman Eustis was a resident of Gloucester. "-.), ~ -KNOW KNOW YOUR RIGHTS .:FINANCIAL REPORTS. The constitution of the SIU GUif, Lakes. and Inland Waters District makes -•.•.sp_ecific provision _for 's~fegu·ardi_ng the mef11b_ership's m'~IJ'.¢:¥,-~~~"' Union finances.· !he -const.itut-ion requires a detailed ahdit by Certified Publi_c j\cco_untant.s every thre_emonthS, which rire to,.be submitted t.o the· h1embership by the Secretary.:Treasurer. A quarter'ly finance committee of rank and file members, elected by the membership, makes examination each qua~ter of the. :finances of· the Union·and reports .fully their findings.and fecommendatitms. Mel"nbers of this committee may ·make dissenting reports, specific recomnlendations and separate findings. Atl"a~tic1 TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf. Lakes and Inland Waters District are administered in accordance wi(h the provisions of variou·s trust fund agreements. Al( these a:greeriients specify· tha"t the trustees in charge of these funds· shall ·equally consist of Union and nianagement representatives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements ·of trust funds- are made only upon approval hy a majority of the trustees. All trust fund :finanCial records are available at the headquarters of the various trust funds. SHIPPING RIGHTS; Your shipping rights and seniors itY are protected exclusively hy·the contracts between the Union and the employers. Get to know your shipping rights. Copies of ihese 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 Qy certified mail. return: re:ceipt requested. The proper address for this is: . Angus ''Red" .Campbell Chairman, Seafarers Appeals Board 520J Auth Way and Britannia Way Prillce Georges County Camp Springs, Md. 20746 Full copies of contracts as referred tO are available to you at all times, either by writing directly to the Union • or to the Seafarers Appeals Board. CONTRACTS. Copies of ali SIU contracts ate available 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· pi-Oper sheets and in the proper manner. If. at any time, any--SIU ' rY -1'r" ' ",t . \~ ... 11111n1111111ll11111I1ll1111111111111111n1111111n1111111ll11111I1ll1111111ll1111111111111111n1111111111111 patrolrnan Or other Union offi:ial. in your opinion. fails to protect your Contract .rights prop.erly.' •C!:>ntact the nearest SIU port agent. ' · KNOW YOUR RIGHTS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. Copies of the SIU constitUtion are available 'in au--union halls. All ine·mhers.should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize.. themselves with. its:,contents. Aiiy time you feel any member or offker is~~t_t,empting to deprive you of any constitutional right or ohligaiion by any methods such as dealing with charges. trials. etc· .• _as· well as all other details. then the niember so uffected should immediately notify 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 and in the contracts Which the Union has .negotiated _with thC emplo)'ers. Consequently. no membt":"r mar be dise:ritni· nated against because of race. creed. color. sex and national or geographic origin. If any member feels that he is denied the equal rights to which he is entitled. he should notify Union headquarters. SEAFARERS POLITICAL ACTIVITY DONATION -SPAD. SPAD is a separate segregated fund. Its pro- ceeds are u.sed to further its objecis and purposes includ.ing. but not limited to, furthering the political. social and ,. eCoi:ion1j1;•_interests of maritime workers. the preservation and fliflhedng· of ·the·Americ·ii'n·- M'erchant Marine. with EDITORIAL POLICY - THE LOG. The Log has improved employm!!nt Opport.unities for .seamen 8.nd traditionally refrained from publishing any article servi'ng boahnen and· the 1a<lvancement of trade union· co11cepts-. the political purposes of any individual in the Union. In connection. with such ohjects. SPAD supports and'; officer or memher. It has als0; refrai"ned from publishing contributes to political candidates for clecti_ve .office: All .articles deemed harmful to the Union or its cone·ctive . membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed._ contributions are voluntary. NO coritribution may be solicited or received because of force. job discr_imination, by membership action at the September. 19..f,O. meetings financial reprisal. or threat of such conduct. or as a conin all co·nstitutional ports. The responsibility for LQg_ dition of membCrship in the Union or of employment. If policy is vested in• an editorial board which con'sists of a contribution -is made hy reason ·.of the 3.bove improper the Execudve Board of the Union. The Executive Board conduct.-notify the Seafarers Union or SPAD 1:-iy certified may delegate. from among its ranks. one individUat to carry .out this r,esponsihility. mail .within 30 days of the contribution for investigation and appropriate action and refund. if involuntary. SupPAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to be paid port SPAD to protect and further your economic. polito anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an tical and ·social interests:. and American trade union official Union receip~ is given for same. Unl:1er no circumconcepts. stances should any member pay any·money for any reason unless he ·is given such receipt. In the event anYon·e If at any tiine a member feels that any of the above rights have attempts to require any such payment. be made \Vithout been violated, or that he has been denied his constitutional right of supplying a receipt. or if a member is required to make a ~ W Union records or information, he should immediately notify pay~ri1ent and is given an official receipt. but feels that" hC: ·s1u Presid"ent Frank Drozak at Head(l1:(8rters by certified mail, Should not have been required t6 make such payment: this: return receipt requested. The address is 5201 Auth W.y and Britannia should immediately .he reported to Union: headquarters. Way, Prince Georges County, Camp Springs, Md. 20746. November 1984 / LOG / 31 - - �1 SIU Finance Committee at Work Directory of Ports Frank Drozak, President Ed Tul)'l8r, Exec. Vice President Joe DIGlorglo, Secr.etary-Treasurer Leon Hall, Vice President Angus "Red" Campbell, Vice President Mike Sacco, Vice President Joe Sacco, Vice President George McCartney, Vice President HEADQUARTERS The SIU Finance Committee elected to review benefit and operating costs for the third fiscal quarter of 1984, completed their work in October at Camp Springs headquarters; Members of the committee were (I. to r.) Chief Steward Billy Reed, Bosun AB John Semonem, Chief Electrician George A. Roy, Committee Chairman Calvin James, and Chief Stewards Willie Manuel, Anthony Gregoire, and Ed Haber. • ~ ' _,\ - -pispatchers fl_~port f~r Deep Sea OCT. f-31, 1984 -'TOTAL REGISTERED. All Groups Class A Class B Class C Port Gloucester ................. . New York .................. . Philadelphia . : ...•........... Baltimore .......