https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/d23d90f71d754258578b1663d42deed3.PDF 46485b68475179d7c415ce4a1069bd3e PDF Text Text LOG J. • OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT • AFL-CIO • 30 C's In Scholarships . .. i- •::ii •^ i iiil • 4 '-'•I • >fI |M I ^ f tug to come under SIU-HIWD contract, the WW Cf COfllC • Gated Delaware is shown at her mooring in Baltimore harbor. She is operated by Gulf Atlantic Towing Company. Relief cap^ tain Jim Gilmore is at entrance to pilot house. AWARDS 11 •• S i5 1 Story On Page 3 AFL-CIO Seeks Early Action On Aid To Jobless • \m . uJ I ••• m I Story On Page 2 ' '<1 '111 , I m M .r' •' ' A-.V:. •r *•"' • > -!f-= y Spare-time idea is converted to cash by Seafarer Julius Gural, AB (top, right), as he re­ ceives $150 award from Capt. Joseph McDiarmid, marine manager for Isthmian. Gural devised new gangway net (Story on Page 11.) : " '• ' • I'; . r _ ' ' ; " �• —r:rp;p, SEAFA Page Tw» Mn 9, ifiji AFL-CIO Action To Aid WASHINGTON—With hundreds of thousands of shoreside families being forced onto public charity by the exhaustion of their unemployment benefits and little actm forthcom­ ing, the General Board of the AFL-CIO has Issued a call for immediate steps tb bolster the nation's well-being. The AFL-^ CIO program on the economy Why Recession Action is Needed calls for shoring up and im­ provement of unemployment In­ The following economic facts are the basis for the AFL-CIO'e surance .benefits plus a tax cut in call for legislative action as expressed at the General Board meet­ the low income brackets. The General Board, which con­ ing of all International Union presidents in Washington, April 28: sists of all the international union • Unemployment in April stood at 5,120,000, about percent presidents of the Federation, met of the entire work force, a postwar record. It undoubtedly affects in Washington on April 28 to deal directly some 15 million or more Americans, taking families into with major issues facing trade account. unions, of which unemployment is '• Of this total 3,500,000 are getting unemployment insurance a principle problem. In its state­ ment on the economy the AFL-CIO benefits at varying rates up to $45 a week, with many drawing as declared that little has been done, little as $20 a week. despite the clear intent of the Em­ • The rest of the unemployed are ineligible for benefits, or have ployment Act of 1946, -to "promote exhausted the maximum of weekly benefits, usually 28 weeks. maximum employment, production An estimated 700,000 have exhausted their benefits in the lint SBofarar R. Manutl, OS, ami Y. Guittory, mfssinon, take their turn arid purchasing power." three months of this year, with this total still growing. That meaiM standing pickdf duly outsid* th* BethtBhem yards in Hoboken, NJ. Therefore the Board called for these people are going on relief. The length of their unemployment where their ship, the Maurice George, ex-Rion, is berdied. The unemployment insurance legisla­ is the worst aspect of the current recession. tion which would accomplish three new owner refusml to sign on tho SIU crew thot was whh the ves­ • The AFL-CIO program consists of two main sectlonB—the first, improvements in the present sel when It was sold. The SIU is charging discrimination ogoinst system of aiding the unemployed; an extension of unemployment insurance benefits and an improve­ Seafarers. a) extension of unemployment ment of weekly payment levels; the second, a tax cut concentrated benefits to a minimum of 39 weeks, in low income groups where purchasing power is badly needed. Th* b) Improvement, through Fed­ need to shore up and expand purchasing power is pointed up by eral funds, oi existing state systems statistics showing a 12 percent decline in production and an $8.7 sii that unemployed workers get blUlon deeliiie in wages >nd salaries, which the Federation feels, at least half their weekly earnings, may be translated into further unemployment and shutdowns of ' • • e) Provision of coverage for mil­ plants. lions of workers now outside the unemployment insurance system. The SIU is awaiting action by the National Labor RelatioRai, These objectives have not been Federation would concentrate this chasing power among people who met by legislation which passed ciit in the $5,000 per year or less are still working and stave off the Board on unfair labor practice charges filed April 24 against the House of Representatives last taxable income class. In addition, "vicious cycle" effect that unem­ week, since it makes no provision it called for elimination of excise ployment and loss of purchasing Mack Klosty Inc., a newly-formed shaping firm. The SIU, ; TTTTTT for improving benefit levels or (sales) taxes on autos, electrical power can have by breeding more has charged that company hir-'^'T . _ i. J the company's .agents bad stated unemployment. covering workers outside the appliances and transportation. mg for the vessel was based tjjgt they would sign a contract The latter move, which would Other items called for by the system. As it now stands, the law passed by the House would cover, affect passenger travel on steam­ Federation Include public works, on discrimination against the with the NMU, and that the soin p'art, oniy point (a) of the above ships, has also been recommended particularly school, hospital, home SIU members employed aboard the called advertisement was a pretest • requirements. (See story on page by a special Senate cdmmittee and road constniction. The Fed­ SS Rion. An SIU plcketline pro­ to cover up their previous pro­ with respect to the studying transportation problems. eration demanded Federal aid for testing the company's action was nouncements, 11.) contract. placed in front of the vessel which SIU Secretary-Treasurer Paul The tax cut was essentialr the school construction :to end the has been renamed the Maurice Ordinarily it would he expect^' HaU urged Seafarers and their Federation said, to build up pur­ schoolroom shortage.. that a new dompany without pre-i . George, families lo support the Federation The filing of the SIU charges vlous union Telationships whlcji program by writing their Senators foUdwed the purchase of the Rion acquired ft single ship would reJ to imcorporate a generous im­ from the SlU-contracted Actium tain the crew employed at that provement in imemployment bene­ time if the crewmembers expressefi fits in the bill passed by the House the desire to remain aboard, as of Representatives.was the case of the SIU crewmem­ Company decUnro Offer Great Hardships bers oinvoived. .J An N. JL U. spokesman said It has been pointed out that the The company's failure to follow, his union could get the vessel WASHINGTON—A bill supported by the AFL-aO calling greatest hardships are suffered by co^e^ inanncd with li­ such aq obvioudy-valid procedure,^ those workers who have been out for controls on welfare and pension funds has been passed by censed personnel, but fearing —in addition, to the other circunH. of work more than six months and the Senate 88 to 0. The measure would require all employee further trouble, the company^ stances—^made it clear that Klosty;' declined the offer. are no longer eligible for benefits, t>eedgo8ty.^an_ offlcinLof th® was not seeking to crew his vesseli — at least 700,000 by the last count, funds, whether operated hy*^ in good faith. who must turn to public reN^ unions, by unions jointly with ate approval, there is some doubt In its eagerness to snatch Sea­ agencies to get the bare necessities management or by manage­ as to what will happen in the House Excerpt from "NY Times" farers' Jobs, the NMU offered .tqi_of Representatives. The chairman cf life. An additional one milTon of May 1, 1958, shows how supply the company with strike-t or more unemployed were not ment alone, to register with the of the House Labor Committee, NMU offered to supply deck breaking mates and engineers to eligible for benefits in the first Department of Labor and make full Rep. Graham A. Barden, is believed and e n.^ i n e officer-strikeget the shjp moving. As reported instance. reports on their financial opera­ to be hostile to passage, of the fundin the "New York Times" of May breakert. The Federation statement point­ tions. It affects an estimated 50,000 reporting measure. 1, 1958, VAn NMU spokesman said ed out that for years, state legis­ welfare plans with $35 bilUon in The Seafarers Welfare Plan is Steamship Corporation by the his union could get the vessel com­ latures have failed to act on basic assets. one of thousands of plans which Klosty concern. Klosty, whose pletely-maimed with licensed per­ inadequacies of their unemploy­ Passage of the measure, spon­ would be affected by Uie faiii. The agent is .the National Maritime ment benefits systems, inadequacies sored jointly by Senatmrs John SIU Plan is alrea^ require'd to Union-contacted Arrow Steamship sonnel, but fearing further trou­ ble, the company declined the which are now showing up. Kennedy (Dem.-Mass.), Paul" Doug­ make annual financial reports to Corporation, then notified SIU offer." The second major portion of the las (Dem,-lll.), and Irving Ives the New York State Superintendent headquarters representatives that Federation's program calls for a (Rep.-NY), was considered a major of Insurance, as are other welfare he intended to sign a contract with tax cut of $6 to. $8 billion whmh victory for labor. It now goes to plan.s whose offices are in New the NMU. It repeatedly refused to would make up for the decline in the House of Representatives for, York State. ' deal with the SIU or to accede to salary and wage income. The action. the SlU's request that the crewThe AFI>CIO had supported the members aboard the Rion stay measure as providing equitable aboard the ship if they so desired. controls over all types of welfare On Saturday, April 5, the Klosty May 9, 1958 Vol. XX, No. 10 plans whether or not unions were concern inserted a two-line adver­ Three ships, two British tankers included in their administration. tisement for Seamen in the classi­ and a Panamanian cargo vessel, Management groups, including the fied section ,of the "New York were attacked in strife-torn Indo­ National Association of Manufac­ The names of three men were Times" and by Jdonday morning, it nesia by unidentified planes last turers, had opposed the bill, caUing inadvertently omitted from the had a fuU crew, which meant that week. One, thie Panamanian sMp for exemption for management Robin Line Honor Roll which ap­ in two days, theoretically, 27 sea­ Aquiia, was sunk. PAVX. BAU.. Secretary-Treasurer • BCBBEBI BRAND, Editor.' BERNARD SEA­ funds but regulation of union peared in the last edition of the men had read the ad, in a Saturday The two British tankers, the San MAN. Art Editor. HERMAN ARTHUR. IRWIN piams. SEAFARERS LOG. Two of the morning newspaper, made applica­ Flavian and the Daronia, were at­ S^ACK. AL MASKIN. JOHN BRAZIL. HER­ In addition, the AFL-CIO was Seafarers, Harry Miller and James tion and had been hired by the tacked shortly after dawn of April MAN MAKLER, Staff Writers. Bah Momr, Gulf Area Representative. heartened by the Senate's action in Morton, were members of the company. To nobody's surprise, it 28, while ri^ng at anchor in the Published brweekly at the headquarters decisively rejecting several pro­ Robin Hood crew. The third, John turned out that 22 of the 27 men east Borneo port of Balikpapan. of the Seafarers Internatfonal Union, At- posals which would have added to Breen, was on the Robin Gray. hired were NMU then- None of the The San Flavian was bit and set lantie A Gulf O'strlct. APL-CSO, 67S Pourih Avenue Brooklyn 32, NY .Tel. HYaO'htb existing Taft-Hartley curbs on Along ivith others named in the last men hired were members of the afire, and the crew had to abandon 9-SSOS. Entered as seeonr class m:tter , •• . at the Post Office in Brooklyn. HY. under union activity. A variety of amend­ issue of the LOG, they helped hold old crew although, all had applied her. tiia Act, of Aug. 24,. 1*1' ments were^offered in this area and the fleet for the SIU and earned a for employment. , The Panamanian sliip was bombed defeated by very wide margins. In filing its charges the SIU act­ and sunk,.Cii April SO putsid4:|he hearty vote of thanks from the Un­ Despite the overwhelming Sen­ ion membership, • ed on the fact,' aimong others, that Ijndonesian harbor' Of Amboia|^| v Sill Hits Discrimination By New Rion Operators Senate Passes BUI On Welfare Funds Eobin Line Honor Roll SEAFARERS LOG K'.^: •'. -iLc viiCi , . - •— - f. i • • Boinb 3 Ships In IndPiiesia / �Hay 9t 1958 SEAFARERS Juhl^i^s Fit Fdr'Hufy LOG Pace Thre* Name Five Winners Of Union's $6,000 Scholarship Prizes Selection of four active Seafarers and the daughter of an SIU man for fivd $6,000 Andrew, Furuseth scholarship awards was made this week by the Seafarers Welfare Plan. The afwards are good for four years of study at any recognized col­ lege or university in the"^ tal given since the program started trar, Howard University; Bernard United States or its pos­ in 1953 to 28 scholarships valued Ireland, assistant director of ad-^ at $168,000. Of this total, 17 have sessions in any field. been awarded to Seafarers and 11 The five winners are: to sons and daughters of Seafarers. Gerald E. Anderson, 26, of A number of the winners have al­ ready completed college and pro­ Minneapolis, Minn, fessional education. Giovanni F. Abundo,^ 29, Of this year's winners, Anderson Dorchester, Mass. started sailing with the SIU at the The focus was on Bosilio Jr., 8, as Dr. Oscar B. Camp, head of Mike Carlin, 25, Garden age of 16 in the engine department. the recently-opened SlU medical center in Baltimore, checked the He completed his high school work City, LI. youngster's throat during exam last Friday. Looking on were Sea­ while in the US Army and is now Frederick G. Carpenter, farer <ind Mrs. Basilio Maldonado. Basilio Jr. got a clean bill of enrolled at the University of Min­ Abundo Carpenter 29,-New Orleans, La. health, hiis dad last shipped as AB/DM on the Chilore. nesota's Institute of Technology Delia Alice Prestwood, 18, studying electrical engineering. His missions, Columbia College; ElMobile, Ala. last ship was the Mermaid (Metro wood C. Kastner, registrar. New Miss Prestwood is the daughter Petroleum). Abundo, who sailed on deck of Seafarer James R. Prestwood, who sails in the steward depart­ with the SIU, has been going to sea with the Union for the past ten ment. As in the past years, the awards years. He was last aboard the Win­ were made upon the recommenda­ ter Hill (Cities Service). Like An­ WASHINGTON—Acting on a charge against the SIU by tion of a panel of five college ad­ derson, he is already attending col­ ministrators. They are based on lege, being enrolled at Boston . NMU President Joseph Curran, the AFL-CIO Executive Coun­ the candidate's past scholastic rec­ University. His major field of in­ cil decided to table Curran's demand for Ethical Practices pro­ ord, the results achieved on the terest is chemistry. Carlin started sailing back in ceedings concerning the SIU-^ 1949 and was an active organizer Delia Alice Prestwood and fa­ American Banner Lines, and that treasury loan of $500,000 in the Cities Service fleet for two ther, Seafarer James Prest­ the loan, approved by the SIU to the Arnold Bernstein steam­ membership years. Subsequently he spent most wood. in December, 1956, of his seatime on Isthmian ships ship interests. The action to table out of treasury funds, was made a with an interruption in 1953 for an York University, and C. William the charge was taken on April 30, matter of public record long be­ Army hitch. His last vessel was the Edwards, director of Admissions, the "New York Times" reported. fore the passage of Section 5, Code Ocean Eva. He intends to major in Princeton University. V Earlier in the week, the Federa­ 5, and 15 months before the NMU international labor relations with a, tion amiounced that the Ethical made its protest. minor in literature. Practices Committee would review The reason for the protest, the Carpenter, who also sails in the Section 5, Code 5 of the Ethical SIU concluded, was the desire of deck department, has been going Practices Code which prohibits the the NMU to destroy the. American Anderson Carlin to sea for the past 13 years. His Federation or its affiliates from Banner operation and maintain an making loans to businesses with American-flag monopoly for the standard Collets Entrance Board last vessel was the Coe Victory. He svhich it bargains collectively. I United States Lines in the North Examinations and on all-around intends to major in psychology and ability and activities. adolescent guidanee. Purpose Of Code Atiantic passenger service. Seafarers Win 4 Of S Miss Prestwood is a graduate of In answering the charge, in a 20The SS Atlantic, the first Ameri­ This is the third year in a row Murphy High School in Mobile page brief supported by some J1 can flag tourist class ship in the that Seafarers have taken four of and intends to take a pre-mcdical pounds of supporting documents transatlantic trade, was scheduled the five awards given. Seafarers course with the objective of study­ and other data, the SIU said that to go into service on Maritime Day, and children of Seafarers compete ing for an MD degree. Section 5, Code 5 was aimed at ac­ May 22. It is being finished up at for the first four awards open with Aiding in the selection was a Once the, world's largest mer­ tions which would result In sweet­ the Ingalls yard in Pascagoula, the fifth reserved for the highest panel of educators consisting of heart contracts, personal profit for Miss, but the sailing date has been ranking Seafarer left after the four Miss Edna Newby, assistant dean, chant fleet, the US merchant marine continued its decline for union officials, or which would as­ posponed until June 11, because winners have been chosen. Douglass College, Rutgers Univer­ sist a faction in management to the vessel is not ready yet. This year's awards bring the to­ sity; F. D. Wilkinson, former regis­ the third straight year. As of April 1, there were only 974 active ocean­ maneuver for control of a corpora­ going US-fiag vessels of 1,000 gross tion. , The Union maintained the code tons and over. Of those, 39 were Port Officials Post Porkchops