https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/3910cc8f902aaba8ce58135f916c9a91.PDF 9412c0ff085ef2fe93395545168bbd35 PDF Text Text w SEAFAltERS*LOO • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI flAFARERI INTf RN ATI ON AL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • EXPECT RULE 0NPHSFA1I NEXT WEEK story On Page 3 (top, left) presents gift carton of smokes, $25 26nas bonus and regu­ lar $21 weekly SIU benefit to F. Bacomo at Manhattan Beach PHS hospital. Below, kids enjoy gala SIU party In New Orleans. (Stcry on Page 3. More pictures on Page 5.) IN THIS ISSUE Dump Robin Vote NMU Begs Court / -Story On Page 2 TiTllTlAU TWIU^^nV By THB SUFBREBS LAB • H �WW- Kai« Two SEAFARERS NMU Begs Court To Reverse Robin Ship Vote Losses LOG Jannary S. 195t ... And The Wine Flowed Like Oil For Mobile Unsuccessful in its original attempt to stall off all Robin Line balloting, the National Maritime Union is now desperate­ ly trying to ward off a complete rout in the fleet by the SIU. The SIU has won six of the> seven ships voted so far. posed the nature of its "picketThe NMU is scheduled to line" when it sent NMU replace­ MOBILE—Constniction is under­ way on temporary facilities up the Alabama River, under terms of a proposal to expand the Alabama State Docks. The docks are part of the state's long-awaited Alabama state liver iiriprovement project. On completion shippers in the northern part of the state will be able to send their cargoes straight down-river to the port of Mobil* where they can be transferred to deep sea vessels. Many companies are taking .ad­ vantage of these improvements and are adding and improving their own facilities here. Waterm'jn Steamship Company recently brought in a Navy drydock in order to handle their own repair and drydock work. All of these Improvements spell more woik for Seafarers on the beach and for members of the SID'S Harbor and Inland Water­ ways Division in the ports. Christmas dinner for the mem­ bers on the beach and their fami­ lies was a huge success as some 290 persons sat down to full-cour.se meals in the snack bar jn the hall here. The way the food disappeared was a tribute to the men in the galley. Shipping was on the slow side during the past period and from all indications, the next period will be about the same. The Alcoa Planter, Patriot, Corsair, C ipper, Pennant (Alcoa); Madaket, Monarch of the Seas, LaSalle (Waterman) and tne Steel Age (Isthmian) were in port during the last two weeks. go into, court next Thursday to seek ments for some of the Robin ships an injunction barring SIU certifi­ through its own lines. cation on the last two ships voted, NMU desperation has arisen plus a ban on balloting aboard the largely due to the weak support of Robin Hood, tentatively set for the the Robin Line raid by the mari­ same day. The Hood is due to ar­ time union's own membership. rive in Boston from Capetown on Uneasiness gripped the NMU still Tuesday, January 7th, and will be further following NLRB balloting the last ship to vote of the eight aboard the Robin Trent in which Robin Line vessels now operated two NMU members cast ballots for by Moore-McCormack. The actual the SIU. balloting will probably be in New The SIU originally petitioned York, as has been the case on all for an election on Robin ships last the other ships voted. August after Mooremac, which had With a large SIU crew aboard, purchased the fleet earlier, began Peck gang crewmembers of the wine tanker Angelo Petri are she would in all probability cast a calling replacements from the NMU shown hooking up hoses for discharge of wine at the company's ter­ heavy majority for the SIU, to give and forced SIU men to work-under minal in Port Newark. The vessel is contracted to the SIU Pacific the inferior NMU contract. Robin the SIU bargaining rights for seven District. (A future issue of the SEAFARERS LOG will carry a fea­ of the eight ships polled. The NMU Line had previously been under ture on the wine tanker operation.) managed to win only one vessel in SIU contract since 1941. the fleet, and then only because 11 Seafarers were fired and re­ placed through the NMU hall. The count on this vessel went 25-11 against the SIU as a result. WASHINGTON-^Tramp ship operators have made a direct frontal attack on American Would Upset Certification Coal Shipping in their efforts to get the Federal Maritime Board to pull back GovernmentThe basic objective of the i^IU owned charters. The tramps are arguing that because of the shipping slump, the FMB court action is to overturn the Na­ tional Labor Relations Board's should act immediately to ter­ order certifying SIU bargaining minate charters on ACS ships ing the attack on American Coal. charters had been in, effect for six rights on the ships already polled. and other charters outstand­ In a recent message to the Board months the Maritime Administra­ he called for "immediate action" tor should review the progress These were the Robin Kirk, Robin ing. The tramps, in a new gambit, because the tramps' position is made by American Coal Shipping Gray, Rdbin Sherwood and Robin in carrying out its new contract have also argued that the Federal "desperate." Locksley. Robin Line jobs went back up on Maritime Board is violating the The tramps maintain that before program to determine whether suf­ SIU shipping boards in mid-Decem­ "50-50" law by permitting military a company such as American Coal ficient progress had been made to ber, when replacements for the arid aid cargoes to be carried on operates Government-owned ships warrant continuation of the char­ Robin Lockeley were dispatched Government - chartered vessels. it should seek privately-owned ton­ ters and 'lacking reasonabie excuse from SIU headquarters in New They have pointed out that the law nage for chartering. Such tonnage for insufficient progress (the MarlYork. This was the first ship cov­ calls for 50 percent of these car­ is now available with a number of time Administrator) should excrered by the certification ^orders to goes to be carried on privately- privately owned tramps in lay-up. else his option to terminate the owned US vessels. This phase of call for men. "We wish to draw your attention," charter.' The NMU itself is now barred the tramps' claim does not affect Dunaif wired, "to the fact that "You further stated that one year BALTIMORE—Morris Weinstein by a separate injunction from American Coal. American Coal Shipping Company is a reasonable time for American has been reelected to his third Coal Shipping to complete its plan picketing the ships already certi­ James G. Dunaif, president of is employing the one vessel which fied, plus the two awaiting cer­ the Navigator Steamship Corpora­ it owns, namely the Coal Miner, in and undertake definite commit­ term as president of Local 14, Mas­ ters, Mates and Pilots. The local tification (Robin Trent and Robin tion and the Tramp Freighter Cor­ the grain trade while they are us­ ments for new ships. Goodfellow), as well as other poration, both of them NMU-con- ing a Government-owned ship to "The period for the six months' ballot committee reported that Moore-McCormack ships. It ex­ tracted companies, has been lead- perform their coal contract. We re­ review has long since passed and Weinstein received 201 votes, and his opponent, H. quest to know why American Coal it is now more than fourteen Diemel, 36 votes. Shipping Is not required to use months since the Board decision Ballots were their own vessel to perform their and there has been no review of counted Decem­ tile construction plans of the Amer­ contractual obligations. ber 26 following "We would draw your further at­ ican Coal Shipping on which the a 90-day referengranting of the charters was pred­ tention to your findings as set dum. Local offi­ forth in Docket M-70 approving icated." cials serve two WASHINGTON—The Government has requested 18 west the charter of Government-owned Other tramps have supported year terms. coast oil companies to voluntarily cut their foreign oil im­ ships to American Coal Shipping. the Dunaif position including Tak Incumbent 1st ports by 37 percent. Most of the big companies have in­ In thiii docket, you found that Shipping Corporation, Pacific Wa­ vice-president H. Weinstein American Coal Shipping was ask­ terways, Ocean Transportation, dicated they will comply. 4 J. Mohr won re­ Ocean Clippers and Maritime election over his opponent H. F. A Government committee would constitute a threat to the ing for the use of Government Overseas. owned ships as a 'stop gap' meas­ Kirk. Mohr received 197 votes to found that domestic produc­ national security ..." The Govern­ ure On the "50-50" protest, Dunaif Kirk's 46. until they could place orders tion was insufficient to meet the ment is seeking more domestic oil fqr new construction or reconver­ has petitioned the US Comptrol­ western states' needs and that im­ exploration by Us producers. A five-hian contest for 2nd vicesion of vessels for the coal trade, ler General to stop what he called portation was necessary, but the president went to W. Bchiller, who "improper and illegal expenditure Some of the companies most af­ report said the imports planned fected by the request were. Stand­ and you stated that after the of Government funds" which are polled 90 votes. Schiller succeeds were "substantially in excess" of ard Oil of California, Tidewater going to Government-operated J, R. Silver, who quit as 2nd VP what was necessary and "would in­ Oil, Shell -Oil, and Wilshire Oil. to run unsuccessfully for secretary. ships. evitably lead to a situation which The sharpest cut recommended was There has been no change in the The new secretary is Capt. T. F. for Superior Oil Company, a new January 3. 1958 Vol. XX, No. 1 past two weeks in the status of the O'Callaglian, who received 75 votes importer^ The government re­ American Coal fleet, now down to to win in a five-man field. He suc­ quested It to cut its imports from six ships. One ship, the Cleveland ceeds Capt. Arthur N. Goodrich. a planned 35,000 barrels daily to Abbe, has been returned to the an average of 3,000 barrels daily. boneyard in the place' of the CastPAUL HAIX. Secretary-Treasurtr While most of the companies mir Pulaski which was ordered HCBBEBI BBAHO, Editor. BnNAim SEA­ TAMPA—Shipping was good said they would comply with the MAN. Art Editor. HEBMAN ABIUCH. IBWIN back by the Federal Maritime during the past period with eight request, Richfield Oil Company SPIVACK, At, MASKtN, JOHN BHAZIL, Staif Board. LOG -readers will note that BiLl MOODT. Culf Area Repre­ in-transit vessels providing the said it would not. The company Writers. The Pulaski, Waiter Hines Page, this issue begins Volume XX, sentative. bulk of the jobs. ' said the quotas would only result Harry Glucksman and Martha BCT- marldng the 20th year of LOG The Rion (Actium) paid off while in severe "inequities." Opposition PuMUhtO WwMkly pt th« haadquartBr* ry are idle in Norfolk while the publication. The last two is-; Ml* Saafarara IntarnaHanal Unien, At­ the Ocean Deborah- (Maritime to the plan also came from the •f lantic A Ouif District, AFL-CIO, *7t Faurlh Thoirias Paine is now completing sues of 1957 were incorrectly Overseas) signed on. The Warrior Canadian Government. Avanua Braakiyn 32, NY- Tai. HYacbith its last Voyage on its consecutive numbered^ and were actually y-4tM. Bntarao - as sacend class mattar Wacosta (Waterman); Azalea City, The proposed cutback will, have at tha Fast Oittc* In Braaklim, NY, unOor charter. It will lay up upon its re­ Numbers 25' and 129 of XIK.; Fairland and Gateway City (Pan- some effect on foreign shipping, -tw Act ar Aug. 2L 1*12. turn, as present plans stand.. The The LOG regularilir pubUshes AtUritlc) and the Steel Age (Isth- but will result in an increase in Coal Miner Is en a .grain run as it Zfiissries.-.peir-„ : ,. .. US cq^tai , mlaoj were in pcH-t for has been for sever^ months.noqi. Tramps Assail Amcoa! Charters Mates Local 14 Reelects Weinstein Boost For Shipping Seen In US Oil Import Slash fc.- f I SEAFARERS LOG In-Transits Perk Tampa I»•'• LOG Marks 20th Year ..•• 'f-'. �v ' y.-rca^w^i/.rr'-y^Tv .'7 SEAFARERS JtaauTf 8» 1988 LOG • - Page Itre* Await US Budget Verdict On Future Of PHS Hospitals SlU Welfare Services representative Toby Rynn brings Christmas cheer to a group of Seafarers recuperating in Staten Island PHS hospital. Among those waiting to receive their $25 Christmas bonuses and smokes are Leslie Simmons, Hannaford, Gomez, Jose Rayes, John Broad, Stan Swienkowski and Franz Mietke. SIU headquarters will closely scrutinize the President's forthcoming budget message to Congress for the first concrete evidence of the Administration's plans for the Public Health Ser^ce Hospitals. The proposals on the Public Health budget for the coming year will in-| ^ for the ax, but was saved by a vig­ Hall, who is also president of the dicate whether the Bureau AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ orous SIU campaign. In 1954, ef­ of the Budget has ap­ ment, pointed out that the recent forts were made to discontinue all MTD convention took a very strong medical services for seamen, but proved plans to close the stand against any moves to cut these plans were dropped after the Savannah hospital and back on hospital services, a stand late Harry Lundeberg conferred with President Eisenhower on the three others and turn sea­ which wasv subsequently endorsed subject. men over to private facilities at the AFL-CIO convention. The new tactic adopted by the "The MTD position," Hall said, for medical care. Bureau of the Budget pays lip "is that the Government and Con­ The budget agency had sug­ service, in the SIU view, toward gested to the PHS in September gress should not use international providing medical services for sea­ that it "suivey" the possibilities problems as-an excuse to reduce or men since it proposes contracting of closing Savannah, Chicago, eliminate highly essential services, out such services. Experts on medi­ Detroit and Memphis and enter­ of which the hospitals are one. As cal care are agreed that it would ing into contracts with private far as we are concerned, any at­ be practically impossible to pro­ doctors as an "economy" measure. tack on the hospital budget should vide services under a contract The announcement of the .survey be regarded as the signal for an Christmas, 1957, was celebrated in typical SIU style in ports drew immediate fire from the SIU assault on all Federal welfare serv­ basis that Would be equivalent to throughout the nation. Many Seafarers on the beach brought and other maritime unions, with ices. All unions of tlie Maritime those given by the hospitals. The effect would be a serious re­ their families into SIU cafeterias and restaurants for holiday the SIU viewing the move as a Trades Department are united in net duction in such services to seamen. their determination to press for dinners while Welfare Serv--t fiank attack on the whole hospital adequate appropriations for the ices Dep't representatives are not available as yet, it is esti­ system. Now, with the prospect of in­ Public Health Service." visited Seafarers in the hospi­ mated that the Welfare Represen­ The importance of the hospitals tals and helped spread some of the tatives gave out more than $4,000 crease defense spending as the re­ to seamen was pointed up by Pro­ in Christmas bonuses to th^ men sult of the Soviet success in the holiday cheer with Christmas bonuses and gifts of cigars and in the hospitals, plus additional rocketry field, the fate of the hos­ fessor Elmo P. Hohman of North­ gifts of smokes. pitals is linked with that of all oth­ western University in a paper read cigarettes. A $25 Christmas bonus is given er social welfare benefits provided' to the annual meeting of the In­ As has been the custom in the past, SIU halls In the various ports to every Seafarer in the hospital, by the Government. Moves are al­ dustrial Relations Research Assosponsored Christmas dinners for and to those on the disability bene­ ready afoot in Congress to cut siation. Dr. Hohman said in part: "Seafaring has long ranked as the men on the beach, their fami­ fit, to help him purchase gifts for back on these services as "unnec­ lies and friends. Some of the din­ his family and friends. This bonus essary" and devote the funds saved one of the most dangerous occupa­ ners were given in the hall while had been paid to these men every to missile production and a bal­ tions in the world, both in . terms of accident and of disease. Numer­ those halls without facilities pro­ year since the Welfare Blan began anced budget. En-route to Puerto Rico, the SIU Secretary-Treasurer Paul ous major causes, ranging from vided meals in hotels and restau­ in 1950. storms and exposure to sudden SlU-manned Claiborne picked up rants. changes of climate and unsanitary some unexpected cargo when a Over 450 Seafarers and their conditions in foreign ports, explain Navy jet plane ditched a half mile families enjoyed their Christmas why the average seaman spends an from the ship east of Great Inagua Day dinner in the headquarters uncommonly large proportion of Island. The incident took place on cafeteria. Mobile reported over 250 hLs working lifetime in hospitals December 16. persons filled the snack bar there and in various stages of convales­ Despite heavy rain and eight to for their, holiday meal. Similar cence. Coupled with the fact that ten-foot swells, a lifeboat gang turnouts • were reported in Balti­ NEW ORLEANS—Substantial increases in benefits paid he is usually away from home from the Claiborne had Lt. Com­ more, New Orleans and other ports. Although the complete figures under provisions of the Health and Welfare Plan of the SIU's when requiring medical attention, mander E. Holmgaard aboard Harbor and Inland Waterways Division went into effect Janu- this high incidence of accident and within 45 minutes. disease obviously demanded spe­ Approved by the^ Commander Holmgaard had run ary 1. consideration. Consequently out of fuel in the storm when he HIWD Welfare Plan Trustees which has been in existence for cial Congress long ago provided at their January 1 meeting, only a year and a half. The plan chain of special Marine Hospitals broke through some overcast and spotted the ship. Captain Donald benefit features are: became effective June 1, 1956. (now incorporated into the Public E. Bolhuis ordered the boat crew ^Elimination of the $50< deduc­ The Increased benefits apply Health Service) . . into the water as the plane ditched. tible provision on hospital benefits. only to cases occurring on or after The 1957 ^udget was the first The pilot got off a flare enabling • Increase in the death benefit January 1, 1958, J. Michael Early, time injseveral years in which the administrator of the plan, said. For hospitals were given a full ap­ the boat crew to spot him, pick from $2,000 to $3,000. . A Brotherhood of Marine Engi­ The increases represented sub­ example, the increased hospitaliza­ propriation without organized op­ him up and transfer him to the neers' delegation headed by BME stantial gains for SIU-HIWD men, tion benefit will not apply to hos­ position from the Bureau of the ship. The Claiborne had difficulty get­ President Ray McKay will attend and signified remarkable progress pital in-patients admitted prior to Budget. Prior to that, they had ting the boat back aboard in the the three-d y convention of the for the SIU-HIWD's Welfare Plan January 1. It will apply in all cases been the target of "economy" rough water but finally made it newly-formed Local 101, Marine where patients were admitted to a drives dating b'. ck to May, 1953. It Engineers Beneficial Association, hospital after midnight, December was then that Savannah was listed after heading for the lee of the island. "All in all it was a most In Cleveland next week. The new 31, 1957. successful operation," the skipper local, which will represent all Similarly, the increased death concluded, "and the crew did out­ MEBA men on the Lakes, is hold­ benefit will be paid only in those standing work in effecting the res­ ing the convention January 6 cases where death occurred on or cue and handling the ship during through 8 to draft an organizing afterjanuary 1, 1958. this critical period. The man most program and get its local machin­ SIU membership meet­ The SIU-HI^ Welfare Plan pleased was Commander Holm­ ery set-up. also provides for payment of a $3 gaard." ings are held regularly The BME's attendance at the meeting is part of the MEBA-BME every two weeks on Wed­ daily hospital benefit to SIU-HIWD meff confined to a USPHS hospital, ALBANY—The New York State agreement to cooperate on organiz­ Registration Of ing projects in line with the even­ nesday nights at 7 PM in, a $200 maternity benefit, and the Labor Depturtment has predicted a following hospital and surgical ben­ all SIU ports. AH Sea­ 100,000 jump in unemployment in­ tual merger of the two organiza­ Aliens Underway surance claims this month over the tions. Also expected to attend the farers. are expected to efits: The annual registration of Up to 31 days' hospital room and 286,000 total registered in Decem­ conyention are representatives of attend; those who wish to aliens is now underway. All board at $10. a day; maximum of ber. To accommodate the increases the SIU Great Lakest District, the aliens must report their ad­ $100 for hospital extras; makimum in claims, the Department is in­ dresses to the Immigration International Brotherhood of Long­ be excused should request shoremen and other affiliates of permission • by telegram of $300 for surgical fees in accord­ creasing its staff by about one-third Service during this month. the Maritime Trades Department. (be sure to include reg­ ance with a published schedule for and adding newjoffice equipment. Blanks are available at post various operations and $4 » day for However, it warned that there will Local 101 was formed through a offices and field offices of the The doctors' calls at the hospital, up to be delays in collecting claims be­ Immigration consolidation of previously-existing istration number). and Naturalization a maximum of 31 days. cause of the big boosts in layoffs Service. separate MEBA groups on the next SIU meetings will be: Hospitol and surgical, benefits in the state. Lakes. It is expected to play an General J. M. Swing, the January 8 apply to dependent wives and unThe department said that unem­ Inyni g r a t i o n Commissioner, active role in organizing in . that mairied children under 19 of SIU- ployment was on the increase, warned that aliens deliberately area when the St, Lawrence. SeaJanuary 22 . way starts functioning, HIWD men and to covered workers throughout the state with little failing to register are subject, to • February 5 7 The Seaway has a potential of themselves wb^ tjhey are hospital­ prospect of immediate improve­ severe penalties including. de. ^5,000 new jobs for-maritime work^ ; f^broqry 19 ized itt insUI^Uii^^ii-ether than^ a ment. Claims in 1.957 wwe alrqafiy ••n' running weR^'aliea^' ' i USPHS hosp|{^>'7 Dinners, Hospital Bonus Mark Sill's Christmas Navy Pilot Rescued By Claiborne 5IU-HIWD Welfare Increases Benefits Lakes Eng'r Meet Draws MTD Unions SCHEDULE OF SIU MEETINGS ; •. • See Delays In Jobless Claims - rf! I| •i I '1 7 '7 ,vl -7 �SEAFAKBRS i-' L0^ JiunuuT Si IfW Herman Cooper And %idford Lay/ Supertanker Readied For SlU Ship Co. The November 8,1957, edition of the SEAFARERS LOG carried an article entitled, "The NMU and Herman Cooper." The article dealt with what thfrLOQ called "a number of striking privileges" Mr. Cooper has been accorded in the NMU. These privileges, the article pointed out. Included freedom to p^icipate in internal union matters and to electioneer on behalf of the NMU president the right to rim a signed to perform extraordinary services vance of a case. He was asked tive, so you would have whatever column m the "NMU Pilot" in connection with the preparation why he did not draw up a resolu­ action was taken covered?" MR. COOPER. "Because the con­ dealing exclusively with seamen's for the convention and the con­ tion for Cross' ouster, since Cross was the subject of charges by duct of the board at that point was lawsuits under the Jones Act, and vention itself . . . BALTIMORE — A new super­ the privilege of having a special "I was asked by a member of Sims; or why he did not draft one in consideration of charges against tanker has been launched here for eolumn devoted to notices his law the board what I would consider for Sims' acquittal. He declared Cross." to be a fair fee ... I mentioned the SENATOR ERVIN. "So you pre­ the SlU-contracted Metro Petro­ that Sims did not ask him to do so. firm wishes to insert in the "Pilot." The LOG also noted that its sum of $24,000. There were com­ Committee members then asked pared a verdict, what was equival­ leum Shipping Company and is him why he^did not proceed with­ ent to a verdict of guilty, and being outfitted for her maiden voy­ prior announcement, in Septem­ ments of pleasure . . ." out Sim's request, as attorney for neglected to .prepare a verdict of age to take place sometime in ber, of its intentions to discuss Mr. t . not guilty? . . .^You drew up a February. "Cooper's activities, brought an im­ THE CHAIRMAN. "What was the entire international union. He was also questioned as to the resolution which was a' resolution mediate communication from Mr. the occasion for the $8,000 in cash The 32,650-ton tanker has been executive board's rapid action in anticipating in advance that the named the Atlantis. It was con­ Cooper, warning of the existence and the $16,000 check?" MR. COOPER. ". . . the prior suspending Sims a few minutes board was going to take action structed under the Maritime Ad­ of libel laws and his intent to hold the SlU accountable for anything hostility to me personally of Mr. after it had reached its conclusions against Sims . . . Why did you hot ministration's trade-out and build draw an alternative one? . . ." that was said of him—to which the Sims became Increasingly appa­ as a hearing board. program, under which American The following are a brief ex­ LOG replied it would not be dis­ rent . . ." MR. COOPER. "I think such a T-2 tankers were transferred for­ "... I told Mr. Cross I v^as most cerpts from this testimony: suaded from discussing subjects of resolution might have been pre­ eign in return for promises to build interest to its readers and would uneasy about what would happen MR. KENNEDY. "You had some pared by Mr. Sims' personal coun­ new ships. . . . particularly with respect to draw from the record for its maleofficial capacity in the hearing that sel, for all I know . . ." • The Atlantis is 630 feet long and Curtis Sims . . ." rial. was held ..." SENATOR ERVIN. "You were 90. feet in the beam. It rates at The National Maritime Union, as "... I said to Cross that I would MR. COOPER. "As general the counsel employed by the union 15,000 shaft horsepower and has a appreciate receiving my part of the LOG pointed out, is one of counsel to the union ... I acted draw up the resolutions showing 16-knot cruising spded. It was built several unions Mr. Cooper re­ the fee at that point in $8,000 in as legal adviser to the hearing to the action of the executive board, at the Sparrows Point yards of the cash and that the balance could be presents. He also represented un­ board." rather than Mr. Sims personal Bethlehem Steel Corp. til recently the Bakery and Con­ sent to me counsel, were you not?" MR. KENNEDY. . . ."I asked ". . . When I returned to my of­ fectionery Workers International you yesterday .... whether you MR. COOPER "I am, sir." Union, just expelled from the AFL- fice". . . I reported to my ... of­ had anything to do with drawing SENATOR ERVIN. "And you CIO, and a number of that union's fice manager that I had $8,000 in up these charges against Sims." cash ... I gave her the $8,000 in went to a meeting at which a deci­ local affiliates. MR. COOPER. "Yes, I did." sion was to be made and which For months, up until its ex­ an envelop^ which she put in the MR. KENNEDY. "You drew decision could have been made pulsion and the chartering of a new office safe . . ." them up?" either one way or the other. You AFL-CIO bakery union, the inter­ 4. 4. 