••......•... Norfolk .•......•.••.......•. Mobile ..........••......... New Orleans ....••.......... -Jacksonville ...•••............ San Francisco .•••........... Wilmington ................ . Seattle .•.................... Puerto Rico .. ::-............ . Honolulu .................. . Houston ................... . • Piney Point ................ . · Tolals ................ . ·.... . Port Glouce~r ................. . New York ....••............. Philadelphia ........••....... ~~I~~~~~:<-: :;{.{\i}t ::. Mobrle .••••. , •...•.•....... New Orleans •••.......••.... Jacksonville .••.•.....••..... ·san Francisco .............. . Wilmington ...••.....•...... Seattle ......•.............. Puerto Rico ....... "' ....... . Honolulu................... . Houston .•........•......... Piney Point •....... a•.: .... . Totals . .................... . Port Gloucester .. : .............. . New York .................. . Philadelphia ................ . Baltimore ..........•.....•.. Norfolk ..........••....•.•.. Mobile .................... . New Orleans ............... . Jacksonville ................ . San Francisco .............. . Wilmington •............_.... Seattle .•....••......•...... Puerto Rico .••.•.....•••.... Honolulu .••.•.•.... .-..••... Houston ...........•....•••.. Piney Point .........••...... Tolals ..................... . 1 4 49 12 20 4 17 8 10 32 35 42 19 37 12 10 24 0 . 295 8 4 0 9 16 12 9 22 3 24 8 0 156 TOTAL SHIPPED All Groups Class A Class B Class C DECK DEPARTMENT 8 -0 68 9 0 4 .0 2 3 3 0 2 0 10 4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 1 2 0 6 0 0 14 7 0 0 19 -23 30 1 0· 8 0 28 14 21 0 4 6 22 0 245 8 5 0 10 2 1 82 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 Trip· Reliefs 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 0 1 0 11 "REGISTERED ON BEACH All Groups Class A Class B Class C 2 134 21 24 15 37 102 69, 80 40 59 18 6 91 0 698 . 5. 1 1 0 1 0 0 48 15 14 27 3 21 40 17 24 17 7 23 25 0 286 L . T" 3 . 1 2 0 5 0 0 21 ENGINE DEPARTMENT 1 40 9 0 - 8 4 5 1 6!! :- - • 6 10' "cJ;,3:,;. 18 5 28 7 26 11 0 0 0 2 1 20 10 0 16 7 16 O· 19 30 "207 104 13 1 6 8 0 0 0 2 12 1 4 5 3 26 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 30 0 0 3 0 0 31 5.. 5 8 8 15 10 52 11 17 7 6 12 0 187 6 4 0 3 1 0 ·o c:,o•, 1 6 4 0 0 0 5 1 0 0 1 5 8 0 4 15 0 30 6 0 0 6 0 146 70 6. -19 0 0 o STEW~RD DEPARTMENT 4 0 25 16 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 4 1 0 9 1 0 . 16 4 0 35 1 0- -. 7 31 5 2 2 14 2 16 ·O 0 · 0 24 152 69 24 i· 1 r . -31 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 2 1 0 136 1 0 148 0 0 206 543 221 135 2 30 8 6 16 5 14 18 29 17 20 12 81 16 3 277 Totals All Departments ....... . 824 607 o· 1 70 Port Gloucester •...........•••... New York .••...........•.... Philadelphia ...... : . ........ . Baltimore ......... , ........ . Norfolk •. ·••................. Mobile ••.••.•.....•••.....• New Orleans ............... . Jacksonville ................ . San Francisco •••......••.... Wilmington ................ . Seattle .................... . Puerto Rico ·•.•••........••... Honolulu ......•..........•. Houston ................... . Piney Point ................ . Totals ..................... . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -._,,.o0 -~-.' S~fi'.::-c ,,1.cfo~,"' ,~·-g '. , ._..·1 12 30 3 1 38 & <:- 0 4 0 4 118 18 19 t6_ :.:_ 2776 :;;,._..,.:, 65 55 2 2 0 1 19 52 12 5 70 10 o o ~ 2 32 14 · 4 ,~·~"g•13 · • t· 24 18 2 ij 11 22 13 25 21 .g 556 212 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 1 0 4 0 5 1 0 1 81 11 11 17 21 51 25 90 28 34 9 18 43 2 23 5 3 3 14 440 4 18 25 6 14 5 67 4 1 180 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 89 0 0 1 53. 8 10 5 7 49 15 103 14 21 10 4 144 29 27 30 20 59 . 45 95_ 48 36 30 281 50 9 0 11 0 1 0 0 4 5 15 3, 7 0 327 1 0 o ii o 0 o 0 1 ~ 92 ENTRY DEPARTMENT 1 13 5 3. 5 4 8 8 52 6 15 . 3 6 6 0 8 0 31 .. 'Total Registered" means the number of men who actually registered for shipping at the port last month. ""Registered on the Beash" means the total number of men reDistered at the port at the end of last month. 22 0 0 326 35 2,020 907 1,585 374 5201 Auth Way Camp Springs, Md. 20746 (301) 899-0675 ALGONAC, Mich. 520 St. Clair River Dr. 48001 (313) 794-4988 BALTIMORE, Md. 1216 E. Baltimore St. 21202 (301) 327-4900 CLEVELAND, Ohio 1290 Old River Rd. 44113 (216) 621-5450 DULUTH, Minn. 705 Medical.Arts Building 55802 (218) 722-4110 GLOUCESTER, Mass. 11 Rogers St. 01930 (617) 283-1167 HONOLULU, Hawaii 707 Alakea St. 96813 (808) 537-5714 HOUSTON, Tex. , 1-221 Pierce St. 77002 (713) 659,5152 JACKSONVIL;;; ;1~lberty st 32206 (904) 353-0987 JERSEY CITY, N.J. · -99 Montgomery St. 0,:"302 (201)43,pC9424 , MOBILE, Ala. '·'""•·~1640 Dauphin Island Pkwy. 36605 ' (205) 478-0916 ""'-.; ,_.:-dil~r'.,;Qij_LEi~i•J~~ksonAv.e.70130'·-- ••__ (504) 529-7546 Toll Free: 1-B00-325-2p~2 NEW YORK, N.Y. 675 4 Ave., Brooklyn 11232 (718) 499-6600 NORFOLK, Va. 115 3·_s1. 2351 o · (804) 622·1892 PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 2604 S. 4 St. 191 ll8 (215) 336-3818 PINEY POINT, _Md. St. Mary's County 20674 (301) 994-0010 SAN FRANCISCO, Calit 350 Fremont St. 94105 (415) 543-5855 SANTURCE, P.R.. 1057 Fernandez Juncos St. Stop 16 00907 (809) 725-6960 SEATTLE, Wash. 2505 1 Ave. 98121 (206) 623-4334 ST. LOUIS, Mo. 4581 Gravois Ave. 63116 (314) 752-6500 WILMINGTON, Calif. 408 Avalon Blvd. 90744 (213) 549-4000 ' 499 Shipping in the month of October was up from the month of September. A total of 830 jobs were shipped on SIU-contracted deep sea vessels. Of the 830 jobs shipped, 543 jobs or about 65 percent were taken by "A" seniority members. The rest were filled by "B" and "C" seniority people. A total of 35 trip , relief jobs were shipped. Since the trip relief program began on April 1, 1982, a total of 800 jobs have been shipped. 1 Support SPAD 32 / LOG / November 1984 =-, ,..·1 �Sea~Land Invests in New U.S.·· Built Ships·--- The Bay Shipbuilding Corp. diesel propulsion plants, the hulls ofth'ese American bottoms have $180 million contract for the been specially designed to ply construction of its three con- the icy Alaskan waters. tainerships which will be operThis contract could not come ated by its subsidiary, Sea-Land at a more opportune time for Service, Inc. and crewed ·by America's commercial shipAmericans. building industry with a particFinanced by Sea-Land's Cap- ular economic ·stimulus to the ital Construction Fund (CCF), Bay Shipbuilding Corp. and its the ships will have a length of workforce at the Sturgeon Bay, 710 feet and a beam of78 feet. Wis. shipyard. Bay ShipbuildThe vessels will have a carrying ing was the. lowest bidder for capacity of more than 700 40- . the contract and has initiated an foot containers. The new ships impressive delivery schedule for will link the port of Tacoma, the ships. The keel for the first Wash. with the Alaskan ports ships is scheduled to be laid in of Anchorage and Kodiak. PowJuly 1985. Deliveries of the first ered by fuel-efficient, slow-speed two ships will be made in August and November 1986 and the· third ship is .scheduled for May 1987 delivery. Established under the Merchant Marine Act of 1970, the Capital Construction Fund program assists U.S.