was not intended to apply to loanw government-owned and 935 were privately-owned. designed to preserve or expand job opportunities for Americau These totals represent a decline workers, and pointed to a pattern of more than 110 privately-owned of such loans by many trade unions ships since April, 1956. According over the years for that purpose. to figures released by the Maritime None of these loans, the SIU brief Administration, there were 1,048 said, are subject to censure because privately owned active vessels in they were "inspired by a desire to the US merchant fleet in 1956. By preserve and/or improve Job op­ 1957 this total had dropped to portunities of workers In the par­ 1,017 with eight tankers and 18 ticular area involved." freighters joining the 18 vessels already inactive. During the past ; FMB Approval year however, an additional 38 As the SIU pointed out the Fedtankers and 23 freighters went into oral Maritime Board Is actually a lay-up decreasing the active fleet party to some of the financial ar­ to 935 ships. rangements to which the SIU is On a month-to-month basis, the Also a party. number of active vessels has been In addition, the SIU brief fluctuating. Four inactive ships pointed out that there is no agree­ went into operation during the last ment between the SIU and the m^onth as did' a new tanker, the Gulfprince, and the Liberty ship, the Penn Jrader, which returned from foreign registry. But two other tankers, the Bidwsll and the Esso Brooklyn, were sold foreign. Of the 61-privately-owned inac­ tive vessels, 16 cargo ships apd 30 SIU Port Agent Jeff Gillette (left) and Patri^man Harvey Mesford do the honors on the new Sailors Un­ tankers are laid up because of lack ionI shipping board in the Seattle SUP hall, the jobs being posted were on SIU.ships in the West Coast of corgoes. Most of the others sra port. rt. New shipping boards, patterned after the installations at SIU halls in New York and Baitiundergoing extensive repairs or conversion. more, are being put up in all SUP hoik. Table NMU Charge On Bernstein Loan US Fleet Declines To 974 Ships FOn 4i£ yaun OFSH \ �§ SEAFARERS Pace Four War ff Ships Eluding US Salvage Bids WASHINGTON — The Govern­ ment is letting ready to end a nearly-fruitless attempt to regain part of a huge loss: the richlyladen cargo ships that were sunk during World War II. For the past seven .years, the Maritime Administration has tried to get private concerns to salvage corroding huUs and sometimes val­ uable cargoes from beneath the seas all over the world but the response to their bids has been far from eager. Against hundreds of millbns of dollars of loss to the Government the balance sheet to­ day reads $47,846 recovered. Just how many* American ships went down, victims of Axis tor­ pedoes, bombs, or mines, is not exactly known, but Maritime cal­ culates that some 400 offer salvage possibilities. They're mostly in depths of 200 feet or less, and many of them are off the Atlantic seaboard; Some of these were private ves­ sels, but the Government holds part or partial interest in the ma­ jority. In some cases the US owned the ships outright; in others, it Insured them and took title after sinking. By conservative estimate, each ship was worth $500,000 to $1 million when afloat. Despite the discouraging salvage record to date, it's unlikely that the Government will ever abandon Its rights to the sunken ships. There is always the possibility that someone will come up wjth new and effective methods of raising the ships economically, enabling the Government to recoup part of its gigantic loss, with cargoes of valu­ able metals and ores such as cop­ per, brass and aluminum. See Upturn For Mobile MOB^E—Shipping for this port picked up during the last two weeks and should continue to do so for the next period. Two vessels, the Royal Oak (Cities Service) and the Azalea City (Waterman), are com­ ing out of lay-up and will take on crews sometime next week. How­ ever it is not expected that the three tankers laid up in this port will come out as they have no cargo commitments and none are expected in the near future. Seafarers in this port will be go­ ing to the polls next week for the city and state-wide elections. All members who are eligible to vote are urged to do so and to give due consideration to the candidates who favor labor, Harold Figpher, acting port agent, reported. The Alcoa Cavalier, Alcoa Pio­ neer, Alcoa Roamer, Alcoa ,Clipper, Alcoa Partner (Alcoa); Arizpa, Monarch of the Seas, Warrior, LaSalle and Claiborne (Waterman) were in the area during the past period. Quitting Ship? Notify Union r . ,• A reminder from SIU head­ quarters cautions .all Seafarers leaving their ships to contact the hall in ample time to allow the Union to dispatch a repl^ ^ment. Failure to give n{>tice be­ fore paying off may cause a de­ layed-sailing, force the ship to sail short of the manning re­ quirements and needlessly make the wdrk tougher for your ship-ates. . ^.J..;;.....,:-^.. .. LOG iuir «. iSii SEAFARERS ROTARY SHIPPING BOARD From April 16 To April 29, 1958 (Editor's note: Under the new reporting system for SIU ship­ ping, the summaries below give the complete piciure in each de­ partment by seniority class. Job group and port, including the num­ ber of men remaining on tiie beach. Seafarers coming into port to register can pick their spots by checking the "registered on the beach" totals alongside the shipping totals for their, department. In the near future, SIU shipping will be reported by ratings in the same fashion. Comments and suggestions on this procedure are always welcome.) SIU shipping rose again during the last two weeks, boost­ ing the ratio of jobs available to men registered on "the beach. The latest figures show three men shipped for every seven A men registered on the beach at the end of the period, which could mean a complete tiu-nover of A men on the beach in 4-5 weeks. The latest comparable NMU figure is three shipped for every 20 top seniority seamen registered on the beach. The average for the last six-week period is a 3:7 ratio for the SIU, aUd 3:21 for NMU. Con­ sidered another way, the average SIU ..top seniority man has three chances for Jobs to every one available to his NMU counterpart. Six SIU ports listed improved shipping last period, four remained the same as before and four declined. Boston, New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Houston and Wilmington showed increases, and Philkdelpbia. Savannah, Mobile and San Francisco stayed "as is." The rest fell off somewhat Overall, although the SIU shipping for the period increased, the total registration in the period and of men oQ-the beaoh at the end of the period also rose, due to routine re-registrations, hospital cases, deaths, retirements, men shipping out of group and similar c|>uses. - Seniority-wise, 74 percent of the Jobs shipped were filled by A men, 22 percent by B men and the remainder by class C. Most of the class C shipping was in galley ratings, though eight ports shipped no € men at all. " The following is the forecast port by port: Boston: Fair . . . New Ymh: Good . . . Philadelphia: Dock strike's over; should improve . . . Baltimore: Good . . . Nrnfolk: Fair; crewed Angelina . . . Savannaht Slow . . . Tampa: Quiet . . . Mobile: Good; Royal Oak, Azalea City should crew up; S others still idle . . . New Orieans: Good . . . Lake Charles: Slow . . . Houston: Good prospects .... Wilmingtent Could be busy . . . San Francisco: Quiet . . . Seattle: Fair. DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia ... Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa ........ Mobile New Orleans ... Lake Cbarles .. Houston Wilmington .... San Francisco .. Seattle GROUP 2 1 4 8 31 44 3 7 16 34 I 5 4 4 3 2 10 18 16 19 3 9 10 - 19 — 3 2 5 3 4 2 2 23 2 8 1 1 1 4 4 2 2 2 5 1 —• GROUP 1 2 2 3 7 1 2 5 .4 3 1 — _ 1 — — 1 4 ' 2 1 7 1 1 4 — 1 — 3 Shipped CLAiS A 3 2 6 2 17 3 1 1 2 3 2 11 3 2 3 Shipped CLASS B . Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP 2 3 1 2 3 1 1 -2 2 — 15 36 19 5 5 3 3 1 1 3 1 10 23 .11 3 10 2 6 '— - 2 1 3 1 — \ — 1 1 _ 1 1 — — 1 14 14 4 — 4 18 7 2 18 — 9 — .— — 4 1 — 8 8 5 1 1 1' 1 1 1 =— _ — — — — ^ 2 5 1 -J 3 1 — 2 TOTAL SHIPPED/ GROUP 1 2 - — 3 - —( — _ —_ _ — _ — — —' _ — — — _ — — 3 A 2 3 3 70 — 7 3 44 __ 8 — 3 2 __ 32 43 5 21 — 3 — 7 __ 6 CLASS B 2 10 5 13 6 1 4 11 3 — 1 C 2 6 — 3 — _ — — — — — Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP 1 2 15 9 92 146 11 29 45 85 4 4 3 8 7 4 35 22 37 64 7 23 18 26 8 11 17 , 26 12 16 All 7 86 12 60 14 3 3 36 54 5 24 3 7 7 GROUP 3 1 2 2 2 7 47 2 18 6 ». 1 12 7 11 2 __ 9 4 __ . 5 4 13 14 4 4 2 1 _ _ 14 4 2 8 3 2 8 3 5 16 3 1 27 5 26 6 t 1 3 13 6 11 6 16 9 ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Port Boston New York ,,.. , Philadelphia ... Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa ........ Mobile New Orleans Lake Charles .. Houston Wilmington San Francisco .. Seattle GROUP 1 2 4 48 14 10 1 3 24 _ 4 5 1 6 1 7 18 29 11 3 '7 12 4 2 5 5 2 6 — Shipped CLASS A Registered CLASS B 3 1 11 3 1 — 2 1 — 2 3 GROUP 1 2 1 4 15 1 — — 9 2 — _ — _ Shipped CLASS B GROUP 3 1 *3 3 1 3 ._1 7 9 17 42 3 ' 2 1 1 5 2 27 4 4 3 — _ 1 4 — 1 — 2 4 15 2 6 6 25 4 2 3 2 5 4 14 3 5 — 2 — 3 1 5 4 1 1 1 1 i— — 2 2 • 7 1 2 2 11 2 1 _ 3 1 1 1 5 GROUP 2 1 __ 1 12 — — 8 1 — 2 — 1 3 1 8 3 — — Shipped CLASS C 3 2 4 1 7 2 1 GROUT 2 1 1 — — ~ ~ — 1 — 1 _ —. 18 — — 1 7 2 —— — 3 1 — TOTAL SHIPPED 3 A 1 4 1 66 — 6 — 33 — 4 _ 1 ' 4 — 1 21 — 7 35 —_ — 5 . _ 21 2 _ _ 10 3 CLASS C B 2 2 17 1 I — 16 '1 1 4 1 — 1 — 9 1 13 7 1 — 13 3 — — — Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B GROUP All 1 2 8 9 84 40 135 7 1 24 50 7 71 9 1 3 2 1 13 5 1 19 31 14 27 53 55 18 6 5 11 27 34 9 5 5 11 17 10 7 3 1 19 GROUP 1 2 3 2 7 35 2 8 30 2 ' 2 2 S 4 6 11 1 8 1 19 1. — 5 2 1 9 1 3 12 3 __ 21 2 7 — 4 1 5 6 3 S 3 19 2 It i — 1 t 10 • 8 7 18 8 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS B Registered ^ CLASS A Port Boston New York Philadelphia ... Baltimore Norfolk Savannah Tampa Mobile New Orleans ... Lake Charles .. Houston Wilmington .... San Francisco .. Seattle TOTALS DECK ENGINE STEWARD GRAND TOTAL GROUP 1 2 4 1 21 11 3 3 18 4 6 1 1 1 2 10 4 16 2 3 2 7 5 2 4 2 1 MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM MM GROUP 12 3 108 178 58 52 180 29 100 34 131 260 392 218 * MM MM MM Registered CLASS A m GROUP 3 1 2 3 1 1 5 14 8 — 5 1 12 5 4 3 4 — GROUP 2 3 1 2 1 42 2 16 1 3 1 1 — 6 1 12 2 28 1 1 1 7 1 1 4 __ 5 _ 3 2 MM. Shipped CLASS A AM MM 4 12 20 5 3 1 3 1 4 5 5 1 5 1 —• _ _ _ Shipped CLASS B 3 3 26 2 17 1 1 1 15 25 1 10 2 7 1 Shipped CLASS A Registered CLASS B GROUP 2 3 1 _ __ __ 1 10 _ — 6 1 — 4 1 — — — .— 1 — 1 » — — _ — , — Shipped CLASS C. GROUP 2 8 1 __ — 4 2 — ... — 1 — — 5 — T_' _ _ _ 5 — 4 14 _ 3 _ — . « — — 1 #— — —. — Shipped CLASS B M — • - 309 . . A 4 48 3 26 6 1 1 32 31 2 11 2 7 2 Shipped CLASS C • 'rr . * Registered On The Beach CLASS A Cf ASS B GROUP 3 1 2 7 1 3 35 104 72 8 7 15 56 12 27 6 1 1 3 3 4 9 7 2 32 14 28 31 4 55 6 4' 1 5 5 21 10 6 2 7 > 21 22 10 7 8 CLASS C B All ' ^4 6 ^5 8 5 32 5 1 11 5 1 — — 1 —' — 1 5 — 87 15 50 4 3 — 5 18 7 — 3 1 — — — 7 2 — n —• —• a C 11 1 13 1 16 1 40 1 i 874 ,; GROUP 1 2 _ 1 1 — — — 4 4 1 1 — — — — 1 — 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 T 1 3 3 21 7 21 4 _ 1 14 19 7 6 8 16 20 Registered 0 )n The Beach CLASS A CLASS B TOTAL SHIPPED . CLASS B 3 A 8 254 56 81 10 215 14 175 • 53 644 190 GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP 2 2 3 1 3 1 12 3 12 — 3 6 14 36 14 - .40 58 76 122 56 8 35 40 10 58 44 40 146 29 6 2 — 2 3 48 45 19 111 5 8 72 52 124 2 6 29 106 174 161 287 196 14 t TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP AU 1 2 8 321 289 486 d06 309 llO ^ 430 53 244 301 105 276 874 700 1021 435 a ' • -. » GROUP 1 2. 3 24 112 125 32 144 94 12 14 147 68 270; 366 • '-.l • .>y.r �SEAfARERS Mwr 9, 195S Pace Fire LOG AMMl Saves The Day For Tax Dodge Operators German ship Ciandra lies hard aground after trying to navigate St. Claire River with­ out a pilot. Right, members of MMP picket foreign-flag ships refusing to carry pilots on Great Lakes. Ban MMP Pickets In Lakes Pilot Beef DETROIT—Four locals of the Great Lakes District of the Masters, Mates and Pilots are still seeking a settlement of their dispute with the Shipping Federation of Canada over employment of pilots on for­ eign-flag ships. An injunc­ settlement has been made on . the tion issued last week put a issue. ,fitop to MM&P picket lines but no 7-Mohtli Rule Voted By Sailors , SAI^ FRANCISCO — The con­ troversial proposal to amend its ahipping rules and Umit the time Of continuous employment on any one Slip - contracted vessel waa adopted by a .harrow margin by members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific in their union-wide referendum ballot. ; The amendment will reduce the time allowed for continuous em­ ployment on one vessel from 360 to 2li3 days. Of the 3,540 ballots cast, 2,418 were in favor of the Umitation and 1,106 were against ft. The amendimnt, which needed-a two-thirds majority vote to' be carried, passed with 68.6 per­ cent of the total vote. Also adopted by the member­ ship, by a much wider margin, was the proposition that all constitu­ tional and shipping rule amend-: ments, which must now be sub­ mitted for referendum vote, will In the future be held over and placed : on the regular'annual ballot. This 'amendment recognizes that refer­ endum votes, besides being costly, are also time-consuming, and in -i majority of the cases, could be held off until ihe SUP'S annual Actions. The second proposition was adopted by a 2,846 to 591 vote. , Balloting : was held, during the months of March and April. 77'.-'•-.r.-. , •, The picket lines went up in all major Lakes ports when foreign shipowners refused to use pilots on the open waters of the Great Lakes. In the past, pilots have usually been picked up at Kingston, Ontario, and used to the port of destination on the Lakes and back. This has not been required by law, but American and Canadian ves­ sels carry masters who are of them­ selves licensed pilots. The MM&P asserts ,that pilotless vessels on the Lakes are unsafe. In support of the union's argument, two ships, a Gennan freighter and a Danish vessel, have run aground in the. few weeks since the naviga­ tion season began, both of them running without pilots. Additional support for the MM&P case is the fact that the Coast Guard and other agencies have con­ sidered and in some instances sup­ ported legislation calling for com­ pulsory pilotage of foreign ships on the Lakes. A bill to that effect, HB 7515, is pending in the House. MM&P picket lines were hon­ ored by nfembers of the Interna­ tional Brotherhood of Longshore­ men and other affiliates of the Maritime Trades Department, effeptively tying up foreign ships in most ports prior to the injunction. SCHEDULE OF SlU MEHINCS SiU membership meet­ ings are held regularly every two weeks on Wed­ nesday nights at 7 PM in all SIU ports. All Sea­ farers are expected to attend; those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure tp include reg­ istration number). The next SIU meetings will be: May 14 May 28 June 11 . June 25 ! • GENE"VA—A watered-down "genuine link" clause, largely crippling efforts to control runaway-flag shipping, has emerged from the UN Conference on the Law of the Sea as the result of the energetic activities on behalf of the runaways by the American Merchant Ma­ rine Institute. AMMI Presi-4 ^ it favored "reasonable and prac­ ation of the American-flag fleet." dent Ralph Casey, who has ticable proposals . . . for setting While the AMMI includes in its been carrying the ball for the ground rules for registry and op­ membership many of the large tax-dodging shipping entei^rlses, eration of vessels under flags of subsidized operators, it also repre­ called the watered-down clause a convenience or under any other sents oil companies with large run­ 'resounding victory for national maritime flag." away fleets. In addition, some of sovereignty." The statement added that the the Atlantic and Gulf operators The "victory for national sover­ association does not favor unre­ who are prominent in AMMI are eignty" consisted, of removal of stricted transfers of US-flag ves­ seeking the right to sell their old language which would give a na­ sels to foreign registry and pointed tonnage foreign. Any tendency to put restraints tion the right to question the sta­ out that "our members operate tus of. a ship flying a runaway flag. American-flag vessels exclusively on the tax-dodging nmaway oper­ For practical purposes, it would and our Association dedicates its ations would reduce the market have given the legitimate maritime time to the betterment and oper­ for their old ships accordingly. nations a powerful weapon with which to curb the activities of nmaway-flag ships on the groimd that the vessel did not really belong to the nation in which she was registered. Such e course was attacked vig­ orously by the AMMI, which pur­ ports to represent the interests of the American Merchant Marine. Trial examiner Thomas Wilson completed hearings this The conference did go on record week on the National Labor Relations Board's case against as favoring a "genuine link" be­ tween a ship and the flag it flies. American Coal Shipping Company. The case is based on a complaint against the com-fPASA Baps AMMI Drive At least one group of shipown­ pany issued by the NLRB bor practice charges. _ The usual ers, the Pacific American Steam­ regional director in New York NLRB procedure is to process such ship Associatipn, disagreed vocif­ as a result of a number of unfair charges before ordering an elec­ erously with the AMMl's "all-out" labor practice charges filed by the tion. The NMU and the company, in separate communications, had drive on behalf of the runaways SIU against the company. The PASA position, as outlined at While the hearings were going asked the Labor Board to disre­ the request of SIU of NA Vice- on, the NLRB in Washington gard its policy of not ordering elec­ President Morris Weisberger, said turned down a motion by the Na­ tions while a charge of company that Casey's statement to the effect tional Maritime Union calling for favoritism to one of the unions that runaways- are an integral part the direction of an immediate rep­ involved is stili pending. The SIU 4ias