https://seafarerslog.org/archives_old/files/original/2a32467ac21c38838d7b3f6dfc885ebb.PDF 447149a665a5e5cf406769a2f04cd72b PDF Text Text Vol. XXIV No. S SEAFARERS^IfrLOO OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO' Seafarer, Four SlU Children Win S6G Each Story On Page 3 Another Labor-Management Study Panel of educators which studied the qualifications of candidates competing for the 1962 SIU scholarship awards and recommended winners to trustees of the program is pictured at work in SIU Welfare Plan office on May 10, the day the winners were notified they were successful in gaining $6,000 award for four years of college study. Shown (1-r) are: Dr. Elwood C. Kastner, New York University; Richard Keefe, St. Louis University; Miss Edna M. Newby, Douglas College, New Brunswick, NJ; Charles O'Connell, University of Chi­ cago; Dr. Bernard Ireland, Columbia University, New York City, and F, D. Wilkinson, School of Engineering, How­ ard University, Washington, DC. (Siory on Page 3.) First SIU Line Manned In Robin Contract Beef New Probe Bypasses Key To Shipping Industry Problems Treasury Backs Down On Taxing Runaway Fleet Story On Page 5 SIUNA Will Hold June Conference For Fish Unions Story On Page 7 Story On Page 3 SIU Picketlines Hit Mooremac In Robin Beef story On Page 2 Seafarers out of headquarters man the first SIU line set up in protest against Moore­ mac plan to sell off Robin Line ships and liquidate bargaining unit without notifica­ tion to the Union. ' Line went up at Mooremac's 23rd Street pier in Brooklyn, where Mormacbay and another vessel were docked. The dispute has tied up ten ships in four ports, including liner Argentina. (Story on Page 2.) SIU Wins Another Tug Fleet In NLRB Voting Story On Page 8 �•..•••-J- ntc« Ttr* SEAFARERS mv, iS9» LOG Union Filea NIM Charges SlU Pickets Hit Mooremac-Robin Pact Violation Silas Axtell Dies At 77; Veteran Aily Of Furuseth Memorial services for admiralty lawyer Silas Blake Ax­ tell, a close associate of Andrew Furuseth in pioneering sea­ men's rights, were held in New York on May 3. Axtell, 77, died in Chevy Chase, Md., on> Furuseth was the NorwegianApril 29, after suffering bom seaman who led the Sailors heart attack. For many years the general counsel of the old International Seamen's Union, he prided him­ self on the fact that he had been an attorney for seamen only, since 1910, when he began to practice law in New York. It was then that Axtell first met Furuseth, who had gone to the Legal Aid So­ ciety to ask for some assistance and was assigned a young attor­ ney to work with him. Axtell had joined the Legal Aid after gradu­ ation from law school. Picketlines such as this one were set up by SlU at East Coast ports, tying up Mooremac-Robin Line ships. Above, SlU pickets, including president Paul Hall, picket passenger liner Argentina as she docks in Manhattan. In foreground are newspapermen. (See other photo on Page I.) Waterman Subsidy Bid Still Open Union of the Pacific in those early days and fought the historic legis­ lative and legal battles that cul­ minated in the "magna carta" for seamen, the Seamen's Act of 1916, the Jones Act "In 1920 and spear­ headed precedent decisions up­ holding the rights of seamen. The two men worked in the de­ velopment of the old ISU and joined In a lengthy struggle to aid and protect seamen against crimps, boarding house operators, A staunch fighter for sea­ hard-fisted skippers and owners men's rights, Silas Blake who bled seamen of their skimpy Axtell is pictured at 1961 earnings and abused their civil SIUNA convention, showing and job rights. an old set of hand man­ When Furuseth died in 1938, acles and leg irons that Axtell continued the fight they had begun together, defending had been used to imprison causes involving the rights of sea­ seamen aboard ship. men. noted, and the manacles were Attended SIUNA Convention wound so tightly around the man's At last year's SIUNA conven­ legs that they had to be cut away tion, Axtell drew a standing ova­ to set him free. tion as he spoke to the delegates Born in Perry, Ohio, Axtell at­ and reminisced about the early tended schools in that state and days. He was welcomed by SIU graduated from Columbia Univer­ president Paul Hall as a "living sity Law School in NY In 1909. link to the Furuseth era" whose He was Intimately versed in mari­ activities were among the "most time law, studied it both here and important activities in all the his­ abroad and took many seamen's tory of the American sailor . . . suits all the way up to the US 1 am sure that the coming genera­ Supreme Court in pressing for a tions of seamen will give you your favorable decision. His home was rightful place in history, the same in Little Britain, NY. as Andrew Furuseth has." Axtell's first wife died in 1946. Characteristically, Axtell brought He is survived by his second wife, to the convention a set of chains Elizabeth, six sons and five grand­ and handcuffs that he recalled had children. Representatives from the been used many years ago to im­ SIU attended the memorial serv­ prison a seaman aboard ship. The ices held at the Seamen's Church key had been disposed of, he Institute in Manhattan. WASHINGTON — Nearly two years to the day since the old Protesting Moore McCormack-Robin Line's violation of its Federal Alaritlme Board approved contract with the SIU, the Union began picketing the com­ an operating subsidy for Waterman Steamship, a Federal District pany's vessels on May 15 in Brooklyn. Within a few days, Court judge handed down a deci­ picke-tline action had been ex--*' sion on May 22 to clear still an­ The Mooremac passenger liner other obstacle to processing of the tended to Manhattan, Phila­ delphia, Baltimore and Jack­ Argentina was one of the ships case. The judge upheld a previous mo­ sonville, tying up ten vessels affected by the SIU's picketlines. The picketing began as the ship tion by the Justice Department to by LOG presstime. docked in Manhattan on May 23 The SIU also filed unfair after returning from a 13-day dismiss a move protesting the pos­ labor practice charges with the Caribbean cruise. Her next sailing sible subsidy award. Legal Tangle National Labor Relations Board was promptly canceled and the against the company for refusing ship remains idle. The legal tangle developed out to bargain in good faith over the SIU president Paul Hall said the of Waterman's link with McLean issues. SIU was highly gratified at the Industries, Inc., Sea-Land Service All Moore McCormack-Robin evidence of suipiport given the Un­ and Waterman of Puerto Rico, Line ships will he picketed as they ion by rank and file members of which would have to be terminated come into port. all sections of waterfront labor. as a condition of any offshore sub­ ' . The vessels tied up as the LOG He said this was a definite indica­ sidy award since they are domestic went to pre.ss were the following: tion that the workers understood operations. New York—Mormacbay, Argen­ the basic issues involved. Waterman first applied for an tina, Mormacpenn, Mormacpride. The NMU, meanwhile, added operating subsidy on voyages to Chester, Pa.—Mormacfir. some special confusion to the Europe and the Far East back on Baltimore — Mormacsaga, Mor- scene as the liner Argentina January 30, 1957. Lengthy Studies macteal, Mormacrio, Mormacsun. docked by setting up its own The sale of the Liberian-flag vessel City of Havana to a "picketline." Its placards called In 1960, after lengthy studies Jacksonville—Mormaccape. Mooremac "unfair" for "bargain­ and hearings which involved 13 German firm is another step in the dissolution of the "West One ship, the Mormacwren, tied ing with SIU," although the com­ India Fruit and Steamship Company, which operated a train up at the Todd Shipyard, Brook­ pany's refusal to negotiate on the other steamship companies, three ferry service between the US*' was one of the few American lyn, was released on May 22 when Robin Line contract was the basis railroads, seven US port cities and and Cuba until last year. concerns that freely operated be­ the SIU removed its picketlines for unfair labor practice charges 46 lawyers representing all the Disposal of the 3,431-ton tween the US and Cuba for some parties involved, a decision was in response to a request from the filed earlier by the SIU. ship, a former US Navy craft, fol­ time under the Castro regime. rendered in favor of subsidizing State Department and the Depart­ A standard 60-day notification Waterman's European runs. This lowed the shutdown of what used The company will be remem­ ment of Labor. The request pointed out that the vessel was had not been acknowledged by was promptly challenged by many to be a multi-million dollar busi­ bered as the focal point of an im­ scheduled to deliver a vital cargo Mooremac-Robin Line and the of the same parties all over again. ness. The runaway line continued portant ruling by the National La­ of 4.000 tons of beans to famine- only information received by the Now In May, 1962, the main body operating until relations between bor Relations Board, in February, stricken areas in northern Brazil. SIU was that Mooremac was sec­ of dissenters seem to have dropped the two countries became embit­ 1961, which required West India President Kennedy, at his news retly planning to liquidate the out of the picture, and the Issue tered, and economic and diplomatic to bargain with the SIU for an (Continued on Page 7) relations were severed. West India agreement covering crewmembcrs may finally be resolved. conference May 23, announced that the pickets had been re­ on the runaway SS Sea Level. This moved and the ship was proceed­ ship was well-known to Seafarers ing to Brazil. as the old SS Seatrain, one of the first ships to be signed up and manned by the SIU in the late 1930's. This ruling and a series of deci­ sions by the NLRB and the US In order to keep Union rec­ Supreme Court won by the SIU ords up to date and to fully established the right of American protect Seafarers' rights to maritime unions to organize USwelfare and other heneilts, it is owned ships sailing under runaway important that all ships' dele­ flags. The Sea Level ran between gates mail a complete SIU crew Havana and New Orleans and its list in to headquarters after the crew had been organized by the sign-on. The crew lists are SIU beginning in 1958. It was also particularly valuable in an put up for sale last year. emergency when it's necessary Another of West India's ships, to establish seatime eligibility the City of New Orleans, has been for benefits on the part of a the subject of Congressional hear­ Seafarer, or a member of his ings to decide If the ship can trans­ family, particularly if he should fer to US registry for a trainship be away at sea at the time. run between Seattle and Alaska. Crew list forms are being Now laid up In Florida, the vessel SlU-manned tanker Transeastern slowly settles into water while taking on load of wheat at mailed^ to all ships with this was built in Japan in 1959. She the new public grain elevator just outside New Orleans' port limits. The cargo was bound Issue