-flag ship operators in accumulating capital to build, acquire or reconstruct vessels through the deferral of federal incqme taxes on eligible deposits. The CCF is administered by Department.of Transportation's Maritime Administration and has provided some $2.8 million in capital to ship owners for the expansion of the · American commercial fleet since its inception in 197 L has received Sea-Land Corp. 's CL L· NP -Company/Lakes -Lakes -Non Priority *TOTAL REGISTERED All Groups Class CL Class L Class NP Port 25 3· 0 Algonac ............... , .... . 16 7 0 Port .. , •. • .,a~•'.•• Algonac ........... : .. .. .. .. . J· TOTAL SHIPPED· All Groups Class CL Class ~ Class NP 28 13 0 ENGINE DEPARTMENT 12 4 0 STEWARD DEPARTMENT 8 3 0 ENTRY DEPARTMENT Port r- NEW YORK, NEW YORK Schulman &-Abarbanel 358 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10001 Tele. # (212) 279-9200 BALTIMORE, MD. Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad Sun Life Building Charles & Redwood Streets Baltim0re, Md. 21201 Tele. # (301) 539-6967 CHICAGO, ILL. Katz & Friedman 7 South DE:!arborn Street Chicago, Ill. 60603 Tele. # (312) 263-6330 ' #''{d-l!ort'" · · Algonac..................... . Totals All Departments ...... ; . • 5 12 0 8 58 . . _. 18 .. 0 0 5 _ 5'., ...,.; t8 0 GLOUCESTER, MASS. Orlando & White 1 Western Avenue Gloucester, Mass. 01930 Tele. # (617) 283·8100 "REGISTERED ON BEACH All 'Groups Class CL Class L Class NP ,,,,.;39< 54 6 . 2 13 6 2 HOUSTON,TEXAS Archer, Peterson and Waldner 1801 Main St. (at Jefferson) Suite 510 Houston, Texas 77002 Tele.# (713) 659-4455 & Tele.# (813) 879-9842 13 2 0 38 26 13 D_. _ . 118. 40 17 0 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Fogel, R0thschild, Feldman & Ostrov 5900 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 2600 Los Angeles, Calif. 96036 Tele. #_(213) 937;6250 ._*''Tot~I Hegistered'' m.1,Ms.th~. npmb~rc,gfg,_en~hQ,,eCl![~IJ~r~!s!~J~.d1~rJlli(jpi)jg at theJottlast month. ••''Registered PQ'. the,Beachi:· means•tiie,tota14lumlfer or men'reg1stere11"arth·e· port0ar-rnecend ot- last· month. . ····•-·~?::;:,--',:, . ~ ·,, ·~ -· - .~ \ DETROIT, MICH. Victor G. Hanson · 19266 Grand River Avenue Detroit, Mich. 48822 Tele.# (313) 532-1220 DECK DEPARTMENT Algonac:·:: ................. . ~ 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 member need not choose the recommended attorneys and this list Is In. tended only for ln-formatlonal purposes: Dispatchers Report for Great Lakes OCT.1-31, 1984 •.--- Legal Aid WILMINGTON, CALIF. 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John Paul Jennings Henning, Walsh & Ritc_hie Street Apt. or Box# Book Number • -SIU -•, City UIW State • ZIP Tele.# (415) 981·4400 Pensioner Other _ _ _ _ _ _ __ UIW Place of E m p l o y m e n t - - - - ~ - - - - - - - - - - - ' 100 Bush Street, Suite 440 San Francisco, Calif. 94104 SEATTLE, WASH. Davies, Roberts; Reid, · Anderson & Wacker 201 Elliott Avenue West, Suite 500 - Seattle, Wash. 98119 Tele. # (206) 285-3610 . This .will be my permanent addl'!ISS. for all official union mailings. Thia addreSB should remain In the Union file unless otherwise changed by me personallY,. (Slgnedl------~---------- -------.--------:---------------------~!;.. __ . ;., __,. __ . ,. _________________:__..J - TAMPA, FLA. Hamilton & Douglas, P. A. 2620 West Kennedy Boulevard · )'8.mpa, Florida 33609 -, Tele. # (813) 879•9842 . .. . •·. November 1984 / LOG / 33 ,... �� Deep Sea � sho'r'egang from 1·966 to 1984. Seafarer Greeff is the father of Mark Greeff, a 1972 Union Charles Logan College Schol­ arship winner. Born in Johan­ nesburg, Union of South Af. rica, he is a resident of Baltimore. Michael Harry Angino, 65, joined the SIU in 1947 in the port of Baltimore sailing Ln the steward department. Brother Angino is a veteran of the U.S. Army during World War II. He was born in Duquesne, Pa. and is a resident of Baltimore'. . Benjamin Livingston Jar­ rett, 65, joined the SIU in 1945 in the port of New York sailing as a bosun. Brother Jarrett was born in Memphis, Tenn. and is a resident of Arlington, Tenn. . George Merril Hammock, 65,. joined the SIU in 194b in . the port of Norfolk sailing as an AB. Brother Hammock is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. He was born in Georgia and is a res­ ident of Tampa, Fla. Thomas Alonzo Brown, 57, joined the SIU in 1947 in the port of Savannah, Ga. sailing as a QMED. Brother Brown attended a Piney Point Educational Conference in 1976. He was born in Georgia and is a resident of Savannah. Richard M. Harp, 62, joined , the SIU in the port of New York in 1951 sailing as a cook. Brother Harp is a veteran of the U.S, Army in World War II. He was born in Baltimore and is a resident there. Leslie Burrows Bryant Jr., 60, joined the SIU in the port of Norfo* in 1955 sailing as a chief pumpman and diesel engineer. Brother Bryant hit the bricks in the 1946 General Maritime beef and the 1947 Isthmian beef.. He was born in Portsmouth, Va. and con� tin_ues to reside there� Sven Erik Jansson, 64, joined the SIU in 1945 in the port of New York sailing as a recertified bosun. Brother Jansson was graduated from the Union's Recertified Bo­ suns Program in 1973. He received a SIU Personal Safety Award· in 1960 for riding an accident-free ship, the SS · Steel Voyager. Seafarer John Joseph Doyle, 55, Jans.son was_ <>n:. -· the picket :-:·ij(>1ir;le(J/$./!1�;�I,�.w:ne.rg!;l<!l���m�-··?J .;;;,:' ,. - , ··: ··..~- . ' lineir:iJhet96!Nilistriet'Q1&i:Jrn�"" �--·_,is ->. Cooks and Stewards Umon'm ciIr3q.Je�fl:A"rrltfi�e'ofisotstiI···,· 1958 sailing as a chief stew­ . Sweden,' be is a resident of . ard during the Vietnam War. Toms River, N.J. · Brother Doyle is a resident of Harbor City, Calif. · Chon Jar, 65, joined the 'i-c SIU in 1949' in. the port of Hector Licona Duarte, 62, Tampa sailing as a chief coo.k. . joined the SIU in the port of Brother. Jar walked the picket·· New York in 1952 sailing as line in the 1961 Greater N.Y. a FOWT. Brother Duarte beHarbor beef. He was born in . gan sailing on the United Fruit China and is a naturalized Co. "banana boats." He was ' · U.S. citizen. Seafarer Jar is a born in Honduras and is a resident of Oakland, Calif. naturalized U.S. citizen. Sea­ . farer Duarte is a resident of Jarrettsville, Md. ',i."· ':iJ i ~-· ~·:••:~ . -4 -, ,I : C .,:' _,, ··.S '•""· ., n••- --·, ·;-'--�· _ ,_a _• •, •. . .• • , ·, • ' ·•,:;. ,,_ . s. :·•• .