such charges pend­ of the cargo fleet, "tortures the resentation election on the Coal definition of US Merchant Ma­ Miner, the one vessel now being ing to the effect that the comp'any rine." operated by ACS. The NMU mo­ favored the NMU and discrimi­ They reminded Casey that "The tion was concurred in by the com­ nated against Seafarers. The charges involved in the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 cov­ pany. ers US-flag vessels only and not In rejecting the election bid, the hearings just concluded encom­ vessels flying foreign-flags which NLRB said it was "lacking in passed such violations. They con­ happen to be owned by Ameri­ merit." , The ruling dashed the cern illegal company aid and as­ cans," hopes of the NMU and the com­ sistance to the NMU and more The PASA also pointed out that pany of by-passing SIU unfair la- than 300 acts of discrimination against individual seamen because they were SIU supporters. Meanwhile, the Coal Miner was in port last week loading up a coal cargo for the first time in sev­ eral voyages. SIU oldtimers who have been holding the fort on the ship got one trip off under a vaca­ * tion relief arrangenkent worked (This column Is Intended to acquaint Question: How does the rest per­ out among all parties concerned. Seafarers with Impertaht provisions of iod rule apply on days, of arrival? While the company had its Gov­ the SIU control.) Recently, when an SlU-con- ernment-chartered ships operating, Article II. Section 41 (a) Rest tracted ship arrived in port. Sea­ the Coal Miner had been on the periods. When ship is under port farers who were off watch Were grain run for the past several working rules and sea watches turned to after 6 AM but before months. have not been set and members of 8 AM and told that they weren't the unlicensed deck and engine entitled to the rest period or to persoimel off duty are required to overtime in lieu of the rest period. work overtime between midnight In this case, the company claimed and 8 AM, they shall be entitled that Section 41 (s" paragraph 2 of to one hour of rest for each hour the agreement applied. This para­ actually worked. Such rest period graph says that men who turn to shall be given at anytime during "at 6 AM or after," are not en­ the same working day. The, rest titled to the rest period. SAN FRANCISCO—A sure sign -period shall be in addition to cash When the Union was notified of that winter is over is the an­ overtime allowed for such work. If this beef, the Union pointed out such rest period is not given, men that Section 41 (b) of the general nouncement of the first sailings for shall be entitled to overtime at rules applied in this instance. This the far north by West Coast com­ the regular overtime rate in lieu section states that if men are panies. This year the SS Tonsina thereof. This shaU not apply when turned to on days of arrival, out­ (Alaska Steamship) will be the first sea watches are set the same day side of their regular watch, any­ vessel to break the ice through and before the rest period is com­ time between midnight and 8 AM, the Bering Sea bound for Nome, pleted. they are still entitled to the rest Alaska. Manned by members of This section shall not apply to period, or in place of it, additional the SlU's Pacific District, the Tonsina will replenish stores men turning to on overtime at 6 overtime pay. and supplies at the nation's north­ AM or after. In other instances, when watches have already been broken, com­ ernmost city. Other far north sailings to Bristol (b) On days of arrival, if mem­ panies have tried to call men out bers of the unlicensed deck or en­ at about 5:45 AM and.turn them Bay and the Kuskokwin area have gine personnel off duty are re­ to at 6 AM and then claimed that scheduled the Fortune for Nalnek quired to perform work between no rest period was, due to the men. and the Galena for Port MoUer, mfdnight and 8 AM they shall be However, in Instances such as these both late in May. Due to ice condi­ entitled to one hour of rest for Section 41 (a) of the agreement tions and packs, the ocean routes each hour worked. If such period clearly states that when jvatches to Ala.skan and other far north of rest is not completed at 5 PM are broken, men cannot be called ports are blocked off from October of the same day, overtime shall be out at any time before 6 AM with­ to late May and all shipping must allowed for the incompleted portion out being given the rest period; or be done in the four-month sununer period. pf such rest period. in its place, the overtime pay. Hearings End On NLRB Charge Against Amcoal KNOWING YOUR Sill CONTRACT Open Bering Sea Service �SEArARERS »ace Ox tOi Scab Fleet Costs Men $3,30 Daily QUEBEC—After operating profitably under a cut-rate Dis trict 50 contract, the owners of Clarke Steamship Company, Ltd., have decided to share the wealth with the seamen who man their vessels in the form of a "bonus," the "Canadian It was based on his daily wage rate of $6.17. For a messman who Sailor" reports. In a letter to the crews, S, D. worked the entire season, his Clarke, coaapany general manager, bonus came to $43.19, or one complimented them on good work week's pay. As to his regular wages, the and splendid cooperation and said the company would "show tangible messman with 81 days tn his appreciation" for their work, at credit was paid $499.77, or $267.30 $3.30 per day less than on union less than he would have received had he been under the SIU Ca­ ships. nadian District confa-act, the Ca­ For officers and crewmem;bers nadian seamen's paper declared. who worked a full season, the Under SIU scales, the messman Winding up stay ot Baltimore bonus was calculated on a seven- would have been paid at the rate PHS ho»ital due to broken day period. For those who did not $9.47 per day, or $767.07 for an hip, C. G. Murray (top, left), work the full season, one day's of ex-Cubore steward, has pa­ wages were paid for eadi month 81-day period. This is in addition to his other benefits as the SIU worked. ^ pers checked by Patrolman Welfare Plan, death benefit and Walt Sibley at SIU hall. At " Bwken down, the bonus meant, other extras, which are not en­ to a messman who had put in 81 joyed by any of the men working hospitdl, Calvin Rome (top, days aboard one of the vessels, a under the District 50 "contract." right), passes time making a check to the grand time of $16.67. leather belt. He was oiler on Clarke had signed a "contract" with District 50 after a company the Del Rio. At right, com­ union had failed to oust the SIU bined SlU-MFOW contingent in a drive to represent the men includes (I to r) Stan Rodgers, on its vessels. Hal Banks, sec­ ex-Jean nosun; Frank Paznoretary-treasurer of the SIU Ca­ kas, ex-President Pierce, and nadian District, had offered a $200 Eugene McPartland, ex-P&T reward to any person who could Leader, of MFOW;'^^Ed Seproduce an authentic copy of this serko, ex-l^ska, OS; JeAnings agreement between the company and the UMW. The "contract" Long, ex-Cubore, QM, and was reportedly signed when the Leslie Simmons, who was carp­ company's vessels were in winter enter on Robin Mowbray dur­ lay-up. ing Robin beef. Clarke Steamship made the The Kings County Supreme Court has ruled that Insurgent headlines last year when their members of Local 88, Masters, ships, manned by District 50, car­ Mates and Pilots, must surrender ried "hot" cargo from the struck V: control of the local headquarters Gaspe Copper mines in Murdochand property to the officers they ville, Quebec. The mines had been struck by members of the United cust.ed on March 12. Steelworkers. The United Auto Workers union reprints of Virginia's "right-toThe Supreme Court decision Violence by strikebreakers, has asked its top officials and work" laws to striking workers. brings to a conclusion a series of events which began when the in­ brought in by the company to work representatives to take a voluntary The TWUA had been certified as WASHINGTON — The Houso." surgents seized the local union's the mines and plants, caused the ten percent pay cut in a drive to bargaining agent for the workers, death of two members of the SteelForeign • Affairs ' Committee^iiha^.. cut down on the union's expenses, last September and.started nego­ headquarters at 107 Washington St. Layoffs among the union's dues tiating for a contract. But the approved a foreign aid authoriza* Soon after. State Supreme workers. The District has servfed notice paying members have cut the active company dragged out the negotia­ tion bill cutting $339 million from Court Judge Benjamin Brenner is­ on its contracted dredging com­ membership down from 1,300,000 tions. and then dismls.sed 42 per­ sued a temporary restraining order President Eisenhower's request for against the insurgent group and panies that it is planning to to less than 1,000,000. The pay sons elected to a union committee $3.9 billion for the fiscal year start-' open their agreements for negoti­ cut, and other ecbnomies, will be in the plant. ordered it to vacate and turn ing July 1. ,7?he cut is smdle* over the union's property, records ating improvements in wages and put into effect in the near futime. 4^ 4^ than expected,.,and probably w'tU Among those effected will be UAW and assets to Captain Roy D. Lur- working conditions. A -three-year agreement has have no seriods effect on US mer­ Committees elected by the President Walter Reuther, who vey, the temporary trustee of local 88 appointed by the International membership have been processing now receives $22,000 a year; Emil ended the 12-day- strike by mem­ chant shipping. contract proposals submitted for Mazey, secretary-treasurer; four bers of the Brotherhood of Elec­ The cuts were made in requests MM&P. The insurgents won a stay of the negotiation. Most of them call for vice-presidents, members of the trical Workers which affected the for money foi' direct military aid order in the Appellate Division, •revisions in wages for various International executive board and operations of Columbia Broadcast­ to America's allies, economic aid which was later modified to specify classifications where more exact several hundred International rep­ ing System in seven cities. The to support the defense efforts of that they couldn't spend any of the requirements and training are resentatives making some $7,000 to agreement was ratified in a ref­ friendly countries, a special emer' local union's money or in any way needed to fill the Job. $8,000^ annually. The uirion em­ erendum • vote among the 1,300 gency fund to meiet aid needs dur­ disturb its property or records. phasized that the cut will not IBEW workers within 2i hours of ing the year, and economic assist­ The latest Supreme Court find­ effect any of Its own employees. the settlement. It provides for a ance. ' six percent wage increase retroac­ The committee added $8 million ing charges the rebel group with 4" 4 tive to February I, another raise to. the request for technical assist­ Violating the local's constitution The United Steelworkers of of approximately 2.4 percent in ance, and defeated the annual' at­ and orderi^ that the March 12 meet­ America has announced another August, 1959, a schedule of layoff tempt to ban aid to Yugoslavia, ing be reconvened for the purpose all-out drive among the imorgan- pay should automation result in a of electing hew local officials. Rep. Thomas E. Morgan (Dem.f ized workers at Mesta Machine Co., reduction in force, company-paid Pa.), acting committee chairman, The rebels will turn over control one of heavy industry's last big life insurance and improved vaca­ said the bill would be sent to the of the local and Its property after unorganized firms. Three other tion and holiday benefits. Through­ House in mid-May. He expressed presiding Judge Edward G. Baker signs Judgement papers being pre-' The SlU-contracted Isthmian unions, the International Brother­ out the strike, IBEW members belief that it would be approved. Lines has awarded its semi-annual hood of Electrical Workers, Inter­ manned the short-wave transmit­ The bill is an authorization for pared by opposing attorneys. In the Interim, the business of prize in its fleet safety contest to national Association of Machinists ters CBS uses for the Voice of funds that will have to be voted Local-88 has been carried on by the Steel King, now in India, for and .the Moulders and Foundry America. later in an appropriations bill. , the trustee at temporary -offices, its six month, accident-free record. Workers have also turned their The award, under the rules of sights on the more than 3,000 un­ $25 Lafayette Street. . ^ the contest, is a $250 sura which organized Mesta employees. USW, is paid to the ship's fund for ship­ which had'tried to crack the:.plant board welfare and recreational three times so Tar, is arguing be­ comfort of the Unlicensed per- fore the NLRB for an Integrated sonneL The rules for the next unit. The Pattern Makers League contest have been changed to in­ of North America representing clude an additional $250 for the some 65 men who put together the licensed personnel of the winning giant wooden patterns for some of ship also. the mill equipment, was the only The ruimers-up in the competi­ union to break through at the planL tion were the Steel Artisan, the t 'it last contest winner, with a record Some 18 members of the 24-man of one accident in the current Fredericksburg police ..department period/ and the Steel Surveyor and have been used to break a strike Steel Voyager each with a record of 300 members of the Textile of three accidents. Workers Union at Virginia Shoe - Isthmian concluded its announce­ Corp. Although picketing has been ment by praising "the honest peaceful since the stiike was called effoifs and. full cooperation of all on January $2,. tho,, police have hands" in leaking the award pds- arrested Iswen strikers !^nd, on sib%/'. ix- at lea^ t\tro . (H:casiQ«ii^^ rr-rrrm'. -TTr.,*- LOG Visits 'Drytfock'fn Baltimore Rump Group Ordered Out Of MMP Hq. lAMt ROUND-UP f foreign Aid Passes 1st DC Hurdle Steel King Is Isthmian Safest Ship PORT O' CAU " f». i �: J rt ,-•• .<• '• f if» A f (. "I SEAFARERS «bqr»,lfN ¥011 MAR'S fORTH SoRfanr) Cloide To Better Bnyinf Bv Sidney MargoUue Where To Get Financial Help When you get into « financial crisis, there are community resources and services that caa help' you. But most people have only a dim idea of where to go in time of trouble. . Several surveys, in New York, Kentucky and Michigan, have found most families don't know the extent of benefits for which they may be eligible, such as Social Security, Federal and state vetCTans' beiwflts, vocational rehabilitation, and so on. The University of Michigan Institute of Public Administration found only one out of four people interviewed in Detroit knew that Social Security provides payments for families whose breadwinner~dieSi as well as old-age benefits, ^en among people already getting Social Security, fewer than haif knew the full extent of their rights. In an emergency, here are facts you and Your family ou^t to know: . Social Security: In recent months there has been a rise in Social Security applications. as older people have found Jobs harder to find. Older men and women and widows with children under 18 should know they can draw Social Security even if they plan to return to work when Jobs become more plentiful. In fact, you can go on iand off the rolls, as often as necessary.. In most states, you also can collect Social Security in addition to unem­ ployment compensation, although Social Security admlnisti'ators don't like to broadcast this because unemployment=compensation reserves are getting tight. People otherwise eligible for So-cial Security, who , are working sporadically, can get some monthly payments if they earn no more than $2,080 a yeai. And no matter how much you do earn in a year, you can get your payment fos any months in which you don't earn more than $80. , Vets' Benefits: A recessioncaused cut. in income also may make nonservice-disabled veterana and s»me widows eligible for pen­ sions. These are available to per­ manently-disabled veterans, to sur­ viving dependents of a World War II and Korean serviceman who had a service-connected-disability, and to widows of World War I vets even if their husbands had no disability. These pensions are not^ payable if the potential beneficiary has income of over $1,400 a year if single, or $2,700 with dependents. Besides VA benefits, many veteransk tend to pass up state benefits, especially the partial property-tax exemption for veterans provided by a number of states. You can learn what state benefits you may be eligi­ ble for, by contacting ttie nearest VA office, or by writing your state department of veterans' affairs at your state capital. Family Financial Counsel: Many emergency demands are being made on family service agencies In the present crisis, reports Mrs. Shirley CJamper, Family Life Consultant for the Family Service Association. The official position of such agencies is that people in urgent need of cash help should apply to the (Government welfare agencies. But on a practical level, family agencies often do assist in an emergency when they have the funds. Where the family agencies are uniquely equipped to help is in work­ ing out budgets, and in arranging with creditors to stretch out pay­ ments if you have gotten over your head in debt. Even regularly-em­ ployed families and people with higher incomes use the family agen­ cies for help with planning budgets and managing: finances. For counsel on finances and other family problems as child guidance or marriage counseling, the agencies typically charge $5 an hour. But if you can't afford the fee,, the family agencies never timn anyone away, Mrs. Camper reports. Such agencies are generally listed in the local phone book under "Family Service," or you can find one in your area through the AFLCIO Community Sehrices Committee in your town. You also can write directly to the Family Service Asbciation of America, 215 Fourth Ave., New York 3, to get the name of an agency in your area that can help you with a specific problem. Generally the family service agencies are non-sectarian, but the dissociation also in­ cluded some of the agencies sponsored hy various faiths, v; Health Emergencies: In an emergency caused by a serious Illness, there