of the LOG and can r be would be operated by the SIU for Poland and was part of a record million-plus bushels pumped into three vessels loading obtained from Union patrolmen Pacific District-contracted Alaska the same day. New Orleans reportedly set an all-time world's record for grain shipments in any port. Steamship Company if coastwise last year. privileges are granted. Runaway Sells Off Another Trainship Transeastern Helps Set Grain Record Mail Crew Lists To Union Office r- p-: jii f �'•Har* 196t SEAFARERS ,Pav« priu«« LOG ANOTHER LABOR-MANAGEMENT STUDY- Ship Probe Bypasses Key Issues WASHINGTON — Another in a series of in­ quiries into the troubled state of maritime is being diverted into "safe" channels—a look-see. at the atate of labor relations in the industry. Only weeks after President Kennedy raised searching questions about the criteria of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act, the House Merchant Marine Committee has asked the Department of Commerce to conduct an investigation which will deal exclusively with the impact of labor re­ lations on the shipping industry and apparently will pointedly ignore the following questions raised by the President: "Are the criteria adopted in 1936 as guides to the establishment of essential trade routes and services relevant for the future? Are there alternatives to the existing techniques for providing financial assistance which would benefit (a) the public in terms of better service andUiower rates and (b) the operators in terms of higher profits, more freedom for management initi­ ative and more incentive for privately-financed re­ search and technological advance?" In the minds of many in the maritime industry, these are the key questions which must be resolved. The diver­ sion of the energies of Congress and the Commerce De­ partment into a further inquiry into maritime labor is viewed as an indirect way of whitewashing the subsidy issue and further preserving the outmoded concepts of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act. It is obvious to everybody that these concepts have failed to produce a healthy ship­ ping industry. In their view, the labor-management problem which has arisen in the industry is the result of the failings of the Industry, not the cause. The selfish policies pursued by a segment of the operators, the "mediocrity" in man­ agement, as Secretary Luther Hodges of the Commerce Department has put it, and the resultant draining off of cargoes to foreign flags and to railroads in the domestic trade has diminished job opportunities and placed pres­ sures on maritime labor to protect the livelihood of its membership. The prescription thus far proposed in Washington! namely, a "thorough study" of collective bargaining prac­ tices, is comparable to a physician conducting a thorough study of a patient's rash and ignoring the measles which caused it. In maritime, the labor-management problems are but one of the rashes; the outdated polidles of the 1936 Merchant Marine Act are the measles. Recognition of the industry's "measles" has come both from President Kennedy, as indicated by his statement quoted above, and from the House Anti-Trust Subcommit­ FOREIGN LINES BEEF IN MIDST OF PLENTY WASHINGTON—Foreign-flag ship operators who have been hollering loudest and longest about recent US attempts to expand and upgrade American shipping ought to take a close look in their own back-* table shipping conference arrange­ yard now and then. ments by requiring foreign lines The limited effort to im­ to furnish shipping docixments ex­ prove the status of the US-flag Industry via stronger enforcement of "50-50" cargo preference legis­ lation and a "Ship America" pro­ gram backed by the Administra­ tion has drawn sharp words from foreign operators and their govern­ ments, who are alleging "discrimi­ nation" by Wash'ington. At the same time, many of these same countries are embroiled in a growing international contro­ versy over Federal Maritime Com­ mission effoi'ts to establish equi- plaining their rate structures and other details covering onlv vessels in American trade. Meanwhile, some of the most active overseas critics of US ship­ ping policies are benefitting from the same type of governmental aid programs they complain about to the US. Recent news items detail some French, Italian and Japanese gov­ ernment moves to upgrade their national fleets: • The French government plans to dole out in the next fifteen months between $10.2 and $12.6 million to French operators for the construction and moderniza­ tion of their fleets. Seventy percent of the ships are less than ten years old. The Canadian Seafarer • Pending approval by the Na­ —Page tional Diet, the Japanese legisla­ tive hody, Japan plan.s a five-year A&G Deep Sea Shipping Report —Page 6 s moratorium on all interest pay­ ments for shipping companies who The Fisherman and participated in the governmentCannery Worker sponsored construction program —Page and would defray the interest on The SlU Inland Boatman half their debts to the Japanese —Page 8^ Development Bank. The bill would also apply to any other debts Jap­ SlU Food. Ship Sanitation Dep't —Page 8j anese shipowners incurred during previous shipbuilding programs. The Pacific Coast Seafarer • The Italian Chamber of Depu­ —Page 10 ties has already passed measures Editorial Cartoon—Page 11 granting government assistance for its fleet. The first proposal seeks SlU Medical Department to encourage the moth-balling of —Page 12 outdated ships and at the same The SlU Industrial Worker time give Impetus to a new con­ —Page 14 struction program. Under previous The Great Lakes Seafarer legislation, 104 billion lire ($166.4 —Page 15 million) was granted. A new meas­ ure provides for additional state SlU Safety Department grants amounting to 24 billion lire. —Page 16 Another, to ease shipbuilding SlU Social Security Dep't credit, enables Italy's niei-chant —Page 17 marine to sharpen Its competition Shipboard News and would provide enough credit —Pages 19, 20, 21, 22 backing to finance $320 million worth of new vessels. INDEX To Departments! tee, chaired by Rep. Emanuel Celler (Dem.-NY). The Celler report said the subsidy program as originally shaped by the 1936 Merchant Marine Act "has clearly improved the welfare of a highly-privileged coterie . . . Only six compa­ nies have garnered a total of some 76 percent of all operating differential subsidy . payments." "Clearly," Celler added, "the Intent of Congress In providing subsidies was not to foster the welfare of a few dominant lines at the expense of the rest of the American merchant marine, both tramp and liner alike. To the extent that this has been done, subsidies have promoted economic concentration and discour­ aged legitimate competition and, in many respects, have failed to achieve their objective of advancing the combined welfare of all segments of the American merchant fleet." Among all the millions of words which have been written or said on the subject of maritime, the above paragraph stands out as the essence of our maritime problems. Thus far, neither the Celler nor the Kennedy state­ ments seem to have made much impact on viewpoints elsewhere in Washington. Rep. Herbert Bonner (Dem.NC), chairman of the House Merchant Marine Committee and a key figure in any investigative procedure, summed up the preponderant outlook this way in a speech to (Continued on Page 4) S/(/ Scholarships Won By Seafarer^ Four SlU Children NEW YORK—Seafarer Gerald Dwyer and the children of four SIU members have won four-year, $6,000 Seafarers scholarships to attend the college of their choice for an unrestricted course of study. The five 1962 awards boost the number of SlU scholarships given so far to 48 with a total value of $288,000. In addition to Dwyer, whose home is in Clark Mills, NY, the other 1962 re­ cipients are: ^ ton High School, Franklinton, La., Arthur Robert Rudnickl, desires to pursue an aeronautical Jr., son of Arthur Rud- engineering course at Louisiana State University. He has already nicki, Franklinton, La. launched a rocket under the su­ Ralph Stanley Tindell, pervision of his high school sci­ son of Ralph Woodrow Tin­ dell, Tampa, Fla. Sharron Kay Berry, daugh­ ter of Reuben Berry, Columbia, NC. Karen Anne Hilyer, daughter of Vincent Hilyer, Fort Lee, NJ. The scholarship program was started in 1953 and its provisions are among the most liberal in the country, allowing for an unlimited course of study at any recognized US college or university. Both ac­ tive seamen and the children of Seafarers c o mpete for the five annual awards which are part of the SIU Welfare Plan coverage for all Union mem­ bers and their families. Trus­ tees of the pro­ gram base their Dwyer awards on the recommendation of a panel of edu­ cators and college administrators. One of the yearly grants is speci­ fically reserved for an active Sea­ farer. A Navy veteran of World War II, serving as a gunner, Dwyer joined the SIU in New York in 1947, sail­ ing in the deck department. Mar­ ried, he has attended Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, for two years and plans to complete his studies toward becoming a public school teacher. Rudnickl, a senior at Franklin­ ence teacher. He is 17 years old and his father has been sailing with the SIU in the steward de­ partment since 1953, after joining up in Wilmington, Calif. Tindell, 20, is a sophomore at the University of South Florida, Tampa. He plans on a science ca­ reer either in mathematics or physics and has served as a lab as­ sistant on a research project at college. His father has been sail­ ing in the steward department with the SIU since joining at Tampa in 1942. Miss Berry, 17, is a senior at Columbia High School in Colum- Karen & Vincent Hillyer Sharron & Reuben Berry bia, NC. Her ambition is to be­ come a laboratory technician and she plans to attend Norfolk Col­ lege of William and Mary. Her father is an SIU tugboatman work­ ing out of Norfolk. Miss Hilyer attends the Acad­ emy of the Holy Angels, Fort Lee, NJ. The 18-year-oId senior plans to major in mathematics at the College of St. Rose, Albany. NY, Arthiir Jr. & Arthur Rudnickl for a career in actuarial work. Her father is an SIU railway tugman with the New York Central Railroad. Selection of the winners was based on their previous scholastic achievements, extra-curricular and community activities and perfor­ mance on the standard College En­ trance E.vamination Board test. Over 75 Seafarei-s and children of SIU men applied at some time Ralph S. & Ralph W. Tindell (Continued on Page 4) �•?rs.'ST»lt.-«rrw»?s»3r?ri5=i^.