- - Carlos Lozano Landa, 65, joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1950 sailing as a QMED. Brother Landa was born in Mexico and is a nat­ uralized U.S. citizen. He is a resident of Houston. • James Edward Lankford, 66, joined the SIU in the port of Jacksonville in- 1971 sailing as a cook. Brother Lankford is a veteran of the U.S. Army after World War II. He was born in Guntersville, Ala. and is a resident of Jacksonville. James Allen Fra�'cis Linn, 65, joined the SIU in the port_.., of Norfolk in 1968\;sa,[liog -•�Oil!' as a QMED. Brother Liiin"'•islJ!.a;, veteran of the U.S. Navy during World War II serving as a ·i.:C�iefie.nginema�. Hl:l wi!s b,Q!Jl, .,_'in;-[layt0�®f.\i0�°!!i'�if'res� ident of Norfolk. ,· •i. }:If"'· Leon Henry Lybert, 62, joined the SJ u in the port of 'Baltimore. in 1958 sailing as :·._;..•, an 'Ks. Brother Lybert is a veteran of the U.S. Navy dur­ ing World War II. He was born in Mississippi and is a resident of Laurel, fyliss. Louis Benjamin Duracher, 50, joined the SIU in the port of New Orleans in 1958 sailing as ·a bosun. Brother Duracher worked -on the New Orleans. Waterman Shoregang in 1971. He was born in New Orleans and is a resident there. �, _,.-1 Ferdinand Campbell Greeff, 60, · joined the SIU in the port· of Baltimore in 1952 sailir:ig as a bosun and ship delegate. BroJher Greeff sailed - _ ~~-'" . _ _ . _ ._.. .. . _ _ · during WorldW�r II. He worked At the SIU hall in Brooklyn, N.Y., Seafarer Wiltiam Datsko (I,) gets his .. on the Baltimore Calmar Line- first pension check from. Leon Hall, vice president in charge of the Steamship · Service Corp. Atlantic Coast. Brother Datsko sailed as a chief, steward. ,. :. First Check · for New Pensioner . ' :.. "', '--:\ ..• \: . :·. __ 34 / LciG"•ftifo�ember .. 1984 4 ', ;..~..... - -··- ::.:.• " �Arthur · Maillet Sr., 61, joined the SIU in the port of New Orleans in 1957 sailing as a chief electrician and QMED. Brother Maillet worl<ed on the New Orleans Waterman shoregang in 1978. He also is a· plumber. Seafarer Maillet i~ a veteran of the U.S. Army after World War II. Born iri Marksville, La., he is a resident of Destrehan, La. Caspar M. Martinez, 62, joined the SIU in 1946 in the port of New York sailing as a chief cook. Brother Martinez was born in Honduras and is a resident of Westwego, La. · I f Luis Rodriguez Martinez, 60, joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1954 sailing as an AB. Brother Martinez ., began sailing in 1951. He was ··· born in San Juan, P.R. and is a resident of Bayamon, P.R. Emmett Leslie Mercereau, 65, joined the SIU in 1941 in.the port of New York sailing as .. 13 bosun. Brother • i~eft'ereau . was born . in the state of Washington and is a resident of Burlington, Wash. I c James Dixon Moore, 62, .· jQined ctl;l:e}S'l:tU'iA.-l!lf44:,i(lthe port of New York sailing as an AB. Brother Moore worked on the Sea-Land shoregang, Port Elizabeth, N.J ..from 1970 • to 1978. He hit the bricks in . the_t962 ..Robin Une beef. .Seatiii-Jt'Moote was born in N.ew York City and is a resident of the Bronx. Richard Gordon Newell, i l I I ! 58, joined the SIU in 1948 in the port of G1:1lveston, Texas . sailing as a bosun. Brother Newell was born in New Mexico and Is ·a resident of Houston. John Joseph Niemiera, 59, Joined the SIU in 1946. in the port of Norfolk sailing as a cook. Brother Niemiera is a ' veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was born in Baltimore and is a resident of Jacksonville. Great Lakes Anthony J. Pitura, 55, joined the SIU in the port of New York in 1950 sailing as a FOWT. Brother Pitura worked on the Baltimore Steamship Service Corp..Calmar Line shoregang from 1966 to 1978. He hit the bricks in the 1980 ACBL inland beef. · Seafarer Pitura is a veteran of the U.S. Army after the Korean War. Born in. Baltimore, he is a resident of Joppa, Md. Terrell Bernice Spears, 65, joined the SIU ih the port of Mobile in 1965 saning as an · AB. Brother Spears. was born . in Brantley, Ala. and is a resident of. New Orleans. Walter C. Summersett, 69, joined the SIU in the port of Houston in 1976 sailing as a chief engineer. Brother Summersett was born in South ?carolil'la and is a resident of Charleston; 'S.C. Isadore Nicholas Topal, 155, joined fhe SIU in the port · >0f• Norfolk in 1961 sailing as a FOWT. Brother Topal is a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War II. He was born in Chios, Greece and is a resident there. Charles Douglas Westman, 58, joined the SIU in 1947 in the port of Norfolk sailing as an AB. Brother Westman was born in Norfolk and is a resident there. Raymond Karl Kage, 65, joined the Union in the port of Frankfort, Mich. in 1953 sailing as a FOWT aboard the City of Green Bay ferry (Ann Arbor Railroad) in 1964. Brother Kage is a veteran of the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was born in Petoskey, Mich. and is a resident of Beulah, Mich. · Francis Arthur Munroe, 65, ' joined the Union in the port of i Chicago, Ill. in 1957 sailing as , a cook for the Boland Steamship Co. Brother Munroe is a . veteran of the U.S. Navy in World War II. He was born in Canada and is a naturalized , U.S. citizen. Laker Munroe is a resident of Ormond Beach, Fla. Robert C. Norkowski, 63, · ;joined the Union in 1948 in the port ofAlpen1:1,, Mich. sail.ing as a watchman for the Huron ·cement Co. in 1965. . Brother Norkowski was born lii' Alpena and is a resident there. . Atlantic Fishermen Jose Senos, 63, joined the Atlantic Fishermen's Union in 1944 in the port of Gloucester, Mass. Brother Senos sailed as a. fisherman. He was born in Portugal and is a resident of Gloucester. DON'T CAST . YOURSELF ADRIFT. WITH · DRUGS/ YOU'LL LOSE YOUR PAPER$ FOR . LIFE/ . - November. 1981 / LOG / ,35 - �sent tc headquarters regarding their fine performance: "We, the undersigned crew of the MN Falcon Cham- • pion, would like to express our sincere thanks to Chief Cook Dan Brown {B-2029) and GSU Vincent Ortiz (0· 8028) for a job well done. Chief Cook AMCO TRADER {American of thanks was given to the steward Brown, who is sailing at his very first Coastal Line), September 30-Cha ir• department for a job well done. Thanks job as chief cook, has done more than man John Green; Secretary J.B. Har• were also given to SIU President Frank . an exceptional job with the food prepris; Educational Director Donald Pase; Drozak and his officials for the good aration, and since we are sailing short Steward Delegate Edward Tresnick. work they've accomplished at the new a chief steward/baker, Cook Brown The deck department reported some headquarters building In Camp Springs, . has also bsen doing an outstanding disputed OT which will be taken up Md. job doing all the baking. Considering with the patrolman at payoff. No other that there are no pre-cooked foods or beefs were noted, although both the USNS CAPELLA {Sea-Land Servready-to-serve baked goods aboard deck and engine departments have ice-Military), August 26-Chal rman this ship, Cook Brown and GS.U Ortiz been running one man short. New Luther Pate; Secretary George William have had to prepare everythin9. they mattresses and pillows are needed by · Luke; Educational Director Robert have cooked or baked from start. Both all hands. Also, the washing machine . Caldwell. Some disputed