are many local and state organizations which can provide special services, such as clinics providing maternity, pediatric, mental-health and cancer aid; nursing and homemaking services for children and chronically-ill adults, and organizations providing service* and informa­ tion on specific illnesses as tuberculosis, diabetes, heart illnesses, crip­ pling injuries, polio, muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, multiple ^lerosis, and others. There are some 700 active local health councils throughout the na­ tion which can refer you to the proper Organization for an emergency health service. You can get in touch with these health councils di­ rectly, or through your community-services committee, local board of health or county medical society. (Ed. note; Seafarers and their faifillies can get assistance in some of these areas through the Seafarers Welfare Plan. The Plan's interestfree loan program assists Beafarers registered for shipping on the beach jiud the fauiuy Moc4*itol-«tu:igieid benefits program provides, benefits to help cover the cost of health emergencies. Seafu^s' familiercan also liwe the diagnostic services of SIU Health Centers in New York, Bdila,'-••t- ,inorei MoWe and Neif 'Orleans vdthibut any chirge to LOG Fag« 80fW Bloomfield 100 Percent Clean Although ineligible to receive a Public Health citation because it has less than five ships, the SlU-contracted Bloomfield Stieamship Company is the i»oud possessor of a 100 percent sanitary rating from the PHS. All four of the company's snips rated tops in the 168-item check by the Service. ^^ In fact, the company re­ ported that after the inspec­ tion of the Lucile Bloomfield, the Public Health Service representa­ tive said that the vessel was clean­ er than "any restaurant in the city of Houston." A preliminary agreement on compensation for Eg^t's na­ O. C. Webster, vice-president of tionalization Of the Suez Canal Company was sij^ed in Rome the company, praised the SIU dele­ last week. The agreement reached by the United Arab Re­ gates and particularly the steward public and representatives of-^ department men on the ships for the stockholders of the Uni­ World Bank canal improvement constantly maintaining high stand­ ards of cleaniiness. "You have a versal Suez Canal Company loan. Since the ditch is one of its chief motto that 'an SIU ship is a clean calls for payment to the stock­ ship,*" he noted, "and we believe holders of more than $81,000,000, economic tools, Egypt plans to dredge the nationalized waterway^ that a Bloomfield ship is the clean­ on a five-year installment plan. est of them all." The accord on compensation ap­ to handle veskls with 43-foot drafts. This would enable tankers The sanitation program on pears to bring the settlement of the of 40,000 to 60,000 tons to use the Bloomfield ships, he added, has twenty-one-month-old Suez contro­ canal with full loads instead . of been, handled in line with the SIU versy to the conclusive stage and going around the Cape of Good "to order" feeding program, and paves the way for widening and Hope. has worked out to the great satis­ deepening of the 105-mile water­ At the time of Colonel Yunes* way. faction of all hands. report, the canal was still eighteen Three other SIU companies, Sea- Last year Colonel Mahmeud inches short of its pre-blockage train Lines, Ore Steamship Com­ Yunes, board chairman and manag­ depth of 35 feet. pany and Calmar. Steamship Com­ ing director of the Canal Authority, Late reports, however, have pany, won citations from the Pub­ said he had plans for a $200 million shown that the depth of the canal lic Health Service for maintaining canal improvement project, but has diminished, rather than in­ their vessels at 95 percent or better that they were being held up be­ creased, to 331^ feet in the 20 in the sanitation category. Only cause of a lack of financial backing. months it has been under Egypt's eight American-flag operators out The settlement paves the way control. That means it is pretty of 128 companies in the Atlantic for the release of some $30 million well down to the minimum depth and Gulf area were able to qualify of Egyptian "frozen" assets in the required by large cargo ships and for the award. US, and opens the way for a future smaller tank^s today. Egypt To Pay For Suez; Flans To Deepen Canal Balft Center Stepping Up Exam Pace BALTIMORE—The SIU Health Center in this port is operating under full steam now and has been getting a steady turnout of Sea­ farers and their families for ex­ aminations. Port Agent Earl Sheppard reminded the membership that appointments for dependents are made at the counter for Fri­ day afternoons. Outside of the continuing organ­ izing drive by MAWD and HIWD affiliates, the last two weeks were quiet here. These two divisions have reported good progress in a number of companies and expect to ask for recognition soon. Shipping has been fair for the period but is offset by a large reg­ istration list. Another Ore Line vessel, the Chilore, tied up for an indefinite period and it is rumored that others might also tie up. There were 14 vessels paying off, nine signing on and eight intransits during the period. The crews brought these ships in in very good shape and with few beefs. The delegates are to be com­ plimented on the good job they are doing, Sheppard said. QUESTION: Do you follow baseball while at sea? Bob. Bullock, Mier: I try to keep up with the Yanks, but it's tough at sea. .Brooklyn ought to take it in the National League but don't sell the Braves short It doesn't make any differience anjrway; the Yanks have the series sewed up just as they do every year . , almost. $ J. P. Batson, BR: And how! I try to keep up with my boys, the Yanks, of course, while at sea, but it's difficult at times. However, since my wife is a diehard Yank fan, too, I get the latest standings in the mail. Speaking of the Yanks, watch them, they'll be on top this year. ^ ^ ^ Leon WUte, electrician: I follow it very closely when'i'm home, but when I'm at sea I don't like to get my information piecemeal so I don't keep up with it at all. As for the teams I root for, I don't care who wins in either, league just so long as it isn't the Yanks or Brooklyn. It » » William Omelaacmk, AB: It's difficult to keep up with the teams on the long trips but when I'm coast-wise I can keep posted by radio or news­ paper. I* m a Red Sos fan and I hfltp* toay give the Yanks M run lor tocir money this yoiff. William CoUase. steward: I try to follow the Yanks while at sea. I was a Giant fan, but since they've moved, I'll stick to the Yanks. My wife, who knows I'm a staunch b a 8 e b a Li fan, saves all the newspaper clipp:^ ings every day and sends them to me, so I keep up with them fairly well. i(. i. X' Ruben Maldonado, OS: I'm a Brooklyn fan no matter where they go, and when I'm at sea I try to, keep in touch' with them either by radio or through the for­ eign newspapers. They beat the Yanks in '56 and they've got a good chance to do it again this year. Speak Out At SIU Meetings Under the Union constitAion every member attending a Un­ ion meeting is entitled to nominate himself for the elected posts to be filled at the meeting —chairman, reading clerk and recording secretary. Your Un­ ion urges you to take an active part in meetings by taking these posts of service. And, of course, all members have the right to take the floor and express their opinions on any officer's report or issue un­ der discussion. Seafarers are urged to hit the deck at these meetings and let (hrir ship­ mates know whafs on their minds. �SEAFARSRS' lae Fare EiffM t-. V-; 'fv';. US Applies 3-Mile Lipt As UN Conference Fails GENEVA—The 86-nation United Nations Gonference on the Law of the Sea ended last week after codifying sea law on vir­ tually every point except territorial waters and exclusive fishing rights. Chile, Ecuador and Peru, assert During the conference, most that their claims for 200 miles of major Western maritime pow­ territorial waters and exclusive ers offered plans to extend terri­ torial waters from the present three-mile limit to six miles. This was unacceptable to nations de­ manding twelve miles or more for territorial waters and exclusive fishing rights. As a result of the deadlock, the major Western powers gave formal notice that they would recognize only the traditional three-mile limit as universally "applicable. Arthur H., Dean, chief American delegate to the conference, stated the US position as follows: "The three-mile limit is and will continue to be established inter­ national law. Acts of states claim­ ing greater limits are not only not sanctioned by international law, but-are, indeed, in conflict with the universally accepted principle of the freedom of the seas." Smaller states, however, such as Supership Bill Voted In House WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives has given its ap­ proval to a bill which authorizes construction and sale, by the Fed­ eral Maritime Board, of a superliner passenger vessel equivalent to the SS United States as a replacement for the SS America lor transatlantic operation, and for a smaller vessel for operation in the Pacific. Passage of the bill in the House comes simultaneously with the an­ nouncement of the Cunard Steam­ ship Co., world-leader in the lux­ ury passenger trade, that it has shelved plans to build a 28,000ton, $22.4 million superliner be­ cause such ships are uneconomi­ cal for the company to build at present. The total cost of the trans-Pa­ cific ship has been put at $76 mil­ lion and would be sold to Ameri­ can President Lines at a fixed price of $34 million, 45 percent of the domestic construction cost. The transatlantic vessel, to be sold to the US Lines at a fixed price of $47 million, will cost a minimum of $130 million to build, at last estimate. Actually, US Lines will put up $37 million cash, with the other $10 million coming from transfer of the America to a foreign flag or sale of the ship to the Government at the going for­ eign-flag price of $10 million. In effect then, US Lines would put up 30 percent of the total cost of the new vessel, plus the old one. The Government would lay out 63 to 70 percent depending on whether the America was sold to the US. The bill would give US Lines spe­ cial treatment oVer and above other ship lines and outside the scope of the 1936 Merchant Ma­ rine Act. The House's approval of the bill raises, once again, the question of how the Government should dis­ tribute its maritime appropri­ ations. ' The SIU and other unions have argued against the policy of concentrating subsidy funds on prestige, luxury items which have little commercial utility as op­ posed to modem ecargb carriers and truly commercial passenger ships.! fishing rights "remains in full force as long as just and humane solu­ tions are not worked out." The five treaties that were adopted during the nine-week con­ ference seek to provide the follow­ ing in international maritime law: 1. The right of innocent passage of foreign ships through undefined territorial waters of any nation and through straits used for interna­ tional navigation. 2. General principles of interna­ tional law on the high seas, includ­ ing action against piracy and slave trade, and a genuine link between a Ship and the nation whose flag it flies. 3. Internationally, agreed meas­ ures for fishery conservation. ,4. Exclusive right of coastal na­ tions to exploit and explore mineral and other resources, including oysters, in their offshore ocean beds. (See story on page 5 for more detaUs.) The first treaty, in effect, up­ holds Israeli shipping rights in the Strait of Tiran and the Gulf of Aqaba. Although the text of the treaty makes no specific reference to the Aqaba case, the Gulf in­ cludes international waters beyond the territorial sea limits of Israel, Jordan, ^audi . Arabia and the United Arab Republic. Even though; the three-mile-wide Strait Of Tiran lies within the territorial waters of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic, the treaty considers that it is used for international naviga­ tion. The Saudi Arabian representa­ tive,' Ahmad Shukairy, told the conference that, his nation would not recognize the article, since, he contended, a state of war exl »':s be­ tween Arab nations and Israel. As for the deadlocked issue of territorial waters, the conference adopted a Cuban resolution refer­ ring the problem back to the United Nations General Assembly. yi- •I"- r'^"- •C-• r '-'J. -J 'y.l . On the tropical runs, or down in the engine"^ room in any climate, it's easy^or a Seafarer to become dehydrated, and consequently d^ salted, in short order. The consequences con ; be serious if not choked in time. • - • ji* . ... "'-••J' ^ _•' > ' J-''r,. The crew of the Del Sol, writes Joseph Casern, steward department delegate, gave a sound vote of thanks to Joseph "Pop" Stocker for the fine job he has been do­ ing as crew pantryinan. "Pop," a member of the SIU since 1940, is well known to Stocker many of the brothers, especially those who ship out of New Orleans. He is "only 74 years young" and still doing a great job, Casem reported. Also in line for a vote of thanks froni the crew was William Mor­ ris on the Mae. Morris has . that certain touch needed to keep th^ crew's tele­ vision set in good shape, getting a good clear pic­ ture every time it's tuned on. That's where salt tablets are useful. Taken in proper dosages along with ample use of drinking water and fruit juices, they protect the Seafarer from heat prostration. It's a .rsimple; c and painless way to sidestep hot-weather ills. . > I?' a ? •' V;!. \?4: • • - ' -'.y y ••v:r.:.,gv • �Vl*t t, itst SEAFARERB ' LOG Baltimore Sailihakers Come Under SIU-MAWD Banner Latest plant of marine craft workers signed by the SlU's Marine Allied Workers Division in Balti­ more, the F. M. Stevenson Co. has been making can­ vas and rope products of all types for three genera­ tions. Edward Rasinski (left) lays out pattern for yacht-;-cover as SIU-MAWD shop steward Joe Znaniet! loou on. Some 30 men and women production work­ ers ore employed by the company, it turns out everything from rope lad­ ders to yacht sails and hatch covers for deep-sea ships in Its rigging lofts. An SlU-MAWD organ­ izing : drive produced a Shop steward Joe Znaniec (left) reports everything run­ ning smoothly as SIU-MAWD officials visit plant. ^- • -'4- --Jy ' t - ' '. '-isV I Now working ashore, ex-Westport bosun A1 ^ Prwii^ wh^ lashihg- with; metal tip. L Paper pattern comes into play as George Huebschman prepares to cut out boat cover. Finished goods wait while Antoine W. Hora first tries out grommet-stamping machine. �s^kfAitikh - fio^ Fare Ita Ex-Seafarer Leads Indian 'War Party' Ex-Seafarer Wally "Mad Bear" Anderson is leading a^war party o£ Indiafts in a fullblooded assault on Robert Moses and the State Power Authority. Armed witk a 1784 treaty with the US Government, Anderson and a band of Tuscarora, Mohawlc yd tteon^aga Indians invaded the US District-*Court in Foley Square to block the NY State Power Author­ ity from taking over part of their reservation for the Niagara Falls power project. The Indians gathered peacefully in Judge Sidney Sugerman's court­ room to argue the supieHority of their treaty which assures them, as members of the .Iroquois Na­ tion, that "they shall be secure in the peaceful possession of the lands they inhabit" over any state power to take and condemn them. Judge Sugarman, incidentally, handed down the recent decision denying NMU's Bid to upset the Robin Line vote. The Indians have been trying for over 500 years to convince the "newcomers" that Columbus did not discover America. "We never lost it." Anderson said. While none of the Indian^ spoke up in the courtroom nor offered the peace pipe, they were there, ac­ cording to Anderson, to show the judge that "we will fight for our rights." The Indians were embittered over the fact that a local Niagara sheriff had arrested three of them last week for "unlawful assembly" although they were on their Fed­ eral domain at the time. The power authority wants to purchase some 1,300 acres of the Tuscarora reservation for w as a reservoir in building the $600,000,000 power project. The au­ thority contends that the Federal Power Commission and the state Moofiey Oh Puerto Rko Viage Board a>' '" . M-\ :^r: •' • 15 ' Tampa Has I. ^ '-ii" ' ALiei ftftOftftl (hlt^tld>, March 1*—CMrman, ft. WMUew SMietary, A. MM. nUiMMHa Ml pluMad acapear m gallsy iMudri' room. eoadttloii. Baat about hot and cot ^ April IS-ChafrnMa ft. Wlifclnai Seerattrv, A. Hill, No Iwt water. To 000 patrolwan about roatransins flxturai la mesiroom to mako mmmj apaco; Sea patrolman about movlns too box la BWMToom to paatrr to mako moro aeatlas room. Voto of thaake to atoward dept. for Sao Job. MtCHASL^. fCarraa), April Chalmuifc ft. PerrV; Secrafary, A. Salem. Ship's fund SlOftO. Susscetloa that cotdca aad steward gat togettar for proper preparation of food. SidUoM sfiPABftBS LOO. SSATRAIN SAVANAH (SoatralM), April U Chalreiaifc ft. ftaapon See•ptan^ M. CowweUy. Swlnsa for Wallace "Mad Bear" Anderson (lef^ is shoVrn during his Seafaring days on a visit to SIU headquarters in full regoKa. That's SIU As« sistant Secretai7-Treasurer Claude Simmons under the Tuscarora headdress. enabling act gives It the right to condemn land as it chooses and convert it for the project Led by Anderson, the Indians last week stood shoulder to shoulder to prevent surveyors from driving on their land to make boring tests and layout plans, niey then secured a temporary restraining order against the Power Author!