-jE»se^'^ Senate Unit Boosts Load Line Rules WASHINGTON—A new measure to update load line regulations and require foreign ships to conform to American requirements while in US territorial waters has been re­ ported favorably to the Senate by the commerce committee. The bill would allow coastwise and intercoastal vessels to increase their carrying capacity by an esti­ mated three percent. It would pri­ marily benefit domestic operators. The higher load line limits go be­ yond present international regula­ tions in their application to vessels in US domestic trade. Insures ConfonnUy In addition, the original proposal has been amended to assure that foreign ships in US waters conform to provisions of the law on load limits at all times—not just on their departure. The bill prescribes higher penalties than previously to discourage violations. It also makes clear that the US Coast Guard, as well as Customs officials, have authority to enforce the law. After survey, vessels found to have violated the regula­ tions would pay the cost of survey. Coastal tankers would be able to add a quarter-inch for each foot they draw. A 30,000-ton tanker drawing 34 feet, it is estimated, could add about eight and a half inches to its draft and thereby carry an additional 900 tons of car­ go per voyage. The bill has Coast Guard endorsement. Scholarship (Continued from Page 3) during the year to complete for the 1962 awards. The panel which assisted in the selection process, concurred in by the trustees, consisted of Miss Edna Newby, assistant dean, Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ; Ber­ nard Ireland, Columbia University, New York City; E. C. Kastner, dean of registration and financial aid. New York University, NYC, and F. D. Wilkinson, administrative assistant, Howard University, Washington, DC. R. M. Keefe, dean of admissions, St. Louis Uni­ versity, St. Louis, Mo., and C. D. O'Connell, director of admissions. University of Chicago, Chicago, Hi., were part of the awards panel for the first time this year. Of the 48 scholarships awarded to date, 21 have gone to active Seafarers and the balance to the children of SIU members. The 1961 winners also included one Seafarer and four children. • (iv-^- '••» ^ v*;' •.-'-i'-*',' -*«iU--;ir u-7 v. ANOTHER LABOR-MANAGEMENT STUDY- Ship Probe Bypasses Key Issues (Continued from Page 3) the Propeller CluT> on May 21: "American maritime labor must help provide the answers" (to the problems of maritime) "and they must provide them soon . . ." The implication would appear to be that it is up to the trade unions to provide solutions for the prob­ lems of maritime. This is pred.sely what one major group of unions, the National Committee of Maritime Bargaining, attempted to do one year ago. And it was pre­ cisely the "highly-privileged cote­ rie" of subsidized companies, to use Rep. Ceber s words, whicli strove with might and main to blunt the NCMB program and the promise of stability for the industry which that program held forth. Refused Cooperation Any inquiry of the maritime in­ dustry would be well-advised to iook into how these operators re­ fused to cooperate with the NCMB program and instead, did every­ thing possible to destroy it. It is pertinent here to review what led up to NCMB and its after­ math. Recognizing the deficiencies of existing maritime policies and the need to take steps to preserve and develop the American Mer­ chant fleet, lepresentatives of eight maritime unions met in New York City on December 16, 1960, and established the National Committee for Maritime Bargaining. They agreed that forthcomii;g contract negotiations had to go beyond ship­ board conditions and deal con­ structively with the industry's problems through industry-wide, labor-management action. Participating in the meeting were the Marine Engineers Bene­ ficial Association; Masters, Mates and Pilots; SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District; Radio Officers Union; Sailors Union of the Pacific; Marine Cooks and Stewards; Marine Firemen's Union and the Staff Officers Asso­ ciation. The International Long­ shoremen's Association sent ob­ servers to the meeting and later became a full-fledged member. The National Maritime Union was invited to attend, but refused to participate. The NCMB program, in the words of its chairman, iesse Calhoon, called for "vigor, leadership and imagination ... to reverse the existing decline and provide the means for industry to ex­ pand ..." A key element in the program was joint labor-manage­ ment action to overhaul the 1936 Merchant Marine Act. The program was presented at an open meeting on June 6, 1961, to which all segments of the in- Advance Meeting Schedule For West Coast SIU Ports SIU headquarters has issued an advance schedule through Sep­ tember for the monthly informational meetings to be held in West Coast ports for the benefit of Seafarers shipping from Wilmington, San Frdncisco and Seattle or who are due to return from the Far East. All Seafarers are expected to attend these meetings, in ac­ cord with a resolution adopted by the Executive Board last Decem­ ber. Meetings in Wilmington are on Monday, San Francisco on Wednesday and Seattle on Friday, starting at 2 PM local time. The schedule is as follows: San Francisco Wilmington Seattle June 20 June 18 June 22 July 18 July 20 July 16 August 22 August 24 August 20 September 19 September 21 September 17 (See page 5 for regular monthly meeting schedule for all SIU constitutional ports.) dustry were invited, as well as the Secretaries of Labor and Com­ merce, the Maritime Administrator and the chairmen of the House and Senate committees concerned with maritime affairs. Following the meeting, the "New York Times" reported as follows: "Nine Sea Unions Urge Industry Reform—Offer Rejuvenation Plan In New Form of Bargaining." The "Times" added: "Maritime labor set a new standard yesterday for contract bargaining . . . The joint committee outlined a pro­ gram to revitalize an industry in which unions have charged mis­ management on the part of both Government and industry . ; . "A prime demand was that con­ tracts with industry in the future cover American-owned vessels un­ der foreign flags . . . "Next in order was the demand for formation of a joint labormanagement committee to overhaul policy on shipping subsidies . . ." It soon became apparent that shipping management was unwill­ ing or unable to cooperate with the unions; nor was it able to agree in its own house on a united ap­ proach regarding collective bar­ gaining and legislative problems. Different Segments As in the past, each segment of the industry went its private way. The dominant group of subsidized operators which Rep. Celler has tagged the "highly-privileged co­ terie" were the main stumblingblocks. In the strike which resulted from their attitude, it became obvious that this "coterie" (which dictates the policies of the American Mer­ chant Marine Institute) was pre­ pared to bribe the imions with a bagful of money (Government money, of course) rather than give the unions—and the rest of the industry—any voice in determining maritime policy or to lend them­ selves to any effort to repatriate American-owned runaway shipping. They themselves as subsidized companies had no interest in run­ away flags, but fought feverishly to protect oil and metals companies who had. The reason for their stand lay in their desire for back­ ing from these influential indus­ tries on legislative and administra­ tive matters. The NCMB refused to accept this, as essentially harm*ful to the job security of American seamen. The NMU, however, took the package. The "highly-privileged coterie" policy was one of giving "more and more to less and less." In­ evitably it meant more wages and fewer jobs. The day following the Federal coiurt injunction which halted the strike, July 4, the "Times" com­ mented as follows in an edito^l entitled "The Maritime Debacle." ". . . Some of the participants SEAFARERS LOG Way, 1962 Vol. XXIV, No. 5 PAWI HAU., President HERBEFT BRAND, Editor; IRWIN SPIVACK, Managing Editor; BERNARD SEAMAN, Art Editor; HERMAN ARTHUR, ARTHUR MARKOwiTz, MIKE POLLACK, JOHN WEITZEL, Staff Writers. Published monthly at tha haadquartart of the Seafarers International Union, Atianfic. Suit, Lakes and. inland waiars District, AFL-CiO, *75 Fourth Avenue, Brooklyn 32, NY. Tel. HYaclnth •-6600. Second class postage paid at tha Post Office in Brooklyn, NY. under tha Act of Aug. 24, 1t12. 13S have displayed surpassing cynicism in which the components are greed and a lack of responsibility toward their country ... ". . . What behind-the-scenes role, if any, was played by highlevel Federal authority in forcing such a costly settlement as has been agreed on in a large segment of the industry—a cost to be met largely by the public through in­ creased subsidies? . . . Were the Increases unconscionable, as stated by some still reluctant seamen who say they believe that jobs are more important than higher wages? "The public is entitled to know the answers . . On July 13, in an editorial en­ titled "Maritime Subsidies," the "Times" added: "One sore cmiclntioii arising from the . . . maritime dispute is the need for a review the na­ tion's ship subsidy policy . . . "Snppose a subsidy review shows that it la stiU necessary in 1961 to continue a Federal aid system devised in 1936. Congress must still ask itself whether the money Is equitably distributed ..." "Twenty-five years ago onr do­ mestic fleet was healthy, but the regularly-scheduled overseas serv­ ices needed assistance. The pat­ tern foreign trade has since changed radically. Now it is cargo that represents most of this country's fmreign trade. But under the law neither the irregularlysehednled bulk eargo service nor the ailing domestie trade in e»tiUcd to Federal aid. Are we fminellng aU of onr aaaistanc into n segment of the industry with tbo least impact on the nation's wel­ fare? . . These questions have yet to be thoroughly examined. They are essentially the same questions as those now being asked by President Kennedy and Rep. Celler. They are the same points which have been raised on numerous occasions by tlie SIU and the other unions in the NCMB. The unions maintain that 1962 is not 1936—that the jet age, the age of the supertanker and the ore carrier has altered the pattern of shipping beyond recog­ nition. It is time that maritime legislation was altered in propor­ tion. But despite the clear and ob­ vious fact that the ills of the US maritime industry arise out of an­ tiquated, unrealistic policies which are perpetuated by the "highlyprivileged coterie," the cure is being sought in the secondary area of labor-management relations. The primary area of concern and in­ vestigation must be the policies, attitudes and regulations which have produced or are perpetuating maritime's dilemma. QUESTION! The Government has set up a study on abandonship techniques because it's felt there are more hazards in this than from the actual wreck. What do you think can reduce the hazards of abandoning ship? Mike Anzalonc, engine: I've yet to run into a situation calling for an abandon-ship action as I've been a Seafarer only two years now. But I re­ cently finished up at our SIU lifeboat school and the training there made me realize what's in­ volved. Between the training ashore and shipboard drills, I'm sure I'll be ahead if anything happens. 