4 MR. COOPER. "I at the request prepared the resolution to take MR. KENNEDY. "When did you national had been torn with strife. SAN FRANCISCO—A new riK of President Cross . . . and as law care of the situation if the action A clean-up faction headed by Cur­ deposit the $8,000?" tis Sims,_then secretary-treasurer, MR. COOPER. "I deposited officer for the international v/as adverse to Sims, but no reso­ tary shipping board has been in­ lution to be used in case action stalled in the Sailors Union of the raised a number of serious charges the $8,000 about two weeks ago." union . . ." MR. KENNEDY. "So you drew was favorable to Sims. Is that not against James Cross, union presi­ MR. KENNEDY. "After we con­ Pacific headquarters hall-here in up the charges or the resolutions correct?" dent. The charges dealt with tacted you?" San Francisco. The board, similar of Mr. Cross against Mr. Sims . Cross' handluig of union funds for MR. COOPER. "Yes . . MR. COOPER. "That is cor­ to the ones used in.several hMls prior to the time that the execupersonal purposes, his acceptance rect, sir." 4" 4« by the A&G District, is part of an ive board had reached its deci­ of loans from major employers MR. KENNEDY. SENATOR ERVIN. "To my mind extensive improvement program "The $16,000 sion ..." dining contract negotiations, his and $8,000 in cash, why didn't you it is sort of similar to the Lidford taking place in the SUP headquar-' 4" 4" ^ withdrawal of strike authoriza­ take this money and deposit it in Law. T oft have heard of Lidford ters building. MR. KENNEDY/ "You recognize Law'....'ltion from local unions with whom your bank account? Why did you The board is made of green and, these same employers dealt and wait until after this committee that you were wbrking for the in­ MR. COOPER. "I am unfamiliar white Incite which is lighted from ternational union and not just for similar matters. This activity started to investigate?" with that, "sir." the rear. The ships' names, com-, lead to detailed questioning of Did you give any of this cash to Mr. Cross?" SENATOR ERVIN. "Listen and pany, type of vessel and the run it" MR. COOPER. "I was working Cross by the McCellan Committee. anybody in San Francisco?" you can hear about it." is on are ilsted on the left side of For bringing up these charges, MR. COOPER. "I did not. for the international union . . ." MR. COOPER. "I wiU be happy the board. Sims was suspended from the m- Categorically t -4^ 4 not." to learn," temational on the Initiative of The Jobs are listed under the THE CHAIRMAN. "Did you draw SENATOR ERVIN. "You may various 4^ 4i 4i Cross. It was brought out that Mr. At the conclusion ratings. Each section also one up against Cross in advance?" of that day's not have heard of it, but you seem Cooper drafted the guilty verdict .testimony, the investigators MR. COOPER. "I was not asked to be familiar with it. 'I oft have has a space reserved for any re­ turned against Sims even before charges to the question of the pre-judg­ to by Mr. Sims ..." that may be necessary con­ heard of Lidford Law, how in the marks brought against Sims by Cross had ment of Sims. The following dia­ cerning the particular job. t ;t .4' morn they hang and draw, and sit been heard by the appropriate un­ logue took place: A big SUP emblem in the shape SENATOR ERVIN . . ."Did you in judgment after'." ion hearing board. oi a ship's helm and bearing the draw up an alternative one in Mr. MR.. KENNEDY. "Did yon cause . . In other words you drew Mr, Cooper was also involved in to draw or did yon draw np the Sims' favor?" a resolution in advance of .the legend, "Brothexhood of the Sea," the successful defense of Cross resolution MR. COOPER. "It was not sug­ meeting to sustain the charges pre­ is attached to wall directly above against Mr. Sims?" before a ^and jury on charges MR. COOPER. "If Lmay respeet- gested to me and I did not do so. ferred by Cross against Sims be­ the board. that Cross had assaulted members fnliy There wouM have been no occa­ fore the Executive board had had discuss the " It is. expected that similar of the Sims group. sion." boards will l>e constructed in all MR. KENNEDY. "If It is going to an opporitunity to pass on. those The evidence against Cross was SENATOR ERVIN. "Did you » SUP branches on the We^ Coast. deemed sufficient by the AFL-CIO be ar long answer, we will resume Miow*^ in advance of the meeting charges." j • MR. COOPER. "Not at all, sir. One major advantage of the-board Ethical Practices Committee to it tomorrow, MR. COOPER. "Whatever you what action the committee was go­ The suspension re'bolution which 1 is that it gives the sailors a com­ Justify the ouster of Cross. When prefer to do ... I am a little re­ ing to take?" drew related to the . charges not plete listing of the available jobs at ' the bakers international refused to luctant MR.-COOPER. "No, I did not." yet heard." a glance. It is well lighted for easy to go into what I have done actrthe union was voted out at the in terms SENATOR ERVIN. "Why did reading, and is already in great of my relationship vdth a SENATOR ERVIN. "That is last AFL-CIO convention by an you not draw them in the alternafavor with the membership. (Continued on page 15) client, whether I drew up the reso­ overwhelming majority and a new union chartered. The vote fol­ lution or did not." MR. KENNEDY. "This resolu­ lowed a recital of a lengthy list of tion is of some interest to us since Cross' misdeeds by AFL-CIO Presi­ it was drawn two days before Sims' dent George Meany. charges were heard ... If yon Mr. Cooper's questioning by the were a part then it gets to McClellan Committee dealt with be a quesdonofofthat whether you were two distinct matters involving the representing the union or repre­ Bakers and Confectioners interna­ sent Mr. Cross and being paid by tional Union. One was the man­ the union. I think it gets into your lier in which Mr. Cooper had integrity, and I think you would drafted the guilty verdict against want to answer it." Sims before Sims had been tried. MR. COOPER. "I am prepared The second was the disposition of to match my integrity to anyone." f24,00fl[ in fees, which arose out of MR. KENNEDY. "Why not an­ Mr. Cooper's defense of Cross be­ swer the question?" fore a grand jury on assault COOPER. "That may not be charges. Mr. Cooper was ques­ theMR. only way to match integrity, tioned the first day on the fund Mr. Kennedy. There are other Issue. ways." Extracts from the committee rec4" 4>,., 4" «rd follow:' The witness then was excused THE CHAIRMAN. "Let us start until the following day. When tes­ witji the whole •$24;000. What was timony was resumed the next day the committee went into the mat­ that for"/" MR. COOPER. _ ". . . there was ter of Mr. Co9per's role in draft­ ,®n introductory statement by ing resolutions calling 'for the Pi'bsldent Cross in which he indi­ ouster of Sims before Sims had cated there had been legal ex- been tried.; Mr. Cooper explained New dispatph .boqrcl at SUP headquarters is now jn.operation, ftpti^d As..fnpds his action as anticipatory, in line incurred by h; getting papers ready in adA&G headqijcvlpri,,^ It it remodelMg bpordtibh iftSan SUP Has New Shipping Board �IT-: I JantiaiT t. MM r. SEAFAKEKS LABOR ROUND-UP In an effort to brinir ita meetlnra to the membership, the United Steelworkers of America is present­ ing monthly television programs of the various activities of the union. The programs, which started on November 10, will be shown In 23 steel centers, including most of the largest cities in the country. The programs will also enable the general public "to look over our shoulder and see how a big, influencial union operates," Steelworker president David McDonald said. 1(, ^ The AFL-CIO convention has termed a strike by members of the Electrical, Radio & Machine Work­ ers against Sunbeam Corp. in San Juan, Puerto Rico, as "wholly Justified." The workers are seeking union recognition and collective bargaining rights. The resolution pointed out that the growing plocation movement among big com­ panies from the mainland to the islands is a threat to American .union standards. In Puerto Rico, wages "average fractionally over (1 an hour comparrd to plant aver­ ages of $2.80 an hour and assembly line rates of $3 an hour in Chi­ cago." The company's attitude Is taken in view of the many tax ex­ emptions and salary subsidies granted the company by the island's government. 4^ All The Brewery Workers Union, Local Nine, has become the first local union in the country to get five-week vacations for its mem­ bers. Members of the local ratified the agreement which provides for the five-week vacation after 20 years of service, with the Froedtert MaU Co., Kurth Malting Co. and the Kurth Zinn Malting Co. Wages for production workers were in­ creased from 10 to 18 cents an hour according to the shift the employee works, and more paid holidays added. Minimum salaries under the new contract will be $3 an hour for powerhouse workers, $2.90 for maintenance workers and $2.77A^ for production workers, retroactive to November 1. — ,i> 4 4 A major organizing victory was won by the United Papermakers and Paperworkers Union when the employees at the new market pulp mill of the Gulf State Paper Corp., in Demopolis, Alabama, voted in favor of representation by the newly-merged union. This plant Is considered to be the most highly mechanized pulp operation in the South. The victory was of special importance, said UPP Vice-Presi­ dent Mark Fisher, because it indi­ cates "pulp and paper workers in the South are aware of the superior bargaining benefits to be derived from affiliation with the union that has done something about labor unity in the industry." 4 4 4 Six-hundred striking employees of the "St Paul Dispatch" an^ the "Pioneer-Press" said they were preparing for a long siege and would publish their own daily tab­ loid newspapei:. The strike started last week over a failure to reach an agreement on wages and other ben­ efits in the contract between the papers and the Mailers Union. The stivers were Joined by the mem­ bers of the Typogi'aphical Union and the Newspaper GuUd. The strike paper will be published by the St. Paul unit of the Twin-Cities Guild and will come out every day except Monday. LOG Transfers^ Shipping Aid High On Congress' List WASHINGTON—The opening of a new Congress session usually stimulates a rash of speculation, investigation and proposed legislation on the US merchant marine. This year is no exception, with the hottest subject on the griddle being the whole question of the mer­ chant marine's role in theJ^ Sputnick age. plus a number of specific proposals subsidized shipping companies, Both the Senate Foreign to assist US shipping. Some of possibly in the form of tax defer­ Commerce Committee and the these proposals are holdovers from ments on new ship construction, House Merchant Marine Commit­ the last session where they Vere as well as the long-discussed pro­ tee have this item on the agenda. never acted upon. These include gram of aid to tramp shipping Senator Warren Magnuson's bills which, as before, has dubious pros­ to impose strict limits on ship pects in the eyes of Washington transfers, and to give full approval observers. to maritime hiring halls. Both of The biggiest issue, of course, is these bills have the full support of the hotly debated one—are ships the SIU and the AFL-CIO Mari­ really necessary as a defense item time Trades Department. in the hydrogen missile and space Magnuson, who is chairman of ship age. The question is being The Maritime Administration the Foreign Commerce Committee, studied by top-level Government commissions, and the Office of De­ will accept bids for the scrapping has announced that these measures fense Mobilization, for one, has re­ and other important items wili be of 11 old and damaged Libefty- on his committee's agenda, includ­ ported it favors the idea of a mer­ type vessels now in the Govern­ ing widening'Of the Panama Canal chant marine as essential for de­ ment's reserve fleets. The bids and an investigation of the impact fense purposes. Possible revision of the 1948 must be filed with the MA and the of the Military Sea Transportation Safety of Life at Sea convention Service on private shipping opera­ US Department of Commerce on tions. will come up before the House January 14, 1958. Merchant Marine Committee as a Another matter due for consid­ The ships are among 100 Lib­ eration is Government aid to non- result of the Andrea Doria sinking of 1956. erty* which will go to the scrap Another big item, in light of the pile as part of the Government's heavy run of foreign transfers in merchant marine replacement pro­ recent years, is a proposal to give gram. Under this program, new and the US greater authority over for­ faster ships are to go into active eign (that is, runaway) shipping. service with the current vessels to The fact that such proposals are be used as trade-ins. being brought up, in the view of Bids for the vessels may be made SIU headquarters, confirms charges by American citizens only. They that the US has no genuine con­ will be accepted on the condition trol over the runaways, despite that the ships, including their hulls, claims to the contrary in Wash­ engines, machinery and machinery ington. spares and all major items of Many of these Items are old fam­ equipment, will be completely iliar tunes as far as the merchant scrapped, dismantled or destroyed marine is concerned, but they have within the continental limits of been given new urgency this year the United States within 18 montjbs in light of the general reexamina­ after delivery. tion of the US defense and foreign affairs program. The SfU and other maritime unions are also vitally interested in the fate of the US PubBc Health "Service hospitals which are surei to come under attack again this year as the Administration looks around for places to do a bit of budget cutting in return for in­ creased spending on sputnick-age defense items. Scrap Liberty Bidding Opens ^1 It's An SIU Xmas In New Orleans Earnings Up In Domesfic Ship Trade WASHINGTON — Contradictory reports of the status of the domes­ tic trades have been made by the Celebrating the day at dinner in SIU hall (left) were Seafarer and Mrs. Theodore "Beau" James, with youngsters Ronald, Alden and Lynne. In center. Seafarers John Doyle, Clyde "Whitey" Lanierund their wives,-with SIU port agent Lindsey Williams and Emil Herek. At right,, Interstate Commerce Commission and the Maritime Administration. jSeafarer H. C. "Red" Muilins, a delegate in the Phillips Petroleum fleet, and his wife and daughter. Group below included Seafarer and An ICC report on the profits of Mrs. Dominie Feraci and son Jimmyi Seafarer and Mrs. Anthony S. Conti, Winnie Feraci, Richard Bergeron and Bonnie FeracL companies in this business for the period July through September, 1957, shows most companies in the coastwise and intercoastal serv­ ice picking up business over the year before. However, a survey by the Maritime Administration of In­ tercoastal shippers has found that there was a sharp drop-off in lum­ ber and steel cargoes, two of the mainstays of this service. The ICC report showed five of six coastwise companies registering gains in freight revenue. Included on the plus side were Pan-Atlantic and Seatrain. In the intercoastal trade seven companies showed gains with Calmar racking up a healthy 42.6 percent over the pre­ vious year and Pan-Atlantic also on the upside. American President Lines and Isbrandtsen were the Seafarers who volunteered ps cooks and waiters for the dinner losers. aeft) Included a to r) Patrick Oh>, Martino De Salvo, M. R. "SootPacifio Coast coastwise service, tie" Klbg, Stafford Hembree, H. Greeo, A. McDlarmld, T. "Beau" consisting mostly of barge lines^ jam(», patrolman Ray Vaughan, I. Ilenos, dispatcher Herman Trcx- showed mostly decreases except for elair, Ed. Taylor, H. Heisch and A. Veroher. The dinner menu is the Coastwise Line and the Cana-" POlrtBd. ; diata PkClfic' ' ComjlRny. i , • . i 1I �Janawry S. IfSI SEAFARERS XOC Ya«e 45is ^Don't Regulate My Funds', Boss Cries " Just as on the national level employer groups are fighting I legal controls, over management-operated we^are fimds, re­ presentatives of insurance companies and management are lutting up the same kind of j - pu , . beef against proposed state to pass a bill for control of aR j welfare and pension funds were legislation. The New York State Banking blocked by employer interests. The and Insurance Departments held two state departments intend to | public hearings on proposals to sponsor such legislation this year.] bring welfare and pension funds In addition, the State Insurance operated exclusively by manage­ Department announced that it will ment, or by unions exclusively, un­ expect all insurance companies to der state supervision. conform to a new code of ethics in j At present joint union-manage­ dealing with group insurance. ment funds, such as that operated The code is aimed principaUy at I by the SIU Welfare Plan, are re­ excessive commissions as well as quired to post financial reports payments to individuals for arrang- | with the state. Management-oper­ ing groiip insurance contracts with ated funds, comprising the bulk of insurance companies. The code sets up a scale of max- j auch enterprises, are exempt. When the public hearings were imum commissions which would held, banks, Insurance companies drop percentage - wise as the I and industry spokesmen were near- amount of the premium went up. unanimous In opposing any regis^ation and financial reporting on their part, claiming thfit all their funds are administered "legiti­ mately" and do not need to report to the state. The state agencies have pointed out that joint union-management funds total 960 with total assets of $200 million. By comparison the total assets of all funds are $9,700,000,000, showing that funds in which unions are involved are a WASmNGTON—AFL-CIO Pres- | very small proportion of the over­ ident George Meany has charged all total. the Commerce Department with I In 1956, and again in 1957, efforts creating "a false impression of cor­ porate profits" to the tune of $3-$4 billion. Meany said that corporate profit figures published by the depart­ ment were way understated by fail- | ing to take into account revised procedures for fast tax writeoffs by manufacturers. The department continued to stand by its figure, BOSTON^—Shipping snapped out however. of its slump in this area as seven Fast tax writeoffs and deprecia- | vessels, four of them paying off and signing on, hit the port during tion allowances have been a storm center for some thne as an un-| the period. warranted Government subsidy for One vessel, the Northwestern big business. The fast tax witeoffs Victory (Victory Carriers), took on were first permitted at the start of | 22 men alone. As she did not call the Korean War to help get de­ for the men until the Saturday she fense production rolling again and paid off, there was some difficulty had been continued as an aid for in finding enough class "A" and aU new plant construction. New I "B" men to man her. ship construction benefits in the The other three vessels paying same" manner. off and signing on during the last The current rise in unemploy- j two weeks were the-Pan Oceanic ment and layoffs throughout the| Transporter (Penn. Nav.); feents Fort and the Government Camp country at a time when corporate prices continue going up already I (Cities Service). The Steel Worker (Isthmian), has (government economic plan­ Robin Good^ellow (Robin) and the ners on the run. The false profit picture charged by Meany would | Cantigny (Cities Service) caUed serve to show a wider gap than into the area for servicing. ever between profits and Jobs. There were a few minor repair and painting beefs on. the Govern­ ment Camp, but they were straight­ ened out by the patrolman. Big Go's Make More Than US Admits: Meany X f 11 w • hfe' If: i: 1-V-" E- r:. Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seafarers who have taken the series of inoculations required for certain foreign voyages are reminded to be sure to pick up their inoculation cards from the captain or the pimser when they pay off at the end of a voyage. The card should be picked up by the Seafarer and held so that it can be presented when sign­ ing on for another voyage where the "shots" are required. The Inoculation card is your only proof of having taken the re. quired shots. Those men who forget to pick up their inoculation card when they pay . off may find that they are required to take all the "shots" again when they want to sign on for another such voy­ age.' Lk. Charles Has 'Boom' LAKE CHARLES—Shipping was | booming for the last two weeks in this port as many of the brothers got off their ships to enjoy the holidays with their familief' at home. There was a shortage of "A" and "B' cards here In the port so some of the Jobs were filled by Houston while others were taken by "C" cards. Calling into this area during the past period were the Fort Hoskins, Council Grove, Bents Fort, Chi-1 wawa. Royal Oak, Winter HiU, Cantigny, Bradford Island and{ the CS Baltimore (Cities Service); the Val Chem (Heron); Petro Chem I (Valentine) and the Del Santos! (Mississippi). This spurt of activity, said Leroy ] Clarke, port agent, will be short Uved since the holidays are over and most of the men who got off will be back in 'the hall looking for J: fill ^ J ^ I » 1 ' iiiiiiillllp 'I 1« I fSS!isS;S;SfS®^^ iiiiliiil Seven Vessels Pep Up Boston \\ ' J iii k . 'Mm Tidy 'Em Good housekeeping Is on Invaluable safety asset all^ over the ship, and the storerooms are no exception/ Cases left on the deck, boxes stacked awry on th# shelves con breed ln{uries, especially when the motion of the ship is token into account. Just trying to get at ^mething on the shelves con lead to mqshed fingers and painful bruises if coses are In disorder. Stock them neatly and stock them securely. It's |ust OS easy to do it the right way, and it's a lot safer. IS a J �ruunr S. itM v SEAFARERS YOUR DOUAR'S WORTH Seilarer's Glide Ti. Better Baytii^ By Sidney Margoliug Inflation's Not Dead Yet Your family should prepare for higher living costs again In 1958. The Inflation of 1956-7 barely had leveled off this vi^inter when a new Inflation started boiling up, largely the result of a sudden Jump in wholesale food prices. Last January this department had estimated living costs would rise 2-2Vi percent in 1957 before prices leveled oft in the fall. The actual rise turned out to be 2.4 percent. This year's boost in living expenses is likely a be smaller, in the neighborhood of Y4 percent, before prices level off ogain next fall. But before that leveling-off is reached, you will be pa.'ing a new all-time record bill in the late summer or early fall of 1958. Significantly, the rise in unemployment .has marched almost side by side with the rise in prices, in fact, has moved a little faster. By last October industrial employment had fallen four percent from the high of December ,'56. This will be a year to make every dollar you spend bring home as much as possible in goods, both to protect your own family's living standard, and help fight encroaching unemployment. The recent price rises have been largely a manufacturers' and processors' inflation. Prices of basic raw materials actually have fallen and by fall had dropped to the lowest point in 7V4 years. The big problem this year will be food costs. Within recent weeks, the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale-food index Jumped flve percent to reach the highest level in two and a half years. IN FOOD, this will be M year to use more pork and poultry, less beef and veal. You'll eat chicken more often on weekdays, principaUy broil­ ers which will be in heavy supply, but fewer beef roasts and steaks. Beef will be scarcer this year. Some cuts already are flying dollar-apound price tags. Eggs will be expensive this winter too. In buying pork, the New York Extension Marketing Service points out that the proportion of lean in different cuts varies considerably. Here is a table the market service prepared ahowing actual costs per pound of lean at typical recent prices: Lean Price Lean Cut Meat Lb. Cost Blade steak 84% $ .45 I fl4 Boston butt 84 .49 .58 Picnic 61 .39 .64 Spareribs ...••••«••••*59 .53 .90 Ham (butt) 63 .57 .90 Loin roast ............67 .63 .94 - ' Center chops 67 .79 1.18 Lamb is cheapest in winter. Here too consider the cost of the lean. Leg of lamb is most lean' followed by shoulder chops, loin chops and breast. But because of the wide difference in retail prices of these cuts, breast of lamb is generally cheapest for the amount of lean, fol­ low^ by leg, shoulder chops and loin chops. Citrus and other fresh fruits are relatively cheap this winter. Frozen fruits, berries and Juices will offer consumers better values because of heavy supplies. Higher Payments IN CARS, for the first time, new car buyers Will have to meet higher mont|ily payments. The price hike on 1958 models averages 4 percent. Up to now, the annual boost In car prices since 1947 had been made painless by a stretching out of pay­ ments from 24 months to 36. One trade expert reports that a car buyer who paid $700 down on a $2,000 car in 1947 and owed a bal­ ance of $1,300, was able to pay off at $54 a month for 24 months plus finance and insurance charges. By '57, the price had risen to $2,800, but with 36 months to pay a bal­ ance of about $1,900, the pay­ ments were only about $53 a month plus finance charges. But . now, the price has gone to $2,900, t and the payments will be about ^ $61 plus charges. At the same time the finance charge has Jumped both because of the higher car price and the longer" terms. The finance charge, exclusive of insurance, on the typi­ cal 1947 balance repaid in two years was $156, but the 1958 balance repaid in 36 months requires a^ fee of $360 or more. Finance companies report used cars are priced the lowest in two years. The dealers are taking the beating for the latest new car price Jump. IN HOUSES, financing wiii still be a problem in 1958. The slightly easier money market has dampened lenders' hopes that mortgage rates would go to seven percent in 1958. They insist they won't be cut from the present level of 5% to six percent. The rise in mortgage interest has been one of the worst Jolts. A fam­ ily that got a $10,000 mortgage at four percent five years ago, paid back $52.79 a month, exclusive of taxes, on a 25-year loan, for a total of $15,837. A family that undertakes the same mortgage at 6 percent in 1958, will pay $64.44 a month for a total of $19,332 in - principal and Interest. Rents and prices of houses will be firm to higher in 1958 as building starts in 1958 remain imder the mililon-a-year mark. CLOTHING will cost a little more in 1958. Some shoe manufactur­ ers have raised prices for spring. Save by shopping the January shoe sales and clothing clearances to fill in family needs. This is the month men's coats are cleared at sharply reduced prices. Women's OrlonDynel coa s have been cut again and will be at their lowest in: prices hi LOG Paff« SevMi UK Ship,Transfer Ban Stalled By US Position, British Imply . LONDON—A proposed curb on the transfer of British ships to runaway flags is appar­ ently stalemated by US inaction on this issue. ^ The British government has rejected the suggestion of a Labor Party member that it take the lead in banning transon vessels of the bona fide marl- have the worst safety performance fers to flags of convenience. time nations to protect their ships, records siirce the ships are under­ A Ministry of Transport of­ crews and cargoes. For this reason, manned, often by inexperienced ficial told Hector Hughes, the runaway ships generally are far crews, and are seldom subject to Labor member, that "a unilateral less costly to operate. They also safety inspections. ban by the United Kingdom would have little or no effect unless agreement could be reached with the other major maritime countries to follow our lead." He added A good ship's delegate is easily accommodating brothers on tho pointedly: "I see little prospect of securing such agreement." recognized by the manner in which vessel, Homen said. He was always he keeps the ship willing to fix fuses, plugs, lights The Transport Ministry state­ in top shape. The and fans at any hour, and in addi­ ment was an obvious reference to crew of the Del tion to which, "he makes one swell the US, which has the largest pool Oro wish to ex­ shipmate." Hugart has been per­ of surplus ships in the world and forming miracles press their ap­ has shown little reluctance to curb preciation of the with Just a few their sale despite the effect on the bucks in keeping time and effort remaining US merchant fleet. a well stocked li­ put into that po­ Proposals for restrictions on trans­ brary on board at sition by D. A. fers have been stalemated in Con­ all times. "This Ramsey. The re­ gress for several sessions. ^ has been one of port from the Ramsey ship was very the best kept li­ A bill introduced by Sen. War­ braries ever seen ren G. Magnuson last year to concise, "The ship is coming in for on this vessel." impose strict limits on US trans­ payoff very clean. There were no Besides the ef­ fers never got beyond the com­ beefs, no logs and no disputed Hugart forts of G a t e s mittee hearing stage, although a overtime." This has been the r^ new effort is expected to try imd port throughout the entire trip, and Hugart, mention must be given to the cartoons drawn by Moose, bring the measure out this session; they said. the 12-8 AB watch. Besides there ^ $ i. The hili got the endorsement of were always plenty of tall stories Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, It was just one big family on but conflicting Defense Depart­ the Omar E. Chapman according to from the fishermen aboard, who, while keeping us supplied with ment statements^ on the transfer John Horn e n, some 900 pounds of fish. Just never program as a part of US merchant ship's delegate. seemed able to bring in that "big marine policy kept it bottled up. Everything ran one." The British statement indicated smoothly with that a UK ban on transfers would both the old man be ineffective since owners of and the chief runaway fleets could still obtain engineer well tonnage elsewhere, in'cfuding the pleased with the US. It pointed but that the ban trip. There wffre would thus work to the disad­ no beefs to re­ vantage of British shipowners who port and all of Homen wanted to get rid of second-hand the repair- lists tonnage. have been completed. Special men­ Ships under the registries of tion must go to Jack Gates, deck Panama, Liberia, Honduras and engineer, and Chester Hugart, TANGIER—A binge in Oran, Costa Rica enjoy virtually un­ ship's treasurer for the fine Job limited freedom from taxation, they have been doing to keep northern Algeria, turned into a safety and manning standards and peace and harmony among the men. five-month hitch in the French other regulatory devices imposed Gates has been one of the most Foreign Legion and ended in a fantastic 500-mile escape hike across the North African desert, according to a story told by two merchant seamen. The two men. Van Lester Hollis of Oklahoma City and Raymond Rouse of Philadelphia, told the American counsel in Tangier that they got a skinful while their Swedish vessel was in Oran. NEW YORK—The membership has again given a vote of The nextcargo morning, they claimed, thanks for a job well done to the gang on the Robin Line they found themselves in the For­ ships. The SIU has already won six of the seven Robin IJne eign Legion and on their way to Sidi Bel Abbes, the legion training ship elections. The remaining-* — one, on the Robin Hood, is ex­ transit during the past period. center. pected to be held by January There were also four ships going The legion was not a picnic ac­ 9th. into temporary lay-up during the cording to Hollis. The training was Shipping held up very well for period. They were the Kathryn "tougher than our marines," the "A" seniority men during the past and Edith (BuU), Armonk (NJ Ind.) World War H veteran said. With two weeks. Some of the Jobs hung and the Lawrence Victory (Missis­ rifles and 50 pound packs they were marched miles in the broiling on the board for two or three calls sippi). African sun to "toughen them up." before finding takers. The vessels paying off were the There were 24 vessels paying off, Steel Apprentice, Steel Worker, The pair decided to take up the one signed on and IF^were in Steel Maker, Steel Chemist (Isth­ offer of Algerian nationalists who said they would aid recruits to get mian); Elizabeth, Kathryn, Edith out of the country. With 20 other (Bull); Seatrain's Louisiana, Savan­ legioneers, their story goes, they Use Only One nah and New York; Bradford Is­ walked out of the fort and into land, Fort Hoskins, CS Baltimore Saida where the nationalists sup­ Mail Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ (Cities Service); Maxton (Pan-At­ plied them with civilian clothes ing slow payment of monies due lantic); Morning Light, Fairlahd and food. They started their trek from various operators.in back (Waterman); Alcoa Puritan, Roam- at night, they said, in order to wages and disputed overtime er, Pegasus (Alcoa); Robin Trent, avoid the intense heat and the Riff should first check whether they Robin Locksley, Robin Goodfellow Arabs who are friendly to the have a protker mailing address (Robin); Coe Victory (Victory Car­ French. After a month's wandering they on file with the company. SIU riers); Ocean Deborah (Ocean . headquarters officials point out Transport). The Robin Locksley reached Tetuan, where they tele­ that reports received from sev­ (Robin) was the vessel signing on. phoned the American consulate, at The in-transit ships were the Tangier. They said the consul re­ eral operators show checks have been mailed to one address Almena, Gateway City, Chickasaw. ported the incident to Washington' while a beef on the same score Arizpa (Pan-Atlantic); Azalea City, and would arrange passage home. • Newspaper accounts failed to lis sent from another, thus cre­ Wild Ranger, Morning Light (Wat­ ating much difficulty in keeping erman); Losmar, Pennmar (Cal­ mention what kind of hard stuff mer); Wang Ranger (Denton) and they sell in Oran that was respon­ accounts straight.. fi*. the Michael (Carrrfs); ' " ' sible for all this. ii-J-i'".'I One Drink In Gran, 5 Months In The Legion? SlU Votes 'Well-Done' For Robin Line Crews • V?