^ and ; are now seeking a permanent injunction. Wo OT' Is Dayman's Dirge Under NMU After one year aboard the Robin Trent as deck mainten­ ance, Seafarer A1 Arnold can testify td the fact that the NMU agreement is a "no overtime" contract. Arnold estimates that from the time the ship went under the NMU contract on April 23, 1957, until he got WASfflNGTON—Two SIU offl- off on April 17, 195^ he was lucky dals have been appointed to repre­ to average little more than 20 sent employees in committee hear­ hours overtime a month. On SIU ings which will revise the,mini­ ships the DUifs overtime usually mum hourly wage rates paid in five runs between 50 and 100 hours ' major industries in Puerto Rico. monthly. Named by Secretary of Labor The reason for this situation lies James- Mitchell are SIU Assistant in the NMU contract. "Daymen are SecretarafrTreasurer Eddie Mooney put to work painting saloons, offi­ and Victbr Bosch, director of the cers quarters, passageways, messhall, galley, recreation hall and Puerto Rico Division of the SIU. The committee is appointed year­ other inside spaces ..without a ly to recommend revisions td the nickel of overtime pay. This Is aU minimum hourly wage rates under part of their regular duties. Undjr the Fair Labor Standards Act set the SIU agreement, all of this kind for thousands of workers in the iff work is consider^ overtime." Forgotten Men button and jewelry industry; utili­ ties, communications and transpor­ Arnold's ^dew of the "no OT" tation field; alcoholic beverage provisions of the NMU agreement firms, warehouse employees and was substantiated by a letter which workers in the banking, 'finance appeared in the last issue of the and insurance industry. "NMU PUot" sent in by an NMU Presently the minimum wages man on an American Export ship. paid in these vadous fields, the Under the heading "DM's Forgot­ leading industries on the island, ten Men of the Sea" the NMU man range from a low minimum of 33 writes . . . "Due to smne unfatheiacents an hour for railroad carriers able reason, they are nsually given to $1 an hour in the general classi­ the dirtiest Jobs imaginable ... the monthly earnings of the deck main­ fications. tenance woAer ... is aronnu $397.73." The "unfathomable reason" re­ ferred to above is simply the Tact that deck maintenance men on NMU ships.can be assigned almost any task without payment of over­ TAMPA—Shipping during the time. two-week period has been slow The "no overtime" contract goes . but the outlook' for the immediate a long way toward explaining why future is optimistic. There were no crewmembers of the Robin Trent payoffo or sign-ous tmt seven in- voted to reject NMU representa­ transit ships. Uie LaSalle and War­ tion despite offer of NMU member-, rior (Waterman), Del Viesto (Mis­ ship books free of initiation fees, sissippi), Alcoa pmxxiant (Alcoa), and why two' NMU mmt oft Vbt Raphael Semmes. .Gateway City Trent Joined the Seafarers in helpand Faizlaad (PaorAtlanticd hit this in to-east a majority veto for the L^SUL Import 'jja. '• 9tiT9,UB» Collect 101 OT Houn On Trent The following is an excerpt from the patrolman's report on the payoff of the Robin Trent (Miwremack-Robin) in Balti7 mere on Ainril 25, 1658. "Payoff Raltimore, April 24, 1958. Patrolnxen Sibley and Kastina. "All beefs settled for voyage 1/20/58 to 4/24/58. 54 diqmted hours —ffeidL "CoUeeted 8 disputed hours —engine. "CoUected 88 dispnted honrs —alewsrd. "All crewmembers presmit at payoff.— "NMU crewmembers thanked SIU patrolmen tor taking op their heefs, ete. "Small repair list Engineers promise to correct." Ui.Charles Bottoms Out LAKE CHARLES-^iUpping for this port hit a new low as only five vessels, tba lowest number in welf over a year, called Into the area for servicing, Rmrt Agmt Leroy Clarke reported. There lure plenty iff Class A and B men oft the beach here takittg up aU of ^Jobs aa fast as th^ fait the flipping board. The vftHMls In. port during flie last twii weeks w^ the Bradford Island, dantigny, CS Baltimore itwicft) imd uw Qffmwa (CIttes S«rirfe*). Att rwestctliB dent ho put aboard aaxt ffip. I audu ftoporta aeowtod. freOh mUk—taiuftleoiit for «miM trip. Setaeteg tar oft bridge daek riMuU be uaUceaaed maa<a Job. Crow nvMsta aomo wood beadMa oa TOftA TOPA (Watormaii), March St CbaliRiiMi J. Maliwgsif Socrotary, H. Kiiowtaa. OM maa mtsssil ship In BP. Galley man aielc., ftopost aecoptoR. TMwtuariwi aboui bMt back aft. ggggirfttim to bavo foe'ala bulkhaag near hasting room bo iaanlat^. Voto of tboiHrs to mesaman and cooka far ftno Job. rarftOCNIM (Valentino), Marsh SS —Chairman, V. Swanaom Sacigiary, i. OlciMrsaH. sup's fUnd StftSO. 8Up to bo ftunleitod for roachem tvntt Hals to bo aubmtttod: apUlcation far awMns on fantatt snbastt. tad; sUp U bo palntod inaldo and outrido when laavlng statoyard. SUned stataaaant ragarding ago of rotlrajnant sent to AOO aditar, flito to bo Jald up for dvo days—no lay-offs. SOSIPINA aiborty HayJ, March T —Chairman, L Moant Socratary, i. Lwndy. Discussion . ragarding legsi Captain wlU not Uft logs bnt wUl not tOko anyona boforo Coaat Guard. Plx ben not to bo used for nuking leo. No poyoftt tn I.A unlom In- by Union or pwrsona wMh riW. Ship to bo fumigated for Toosftes and bed ban. QB* sum. bor hod oppondoclemy in MonOa-ro' 1p In Sanu Nina. To acs to oottlo mliuu hoofs, and to got aopanto Jutt U mako leo and atoro tea eraam A ftrooan faofft. Santo dloputod ot. WU por broko thnmb In MonUo-to bo x-ioyod. Stoco not woridng proporly. Bsyort Bcoapted. Hepab- Hit to bo drawn iw. Voto ot thanks to stow, ord dopC for nriondld JOb. Nli (•«•), April d-CholmMo, W. CrossoMMW Socrotary, S. ftallaghor. Saioty nripmam startod. Draws to bo ha OScncsaney A Tnvotm chocko PMts. Ship's fund SIS. •ado tor ali^s Ithrary. Mputod ot. Ropcrt oeeeptod. ftsfoir ftst to bo snhmHtod. Voto of thn^ to steward dept. Linan sUnatian elearod np satlafactoflly. CUSftftS (Marvan), March 14— Chalrmas, T. INsewlcfcl; Sosretary, S. Neldan. Two men Bred: one man tried to Jump sMp in Venemela. But­ termilk reserved for members who cannot drbtk sweet tnqfc. Vota ot thanks to steward dept. April t—Chairman, C. Webb; SeeS. HoWew. Ooa man rcmeved at Capo Henry duo to injury. Report oeeopt. RoRUOst heedRHortera to ex­ tend ft men to SO daye Instead of 6(1 la order to draw bensftt.'; Crem unian. Do not place greacy clotlus in waah­ lng machins wringer. Need another fan for recreation room. Contact patrolBMn to get watrii foe'sle for ragho^pt. Voto of thanks to stewftSBftCCA (Maritims evortaatl, AprM d—autrmaai, A. Patchkoi Saerataiy, i. Scbnylor. Vtaw to ba sued In Raaama: also shors leava. la NO port of peyoft. transportaUoa will bo paid to west coast ports. Xaumdrr room acbodnle to bo poated. Ship'a fund SIT. Record player reWtttrnta aecepted. Sathrooau aeod zopatriag. SAMTOftl (Marvaa) chriRBdi' W. aeidi March 1. ArasM. .Ust of pro-hook moa-aboard as daya to bs aiado ap. Sl^s fbad SSlftk Soportf aceqriod. -Obacrva la paaaaga wa^ Xaep aaaM(doaa. Turn aft after ariag. ftLOMAft (CatoMrl, April ChalraMn, A ftliberlw ftacratary, L. Karalenaa Aft Uaoa to bo tacaod la m a/m a* tlwt steward eaa bare aaaHi touatoi. Keep while riben are arie^. eANTIftNV (CttloB Servica), AprH hi-Heiialimaft, e^ Teylen WepeNnr, ft. Wftevrka. One maa aOsied ridpr- to bo raportdd to patrolmaa la Boaton. Waahlng (hachiao ropairod aad MW hoM for ptuiv ecdorod. ftoporta aecepted. Soo patrolataa rot forward-'. IBS man U loadies port iMtood of holding aamt at port of dlachargo. DSL ALSA OMn.), April 1S-«lulr. man, ft. CallahSai Saowtary, C. ftll•ay. New delag*to dacted. Ship'B fund S21.3S. Vrasblas machino not to be used by nattvca. Keep nativea out of paaaagewaya. Water for aaUvo crewa to he kept oa deck. Milk to be serred for breakfaat. HASTINOS (Wstermaa), April 4— Chairman, W. epmmonw Secretary, J. Walls. Repair list to be drawa up —minor repairs nude. Pew hours disputed ot. One nun get oft la NY. No replacement. Vote ot thanks to steward dept. and deck dept. for keeping nustroom and pantry clean. Good crew, good trip. JRAN LAPtlTft (Wsforman), March 11—Chairman, J. ZIorelsi Socrotary, W. Lovott. One nua to pick up nuU and paases. Capt. to hare greenbacks -for Pormosa. See engineer to get heat turned oft. Place cups A glasses la pantry after use. HILTON (Bull), AprH IS—Cbalmun, J. Meoham Secretary, W. Young. Some dlsouted ot. New delegate elected. Re<|uest steward not to put ao much veal oa mean. Need cold water In drinking fountain. ORION STAR (Ortan), April Chairman, W. Whortam Ss'c.-^^^ry, R. Mills. One man refuted dental treatment In Haa Tanura. Ship'a fund SSTO yen. Some dispnted ot. No beefs —everyone Is happy—heading home. BISNVILLS (Pan Atlanlle), AprH SS —Chelrman, V. Mail; Seeratsry, ft. Sailard. Crewmembers to submit suggestions for negotiating commit­ tee on trailer ships. AU repairs made. New washing machine placed aboard. To reconunend negotiating committee that traOerShlpa get contract idmUar to Seatrabis with wage inereaae and time off for crew. Porthole to be installed for bosun and elec. foe'sle, beckuse of poor ventilation. . Dlseuased Bhloboard aafety 'meetings. Need more light on outside passageways leading aft ALAMAR (Calmar). April 1S-^ Chairman, A. Michatskif Secretary, J. McPhauL SMp't fund SSSftt. New dclegata and treasurer elected. ALCOA PIONRRR (Aleeal, M:rsh 14—Chairman, Q. Ralley; Secretary, C. Strlnqtallow. Ship's fund started. One man sick, remained en board. Some diqmted et. To iratatato ampa delepate one more trip. Suggestion te have all bathroema and riiower doors stencilled Tor Crew Only." In order to keep atevedores out KeRueat better grade of pears. SLIZABSTH (Bui)), AprH 19— Chairman, L, Ramlreii Sacretary, H. Dombrowskl. One man injured. left Ship In NV; one man (pilt shin tn San Juan. Replacement sent. Seme disputed ot. . Fans in mewhall te be cleaned and 'painted; mmms to bo varied aad riiknged more often. To . •ea punier about moro rigaretteo— now being rationed to crew and given to paatengera. stovedores and riiereslde personnel; weed mere va­ riety of brands. SSATRAIN LOUIUANA (Soatralu), April S6—Chalrmau, V. Widtnoy; rotary, C. Krioas. Nine days lodrinf okay. One day diapntod ot to bp settled at payoff. Sandwich toaster ordered. Ship's fund STSJW. Report aeceptod. Crew to uratt anta delsgates Snidi bueineaa with patrolmaa at payoff before diacusslng personal matters. Suggestton to cook vege­ tables with less water. ALCOA RUNNBR (Alcoa), April If —Chairman, C. do Hespedales; Sod rotary, R. Hail. Man hospitalized, back In States. New Juker on board.. Keep meaduU Clean between mealil and at night. Ship's fund MAS. Dis­ puted ot to bo settled fit payoff. Do not overload washing machine. Discusiion on water samria taken in San Suan: variety of night lunclL fruits for desserts. SATSWAV cmr (Walerjuan),. April S7—Chairman J. Austin; Socro­ tary, W. Herno. Few minor Beefs to be settled at psyeS. .Report ac­ cepted. Need new washing maeUne.. aiotlon not to pay off until letter from company is given stating that vessel was laid up and men laid off. Voto of thanks to crew from steward for fine cooperation. Ship's fund. t9.!H>—to be turned over to X.OG.' New washing machine Installed. JOSBFiNA (Liberty), April T-a' Chairman, W. LM< Socratary, N. Ramlay. Two men replaced in lA due te iUiiess in family and injury. Con­ tacted agent concerning ice nuidilne. and fumigation of fihlp. Draw to be put out before arrlvaL "te aee patrolman concerning medical officer or medical attention aboard ridp, and other minor beefs. Repair list to ba compiled. Few hours disputed— ot. CommtmlcatioHf postad. Beport ae­ cepted. Discuaaioa about equal dia> tribuUon of oti eoM driukn .no tea; v Vets of jftawks to steward deirt., , ftRANCSS (Sum, April SS-Oulr, man, R. ftrlnefito; Socrotary,^ ft, Orowoa, Report accaptod; Warning macblni to bo kept cleaa. Alt batiirooms and ahowora to ba lodmd when In port. STiRL cNiMuirrlitHimisii), April IS-Chelrman, W. WoriMiigtoni rotary, R. ftollsa.. Two m*a hospitalIzsd—Union notidod. Few hours di*. pnted ot. goparta aceeptad. Se^sfe' list to bo niade up. Nseff mattMss.: for boirital.' All extra Itosn to botwned la. Vote al tftanko to ftallby •Uft. �\ SEAFARERS Face Elerea LOG Thim Reach!' Safety Rig's Worth $150 To Seafarer Safety-minded Seafarer Julius Gural turned some hard thinking and extra labor into a $150 award from Isthmian Lines last month by designing a new method for rigging net# to prevent injuries in fall-' sides of buildings under construc­ ing off a ship's gangway. tion to prevent bricks from falling Gural, while working as an to the street below. AB on the SS Steel Worker, noted For bis contribution to shipboard that the nets, as they were then safety, Gural received a $150 check rigged, were flush with the side of from Joseph McDiarmid, marine the. gangway and would be of no manager of Isthmian Lines. The use if soineone fell over its side. latter complimented Gural for his After spending some time think­ foresight and said he reflected the ing over the matter, Gural came up calibre of men manning Isthmian with the idea of using stanchions vessels. projecting from the side of the gangway at an angle to hold the nets some two feet away from it, instead of having them Just hang from the gangway's side. With this type of .rigging, the nets would catch -anyone falling over the side of the gangway and prevent their being injured on the dock below BOSTON — Spring and fair or in the water. weather may come late to New The use of nets as safety devices England, but shipping here for on accommodation ladders, while _the.two weekthe period been fair new in maritime, is similiar to the with signs indicatinghas that will way shields are extended from the stay that way for a while.it Port Agent James Sheehan reports. Three ships, the Fort Hoskihs, Bradford Island and Cantigny, all Cities Service, paid off and signed on with all beefs being settled at the payoff. Otherwise, everything is running smoothly. .•I: "3 fair' Is Word From Boston Outlook Cloudy In San Fran. House Passes Aid To Jiiless ' WASHINGTON T- Tie House cf Representatives has passed President Eisenhower's unemployinent; pay proposal, wMch' will benefit sbine 2,500,000 unemployed workers. The bill extends the duration of unemployment compensation by fiO percent to be financed by Fedeiral'loans to states that request them and to be repaid by the states. It is limited to unemployed work­ ers Whose Jobs come within their state's unemployment compensa­ tion system and who have ex­ hausted their regular benefits at any time back to last 'July. The AFL-CIO - bas called for a much stronger bill to raise benefit pay­ ments'which are now inadequate And to' cover workers not now protected. (See story on page 2.) ' Benefits would be paid at the rate li^t by law in each state for regular Ijnemployment compensation. That rate runs up to $45 a week. Dura­ tion varies, running up to thirty 4eeks in Pennsylvania, Use Only One Mail Address Seafarers with beefs regard­ ing slow payment of monies due from various operators in back wages and disputed overtime ^ should first check .whether they have a propet mailing address on filjs with the company. SIU headquarters officials point out that reports received from sev­ eral operators show check? have been mailed to one address while a beef on the same score Is sent fi-um another,: thus cre­ ating: much difficulty in keeping ] aci!b^ints:^st^aighi/•v'.•.'•'^"^ SAN FRANCISCO—Shipping in this port can be compared to the fortunes of the recently arrived Giants—hot and cold, with the future being anyone's guess. The Choctaw ^ and Fairport (Waterman) paid off and signed on. In-transit were the Young Ainerlea and J. B. Waterman (Waterman) By now, whether it is "bottoming out" or not as Govern­ and the Portmar (Calmar). ment spokesmen claim, it is apparent that the much-adver­ tised recession is here with us to stay for several months more. That fact, plus gloomy prognostications by scores of economists and study groups, makes it urgent that Govern­ ment action be taken to shore up the state unemployment insurance program along the lines called for by the General Board of the-AFL-CIO. . Most state unemployment insurance programs come to an One of the oldest of the retired Seafarers receiving the end after 26 weeks. In normal times, or in periods of compafitively brief business slowdowns, a shoreside worker can disability-pension, Seafarer Edward K. Hansen, is a wellgef himself a job within six months. But these are. not nor­ known figure around the SIU headquarters hall where he mal times. still visits regularly. Now 84"* Unlike the seafaring industry, where a Seafarer laid off years old, Hansen has been re­ on SIU ships and makes his home in the Bay Ridge section of Brook­ on one ship can expect within a reasonable period of time to find employment on another iship with the same or an­ ceiving the disability benefits lyn. for the past five 4" 3) 4" other company, the shoreside worker is not so flexible. If his years. He had Another Seafarer with a long plant closes down, and throws him and 5,000 others out of spent 65 years be­ sailing history dating back to the work, there may not be another plant for miles around which fore that sailing 19th century is can use his particular skills, and the number of miscellaneous on Scandinavian Seafarer Bernard jobs available at gas stations, supermarkets and the like is and American Roll. Roll, who is simply not enough to absorb all the laid-off men. ships and was 81, got started on well-known to the his career in 1893 That is why the .Federation is so insistent that speedy ac­ regulars on the at the age of 19, tion be taken on extending unemployment insurance. Itere Robin Line run. also on Norwe­ is a bill to that effect pending before the Senate, but it has In addition to gian coasters. He Hansen several glaring inadequacies. For one thing, it makes no pro­ being a true pro­ worked as coalvision for bringing state plans that have lagged behind on fessional sailor In every sense of passer for a while Cash benefits up to a proper level, which is 50 percent of nor­ the word, Hansen has been a vet­ on deep-sea ships, mal income. The pending bill also makes no provision for eran of maritime unionism, being but subsequently more than a million unemployed who are not covered by in on the founding of the Norwe­ switched over to the deck depart­ gian Seamen's Union back in 1906 ment. any form of job insurance. In 1912 he quit sailing and set­ The man who needs help the most is'the man who has, al­ before coming to the States. tled down as a farmer in North Hansen began in his native Nor­ ready exhausted all benefits—even more'so than the one Dakota. He spent 15 years battling way on fishing boats at the age who has just been laid off. That principle, was recognized elements inland and then by the Seafarers Welfare Plan when it provided extended of 14, way back in 1887, then went the to work on coasting vessels and chucked it and returned to sea­ hospital benefits, for example, in cases of chronic and severe deep-sea ships which paid all of faring again. When the SIU was illness, it applies equally in cases of chronic and severe un­ $13 a month. He first started sail­ founded he became a member, sail­ employment. ing American ships in 1925 and ing as AB or bosun all the while. 