3) 4 t Paul Constan, engine: Lack of knowledge hbout what to do and the resulting con­ fusion is the big­ gest hazard. The only thing to do is have constant training and drills so that any panic created by the real thing doesn't undo what a man has learned by doing. I've been going to sea since 1923 and_can see that training is the most important item. Joseph Garcia, deck: Good life­ boat training and safety drills are the best answer. When everybody knows what to do and how to do it, you have the best insurance against panic and injury when abandoning Bhip. The SIU program is proof of the value of training. The important thing is for everybody to take drills seri­ ously. Victor Pigg, deck: I think the biggest bottleneck is just plain panic, when some people forget what they've been trained to do for years in case of an emerg­ ency. There's a small number of men like that, but they can cre­ ate an awful mess in a hurry. Strict training and attention to drills and proce­ dures is the best solution, 3) 4" 4" Felix Bonefont, deck: If you can board a ship with knowledge stored away about handling a lifeboat and how to abandon ship, you don't waste a lot of time learning about it aboard ship and can concentrate on s h 1 p b 0 ard drills and sta­ tions. The SIU lifeboat program encourages this and is very valu­ able. 4 4 4 Candido Bonefont, deck: The more drills you participate in aboard ship be­ fore the real thing happens, the better off you will be. You must be trained to move fast and surely to your station in an emergency and know what to do when you get there. Everybody has to take drills seriously, not as a nuisance that seems like a waste of time. �Hay. USt SIU MEETINGS SIU membership meetings are held regularly once a month on days indicated by the SIU Constitution, at 2:30 PM in the listed SIU ports below. All Sea­ farers are expected to attend. Those who wish to be excused should request permission by telegram (be sure to include registration number). The next SIU meetings will be: SlU picket boat circles the Red Wing, one of the Upper Lakes vessels manned by Canadian scab union. Canada SlU Spurs Lakes Wage Drive MONTREAL—The SIU of Canada is pressing home its de­ mands for a guaranteed annual wage for Great Lakes seamen in talks with contracted Great Lakes operators as negotia­ tions continue on a new agree­ ment to replace the pact ex­ security highlights the union's ef­ forts to upgrade standards on the piring in September, 1962. The demand for annual wage New Vessels Join Canada SIU Fleet MONTREAL—A new 26,000-ton upper Lakes bulk carrier, Montrealais, was christened at the Cana­ dian Vickers shipyard here for the SIU of Canada-contracted Papachristidis Company. The vessel has •iready taken a crew. Bulk Cargo Carrier Built in sections, the Montrealais is designed to carry iron ore and other bulk cargoes and is 730 feet long. This is the maximum-size vessel permitted to navigate the locks of the St. Lawrence Seaway. The newcomer is expected to be joined next spring by a sister ship, which will also be built by Vickers. Two more new vessels are on the way and are expected to be operat­ ing by the end of this month for the Mali Corp. One of these is a large self-unloader, the Halifax, and the other is a medium-sized tanker, the Hudson Transport. . In Midland, another SlU-contracted company, N. M. Paterson Steamship, has signed a contract with Collingswood Shipyards for a new vessel to add to its growing fleet. Two Ships Now Running The new Paterson ship will join two other company vessels that just made their maiden voyages on the Great Lakes. These ships, Lawrendoc and Mondoc, were also con­ structed at the Collingswood yard. The unnamed Paterson ship will be 730 feet long and is expected to be ready late this fail. All told, the company plans to have six vessels engaged in the Great Lakes-Newfoundland trade and all six are to be kept running all year long. Pare Five SEAFARERS, LOG Great Lakes, more than ever threatened by runaway-flag ship­ ping. Other provisions of the SIU's program include a 40-hour week, fixed manning scales and specific improvements in working condi­ tions. Concurrently with th® fight at the negotiation table, the union has also taken up the battle on the waterfront to meet the grave threat to wages and conditions of all sea­ men posed by the stepped-up run­ away efforts of the Norris Grain Company and the scabbing activi­ ties of its subsidiary. Upper Lakes Shipping, Ltd. The SIU fight against the Norris runaway-scabbing complex has re­ ceived strong support from the Great Lakes Conference of the Maritime Trades Department and other waterfront unions, many of whose members have already been undercut by the company. Picketing Upheld By Court Last year unemployed seamen successfully picketed company ships in ports on both sides of the border. Attempts by Norris inter­ ests to obtain injunctions were re­ jected by courts in both countries via a series of rulings upholding peaceful picketing action protest­ ing job losses to substandard op­ erators. Norris then resorted to outright scabbing and, out of this effort, a new "Canadian Maritime Union" resulted. Upper Lakes Shipping used this group to scab on the SIU as soon as the 1962 navigation sea­ son opened. Previously, the com­ pany refused to negotiate with the union when the old contract ex­ pired at the end of the '61 season. SIU picketline action against the ships operated by the combine has since been upheld by the Superior Court at Montreal, which turned down a pelition for an injunction. Waterfront unions have respected the picketlines and, in turn, were scabbed out by the CMU and pri­ vate guards who moved cargo the unions wouldn't handle. New York June 4 Philadelphia June 5 Baltimore June 6 Detroit June 8 Houston June 11 New Orleans June 12 Mobile June 13 Chemical Workers Join MTD WASHINGTON—Continuing its growth as the official AFL-CIO department representating marine and allied workers, the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Department wel­ comed its 31st affiliated union last month, the International Chemical Workers Union. Unanimous Affiliation Vote The ICWU voted unanimously to affiliate with the MTD at a March meeting of the union's executive board. A month earlier, the Inter­ national Brotherhood of Operative Potters became the 30th MTDaffiliated union. In joining the MTD. the ICWU executive board said the affiliation would expand its participation in AFL-CIO activities and advance the interests of many of its locals in seaport areas. It noted that MTD membership already includes the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers as well as other indus­ trial unions in related jurisdic­ tions. Officers Represent Union Walter L. Mitchell, ICWU presi­ dent, will serve as the union's representative on the MTD execu­ tive board and Marshall Shafer, secretary treasurer, will serve as his alternate. The union has head­ quarters in Akron, Ohio, and lists a total membership over the 80,000-mark. In addition to chartering its 31st AFL-CIO affiliate on a national basis, the MTD currently has 32 maritime port councils operating on a local level on all coasts. Treasury Nixes Runaway Taxes WASHINGTON—The sad tales of economic ruin which US operators of runaway-flag ships have been echoing ever since the Administration announced plans to tax the profits of their dummy foreign corpora-^' tions seem to have reached with it after that. This is essen­ the ears of the Secretary of tially the case with Liberia and the Treasury, Douglcs E. Dillon. The Secretary told the Senate Finance Committee this month that his department had second thoughts about including runaway shipping under the taxation pro­ posal. Some of America's biggest and richest oil and ore producers have exerted tremendous pressure on the Administration in an attempt to win tax exemption for their over­ seas shipping subsidiaries. The legislation was originally designed as part of a broad cam­ paign by the Government to close off tax loopholes and produce addi­ tional revenue. The runaway-flag shipping device of American own­ ers has been cited as a prime ex­ ample of the "tax haven" situation the bill seeks to cover. A major point in the bill is the difference it stresses between operations that are an integral part of the country where they are located, such as a shoreside manu­ facturing plant employing local workers, and a shipping set-up that has the barest ties with the flag under which it is registered. The tax rates covering the two situa­ tions would be far different, since the tax bill is not intended to penalize true foreign investments. The runaway ship operation dif­ fers from these because it merely "rents" its credentials from a country and has nothing to do Panama, whose maritime fleets are far out of proportion to their own national commerce. In their attempt to continue the tax loophole favoring their opera­ tions, runaway shipowners have argued that if the tax bill is adopted as written, they will have to sell off their ships, which are supposed to be available to the US in an emergency. This view has apparently per­ suaded the Treasury Secretary, since the Defense Department has long held the same position. Ex­ emption for the runaways would mean, in effect, that American sea­ men who pay their fair share of US taxes would be subsidizing the tax bill of their runaway competi­ tion. Quitting Ship? Notify Union 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 replace­ ment. Failure to give notice be­ fore paying off may cause a dela.ved sailing, force the ship to sail short of the manning re­ quirements and needlessly mak® the work tougher for your ship­ mates. Ore, Calmar Again Win PHS Sanitation Awards BALTIMORE—Two more SIU companies, Ore Navigation and Calmar Steamship, have been awarded special citations by the US Public Health Service for excellence in sanitation maintenance aboard the fleets" of both companies in 1961. ing sanitary construction, main­ For Ore Navigation this was tenance and operation of all feed­ the sixth consecutive year that it has received a USPHS commenda­ tion and for Calmar it was the fifth. The Public Health Service con­ ducts the inspection program as a means of controlling disease and contamination aboard ship as well as ashore. Its inspections cover the preparation and serving of food, including their sources ashore. USPHS maintains a check­ list of 166 separata items cover- Welcoming International Chemical Workers Union as the 31st affiliate of the MTD, president Paul Hall (right) greets ICWU president Walter L. Mitchell (center). Looking on it MTD executive secretary Peter McGavin. ing and cooking facilities aboard the vessels. In winning the latest awards, seven Ore Line vessels and the 11 Calmar ships received a rating of 95 percent or better on these items. The presentation ceremonies to Ore and Calmar were conducted here by Assistant Surgeon-General C. H. Atkins, chief sanitary officer, US Department of Health, Educa­ tion and Welfare. Besides Ore and Calmar, other SIU companies such as Alcoa, Isth­ mian and Waterman have also earned commendations recently for overall fleet sanitation. The Lucile Bloomfield just received its sixth perfect score in a row on a USPHS inspection to mark the 17th consecutive time that a company vessel has garnered a top rating of 100. Adding to the list of sanitary certifications received by SlU-contracted companies and ships, the Tamara Guilden has received a certificate of sanitary construction from the USPHS for meeting the requirements for shipboard clean­ liness laid down by the Federal serviee. The 22,934-ton, German-built motorship, is operated by the Transport Commercial Corporation of New York. She was originally owned by the Zim Israel Navaigation Company of Haifa, Israel, and was transferred to United States registry last year. �SMAFARERS^ LO€ I .