OT (on Paul Brown and Ortiz deserve the utmost was fixed but still doesn't work, so a Hall's birthday) wiff ·be taken up with credit and recognition for the Jobs that new one is needed-along with a new the patrolman in Wilmington, Calif. Port they have done, especially when they ice machine and water cooler. The Agent in Wilmington, Mike Worley, will are the only men in the· steward de· Amco Trader will be in New York on be called and requested to meet the partment. Again, our sincere thanks Oct. 4, and will then head down to Norfolk, Va. for payoff on Oct. 9. Dl9 esc of Sh ips Ne ecl n• s \ _, son; Secretary Jesse Thrasher Jr.; Deck Delegate James ·c. Keith Jr.; Engine Delegate Robert L. Benson. No beefs or reported QT. Everything is running pretty smoothly aboard the Jade Phoenix, although one QMED, · Alston Hickman, was transferred to a hospital in the Philippines. Another crewmember onboard is somewhat of a celebrlly. Gregg Turay was awarded the Nansen Medal, the highest honor for humanitarian efforts on behalf of refugees. It was presented to Turay, along with Capt. Lewis M. Hiller and Jeffrey H. Kass, for their participation in rescuing 86 Vietnamese boatpeople In the stormy seas off the north coast of Borneo on Sept. 23 from the Rose City {Apex Marine). The award Is to be presented in Geneva, Switzerland on Oct. 8. Next port: Egypt. l 1 iI I I "'I 4 CAGUAS {Puerto Rico Marine), September 4-Chair man Julio D. Delgado; Secretary F. Veg·a. No beefs or disputed OT reported. The chairman advised some of the younger brothers to take advantage of the upgrading opportunities at Piney Point and learn as many new skills as possible. A vote 36 / LOG / November 1984 JADE PHOEN IX.. (Titan Navigation), September 14-Cha irman E. 01· OGDEN DYNACHEM (Ogden Marine), October 10-Chai rman Horace B. Rains; Secretary Donnie W. Collins; Eoucational Director J.W. Spell; Deck Delegate E.R. Beverly; Engine Delegate J.W. Badgett; Stewa\d Delegate Morris Maultsby, No major beets or disputed OT reported. The chairman noted that ii has been a good voyage so far, with only a few minor incidents which will be takeh up with the board· �PITTSBURGH (Sea-Land Serv· ice); September 10-Chairman Wil· liam cooper; Secretary·S. Kolasa; Educational Director Jack C. Marcano; Engine Delegate David Mull; Steward Delegate Miguel s. RPbles. No dis: puled OT. The chairman talked about the need for regular recorded ships meetings, and the educational director stressed the importance of contributing to SPAD to help make the Union and the merchant marine stronger. A num· ber of items were noted on the repair list. They included repair of the .TV in the crew messhall and repair of the galley blower which has notbeen working for two months. It was agreed that the chairman and the delegates have been doing a fine job, and a vote of thanks went to the steward department for their good cooking and service, One minute of silence was observed In memory of our departed brothers and sisters. Next port and port of payoff: Elizabeth, N.J. Dj9es1:·01 Ships Nee1:tnas running normally onboard the SeaLand Leader. A suggestion was made that the Hearing Committee ashore allow a grace period for anyone slightly behind on their dues, especially due IP welfare benefits, hospitalizations, etc. This reference relates to hardship cases and, of course, the previous record of the individual. This suggestion will be referred to Leo Bonser and the SIU Board of Trustees. SENATOR (Goordinated Caribbean Transport), September 16Chairman D. Mccorvey; Secretary J. GIiiian; Educational Director M. Beck; Engine Delegate John S. Penrose; Steward Delegate .John K. Ward. Everything Is running smoPthly. No beefs pr disputed OT reported. The chairman announced that the ship will pay off Monday night after arrival In Miami. The reefer electrician was ter• mlnated on Sept.. 4. Jacksonville was notified and sent a replacement who seems to be wmking Put very well .. The chairman also thanked everyone for giving a hand with the stowaways. Next port: Miami, Fla. the meeting about the drug problem, And while there haven't been any problems with drugs aboard the LNG Tau• rus, the cPmpany is putting a machine aboard all its vessels to detect the presence of drugs in an individual's system. A vote of thanks was given to the crewmembers for working SQ well together and for their help in running a fine ship. This will be the ship's 100th cargo .. Next port: Bontang, lndPnesia. WORTH (Apex Marine), August 26-Chalrman Bernard Saberon; Secretary Sam Davis; Educational Director W.J. Liesengang; Engine Delegate Joseph P. McGee; Steward Delegate R. McCausland. No beefs were brought ,,.. up in any of the departments, nor any disputed OT reported. Everything Is running smoothly, according IP the chairman. He announced that the ship would be paying Off In San Diego on· Sept. 1 and then would be turned over to the U.S. Navy. The steward asked that all crewmembers strip their bunks. He also stressed the importance of donating to SPAD in order to support those politicians who are in favor of a strong U.S. merchant marine. A vote • of thanks was given to the steward department for ii job well done,_ Next port: San Diego, Calif. Ing patrolman in Lake Charles, La. on Oct. 13. The treasurer reported that of the $81 that was in, the ship's fund, $55 was spent for a popcorn machine and other goodies, leaving $26. Bob Stevens, port agent in Philadelphia, PONCE (Puerto Rico Marine), Ocmet the ship in that port and brought tober 7-Chairman R. Rivera; Secre• some voter applicatjons with him and tary C. Rice; Educational Director L. also passed on the word about the Acosta. No beefs or disputed OT retugboat companies. "Thanks, Bob, for . ported. There is $60 in the movie fund ·the news." The educational .director aboard ship. The chairman announced stressed the importance of going to · that the ship would pay off on Tuesday, Piney Point to upgrade and take adOct. 9, and that Pn the following Friday, vantage of the facillties and training while the ship is in Jacksonville, the ! the Union offers. A general discussion air conditioning system would be was held on the upcoming elections, cleaned out. Members were advised LNG TAURUS (Energy Transporand everyone was urged JoJ;ike the· to get blankets from the steward atthe talion Gorp.), September 16-Chairtime to vote. A~lf''ol"'ltiariks was next linen change. The weather has man Sylvester Monardo; Secretary J.L , given to,,)filJ,rsteward department for. been getting cool, especially at the Gibbons; Educational Director Tyler R. 1, ~gb'od food onboard the Ogden northern end of the run. Several sugWomack; Engine Delegate Leroy C. Official ships minutes were also ret~•·:,,...r~nachem. Next port: Lake Charles, gestiPns were made. The first was that Tanner; Steward Delegate .David A ceived from the following vessels: men whP drop the pilot ladder should Pappas. No disputed OT. 