>1 ' 'S - I •' 1 »'•' i 1 ••.P. Ml •^1 A �• • •_ VY • .rT".-.f-r^*-T",; thff« Etgkt SEAFARERS • LOG Jamunr S. 195t H.: ^ ' -I- '^•r, 'ii^; •-;'. . - • m ; r- ''' ,-F' • \ "• ^ • V-'> A • "y ,.-A ' :-j . --.i^ • /- -••• »"•• "r •V-. '-., ' •• •' •',*. • u'n • ^ i. . • ' '••" •' -• ' V- --: •:••••; -o-v,. .--;• ..'-4- ?••'•..' • • • • :L'"- 'Z• ' S"*. Ifei' • O I^N-- NE OF SEVERAL HiWD-eontracted deep sea and harbor tug operations, the G&H tow­ ing fleet rates as the biggest com­ pany In the Gulf. It has exclusive harbor towing rights in several Texas ports including the HouistonGalveston area, operates a deepsea towing service and has a big stake in tidelands oil marine serv­ ices. Members of the SlU Harbor and Inland Waterways Division man the 26-boat fleet in all ratings un­ der the top contract in the Texas area. Pictured here are a few aspects of the G&H operation and some of the HIWD crewmembers who man the tugs. 6'f- --. -Fv in •f-,: SA.. 1^": |i^^- &i--'y' '(•-.f!/^r': vy'' Tug Grampus is shown helping toW tidelands ofl drilling platform. G&HTOWING § •: i^'-. iV; SIU-HIIVD in the Oulf/• 11- h \&r' Juno bj Ed Va Mmt-yy: n y, '• ..•-'A.*" >.• VlC-". - • '•" 'i \ li - Sifr^ ' l:f}Sf ,...yy:r':'sy IMly Shifting ship in Galveston harbor, G&H tug Laura Haden puts her snout against vessel to push her out Into stream. , •?• -A \ ^ .-!=.,.5srfAi,'.' . ,ji , • • •• • Tugs Messenger (left)' and Juno are shown heading into G&H's terminal. Sllf Assistant Sec'y-Treas. Bob Mattheivs discusses beef with "Sonny Cocek, mate (1), Capt. Russell Bryant (r) of Mastersoa .;^ ynyMZi " la �V • .1. •si \ 'ri ^1 r f- I r , c gang Is (I to r) A. Reed, R. EUiott, B. R. WlHlams. enthuysen, • / Masterson crewmembers are (1 to r) E. T. Squires, Peter Ryan, John McCain, Captain J. B, Niday poses In wheelhouse of tug Marathon in Houston harbor. m SrSS? # cobk, tate . (1) and RT. tftosdrij^fefe df the'Marathon. . �Pur* Tea SEA FA RE Its jKmrnrr », IIM fOC Sill Drive In Baltimore Spreads, Await New Vote BALTIMORE—Organizing is still going on in high gear in the unorganized harbor operations here. One petition has been filed with the Labor Board and is awaiting official rul­ ing, and efforts are continuing in two other companies in the bray (Robin); Pennmar (Calmar) and the. Morning Light (Water­ harbor. man). December 11 Through December 24 Registered Eng. St«w. Bns. Staw. Tetal Total Total B B A B A B Rag. Boston 12 2 5 *8 7 2 25 11 36 New York 88 21 75 62 14 225 7 42 267 Philadelphia 16 11 2 2 4 1 31 5 36 "Nearly every man in the mari­ Baltimore ^. 80 21 24 36 45 17 171 62 233 time industry in this port carries Norfolk 6 6 6 5 10 3 21 15 36 seaman's papers in his pocket," Savannah 25 20 8 4 4 3 53 11 64 reports Earl Sheppard, port agent. Tampa 18 6 10 2 4 1 34 7 41 Since they are unorganized, they Mobile 24 5 29 5 22 3 75 13 88 represent a threat to the security New Orleans 63 39 8 39 17 9 141 34 175 of every union member, not only Lake Charles' 23 IS 9 12 5 11 43 32 75 Houston 22 13 in times of strikes, but in helping 16 12 11 4 46 32 78 Wilmington .^ 23 15 6 24 20 10 58 40 to keep wages and conditions at a 98 San Francisco 23 15 10 15 7 8 S3 25 78 low level." One bull in a pasture may be Seattle 7 13 7 12 10 14 30 33 63 Shipping for the port was fair more than enough to handle, but eng., Eng. OOCk Staw. Btaw. Total Total Total B A B B A BBag. during the past period. Home­ think of the problems of the gang Total 440 3*4 252 128 141 93 1006 362 13M town boys taking to the beach for aboard the Golden Bear with 146 the Christmas and New Year's of them aboard. The SIU Jacific Shipped holidays account for the large District-contracted ship is carrying Port Dock Deck Eng. Staw. stew. stew. Tetal Tetal Tetal Tet)4 A B C a A A c ShiB. number of men on the registration a cargo of prize Santa Gertrudis Boston 13 5 1 6 5 0 A 1 10 20 10 < 40 list. All hands on the beach had stock, including 135 heifers, to the New York 61 18 6 45 19 16 214 10 5 45 5 151 47 a fine time at the annual Christ­ Philippines from Texas. (What do Philadelphia 13 2 2 8 0 1 0 0 12 33 2 38 3 mas party. .7. 44 27 9 19 20 3 11 .4 18 82 57 16 155 those 11 extra bulls do to pass the Baltimore Norfolk 8 4 1 3 7 4 15 2 2 2 13 There were fiftMn ships paying time of day?) 33 5 3 0 0 0 3 7 1 1 1 1 1 2 10 off during the period. They were The Santa Gertrudis cattle are Savannah 9 3 0 ^6 4 2 0 2 21 8 11 34 2 the Emilia (twice), Jean (Bull); well-known for their durability Tampa 21 6. 0 3 10 9 6 13 1 18 44 69 7 Venore, Baltore, Oremar, Marore, under temperature extremes and Mobile New Orleans 36 16 0 25 8 2 31 9 5 92 33 7 132 Cubore, Chilore, Feltore (Ore); their ability to forage on scanty Lake Charles 17 12 0 10 8 •2 1 14 34 6 28 8 70 Chickasaw (Pan-Atlantic); Losmar pasture. Houston 30 24 0 30 0 20 22 0 14 72 68 0 140 (Calmar); Royal Oak (Cities Serv­ 1 0 0 0 To meet the problem of handling Wilmington0 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 3 ice); The Cabins (Terminal Tank­ so much beef on the hoof, the Pa­ San Francisco 2i 7 0 0 15 7 8 0 47 0 14 0 61 8 10 ers) and the Steel Maker (Isth- cific Far East Line installed a new Seattle 10 '7 2 10 25 0 13 0 38 Deck Deck Oaefc Eng. •-» St«w. stew. stew. Tetal Total Tetal Tetal Bng. m-an). type of "portable corral." The B A C B c SMB. Total/.............. 288 125 19*^ 175 122 76 29 175 28 The Bethcoaster (Calmar); Jose- corrals consist of vans capable of 638 323 76- 1037 fina (Liberty Nav.); Baltore, Na- carrying six bulls or heifers, with With no marked holiday pile-off to give things a lift, SIU shipping just inched forward rore, Cubore, Chilore, Oremar, detachable water and feed troughs, Feltore (Ore); Chickasaw (Pan- sliding doors and detachable side during the past two weeks. A slight rise was recorded from the 1,037 jobs dispatched; re­ gistration climbed also, to 1,368. Atlantic); Seastar (Traders), and partitions for ventilation. the Steel Maker (Isthmian) paid The coming period is expected "• Each vw with its cattle load inside can be lifted to the deck by to show improvement ail along the day season, is the spur for future off. The in-transit vessels included ship's gear. The partitions are line, with a number of ships due job activity in sight. the Alcoa Puritan, Roamer, Ran­ then opened and the water and to come out of lay-up and take full This period was marked by an ger, Runner (Alcoa); Robin Mow­ feed troughs attached. crews. This, rather, than the holi- overall decline in shipping by class A men, and an "A" registration that went over the l.OOO-mark for the first time since July. The Virglal Coash class B registration was unchanged Please contact Rosc-oe Milton, from the last report. However, as 1933 July Street, Houston 16, the class' A shipping fell off. the Texas. "B" and "C" job figures went up. Placido Dias Six ports managed to show a Contact Jane JBrannon-McMas- ' shipping increase over the previ­ ter,"attomey at law, 317 Stovall ous period, with no particular Buildipg, Tampa, trend evident. These were Boston, Professional Florida. She Is holding legal pa­ Philadelphia, Tampa, Lake Charles, pers- for you. Houston and San Francisco. The J. B; Dyess falloff involved New Yorkr"SaltiThe gear you left aboard the more, Norfolk, Mobile, Wilming­ ton and Seattle,, while Savannah Topa Topa is being held by Rail­ and New Origans stayed where way Express in New Orleans. Clande Woo^ow Pritchett they were before. Your father is very anxious. to • There- was some shake-up in shipping by seniority groups, par­ hear froni you. Please contact him ' at 22 East Tab Street, Petersburg, ticularly for class A men. The Virginia. class A proportion of the total Georgios Spiliotis, FWT shipping fell off to 62 percent. In Please get in touch with your turn, class B accounted for 31 per­ cent of the total, and class C for 7 mother as soon as possible. Joseph C. Lewallen, AB percent. Houston and the West Get in touch with Russell Bran­ Coast ports continued, as they have for several weeks, to ship no class don, Cities Service Oil Company, Hfaashi Kageyama, head of Japan's^ Group of visitorB represrating ' JspB17 State Street, New York City. C men\t alL seamen's union and Mnnemichl Suwa nese seamen's imd shlpbnildiiig wdoiiB Jo Jo Touart The foUowing is the forecast of the same organizaHon study headget mndonm on SIU registrattons proJohn Mack port by port: Boston: Fair .. . New anarters filing set-np. cednre. Your gear left on the Jean LaYorii: Good .. . Philadelphia: Fair , . Baltimore Good . .'. Nmrfolk: fitte has been sent to the Seattle Fair . . . JSavimnah: Good . . . SIU haU. Tampa: Fair . Mobile: Good .. , Harold Kammet New Orleans: Fair . . . Lake Please contact your father at 966 Charles: Good . . . Houston: Good Southern Boulevard, Bronx 59, NY. ... Wilmington: Slow ... San Fran_ F. Landry eisco: Fair II. . Seattle: Fair. S. Manard has your hat you left" in headquarters cafeteria Christ­ mas Day and believes you have his. Contact him at CLoverdale 6-5079. - Paul Essman, Doyle Essman Get in touch with Mr, Emilio For obvious reasons the LOG Rodriguez, 1326 Caledonia Hotel^ cannot print any letter or Seattle, Washington. It is urgent. Robert Creel other Communications sent in Please contact Perry M. Pederby Seafarers unless the author signs his name. Unsigned sen in care of the headquartersanonymous letters wUl only hall. He is holding something for wind up in the waste-basket. you. Louis Mayberger , It circumstances justify, the Sen Koga, repraenting Japanese shlpywd workers, examines model of Cities Service tanker. Others Your sister, Mrs. Rose Klein LOG will withhold a signature in group Included representatives of electrical workers and coal miners. They ar# on tour spdhsoied wants yoq to contact her at 1268 ; on request. ^ratfordl. ^vei Port Dock OOCk Golden Bear Haul? Just Lofsa Bull *1' teri fe''' fp'.' •' • fgr--iv'" . 1 1^- •fe. '" 1 40MBrinK(l»1IIS Sign Name On LOG Letters • .11.. • �".•Tw;- --'icrrT'.-^.^jf^'S • i y-^yir-.r-f^j . B;'N*''ji-.: -= .' SEAFARERS famurr i, ItSS "-faf Klcfca LOG i' •• '^' 'Needed By The US' CP Drops ^Worker'; Fronts To Fore? The "Daily Worker," long-time mouthpiece for the Com­ munist Party, has been voted out of business by the Party's national executive committee. If the "Worker" ceases to pub­ lish as voted by the committee, that would leave the job maintain their position with far more success than the Party itself. of carrying on Communist The "Worker" had a difficult propaganda programs to other pub­ time of it trying to cover up for lications not directly identified the crushing of the Hungarian with the Party. However, there is rebellion as some of its own staff a report that a new Party publica­ members and many case-hardened Party members bombarded it with tion is in the offing, as yet un­ critical letters attacking the Soviet named. action. Since then, many of these The closing of the "Worker" re­ people have dropped out, leaving portedly is the result of a split in the Party to the hard-core Stalinists the Party which dates back approx­ led by Foster. imately to the 1956 rebellion in One direct result of the Hun­ Hungary. The actions of Russian garian rebellion was a very sharp armed foi'ces in tliat rebellion decline in the financial support for proved too much for many Party the "Worker" which forced it to cut members to stomach and the Party to four pages recently. has been wracked with strife ever back since. William Z. Foster, a long-time Stalinist and Party wheel from way back in the founding days, is trying to whip'the domestic Communists back into line in a 100 percent en­ dorsement of whatever the Soviet Union does. Foster's opposition is LAKEWOOD, NJ—Eggs with a being led by John Gates, editor of the "Dally Worker." Gates sees a union label are the announced show of outward Independence objective of the New Jersey Coun­ from Moscow as the only way the cil of Poultry Farmers Coopera­ Communist Party can survive in tive Unions, AFL-CIO, recently organized here. the US. The group is now establishinjK a The vote to shut down the "Daily Worker" is being generally inter­ monthly newspaper to promote preted as an act of the Foster fac­ the sale of union-produced eggs tion to punish Gates. However, the and poultry. In the hopes of drum­ "Daily Worker" has been on the skids for some time. The climate being what it is, some observers see the move as a Party tactic to con­ centrate Its energies in front groups, because very few want to be openly associated with Commu­ nist Party activities these days. . The "independent" line being talked up by the Gates faction could be a useful delaying, action, with the Party lying low and wait­ ing for the day it is appropriate to sing Moscow's praises again. It is pointed out that groups who fol­ low the Party line, but are not openly associated with the Com­ munists, have been more success­ ful in bucking the anti-Conununist tide. Prominent among them are outfits like the International Long­ shoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, headed up by Harry Bridges, who have been able to Poultry Group In Union Bid I; El ri SlU Victim Xrifical' In BarShoofing The recent—and still continuing—debate in some quarters in Washington over the necessity for a strong merchant fleet has ignored some obvious and persistent trends in the US economy. That trend is simply that the United States, with each passing day, depends more and more heavily on out­ side sources of supply to keep its economy going. And as that dependence grows, the need for more adequate merchant shipping grows with it. ^ The day has long since gone when this country could sup­ ply all the oil and iron it needs for its own uses. Domestic production of those two commodities, plus a very lengthy list of equally essential items like copper, tin, rub­ ber and bauxite (the raw mat^ial of aluminum) must be supplemented by very heavy imports from the outside world. In fact the only critical raw material that the US is well supplied with in ample quantity is coal. Even our apparent wealth, of foodstuffs would quickly dwindle. Into scarcity if we no longer could get enough iron to manufacture farm and food-processing machinery and enough fuel oil to run that equipment. The harsh fact is that as a "have not" nation in many vital raw materials, the United States depends for its very exist­ ence on ad^uate shipping. We are not now at the status of Great Britain which as everybody knows, could not survive for more than a few weeks if its shipping was cut off. But if the US merchant marine would disappear today, this coun­ try would face such serious scarcities that there would be widespread unemjployment and a real "hair-curler" of a de­ pression to quote the former secretary of the treasury. This is among the major reasons why the need for a strong merchant marine becomes more urgent as time goes by. It would lake a foolhardy outlook indeed to rely heavily on for­ eign-flag shipping in such a situation. HOUSTON—Seafarer Raymond J. "Blackie" Arsenault is in criti­ cal condition at the Galveston 'USPHS hospital after being shot by a tavern owner next door to the SIU hall here. Arsenault suffered a severed spinal cord and other injuries in the ..shooting. According to reports in the "Houston Press," Arsenault and a chipmate from Boston were in the tavern when the shipmate fell asleep with his head on a table. Witnesses said the tavern owner, Walter R. Brightwell, ordered Ar"aenault to leave and take his sleep­ ing friend with him. Seafarer Ralph Hampson of New York, one of the witnesses, report­ ed that Arsenault protested that the sleeping seaman wasn't bother­ ing anybody, but that the tavern owner picked up a gun and started shooting. Brightwell was subse­ quently charged with assault to murder. The SIU Houston haU reported Arsenault is holding his own, but chances of full recovery are ruled out. A member of the deck de­ An interesting bit of by-play took place in {he British partment, he Uves in Lowell, Mass., parliament recently. The opposition Labor Party demanded and ships out of Boston. that the British government take action to stop transfers to runaway flags. The answer of the government was, in effect, "We can't do anything until other m'aritime nations agree to do the same in an international conference." The government spokesman was being diplomatic, but what he really was saying was, "Why should we stop transfers wheii United States shipowners are free to continue doing so?" If the US and Britain were to take joinf action in this area, it would be the start of the death-rattle for the runaways. It Temains to be seen then what action Congress will take on the MkgWt* US Responsible Notify Union On LOG Mail As Seafarers know, copies of each issue of the SEAFARERS LOG are mailed every two weeks to aU SIU ships as well as to numerous clubs, bars and other overseas spots where Sea­ farers congregate ashore. The procedure for mailing the LOG involves calling all SIU steam­ ship companies for -the itiner­ aries of their ships. On the basis of the information sup­ plied by the ship operator, three copies of the LOG, the head­ quarters report and minutes forms are then airmailed to the company agent in the next'port of calL Similarly,' the seamen's clubs get various quantities of LOGs at every mailing. The LOG is sent to any club when a Sea­ farer so requests it . by notifying the LOG office that Seafarers congregate there. As' always the Union would like to hear promptly from SIU ships whenever the LOG and ship's mail is not delivered so that the Union can maintain a day-to-day check on the accu-. ming up sympathetic support among consumers as well as among union members who handle and package their product en route to the supermarket. The group is an affiliate of the National Agricultiural Workers Un­ ion, AFL-CIO, which has been at­ tempting to enroU farmers and farm laborers in various sections of the country. Seattle On Slow Side SEATTLE—It has been a slow p^iod on the shipping side with 01^ one vessel, the Ocean Joyce (Ocean Transport) paying off and signing on during the last two weeks. There were five Vessels, the Massmar, Marymar, Yorkmar (Calmar); City of Alma and the Yaka (Waterman) In transit. AU vessels were reported eledn with only minor beefs. The men on the beach and their famlUes. enjo^ fine. Christmas dinner ilt tiib Kilowatt Restaurant -fT' ''*rt{ I �fift TirelT* *——— Wrom The SEArAREkS luuun S. I95t LOG Seai*.' STIIL VOYAOIR QiHimlan), Nov. IS—Cholrman, R. ionow Saorotary. A. Hunt. Ona man hoapltallsadi two men laid uy with flu. Dlapnta resardins elaanlns chorai. Scraan doora needed for meaa haU. Beer conflacated from foc'ala. Shlp'a fund SIS. Cook misaed ahlp. rejoined In Suei. Motion to tranafer messman becauae of Unsatiafactory aervice. New delegate elected. tlott and ha will sattte same to bast of hU ability. Ship's fund $18.39. Few hours disputed ot which will be taken care of before payoff. Coffee um to be replaced in States. Need new washing machine and new coffee um. Dinner meats to be served hot from galley. Mora care In washing of cups and glasses urged. No discrimiiution to be shown on ship. OIL MAR (Mitt.), Nov. 17—Chair­ man, R. Slough, Jr.; Saerafary, C. Dowling. Food not to be prepared too far in advance—members urged to be patient for their ordera. No beefa. Sample letters of protest re: closing of hospitals to be posted, to­ gether with names, address of Sena­ tors and Representatives. Delegate will mall letters—each man urged to OCEAN EVELYN (Ocean Trans.), Nov. 17—Chairman, P. Claary; Saere­ tary,' C. Barg. One man missed ship In Ma^a, rejoined in Formosa. Few beefs (o be taken up with patrolman. New . wringer needed. Need new washing machine. One man hospitaiIzed In Okinawa. Slilp's fund $4.23. One man missed ship in Formosa. Question of number of men required to replace tank tops to be taken up at payoff—whether ot and If all hands are required. Radio operator to post MTD news. MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Nov. 17—Chairman, W. Har­ well; Secretary, A. Spaneda. Ship'a fund $41.30. Suggestion to purchase $15 worth of magazines. All dogs need greasing: port holes on foc'sles. Each member to donate to ship's fund. ,y^"; MARORE (Ore), Nov. 17—Chairman, D. Stone; Secretary, R. Murry. One man missed ship in Bait. Ship's fund $29.02. Report accepted. Check food coming aboard—food is short. Stew­ ard claims he caimot get more food. write at least 10 letters. Ship's fund S144. Report accepted. New delegate elected. FLORIDA STATR (Fence), llov. 31— Chairman, O. Laa; Saeretary, M. Dad­ dy. Washing machine agitator to be repaired. Crew to use officer's ma­ chine In meantime. Ship's fund S15.24. Some disputed ot. Request Installation of safety cut-off switch for washing machine. Bulkhead-type mirrors requisitioned . for crew's quarters. & I I'l. I ^'" I-V. • ¥'1 STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Nov. 17—Chairman, D. Dean; Secretary, L. Guaiinltz. Awaiting water analysis. Sickness aboard. Discussion on broken tables; economy and cooperation on food surplus. KATHRYN (Bull), Nov. 30—Chair­ man, none;. Secretary, none. Every­ thing in good shape, with exception of exhaust fans In bathrooms not working. Will be taken care of this trip—mparts ordered. Report accepted. Nov. 17—Chairman, F. Cornier; Sec­ retary, M. Zelontka. Request change Ivory soap to Lifebuoy or Palmolive. Everything ship-shape. WAND ARCHER (Marine Bulk), Nov. 10—Chairman, S. Tlllatt; Secretary, L. Hail. Repair list to be submitted. One man hospitalized—^replaced. Dis­ cussion on money draws. No Ameri­ can money aboard. Master and crew dissatisfied — refer to Union to straighten company out In this mat­ ter. Motion to set up fund for ship's business—iSOc per man to start. Bath­ rooms to be' checked by engineer. Rooms to be checked for fans! ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), Nov. 10— Chairman, T. Costello; Seeretsry, J. Prastwood. Ship's fund $181,. Several hours disputed ot. Collection of $93 for brother who left ship ill. Report accepted. 'Vote of thanks to out-going delegate. New delegate elected. Dis­ cussion on Trinidad shore gang run­ ning around ship, also slamming of doora when off-watch is sleeping; un­ necessary noise. Return dirty cups to pantry. fe.. 'i'^' '• iji•i, _ Black gang members Antonio Cruz, Joe R. More and Julio Soils (top, left) take their leisure on the deck of the Emilia. L T. Knight, MM^ takes his on the beach to escape the chipping noise on the Del Sol. Photo by Jose F. Santiago. Above (left), Korean women are shown handling the chipping chores on the- deck of the Ocean Deborah. The trio at right, from the Wacosta, includes ABs Laurence Anderson, L. Stone and A1 Glassner ashore in Bremen, Germany. III:#;"';/ ,fSs L0N6VIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­ riers), Nov. 3—Chairman, W. Lewis; Secretary, R. Irlzarry. Six new mat­ tresses put aboard. Ice box doors repaired. Small repairs to be done at sea. Valves to be fixed In messroom radiator. Ship sailed messman short. Some disputed ot. New dele­ gate elected. Need replacement for steward dept. Draw to be in US dollars. e DEL ORO (Miss.), Nov. 3—Chairman, D. Ramsay; Sacratary, H. Gardes. Clean ship at payoff. No beefs, no logs, no disputed ot. New delegate elected. Ship's fund $3.68. Purchased books. Ship to lay up for strapping on completion of voyage. Report ac­ cepted. Safety meetings to be held by all depts. and delegates to be elected. Discussion on use of maga­ zines and books—to be returned to messroom. Discussion on food policy. Steward Informed crew of food policy by SIU. This has been carried out for past two voyages. Notices posted concerning same.. CHiWAWA (Cities Service), Nov. 31 —Chairman, A. Allalne. Secretary, W. Dickens, Few hours disputed ot. Re­ port accepted. New delegate elected. Suggestion that slamming of doors be discontinued and return knives to galley: men getting off ship to strip bunks and turif in soiled linen: leave rooms clean. ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), Nov. 17— Chairman, J. Ruada; Secretary, none. Some disputed ot. Repair list sub­ mitted. Keep pantry clean: extra. linen to be turned over to BR. Do not throw cigarettes in shower. MAXTON (Pan-Atlantic), Nov. If— Chalrntan, P. Cathcart; Secretary, D. Bordeaux. Contact patrolman on posting sailing board. Ship's fund $22.50. One man missed ship. Ona man getting off. ELIZABETH (Bull), Nov. If—Chair­ man, none given; Secretary, none given. No beefs, all depts. in good < shape. Bosun's room needs heat. Re­ ports accepted. Ship in good shape. SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain), Nov. 17—Chairman, J. Glenif. Secre­ STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Oct. tary, B. Williams. Ship's fund $85.04. 37—Chairman, W. MItchail; Secretary, Few hours disputed ot. Report ac­ A. Shrlmpton. Ship's fund $16.16. cepted. See patrolman about payment Few hours jlisputed ot. Request for of disputed ot. All extra and soiled mora coffeo mugs: menu to bd worded Jinen to be turned in, in order to get in good American rather than hotel full count. Suggestion to have Thanks­ French: serving ham steaks. Steward giving dinner Nov. 28 because ship asked for crew's cooperation in taking will be in port Nov. . 28. All agreed,.. linen inventory. CHIWAWA (Cities Service), Dec. S— $EATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Saatrain), Chairman, W. Tatum; Secretary, W. Nov. 34—Chairman, A. Whitmer; Sae­ Dickens. One man sick—will see doc­ retary, P. Patrick. 80 hrs. disputed tor on arrival. Deck delegate elected. ot. Report accepted. Motiou to re­ Two men getting off. Report accepted. lieve delegate oh duty to give his re­ See patrolman about fresh stores— port. New delegate elected. Sug­ eggs put aboard are spoiled. Repair gestion to have meetings oh Saturday list to be made up and submitted. night. Repair list to be made up for each dept. M V DEL CAMPD (Delta), Nov. 34— Chairman, G. Champlln; Sacratary, C. STEEL NAVIOATOR (Isthmian), Braux. New delegate elected. Ship's Nov. II—Chairman, J. McLaren; Sec­ fund $16. New secretary and treasurer retary, P. Harayo. Repair lists turned elected. Repair list to be made up ' In to captain—^repairs now being soon as possible—repairs to be made made. Steward willing to cooperate before arrival. Vdte of thanks to with crew and wants suggestions and steward dept. Return books to library beefs brought to his personal atten- after' reading. X �• t'frw^'" ;• .1 ' •",!.