• SEAFABERS ROTARY SHIPPING BOARD (Figures On This Page Cover Deep Sea Shipping Only In the SlU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District.) April 1 Through April 30, 1962 r After an increase in job activity during March to a high for the year so far, shipping for Seafarers fell slight­ ly in April to a total of 2,314 jobs shipped. The dip was not effective across the board in all departments, as ship­ ping in the deck gang rose a small amount and, among the seniority groups, class C showed an increase during the month. A decline in ship activity (see right) appeared to be largely responsible for the overall drop. Payoffs, sign-ons and in-transit totals went down sharply in three Atlantic Coast ports, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and this resulted in a decline of 40 vessels handled by all ports. The Gulf was busy, however, and West Coast ports held steady in the numbers of vessels serviced. [ On the job front among the ports, six reported a gain in shipping for the period. Boston, New York, Norfolk, Mobile, Wilmington and San Francisco show^ a rise; the others fell off in varying amounts, with Philadelphia, Jacksonville and Houston listing the biggest reductions In jobs dispatched. A drop in registration followed the shipping downturn for the month, except for group 2 men in class A for all departments. The net result during the period was a small increase in the number of men registered on the beach by the end of April. Overall, while the total number of top seniority class A men registered on the beach was somewhat less than the number of jobs posted, there still was enough of a se­ lection on the board in SIU ports so that most of the Sea­ farers in this group who desired to sail could have done "o with little difficulty. Ship Acfivify SIga la Offi OBI Traai.TCTAi: •aitaa 4 Haw Yatii ... 44 PWtadalpUa .. 4 •oltiaMra ....11 Norfolk 4 Jockioavllla .. 4 Toaipa 2 Mobila 12 Naw Orlaoai ..17 Hoaifoa 12 Wilmiagtoa ... 2 Soa FroBclKo.. i SaotHa ....... S TOTALS ...128 1 - 11 9 32 0 14 7 19 5 7 15 4 aa 14 S 14 32 IS 7 39 13 2 14 3 9 •• 14 88 20 37 14 23 14 31 44 58 17 22 14 233 419 58 DECK DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C TOTU SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS 1 3 ALL I 3 ALL 1 2 S ALL 1 2 2 S ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 3 ALL 2 3 ALL A 2 C ALL 1 B 7 2 24 0 3 4 7 11 6 5 8 0 1 1 37 0 9 1 2 1 3 8 13 10 21 6 2 7 1 1 2 . 3 69 34 40 111 27 178 10 19 40 90 24 148 8 16 23 47 3 12 148 28 50 84 3 6 47 12 207 85 144 27 256 6 5 25 ! 0 5 15 1 8 9 5 12 0 17 1 2 — 3 0 18 0 20 12 45 2 5 11 1 1 17 3 21 13 1 78 1 3 41 17 5 16 24 13 20 22 8 43 2 23 0 8 25 36 11 10 74 29 70 18 117 3 S 5 8 43 23 8 26 0 16 2 6 11 10 8 5 14 28 1 4 2 8 11 1 18 0 0 1 28 40 11 13 27 0 9 9 11 1 3 18 3 9 9 0 4 2 9 3 4 2 9 0 6 1 7 0 2 7 9 23 11 7 5 14 5 7 7 9 1 21 2 6 2 1 9; 0 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 2 1 1 5' 4 8 13 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 1 1 2 1 25 451 0 12 8 4 5 26 40 1 9 6 8 3 3 2 7 10 0 50 33 17 0 8 0 0 40 10 0 32 12 0 85 23 28 63 17 108 0 13 22 71 18 112 1 25 19 45 0 14 25 41 3 8112 74 16 142 2 5 45 8 165 52 88 23 163 2 18 17 87 26 52 80 14 120 4 14 17 35 0 25 20 47 6 3 9120 80 34 180 2 35 9 : 164 66 7 12 2 3 4 6 21 — 1 11 4 21 1 8 — 2 — 4 3 6 10 21 39 ' 7 23 1 3 4 8 10 14 2 5 10 24 3 37 1 2 8 13 14 8 35 0 3 7 1 6 18 10 35 3 5 4 6 3 7 10 52 16 23 42 1 45 1 13 9 15 24 6 9 3 5 23 1 9 6 6 13 6 65 16 14 9 13 29 25 5 46 0 14 5 19 29 23 1 _ 86 130 1 2361151 358 97 606 21 93 99 1 213 12 48 39 11 99606 TiY"""9^1 918 353' 533 140 1 10261 19 122 168 1 309 215 445 117 |'777 1 20 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOT At S ENGINE DEPARTMENT Registered CLASS A GROUP 1 2 0 4 29 77 2 11 45 9 2 10 S 8 0 3 2 19 14 58 20 63 2 8 8 37 3 19 ~94 ""362 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco Seattle TOTALS Registered CLASS B Shipped CLASS A Shipped CLASS B Shipped CLASS C GROUP GROUP GROUP 1 S ALL 1 2 2 S ALL 1 2 8 ALL 0 3 0 3 1 1 2 2 1 3 1 5 5 76 26 34 87 63 19 108 4 31 17 52 0 7 11 2 8 14 0 4 4 0 1 1 1 32 5 89 1 15 16 29 5 23 11 11 2 6 3 11 2 13 19 1 4 4 10 5 2 8 11 1 3 1 1 2 0 2 2 I 0 0 0 1 3 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 7 7 14 6 19 6 81 0 3 9 14 1 20 28 70 1 49 11 53 6 31 17 49 24 18 70 3 4 46 14 48 8 39 20 16 3 8 2 9 4 4 1 6 1 8 — 12 0 3 4 7 11 21 86 0 0 4 4 4 0 7 3 10 4 80 1 24 2 7 3 11 60 i1 516 18 134 130 1 282 84 288 60 432 17 124 85 1 226 3 ALL 0 4 13 119 17 4 62 8 16 4 1 12 0 S 6 27 10 82 8 91 11 1 2 47 25 3 TOTAL SHIPPED Registered On The Beach CLASS B CLASS A GROUP GROUP GROUP CLASS 3 ALL 1 3 ALL A C ALL 1 2 3 ALL 1 2 2 B 3 3 11 1 10 1 8 0 1 2 5 3 8 2 5 1 8 11 15 108 52 15 175 38 121 11 170 11 44 47 102 1 0 0 0 14 15 2 30 0 0 1 0 22 6 5 5 10 70 10 8 39 75 2 47 0 3 5 55 10 19 26 23 8 0 8 19 32 3 14 5 22 2 9 7 0 3 10 3 It IS 1 7 0 7 3 15 2 10 8 7 0 1 18 5 7 8 1 5 2 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 4 2 3 31 48 7 28 3 38 0 13 0 1 3 9 4 14 11 70 60 6 5 75 13 121 3 28 29 49 11 130 33 0 40 16 7 13 20 70 74 8 111 3 59 0 39 20 129 29 31 2 1 14 1 2 1 10 9 11 4 2 8 12 10 56 7 29 39 1 S 8 16 36 3 4 9 6 4 16 1 10, 30 51 7 31 2 10 3 21 3 15 0 6 4 11 10 45 60 1 107 432 226 107 { 765 143 473 66 1 682! 28 181 155 1 364 2 STEWARD DEPARTMENT Registered CtASS A - Port Bos NY PhU Bal Nor Jac Tam Mob NO Hou Wil SF Sea .... 1-s — 6 3 3 1 6 2 7 6 5 2 3 4 TOTALS 48 CROUP 1 2 2 0 35 15 1 1 17 13 5 2 3 2 0 1 5 7 17 15 31 17 4 1 4 5 1 5 129 Registered CLASS B 3 ALL 2 * 48 104 i 10 ! 5 13 46 4 12 3 14 6 3 17 36 53 91] 28 8l! 1 si 7 19 19 9 80 193 1 450 Shipped CLASS A GROUP 1 3 ALL 1-9 2 0 1 1 2 —— 5 45 61 21 1 0 1 7 8 0 0 2 19 21 3 2 4 10 0 4 0 1 5 6 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 19 19 3 0 6 39 45 3 3 3 35 41 3 2 1 3 6 1 0 0 4 4 3 1 1 9 11 1 10 24 191 1 225 39 Shipped CLASS B GROUP 1 3 ALL 2 3 6 2 1 8 7 43 79 1 2 6 9 7 4 12 26 3 3 2 8 1 0 2 8 0 0 1 2 8 5 16 32 22 6 47 78 17 10 29 69 3 0 4 8 4 3 10 20 8 2 3 14 85 ~43~ 177 1 344 GROUP 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 5 0 10 3 0 0 0 2 4 9 23 3 ALL 2 2 26 27 9 7 13 13 9 12 3 4 0 0 16 17 40 35 17 27 7 4 8 8 18 12 152 1 184 Shipped CLASS C TOTAL SHIPPED GROUP GROUP 3 ALL 1 1 3 ALL 2 2 C ALL 1-9 3 5 9 0 9 0 2 1 2 1 59 36 97 215 1 6 49 56 28 134 ' 23 10 34 1 20 7 8 9 13 2 1 11 82 2 43 10 28 16 28 2 28 32 4 11 6 0 20 0 3 20 1 2 9 12 53 3 17 7 7 10 17 22 17 15 35 14 0 0 2 2 8 0 3 3 2 2 60 0 0 14 49 8 13 7 32 14 0 33 21 88 155 0 47 10 128 13 4 43 30 12 23 78 4 5 29 38 16 102 13 2 16 0 7 4 0 3 24 3 3 9 0 42 8 4 19 3 3 14 11 42 0 41 5 8 13 30 2 2 12 16 9 4 184 103 1 631 99 228 142 339 1 808 14 39 221 274 GROUP 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 4 0 0 CLASS 3 ALL A B 1 6 1 2 28 79 27 28 2 9 2 9 13 2 4 26 0 0i 8 12 10 3 4 8 0 2 0 0 0 32 0 17 10 78 40 10 16 59 27 16 9 8 7 6 8 10 14 20 9 14 IB 9 8 92 1 103 344 3 Registered On The Beach CLASS A CLASS B SUMMARY Registered CLASS A GROUP i 2 3 ALL DECK EN^E_ STEWARD GRAND TOTALS Registered CLASS B GROUP 1 2 3 215 445 117 I 777 20 86 130 94' 362 60[516; 18 134 130 177_ 80 193J 450 10 24 191 466 887 370 |i743l 48 244 451 Registered On The Beach TOTAL Shipped Shipped Shipped CLASS A SHIPPED ClASS B CLASS C CLASS A CLASS B CLASS GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP GROUP ALL 1 ? 3 ALL 2 3 ALL 1 B s ALL ABC ALL 1 2 S ALL i z S ALL. i .606 213 99 I 918 353 533 140 |1026 19 _i22 168 I 309 236;i51_ 358 97 1 606 21 93 99 I 213 12 48 39 282, 84 '288 60 432 J24_8^ 226 2 45 60 I 107 432 226 107 765 143 473 66 682 28 181 155 t 364 3 92 103 344 184 103 "631 327 142 ^9" 808; 14 39 221 1 274 225 124 43 177 344 9 23 152 184 8 743,359 689 334 11382 47 246 336 i 623 22 96 141 I 309 1382 623 309 12314823 1148 545 |2516, 61 342 544 ] 947 i7_ �Ibir.ltm SEAFARERS LOG Pace ScTCH Sea Unions Study Runmay Job Plan On Bulk Carriers SlUNA Calls Conference Of Fish, Cannery Unions Discussing arrangements for June 19 fish and cannery work­ ers conference, at SlU hall in NY, are George Johansen, sec­ retary-treasurer of the Alaska Fishermen's Union (left), and Cal Tanner, SlU exec, vice-president* The SIU and three other unions manning ships operated by subsidiaries of the Bethle­ hem Steel Corporation are closely studying a company proposal under which American sea­ men would get two berths on foreign-flag vessels controlled by the two lines for every job lost through automation onj US-flag ships. vanced that, without increasing Under the Bethlehem plan, the workload per man, they could American seameq. would man, at US wages and working conditions, two jobs on foreign-flag ships for every job which new technological improvements make unnecessary in the manning of their Americanflag ships. The unions would have to agree to the reduction in the manning scale due to the automa­ tion of the ships. While the proposal would give US seamen American wages and working conditions, they stili would be working under a foreign flag and might not have the pro­ tection of the Jones Act, enacted by Congress to protect seamen. Bethlehem says it can now de­ sign ships so technologically ad­ be operated with crews 50 to 60 percent the size of present-day complements. American Ships At present the two subsidiaries. Ore Navigation Corp., and Calmar Steamship Corp., operate only US-flag vessels. Ore does have a number of foreign-flag ships under time charter and is expected to become the agent for two 51,000ton bulk carriers recently ordered for construction in West Ger­ many. The four unions offered the plan are the SIU, the Marine Engineers Beneficial Association, the Mas­ ters, Mates and Pilots and the Radio Officers Union. Drive For Medical Care Program Shows Support With the drive to win Congressional approval of the laborbacked medical care for the aged program steadily gaining momentum, Seafarers are again urged to direct letters to their Congressmen and Sena­ WASHINGTON—The founding of a permanent national tors in Washington express­ dressing an overflow rally at New conference of SIUNA fish and cannery workers unions to ing support of the proposed York's Madison Square Garden, the President appealed for wide deal with mutual problems in the industry will be the center Anderson-King Bill. public support of the bill, which A number of SIU men have for­ of discussion for a meeting^"is essential," he said, "if this or warded letters of support for the and with Maritime Trades Depart­ here on June 19, Representa­ ment and Food & Beverage Trade health care measure to headquar­ any other piece