'there is 2 j>~. . . . . ·. . re-rig it properly when Jt is no 'tonger . · $963.lnthe.ship's fund.;AJl communi,' AMBASSADOR PUERTO RICO . [:. .OGDEN,MISSOU81 (Ogden Ma, needed. The second was that tele· cailons received from headquarters ROVER BALTIMORE rine), August 19-Chairman Donald D. SANTA ROSA BAYAMON phones are needed near the ship's were read and pPSted, One particular . COIIRIEII SEA-IAND ADVENTURER Fleming; Secretary A, Hutcherson; Eddock in San Juan. This latter requel3l letter pertained. IP time off. Both the SEA-LAND DEVELOPER UJNII BEACH ...,, .,. catl•-nal Director R.L. Juans. No dishas been made.. a number of timE!s, rompany and the Union agree that a SEA-IAND ECONOMY IIEWYORK i · "''"•-.,p~d OT. There is $7.50 in the treas- . but n·othlng yet has been donec SQ,IAND EXPLORER DAIO.MID member working on an LNG carrier be SEA•LAID EXPRESS . ODDEN CHAMPION ury.'~ll~ds were asked to help build relieved after working 120 days. The DllDEN COLUMBIA SEA•LAIIII PACER ' up the funcl;through contributions. The educational director reminded every1 SEA-I.AND PRODUCER OGDEN LEADER ship wiH h;,ad...s11Jplill!lr."'ir,1,,(il,ih1eston, OllDENSACRAMENTO SEA-~D VDU.DER one how important ii is for members ROBERT E. LEE (Waterman), . in all departments tP upgrade. "Piney STIIJIEWALL JACKSON OVERSEAS ARCTIC .· Texas. It will take about two days fo 1 OVERSEAS HARRIEm STIIYVESAIIT September .16-Chairman T.J. Hil·· load and approximately 18 to 20 days Point-has a lot to offer IP those who OVERSEAS JUNEAU LIG VIRGO burn; Secretary Rafael Maldonado; /. to .unload in Port Said, Egypt. Sulphur OVERSEAS VIVIAN WALTl:IIRICE wish·to learn." Capt. Sjokvlst spoke at Educational Director Dan Beeman; is a dangerous cargo and may be a Deck Delegate Patrick Gallagher. Some health hazard. The captain will find out . disputed OT was reported in each more µbout any hazards that may department. Payoff will be in Newport accompany carrying this cargo and will News, Va. upon arrival. Eveiypne was inform the crew: Everyone was asked reminded of the importance of contrib• to pitch in and help maintain the ship. uting to SPAD. It was suggested that "This is your home. Help keep ii clean. an officer be present when the Indian The .steward department is sf)ort;· so · Deep Sea· . customs'people search the rooms, and · help the GSU as much as you can ... Lak~, Inland nolletthe customs people walk around · and don't forget to vote," Next port will Waters Date Port unescorted. The chief steward thanked be Galvestpn, Texas; there. will be a New York ......... , .. , .... Monday, De~ember 3 ............. , ·..... 2:30 p.m. all departments for their cooperation roastwise payolf, but the location is ............... Tliesday, Pecember 4 ................... 2:30 p.m. Philadelphia during the voyage.and a vote pf thanks not yet known. ................. Wednesday, December 5 ............. , .. 2:30 p.m, · Baltimore was given, in turn, to the steward Norfolk .................. : Thursday, pecember 6 .................. 9:30 a.m. department for the good food and servOVERSEAS MARILYN (Maritime Jacksonville ............... Thursday, December6, ... ·.......... , ... 2:00 p.m. ice, One minute of silence was obOverseas), September 16-Chairman Algonac .................... Friday, De.cember 7 .................... 2:30 p.m. served in memory of our departed John 0. Frazier; Secretary H.L. · DurHouston ................... M.onday, December 10 ........... : ...... 2:30 p.m. brothers and sisters. Next !)()rt: Newham; Educational Director Gary L. Fain; ,i' New Orleans .·............. Tuesday, December IL................. 2:30 p.m. port News, Va. Engine Delegate Francisco E. Torres. Mobile .................... Wednesday, December 12 ............... 2:30 p.m. No disputed OT. A number of .survival San Francisco ............. Thursday, December 13 ................. 2:30 p.m. SEA-LAND LEADER (Sea-Land suits have been put aboard ship. Each Wilmington .......... , ..... Monday, December 17 ......... : ..... , .. 2:30 p.m. crewmember should sigri for Pne and · Service), September 16-Chairman Seattle .•.............. , , .. Friday, December 21 ................... 2:30 p.m. William C. Fiel; Secretary Fred Gisbe responsible for it. The' suits, which Piney Point ................ Friday, December 7 .................... 3:00 p.m. subel. NP beefs or disputed OT. The cost the company $333 each; are to San Juan .................. Thursday, December 6 .................. 2:30 p.m .. be turned in at 1he end of the voyage. · chairman repprted that the repair list St. Louis .................. Friday, December 14 ................... 2:30 p.ni:. has been taken care of, and days pay One beef that. was brou9ht up conHonolulu ..........•......• Thursday, December 13 ................. 2:30 p.m. in lieu· of time off was turned In early cerned overtime. Both.the engine and Duluth ....... , ............ Wednesday, December 12 ............... 2:30 pcm. this voyage and has been posted on deck departments are able to work !Pis Gloucester ................. Tuesday, December 18 .................. 2:30 p.m. the bulletin board. The air conditioning of overtime hours, but the steward Jersey City ................ Wednesday, December 19 ............... 2:30 p.m. was turned off'ror several days due to department doesn't get µny unless the a power shortage and generator recaptain states otherwise, Next port: p;iirs, but everything else seems to be Alexandria, Egypt. l II Ii ;: _ · · N i· I Monthly Membership Meetings · November -1984 / LQG / 37 - ·--·- ~~-~ �'A Nice K:ln4 of Letter to Write-and Receive . .. ' This is the kind of letter I particularly like. to write-a. letter to sey "tha.nk you" ·to our great Union and to the a.dm:!nistra.tion of the Seafarers Harry Lundeberg School of Seamanship. I was in the FOWT upgrading class :from Aug..10 to Sept. 27.... I also want to thank Mr. Bill Foley, the instructor of that class, for his excellent wey of teaching. I learned a lot. And thanks, of course, also to Mary Coyle for helping me With my English. Letters To The Editor Very 1;ruly yours, Abdul Gha.rama G 1188 Brooklyn, l'l.Y. 