•••• JiiMia^ t, ItSt Urges No More Cliques On Ships To the EdttoR I have a gripe! May I present It this way? How do yoa part your hair? Is It important to your job? Do you feel it should be an ob­ ject for kidding or sarcasm from your fellow workers? Is it anybody's business but your own? Harmony among employees who work together every dAy letters To The Editor All letters to the editor for publicattbn in the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be riemed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. SttAFAREKS modern, and are ako the last word in comfort. All of the rest of the utility rooms are just as modem, which gives this, ship an extra-added look. In fact, one gets the impression he is. on a regular passenger ship,rather than a mere freighter. It's no wonder that when the crewmembers join these iships they stay on for long periods. It seems nothing is spared to retain solid comfort for the crew. Perhaps if some of that • money was channeled into a central fund to provide the crew with a health and welfare fund and a retirement plan these fleets would really be superior to ours. However, I am confident the day will come when an alliance will be reached among all the unions in the interest of fair play. Then all the brothers of the maritime industry can join hands to maintain the highest traditions of the merchant ma­ rine. H. George Horowits Pa^ ThlHeca LOC ii>eaiEion'A Each year at this time greetings Jor all SIU brothers arrive at the LOG office. Here are some of them, reprinted with thanks. ' Greetings and salutations, and a wish for a victorious and very prosperous New Year and for many years to come for our great and powerful Union. George H. Seeberger t t it ' • ' From Singapore, on our way to the Persian Gulf, greetings from a fine ship to our brother members wherever you are. SS Cities Service Miami s> Hope you all have the happiest New Year yet in 1958! "Sir Chailes" t 4« 4" Seafarer Bob Reynolds poses for a farewell pfioia witfi a group of tfie Polish Heart orphans shortly before the City of Alma left Pusan. Third from left is Mrs. Helen Kim, housemother for the 273 young­ sters sheltered at the home. I .TTI - "•^1 --.-rvl Alma Gang Plays Santa For Korean Orphanage Hearty good wishes to all hands. HaroId-"George" Horowitz ^ is very essential, especially in "Hello" to all my buddies at this the confined area alraard ship. Sees Xmas Bonus season. I wish I could be enjoying When men work together, there it with some of you but I am in the is no time for petty jealousies, A Real Assist Proving again that seamen always have a soft spot in their drydock at Savannah for repairs. taking sides or indulging in To the Editor: hearts for kids, no matter where they are, Seafarers on the /4^ i t moods. Whether you like it or While I am here at the Staten City of Alma turned out in force to help some 300 Korean - W. D. Warmack not, the men around you are Island marine hospital, I wish youngsters at the Polish Heart •* "Zalig Nieuwjaar" or Happy the men you are going to be to express my' appreciation tp Orphanage in Pusan. during one visit by Wunderlich, New Year to all members of the working with for quite a while. the SIU, its officials and all my Paul Finrow and Bob Reynolds. SIU from Rotterdam, where I am Led by ship's reporter J. F. Why not get along? brother members who helped The orphanage was started some "Big John" Wunderlich, they con­ working ashore due to illness. Personalities have no place make it possible for SIU men tributed a total of 114,000 wan time ago by Mrs. Kim, who left G. Abbema when there is a job to be done. here in the hospital to receive a plus assorted goodies to present to Poland 18 years ago and found ^ ^ t. Joining up with others to form $23 Christmas gift. Greetings also from the crews Mrs. Helen Kim, housemother of refuge in Korea from her politi­ a clique is not the answer. Ac­ It is a damn nice feeling to of the SS National Liberty and SS the orphanage located in the hills cally turbulent country. A total of cept your fellow man as you have that when misfortune has Jean Lafitte, from Ruby's Drapers above the US Army's Hialeah Com­ 273 children are sheltered at the find him; he has a right to live, you laid up, as you can relax in Bombay and the Home Hotel, pound. Gifts of chewing gum and home under church supervision. too. The Union is here'for the feeling you have a fine X^ion candy were also heaped on the kids Most of them are under the age of Lake Charles. ---, benefit of ail the men, not one to back you up when you need six. or severaL Every man should it. I am not only speaking of Although reluctant to make a have an equal part and each the Christmas bonus, but also "big deal" of their generosity. Finshould do the best job he- can. about all the 12 months in a row probably expressed the over­ Cliques are a dangerous year when I am proud and hon­ all sentiments of the crew when he thing. They are small time and ored, as all my Union -brothers commented: "Hell, what's five or petty, and lead to only one are, to belong to the SIU. As ten dollars to the*average seaman? USPHS ^SAILORS SNUG HARBOR HOSPITAI. thing: trouble! the old saying goes, it is not the STATEN ISLAND. NY STATEN ISLAND. NY I'm single, with no financial wor­ • Why do men who have the big things that count; it's the Victor B. Cooper W. Swilley P. King ries, and make good money, thanks protection of their Union -and little ones, too. USPHS HOSPITAL A. Verdemare P. Robertson to my Union. I'd spend that much NEW ORLEANS. LA. I. Sieger W. Malcewics their job indulge in petty jeal­ As has been said many times, Edward P. Avrard Leo Lang J. Reyes J. Broad on a round,of.drinks ashore." ousies and fights? If you don't we have come a long way, and William Bargone William Lawless V. CoateUetos P. Seidenberg Reynolds added that he didn't Anthony Benedict like your job, get another one. none of it happened overnight Isidore Levy S. Odegard S. SwienckoaU John W. Bigwood John Linn H. AU O. Adama "want to be a softie or a pushover Nobody but yourself is stopping or came easy. It was gained Claude Blanks Michael Muzio C. Reyes N.. Rlchia for the can-shakers, but places like you. Charles CantweU Charles Nicholson C. Anderson I.. Rhino through the years from all the Xi. pitiniTnftnB L. CarrasquUlo Faustlno Orjales R. Freeman that kind of tear you apart. You The Union is here to do a little things that have made our Thomas Caylor Jr. Peter Ortho J. Matthews W. Shaw just can't help trying to do some­ j(d} by protecting our jobs, Union strong and honored. As George Curry Milton A. Poole USPHS HOSPXTAL Winford Powed Donald Dambrlno thing for those kids." looking out for our best Inter­ the years pass along, the SIUSAN FRANCISCO. CAL. Ben Foster Ailen Ritchie ests and producing the best will continue-to become strong­ I George Aanensen C. B. Owens As a final gesture before leaving Adelin Fruge Wert A. Spencer L. A. Ready Jay C. Steele WUey B. Gates Joseph H. Berger men it can to get these jobs er, because we have whAt it Pusan, the crew even made use of Dennis Gomez Nicholas Tala Chas. J. Sincere John G. KeUy done. Why not have, the Union takes. whatever broken dunnage they had, Leon Gordon Gerald L. Thaxton Charles T. Nangle WUiiam C. Watson Lucien Theriot I.ewie A. Wilkerson Alvin Henderson send a representative aboard Wm. A. Oswinkle which is always welcomed for fire­ John W. Broad George Hobbs Peter Walsh the ships to protect each man's USPHS HOSPITAI. wood by the Koreans. The chief James E. Ward John R. Holladay SEATTLE. WASH. God-given rights and end the X % ie George Huber Francis Wasmer mate authorized the agent to sell IR. I. McLeod Joseph W. Waite James Hudson Lloyd Wetzel squabbling, fighting, and cliques the dunnage and present whatever F. R. NapoU J. F. Slusarciyk William Hunter Thomas White which are so prevalent today? Lauds Treatment John KeUy I A. W. Sadeiiwater Clifford Wuertz he got to the orphan.nge also. ISdward G. Knapp Jacob Zimmer Tony Nottage USPHS HOSPITAL The crew urged anyone wishing By PHS Doctors Antoine Landry GALVESTON. TEXAS to contribute to the orphanage to EASTERN SHORE STATE HOSPITAL To the Editor: I B. P. Grice OUver J. Kendrlck CAMBRIDGE. MD. send it to the Polish Heart Orphan­ Please convey my thanks to I Lottie HoUiday James A. Winget Swedish^Shlp is Thomas R. Lehay age, 220 Yungi Dong, Pusan, Korea. all the staff at the marine hos­ USPHS HOSPITAL USPHS HOSPITAL Tops in Styling pital in Manhattan Beach, Brook­ MANHATTAN BEACH BALTIMORE. MD. BROOKLYN. NY Ben L. Bone F. L O'Laughlln To the Editor: lyn, for the excellent help and J Manuel Antonana Allen Boone John Ossrow Patrick HcCann Days Gone By Recently it was my pleasure treatment they have been giving David Caldwell Murray A. Plyler Archibald McGuigan Eladio Aris Antonio Doamaral Alexander Rever to visit the M/S Stiireholf, a me. Fortunato Bacomo Herbert C. Mclssac Clarence Gardner Joseph Roll Leo Mannaugh Joseph J. Bass fine Swedish ship that has such Gorman T. Glaze Eugene Roszko I" know that this letter alone Albert MartinelU Melvin W. Bass Sam Hacker August A. Smith radically-advanced concepts of is not enough to express my Ap­ Vic MUazzo' James F. Clarke Frederick Harris John A. Smith Joseph B. Murphy Juan Denopra I* design that this country could preciation to them, but I would Walter Jackson Joseph A. WilUams W. P. O'Dea John J. Driscoll Daniel Lippy take notice and perhaps build a like all of them, especially Doc­ Lioyd Wilson C. Osinski Fabin Furmanek Walter MitcheU George G. Phifer Otis L. Gibbs similar ship of its own. tors Hass and Lang, to know G. A. Puissegur Joseph M. Giliard USPHS HOSPITAL In additioirto the fine, sweep­ that I'm deeply grateful for their Winston E. Renny Bart E. Guranick SAVANNAH. GA. G. E. Shumaker Everett Haislett Eltner B. Frost John A. Muehleck ing superstructure, elegant sa­ efforts. The kind of Uft they Kevin B. SkeUy Wade B. MarreU Verlon B. Jackson WiUie C. Sanders lons and passageways, each give you is not available any­ Henry E. Smith Taib Hassen Jimmie Littleton Vincent San Juan Michael Toth Antonio Infante foc'sle is also designed for fine where else, as we seamen all Roy H. McCance Theodore Smith S. Tuttle I Thomas Isaksen Harry L. M. Vaughn Jr. Louie T. McGowan living. Nice roomy cabins for- know so well. VirgU E. WUmoth I Claude B. Jessup Fred MiUer W. D. Warmack Ludwig Kristiansen Pon Wing the crew are done up in the James T. Moore Pat McCann I Frederick Landry Dexter Worrell USPHS HOSPITAL most expensive woods and are BOSTON. MASS. ^ 4^ it USPHS HOSPITAL designed with beautiful lockers Edward J. FarreU George D. Rourke NORFOLK. VA. Florencio Letie Leo Q. Strange and drawer space that are de­ Welcomes Aid I Francis J. Boner Walter PuUiam William J. Powers Steven A. Williams lightful to touch. I BuUard Jackson George R. Trimyer MONTEBELLO Here solid woods enrich the By Transporter CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE. MD. design more effectively than To the Editor: Francisco Bueno veneers. Deep penetrating oils I would Uke to thank the USPHS HOSPITAL bring out the warm brown officers and crew of the Pan FORT WORTH. TEXAS B. F. Deibler John C. Palmer ebony fig;ures of the wood and Oceanic Transporter for their Siegfried Gnittke Harold J. Pancost Well known in the Gulf as the emphasize the exquisite siurface kind and generous expression James R. Hodges August J. Panepinto "Duke of Bourbon Street" in W. E. Orzechowski quality of the finish. Exposed of syrnpAthy after the tornado VA HOSPITAL New Orleans, Tony Pisono tenons join tops and sides, com- struck our homa lii Groves, BOSTON. MASS. submitted this 1944 tintype to tributing an important design Texas, on November 7, 1957. Thomas W. KilUon element. We wish the best for all of. VA HOSPITAL show what he looked like in HOUSTON. TEXAS . \ The messrooms are cafeteria yoji. the old days with a full head John P. WiUiamson styIe,^^done up in traditiopafe . \ Mrs. Jfphii Lager USPHS, HOSPITAL -MEMM^TENN. Chihritei» BuMbh-*--- ' I f .'ii •>^l �pMgt Fourteen ' s.-:v • >?•••• h--i- 'Sea-Spray' ..... -.By seafarer Robert 'Red' fink -fr-'' : •' V(- • • II Janaary 8. 1951 SEAFARERS^ LOG 1 I 'F of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare ^ave again b^en brought to light. Their impelling aim of trying To the Editor: to presenCus with unchallenge­ I bavo ]ust read tho prize- able authority and affect a per­ winning LOG editorial on the manent purge of seamen from faults of the Andrea Doria the USPHS. which was reprinted In the Dec. "Yes, Senator, we are des­ 20th issue. It was a damn good tined to he stripped ... and one. we don't like it!!" But there are still quite a few Wallace J. Lanasa questions to he asked on this Shlp^s delegate score, such as what is being done about all these unsafe and 4" t 4" unfit ships? We who do so much damn Asks Payment Bids For Aetlon, Less Safety Talk On Old Debts letters To The Editor . X Xr "Junior! I told you to practice until daddy ahips out!" USPHS Has Last Say On Duty Slip It f;. f SIU HALL DIREdORY Under the SIU contract, US Public Health Service doctors have the final say on whether or not a man is fit for duty. If there is any question about your fitness to sail, check with the nearest USPHS hospital or out-patient clinic for a ruling. SIU, A&G District LOG-A-KHYTHM: This Is Me ifs"-. • c .iPr: •1^ lil=. k IlK't IV'' IB;lift,''/ •• I:K; Ilk Si • %" li l> 'b I jK:t •By J. F. WunderlichSome men will strive for riches, They only loork 'cause they must; Others are hungry for glory. Careless of what it may cost. In misery some save their pennies. Holding the money they earn. Then deposit them all in a bank So they can get more in return. I myself, I'm just a seaman, Happy if the sun will shine; When ashore in a foreign port. Having a glass of wine. b I might be poor and a wand'rer But the world is mine and yours, I believe it is just i heaven Maybe you think it's a curse. FORT WILLIAM ...408 Simpson St. Ontario Phone: 3-3821 PORT COLBORNE >.103 Durham Sk BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St Ontario Phone; 5591 Earl Slieppard. Asent EAatern 7-4900 272 King Sk E. BOSTON 276 State St. TORONTO. Ontario EMpire 44719 James Sbeehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140 VICTORIA. BC 617% Cormorant St. 4202 Canal St. ^ HOUSTON EMpire 4531 Robert Matthews. Agent 298 Main St. Capital 3-4089: 3-4080 VANCOUVER, BC Pacific 3468 304 Charlotte St. 1419 Ryan St. SYDNEY. NS LAKE CHARLES, La... Phone: 6346 HEmlock 6-5744 Leroy Clarke. Agent 20 Elgin St MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. BAGOTVILLE. Quebeo Phone: 545 Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 THOROLD. Ontario 52 St. Davids St CAnal 7-3202 MORGAN CITY 912 Front St. Tom Gould. Agent Phone 2156 QUEBEC 44 Sault-au-Matelot QOebec ,/ Phone: 3-1369 NEW ORLEANS 523 BlenvUle St. 177 Prince WUliam St. Lindsey WiUiams, Agent Tulane 8626 SAINT JOHN NB OX 2-5431 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank 'St. Ben Rees. Agent MAdison 2-9834 ALPENA, 1215 N. Second Ave. PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. Phone; 713-J S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635 BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St. PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Phone: Cleveland 7391 Phone 2 5996 Sal CoUs. Agent CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE SAN FRANCISCO .. . 450 Harrison St. Phone: Main 1-0147 Douglas 2-5475 Marty Breithoff. Agent DRTROrr 1038 3rd' St. .2 Abercom St. SAVANNAH Phone: Woodward 1-6857 E. B. McAuley, Agent Adams 3-1728 DULUTH . 621 W. Superior St. Phone: Randolph 2-4110 .2505 1st Ave. SEATTLE EUiott ,4334 SOUTH CHICAGO Jelf GUlette. Agent 3261 E. 92nd SV. Phone: Essex 5-2410 TAMPA 1809-1811 N. FrankUn St. Tom Banning, Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON. Calif. .. 505 Marine Ave. Reed Humphries, Agent Termitml 42874 HEADQUARTERS. . 675 4th Ave.. Bklyn. SECRETARY-TREASURER Paul HaU ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS J. Algina. Deck C. Simmons. Joint J. VolpSan. Eng. W. HaU. Joint B. Mooney. Std. R. Matthews. Joint ' Great Lakes District — for SIU MEMBERS! SUP HONOLULU There'll always be a maiden To share my love of life. And when I meet the right one, I'll take her home as my wife. So why should I worry of riches. When there is a woman to love, And a tropic lagoon to anchor in With a bright moon above? You can keep the dollars and glory, I'll take the loving and joy; On my cruises around the globe To me the world is a toy. 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND. Calif... 510 Hacdonald Ave. BEacon 24925 SAN FRANCISCO.. 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Main 0290 WILMINGTON ...605 Marine Ave. Terminal 43131 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYaclnth 9-6165 Canadian District HALIFAX. N.S.. MONTREAL 128% HoUls St. Phone 3-8911 634 St. James St. West PLateau 8161 Editor, SEAFARERS LOG. 675 Fourth Ave., Brooklyn 32, NY I would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG-^ please put my name on your mailing list. (Print Information) NAME STREET AOCRESS ... CITY SEA CHE5T j TO AVOID DUPLICATION: If you are an old tubicrlber and hav# a ehanga S of address, please give your former address below: • ADDRESS Pi NBBO IN ANOSMOfig FHOWATbOjMBRUSlI roA&xj\NeaiSfZ: AU-ATSPeCIAL. ££4 PRICES your ......................... • .:.; ZONE..... STATE..... BVEtfrmiiiG'ibij 'J SHORE WEAR « SEA GEAR SEA GEAR f SHORE V(rEAR All letters to the editor for publication In the SEAFAR­ ERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names toiU be withheld upon request. talking in print and-so little in action haven't too much to say. I, for one, have seen many ships come into port with equipment so fouled up that you'd have to be a fool to sail them. You'd have to be>a fool or need a Job so badly that your life didn't mean much to you. Then once you got out to sea, you'd dis­ cover for yourself what a hazard you are on. Before that, you were so anx­ ious to get the job you wouldn't listen to the guy who was pay­ ing off; the job meant more than anything else. There are a "^at many ships sailing today that are so unsafe that even the rats have sense enough to leave them, yet we sign on and sail them and don't complain until they crack up, sink or blow up. Then we com­ plain because the lifeboats wouldn't work or the davits were frozen. These were all the same things we talked about and griped about while at sea, then forgot about when the ship was paying off because the crew was in a hurry to get ashore and figime the next crew-would take care of itself. Little did they realize that by paying off the ^hip and not say­ ing a word about its condition they were only helping out the company and maybe hurting their own Union brothers. They may not even have realized they would he ljetter off staying on the old ship and. fixing It up than by paying off and taking another one blind. Safety is a good thing as long as something is done about it and goes further than idle talk. You decide, fellows. Think about it and when you get. through laughing and sober up, remem­ ber someday it may be your own life you're playing with. - Dave Barry To the Editor: I've always been in favor W' guys who fight for their rights as long as they don't take ad­ vantage of those who can't fight hack. In my own case, 1 have been disabled for some time and feel some people have been taking advantage of me in a way that hurts. When 1 was able' to go out and make more money I did not care aBout it, hut now that I can't I think it's about time those who owe me money should pay hack what they ho^iestly owe. 1 don't think any names should be mentioned at this time because these men know what the score is. I'd just like to say that any monies owed me would he appreciated at this time. My address is 20 Grand Ave.. Hicksville, NY. , Jimmy HaWlton Recalls 'Worst' Voyage in 1905 To lift Editor: 1 received the SIU disability benefit check and the Christ­ mas bonus yesterday, for which 1 am very grateful. 1 havp a lot of time I don't know what to. do with since our hall here in Miami closed, down, so 1 have spent the last few Refired Senafarer B." M. Larsen offers a stern view of fiis frihdel of a brig ho sailed on bock in 1905. months making a replica of a brig on which 1 made a trip from Port Arthur, Texas, back Steel King Raps in 1905. If 1 had the .exact dates Threat To PHS of that voyage 1 probably could capitalize on it for some maga­ To the Editor: The following is the text of zine or newspaper, because it a letter sent to Sen. Warren G. really is unbelievable what a Magnffsen, chairman of the sailing skipper could get by , Senate Interstate and Foreign with 50 years ago. This was what would be an Commerce Committee, protest­ ing the action being taken by ' unbelievable stoiy of the worst the Budget Bureau with a view trip 1 ever made during my 50 to gaining the shutdovm of four years of seafaring. The voyage irom Port Arthur on board the USPHS hospitals. brig, the Frances S. HampshirS, It wati sighed Individually liy ended in Brooklyn 32 days later myself and 32 other members Abe faU of 1905., The of the SIU imlicensed crew on during navigation waa done by our the Steel Kinf - buccaneer sWp^jBr,, Captain Van "Dear Senator: • , f ' ; y Born. .. "The unpredictable e'fideavors ' • » /I �SEAFARERS 'iJiiniiarf !• 19S8 Pace Fifteca LOG Summary Of Events In 7957 (Continued from page 16) ment-owned Canadian Nation^ Steamahips, Ltd., brought the Canadian Prime Minister into the dispute. A settlement was seen imminent aftei> the failure of company strikebreaking tactics that in> eluded the transfer of its eight ships to Trinidad registry. This got nowhere when neither West Indian nor British seamen would man the "hot" ships, and the In­ ternational Transportworkers* Federation firmly supported the Canadian Seafarers. Washington Atis On Ship Issues A key role for the merchant marine in US defense planning seemed assured at year's-end despite the advent of sputnik and contradictory "policy" statements from the Pentagon. This buoyed hopes that ship construction funds would be restored. Congress cut over-all foreign aid funds but authorized more surplus agricultural sales including shipments to "friendly" Com­ munist nations, so that US ships returned to Poland after a 20-year absence. Appro­ priations for USPHS hospitals were in­ creased, but right after adjournment the budget bureau took steps seeking a shut­ down of four hospitals. Ship operators finally won the right to 24-hour quarantine in US ports, providing they paid the Inspectors' OT bills . . . Pro­ posals for strict limits on ship transfers got nowhere, but won a key backer in Labor Secretary James Mitchell. At the same time, "runaway-ship" operator Robert Anderson became Treasury Secretary. A strong protest finally convinced the Defense Department that US rather than foreign seamen should man strategic mis­ sile test ships . . . The Coast Guard's dis­ credited profiling system for screening out seamen popped up in the report of a spe­ cial Commission on Government Security. SlU Organizing Gains Mount A new string of organizing successes were scored by the SIU, bringing thou- the first union contract for marine em­ ployees with a major company, Phillips Petroleum. In rapid order, other pacts set a pattern of $50-$75 more per month in base pay alone for the men involved. The largest tugboat operator in the Gulf was also brought under contract again after a 33-day strike at G&H Towing . . . Similar victories at shoreside marine plants in many ports and a series of vir­ tually unanimous SIU victories in elections covering Baltimore tugboatmen also high­ lighted the year ... In Houston, when the SIU asked an election covering two boats, they were chartered to an operator already under SIU-HIWD contract so the men got a $125 monthly pay increase without even having to vote. Top Marine News Items SIU broke into tideiands Held or­ ganizing tugs and service vessels. sands of workers vast gains in wages and benefits. The SIU's Harbor & Inland Waterways Division cracked the Gulf tidelands oil industry wide open by winning A top news story for the year, revolving around the Russian sputniks, brought on a call for merchant ships to act as spotters of the man-made moons . . . The Suez Canal reopened in April, ending the need for ships to make the long, dreary voyage around A.'rica. There was little enthusiasm thereafter to build standby pipelines for moving Persian Gulf oil in the event of a new Suez crisis. Ambitious tanker-building programs also fell by the wayside. The Panama Canal was confronted with a crisis of its own when long dry spells lowered the level of Gatun Locks to the Herman Cooper & 'Lidford Law' (Continued from page 4) | ute. As a matter of fact, you drew what I am talking about. That is the resolution, the proposed reso­ exactly what I thought." lution, suspending Sims before the charges on which he was to be sus­ Anotlier pa.ssage reads as fol­ pended were prepared and lows: SENATOR ERVIN. "Wait a min- served?" Your Gear.. for ship ... for shore Whatever you need, in work or dress gear, your SIU Sea Chest has it. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ ing at your Union-owned and Unionoperated Sea Chest store. Sport Coats Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeens CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties ' Sweat Shirts T-Shirts Shorts Briefs Swim Trunks Sweaters " Sou'wesfors Raingear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries Electric Shavers Radios Television Jlewolry Cameras luggage SEA CHEST MR. COOPER. "1 think that is so." SENATOR ERVIN. "In other words, you draw up what is equiv­ alent to a verdict of guilty before the indictment is even present­ ed . . ." MR. COOPER. "Well you can place fbat construction on it, but I tell you this is customary prac­ tice in courts, in administrative agencies and elsewhere. There is nothing unusual about that. Sena­ tor." SENATOR ERVIN. "Having spent a large part of my life in courts, I have never yet heard of drawing up a verdict, which is to be rendered in a case before the charges are preferred against the person against whom the verdict is to be rendered. This is the first time I have ever heard of it in human history." MR. COOPER. "Senator, per­ haps I did not make myself clear." SENATOR ERVIN. "You made yourself too clear." ii> 4" • Discussion then developed on why Sims was not present at the hearing at which he wa.s charged and why the board did not wait after it made its findings before notifying Sims and acting on the charges. MR. KENNEDY. "I think It is a little peculiar to have a meeting at 2 o'clock in the morning, an ex­ ecutive board meeting at 2 o'clock in the morning, not inform any­ body that it is going to take place, and then suspend somebody. If that is the way you operate, fine. You are the attorney and you have advised them to do it." ". . . Would you tell the commit­ tee why you would not want to wait unti! the following morning at 10 o'clock?" MR. COOPER. "The resolution will indicate the reasons why . . . It was to provide an interim or­ derly method " MB. KENNEDY. "They could not do it from 2 AM to 10 AM? You could not wait eight hours?" MR. COOPER. "For a variety of reasons which I submit the reso­ lution spea^ for itself . , ." (This is'the second of a series of articles on Mr* Cooper.! ' danger point for many big ships and emer­ gency measures had to be invoked . . . Work on the "big" seaway steadily ad­ vanced, and there was talk of a "little seaway" to Unk Montreal and New York via Lake Champlain and the Hudson . . . At long last a start was made on a shortcut to the sea for the port of New Orleans, and a plan dating back to Napoleon I for a tunnel under the English Channel link­ ing Britain and France was revived. Ships in the Far East were right on the spot for the first wave of the Aslaa fin virus long before it started an epidemic of scare headlines In stateside newspapers ... Cigarette sales rose In spite of new "evi­ dence" linking smoking and lung cancer, which got a big push from the prohibition­ ists as well. Teetotalers cited another set of statistics to show that smoking and "excessive" drinking were lethal also. It was a year when even an innocent coffee break once or twice a day was called bad for the health, and a little snooze on the boss' time was suggested instead. The actual wreck of the old mutiny ship Bounty was found by a skindiver, and the vaunted replica of the Pilgrim ship May­ flower nearly capsized at her launching. She finally made it across the Atlantic into Plymouth, Mass., under tow but in­ stead of staying left for New York and Miami where the tourist trade was better . . . Least surprising news item of '57 was Harry Bridges' statement to a national TV audience that the Commies were better than ever and that there weren't enough of them in the labor movement. RECENT ARRIVALS All of the following SIU families have received a $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name: Robert Owen Brooke, born De­ cember 1, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Osborne M. Brooke, Prichard, Alabama. Charles Robert Brown, born De­ cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Brown, Houston, Texas. Terry Ray Casanova, born No­ vember 22, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ray H. Casanova, New Or­ leans, La. Wanda Mae Crawford, born No­ vember 11, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Willie D. Crawford, Jackson­ ville, Fla. Robert Sidney Cutrer, bom Decembe 7, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. George S. Cutrer, Mobile, Ala. Robert M. Espino, born October 28, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Antanasio Espino, San Francisco, Calif. Bobbie Sue Faircloth, born De­ cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. John W. Faircloth, Crichton, Ala. Therese Denise Gibson, born De­ cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Samuel L. Gibson, Chickasaw, Ala. Karen Ann Gouldinan, born De­ cember 6, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs, James I. Gouldman, Mctairie, La. Terry Thomas LeMau-e, born November 20, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. George T. LeMaire, Balti­ more, Md. Dorothy Louise McDonald, born December 11, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sam W. McDonald. Mobile, Ala. William McLaughlin, born No­ vember 11, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. John F. McLaughlin, Balti­ more, Md. Grace Principe, born December 1, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­ erto Principe, Santurce, PR. The deaths of the following Sea farers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid to their beneficiaries. condition on November 5, 1957, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He became a full member of the Union on May 11, 1946, and sailed in the engine department. Brother Bar­ tulomei is survived by his wife, Jovita C. Bartulomei, of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Burial took place in Municipal Cemetery, Mayaguez, PR. Leo B. DeLoach, .33: Brother DeLoach died on December 5,1957, in Mobile, Ala­ bama. Death was caused by a ma­ lignant condition. He became a full member of the Union on May 15, 1946, and sailed in the steward department. Brother DeLoach is survived by his wife, Mary Nell DeLoach, of Chickasaw, Alabama. Burial took place in Pine Crest Cemetery. Mobile, Alabama. ^ 4 4> Charles E. Spencer, 65: A heart condition caused the death of Brother ,Spencer on November 25, i957, in Pinson, Alabama. Ho be­ came a full mem­ ber of the Union on December 17, 1638, and was sailing in the 4> ^ deck department. Brother Spencer Franeiseo A. Bartulomei. M: is survived by bis wife, Lola SjienBrother Bartulomei died of a heart cer; of Birmingham, Alabama.' i �''H >-v SEAFARBRS^UMS Jon. S 1958 » 9 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • liiiiii Notable for many outstanding de­ velopments, 1957 will probably be remembered most as the year that saw the untimely end of the Harry Lundeberg era; that brought 70year-old sailors to the forefront of the seamen's movement via the American Coal beef and produced impressive strides to­ ward maritime labor unity. A variety of memorable "firsts" were re­ corded, among them the opening of the first three SIU medical centers. The first union contracts were won by the SIU in the growing Gulf Tidelands oil industry. The first US wine tanker, "roll-on-roll-off" ship as well as the first true "lift-on" trailership all went into service. A hint of the future was the start of construction on the first atom-powered merchant ship. It was a year the SIU built a new string of organizing and election victories; when too much ballyhoo turned the "good will" ship Mayflower 11 into a tourist attraction; and the traditional "women and children first" disaster rule came under attack. At the same time, the Suez Canal reopened and the Panama Canal almost dried up. 1957 also saw Robin Line jobs taken off then put back on SIU shipping boards where they belonged, in the face of a National Maritime Union raid. It also was the year the Seafarer Welfare Plan ex­ panded its list of no-cost benefits for Sea­ farers and their families to a new high of 16 items. Kern Hills Opens Clafh SIU crewmen on the tanker Kern Hills eaimed world-wide recognition last spring when they sailed the first American ship through the disputed Gulf of Aqaba into the Israeli port of Elath. Their action eventually paved the way for an opinion The SlU In 1957 SIU Fought Major Beefs - The biggest beefs of 1957, which are carrying over into the New Year, are American Coal with its famous battle of the oldtimers, the NMU's raid on the Robin Line and the Bull Line strike. The year 1957 opened with Seafarers picket­ ing American Coal ships in New York, Baltimore and Savannah in protest against company discrimination against the SIU. Group of SIU of NA oldtimers on American Coal's Cleveland Abbe. Previously mates and engineers had struck the ships because the company signed a contract with a paper local union. District 50 of the United Mine Workers, which is part-owner of the company. The NMU's support of the paper local contract led to a breach of its 20-year al­ liance with the Marine Engineers Bene­ ficial Association, and the subsequent en­ trance of MEBA into the Maritime Trades Department. Following a court order on hiring, SIU oldtimers from all districts vied for the coal ship jobs in a still-continuing fight. At last report, the company had just two ships running of the seven it started Harry Lundeberg, 87 Others Died •— w Israeli troops shown guarding SlUmanned Kern Hills in Elath. ' by the State Department that the Aqaba straits were international waters and all ships were entitled to free passage. For its part, the Kern Hill was blacklisted and re­ fused services in Arab ports. SIU Aid To Other Unions P"' fMK': , fP-p'f'p The SlU's traditional policy of aiding other unions and various worthy causes made the headlines again, when Seafarers volunteered their help in the clean-up work after last summer's Hurricane Audrey. In the wake of the devastation caused by the big blow along the Louisiana-Texas coast, AFL-CIO building tradesmen and SIU men from the New Orleans and Lake Charles halls won plaudits for their work in erecting 25 new homes for Louisiana hurricane victims. On the union front, the American Guild of Variety Artists presented the SIU in Philadelphia with a plaque expressing thanks for Seafarers' aid in various local beefs . . . In Puerto Rico, similar recogni­ tion for SIU assistance came from the In­ ternational Brotherhood of Longshore- The deaths of 87 SIU men were re­ ported during the year, but the stork delivered five times as many potential replacements, including four sets of twins. Two men were lost on the tug Kay R. out of Tampa, and another, sail­ ing as mate, died in a collision involv­ ing the Navy tanker Mission San-Fran­ cisco that also took the lives of nine West Coast crewmen. A heart attack last January cut short the militant career of Harry Lundeberg, 56, secretary of the Sailors Union of the Pacific and founder and president of the SIU of North America from 19^8 on. A mem­ orial statue of Lunde­ berg will be dedicated at SUP headquarters this January 28 on the anniversary of his Lundeberg death. A new US bulk carrier was renamed the SS Harry Lundeberg in his honor last June. Othe^ well-known SIU inen who passecf away were ex-circus acrobat Curt Starke, only four feet tall but a big man in the memory of his friends; Vic Litardi, veteran of many SIU water­ front beefs who also served as an organ­ izer of runaway ships' for the Inter­ national Transportworkers Federation, and oldtlmer Claudio Barreiros, 64, who died while serving on the Casimir Pul­ aski in the American Coal beef. operating, with one due to lay up, as the coal market collapsed. The Bull Line strike over contract gains for Seafarers was brought to a tempor­ ary halt by a US Court injunction. How­ ever, the US Court of Appeals reversed the injunction and a company appeal from that reversal is currently pending in the US Supreme. Court. The strike ran for 64 days. The NMU's raid on Robin Line followed purchase of this fleet by Moore-McCormack last spring. Seafarers stuck to the ships despite NMU pressure on them to get off, and their persistence was re­ warded when the National Labor Rela­ tions Board called for an election. So far, the SIU has won six of seven ships voted and has been certified on four. The last ship is scheduled to vote next week, with the NMU making at­ tempts in court to block crewmembers from obtaining the union of their choice. I: •('1 J Trends In Shipping Trailerships took a firm hold in the in­ dustry, with four types in use or planned. Pan-Atlantic brought out converted C-2s modified to load and discharge 225 trailer vans via moveable deck cranes, a refine­ ment of its earlier "lift-on" tankers. Seatrain planned a service hauling trailer vans on flatcars in addition to regular rail­ road boxcars. TMT's Carib Queen, tha first true "roll-on-roll-off" vessel, got a new lease on life after operating diffi­ culties and money troubles had idled it most of the year. Russia launched a 16,000-ton atomic ice­ breaker and the US commissioned its third nuclear sub. Performance flgares on the first atom snb, the Naatilas, showed it had traveled 60,000 miles on its original charge Safety Program ftecorcfs Cains The SlU's industry-wide shipboard safety program got up a full head of steam in a year in which there were no major disasters involving SIU A&G ships. Before being sold, the Robin Tuxford was cred­ ited with a world safety mark of 502 days without a lost-time accident. In their own fleets, the Wild Ranger (Waterman), Del Monte (Mississippi) and Steel Artisian (Isthmian) got special safety awards and bosun William Velazquez received a Coast Guard citation for the rescue of a drown­ ing shipmate in 1958. SIU ships also had their share of rescues with the Steel Ap­ prentice saving 15 Indian seamen near Suez and the Claiborne doing the same for 43 men off a Liberian freighter in the Gulf. The loss of twice as many passengers as the 94 rescued by the SIU Pacific District's Mormaesurf from an Argentine River steamer sparked an SUP demand for motorized lifeboats on all US vessels to speed rescue efforts . . . Eighteen months after the Andrea Doria disaster, there still was no real change in world sea safety rules to bring them up to US standards. Union Welfare Benefits Expand The first SIU medical center opened in Brooklyn to provide no-cost medical exams for Seafarers and their families.' Two simi­ lar facilities were operating on a tem­ porary basis in New Orleans add Mobile by December . . . The SIU Welfare Plan also added a new benefit covering blood transfusions and eliminated outright the Sen. Warren Magnuson cut ribbon opening first SIU Health Center. "$50 deductible" provision so that all hospital room and board costs were paid from the first dollar up to $10 daily. Active Seafarers-again walked off with four of the five annual SIU scholarships. The daughter Of an SIU man won the fifth $6,000 award . . . A new SIU hall was opened J.nSiin^Jiiab'. Lift-on ship Gateway City came out with radically-new cargo gear. of nuclear fnel about the size of a golfbaU. "The upgrading program for World War 11 Libertys was termed a success, but 100 of the oldest ones were ordered scrapped anyway . . . Mississippi signed up for a $160 million fleet replacement program after rejecting merger offers from Lykes . . . Tests showed a good hull paint job could add half a knot to a ship's speed ... Shore leave for supertanker crewmen be­ came a problem when some ships began' unloading into pipeline "terminals" IH miles offshore. Sea Labor Unity Crows Virtually all marine unions were united in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­ ment in 1957, including a former CIO affiliate, the Marine Engineers Beneficial Associaiiuii. AFL-CIO president George Meany reiterated that MTD was the "one place ... in the AFL-CIO trade union structure" for all marine unions. Twelve international unions are now members of MTD. A referendum on an interim program leading to final merger in 1960 by the SlUaffiliated Brotherhood of Marine Enginr -:•« and the MEBA was already underway ... The two AFL-CIO radio officers unions also negotiated a no-raiding and mutual assistance pact. The same joint action which had estab­ lished the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union on West Coast ships was continued under the banner of the SIU Pacific District, composed of the Sailors, Firemen and , Cooks. It produced greater contract gains as well as increased benefits under a merged pension plan for members of all three unions .. . With broad labor support, Harry Bridges' longshore unioii was' whipped in two separate raids on SIUaffiliated fishery unions in Los Angeles Harbor and Alaska. . A demonstration of international labor unity behind the SIU Canadian District in its six-month strike against the govern- j I., X. \ �'^rTT»rxr,7F "S§K'-V J <!!•, ^ '-'J-'-, w ':;' . -.•/• '.••. •-,, - v--; ./: :•' ?t^;* ''ik'r'-l-• • : :; ^ • -tf - '•->• •"•',• • L' . .:^r ' t, .•w.''. . .... • , .j. •,. ,' .' ' ..,' .AlVlJ - M CONSTITUTION . • •• «-4,-:• -I '-I'rii. l/.-v '• )«->,, i.| ,4' Tvi , •.',",'41 ' 'I.' *, •'.* ' •• ••\^; •>:-,•-.' ".'i----'^-'•'L|f ''' • •• • •"•• ,'• -p -.— w, •'•- '>v /• • '• . *t r"; g'';'! '••''?H!;;J^ - ;-',•;: " • • . '.' rji;> - •,., r?:--p'pit:::-' - • • '"• IM-T'V''''<• "1 •••.r, dt,- g"' / J ' ;; .'•; -i ivi'^-.-ol '>-5 ''T..;-' 'i^' ..Vii- * •. • Kf.. • >V. .' .'•'V'''^{?..r:'V IC - ; •i&C-'A''' '' • ' . ('•' , , ".A Is s -'iSii'mP :s s-'s'G",... i 'ts; Ic:.' . 'slo « • •, :• :••• "X-:<,ir>-f7 -J ' • - - - -tf,' " -J .- ••.-'SKA'-rvY'-Ss-sl ' . 1 -• - • „ . I t-. ., •I '•• •• i ., -•'''Ti f.a'^P ;:' v - J > •"•.-'• s-'-s /. k'-- J i' /' • i l!^^Vkk'-^tsW-;Ki4i;;5v'yfSrVs^^ , -T"''y ^ ''.• ••'s"{s,«ii". i' .••^r^i,S".»S-.",fcs...s?i'-;,S!S''": •,' '• - '".• 4"v.4., -••'r.-'m ..'' '•'v.'ft" :^? iff .J .I : : • 5.^--vs :iiv-.-' .-.v., i---\ ;;„ s-iili �- • ••'•'-. ' V ' ll«ip^enieBtaiT—Pag« Tw® I' •(^>. CONSTITUTION Seafarers Infernatienal Union A&G District AFL-CIO (As Amencfecf, August, 1956) h. .r- ll*.- p-. •if v. PREAMBLE We, the Seamen and Fishermen* of America, realizing ^ the vdue and necessity of a thorough organization of sea­ faring men, have determined to form one union, the SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH AMERICA, to embrace aii seamen and fishermen of North America. Canada, Alaska, and the Territories, based upon the following principles: Whatever right belongs to one member belongs to all members alike, as long as they remain in good standing In the Union. First of these rights is the right of the American sea­ men to receive their employment through their own Union Halls, without interference of crimps, shipowners, fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the Government. That it is the right of each member to receive fair and Just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation. Further, we consider it our right to receive healthful and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to rest. Next, is- the right to be treated in a decent and respect­ ful manner by those in command. We hold that the above rights belong to all seamen alike, irrespective of nationality or creed. Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we are conscious of corresponding duties to tliose in com­ mand, our employers, our craft and our country. We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote harmonious relations with those in command by exercis­ ing due care and diligence in the performance of the duties of our profession, and by giving all po'-«ible assist­ ance to our employers in caring for their gear and property. Based upon these principles, it is among our objects: To use our influence indivfdually and collectively for the purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamenship and effecting a change in the Maritime law of the United States, so as to render it more equitable and to make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development of a Merchant Marine and a body of American seamen. To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments of the seafaring class, and through its columns seek to - maintain the knowledge of and interest in maritime affairs. To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of organization and federation, to the end of establishing the Brotherhood of the Seq. To assist other bona fide labor organizations whenever possible in the attainment of their just demands. To*regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable and useful calling. And bearing in mind that we are migratory, that our work takes us away in different direc­ tions from any place, where the majority might otherwise meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a fraction of the membership, that the absent members, who cannot be present, must have their ihterests guarded * from what might be the results of excitement and pas­ sions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those who are present may act for and in the interest of all, we have adopted this constitution.^ STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND DECLARATION OF RIGHTS In order to form a more perfect union, we members of the Brotherhood of the seamen, fishermen and allied workers ashore—realizing the value and necessity of unit­ ing in pursuit of our improved economic and social wel­ fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the Seiafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the following principles: In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our duties and obligations as members of the community, , our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace of communism and any other enemies of freedom and the democratic principles to which we seafaring men dedicate ourselves in this Union. We shall affiliate and work with other free labor or­ ganizations,'' we shall support a journal to give additional voice to our views,-^we shall assist our brothers' of the sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations to the fullest extent consistent with our duties and ob­ ligations. We shall seek to exert our individual and col­ lective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor and other legislation and poiicies which look to the at­ tainment of a free and happy society, without distinction based on race, creed or color. To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind that most of our members are migratory, that their duties carry them all over the world, that their rights must and shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as members of the Union to be inalienable: ... I • . No member sliall be deprived of any of the rights or privileges guaranteed, him under/ the Constitution of the Union. n Every member of this Union shall have the right t<Mrote. No one shall deprive him of that right m Every member shall have the right to nominate himself for, and to hold, office In this Union. , IV No member shall be deprived of his membership with­ out due process of the law of this Union. No member shall be compelled to be a witness against himself in the trial of any proceeding in which he may be charged with failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official and job holder shall be bound to uphold and protect the rights of every member in accordance with the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. V Every member shall have the right to be confronted by his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial com­ mittee of his brother Union members. VI No member shall be denied the right to express himself freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee. VII A militant membership being necessary to the security of a free union, the members shall at all times stand ready to defend this Union and the principles set forth in the Constitution of the Union. vra The powers not delegated to the officials and job holders by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved to the members. CONSTITUTION ARTICLE I NAME AND GENERAL FOWERS This Union shall be known as the Seafarers Interna­ tional Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf Dis­ trict. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and execu­ tive. and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance of charters to, subordinate bodies, corporate or otherwise, the formation of funds and participation in funds, the establishment of enterprises for the benefit of the Union, and similar ventures. A majority vote of the membership shall be authorization for any Union action, unless other­ wise specified in this Constitution. This Union shall, at all times, protect and maintain its jurisdiction over all work which belongs to the seaman and all such work as seamen now perform. ARTICLE II AFFILIATION This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers Inter­ national Union of North America and the American Fed­ eration of Labor. All other affiliations by the Union or by the Ports shall be made or withdrawn as determined by a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE III MEMBERSHIP Section 1. Candidates for membership shall be ad­ mitted to membership! in accordance with such rules as are adopted, from time to timet by a majority vote of the membership. Section 2. Candidates for membership shall be American citizens, or eligible for such citizenship. No candidate shall be granted membership who is a mem­ ber of any dual organization or any other organization hostile to the aims, principles, and policies of this Union. No candidate shall be granted membership until he has taken the following oath of obligation:^ OBLIGATION "1 pledge my honor as a man* that I will be faithful to this Union, and that I will work for its interest and will look upon every member as my brother; that I will not work for less than Union wages and that I will obey all orders of the Union.. I promise that I will never reveal the proceedings of the Union to its injury or to persons not entitled to know it. And if 1 break this promise, I ask every member to treat me as unworthy of friendship and acquMntance. SO HELP MIB GOD!" Section 3. Members more than one quarter in ar^ rears in dues, or more than three months in arrears in as­ sessments or unpaid fines, shall be automatically sus­ pended, and shall forfeit all benefits and ail other rights and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically dismissed if they are more than two , quarters in arrears in dues or more than six months in arrears in assessments or unpaid fines. This time shall not run:(a) While a member is actually participating in a strike or lockout. (b) While a ^member is an in-patient in a USPHS Hospital. ; (c) While a member is under an incapacity due to ac­ tivity in behalf of the Union. / (d) While a member is in the Armed Services of the :: 4/' United States, provided the member was in good standing at the time of entry into the Armed Forces, and further provided he applies for reinstatement within tfO days after discharge from the Armed Forces (e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues because of employment aboard an American flag mercnaot- \'essel. Section 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be sufficient to designate additional circumstances during which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It. shall be the right of any member to present, in writing, to any Port at any regular meeting, any question with re­ gard to the appiication of Section S; in accordance with procedures established by a majority vote of the member­ ship. A majority vote of the membership shall be neces­ sary to decide such questions. Section 5. The membership shall be empowered to es­ tablish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under which dues and assessments may be remitted where a member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4. Section 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the com­ mon welfare of the membership, all members of the Union shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly made. Section 7. Any member who advocates or gives aid to the. principles and policies of any hostile or dual organiza­ tion shall be denied further membership in this Union. A- majority vote of the membership shall decide which organizations are dual or hostile. Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation with the Union shall at all times remain the property of the Union. Members may be required to show their evi­ dence of membership in order to be admitted to Union meetings. Section 9. Only members in good standing shall be al­ lowed to vote. . ' ^ ARTICLE IV REINSTATEMENT •v Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated in accordance with such rules as are adopted, from time to time, by a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE V DUES AND INITIATION FEE Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a calendar year basis, on the first business day of each quar­ ter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall . be those payable as of the date of adoption of this Con­ stitution and may be changed only by Constitutional amendment. Section 2. No candidate for membership shall be ad­ mitted into membership without having paid an initiation fee of one hundred ($100.00) dollars. Section 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be waived for organizational purposes only, in accordance with such rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE VI RETIREMENT FROM MEMBERSHIP Section 1. Members may retire from membership by paying all unpaid dues, dues for the quarter, in which they retire, assessments, fines, and other monies due. and ow­ ing the Union. A retirement card shall be Issued upon re­ quest, and dated as of the day that such member accon^- . plishes these payments and request. • Section 2. All the rights, privileges, duties, and obli­ gations of membership shall be suspended dhring the pe­ riod of retirement, except that a retired member shall not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in any dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of his right to reinstatement. Section 3. Any person in retirement for a period of six months or. more shall be restored to membership, ex­ cept as herein indicated, by paying dues for the current quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly levied difjring the period of retirement. If the period of retirement is less than six J6) months, the required pay­ ments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said period of retirement, including those for the current quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied during that period. Upon such payment, the person in retirement shall be restored to membership, and his mem­ bership book, appropriately stamped, shall be given to him. Section 4. A member in retirement may be restored to membership aftei* a two-year period of retirement only by majority vote of the membership. Section 5. The period of retirement shall be computed from the day as of which the retirement, card is issued. ARTICLE VII / SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATION Section ]. This Union, and all Ports, Officers, Fort Agents, Patrolmen, and members shall be governed, in this order, by: (a) The Constitution (b) Majority vote of the membership Section 2. The functions of this Union shall be ad­ ministered by Headquarters and Ports. Section 3. Headquarters shall consist of the Seci'etaryTreasurer, and one or more Assistant Secretary-Treas­ urers, the exact number of which shall be determined by majority vote of the membership to be held during the month of August in any election year, as set forth more particularly in Article X, Section 1-D. Section 4. Each Port shall consist of a Port Agent and Patrolmen, as provided for herein, and the Port shall bear the name of the city in which the Union's Port'' ;/ Offices are located, v' �mm •T!S SmleaenfMy—Five Thre* Section 5. Every member of the Union shall be regis­ tered in one of tl^ departments; namely, deck, engine, or stewards department. The definition of these depart­ ments shall be In accordance with custom and usage. This definition may be modified by a majority vote of the membership. No member may transfer from one de­ partment to another except by express approval as evi­ denced by a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE VIII ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT OFFICERS. PORT AGENTS. AND PATROLMEN Section 1. The officera of the Union shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. These officers shail be the Secretary-Treasurer and one or more Assistant Secretary-Treasurers. Section 2. Port Agents and Patrolmen shall be elected, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. ARTICLE IX OTHER ELECTIVE JOBS Section 1. The following jobs in the Union shall be voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitu­ tion: (A) Meeting Chairman (B) Delegates (C) Committee Members of: (a) Auditing Committee (b) Trial Committee (c) Quarterly Financial Committee rd) Appeals Committee (e) Negotiating and Strike Committee. Section 2. Additional, committees may be formed as provided by a majority, yote of the membership. Commit­ tees may also be appointed as permitted by this Consti­ tution. ARTICLE X DUTIES OF OFFICERS. PORT AOENTS. AND OTHER ELECTED JOB HOLDERS Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer ( ) The Secretary-Treasurer shall be the Executive Of­ ficer of the Union and shall represent, and act for and in behalf of. the Union in all matters except as otherwise specifically provided for in the Constitution. (b> He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees, port or otherwise. ( ) He shall be responsible for the organization and maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of . the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound account­ ing and bookkeeping systems; the setting up. and main­ tenance of, proper office and other administrative Union procedures; the proper collection, safeguarding, and ex­ penditure of all Union funds. Port ..r otherwise. He shall be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property, and shall be in charge of Headquarters and Port Offices. He shall issue a weekly comprehensive report covering the financial operations of the Union for the previous week. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considera­ tions affecting Union action, the Secretary-Treasurer shall take appropriate action to insure observance thereof. <d) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the mem­ bership. the Secretary-Treasurer shail designate the num­ ber and location of Ports, the jurisdiction, status, and activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and may re-assign Port Agents and Patrolmen of closed ports to other duties, without change in wages. The Ports of New York. New Orleans. Mobile, and Baltimore may not be closed except by Constitutional amendment. Where ports are opened between elections, the Sec­ retary-Treasurer shall designate the Port Agents thereof, subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership. The Secretary-Treasurer shall supervise'the activities of all Ports. Subject to approval by a majority vote of the member­ ship. the Secretary-Treasurer shall designate, in the event of the incapacity of a Port Agent or Patrolman, a replace­ ment to act as such during the period of incapacity. At the first regular meeting in August of every elec­ tion year, the Secretary-Treasurer shall submit to the membership a pre-balloUng report. This report shall rec­ ommend the number and location of Ports, the number of Assistant Secretary-Treasurers and Agents, and the number of Port Patrolmen which are to be elected lor each Port. It shall also recommend a bank, a bonded warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any other similar depository, to which the ballots are to be mailed or de­ livered at the close of each day's voting, except that the Secretary-Treasurer may. in his discretion, postpone the recommendation as to the depository until no later than the first regular meeting In October. This recommendation may also specify, whether any Patrolmen and/or Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, shall be designated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall be subject tOv approval or modification by a majority vote , of the membeisMp. (e) The Headquarters of the Union shall be located in New York. The Secretary-Treasurer shall also be the Port Agent of that Port (f> The Secretary-^asurer riiall be chairman of the Agents' Conference and may cast one vote. (g) He shall be responsible, within the limits of his powers, for the enforcement of this Constitution, the policies of the Union, and all rules.and rulings duly adopted by a majority vote of <he membership. Within these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, posi­ tion, and prestige of the Union. (h> The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those other duties elsewhere described in this Constitution, as well as those other duties lawfully imposed upon him. U) The f esponsibUity of the Secretary-Treasurer may not be delegated, but the Secretary-Treasurer may delegate (a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of to a person or persons the execution of such of his duties the Union who are elected, under the provisions of this as be may in his discretion decide, subject to the limita­ Constitution, to attend the convention of the Seafarers tions set forth in thi/ Constitution. International Union of North America. (j) Immediately after assuming office, the Secretary(b) Each delegate shall attend the Convention and fuily Treasurer shall designate one of the Assistant Secretary- participate therein. Treasurers to assume his duties in case of his temporary in­ *'(c) Each delegate shall, by his vote and otherwise, capacity. This designation may be changed from time .to support those policies agreed upon by the majority of tho time. These designations shall be entered in the minutes delegates to the convention. of the Port where Headquarters is located. The provisions Section 7. Committees of Section 2-A of this Article shall apply in the case of a (a) Auditing Committee vacancy in the office of Secreta> y-Treasurer. as set forth The Auditing Committee in each Port shall audit the in that section. regular weekly financial report of the Port Agent and, in • (k) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Port Agent certify or refuse to certify said report. The or Patrolman shall be filled by the Secretary-Treasurer by writing, Auditing Committee for the Port where Headquarters is temporary appointment except in those cases where the located shall also audit the Secretary-Treasurer's financial filling of such vacancy is otherwise provided for by. this report, to which the same rules as to certification and Constitution. Such appointment shall be submitted to a refusal to certify shall apply. The said report in its en­ regular meeting for approval, modification, substitution of tirety shall then be presented to the membership with a replacement, or postponement of a vote to a later date, action thereon to be taken as per a majority vote of tho by a majority vote of the membership. In the event of the membership. postponement of the vote, the temporary appointment shall (b) Trial Committee ' remain in effect until a vote is taken. The Trial Committee shall conduct trials of persons (I) The Secretary-Treasurer is directed to take any and and shall submit findings and recommendations all measures, and employ such means, which he deems charged, prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further as obligation of the Trial Committee to observe all the re­ the welfare, of the Union and its members, in all matters quirements of this Constitution with regard to charges involving national, state or local legislation, issues, and and trials, and their findings and recommendations must public affairs. specifically state whether or not. in the opinion of the Section 2. Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this (a) In the event the Secretary-Treasurer shall be unable Constitution, were properly safeguarded. to carry out his duties by reason of incapacity, the Assist­ (O Quarterly Financial Committee ant Secretary-Treasurer designated in accordance with 1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make a Section 1-J of this Article shall assume the office of Sec­ quarterly (thirteen weeki audit of the finances of Head­ retary-Treasurer during the period of such incapacity. quarters and each Port, shall note discrepancies where Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of they exist, shall report on their findings, and make rec­ the Secretary-Treasurer, succession to the office shall be- ommendations. Members of this Committee may make determined as follows: dissenting reports, separate recommendations, and sepa­ That Port Agent of the Ports of New Orleans, Mobile, rate findings. or Baltimore who received the highest number qf votes 2. The report and recommendations of this Committee in the last regular election shall be the first in line of shall be completed within a reasonable time after the succession. The next in the line of succession shall be that election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted Port Agent of the said Ports who received the next highest to the Secretary-Treasurer who shall cause the same to number of votes in that election. The next in the line of be read in all Ports, at the first or second regular meet­ succession shall be that Port Agent oMhe said Ports who- ing subsequent to the submission of the said report and received the next highest number of votes. recommendations. ^ The Port Agents of ti}e said Ports shall also be deemed 3. Ail Port Agents are responsible for complying with to be Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, whether or not so ail demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts, referred to on the ballots or elsewhere. etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Committee. (b) The Assistant Secretary-Treasurers shall assist the 4. No report shall be considered as complete without Secretary-Treasurer in the execution of the letter's duties an accompanying report and audit statement by a com­ as the latter may direct. petent accountant, and the Secretary-Treasurer is charged (c) The Assistant Secretary-Treasurers shall be mem­ with the selection of such an accountant, who must be bers of the Agents' Conference and each may cast a vote certified under state law. in that body. 5. Any action on the said report shall be as determined by a majority vote of the membership. Section 3. Port Agents (d) Appeals Committee (a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of the administration of Union affairs in the Port of his juris­ 1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as diction. (b) He shail. within the jurisdiction of his Port, be are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as responsible for the enforcement^and execution of the Con­ may be adop^^fd by a majority vote of the membership, stitution. Uie policies of the Union, and the rules adopted not inconsistent therewith. 2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than . by a majority vote of the membership. Wherever there are time restrictions or other considerations affecting Port one week after the close of the said hearing, make and action, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to- submit findings and recommendations in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution and such rules as may insure observance thereof. (c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or other­ be adopted by a majority vote of the membership, not wise. for the activities of his Port, whenever demanded inconsistent therewith. (el Negotiating and Strike Committee by the Secretary-Treasiurer. 1. The Negotiating and Strike Committee shall repre­ (d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward by reg­ istered mail, addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer. » sent the Union in all negotiations for contracts and weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly income changes in contracts, with persons, firms, corporations, and expenses, and complying with all other accounting or agencies, etc., wherein wages, hours, benefits, or other terms and conditions of employment of the members of directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer. (e) The Port Agent, or someone acting under his in­ this Union are involved. structions, shall open each Port meeting and shall deter­ 2. Upon completion of negotiations, the Committee mine whether a quorum exists. Nothing contained herein shall submit a report and recommendations to the mem-^ shall permit the Port Agent.to otherwise act as chairman bership of the Union at a regular or special meeting. of any meeting, unless so properly designated by a The Committee may also make interim reports and rec­ majority vote of the members present at the said Port ommendations and submit them to the membership at a regular or a special meeting. Meeting. 3 A Port may establish a similar Committee for Itself (D Each elected Port Agent may cast one vote at any provided permission by a majority vote of the membership Agents' Conference. (g) The Port Agent may assign each Port Patrolman to has been obtained. In such event, the Port Negotiating such Union jobs as fall within the jurisdiction of the Port, and Strike Committee shall forward its report and rec­ regardless of the departmental designation under which ommendations, together with comments by the Port Agent, to the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall then cause the Patrolman was elected. (h) The Port Agent shall designate which members at the said report and recommendations to be submitted ta that Port may serve as representatives to other organiza- the membership of the Union at the earliest subsequent tior*. affiliation with which has been properly permitted. regular or special irieeting. whichever he chooses, to­ (i> The foregoing is in addition to those other duties gether with any report and recommendations which the Secretary-Treasurer deems desirable to make. The Port prescribed elsewhere in this Constitution. Negotiating and Strike Committee shall submit the report Section 4. Port Patrolmen Port Patrolmen shall perform whatever duties are and recommendations upon completion of the negotiations, and may submit interim reports and recommendations, in assigned to them by the Port Agent. the same manner above set forth. Section 5. Meetinr Chairmen In no event shail a Negotiations and Strike Commit­ (a) The chairman of each meeting at any Port, including; tee4. obligate Union or any Port thereof, in any man­ the Port in which Headquarters is located, shall be the ner. withoutthis the approval of the membership of the presiding officer of the meeting, shall keep order under Union as evidenced by a majority vote of the member­ rules of order provided for, from time to. time, by a ship. majority vote of the membership and, if none, then by 5. A Negotiating and Strike Committee may decide such rules as are adopted, from time to time, by a majori^ the time of entry into a strike, provided prior authority, vote of the membership in each Port. as evidenced by a majority vote of the membership, is (b) The meeting chairman may cast a vote only in the granted therefor. In all other cases, a majority vote of tho event of a tie. membership shall decide when a strike shall begin. ' . (c) The meeting chairman shall not permit the discus­ 6. This Committee shall be charged with the prepara­ sion of any religious subject tion and execution of a strike plan which shall be bind­ Seetlaa 6. Delegates ing on all members and other persons nffiiated with �Sa»tfeiiientanr'-^l>flC« Fsnr IF m ItM II 11, r&'' this Union. However, a majority vote of the membership inay repeal, or otherwise treat or dispose .of any part or ^ of a strike plan. ARTICLE XI WAGES AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF OFFICERS AND OTHER ELECTIVE JOB HOLDERS. UNION EMPLOTEES, AND OTHERS Section 1. The following elected offices ana jobs shall be held for a term of two years: Secretary-Treasurer Assistant Secretary-Treasurer Port Agent Patrolman The term of two years set forth herein is expressly subject to the provisions for assumption of office as con­ tained in Article XIII, Sec. 6(c), of this Constitution. Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than those indicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue for so long as is necessary to complete the functions there­ of, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the membership or segment of the TTnion, whichever applies, whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or ones serving. Section 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of any office or other elective job shaP be determined from time to time by a majority vote of the membership. Section 4, Subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership, all other classifications of employees of the Union shall be hired or discharged, as well as compensated, . as recommended by the Secretary-Treasurer. Section 5. Subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership, the Secretary-Treasurer may contract for, or retain, the services of any person, firm, or corpora­ tion, not employees of the Union, when he deems it neces­ sary in the best interests of the Union. Section 6. The foregoing provisions of this Article do not apply to any corporation, business, or other venture In which this Union participates, or which it organizes or creates.' In such situations, instructions conveyed by a majority vote of the membership shall be followed. ARTICLE XII QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICERS. PORT AGENTS. PATROLMEN, AND OTHER ELECTIVE JOBS Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a candidate for, and hold any office or the job of Port Agent fir Patrolman, provided: (a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime, in an un­ licensed capacity, aboard an American Flag merchant vessel or vessels; if he is seeking the job of Patrolman or Assistant Secretary-Treasurer in a specified department, this seatime must be in that department, and (b) He has at least four (4) months of seatime, in an unlicensed capacity, aboard an. American flag merchant vessel or Vessels, covered by contract with this Union, or four (4) months of employment with, or in any office or job of, the Union, its subsidiaries, or affiliates, or at the Union's direction, or a combination of these, between January 1st and the time of nomination, and (c) He has been in continuous good standing in the Union for at least two (2) years immediately prior to his nomiuaiion, and (d) He is a citizen of the United States of America. Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall be members of the Union. Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective offices and jobs, whether elected oi appointed in accord­ ance with this Constitution, shall maintain membership in good standing. Failure to do so shall result in ineligibility to hrld such office or job and shall constitute an incapacity with regard to such office or job. ARTICLE XIII ELECTIONS FOR OFFICERS, PORT AGENTS AND PATROLMEN Section 1. Nominations Any member may submit his name for nomination for any office, or the job of Port Agent or Port Patrolman, by delivering or sending a letter addressed to the Credentials Committee, in care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the ad­ dress of Headquarters. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them over to the Credentials Committee upon the letter's re­ quest. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the fol­ lowing: (a) The name of the candidate (b) His home address and mailing address (c) His book number (d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a candidate, including the name of the Port in the event the position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman (e) Proof of citizenship (f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for candidates. The letter must reach Headquarters no earlier than Au­ gust 12tb and no later than September 12th of the election year. Section 2. Credentials Committee (a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the first regular meeting in September of the election year, at the Port where Headquarters is located. It shall consist Of six members in attendance at the meeting, with two members from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­ partments. In the event any Committee member is unabie to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the Sec­ retary-Treasurer calls a special meeting at the Port in order to elect a replacement. The Committee's results aball be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by -Fi- a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting banded to the member who shall thereupon sign his nams! called for that purpose at Headquarters Port on a roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate), to* (b> After its election, the Committee shall immediately gether with his book number, and ballot number. ThO, go into session. It shall determine whether the person portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed! has submitted his application correctly and possesses the shall then be remo.ved, placed near the roster sheet, and | necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a the member shall proceed to the voting site. report listing each applicant and his book number under (e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the estab*. the office or job he is seeking. Each applicant shall be iishment of a booth or other voting site where each mem* < marked "qualified" or "disqualified" according to the find­ her may vote in privacy. ings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been (f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold th* marked "disqualified," the reason therefor must be stated ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion It in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed the Port Agent, and kept locked and sealed except at by all of the Committee members, and be completed and hereinafter set forth. submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meet­ (g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of Iht ing after their election. At this meeting, it shaU be read election year and shall continue through December 31sl«, and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holi­ Bulletin Board in each port days legally recognized in the city In which the Port (c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the affected is located. If November Ist or December 31st Committee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram •falls on a Sunday or on a holiday legally recognized In at his listed addresses. He shall also be sent a letter a Port in the city in which that Port is located, the bal­ containing the reasons for such disqualifications by air loting period in such Port shall commence or terminatt^ mail, special delivery, registered. A disqualified^ appli­ as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day. cant shall have the right to take an appeal to the mem­ Subject to the foregoing, voting in all Ports shall com­ bership from the decision of the Committee. He shall mence at 8:00 AM, and continue until 5:00 PM, except forward copies of such appeal to each Port, where the that, or Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 AM appeal shall be presented and voted upon at a regular '• and, continue until 12 Noon, and, on regular meeting meeting no later than the second meeting after the Com­ days, voting shall commence at 9:00 AM and continue mittee's election-. It is the Tesponsibility of the applicant until 7:30 PM. to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event, Section 4. Foils Committees without prejudice to his written appeal, the applicant may (a) Each Port shall elect, prior to the beginning of th# appear in person before the Committee within two days voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct, of three members. For the purpose of holding a meeting his application or argue for his qualification. for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwith­ The Committee's report shall be prepared early enough standing the prov* <ns of Article XXIV, Section 2, o» to allow the applicant to appear before it and still reach any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) mem-' the Ports in time for the first regular meeting after its hers shall constitute a quorum for each Port, with the; election. said meeting to be held between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM> (d) A majority vote of the membership shall, In the with no notice thereof required. It shall be the obliga­ case of such appeals, be sufficient to overrule any dis­ tion of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Com­ qualification classification by the Credentials Committee, mittee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present in which event, the one so previously classified shall then during this time period. It shall be the responsibUity be deemed qualified. of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purposa le) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the of electing the said Polls Committee is called, and that qualifications of candidates, shall have the right to con­ the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to Head­ clusively presume that anyone nominated and qualified in quarters. In no case shall voting take place unless a previous elections for candidacy for any office, or the job duly elected Polls Committee is functioning. of Port Agent or Port Patrolman, has met all the require­ (b) The duly elected Polls Committee shall colled ments, of Section 1-A of Article XII. all unused ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stub* of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes* Section 3. Balloting Procedure. (a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper and the bal.ot records and files kept by the Port Agent! and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as It shall then proceed to compare the serial pu.mbers ani' to candidates or Ports. The ballots may contain general amounts of stubs with the number of names and corre-: information and instructive comments not Inconsistent sponding serial numbers on the (roster, and then com*; with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified pare the serial number and the.amounts of ballots used! candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within with the vet fication list, as corrected, and ascertain each category. The listing of the Ports shall follow a whether the unused ballots, both by serial numbers and geographical pattern, commencing with the most northly amount, represent the difference between what appears Port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast on the veritication list, as corrected, and the ballots used. down to the most southerly Port on that coast, then west­ If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon erly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such dll* Ports is exhausted. There shall be allotted write-in space, crepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed on each ballot, sufficient to jpermit each member voting to by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each write in as many names as there are offices and jobs to be member of the Committe. may make what separate com* voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the tnents thereon he desires, provided they are signed and number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given th« so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said Port Agent, to be presented at the next r«>t:ular meetin|^ Bill* number to be easily removed. On this removable portion A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the Secrets: ladt shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature Treasurer, wlio shall cause an. investigation to be mai forthwith. The results of such investigation shall be re­ of the ballot and the voting dates thereof. (b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the Sec­ ported to the membership as soon as completed, with retary-Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No recommendations by th'* Secretary-Treasurer. A majority others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as vote of the membership shall determine wha) action, tf indicated in the preceding paragraph and shall be num­ any, shall be taken thereon, with the same effect as In­ bered consecutively, commencing with number 1. A suf­ dicated in Article I. ficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each (c) The Polls Committee shall also insure tnai the balloi^ Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall no| amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the Secre­ be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth. tary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding para­ verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers graph with regard to discrepancies shall be utilized la of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain sepa­ the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe tb# rate records of the ballots sent him an4. shall inspect and lock and seal have been illegally tampered with. count the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount (d) The Polls Committee shall permit qualified membe: sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the only tq^vote. Prior thereto, it shall ascertain whether the; amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer are in good Standing, stamp their book with the wt.. as having been sent to that Port. The Port Agent shall "voted," and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure tha immediately execute and return, to the Secretary-Treas­ proper registration on the roster takes placq, collect urer, a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preservf amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify good order and decorum at the voting site and viciniti the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrep­ thereof. All members and others affiliated with the UnlOR ancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Commii voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded when called upon, in the preservation of order aoi for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer decorum. shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and (e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors of. at all times be available to any member asking for in­ irregularities la any one day's balloting affecting all thf' spection of the same at