of progressive tives of 16 SIUNA affiliates Department ters and to the LOG. These have legislation, is going to be passed." of the Federation. in the fishing and fish processing Industry have been Invited to take part. Plans for the conference call for a headquarters office here in the capital to coordinate joint activi­ ties on such matters as the growth of import competition, collective bargaining restrictions on fisher­ men and the raiding of fishing grounds by foreign fishing fleets. The conference would establish an information program for all member unions on important developments affecting workers in the industry. It will also attempt to set up improved working rela­ tionships with appropriate Federal agencies. Congress, the AFL-CIO A preliminary meeting was held at SIU headquarters in New York last month and agreed to lay the groundwork for a permanent SIUNA structure to service affili­ ates on ail coasts. The issues caus­ ing the decline of the domestic fishing industry affect thousands of SIUNA fishermen and fish cannery workers. A full-time SIUNA apparatus to deal with legislation, imports, con­ servation, promotion of American fishery products and the modern­ ization of the US fishing fleet would serve as a center of informa­ tion for all affiliated unions and help coordinate organizing. Organizing efforts of fishing unions have been severely ham­ pered by legislation that prohibits independent fishermen from enter­ ing into collective bargaining rela­ tionships because of anti-trust restrictions. Bills are already pend­ ing in the House and Senate to SAN DIEGO—^The solidarity and change the status of independent support that is the hallmark of fishermen to employees. SIUNA-affiliated unions was again evident in the recent West Coast shipping strike, as the Cannery Workers and Fishermen of the Pacific stopped a move to scab on the striking SIU Pacific District unions. The scabbing attempt grew out of efforts by operators who thought they saw a chance to make a fast buck out of the tie-up and tried to line up cargo to be put aboard NEW BEDFORD—Howard W. tuna clippers in the harbor. The cargo was to be hauled out at a Nickerson, secretary-treasurer of the SlU-affiliated New Bedford premium to Hawaii. Once word of the strike-break­ Fishermen's Union, has been ing bid reached the fishermen's elected presideht of the Greater union, it went to work and ruled New Bedford and Cape Cod Labor out any attempt to scab on the Council, AFL-CIO. Swearing in ceremonies were seamen's unions who were out on strike. The operators involved held at a dinner-meeting of the area thereafter went back to their regu­ central labor body at which the lar work of trying to catch tuna, a guest speaker, Sen. Torby Macdonlittle bit wiser about trying to fink ald, talked on the Administration's medical care for the aged program. out on any SIUNA unions. The Greater New Bedford and The Pacific District unions, which went back to work under a Cape Cod Labor Council is com­ Taft-Hartley injunction, sent their posed of 49 local AFL-CIO unions thanks to the fishermen for the and 103 delegates representing some 20,000 union members. assist. Union Bars Scab Move New Bedford Official Heads Labor Gouncil "v" '' had to be re-directed to Washing­ ton, where action on the legislalation is expected to begin in June in the House Ways and Meeins Committee. The Anderson-King measure, designed to provide health insur­ ance for the aged under the Social Security System, received a strong push from the President and the Administration this month. Ad- SIU Pickets (Continued from Page 2) bargaining unit by selling seven <rf the Robin Line ships. This move is in violation of the existing con­ tract and is an attempt to liquidate the bargaining unit without notice or bargaining with the SIU. The SIU had notified all com­ panies that it was opening talks covering all collective bargaining agreements. Present contracts ex­ pire on June 15. While the SIU was Tn the midst of reopening contract negotiations with its contracted companies, the NMU started a potential strike­ breaking action by seeking to raid the Robin Line ships. This re­ sulted from an NMU petition to the NLRB for a vote covering all Mooremac vessels. Charges were filed against the NMU under the AFL-CIO Internal Disputes Plan, which prohibits such raids. Violates Agreement The NMU's action violates a pre­ vious joint agreement recognizing the SIU's right to represent Robin Line ships and Is an attempt to create an atmosphere of dis­ order and controversy within the maritime Industry. At the time of the original Mooremac purchase of Robin Line, the SIU re-established bargaining rights on seven of the eight Robin Line ships by overwhelming votes conducted by the NLRB. The NLRB is presently holding hear­ ings on the dispute. The bill would provide medical care at the age of 65 for American v/orkers or widows in the form of hospitalization benefits, nursing home care, hospital outpatient diagnostic services and home health services. The program would be administered and fi­ nanced through the established Social Security System of old-age benefits, survivors' Insurance and disability benefits at a fractional increase in Social Security contri­ bution rates. Opponents of the measure, such as the American Medical Associa­ tion, have raised the old bugaboo of "socialized medicine" as their rallying cry and contend at the same time that the Anderson-King program offers only "limited" benefits. Labor Dept, Nears SOth Anniversary WASIDNGTON—President Ken­ nedy has proclaimed 1963 as "United States Department of Labor Fiftieth Anniversary Year." The Department was established March 4, 1913, "to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of the United States, to improve their working condi­ tions, and to advance their oppor­ tunities for profitable employ­ ment." In his proclamation, the Presi­ dent pointed to the role of the Department in advancing the inter­ ests of American wage earners, upon whose skills and energies, he said, depend "the success of our economy and the well-being of our nation." A conunittee has been estab­ lished to take the lead in planning and carrying out activities to mark the anniversary. Mr. Kennedy will act as honor­ ary chairman of the group, while the honorary vice chairmen will be the Vice-President of the United States and the Speaker of the House. Named as co-chairmen were Sec­ retary of Labor Arthur J. Gold­ berg; former Secretaries of Labor James P. Mitchell and Frances Perkins: and AFL-CIO President George Meany. Put Postal Zone On LOG Address The Post Office Department has requested that Seafarers and their families include postal zone numbers in sending changes of address into the LOG. The use of the zone num­ ber will greatly speed the flow of the mail and will facilitate delivery. Failure to include the zone number can hold up delivery of the paper. The LOG is now in the process of zoning its entire mailing list Kenya Labor Visitors Visiting headquarters, Clement K. Lubembe, general secre­ tary of the Kenya Federation of Labor (center), stopped to talk with Seafarer John Cummins of the black gang, while Alphonse Okuku, brother of Tom Mboya, secretary of labor in the provisional Kenya government, listens. Lubembe had asked Cummins whether he'd been to Mombasa recently, but Cummins has been a stranger there lately, sailing mostly round-the-world runs. :^ �11 S^AtfAKEnS tOG Pase^Eiirltir Banks, Biz Spark Drive To Lick Tax Withhoiding WASHINGTON—Banks and corporations hay^aunched a "calculated campaign of confusion" in an effo^ i^^W'fiefeat an Administration proposal for a withholding tax on dividend and interest income. The AFL-CIO charged that since 1942. Since there has been the Government loses more no comparable means of collect Daughter Of 5IU Purser Little Miss Makes News NEW OrtLEAN^^S^ilcf Robert Bannister was being transported over the blue South American waters aboard the SlU-contracted cruiseliner Del Mar, Mrs. Bannis ter was giving birth to Cynthia Jan Bannister on May 13th. The arrival of the tot on that day led to her promptly being named "Little Miss Transportation of 1962" by the Women's Traffic and Transportation Club of New Orleans. Bannister is a purser aboard the Del Mar and a mem ber of the SlU-affiliated Staff Officers Association. Selection of a baby girl on the first day of "National Transporta tion Week" to be crowned "Little Miss Transportation" has become an annual event for the club, Cyn­ thia Jan being the fifth child so honored. The club presented Mrs. Bannister with a $25 savings bond for the baby, at the hospital. Mother, daughter and dad, who was cabled the news, are all re­ ported doing fine. than $800 million in year in rev­ ing taxes on income from stocks, enue which taxpayers whose earn­ bonds and bank accounts, the In­ ings are already subject to with­ ternal Revenue Service estimates holding must make up. This that nearlly $4 billion in taxable means workers and individuals income does not get reported— w^hose wages and salaries are af­ and the Government loses more fected by tax withholding at the than $800 million a year. Opponents have charged that present time. The dividend withholding pro­ withholding will cause hardship to vision was included in the tax low-income groups, including wid­ revision bill passed by the House ows, orphans and the aged. "In of Representatives earlier this our judgment," the AFL-CIO fact year. It faces a hard" battle in the sheet declared, "families who have Senate, with a flood of letters op­ little or no tax obligation will be posing the provision reflecting mis­ fully safeguarded under the in­ understanding of what the with­ terest-dividend withholding pro­ holding tax means and how it posal. Its real objective will be to collect from the forgetful and the would be enforced. One strong supporter of the deliberate chiselers." The AFL-CIO noted that if the withholding tax has received more than 30,000 letters from opponents, Senate rejects interest-dividend many of them based on the mis­ withholding it will "perpetuate a taken belief that the provision gross injustice" against all wage would either impose a new tax or and salary earners. Increase existing taxes. Savings banks in some areas have taken newspaper advertising encouraging taxpayers to write in opposition to withholding, using material that has been labeled clearly "misleading." Insurance companies are also sending policy­ Cliff Wilson, Food and Ship Sanitation Director holders special brochures urging letters and community action to defeat the tax proposal, which ac­ Sea lore is full of grim stories about entire crews of men stricken tually imposes no new tax on any­ by diseases caused by a lack of proper nutrients in the diet. There is one. The provision would, how­ ever, encourage payment of what every reason to believe that seamen were among the pioneers in the has always been due under exist­ use of vegetables to control such diseases as scurvy and pellegra. It was discovered entirely by accident that men who had been in­ ing law. To answer both the