'Let's Work 'l'ogether. • •' Four years a.go I was in the New York hall trying to ship out. Reagan had just been elected. A few Seafarers were sitting a.round discussing politics. An old bosun said, ":AI:zy working stiff votes for a Republican oughta have his head examined-my sister voted for him and she's on welfare!" We all agreed. A 'Karine Firemen Praise Wiliams . ..' We, the undersigned brothers of the Marine Firemen's Union, Republican president was bad for the maritime. find Roscoe Williams, assistant cook on the BS Pl'es1dent Gxant, Four yea.rs later I'm on my way to hear Geraldine Ferraro truly to be "a guy we like to sail With." .Roscoe, as part of his speak in downtown San Francisco. "You going?" I asked a. Union duties, .served as messma.n for the unlicensed engine brother. "Na.a.hh," he sa;ys. "Ca11se what do you get out of it?" department. We have found him to be efficient, courteous and My Wits weren't quick enough to give the guy a. good answer. cheerful in his work--a.nd.an all around good shipmate. It's not 'wh!!,t. I was getting out of it but what I was doing it forWe consider it a pleasure to have been associated with him for my Union and my job. . . . · several trips_ and look forward to sharing his companionship in During the past four yea.rs we've seen many ships laid up and the future. many good jobs lost. USPH has been out completely. The Reagan administration has ·done nothing for the maritime industry. w111f•:m·1tob1e•···. Of course there's plenty of doomseyers that tell us the Bays. Hansen Democrats don't •have a chance, sailing is finished, the. industry John W. Vicente is dead, etc. These clowns are everywhere. If we don't get up and .Al B.odrigu.ea work and fight for our jobs, they won't be around much longer. B.olf.S. Se~ Panama and Liberia will be doing our work for us. We've got to Charles Soma.r show our strength as the Seafarers International Union. lt.V,.GU.stafson It's too late now to tell you Seafarers how to vote. But you g1lyS who aren't regiStered, who didn't vote or, worse yet, voted for Reagan, have no reason to complain if things get a little tig4t during the next four.years, Let's,allw-or,)t together for a. . ' . ·. 'H .... Act l\Tot Fo:rgotten. . ' . ·. stronger merchant marine: -~fl-~~!l'P1f'l'(llpb~ N,~¢':- .,~ ,, .. - . .. ero . . ..,.··· ;;/~t,~1\-~~ll,~&~-!i:; ;pl ·San J'rancisc'o,. Calif:· ·, • . . (The followtt.tg letter was sen:t to the .j:;Ou- fra:iµ Pete Salzman, . 1 deck delegate a.board the 8.8. Santa Rosa. We pxoudly .rep:cint :it.) · ic 'A Privilege and an Honor ...' ·•·<'~ I was a seaman for 45 years anci a member of the SIU for 30 years. Sickness.forced my retirement last year. Let me say right now, I oo~sidered it a privilege and an honor ·to have belonged to the Seafarers International Union. I have alweys been proud of everything the SIU stood for. I am acquainted With several of the national officers, and they a.re all . dedicated people. . Yes, I spent 30 of the happiest years of my life sailing SIU ships. Even after my retiJ;'ement, the Seafarers Welfare Plan pleyed a very large part during my sickness, for which I am eternally grateful. So·With a heart warming love, and a very di:iep respect for my Union and many fine friends who I miss very much, God bless you all. .As always, Leyal E. Joseph J-316 Sarasota, J!'la. 'A 'l'ru.e Professional. . .' ·. (The following Jettel' was sent to SIU Vice Pl'es1dent George . McOa.rtney from the, crew bfthe USNS Maumee.) This is to advise you of the outstanding job Chief Steward [ J'll,an J Lagua.na and his staff have done on our l(!l,St voyage '[aboard the USNS Maumee]. · In spite of being shorthanded in his department, he has ·· consistently provided us With good food and service. He is a true professional, !\.nd we wish to a.cknowledge this With fh1s letter cif appreciation. · · · J'rate:i:nally, Ch'ew of the '"VSll...,,.,..S Maumee · as /LOG I November ·1984 =------""- '· . It iS unusual to find a. man who can a.ct cooTiy and efficiently . in a crisis situation .. When the man is also modest and a.voids · · · recognition for his heroic act, we feel it is our duty ~-p:l~ sure that his deeds are not forgotten. '"'"''' .., On Aug. 22, 1984, while discharging con.ta.iners at Pet1;Y Island, N.J., disaster struok.. ~e towering mast of a- shore crane collapsed, sweeping a longshoreman :from the third tier of containers on deck to the dock below-a. fall of some 50 feet. Charles D. Lore Jr., QMED/Eleotricia.n,.who was on deck tending reefers at the time, immediately dashed to the stricken ma.n's aid. ;Pushing back onlookers, "Chuck" assumed command of the situation and began ehecking for vital signs. Finding no · heart beat, he began administering CPR With the aid of a police officer who.had just arrived on the.scene. Working calmly.and professionally, they were able to re-establis:O. both the man's heart beat and breathing before the paramedics arrived. Sadly, the man's injuries were too grievous to sU'l'Vive. He died en route to the hospital. Still, this does not in any wey diminish Mr. Lore's brave performance. When the ambulance had gone and we were returning to the vessel, we found Chuck already back at work, as quietly and professionally as before. We know this is bound to :make you a bit uncomfortable, Charles D. Lore Jr., but we all extend to you our. praise for a noble job, well done. · 0 ~ • o. Boughton :Master 'Williul Butler Chief Engineer .Arlond 'Weaver Ship's Chairman \ �__ _.., The · Election The 1984 election is over. The first thought Walter Mondale supporters, including the SIU, · might have had was ''Anybody get the number of that truck?" RonaldReagan steamrolled to victory on a bandwagon fueled by a rekindled patriotic fervor, Norman Rockwell vision of America ,where the kids have freckles, the men flll have jobs, · and the women have babies and · a personal popularity that has not been matched since the nation's. last «grandfather" president, Dwight Eisenhower. During the past few months . we have outlined the reasons why· the SIU supported Mondale over Reagan. Most of them had to do with merchant marine issues; after all, that is what we are conce.med•about, merchant mari,ne j6bs. While the national ~horny may .or may not be in the middle of a "recovery," the ·merchant fleet certainly isn't. Four years ago Reagan promised an eight:p@int-sprogfam .to revit~~the'inerc~?t m:mne. a A Look Past Reagan's Win U.S. Senate and 13 House candidates. All won. Thirteen SIUbacked House candidates won in Obj.o. In New York, 29 out of 30 SIU-endorsed <:andidates for the House won thefr seats. Even in Texas, a Reagan stronghold, 15 out of20 SIU-backed candidates were victorious. The SIU is not brash nor arrogant enough to claim that our support, in the form of manpower, literature, volunteers iµId donations made all of these vice tories possible. But the SIU certainly helped, not just the candidates but ourselves too. One of the grassroots m.ovement's first goals was to make people aware of our industry and its problems. That was done. Hundreds of newspaper stories and television pieces in the past few months around the country· spotlighted our concerns for the pubUc. In addition to enlightening the public, we also made U?tiltrotted thi.s.. ~ -~g~.t.·liered dustagam /;when he once 1t . . · oµt{ind promi~ed merclmntma- ..· . . ....· .. ·• . . . · · · · ...·. •· ·.•··.... .· . 