Headquarters. balloting in any port, the following procedure shall bi (c) Balloting shall take place in person, at Port Offices, observed: and shall be secret. No signature of any voter, or other At the end ot each day's voting, the Polls Committal^ distinguishing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except in the presence of any member desiring to attend, pro*' that any member may write in the nande or names of any vided he observes proper decorum, shall open the balIo| member .or members, as appropriate, for any office, or the box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots thereU Job of Port Agent or Patrolman. in an envelope, or envelopes, as requiriB, which shaS (d> No member may vote without, displaying - his then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committef Union Book, in which there shall be placed, an appro­ shall thereupon sign their names across the flap of t^ priate notation of the date and of the fact of voting, both said envelope or envelopes, with their book numb.rs nMft prior to being handed a ballot, A ballot shall then be to their signatures. The Committee shaU also placf tlii �Sapplementwjr—>Pire Fhre date and name of the Port on the said envelope or en­ velopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or envelopes, thct the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all of thOKv ballots are enclosed In the envelope or envelopes dated for that day and voted In that Port. The Polls Committee shall check the rosters, and any other records they deem appropriate, to Insure the foregoing. At the discretion of Headquarters, official envelopes may be pre­ pared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the making of the aforesaid certification, with wording em­ bodying the foregoing Inscribed thereon. In which event, these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Committee for the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall prevent any member of a Polls Committee from adding such comments to the certificate as are appropriate, provided the comments are signed and dated by the member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall then be placed In a wrapper or envelope, which, at the discretion of Headquarters, may be furnished for that purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or reg­ istered mall, by the said Polls Committee, to the deposi­ tory named in the pre-election report adopted by the membership. The Polls Committee shall not be dis­ charged from Its duties until this mailing Is accomplished and evldencv of mailing or delivery Is fumishe"^. the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept In the Port Agent's election records or files. The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing them back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys to the boxe" In an envelope, across the flap of which the members of the Committee shall sign their names, book numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope se­ curely In addition to delivering the key and ballot box or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall de­ liver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called for by this Section 4, any files that they may have re­ ceived, and all the stubs collected both for the da} and those turned over to It. The Port Agent shall be respon­ sible for the proper safeguarding of all -.he aforesaid ma­ terial. shall not release any of It until duly called for, and shall Insure that no one illegally tampers with the material placed in his custody. The remaining copy of each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the Polls Committee to Headquarters, by certified or regis­ tered mall or delivered In person. (f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without compensation, except that the Port Agent shall compensate each Polls Committee member with a reasonable sum for meals while serving. Section 5. Ballot Collection. Tallying Procedure. Protests, and Special Votes. ra» On the day the balloting in each Port is to termi­ nate. the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, m addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, de­ liver to Headquarters, or mail to Headquarters (by certi­ fied or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together with a certification, signed and dated by all members of the Committee that all ballots sent to the Port and nut used are enclosed there\vith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments under his signature and date. The certification shall specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but bound separately, the Committee shall forward to Head­ quarters all stubs collected during the period of voting, together with a certification, signed by all members of the Committee, that all the stubs collected by the Com­ mittee are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each member of the Committee to make separate comments un­ der his slgnatuce and date. The said Polls Committee members shall not be discharged from theij duties until the forwarding called for hereunder is accomplished and evidence of mailing or delivery Is furnished the Port Agent, which evidence shall be noted ai.d kept. In the Port Agent's election records or files. (b) All forwarding to Headquarters, called for under this Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee, at the address of Headquarters. In the event a Polls Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day the balloting in each Port Is to terminate, the Port Agent shall have the duty to forward the material specifically set forth In Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the Union Tallying Committee which will then carry out the functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee. In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Com­ mittee to execute those functions. All certifications called for under this Article XIll shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge, information, and belief of those required to make such certifications. (c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14 members.. Six shall be elected from Headquarters Port, and two shall be elected from each of the four ports of Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, and San Francisco. The six to be elected from Headquarters Port shall consist of two from each ctf the three departments .of the Union. The others shall be elected without regard to department. The election shall be held at the last regular meeting In ^December of the election year. No Officer, Port Agent, :Patrolman. or candidate for office, or the Job of Port fAgent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this 'Committee. In addition- to its duties hereinbefore set forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged with the tally of all the ballots and the preparation of p closing report setting forth In complete detail, the results of the election. Including a complete accounting of all ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents, all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts, and with each total broken down Into Port totals. The Ta.ly.ng Committee shall be permitted access to the elec» 0-1 records and files of all Ports, which they may require to be forwarded for inspection at Its discretion. The re­ port shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered, and cjntain recommendations for the treatment of these discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with pvrt'nent details. The Tallying Committee Is also charged with the re­ ceipt and evaluation of written protests by any member " ho claims an Illegal denial of the right to vote. If It finds the protest invalid. It shall dismiss the protest and so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of dismissal. If it finds the protest 'valid, the Committee shall order a special vote, to be bad no later than within the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are prac­ tical. effective, and Just, but which terms. In any event, shall Include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article and the designation of the voting site of the Port most convenient to the protesting member. Where a special vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provisions to the contrary contained In this Article. Protests may be made only In writing and must be received by the Union Tally­ ing Committee during the period of Its proceedings. The reports of this Committee shall include a brief summary of each protest received, the name and book number of the protesting member, and a summary of the disposition of the said protest. The Committee shall take all reason­ able measures to adjust the course of Its proceedings so as to enable the special vote set forth In this Section 5(c) to be completed within the time herein specified. No closing report shall be made by It unless and until the special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have been duly completed and tallied. Id) The members of the Union Tallying Committee shall proceed to Headquarters Port as soon as possible after their election but, In any event, shall arrive at Head­ quarters Port prior to the first business day after Decem­ ber 31 of the election year. Each member of the Commit­ tee not elected from Headquarters Port shall be reim­ bursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expense oc­ casioned by their traveling to and returning from Head­ quarters Port. All members of the Committee shall also be paid at the prevailing stand'Dy rate of pay from the day subsequent to their election to the day they return, in normal course, to the Port from which they were elected. The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman from among themselves and, subject to the express terms of this Constitution, adopt Its own procedures. Decisions as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided there be a quorum In attendance, which quorum Is hereby fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not le'ss than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immediate­ ly after the termination of balloting and to Insure their safe custody during the course of the Committee's pro­ ceedings. The proceedings of this Committee, except for the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents therefrom. If any, shall be open to any member, provided he obseri'es decorum. In no event shall the Issuance of the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying "-.mmittee be delayed beyond the January 15th Imme­ diately subsequent to the close of voting. (e) The report of the Committee shall be made up In sufficient copies to comply with the following require­ ments: two copies shall be sent by the Committee to each Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first regular meeting scheduled to take place subsequent to the close of the Committee's proceedings or, In the event such meeting Is scheduled to take place four days or less from the close of this Committee's proceedings, then at least five days prior to the next regular meeting. Whichever meet­ ing applies shall be designated, by date, In the report, and shall be referred to as the "Election Report" meeting. As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a conspicuous manner. This copy shall be kept posted for a period of two months. At the Election Report meeting, the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim. (f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be taken up the discrepancies, if any. referred to i.. Section 5(c) of this Aitlcle and the recommendations of the Tally­ ing Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of the membership shall decide what action, if any, in ac­ cordance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon, which action, however, shall not Include the ordering of a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect the results ot the vote for any office or job, in which event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A majority of the membership, at the Election Report meet­ ing, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to the closing report has been issued by three or more mem­ bers of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the contingencies provided for in this Section S(f). the closing report shall be accepted as finaL (g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Sec. 5(f) must take place and be completed within seven (7) days after the Election Report meeting, at each Port where the dis­ crepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the fore; going, and to the limits of the vote set by the member­ ship, as aforesaid, the Port agents In each such Port shal] have the functions of the Tallying Committee as set forth In Section 5(c). Insofar as that section deals with the terms of such special vote. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make a sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immedi­ ately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such spe­ cial vote. Immediately after the close thereof, the Port Agent shall summarize the results and communicate them to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets, and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall be forwarded to Headquarters, all In the same package, but bound separately, by the most rapid means practicable, but, in any case, so as to reach Headquarters in time to enable the Secretary-Treasurer to prepare his report as required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certifi­ cation, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required icf Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The !Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report contain­ ing a combined summary of the results, together with a schedule Indicating in detail how they affect the Union Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in. its closing report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent each Port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after the Election Report meeting. If a majority vote of the membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent 'segments of the Tallying Committee's closing report shall be deemed modified accordingly, and, as modified, ac­ cepted and final. If the report Is not accepted, the numerical results in the pertinent segments of the Tally­ ing Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted and final without modification. If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report there­ on by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly disposed of. and deemed accepted and fi. -l, by majority vote of the membership at the regular meeting following the Election Report meeting. If such recheck and -ecount Is ordered, the Union Tallying Committee shall be required to continue its proceedings correspondingly.Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of Port Agent or Patrolman. (a) The person elected shall be that person having the largest number of votes cast for the particular office or Job Involved. Where more than one person is to be elected for particular office or Job, the proper number of candidates receiving the successively highest number of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations shall be made only from results deemed final end ac­ cepted as provided' in this Article. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer to notify each individual elected. (b) All reports by Committees and the Secretary-Treas­ urer under this Article, except those of'the Polls Com­ mittees, shall be entered in the minutes of the Port where Headquarters Is located. Polls Committee reports shal) be entered in the minutes of the Port where It functions. (c). The duly elected Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, Port Agents, and Port Patrolmen shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the Election Report meeting, or the next regular meeting, depending upon at which meeting the results as to each of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as pro­ vided in this Article. The term of their predecessors shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwith­ standing anything to the contrary contained in Article XI, Sec. 1. This shall not apply where the successful candidate cannot assume h'- office because he is at sea. In such event, a majority vote of the membership may grant additional time for the assumption of the office or job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected Secretary-Treasurer to assume office, the provisions of Article X, Section 2(a), as to succession shall apply until such office is assumed. If he does not assume office within 90 days, the line of succession shall apply until the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority vote of the membership. (d) Before assuming office, every Officer, Port Agent, and Patrolman shall take the following oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will • faithfully execute the duties of ^ of the Seafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf District, and I will, to the best of my ability, protect and preserve the Constitution of this Union and the welfare of the membership." ARTICLE XIV OTHER ELECTIONS Section 1. Auditing Committee. Each port shall elect an Auditing Committee on Friday of each week, at 3:00 P.M.. for the purpose of auditing the financial report for that week. These reports shall be submitted to the next regular meeting of that port, for membership action. The Committee shall consist of three members. No Officer. Port Agent, Patrolman, or employee shall be eligible to serve on this Committee. The election shall be by majority vote of the members in attendance at the meeting, provided that any member eligible to serve may nominate himself. The same provisions shall apply with regard to the Port where Headquarters is located except that the Auditing Committee there shall audit the financial reports of the Headquarters Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer. �1?.'.' '.'y ;.,. .. SuppteinentaiT—Pare Sbt rwv iJ:- : 11' \I'J r I 1^'- II: |&- mV' fet: ;-iBP-. Section 2. Qnarterly Financial Committee. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall be elected at the Port where Headquarters is located, at the first or sec­ ond regular meeting held after the close of the calendar quarter for which the Committee is to make the required audit. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer to decide at which of these meetings the election shall take place. The Committee shall consist of six members, with two members from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards Departments. No officer. Fort Agent. Patrolman or em­ ployee shall be eligible to serve on this Committee. The members shall be elected by a majority vote of the mem­ bers present at the meeting provided that any member eligible to serve may nominate himself. Section 3. Trial Committee. A Trial Committee shall be elected at a Special Meeting held at 10:00 A.M. the next business day following the tegular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take place. It shall consist of five members, of which threj shall constitute a quorum. No Officer, Port Agent, Port Patrolman, or employee may be elected to serve on a Trial Committee. No member who intends to be a witness in the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who cannot, for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­ qualifications apply to him. The members of this Commit­ tee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules as are adopted by a majority vot of the membership. Section 4. Appeals Committee. The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven members, five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the Port where 'Headquarters is located. The same disqual­ ifications and duties of members shall apply with regard to this Committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee in the hearing of an appeal from ^ Trial Committee deci­ sion, if the said member was a member of the Trial Com­ mittee. Section 5. Negotiating and Strike Committee. The members of a Negotiating and Strike Committee, whether of a Port or otherwise, shall be composed of as many members as shall be determined, by a majority vote of the membership, upon recommendation of the Secre­ tary-Treasurer. Any member may attend any meeting of this Committee provided he observes decorum. However, a limit may be set by the chairman of the Committee on the number of those who may attend. Section 6. Meeting Chairman. The meeting Chairman shall be a member elected from • the floor by majority vote of the members at any meeting. Section 7. Delegates, As soon as the Secretary-Treasurer is advised as to the date and duly authorized number of delegates to the con­ vention of the Seafarers International Union of North America, he shall communicate such facts to the Port Agent of each Port, together with lecommendations as to generally applicable rules for the election of delegates. These facts and recommendations shall be announced and read at the first regular meeting thereafter. Unless changed by a majority vote of the membership during thit meeting, the election rules shall apply. These rules shall not prohibit any member from nominating himself. The results of the election shall be communicated to each Port Agent, posted on the bulletin board, and announced at the next regular meeting of the Port. Rules of election here­ under may include provisions for automatic election of all qualified nominees, in the event the number of such nominees does not exceed the number of delegates to be AKTICLE XV TRIALS AND APPEALS Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any other member for the commission of an offense as set forth in this Constitution. These charges shall be in writ­ ing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to the Port Agent of the Port nearest the place of the of­ fense, or the Port of pay off, if the offense took place aboard ship. He shall also request tlie Fort Agent to present these charges at the next regular meeting. The accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting takes place. Section 2. After pre.sentation of the charges and the request to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause those charges to be read at the said meeting. If the charges are rejected by a majority vote of the Port, no further action may be taken thereon, unless ruled otherwise by a majority vote of the membership of the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are accepted, and the accused is present, he shall be auto­ matically on notice that he will be tried the following morning. At his request, the trial shall be postponed until the morning following the next regular- meeting, at which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made against him. If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall im­ mediately cause to be sent to him. by registered mail ad­ dressed to his last known mailing address on file with the Union, a copy of the charges, the names and book numbers of the accusers, and a notification that he must appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial Committee will be elected In the event a majority of the membership of the Union shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a Port, the Trial shall take place in the Port where Head­ quarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to the accu.sdd. who shall be informed of the name of his accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his witnesses. Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent (ci A hew trial shall be recommended if the Appeals evidence and. shall not be bound by the rules of evidence Committee finds^fa) that kny member of the Trial Com­ required by. courts of taw but may receive all relevant mittee should have been disqualified, or (b) that the ac­ testimony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments, cused was not adequately Informed of the details of the at the request of the accused, to enable him to make a charged offense, which resulted in his not having been proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls given a fair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the ac­ beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does cused was not given a fair trial. exist. (d) If there is no substantial evidence to support a Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the finding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend accusers are present. The Trial Committee shall conduct that the charge on which the finding was based be dis­ the trial except that the accused shall have the right to missed. cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses, (e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser as well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may punishment. select any member to assist him in his defense at the Section 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its trial, provided, (a), the said member is available at the decision and dissent, if any, to the Secretary-Treasurer. time the trial and (b) the said member agrees to render The Secretary-Treasurer shall cause sufficient copies to be such assistance. If the accused challenges the qualifica­ published and shall have them sent to each Port in time tions of the members of the Trial Committee, or states to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting. that the charges do not adequately inform him of what He shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of their last known address, or notify them in person. £uch commission, such matters shall be ruled upon and Section 15. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of disposed of. prior to proceeding on the merits of the de­ this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall fense. The guilt of an accused shall be found only if proven accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dis­ by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such sent therein, if any. If there is no dissent, the decision of proof shall be upon the accuser. Every finding shall be the Appeals Committee shall stand. based on the quality of the evidence and not solely on the If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the number of witnesses produced. Port where Headquarters is located, in the manner pro­ Section 5. 'The Trial Committee shall make findings as vided for in Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to pun­ providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as ishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in will insure a fair hearing to the accused. the light of the proceedings. These findings and recom­ Section 16. The Secretary-Treasurer shall notify the mendations shall be those of a majority of the Committee, accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The Com­ addressed to their last known address, of the results of mittee shall forward its findings and recommendations, along with any dissent, to the Port Agent of the Port the appeal. A further appeal shall be allowed as set forth Section 17. where the trial took place, while a copy^ thereof shall be in Section 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in per­ the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­ son or by mail .addressed to their last known addresses. Union of North America, and the rights of, and The findings shall include a statement that the rights of tional procedure as to, further appeal as provided for therein. the accused under this Constitution, were properly safe­ Decisions reached thereunder shall be binding on all mem­ guarded. The findings also must contain the charges made, the date of the trial, the name and address of the bers of the Union. Section 18. It shall be the duty of all members of the accused, the accuser, and each witness; shall describe each document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary Union to take all steps within their constitutional power of the proceedings, and shall state the findings as to to carry ouf the terms of any effective decisions. Section 19. Any accused may waive any or all rights guilt or innocence. If possible, all the documents used at the trial shall be kept. All findings and recommendations and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend shall be made a part of the regular files. Section 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall, without properly requesting a 'Postponement, the Trial upon receipt of the findings and recommendations of the Committee may hold its trial without his presence. ARTICLE XVI Trial Committee, cause the findings and recommendations OFFENSES AND PENALTIES to be presented, and entered into the minutes, at the next Section 1. Upon proof of the commission of the follow­ regular meeting. ing offenses, the member shall be expelled from mem­ Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of bership: the entire proceedings to Headquarters, which shall cause (a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating sufficient copies thereof to be made and sent to each Port in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting. the overthrow of the Government of the United States Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall by force; (b> Acting as an informer against the interest of the be discussed. The meeting.shall then vote. A majority Union or the membership in any organizational campaign; vote of the membership of the Union shall; (c) Acting as an informer for, or agent, of the Company (a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or against the interests of the membership or the Union; (b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or (d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy (c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommenda­ to destroy the Union, tions, Of Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the 'd) Order a new trial after finding that substantial jus­ tice has not been done with regard to the charges. In this following offenses, the member shall be penalized up to a event, a new trial shall take place at the Port where Head­ penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event the quarters is located and. upon application, the accused, the penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommended, the accusers, and their witnesses shall be furnished transpor­ penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and privileges of membership for more than two (2) years, or tation and subsistence. Seetion 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any a fine of $50.00, or both: (a) Wilfully misappropriating or misusing Union prop­ punishment so decided upon shall become effective. The Secretary-Treasurer shall cause notice of the results erty of the value in excess of $50.00; (b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps, thereof to be sent to each accuse'' and accuser. Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain; (c) Wilful misuse of any office or joh« elective or not, who is under effective punishme.nt may appeal in the fol­ within the Union for the purpose of personal gain, finan­ lowing manner: He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to the cial or otherwise, or the wilful refusal or failure to Secretary-Treasurer within 30 days after receipt of the execute the duties or functions of the said office or job. or gross neglect or abuse in executing such duties or notice of the decison of the membership. Section 11. At the next regular meeting of the Port functions; (d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of where Headquarters is located, after receipt of the notice of appeal, the Secretary-Treasurer shall present the notice, ballots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or which shall then beqome part of the minutes. An Appeals election files, or election material of any sort; (e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such charges Committee shall then be elected. The Secretary-Treasurer ' is charged vdth the duty of presenting the before-men­ are false; (f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false tioned proceedings and all available documents used as evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as reports or communications, with knowledge of the falsity any written statement or argument submitted by the ac­ thereof, or unauthorizedly altering reports or communica­ cused. The accused may argue his appeal in person, if he tions which fall within the scope of Union business; (g) Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's ship, or so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union Headquar­ misconduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detri­ ters on the night the Committee is elected. It shall.be the responsibility of the accused to insure that his written ment of the Union or its agreements; (h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or delib­ statement or argument arrives at Headquarters in time for erate and malicious villification, with regard to the execu­ such presentation. Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the ap­ tion of the duties of any office or job; (i) Paying for, or receiving money for. employment peal as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration of the e\idence and arguments before it It may grant ad­ aboard a vessel; (j) Wilful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for journments and may request the accused or accusers to present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair con­ the purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to the Union, or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving sideration. Section 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall evidence of Union affiliation, with IntOnt to deceive; (k) Wilful failure or refusal to carry out the orders of be by majority vote, and shall be in the form of findings and recommendations. Dissents will be allowed. Decisions those duly authorized to make such ordeys during time . y .. and dissents shall be in writing and signed by those partic­ of strike. Section 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the ipating in such decision or dissent. In making its findings and recommendations, the Committee shall be governed following offenses, members shall be penalized up to suspension from the rights and privileges of membership by the following: (a) No finding of guilt shall be reversed if there is sub­ for two (2) years, or a fine of $M.OO, or both: (a) V/ilfully misappropriating or misusing Uniop prop­ stantial evidence to support sucli a finding and, in such 'V case, the Appeals Committee shall not make its own find­ erty of the value under $50.00; . (b) Assuming any office or job, whether elective or not, ings as to the weight of evidence. (bi In no event shall increased punishment be recom­ with knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualiflca- ~ tions required therefor; .. mended. v'-i' �Sapptemcntaiyr'^Paga Seveji (e) Misconduct dating any meeting or otiier offldal therewith may be Issued and take effect only after ap­ Union Ihroceeding. or bringing the Union into disreputo proval by a majority vote of the membership. Shipping rules duly issued shall be deemed to bb Union policy. by conduct not provided for elsewhere in this Article: (d) Refusal or negligent failure to. carry out orders of Section 2. A majority vote of the membership may those duly authorized to make such orders at any time. make special exceptions .or rules for any company or Section 4. Upon proof of the commission of any of the vessel, for organizational purj^oses, whether covered by following offenses, members shall be penalized up to a a contract or not ARTICLE XXIII fine of $50.00: QUORUMS (a) Refusal or wilful failure to be present at sign-ons Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specif­ or pay-offs; (b> Wilful failure to submit book to Union representa­ ically provided, the quorum for a special meeting of a Port shall be six members. tives at pay-off; Section 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port ' (c) Disorderly cbnduct at pay-off or sign on; (d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in "^shail be seven members. Section 3. The quorum for the Agents' Conference shall discharging their duties; be a majority of those eligible to attend. (e) Disorderly conduct in the Union Hall; Section 4. Unless otherwise specifically set forth here­ (f) Gambling in the Union Hail; in, the quorum for any committee shall be the majority of (g) Negligent failure to join ship. Section 5. Any member who^ has committed an offense those duly elected or appointed thereto. Section 5. Unless otherwise specifically set forth here­ penalized by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to waive his rjghts under this Constitution and to pay the in, the decisions, reports, recommendations, or other func­ maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representa­ tions of any segment of the Union requiring a quorum to act officially, shall be that of the majority of the quorum, tive of the Union. .. , , . effective unless the quorum Section 6. If offense against the Union and its principles and shall not be official and poiicies takes place in the meeting, the meeting may requirements are met. ARTICLE XXIV go into a Committee of the Whole and try the member MEETINGS at once, and in this case, the findings and recommendation Section 1. All ports shall hold regular meetings, provided of the Committee of the Whole shall be acted upon as if the report were made by a duly elected Trial Committee. a quorum is present, on every other Wednesday, at 7:00 P.M. Section 7. This Union, and its members, shall not be If such meeting night falls on a holiday, the meeting shall deemed to waive any claim, or personal or property rights take place, providing a quorum is present, at 7:00 P.M. the to which it~l)r its members are entitled, by bringing the following night. In the event a quorum is not present at member to trial or enforcing a penalty as provided in 7:00 P.M., the Port Agent of Lhe pertinent port shall post­ this Constitution. . . , pone the opening of the meeting until a quorum is pres­ Section 8. Any member under suspension for an of­ ent, but in no event later than 7:30 P.M. A majority vote fense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues of the membership shall be sufficient to change the date and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union, of any future regular meeting. Section 2. A special meeting at a Port may be called members, officials and jdb holders. ARTICLE XVII only at thendirection of the Port Agent. No special meet­ PUBLICATIONS ing may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M. This Union may publish such pamphlets. Journals, news­ and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at papers, magazines, periodicals, and general literature, in least two hours in advance, on the Port bulletin board. ARTICLE XXV sucYf manner as may be determined, from time to time, AGENTS' CONFERENCE by a majority vote of the membership. Section I. The Secretary-Treasurer shall call an Agen^jr' ARTICLE XVUl BONDS Conference once a year, and may call, with the approval Officers and job holders, whether elected or appointed, of a majority vote of the membership, additional Agents' as well as all other employees of the Union, may be re­ Conferences during the year. The time and place of each quired to be bonded under such terms and conditions as such meeting shall be fixed by the Secretary-Treasurer. may be determined, from time to time, by a niajority vote These conferences may be postponed or cancelled by a majority vote of the membership in case of emergency. of the membership. ARTICLE XIX A majority vote of the membership shall determine when EXPENDITURES such emergency exists. ^ Section 1. Policies or specific instructions with regard Section 2. The Agents' Conference may discuss and ' to expenditurts to be made or expenses* to be incurred prepare reports and recommendations on any part of the shall be determined by a majority vote of the membership. Union's activities, policies and plans. The adoption of any In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in such recommendation by a majority vote of the member­ existence, the Secretary-Treasurer may authorize, make, ship shall make the provisions thereof binding Union and incu^ such expenditures and expenses as lie within policy, until modified or otherwise altered by a majority . the authority conferred upon him by Article X and Ar­ vote of the membership provided such recommendation ticle XI of this Constitution. id'Tiot inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitu, Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly ARTICLE XXVI apply to the routine accounting and administrative pro­ DEFINITIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS cedures of the Union except those primarily concerned RELATING THERETO with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections. Section 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or Section 3. The provisions of this Article shall super­ sede, to the extent applicable, the provisions of Articles dealt with herein, the term "incapacity." shall mean any illness or condition preventing the affected person from X and XI. ARTICLE XX carrying out his duties for more than 30 days; or absence INCOME from the United States; or suspension from office or Section 1. The income of this Union shall include re­ membership as provided for in this Constitution; or the ceipts from dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, con­ due replacement of one under an incapacity as indicated. tributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income However, nothing contained in this,Article shall be deemed derived from any other legitimate" business operation or to prohibit the execution of the functions of more than other legitimate source. one job and/or office, in which <)vent no incapacity shall Section 2. No member shall be required to pay or de­ be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or of­ liver any sum of money to any Union representative with­ fice of the one taking over the duties and functions of the out obtaii)ing an official Union receipt, signed and dated. one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the It shall be ihe duty of the member to demand such re­ time during which the circumstances exist. ceipt. , Section 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with Section 3. No assessments shall be levied except after herein, the term "vacancy," and the term "vacancy not a ballot'conducted under such general rules as may be caused by an incapacity," shall be deemed to be the same, decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, pro* and shall include failure to perform the functions of any vjded that: office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or expul­ (a) The ballot must be secret. sion' from the Union with no further right to appeal in ac­ (b) The assessment must be approved by a 2/3 ma­ cordance with the provisions of this Constitution. jority of the valid ballots cast. Section 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole, Section 4. All payments by members or other affiliates the term, '^majority vote of the me.nbership," shall mean , of this Union shall be applied succe.ssively to the mone­ the majority of all the valid votes cast by members at an' tary obligations owed the Union commencing with the official meeting of those Ports holding a meeting. This oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of definition shall, prevail notwithstanding that one or more accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shall Ports cannot hold meetings because of no quorum. For i)e calculated accordingly. tbat purpose of tbis section, the term ."regularly scheduled ARTICLE XXI PERMITS AND OTHER TYPES OF UNION AFFILIATION meeting-night at which the pertinent vote may take place" This Union, by majoHty vote of the membership, may shall refer to a meeting or mretings during the time provide for affiliation with it by individuals in a lesser period within which a vote must be taken in accordance ta) The Constitution capacity than membership, or in a capacity other than with: (b) Union policy, and meapbership. By majority vote of tt\e membership, the (O Custom and usage of the Union Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident In the indicated priority. to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and obli­ Section 4. When applicable solely to Port action and gations may include, but are not limited to: (a) the applica­ bility or non-applicability of all or any part of this .Con­ not concerned with, or related to. Union action as a whole, stitution; (b) the terms of such affiliation: <c) the right of and not forming parf of a Union-wide vote, the term, the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation "majority vote of the membershjp." shall refer to the and, the fees required for such affiliation. In no event majority of the valid votes cast by the members at any may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation meeting of the Port, regular or special. Section 5. The term, "membership, action" shall mean equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights the same as the term "majority vote of the membership." over members, or be termed a member. Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the ARTICLE XXlI holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all refer­ FORMULATION OF SHIPPING RULES Section 1. The formulation of shipping rules shall not ences thereto and the provisions concerned therewith shall be deemed part of any routine administrative task. Ship­ be deemed to be equally applicable to whomever Is duly ping rules governing the details of-the assignments of acting in such .office or job. jobs and governing conduct and procedure connected Section 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed , 1 to mean that calendar year prior to the calendar year la which elected officials and other elected job-holders are required to assume office. The first election year shall be , deemed to be 1954. Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution," and "this amended Constitution," shall be deemed to have the same meaning and shall refer to the Constitution which takes the place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939. as amended up through August 1951. . Section 9. The term, "member in good standing," shall mean a member not In arrears or under suspension or sentence of expulsion. Unless otherwise expressly indi­ cated. the term, "member," shall mean a member in good standing. Section 10. The teiA, "membership book," shall mean any official certificate issued as evidence of .Union mem­ bership. Section 11. Whenever the day on which a Union meeting or action is to take place falls on a holiday, the meeting or action shall be put off until the next business day, at the same hour. ARTICLE XXVIl AMENDMENTS This Constitution shall be amended In the following manner: ^ Section 1. Any member may submit, at any regular meeting of any Port, proposed amendments to this Con­ stitution in resolution form. If a majority vote of the membership of the Port approves it, the proposed .amend­ ment shall be forwarded to aii Ports for further action. Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by a majority vote of the membership, it shall be referred to a Constitutional Committee in the Port where Headiarters is located. This Committee shall be composed six members, two from each Department and shall be elected in accordance with such rules as are established by a niajority vote of that Port. The Committee will act on all proposed amendments referred to it. - The Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance, legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare a report on the amendment together with any proposed changes or substitutions or. recommendations, and the reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­ urer. If a majority vote of the membership approves the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the Union by seciet ballot in accordance with the procedure outlined in Article XIII, Section 3(b) through Section 5, except that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote' of the_ membership at the time it gives the approval necessary to nut the referendum to a vote, the Union Tallying Committee shall consist of six (C members, twO from each of the tiiree (3) departments of the Union, elected from Heaiqrarters Port. The amendment shall either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all Ports and made available at the voting site in all Ports. Section 3. If-approved by a % majority of the valid ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective im­ mediately upon notification by the Headquarters Tallying Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the amendment. The Secretary-Treasurer shall immediately notify all Ports of the results of the vote on the amend­ ment. ARTICLE XXVIII TRANSITION CLAUSE Section 1. It is the purpose and intent of this Article to provide for an orderly transition from Union operations • and activities as governed by the Constitution in effect prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, to operations and activities conducted in accordance with this amended Constitution. Accordingly, the following sections are to be given the_ interpretation required to effectuate the foregoing purpose and intent Section 2. All routine administrative, accounting, and . other similar procedures and processes of this Union, in effect immediately prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shnll be deemed to be permitted hereunder and shall continue in effect, unless or until changed, in accordance udth the provisions hereof. Section 8. All methods and means of collecting and disbursing Union funds, all segregations of Union funds, the sequence of regular meeting nights, rules of order generally followed, bonding procedures, shipping rules, permit systems, reinstatement procedures, and any other practices or procedure, in effect immediately prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed to be permitted hereunder, and shall continue in effect unless or until changed in accordance with the provisions hereof. Section 4. All Union policies, customs, and usage, in­ cluding .those with regard to admission into membership, in effect immediately prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed to be permitted hereunder and shall continue in effect unless or until changed in accordance with the provisions hereof. Section 5. The Secretary-Treasurer, the Assistant Secre­ tary-Treasurer, all Port Agents and Patrolmen, and all others elected as a result of the balloting held by this Union during November and December of 1952, shall be deemed to have been duly elected in conformity with the provisions of this Constitution. From the date of adoption of this Constitution, they shall focecute the powers and functions, and assume the responsibilities, of the said offices and jobs, as set forth in this Constitution. They shall hold office, pursuant hereto, until the expiration date of the terms of office set forth herein. The terms of Article XIH, only insofar as they apply to election of Officials, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, shall take effect the first election year. - S -'3 �CONSTITUTION of !^'= • ARTICLE XlV-Other Elections: SLtT"! ARTICLE I—Name and General Powers: Mte''t^e •&•#-.• chairmen, delegates and members of the following committees: Auditing, Quarterly Financial, Trial, Appeals, Negotiating and Strike—Defines qualifications for these positions. name of the union afid defines its general powers, •f' A rsTi^i c II A£M* A* Provides for affiliation of the AtAKTICLC 11—AUlliaflOn: lantic and Gulf District with the Seafarers International Union of North America, the American Federation of Labor and other bodies as may be determined by a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE XV-Trjals and Appeals: El|h1"o/"vSy member to a fair trial by an impartial committee of his Union brothers. Lists in detail the procedure for bringing charges and for piresenting charges to the membership—Provides for election of fisvemember trial committee and defines Committee's procedure and duties—Requires that accused must be confronted by the accuserGives accused right to repriesentation by a brother member before the trial committee—Requires presentation of the Committee's find­ ings to the membership for acceptance, rejection or modification by a majority vote of the members—Provides procedure for appeals. ARTICLE Ill-Membership: 4fyir,'dX";uJe7:SS set by a majority vote of the membership—Defines certain eligibility requirements that must be met by candidates for new membership —Provides relief for members who may be unable to pay duea because of incapacity beyond their control—States the Union's oath of obligation—Outlines rules for suspension and dismissal for non­ payment of dues and assessments—Rights of membership to expel those who might support dual and hostile groups. ARTICLE IV-Reinstatemen»: ARTICLE XVI-Offenses and Penalties: , fenses for which a member may be brought to trial—Places limita­ tions on penalties that may be imposed upon members found guilty of such offenses—Gives a member the right to waive trial and accept an automatic penalty for infractions not involving suspension or dismissal from the Union—Provides for trial by meeting acting as committee as a whole for offenses committed during course of meeting. statement of dismissed members.. ARTICLE y-Dues and InlHafion Fee: g£'g'd'u?i schedule, initiation fee and method of payment—^Provides dues may not be changed except by constitutional amendment—Permits the membership, by majority vote, to waive dues and initiation fees for organizational purposes only. ARTICLE XVII-Publicalions: ARTICLE VI—Retirement from Membership: lication of a hewspaper and other literature. Defines the procedure by which a Seafarer may retire his book and outlines the method of reinstatement. ADTI/'*IC V\/ill Provides for bonding of officers AKI iVwLC AYIII—DOnaS: and employes o£.the Union under such conditions as may be determined by the membership. ARTICLE VII—System of Organization: ARTICLE XIX-Expendilures: ments of the Union and provides for administrative authority. V cies or specific instructions with regard to expenditures. ARTICLE Vlli-Officers: \ ADTI^I C VY Defines the Union's sources of inAKIICLC AA income: come—Sets forth the duty of mem­ bers to require Union representatives to give them a receipt for any payment of money to the Union—Provides that no assessment piay be levied unless approved by a two-thirds majority of the valid ballots cast by the members in a secret election—Gives memtership power to set up general rules-for asse^ment balloting—Pro­ vides for the Union to derive income from dividends, interest and legitimate business operations. urer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurers and Port Agents and Patrol­ men. ARTICLE IX-Ofher ElecHve gates and members of certain committees must be elect^ by the membership. ARTICLE X-Duties of Eledive Officers: Sute'Si ARTICLE XXI-Degi-ees of Membership: the Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, Port Agents, Patrolmen, Meeting Chairmen, Delegates and members of the Auditing, Trial, Quarterly Financial, Appeals and Negotiating and Strike Committees—Provides proc^ure for filling vacancies in office—Requires all Port Agents to file weekly financial reportsEstablishes membership control over actions and reports of officials and committees. rules for affiliation of individuals other than full members must be determined by the Union's membership. < ARTICLE XI—Wages and Terms of Office: ARTICLE XXIII-Quorums: ARTICLE XXII—Formulation of Shipping Rules: Guarantees, as did the previous Constitution, that shipping rules may not be revised unless approved by membership. shall be six members and the quorum lot* a.regular Port meeting shall be seven members. Provides that the Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treas­ urers, Port Agents and Patrolmen-shall serve for two-year t^ms and that their wages shall be set by a majority vote of the mem­ bership—^Provides for hiring and dismissal of other employes and personnel, subject to a majority vote of the membership. ARTICLE XXIV-Meetings: every Other Wednesday—Exceptions are noted for holidays and failure to obtain a quorum. - ARTICLE XII—Qualifications for Elective Office: ZM'&Z •- ARTICLE XXV-Agenf's Conference: SSiifJSir: Sets forth that any member has the right to nominate himself for any office—Lists eligibility requirements for the various offices. . ence of Port Agents to .be called by the Secretary-TresAurar. ARTICLE XXVI-DeflnWons! ARTOE XIJI-Electlons: ' 'i* •• of the.Cmstitution. election of * six-member Credentials Committee to inspect the candidate' eligibility according to rules of Constitution—Estabhshes safeguarife for the right of a member to nominate himself to ofiSce. Describes the Union's balloting procedure in detail—Pro­ vides for electiqni of Polls Committees to conduct elections and ^ Committee, including ifiembers; from New; York, Baltiznore, Mobile, New Orleans and San Francisco to tal^ " / -ti" ARTICLE XXVII-Amendmenfs: sdtution by the mend>ership. ARTICLE XXNmi--Traniit»n Cleu$e!SlS»,fSi.S p^actic^ and procedures to regiUMibh by '-S- itri: h> .> tux: ^ � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Seafarers Log Issues 1950-1959 Description An account of the resource Volumes XII-XXI of the Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource January 3, 1958 Description An account of the resource Headlines: EXPECT RULE ON PHS FATE NEXT WEEK ‘DUMP ROBIN VOTE’, NMU BEGS COURT TRAMP ASSAIL AMCOAL CHARTERS BOOST FOR SHIPPING SEEN IN US OIL IMPORT SLASH SIU-HIWD WELFARE INCREASES BENEFITS NAVY PILOT RESCUED BY CLAIBORNE HERMAN COOPER AND ‘LIDFORD LAW’ SUPERTANKER READIED FOR SIU SHIP CO. TRANSFERS, SHIPPING AID HIGH ON CONGRESS’ LIST DON’T REGULATE MY FUNDS’, BISS CRIES UK SHIP TRANSFER BAN STALLED BY US POSITION, BRITISH IMPLY SIU DRIVE IN BALTIMORE SPREADS, AWAIT NEW VOTE CP DROPS ‘WORKER’; FRONTS TO FORE? SIU VICTIM ‘CRITICAL’ IN BAR SHOOTING SUMMARY OF EVENTS IN 1957 CONSTITUTION Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Seafarers Log Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Paul Hall Maritime Library Microfilm 1939-1993 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Seafarers International Union of North America Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 01/03/1958 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. XX, No. 1  1958 Periodicals Seafarers Log