4" i ' 4" Roll now lives ashore in Seattle subsequently-became a member of the SIU after its foundiag in 1938. which was his home port for many He sailed regularly as carpenter years. Keeping in Touch j:y WITH S I U OLDTIMERS ARMMI? The American Merchant Marine Institute, which supposed­ ly represents the interests of an American-flag merchant ma­ rine, has completed an active lobbying session against any kind of control over runaway shipowners. Under the circum­ stances, perhaps a slight alteration in the organization's hame is in order. Its function could be described more aptly if it was known as the American Runaway Merchant Marine In­ stitute, just the letterheaid wm dp'the Eligibility requirements for the $35 weekly SIU disability-pen­ sion consist of the following: Seafarers physically unable to work, no-matter what their age, who have 12 years of seatime plus the Plan's standard eligibility requirement, can apply for and receive the benefit. The seatime has to be with SlU-contracted companies. Seafarers who are of age 65 or over, and alro have the 12-year -seatime requirement plus the Plan's standard eligibility pro-vision,-can also obtain coverage under this benefit. I,. % �SEAFARERS Pas» Tvelra LOC Thot $%***##^ Mf? On Here He *s SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK A Great Guy BIV f. 1951 Likes The Way SIU Licks Beefs To the Editw: I have a shoreside Job now In a steel plant and am connect­ ed with the local union, United Steelworkers of America Local 1557, Clalrton, Pa. Although my wife alreadys gets the LOG at home, I would appreciate get­ ting one at the local union office also. I would like to have some of my fellW union brothers here see how the SIU opwates, es- SlU brothers in the hospitals received a total of $9,327 in The Alcoa Puritan is going 462 individual benefits from the Seafarers Welfare Plan dur­ to have to live up to her name ing the two-week period ending April 25. This brings the total if Captain Hamm has his way. of these benefits paid to date to $1,305,130.50. Among the Seafarers on the receiving end this period, up in Boston The skipper has put out the word at the Brighton marine hospital, is a "skeleton crew" of three, reports that "profane" language la to be Charlie Dwyhr, hospital delegate. With him are eliminated. Frank Shaw and Frank Engel, who should be head­ How well the crew will be able ing out any time now. Dwyer reports "all is well.-.. to maintain the niceties of speech good treatment, pretty good feedw and a good va­ rmnains to be seen, but it doesn't riety of entertainment," but he could do with mail reqxiire too much imagination to now and then from some of his old shipmates. figure the immediate crew reaction. Good news from the Staten Island drydock con­ Even at a nickel per "blanketycerns Conrado Reyes, who got off the Grain Shipper blank," they probably used up'a last October completely paralyzed from the waist good month's pay over that one. down, and can now feel some sensation and even move one of his feet. The PHS medics are very Just imagine the reaction of the Dwyer encouraged by this progress. Also out at Staten deck gang, for example, when the mate has blue-pencilled all over a Isle is Yinee Garvey, ex-Steel Designer, who's expecting his discharge couple of overtime sheets, and pic­ shortly after a minor hernia operation, and Uldarico Merjndio, who All letters to the editor for ture the guys saying how what a was taken ill aboard the Steel Chemik in Singapore. He's getting publication in the SEAFAR­ fine, honorful fellow he is after along okay back in the States after a month overseas. ERS LOG must be signed' Down at the Baltimore PHS drydock, Clarence Gardner is getting •11. by the writer. Names toill Meeting secretary Edward L. around a bit easier now eVbn with one leg in* a cast from a shoreside be withheld upon request.. Killigrew also reports on an occur­ injury. He last shipped as cook on the Government Camp. Percy Harrence in Izmir, Turkey, where, relsoB, wiper on the Hilton some tim^ back. Just checked into the pecially on the handling of upon landing, one seaman was Baltimore PHS so the docs can look him over. Ditto for Mack Acosta, beefs, which ° we call grievances searched for US money and re­ ex-Baltore fireman. here. The grievance procedure When in port, remember that an the brothers in drjrdock really appreciate a lieved of half of what he had by is a long, drawn-out affair, and . the local customs functionary. The personal viait. Letters are aiao welcome. you have to use four steps of The foUowlng la the latest available list of SIU men la the hospitals: customs man naturally provided no the procedure before it gets to USPHS HOSPITAL VA HOSrtXAL receipt for the greenbacks he BALTIMORE. MD. an arbitrator. Thanks again and •NEW ORLEANS. LA. pocketed, but he is no doubt , also Edward Barton Jack B. Strahan James A. Bay *smooth sailing to all my friends. Harold S. Rivers referred to as a fine, upstanding Peter DeVrlea Stephen . M. Sopko USPHS HOSPITAL Clarence Gardner Stanley Rodgers fellow by the hearties on tlie Puri­ Maurice CUlespte Calvin Rome NORFOLK. VA. 4 4. is Franghl Anghelatoa WUlle E. Tomllnson Gorman T. Glaze Eugene Roszko tan. C. Barrineau Jr. Leonard Layton Edward Seserko Praises Benefits Killigrew offered a word of cau­ Peter Losado Leslie F. Simmons '' HOTEL DIEU tion to all seamen coming to Tur­ W. J. Mclntyre Nlghbert Straton NEW ORLEANS. LA. Of Welfare Plan John McLaughlin Juan Taboada key to "be careful" and avoid such John Jack Maya Maasik John Thompson To the Editor: incidents, since the local currency H. F. Machlinsld Gandendo Tlexis USPHS HOSPITAL We would sincerely like ^o J. Maldlo Jdm P. Trust regulations are strict. Actually,the Anthony NEW ORLEANS, LA. Victor Makko Wflmer C. White thank the SIU Welfare Plan for Puritan man~was let off easy, since Daniel Martin Stanley T. Bennett W. A. G. Marjenhoff Vyrl Williams , the wonderful benefits It pro­ John W. Blgwood Clyde HlUer Murray Albert L. Willis foreign seamen have wound up in Clarence Carlo E. BUlo Michael Muzio Henry Wirtz vides on oehalf of a splendid the lock-up and have had to for­ Antonio Palmes Claude Blanks Francesco J. Natalo organization. We bdth are very John P. Brooks WiUiam Nelson VA HOSPITAL feit their dough anyway to cover Donald Dambrino' Dominie Newell BOSTON. MASS. grateful for what the SIU has "fines" for such infractions. Hoscoe Dearmon Rogers A. Perry Thomas W. Killion meant to us. Harry Emmett Gilbert J. PlersaU J. F. Fitzpatrick Randolph RatcliS VA HOSPITAL I was in St. Patrick's Hospital Eugehe Flanagan Allen Ritchie 1ST AVE., NY. NY here in Lake Charles, was given Sheiks On Prowl Salvatora Legayada Ben D. Foster James H. RusseU letters To The Editor F P-', i 1 U i'- - I; IF '• IFfr; ^ i-.-- r'-ft >:"T p:p, pc,:;V.-Going native, George HiU dretch, bosun (left) end Robert Black, chief electrician (right), do the sights in Beirut, Leb­ anon, with two local guides. The ship's delegote on the Notalie sent in the photo. MONTBBELLO CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MD. Francisco Bueno VA HOSPITAL »T. HOW/^. MD; WUbert Hughes USPHS HOSPITAL FT. WCRiTH. TEXAS Lawrence Anderson Harold J. Pancost Robert Ingram A. J. Panepinto Woodrojw Meyers Paul W. Seidenberg John C. Palmer George Petensky USPHS HOSPITAL MEMPHIS. TBNN. Charles Burton SAILOBS SNUQ HARBOR STATEN ISLAND. NY Victor B. Cooper VA HOSPITAL KECOUGHTAN. VA. Joseph GUI VA HOSPITAL PHILADELPHIA. PA. James P. Harkel USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GA. ' Elmer G. Brewer Willie C. Sanders Paul M. Carter Poetar B. Shedd Reamer C. Crime* A. A. TnrUngtbn Jimmie Littleton Herman P. Weber USPHS mspirAL SAN FRANCISCO. CALIP. Joseph IL Bergec Cturlea T. Nangle Edwin Brown J. S. OTSyme George J. Decker H. J. Sditelner Curtis L. Hancock A. Tselakia F. B. McCoIBan ' Sung C. Wang John C. MiteheU S.'Bt Zimmerman Editor, SEAFARERS LOG, 675 Fourth Avo^ Brooklyn 32, NY f would like to receive the SEAFARERS LOG— please put my name on your moiling list. (Pnnt Mormathn) p:-: I NAMP i STREET ADl RESS .....,.,..; CITY ... ZONE .....STATE AVOID pli£LiCA7iCi4i Sf yaa ste an c!«i BubscHbsr •of address, jiieasa give your former addreM below: .ADDRESS' CITY 11 •& *• ^ ZONE ....... STATE..,..,..^...::.. Harold Scott ^ Wade H. Sexton^ James H. Shearer Andrew Stauder Joseph W. Stocker Nicholas Tala Gerald L. Thaxton 8. Turbervillo James E. Ward James C. Whatley John F. WUliama Ciiiford Wuertji Demetrlo Zerrudo Jacob Zimmer USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISI^ND. NY George Howard Oscar J. Adams Hassen AU Nicholas Korsak Nicholas Anoustls Ahmed Mehssin Richard A. Asmont Uldarico Merjudlo Otho Babb Fritz NUsen Felice J. Balduccl Sigurd Odegaard Henry Bilde Ragner Olsen Thomas DoUy Patrocino Pereire Clarence O. Dalre W. Pietrucki Rupert Daniels Sven G. Regner Dlosoro DeLaCrux Conrad Reyes F. A. FernandezEnstaquio Rivera Bernard Francois Calso Rodriguez Frederick Fulford Salvador Rodrigces JDavid Furman .• B. E. Shockley Vincent T. Garvey G. Sivertsen Luis E. Guticrez (%ow G. Song.. Petei; Heultt Wm. R. Thompson Chan Hon William W. Wells USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS R. J. Arsenanlt Ray C. Pawan Wm. J. Burkeen Tony Rabago Francis M. Conners H. M. Robinson. Henry DeLaugbter R. DeLoaSantoe Archie J. SOIne Wm. C. Scruggs USPHS HOSPITAL MANHATTAN BEACH BROOKLVN, NY Lewis B. Akins Thomas Isaksen Manuel Antonada Claude B. Jesanp Eladlo Aria Woodrow Jtdinson Fortunafo Bacomo Ludwig Kristiansen Joseph J. Base Kenneth Lewis . Melvin W. Base Patrick McCann " Frank Bemrtek Archibald McGnigaa Joseph V. Biseonet H. C. Mclaaac James P. XHarke Leo Hannaugh Juan Denopra A. MarUneUl John J. DriseoU Joaquin Daniel Fitzpatrick W. p. O'Dea P. O. FondUa C. Osinskl Fabin Furmanek George G. Fhifer Odis L. Gibbs WiUiam Rackley Joseph M. GiUard Winston E. Renny Bart B. Gnranlek G. E. Shumaker Wade B. HarreU Henry E. Smith Taib Hassan Pon P. Wing Antonio Infante USPB3 HOSPITAL SEATTLE. WASH. George B. Dunn Sherman PIUlIlps Frank S. Parior bevs a • , • Earl Garberson Edward T. Glenn James C. Glisson Hebert Grant Wayne F. Harris Henry Helsch John Hrolenok George Huber J^mes Hudson B. Huggins Robert James Edward G. Knapp Antoins Landry Edward Lane Leo Lang B USPHS HOSPITAL BOSTON. MASS. Charles Dwyer Frank P. Shaw ^Frank Enget ; Recovered alter hospital stay, Mrs. T. Kilgore is shown with husband. Sea­ farer Larry. Kilgore.' wonderful, treatment and now am able to carry on again. Wa -also certainly want to thank Dr. Steve F, Price and the Sisters and nurses for the fine work they did. Again, thanks to the SIU for being such a wonderful organization and for all the help from the Welfare Plan. Mrs. TilUe KHgere Would LiWinfo On Lawyers TetheEditer: At sea, aboard any ship, whille sitting on the hatch or in tha messhall, different topics of conversation are brought up and oae about which definite infor­ mation is always lacking Is the subject of lawyers who repre­ sent injured seamen entitled to Justifiable compensation for their Injuries. Many of us would appreciate , it if this information could be printed in one or a series of articles, in^regard to such ques­ tions as: if a seaman Is being represented by a lawyer who has signed him to a coqtract can he drop this lawyer,, if he feels he Isn't being represented to his best interest; can he engagp another lawyer, how much would it cost; what would the next lawyer charge, etc.? These are only a few of the dozens of questions which are brought up during our discus sions, and we would appreciate any Information on this subject you can dig up and print for us to readk. William Omelanczuk 4" 4 Applauds Assist For Disabled To the Editor: It seems that, generally, peo­ ple write to the LOG or the Union when they are looking for something, and rarely write about it after they have secured it. To me, that sort of thinking results in the loss of the realiza­ tion by the membership of the many actual benefits our Unionprovides for the membership. 1 want to let all my friends and all Union members know, that effective April 1, 1958, I have been receiving the sro; special disability benefit of $150 per month. I cannot overstresji the value ^nd importance of thlg benefit to me. I am totally disabled 1^ % number of ailments due to nat­ ural causes. 1 don't have any broken hones or paralysis, but. 1 am as incapable of working now as if I did have such in-' juries. That is what makes our. Plan so valuable to us. Furthermore. 1 am only 531 years old. Can you go else­ where and seciure sueh protect tion under my circumstances?1 joined this Union of burs in 1938 and although Welfara Plan payments by our con­ tracted companies did not begin until 1950, which was 12 years after 1 began sailing SIU, my seatime; during those , years counted', towards retirement. How many members have glveM any ihou^t' and appreclailoa to this "retro^tive" protection in the Welfar« Plan? Believe me.- you active mem» hers, you' may hot be , attaching much importance to such, things now but, if, you wind, up in'ihy circumstances, you sure as heck wllL ' • - . NowT^h addition to my month­ ly benefits, I'am covered for hospital and surgical benefilto if and when my eligibility, at the. marine hospital runs but, and tdl other benefits I was en­ titled to as an active aeiuueh will remain in effect. Brothers, that's coveraget In conclusion^ I'd like to thank all the officials of this organization for the many years of assistance and representa­ tion I received, and particularly those In Baltimore, where I shipped from for years. Their efforts have helped me in many ways. To top all this off, my dues are complimentary and I'll always be able to show a paidup SIU book to anyone who wants to know-what my outfit is. Archie Wright Wife HaUs SIU in Philadelphia Ta the Editor: Just a line to thank all too txurs of the SIU itf Philadelphia for their kindness to me while I was in the hospital. Thanks also, to Joe Campo for bis kindness in taking care of toe all the paperv/ork while my husband was at sea, and to the Seafarers Welfaie Flan for all toe i^yments to the hospitaL Mrs. Jiggs Jeffera- �,^?W'''7v Mmr 9. ISU ROBIN GRAY (ReUn)# April Ctiairmanr I. Clark; Saeratary, C. Stambvl. BverytliiiK ninnlnB amoothly. Now trusnrer elected. Soma dlaputed ot. Few beefs in deck dept. Bathrooms to be kept cleaner. Take better care of washing .-machine. DEL AIRE! (Miss.!, April 1»—Chair­ man, I. Oecareaux; Saeratary, C. Maxur. To start ship's fund. Treasurer elected. Departments to rotate clean­ ing laundry. Keep messroom clean. Blackboards to be painted. Need more keys for foc'ries. KATHRYN (Bull), April 17—Chair­ man, W. Ortixr tecratary, F. Neckllcki. Received notice 24 hrs. to ter­ minate articles. Wiper missed ship In NY. Check with patrolman re: start­ ing time for ot on .Good Fridaystevedores holiday. Report accepted. SEAFARERS only, eustomary BAhr. notice. One man hospitalised in LC. No replaeoment. Repair list submitted again— no action taken on previous llstc One man getting off. Crew forced to crank out boat davits with turn around bits, so that fire & boat drill utilixed to perform maintenance work on falls. Uesshall to be kept cleaner during night watches. Soiled diShea to bo placed in tub with clean water. April i—Chairman, E. Parker; Sec­ retary, C. Bortz. Few hours disputed ot. New delegata elected. Suggestion to provide ladders tor men with upper bunksi garlic sauce be provided with steaks and pizza be ferved occasion­ ally. See patrolman about use of acid for UeacUng. Bequest better water drcnlatian for de<A dept.. bathrooms. MAR (BullV April 3—Chairman, J. Jakalikl; Saeratary, i. BontL Chaira in messroom to bo repaired. Ship's fund SS3. Report accepted. Motion to airicondltlon all SIU aUps, espe­ cially thoaa running to the tropica. Vota of thanks to steward ddpL ORION PLANET (Orien), April 4— Chairman, Mk Pyk; Saeratary, F. VanDussn. Mate refused to let men check food stores put aboara In Sasebo. No report from hq. on equipment being used for mucking. Ship's fund S12.30. Some dispnted ot. Steward hMpltalIsed in Bahrein. Changliig depart­ ments against Union regulations. Delagate to take core of all husinees with captain—do net go topside with beefs. Draws not to be changed after putting in. Discussion on ot in deck dept.: bnSet supper: menu chengee. Insufficient meat ordered last trip. Cooperation urged among crew— warned about performing. FACIFIC OCEAN (World Tramp­ ing), March 23—Chairman, J. Rose; Socratary, G. Skandelas. No draws In San Pedro, no American money for draws in Formosa—to be taken up with patrolman. Repair list submitted; galley was painted; few minor repu(n mode. Reports accepted. New delegate and reporter elected. Strip all Muilta nf eoUed lines. Bequert name brand of soap powder and moro lava ooap. per agreement. VA<.LRV FORGE (Fcnlnsvfar), April 13—Chairman, E. Meghee; Saeratery, E. Arales. Beef on draws and cigarettea. Crew not cleaning washing machine after use. Ship's fund 320. Messhall. pantry and deck dept. rooms painted. Men neglecting duties to be referred to patrolman. Three men logged. Disputed eubsistanoe on hot water and launch aervice. Some dis­ puted ot. Donate shlR^s fund to LOG. Headquarters to correct mail situa­ tion. Slop chest to be stored ade­ quately. Delegates to handle beefs. IBERVILLE (Watermen), March 24 —Chairman, J, Eoem; Secretary, L. Pappor. (h-ew to reimburse cook for postage. American money draw at Gibraltar and dinara at Yugoslavia. All quarters need painting. Report accepted. Reporter elected. Messman's work improving. Discussion on hospital and pension plan. Letter sent to editor of l/KS regarding same. Re­ pair lists to be turned over to dept. delegates. Steward will endeavor to obtain fresh stores at GibralUr and Yugoslavia if available. Even Bats Go Haywire On Shuttle ' - A giant bat that tried a r«-< connaissance mission on tha deck of the Orion Planet wa* AFOUNDRiA Wntarman), April 1» —Chairman, W. Statk; Secretary, D. White. Ship's fund SIT. One man missed ship. New delegate elected. Return cops and glasses to pantry after use. Safety meeting