1 0 •rine inl~~!f~~:'Y uld Q~:jmR ~," •,-{" · - .. mented m .the nextt.four years. . . ·•· .Me:#1 .'I' o~~ f. . . . candidates across the nation aware of our programs. To be blunt, when you give someone something of value, support, . volunteers or money, .you expect something in return. That is politics. We now have friends in Congress who know the value of our support, and who. know our needs. . Just look at Iowa. Rep. Toni' Harkin ·received effective Union support in his attempt unseat Republican Sen. Roger Jepsen, a staunch foe of almost everything the SIU supports. Iowa is one the nation's largest agricultural states. Harkin told the peopie there it was time that the merchant marine and· agricul. t11re interests stopped· fighting ' each other. Jepsen on the other hand has a record of opposing cargo preference and every other merchant marine bill .. Harkin · won big. to Along with earning a few paybacks, the SIU earned a lot of respect from professional politicos. We delivered when we said we would. We brought the peo. pie and the help we promised .. The SIU will continue to fight .to hold our ground on Capitol Hill and maybe even advance some. Our business is jobs. SIU jobs. If we can find these jobs through .our .action on the Hill or even with the White House, we will go after them. If not, we will find .other ways. But remember, all of you who. worked to elect Walter Mondale can stand tall today. By .every measure, your commitment to Mondale's programs was the right thing to dO. And your support through SPAD and your direct involvement at the grassroots level all across. this nation· had a great deal to do with the victories .of our. friends . in Congress. * .*·.·· ·*. BUL.LE·TIN * . * *· · . . ·. · .· .. · t . · . . ... ·· .· , . . . • - . .... •.· ·.· .·.... ,1(r;,;/iiff!/Jiii/,Jfi1J1ifilfl~pa,tje,,~ittds~h:!ost,..,,;Merehant·,1_. . .. . . . .. . .• . . ' ffth.:i-th~ppe~s, fine, jf.n.~tw ..e ~on.t ,b(Z, heldmg our bJel!clJi, M'.arine• . p·r.o\:m· ... ·.,•ses . 1.1 : . · I. 1 • ..:~;;=/~~~t\f~ii!: · e.Jt'~£s~wtJ:1~n~~n~1::J ~~!~:%~~~ir1::c!~!~,mJ; ~~rlhif~~~:::~nisho~the New to see thJ~~s a_bJt!w~r£,cle~1l;;~ -adnilnfsfrationsaid that it would the culprit. Ifthatis true, "Pre<;lIn.addition to promising now -' Rea~an ana1lie ng~t-wm~e- ·~.· live up to all of its promises ecessor" can add the decline of to fulfill the four-year-old prompubbcan platform did not wm a · made to the u. s. merchant ma- the·merchant marine to the doz- . ises to the maritime industry and mandate from th~ American rine during the 1980 campaign. ens of other problems Reagan · its 'workers, administration ~eopl~. 1:te Amencan people. . The promises were apparently · is saddled with, such as the $200 sources have inquired whether ~n their wtsdo!-11, kept ~he House rediscovered only weeks before billion budget deficit, the deaths ·the merchant marJne would. be m Democratic h~nds an? ~ethis presidential election-four of 300 Americans in Lebanon, interested · . in manning the ?uced the Republican maJonty years later. While administra-. unemployment,tradedeficits and· Brooklyn Bridge.· m the. Senate. Where were the tion spokesmen declined to· say coattails? exactly where the old proinises The SIU/MTD grassroots were found, informed sources movement helped to •clip them say they were discovered in a short. Since last spring the dusty, old footlocker in the grassroots movement has done basement of the presi<;lent's retwo things. It has made the election campaign headquarAmerican people aware of the ters.' problems facing the merchapl Labor Secretary Raymond fleet andit helped hundreds of Donovan told the NMU .when candidates · around the coun- he addressed their convention try-.the vast majority running last month that the administraagainst Reagan republicanism- tion would fulfill all eight of its keep the president checked and promises to. the nation's merbalanced: chant marine ''in the next four years." In California, the SIU enBoth Donovan. a:nd Marad dorsed 32 candidates for the· Chief Adm. Harold Shear made U.S. House of Representatives. a point of explaining that the Byron Kelley, SIU rep in Algonac, Mich., sent the LOG this recen\ photo While Reagan took the stat.e by a large margin, 31 of our can- current maritime slump could · taken at the hall up there .. From the smiles on their faces, Great Lakes didates won their elections. In not be blanie.d on the Reagan shipping is doing well. Pieture~ (I. to r.) are: James Reilly, oiler; Kirk Busct:iell, oiler; Kirk's sister; Kim Buschell; Roger Lorenz, bosun, and - ,, Illinois, the Union endorsed and adininistration. In a courageous exposure of . Jim Skoronek, deckhand. worked for Paul Simon for the Solidarity in Algonac November 1984 /LOG/ 39 --- ------.·····--------- �ill , \ �f , \ p · tr} ·. '• • - �; . • •_• ~ : ~ ~ ··· . ,.. ... l -. . . . . ~ .· ~ t. / - .·' . - . . . , ' . . . .... , ' •"' .. . \. . ;-· • :"!'i'._ - '• t I 'I '- - � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Title A name given to the resource November 1984 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SEAFARERS GRASSROOTS CAMPAIGN PAYS OFF AS UNION-BACKED CANDIDATES WIN IN HOUSE, SENATE TRICKY REFUELING BY FALCON LEADER DRAWS MSC PRAISE NO HILL ACTION ON RE-FLAGGING OR ALASKAN OIL KEYSTONE STATE'S SIU CREW EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS SHLSS TRAINING IS KEY TO PROFESSIONAL OPERATION DELTA SALE TO U.S. LINES IS IN THE WORK SIU URGES DENIAL OF USL'S FOREIGN-FLAG PLAN SIU-CONTRACTED COMPANY TO OPERATE MSC SHIP COURTS UPHOLD OSHA TUG INSPECTIONS CURTIS BAY MEMBERS RATIFY CONTRACT COAST GUARD SAFETY HOLTINE DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH SIU FILES LABOR BOARD CHARGES AGAINST I.O.T. MEMBERS MEET WITH CROWLEY AND SIU; WIDE RANGE OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT ISSUES DISCUSSED SIU JOINS FLORIDA ALLIANCE TO STOP CORSS-GULF PIPELINE MARINER FLEET CREWS CONFERENCE HELD IN PINEY POINT CHANGES AT SEAMEN'S CHURCH NEW SHLSS RADAR PROGRAM TOWBOAT OPERATOR COURSE INTERNATIONAL PASTRIES AND CAKE DECORATING COURSE STEWART RECERTIFICATION PROGRAM PHYSICAL DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS FOR UPGRADING MARITIME UNIONS ASSIST TAIWANESE SEAMEN U.S. FISHERMEN LOSE RICH GROUNDS ON GEORGES BANK IN WORLD COURT 'GIVE AWAY' DECISION TO CANADA TOUGHER INSPECTIONS, FISHERMEN BENEFITS IN SANCTUARIES BILL, ONE OF FEW LAWS TO CLEAR CONGRESSIONAL MARITIME LOG-JAM INSURANCE CRISIS PLAGUES U.S. FISHING INDUSTRY ITALIAN GOLD HAULS STICKWATER NEW MARAD LIAISON APPOINTED A FALL OVERBOARD LEADS TO TEXTBOOK RESCUE SEAFARER FINDS HIS JOB A SNAP RESCUE OF 86 BOAT PEOPLE BRINGS U.N. ENTIRE CREW PERFORMED HEROICALLY ROSE CITY CAPTAIN DIDN'T HESITATE TO HELP U.S. FLAG ROLE URGED IN NATIONAL ENERGY PLAN SEAFARERS WELFARE PLAN ADDS RULES ON ELIGIBILITY AND OTHER AREAS SEAFAERS PENSION PLAN CHANGES SERVICE AND DEATH BENEFIT RULES EX-WATERMAN RO/RO JOINS NAVY;SIU CREWS WILL MAN TAKX SHIP ALCOHOLISM: A TREATABLE DISEASE SEA-LAND INVESTS IN NEW U.S. BUILT SHIPS A LOOK PAST REAGAN'S WIN Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Seafarers Log Scanned Issues 1984-1988, 1994-Present Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 11/1/1984 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Newsprint Type The nature or genre of the resource Text Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Vol. 46, No. 11 1984 Periodicals Seafarers Log