to be held between the Canal and PR. Unsafe conditions to be reported to dele­ gates. Pillows now available. NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), April IS—Chairman, M. Savoy; Sae­ ratary, J. LaHatkl. AU membcre to fill out welfare cards. Some disputed ot in Jeddah—epprua. M hra. en nuater sheet. Slop chest prices too high —delegate to Investigate. To see cap­ tain about mall charged on slop chest. Take better care of washing madiine —^turn light oft and wbserva water Una. Proper attire to be worn at meal time. Each man to turn in keys to dept. iMad. atrip bunke ot Hnen and bag. Garbage to be dumped on gaihagp hamper isi port. Uee care whan diaposing of gaihaga at tea. Fife TUrMcB L0€ STEEL EBCOROER (Isthmian), April IS—Chairman, S. Zaaglar; Sae­ ratary, O. WinlleHI, if. One man hospitaBasd; one man logged; some minor beefs. Ship's fund S90.84. Some dis­ puted «t. Vote of tbanfcu to ship's delegata end to crew for fine coopera­ tion. Reports accepted. Crew will not stga on until new eoolnr is aboard. Ship to be fumigated for Insects. Steward to order roach powder; screen doors for mess room; erect avming on fantall; ice box to ha moved to mece roam. (Ugarette butts not to be discarded on deck. Order more lemons. - Vote of (hanks to stew­ ard dept. SEAMAR (Calmer), AprH 20-Chsirmen, R. NIctMbon; Secretary, G. Hayes. New delegate elected. Ship's fund S13. To purchase checkers in Long Beadi. Reeoiutlon: (U pay raise: (8) minimum ot for deck dept. Thanks to steward for good food and service. To elder new washing machine, fan to be put In laundry. Delegate to see captain about draws—none available at times. ALCOA FGLARIS (Alcod), April 27— Chairmen, H. Long; Socratary, J. Hannen. Water picked up In.San Juanbad, dumped In NY. To see about another room for steward dcpL Few hours disputed ot. One man getting off to prevent Injury. Clean washing machine after nse. Steward has room for captain's slop chest so room can be made for messman. ANDREW JACKSPN (Wsfermsn), April 2S—Chairman, G. Clark; Secrsr tary, H. Gulnlar. Two men caught trying te change counterfeit moneylocked up. DNelegate tried to see them, refused by police. Galley neede fu­ migating—will be done in NY. Ship's fund S24.17. Some disputed oL Re­ port accepted. ROSE KNOT (Suwannee), April 4— Chairman, C. Wilson; Secretary, L. Smtth. Some disputed at. Ship's fund S10.3S. Report accepted. Portable tanks need cleaning. Motion to form safety eonmittee to study safety eondttiena and medical treatment and report to headquarters. Chips end BoUed linen to be brought back. Fri­ day desigoated for hnen ehangc.'Vota of thanks to radio operator for news reports. Captain requests crew's coop­ eration in conserving frerii water. JEAN LAF1TTE (Waterman), April 20—Chairman, J. Kaaenss; Secretary, S. Jetsph. Sufficient nnmber of LOGi in Far East. Captain pleased with crew end safety drive. Oh. cook missed Alp in Okinawa, rejoined in Japan. Request work gloves from slop chest; also fUm for polaroid cameras. Ship's, fund SST. Few hours uispuled ot. Showers painted. Reports accept­ ed. Treasurer to buy postage stamps for crew. Trash not to be thrown on deck. AU reporte to patrolmen to be made by delegates only. Members would like to know more Miout raise. All repairs made. ALCOA ROAMER (AlcM), AprH 14Chalrman, R. Klanast; Secretary, ST Boorgeels. Repairs completed. See patrolman about ot payments every b-lp. To write letter to LOG and welfare Dept. about easing up on the one day sea time in flO days re­ quirement for beneats. General meet­ SCATRAIN GEORGIA (SMtraIn), ing to be held every second voyage April 27—Chairman, R. High; Secre­ to PR and tary, Flanagan. Repairs made. Ice Mobile. Shore side personnel not to creamF, beef etralgtltened out. NY eat in messroom before crew is Sn- State employment Insurance $49 retrod W»ed. Discussiw re: welfare plant active from last year. Ship's fund sea time, etc. $96.70. Twe minor >eefs. Few boura ot. Reports accepted. ElecDE SOTO Waterman), Avrll 4— disputed triclan requests orders to be given te Chairman, C. Garner; Secretary, i. him tiiru chief engineer not thru Calhoun. Some dispnted ot. See mas­ captain. - Captain wUl have screens inter about more cigarettes. staUed In buffet to keep lies off pies and cakes. r MARIA H. (Herald), 44-Ctialrjnen,• H. Berglna; Secrtfary, j—w T. r. Bolton. FORT HOSKINB (Cttiss Sorvlca), >ote of thaakf to Sup 8(DP men. men. i>ew April 14—Chairman, J. Reunds; Sec-^ hours disputed ot. Proper attire to ratary, R. 'Galling. Bdpalr list sub­ be worn in messroom. Vote of thanks mitted. To see patrolman about deck to steward dept. and to all new men gang dripping A painting pianproem. on board. GaUey tepalra made. Ship's fund $12. One man getting off. Bnef between COUNCIL GROVE (Cities Service), - crew mesa and pantryman aetOed. March 13 — Chairman, E. Callahan; Clean f^'slea after parties. Saeratary, e. Bortz. Rusty water sit­ uation. net corrected—^to be taken up VENORi (Marvan). ApiR 2S— With patrolman, Repair lists to bo Chaloiuin, T. Cumnrings; saeretaiy, aabnilttad to delegate. Cb. mate reW. Oiww. One man taken ^ Di in «ueeia Bat of rqteoemeati ' ionr days Venezuela: New delegate elected. Mibkd sdiivd-cwallmwa to Bra mm LwBBdzy room to he ksgit dean. SBwttljoot Roikw. In view «f hla atuwarn So be left out for iright tuda deMgat* goggest brotlMr idva lunch. An unexpGCted yisitor on tho Orion Planet, this bat became a deck department troplw after it tried to attack bosun Andy Andresiok In the Singapore Straits. It hod a bO-inch wingspread. Photo by £dgar A. Armdrong, di^'s delegate, enrowte to Yidcohomo. Del Norte Saves Pair Adrift For Six Days Two fishermen were rescued by the cruise liner Del Norte last trip after they had been drifting along for six days off the West Indies with no help in si^t. The pair had bera liv^ ying on apples and oranges for I I I I EVERYSUNDAY DIRECT VOICE BROADCAST "THE VOICE •ftha MID" To Ships in Atlantic South American and European Wators Evary Sunday, 1420 GMT (11:30 AH ESTRundav) • WFK-3«, 1SS50 ICCS ehipa tu fkirlbbesm. East Coast of South America. South Atlantle and East Coast of United States • WFL-4S, 15IS0 KCS Ships In Gulf of Mex­ ico, Caribbean, West Coast of South Amer­ ica. West'Coast of Mexico and US East Coast • WFK-fS, 15700 KCs Ships in Mediterranean area. North Atlantic, European and US East Coast four days. . Overhauled by the ship after the lookout spotted a small boat Tunning adrift, the two men were taken aboard in short order. TreatetL to a good meal, some clothing and a small amount of cash to cover their needs, the pair stayed with the ship until it reached St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, la Fair Shaye Hie Incident took place March 9 on the soathbound leg of the South American voyage. Both the men were in fair (dupe depite their long exposure in the open sea. On the lighter side, baseball also occupied the news on the Norte, when the ship iron one game in Buenos Aires end wiped out the crew's basduU fuud while doing it. A 500-peso donation to send flow­ ers for a member of the Argentine team who died earlier helped the fund wind up well in the red. Despite the victory, the minutes of the Norto modestly omit the winning score, so we'll have to take their word fgr It. The Del Norte, like the other Mississippi pass«iger sups, has alwaya fielded a pretty good sguad and already has a number of baseball laurels to its credit. Harry Wolowitz Is the ship's delegate. 'Sea-Spray' ';1 dispatched to his ancestors when he tried to attack the bosun last month. The incident occurred one day out of the Straits of Singapore while the Planet was enroute to Yokohama. Since the normal fly­ ing hours for bats are at night, tho king-sized mammal was probably just as stunned by the whole-affair as everyone else was. Meant Basiness ^He was found on the deck in tb* morning, ac(»rding to ship's dele­ gate Edgar F. Armstrong, but when he went for bostm Andy Andreslak, the bosun grabbed a nearby paint scraper to use as a shilldagli. '"nie scraper got broken in the process." Armstrong added, indi­ cating that the big fellow must have meant business. It -Was later discovered that the bat had a wingspread of 60 inches, which "should be a record (rf seme sort!" he noted. (We haven't found . one, fellas, hot we're still looking.) The naiiet. a supertanker, is ea the Persian Gulf-Japan oil shuttle and is due to make one more round trip b^ore heading for Honolulu and home In July. The monotonous run' Is enough to make everybody go "bats," so they didn't need any help from the real thing in that-di­ rection. • --il m lOG-A'RHYTHM: fCnowing* By M. B. Waiting! Waiting! Today? Tomomjw! Today—Tomori) The manotonout rhythm, like the surge Of the restless sea, is Forever beating on the Shoals in useless longing; Each tDhite<ap taking you far­ ther from me. t-T. )' The rocky coast of a stormy life Has only a pearl-gray sky and The shrill of the gulls As they scan the loaves For shipwreeked souls Lost in the strife. . 1(1 I While the deathless roll of the endless sea Beats out its toneless dirge. For you I'm constantly Waiting!—Waiting! Today—ToTnorroio? Today that forever Tomorrow must be. • Copyrlshted April 21. 1943 'M •.il - • if I " 'Z- [ — By Seafarer 'Red' Fink Meanwhile, MID Round^he^World Broadcasts continue ... Every Sunday, ISIS GMT (2:18 PM EST Sundayh WCO-1302S KCs Europe and No. America WCO-1490S.S KCs East Coast So. America WCO-22407 KCs West Coast So. America Evary Monday, S31S GMT (1005 PM EST Sunday) WMM 25-15407 KCs Australia WMM B1-11037.S Northwest Fadfia ••nL' MARITIME TRADES DEPARTMERT I -m .'t ATL-dlQ �%• 'Y SEArARERS *airMvteea t&C Paint Job Rates A Whistle mY-V #<*• i-"?3 *- • Ray Doell, Isf assistant engineer on the Steel Apprentice (left), looks aloft at paint |ob done on the ship's whistle by Seafarer William Velazauez, bosun, and OIlie Olson, AB (only Ollie's feet and hands are showing, right), to compliment them on the job. The tooter is reported to be in fine shape by ship's reporter John L Whisman. •%• m I SlU, A&G District BUFFALO: NY............. .180 M^ St. Phonet Cleveland 7391 CLEVELAND 1410 W. 29 St. MAin 1-0147 RIVER ROUGE ..10228 W. Jefferson Ave. River Rouge 18, Mich. Vlnewood 3-4741 DULUTH 621 W. Superior St. Phone: Randclph 2-4110 SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd St. Phone: Essex 5-2410 PORT COLBORNE Ontario TORONTO. Ontario.. 103 Durham St Phone: Swl 872-King St. E. EHplre 4-9710 VICTORIA. BC......ei7M Coradrant St. EMplra 4531 VANCOUVER. BC.... ..298 Main St. Pacific 3468 SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St. Phone: 6346 BAGOTVILLB. Quebec 20 Elgin St. Phone: 545 THOROLD. OnUrio .82 St. Davids St. CAnal 7-3203 QUEBEC .44 Sault-au-Hatelot Quebec Phone: 3-1569 SAINT JOHN 177 Prlnea WllUam St. NB OX 2-5431 BALTIMORE 1216 B. Baltimore St. Earl Sheppard. Agent EAstem 7-4900 BOSTON 278 State St. James Sheeton. Agent Richmond 2-0140 HOUSTON 4202 Canal St. Robert Matthews. Agent Capital 3-4089; 3-4080 LAKE CHARLES, La 1419 Ryan St. Leroy Clarke, Agent HEmlock 6-5744 UOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754 HALIFAX. N.S 128t4 HoUis St. MORGAN crnt 012 Front St. Phone 3-8911 Tom . Gould. Agent Phone 2156 MONTREAL.......634 St. James St. West NEW ORLEANS 523 Bienville St. PLatean 8161 Lindsey Williams, Agent Tulane 8626 FORT wnXIAH 408 Simpson St. NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn Ontario Phone: 3-3221 HYacinth 9-6600 NORFOLK 127-129 Bank St. J. Bullock. Acting Agent MAdison 2-9834 PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St. S. Cardullo, Agent Market 7-1635 PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo Sal CoUs. Agent Phone 2-5996 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Marty Breithoff. Agent Douglas 3-5475 SAVANNAH 2 Abercom St. E. B. McAuley. Agent Adams 3-1728 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Jeff GiUette. Agent Main 3-4334 By JAMES A. KNIGHT. TAMPA 1809-1811 N. Franklin St. Tom Banning. Agent Phone 2-1323 WILMINGTON, Calif 505 Marine Ave. The new moon was forlorn off Cape Fcof. Reed Humphries, Agent Terminal 4-2874 Office sparks, HEADQUARTERS . 679 4th Ave.. Bklyn. Racing from the city across long seas. SECRETARY-TREASURER Demanded less hesitation in the race for time. Paul Hall When time was so near to never ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS W. HaU, Joint J. Algina, Deck And the day's stock market loss. R. Matthews. Joint C. Simmons, Eng. J. Volplan. Joint E. Mooney. Std. Canadian District LOG-A-RHYTHM: lis. Make Time (An Epitaph) SUP HONOLULU S-'|iS. 16 Merchant St. Phone 5-8777 PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St. CApital 3-4336 RICHMOND. Calif... .510 Maedonald Ave. BEacon 2-0925 SAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St. Douglas 2-8363 SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave. Main 0290 WILMINGTON ..,.605 Marine Ave. Terminal 4-3131 NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn HYacinth 9-6165 Great Lakes District ALPENA 121S N. Second Ave. Phone: 713-J Sailing with the panic of position, Forty young dreams of forty someones Answered the impersonal curse of company bellsi More steam . . . Make time! . The wheeling, throttling hands Were many waves away from a tender word; But closer to land, as the reaching swells. Loud with foam, turned time green. And took all hands slipping down Down under the gulping waves. To the port of lost dollars And green graves. that ibmpbody will take notice of this letter expanding on our Ideas in planning for our 'futura. . To the Edltori joe Bourgeois WeU, I'm back at St. Vincent's Ship's delegate Hospital, in New York Cityi Tho (£d. note: The above letter doctors, nurses was signed by 28' crcurmcmand all tho berg.) help here go out of their i 4^ way to make itUrges Focus On as comfortable as possible. Curran Record Thanks to To the Editor: all tho SIU During the latter part of last officials f-o r year I finally hung up my sail­ their wonder* Pllutis ing rig and fell back into the ful work on the SIU Welfare Plan, and to Dr. hills of Chautauqua County, Joseph Loigue, head of the New York. Since no one here­ abouts knows anything about Plan's Medical Department. While I'm at it, perhaps you the NMU, I feel it's time that could print these names so that some one or some group should put the record straight oh Joe Curran and his hirelings. Old Joe supposedly kicked out the Commies, but he also railroaded many a good sailor to boot for his anti-Curran beliefs. I know, for the fellows who taught me everything I know were good, hard-working seamen. They earned their pay even if they wouldn't follow the "Leader," as Old Joe expected all "rank and file"-seamen to do. They just wouldn't fall in step and go like sheep to the slaughter, doing things , the I might get in touch with the Curran" way. following , brothers: William In the AprU II LOG I was Boesch, Eddie PoUse. Robert overjoyed to read that American Sojka, "Citizen Joe," Dewey seamen are «wising up to the Parsens, Eugene Ceccato, Steve NMU and the Curran deal! My Messaros and Jim Hamilton. If sailing days are over since the you have a photograph available physicals are getting harder to I'd appreciate your using it so pass. Since April, 1947, my legs the oldtimers will know me. have been a mess because of Joe Pllutis an explosion I was in aboard •the tanker Markay. Union-wise 4" if if the NMU has fulfilled every Want Seatin(ie principle stated about ten years ago by »the SIU on the Great Rules Relaxed Lakes, when the' "Little Blue To the Editor: was published (all with We, the crew of the Alcoa Book" blank pages!). ; Roamer, would like to bring to I've now taken up railroadihg the attention of the SIU Wel­ and found that if one's imagina­ fare Plan trustees and the mem­ tion is up to par, he can-close bership the discussion at our his eyes, feel the roil of a ship last meeting about the seatime at sea and hear the ever-present requirement for our welfare drone of motors in the •deep benefits. below a ship's bowels. We held an open discussion Adaam Salsburg on the pros and cons of our .4 ^ t . seatime requirements and we feel that the seatime require­ Says 'Thank You^ ment of one day in 90 in the current year and 90 days in the. For Welfare Aid past year should be' relaxed. To the Editdl-: I would like to take this, op­ This would give more leewiay to Seafarers who can't ship in 90 portunity to express my thanks days or to men who take more to the Welfare Plan and the Un­ than 90 days of vacation upon ion for their prompt action in taking care of my hospital bill. leaving ship. We would like to offer our The disability check I am now suggestions on this very, import­ receiving really comes in handy. It is an honor and a privilege ant matter. We all agree that if a Seafarer is in good standing to belong to as fine an organiza­ at the time of need and that if tion as the SIU. I miss you all, he has one day. in the last six more than I can Isay. My prayers months and" .30 days in the pre­ are on the sea lyith all of you. vious year, then said ipember It is doubtful that I will ever should qualify for all welfare saU again, but I still have hopes which I'll never give up. benefits. Wishing "all of you smooth We understand there .are smarter heads than ours in our sailing and keep up the good Union, who help plan our wel­ work. HughD. Fonehe fare benefits, but we d.o hope Oldtlnier's Back in NY Hospital lifei:;'''-' . Mar t, 1»U • -y-' �. , v; •';: *1., SEAPARBRS f. MM ^ • LOG %Pace Ftffcoi Native Caiifornian WASHINGTON-^The House Appropriations Committee Is now studying' the question of the maximum subsidized voyages that will bepillowed for the next fiscal Jreiur begin­ ning July 1. The current re-> quirement, including both line and otbers which have sub­ new and existing requests, mitted' applications f<n; the first calls for upwards of "2,600 subsi­ time wopld be denied assistance. dized voyages, but the Administra­ The Administration also recom­ tion has recommended that the re­ mended an appropriation of $120,quirement be limited to 2,000,' a 000,000 to subsidize the 2,000 voy­ cutback from last year's authoriza­ ages which it suggests. However, tion of 2,100. to take care of all the requested If Congress should go along with subsidies for 2,600 trips would re­ the Administration it would mean quire upwards of an additional that subsidy payments would be $30,000/100. limited to the fifteeen lines already In contrast with the proposed being subsidized. Such-companies cutback to limit operating subsi­ as Isthmian, Waterman, States Ma- dies, approval seems likely t<a an $80,000,000 buDding subsidy for a new US Lines superliner. The .Maritime Trades Depart­ ment has gone on record that US aid should be given on an equal Seafarers who have taken the basis to all companies, not Just a series of inoculations required favored few. for certain foreign voyages are reminded to be sure to pick np their inoculation cards from the. captain or the purser 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 SEATTLE—Shipping for this ing on for another voyage where jmrt has been slow during the past the "shots" are required. The period with only one vessel, the inoculation card is your only Barbara Fritchie (Liberty Naviga­ proof of having taken the re­ tion) paying off and signing on. Inquired shots. transits were the Texmar, Portmar, Those men who forget to pick Alamar (Calmar) and the Choctaw up their inoculation- card when (Waterman). they pay off may find that theyPort Agent Jeff Gillette re­ are required to take all the ported a small amoiuit of disputed "shots" again when they want to sign on tor another such voy­ overtime and a few repairs on these vessels but all items were age. settled, satisfactorily. Pick Up 'Shot' Card At Payoff Seattle Still Slowing Up Your Gear.. for ship ... for shore Whatever you need, in^ work or dress geor, your SUJ Seo Chest has it. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ ing at your Union-owned ond Unionoperated Sea Chest store. Sport Coats Slacks breiss Shoes iKferk Shoes Seeks Dungarees Frisko Jeens tPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Behs Khakis ties Sweat Shirts T'Shlrts Shorts BriefsSwim Trunlu Sweaters Seu'westers Ralngear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries . Eieetrie.Shavers ' Radios Jeievisipn - Jewelry Cameras , Luggage • •V:' 'Chester Hughart Phillip Edward Giordano Your mother, Mrs. NancyIt is urgent that you contact your wife, Mrs. Odessa Giordano at Hughart, is very anxious to hear Route 2, Box 30A, Pelzer, SC, im­ from you. Her address is 8260 W. 63d Place, Arvada, Colo. mediately. t 4. i 4 4 4 Martin M. Hammond Jack McCarthy Get in touch with James W. Contact your brother, Jonathan Harrelson right away. His address F. Burleigh, 132554, NO Box 32, is Route 7, Box 240, Pasadena, Md. Huntsville, Texas. "SS" 4" 4» . •44 4 Robert C. Pierce Irma DriseoH W. D. Warmack, 8507 Brooks St., Please contact Thomas Maynes Tampa, Fla. would like you to con­ at SIU Headquarters, 675-4th Ave., tact him. by mail as soon as possible. Billy Gilian Hill, four-monihold son ot Seofarer Charles E. Hill, looks well pleased with life in photo submitted by grandma Ethelyn D. Thornton of Long Beach. 4" 3^ m-.1 4 4 .4 • 4 Charles (Tex) Weibom John Katsos It Is urgent that you contact Mrs. Albert Pfisterer .\V\. Holly Brynlng. Her address is 2520 Larkin C. Smith J;; Roosevelt Blvd, Kenner, La. and See Frank P. Corcoran, Room she can be reached by phone after 204, SUP Building, 450 Harrison 6 PM at Kenner 71-4015. St., San Francisco 5, Calif., about; picking up vour income tax re^ tiuus. 4 4 4 Kenyon Park ' John Fereira Get in toucii with Endgdio Reyes /Hie deaths of the follounng Seafarers have been reported to the at 1269 SW-5th St., Miami 36, Fla, Seafarers Welfare Plan and the SIU death benefit is being paid to their 4 4 4 beneficiaries. Raymond Queen Your mother wants you to wite Travis Bell, 52: On March 20, Salvatore J. Marinello, 40: Broth­ 1958, Brother Bell died in Eunice, er Marinello died from a circula­ her at Cove Gap, West Va. Anyone La. Cause of tory ailment on knowing his whereabouts is urged death is un­ March- 29, 1958, to contact her. known. He be­ in New Orleans, 4 4 4 came a full mem­ La. He became a Edd:e Sander has lost contact ber of the Union full member of with all of his old buddies and on April 20, 1945, the Union on he'd like to get in touch with them and sailed in the April 24, 1942, again. He used to ship out of Nor-i deck department. and sailed in the folk. His address is Box 41, Oak Brother Bell is deck department. Grove, La. survived' by a Brother Mari­ 4 4 4 ^ nephew, , Clifton nello is survived Peter P. Luketic left his seabag Bell, of Flomaton, Ala. Place of by his mother, Mrs. Leona Mari­ burial Is unknown. nello, of New Orleans, La. Place aboard the Plymouth Victory with Red Spencer, chief cook. If anyone of burial is unknoum. knows of the whereabouts of the 4 4 4 bag contact him at the SIU Hall, WJliiam Badillo, 43: On February 1216 E. Baltimore St., Baltimore 20, 1958, Brother Badillo died In 2, Md. San Juan, PR. 4 4 4 The cause of G. W. Cutrer death is unknown. Get in touch with Aunt Nettie He became a full at 900 Germain St., New Orleans member of the 24, La. Payment of $1,200 In SIU Union on May 1, 4 4 4 maternity benefits was made to 1947, and sailed Will the close friends of Seafarer —Seafarers* families for the birth in the steward Scottie Kunchick contact Mrs. J. department. of the six babies below. As Kunchick at 104 Organe St., New­ usual, each of the babies re­ Brother Badillo ark, N.J. is survived by his ceived a $25 US savings bond 4 4 4 wife, Luna Blanco Badillo, of from the Union. William (Mush) O'Connor Puerto Nuevo, PR. He was buried Total maternity benefit payr Get in touch with Jim Cosmo, ! ments through April 25, 1958, in De La Capital Cemetery, Rio second mate, on the Marine Cour­ now amount to $639,000 in the Piedras, PR. . ier, at'11 Broadway, NYC. 4 4 4 six years since April 1, 1952. 4 4 4 Roy W. Bell, 51: Brother BeU The $200 maternity benefit is Peter Walsh apart from hospital, surgical and died on February 7, 1958, in Balti­ more. Md. Cause Write to Francis"Frank" Murray medical coverage for Seafarers of death was an at Box 283, 550 West 20th St., NY, J families under the SIU Welfare infection of the NY. Plan. lymph system. He . The SEAFARERS LOG wel­ 4 4 4 is survived by a comes any photographs* and in­ Charlie Cook sister, Mrs. Alta formation about Seafarers' fam­ Contact Roger Beroud at 7637 D e 1V e c c h i o, Parkview Road, Highland Park, ilies. Send all details to the of Ossining, NY. Upper Darby, Pa. editor. Photos will be returned Brother Bell be­ after use. 4 4 4 came a full mem­ Morrie Geard'an ! • ^ ber of the Union Your mother would like you to, Adeline Cepeda, born April 14, on September 3, 1944, and sailed 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Luis in the engine department. He was contact her at 511 W. 7th St., Long Cepeda, of New York City. buried in Glen Haven Cemetery, Beach, Calif. 4 4 4 • 4 4 4 Baltimore, Md. William Doran Elizabeth Urbina, bom April 11, Get in touch with Shirley Wessel 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Fran­ at the Seamen's Church Institute, cisco Urbina, of Galveston, Tex. of NY, 25 South St., NYC 4' 4 4 Barbara Jean Gibbs, bom March 4" 4 4 6, 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ken­ lAbdul Said neth E. Gibbs, Yuma, Arizona. Contact Kastner and Sunshine at 1230 Sixth Ave., NYC. 4 f 4 s Nicholas Livanos, bom April 19, 4 4 4 1958, to Seafarer and . Mrs. John Ellis Samia Livanos, Brooklyn, NY. Chester A. Hahn wants jfou to 4 4 4 . contact him at 250 W. 57th St., " Margaret Reinosa, bom April 10, New York 19, NY. 1958, to Seafarer and Mrs. Juan 4 > 4 J. Reinosa, Brooklyn, NY. Steve Sloneski 4 4 4 Please get in touch with Hank^ David Remley, born March 6, it is important that he hear from 1938, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ned L. you soon.*: . B«mley, Conroe, Texas. . ; • - :i .ti ill ;l| ^ fofT/e/ m- •• • . • -.r>--s'iV- i -''t-V'' - ''li.'' •cii • �I'-rn;-'.. ;'• Vol. XX No. 10 SEAFAltBRS#U>6 "ncciriAl OR6AN Of THE SEAFARERS INTERN AT I ON At UNION » ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT » AFL-CIO » Delta Fleet Records 25% Injury Decline Through March, '58 ^ I ^j-' I'>"•.••:' f" IF'-, • m Georgia Keefis Fingers Crossed N-8 SMAfUAin <iEi}Uiil\ UAAH WITIIfH'T A LOST TIMK L I? TSKIMP Aliens Get Permanent US Permits TIIEiiMOIlKIA SAFM NEW ORLEANS—A one-quarter reduction in shipboard ac­ WASHINGTON —The Immigra­ cidents in the Mississippi Shipping Company 14-ship fleet has tion and naturalization Service^ been recorded in the first three months of 1958. If the same has authorized the issuance of per­ manent landing permits and identi­ rate is maintained through the*^ liiiiiliiiiMiiilR fication cards to alien seamen. The time injuries. In the first three balance of the year it will cards will be valid for an indefinite,^ months of 1958, there have been mean a reduction of 60 acci­ period, and will replace the pres­ 51 injuries in the fleet, and just dents in the ^fleet throughout the ent trip-by-trip system. 16 lost time injuries. On the basis year as compared to 1957. of accident frequency rates, which Under the present system, when At the same time, the company's an alien seaman hits an American safety news announced that the is actual time lost as against time port, he must apply for a landing Del Monte was the safest ship in worked, there has been a reduction permit. The service issues either a the fleet for the second year in a of approximately 25 percent. Among the avoidable accidents D-1, or a D-2, according to the row. The Del Monte had only one individual case. , lost time accident in 1957. It had listed in the company's bulletin racked up the same outstanding was. one in which £ carpenter If he is issued a D-1, he may take record in 1956 to win the fleet stepped on a grape left on the deck shore leave while his vessel is in safety award that year. The Del in the steward department lounge that port, but he must sail with the Valle with two lost-time accidents and" suffered a fractured hip. An­ ship. However, if he is given a D-2 and the Del Sol, Del Rio, Del other man was struck by ^ swing­ Messman Koq Lim poses beneath sign which records the Seatrain card, then he may pay off the ship Mundo and Del Aires with three ing door that had not been hooked and stay ashore for 29 days. But he Georgia's 462-day accident-free streak. TMs is just the begin-" lost-time^ accidents each, were the back and a third, a waiter, slipped must sign on another vessel before ning, they promised. The streak was still oil at last word. Photo 01. a piece of bacon on the deck runners-up in the contest. the end of that period. by Seafarer Glen Vinson. "Congratulations to Captain near the dining room. No matter how many times an Brote and the officers and crew alien lands in the US he must apply of the SS Del Monte are most cer­ for clearance each time and his tainly in order," the bulletin con­ clearance must be endorsed in cluded. every American port. In 1957, the crewmembers of the SAN FRANCISCO—Leaders of management have joined' labor in expressing concern new papers are a substitute Mississippi fleet suffered a total over the present "right-to-work" drive in California. They have called for a joint effort to forThe the D-2 cards in that once they 261 injuries of which 113 were lost are issued add in effect, the alien defeat proposals which would out^w the union shop. seaman may leave'his vessel in any Heading the "right-to-work" American port for 29 days before for a number of California labor Union Has veloped in some management quar­ campaign is Senator William signing on another ship. He may do unions had already hired the or­ Knowland and his "Citizens ters. One warning against the ganization to help put across a this as often as he hits these ports * Cable Address amendment came from J. Paul St. Seafarers overseas who want Committee for Voluntary Union­ president of the Pacific Mari­ counter-amendment which would without having his landing permit to get in touch with headquar­ ism." The committee is trying to Sure, time Association, who wrote that call for a reduction in the sales endorsed each time. ters in a hurry can do so by secure 350,000 names on petitions he was against any bill which tax and a revision of the state In­ cabling the Union at its-cable which would put the "Employer- outlaws the union shop. This clause, come tax. The amendment proposal Employee Relations Amendment" ad'^ress, SEAFARERS NEW St. Sure said, protects employers was backed by 570,000 signatures. on the ballot in the elections in YORK. against jwisdictio)ial disputes, in­ Registration Campaign November. Use of this address will assure The amendment is a big iffiue in ternal conflict and favoritism. In addition, the unions have .peedy transmission on all mes­ "Employers and majority nn^ stepped up their efforts to get sages and faster rarvice for the the race for governor. ions," St. Sure contended, "who their members and families to reg­ However, opposition has demen inv^'ved. believe the union shop is sound ister in time so they can vote in should not be denied, by law, the the November general elections. right to enter into a union, shop The "right-to-work" backers agreement." The PMA negotiates have come up with 150,000 signawith the SIU Pacifio District and times thus far; but have obtained other maritime unions. a 40-day extension to get the addi­ Hotel Owner's View tional 200,000 signatures needed. Another warning came from Ben­ The deadline is June 26. jamin H. Swig, West Coast finan­ cier and owner of San Francisco's Looks Like An Honest Count NEW YORK—Federal District Judge Sydney Sugarman has Fairmont Hotel.' extended an order barring picketing of New York piers by Both labor and management members of Teamsters Loca 807. The Teamsters had set up have prospered under unionism. Swig said. The worker has been the pickets in protesting a ru ' issued by the New York termi­ picked up somewhat in this port able to buy a car, a television set, have his weekends off and still nal operators th^t would re­ even though the Seatrain New have money for leisure spending. quire them to either unload their York did not sign on a crew as As for management, it has not expected and the Kathryn went trucks in 40 minutes or take on a gone broke, he pointed out. "Never helper supplied by the terminal into lay-up. There were 20 vessels paying off, have- large corporations and big bperator. Local 807 protested that this three signing on and 13 ,were in business made so much money as rule would mean the replacement transit in this area during the past during this period (of the growth of their members with other period. All beefs, most of which of labor unions) . . . Big business workers during all unloading op­ were minor, were settled at payoffs prospers when unions are strong and when employment Is full. erations. The operators went into to everyone's satisfaction. court on April 14 after the pickets The vessels paying off were the "I remember the days when proved highly effective in keeping Kathryn, Elizabeth, Frances, Siiz- unions were not strong . . . when cargoes from being brought on the anne (Bull); Steel Worker, Steel capital took advantage of labor. piers. .Sugarman set July 1 for Maker, Steel Recorder (Isthmian); Those were not happy days ... not Robin Sherwobd, Robin Goodfel- prosperous days. Workingmen did arguments on the issue. The Maria H (Herald Steamship low (Robin); Seatrain Texas, Louisi­ not have the purchasing power in Company) called into port last ana, Sayannah, New Jersey i(Sea- those days and big business did not week on her voyage to Turkey with train); Alcoa Runner, Alcoa Puri­ prosper. I do not want thwe dark a load of grain. Bill Hall, assistant tan (Alcoa); Gateway City (Pan- days back again," he warned. Door-To-Door Drive •secretary-treasurer reported. The Atlantic); Transatlantic (Pacific Meanwhile the "rlght-to-work" vessel is in top shape with a fine Waterways); CS Baltimore (Cities Service); Michael (Carras) and the advocates have started an extensive STU crew aboard. door-to-door drive to obtain the "I'd like to remind the member­ Andrew Jackson (Waterman). ship," Hall said, "of the importance Signing oh were the Robin Gqod- signatures. It wan-reported by one ot carrying their SIU books and all fellow (Robin); A^coa Runner national columnist that they were necessao papers when throwing in (Alcoa) and the Ahdrew Jacksoh even willing to pay more than a dollar a name to the required for jobs. This is especially impor­ (Waterman). The in-transit vessels included number of signers. The committee tant in the case of a key rating such ais a chief steward or bosun the Wacosta, Raphael Semmes had offered an organization with Weighing In jJui'Ing medical checkup at SIU health center In Whose .book is stamped that he is (Waterman); Steel Fabricator, Steel the manpower and experience for Baltimore, Seafarer Pete Triantafillos, chief cook (left), gets the ver­ qualified to ship' in the particular Maker (Isthmian); the Calmar such a state-widfe drive over $35,0,dict from nurse Mildred Seller. Curtis Anderson, MM (right), (Calmar) and the Beauregard (Pan000 to. do the Job.' rating stands by for his turn at the scale. But the cbmmittee was too late. ' Shipping for the past period AUanticJ. Co/. Financier Hits 'Wrecfc' Bid K|; ; !*4» r; r• Pick-Up Brightens NY; Teamster Beef Enjoined 'r*- Send 'em to the ijQti ;i � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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 May 9, 1958 Description An account of the resource Headlines: 5 WIN SIU COLLEGE AWARDS AFL-CIO SEEKS EARLY ACTION ON AID TO JOBLESS SENATE PASSES BILL ON WELFARE FUNDS SIU HITS DISCRIMINATION BY NEW RION OPERATORS TABLE NMU CHARGE ON BERNSTEIN LOAN US FLEET DECLINES TO 974 SHIPS AMMI SAVES THE DAY FOR TAX DODGE OPERATORS BAN MMP PICKETS IN LAKES PILOT BEEF HEARINGS END ON NLRB CHARGE AGAINST AMCOAL 7-MONTH RULE VOTED BY SAILORS SCAB FLEET COSTS MEN $3.30 DAILY RUMP GROUP ORDERED OUT OF MMP HQ. BLOOMFIELD 100 PERCENT CLEAN EGYPT TO PAY FOR SUEZ; PLANS TO DEEPEN CANAL US APPLIES 3-MILE LIMIT AS UN CONERENCE FAILS ‘NO OT’ IS DAYMAN’S DIRGE UNDER NMU SAFETY RIG’S WORTH $150 TO SEAFARER SUBSIDY ALLOWANCE WOULD RULE OUT NEW APPLICANTS DELTA FLEET RECORDS 25% INJURY DECLINE THROUGH MARCH, ‘58 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 05/09/1958 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. 10 1958 Periodicals Seafarers Log