honest con­ cluding vegetables and fruit in their diets were entirely free of these fusion and the deliberate distor­ diseases. Later, it was clearly established that some vegetables and tions, the AFL-CIO made these citrus fruits served as a preventative to ward off nutritional defects points in a special tax fact sheet: and these items subsequently became staples aboard ship. Since those early days when very little was known on the prepara­ Virtually all income received In salaries and wages is reported tion and preservation of the vegetable, scientific research by food spe­ and taxed through the withholding cialists has helped to formulate rules and procedures to govern our aystem which has been in effect methods of cooking vegetables so that their full nutritional benefits can be enjoyed. As in the preparation of any other type of food, cleanliness is es­ sential. All vegetables should be thoroughly washed before cooking to assure that there are no spray residues left on them and to eliminate the possibility of bacterial infestation. Leafy vegetables should be washed several times in cold water to remove all evidence of dirt and sand. In this case, it is preferable to remove the greens from the water rather than the water from the greens. This practice permits the grit SIU Atlantic, Gulf and dirt to settle on the bottom of the sink or container, not back into Lakes & Inland Waters the greens. District Where the vegetables are exceptionally dirty, it may be necessary to PRESIDENT boil, cool and drain them before completing the cooking process. This Paul HaU pre-cooking procedure serves as a form of blanching, and is helpful EXECUTIVE VICE-PRESIDENT in maintaining whiteness in vegetables such as cauliflower. Occa­ Cal Tanner sionally small worms may be present in cauliflower and broccoli. VICE PRESIDENTS Claude Simmons Lindsey Williams Blanching or a half-hour soaking in salt water or mild vinegar solu­ Earl Shepard A1 Tanner tion will eliminate the problem, however. SECRETARY-TREASURER It is important to try to avoid overcooking vegetables. Overcooking AI Kerr HEADQUARTERS REPRESENTATIVES tends to destroy the flavor and causes a degree of decomposition, BiU Hall Ed Mooney Fred Stewart causing these foods to present an unappetizing appearance. This is BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St. Bex Dickey, Agent EAstern 7-4900 especially a problem in the case of green vegetables such as peas or BOSTON 276 State St leaf greens, as these foods have a natural acid content that makes aohn Fay, Agent Richmond 2-0140 them susceptible to loss of food value and discoloration. DETROIT 10223 W. Jefferson Ave. The use of dried vegetables in the preparation of soups is common VInewood 3-4741 HEADQUARTERS....673 4tli Ave., Bklyn practice and all cooks should be familiar with them. Since the water HYaclnth 9-6600 lost in ripening and drying must be replaced, it is necessary to soak HOUSTON 3804 Canal St. dry vegetables in water for five to six hours overnight. They also Paul Drozak. Agent..." WAlnut 8-3207 JACKSONVILLE 2608 Pearl St., SE., Jax should be allowed to simmer rather than boil, since they have a WUIiam Morris, Agent EXgin 3-0987 tendency to toughen when subjected to boiling temperatures. MIAMI 744 W. Flagler St. Frozen vegetables present problems that are somewhat different. Ben Oonzales, Agent • FRanklin 7-3564 MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St. Due to the blanching process before freezing, frozen vegetables usually Louis Neira Agent HEmiock 2-17.54 NEW ORLEANS 630 Jackson Ave. require less cooking time than fresh. You should not refreeze frozen Buck Stephens, Agent ... . Tel. 529-7546 vegetables under any circumstance once they have thawed. The com­ NEW YORK 675 4th Ave., Brooklyn bination of blanching and refreezing causes a rapid multiplication of HYacinth 9-0600 NORFOLK . 416 Colley Ave bacteria once the food is thawed. Cordon Spencer, Acting Agent 625-6505 To avoid the possibility of food poisoning, it is Important to use PHILADELPHIA 2604 S. 4th St thawed foods as quickly as possible. If necessary, cook them in ad­ DEwey 6-3818 BAN FRANCISCO 450 Harrison St vance and hold for use as soon as possible. Douglas 2-4401 The general rule regarding vegetables sums up this way: Careful BANTURCE. PR 1313 Fcrnnndez Juncos preparation and cooking preserves the nutritional value and also the Stop 20 Keith Terpe, Hq. Hep. Phone 723-0003 color and appearance. In the long run, when vegetables ar^ cooked BEA'fTLE . 2503 1st Ave so that they look good and taste good, they will also contain the Tetl B.-ibkowskl, Agent ' Main < 4.3.34 TAMPA 812 Harrison .St greatest amount of food value. Jeff Gillette, Agent 229-2788 (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can WILMINGTON, CaUf 503 N Marine Ave Terminal 4-2528 be submitted to this column in cure oj the SEAFARERS LOG.) Techniques For Vegetable Cookery DIRECTORY May, IMt IBU Wins Sheridan Tug Balloting 18-0 Jubilant crew of tug Peggy Sheridan is one of three that voted for IBU representation. Pictured (l-rl John Torres, wipert Wilbur Goodwin, AB; Wiliiom Johnson, cook; Loren Brown, wiper; Adam Asberry, AB; James Smith, MM. PHILADELPHIA — The SIU Inland Boatmen's Union scored a unanimous National Labor Relations Board elecion victory this month to win bargaining rights for boat­ men manning three deep-sea-^"^ ugs of the Sheridan Trans­ day. Crewmembers of the third portation Company. The IBU boat involved, the D. T. Sheridan, won the balloting covering 23 eli­ gible voters by a margin of 18-0. AH Atlantic Coast ports from New York to Hampton Roads took part in the organizing campaign due to the nature of Sheridan's operation. The company's three boats tow non-self propelled cargo barges up and down the Atlatic and Gulf coasts. Harbor Tug Signed A fourth vessel, the H. J. Sheri­ dan, a harbor tug, has been under IBU contract for some time in this port, where company offices are located. Voting took place aboard the tug Peggy Sheridan at Bushey's Ship­ yard, Brooklyn, on May 2, and on the Chris Sheridan, at Booze's Shipyard, Baltimore, the following BU, Oil Rig -leet Agree Contract HOUSTON—Pressing home its drive to provide top wages and job security for boatmen in the George E. Light & Company fleet, the SIU Inland Boatmen's Union has signed tie oil rig servicing operator to a pace-setting contract calling for an immediate $50 monthly wage boost for all hands. The two-year contract, signed early in May with the Seabrook, Texas, company, also provides for a wage reopener on March 1, 1963 to insure the continued economic security of its boatmen. The agree­ ment climaxes a union drive in the fleet that began late last year. Other provisions of the new pact insure complete welfare and pen­ sion coverage for the men and their families, full job security guarantees, an extra day off a week for all employees and annual paid vacations. Among the working rule changes is a stipulation barring maintenance work after 5 PM and before 7 AM. voted in both places, since their vessel had earlier sank, was re­ floated and is also being refitted at Bushey's in Brooklyn. Prior to the IBU election success this month, the Sheridan deep-sea tug operation was non-union. Local 333, United Marine Division of the National Maritime Union, attempted to win bargaining rlght« on these tugs but lost an election six years ago. Texas IBU Pact Tops PORT ARTHUR —The SIU In­ land Boatmen's Union has solidi­ fied its decisive National Labor Re­ lations Board election victory on D. M. Plcton & Company boats by signing a top union contract calling for full welfare - pension protection, Increased manning and improvements In working condi­ tions. Effective May 1, the contract pro­ vides complele coverage for the company's 29 boatmen under the welfare and pension program and added one deckhand for each of the four boats now In operation. The election In March went 24-1 for the IBU, Involving all 25 men then employed. A major change in working con­ ditions was the establishment of a 12-hour day work schedule that gives all hands the right to sched­ ule their time off so that it coin­ cides with their relief. Deckhands and engineers previously used to work all hours on a schedule of 20 days on and ten off. The two-year contract provides for a wage reopener after the first year plus a variety of improve­ ments in basic working conditions. Picton operates four harbor boats In the Port Arthur, Beaumont and Sabine area. Company boatmen had been members of an independ­ ent union since 1946, but this or­ ganization was unanimously dis­ solved by the membership last October. �SEAFARERS Bbf. IMt British Seamen Waik Off Ships Rather Than Saii To Red China VANCOUVER, BC—Crewmembers of three British freighters, one in this port and two in Australia, have walked off their ships rather than make return trips to Communist China. In all cases, the seamen refused to make the trip because of their experiences on earlier voyages to the Chinese "People's Republic," during which they were man-handled and reportedly received generally a' islve treatment from port officials and police. Sixteen seamen who hit the bricks in Sydney were given twow;ek jail sentences as "deserters." The crewmen in Canada face similar charges. Seamen off the North Devon in Canada were quoted as saying they were "pushed around. Police went through our personal gear and treated us like animals during the two weeks we were there." The ship had delivered a cargo of grain to China and was being loaded for a return trip. In Melbourne, Australia, it was reported that the British freightship Bannerdale ran into difficulties making a scheduled delivery to mainland China, when a stern locker caught fire. The blaze was said to be part of an effort to keep the vessel from returning to China. Pare Niee LOG Engineers' Jobs Upheld The Marine Engineers Beneficial Association has won job and pension rights threatened by a complicated financial and American Export Lines. * Basing his decision on the nel. The BMO was used previously strong case presented by the to scab on the engineers during union, special arbitrator Ben­ an MEBA strike. jamin Heller has ruled that the MEBA contract with Isbrandtsen must apply in the company's trans­ fer of its fleet to American Export Lines. The union had been threatened with the loss of jobs for 124 mem­ bers when the 14-ship Isbrandtsen fleet came under the Export flag. Export has a contract with the Na­ tional Maritime Union's Brother­ hood of Marine Officers for its deck and engineer officer person- Heller .said in his ruling that the MEBA contract with Isbrandtsen follows the ships in the transfer. He cited specific provisions in the company-union contract which cover this and said the sections were written "to meet the situation then confronting and known to both parties." The two-company complicated financial merger involved transfer of Isbrandtsen ships to a new company, which then became an New Affiliate In full Swing Chicago SlU Cabmen Open Hall CHICAGO—^Working under an effective union contract for the first time in local cab union history, members of the SIUNA Transportation Services and Allied Workers are today realizing the benefits of their three-year struggle for un­ ion rights free of mob control. The 5,000 cab drivers and garage workers won a 20-hour strike on March 30 that firmly es­ tablished their new union. department where "Taxi Union The cab workers had quit service on behalf of its member­ the new transportation division. Completely renovated and re­ News" is published. Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters last ship. At the "open house" celebration, furbished, the offices provide full With this as e beginning, DUOC year in order to obtain decent con­ ditions. They affiliated with the SIUNA in January as the Transpor­ tation Services and Allied "Workers, after operating independently as the Drivers Union Organizing Com­ mittee, Local 777. Workers here are also linked with a separate group of almost 300 drivers in St. Louis, who also quit Hoffa's Teamsters this year in order to seek honest union repre­ sentation and conditions. Immediately after winding up its epic strike victory, the DUOC be­ gan moving to establish a full-time union operation to service mem­ bers and assure full enforcement of hard-won contract rights. A per­ manent hall was set up and a mass "open house" celebration was held a few weeks ago to mark the open­ ing. (Photos below.) The union has since held Its first regular membership meeting, is issuing regular financial reports posted for membership Inspection and Is working on details of setting up a credit union as an added more than 500 DUOC stewards, members, wives and friends took part. Other SIU affiliates also were represented at the opening by officials of the Inland Boatmen's Union (Tug Section and Dredge Section), the United Industrial Workers, the Great Lakes District and the AGLIWD. Among other AFL-CIO union officials present were those of the Meat Cutters, Retail Clerks, Iron Workers, the International Long­ shoremen's Association and the Li­ censed Tugmen's Protective Asso­ ciation. Wires of congratulation were received from the Chicago Federation of Labor and a host of other AFL-CIO unions. The Transportation Services and Allied Workers, SIUNA, will be composed of taxi drivers all over the nation, with headquarters here because of its central location and the dramatic and successful fight of the Chicago drivers for a strong, democratic union. As a vice presi­ dent of the SIU, Dominic Abata of the DUOC will be in charge of administrative facilities, complete recordkeeping equipment, spacious meeting rooms for stewards and members, a membership service center for handling of grievances, and an information and education members can look forward to a time in the not too-distant future when they will have available the many other services and benefits enjoyed by members of the SIU in other affiliates. its fight to protect members* merger involving Isbrandtsen Export subsidiary through a merger. In actuality, Isbrandtsen is still the top company with control of Export. MEBA pressed the issue of hav­ ing the contract follow the ships based on the specific language of its agreement with Isbrandtsen. The situation came to arbitration over the strong objections of Isbrandtsen and followed a series of strike actions and a court suit against the company by the engineers. MEBA had earlier questioned ap­ proval of the merger arrangement as part of a Federal subsidy plan for the combined ship operation, gaining a further inquiry into the entire transaction. The subsidy as well as the job issue has now been cleared. Union Has Cable Address Seafarers overseas who want to get in touch with headquar­ ters in a hurry can do so by cabling the Union at its cable address, SEAFARERS NEW YORK. Use of this address will assure speedy transmission on all mes­ sages and faster service for the men involved. Many cab workers came in off the job to visit new headquarters. Pictured here (l-r): Matthew Brown, SIU president Paul Hall, Andrew Pugh, DUOC president Dominic Abata and Samuel Broke. Lakes SIU men J. Clark (left) and E. Chiappetta chat with Mimi Kasprowick. Right, E. Aubusson, Chicago SIU; F. Pauley, B. Puchalski of Chicago Iron­ workers; D. Abata, J. Abata, J. Stasefski of DUOC. Well-wishers (above, l-r) with DUOC pres. Abata and SIU pres. Hall in­ cluded Ivan Morris, int'l vice-pres., and D. E. Carter, asst. to nat'l director, of Retail Clerks; and Thomas J. Lloyd, int'l pres.. Meat Cutters. Members and guests look over portion of union office and lounge in cab workers' headquarters where union business is conducted. Building also houses large meeting hall where "open house" was held. �rafe T;eB ! ,^ SEAFARERS Runaways Doing Fine, MA Proudiy Reveals WASHINGTON—Charged with the duty of promoting and maintaining an American-flag merchant fleet, the Maritime Administration recently took time out to show how effective­ ly it has carried out its mis--^^ Bion. The agency published year in ballast or carrying cargo. an analysis of American- The balance of the ships claimed owned runaway shipping opera­ tions in 1960 and documented how the runaways were able to grab up more than twice the amount of foreign trade cargoes handled by US-flag ships that year. 540 Runaways The MA said there were 540 dif­ ferent merchant vessels of 1,000 gross tons or more registered un­ der the Honduran, Liberian and Panamanian flags and under "effec­ tive US control" at one time or another in 1960. There were, how­ ever, no more than 508 ships on a given date (April 1, 1960) and as few as 455 on- December 31, 1960. Of these, only 353 actually made sailings to and from the US that 10^ May^,196f, Richman Clothes is Non-Union All trade union - members are being urged by the Amal­ gamated Clothing Workers of America, AFL-CIO, to refrain from buying non-union men's and boys' clothing made by the Richman Brothers Com­ pany of Cleveland and sold in Richman Brothers stores throughout the country. The Clothing Workers have pointed out that the job of eliminating sweatshop contions in the industry and ob­ taining decent wages and working conditions for its members took the union 40 years. The non-union cloth­ ing made by Richman Broth­ ers stands as a threat to union standards in clothing factories throughout the country, and to the standards of other in­ dustries. SS Hope Out Again On Health Mission SAN FRANCISCO—The SS Hope, America's goodwill hos­ pital ship, sailed with a full complement of SIU Pacific Dis­ trict seamen on her second prolonged medical mission to an underdeveloped area of thei world early in May from this On this mission', the ship will act as a seagoing college for the junior West Coast port. to be under effective control were laid up or else operated in other areas. The vast inroads made by these ships into the nation's foreign Trujillo, Peru, just north of the class of the Lima, Peru, School of commerce is revealed in the fact capital city of Lima, was the Medicine in addition to fulfilling that they carried 23.3 percent of ship's destination. She will be sta­ her primary purpose of offering all American foreign trade. In con­ tioned there for nine months and medical aid to thousands of per­ trast, the 619 US-flag vessels en­ gaged in foreign trade carried only is then expected to visit other sons unable to obtain such assist­ ance from local facilities. 10.5 percent of American overseas areas in Latin America. The Hope, formerly the Navy trade. The remaining 66.2 percent Last September, the Hope re­ was carried on other foreign-flag turned to San Francisco from a hospital ship Consolation, is ships that the MA made no pre­ one-year medical mission to South­ operated by the People to People tense about. east Asia where the ship provided Health Foundation with Grace A study of the types of runaway practical health care for thousands Lines as the agent. On her first ships involved reveals that vessels at people and served as an ad­ voyage, American President Lines actually engaged in US foreign vanced training center for doctors, was the agent. trade were evenly split, in num­ The SIU Pacific District crew on nurses and dentists from a number bers, between tankers and dry the Hope during its previous of area nations. cargo vessels. Tankers accounted voyage received praise from the MIAMI—Sailing with a full com­ for more than two-thirds of the foundation, the ship's officers and vessel tonnage, however, and this plement of Seafarers, the containnumerous Government officials for split naturally carried over in the ership New Yorker has returned their work and cooperation with the program. types of cargo carried. Two out of to service with the South Atlantic every three tons carried was in and Caribbean Lines, joining her Truly a hospital ship, the Hope sistership, the Floridian, on a tanker cargo. is painted completely white, The report noted further that three-leg Savannah, Miami and wooden decks are scrubbed and about 123 of the 353 ships actively Puerto Rico run. bleached, steel decks are painted engaged in US foreign trade dur­ A converted wartime LST, the green and there isn't a sign of rust SAN FRANCISCO —The 12,000- anywhere. ing 1960 were operated by "wholly- 2,191-ton New Yorker teams up To insure this cleanli­ owned or controlled foreign sub­ with the Floridian to offer ship­ ton Hawaiian Citizen (Matson) suf­ ness, black gang members wear fered minor damage in a collision sidiary companies of American oil, pers weekly service linking the boiler suits when they go to with the sleek nuclear-powered US white steel, gypsum, fruit, bauxite and three ports. public areas aboard ship. submarine Permit off the Farallon Floridian Reactivated Earlier other industrial corporations." Of the total of 273 million tons The Floridian was reactivated Islands, 30 miles west of here, this of cargo carried by ships of all early in April on a "medium term month. No injuries were reported flags in US foreign trade during trial period." Demands by ship­ on either vessel. Both ships were able to make the year studied, the runaways pers for more service brought the their way to this port under their return to service of the 16-knot, carried 63.7 million tons. Inbound cargoes accounted for 59.6 million twin-screw New Yorker early this own power. There was no report of any mishap involving the sub's month. tons of the total movement. The two ships carry unitized nuclear power plant. The Citizen cargo in pallets or containers, is manned by an SIU Pacific Dis­ Cargo is moved aboard by forklift trict crew. The Permit, whose superstruc­ trucks through a stern loading SEATTLE—The Alaska Steamramp. Shippers have been particu­ ture was damaged, was launched ship Company may be forced to larly pleased with the forced draft last July and was to be commis­ curtail steamship service to Alaska sioned at the end of this month. It ventilation systems on the ships this fall, as the result of an an­ which keep fresh fruit and vege­ was on an operational cruise from nouncement by the US Post Office Mare Island Naval Shipyard with tables in good condition. Building another submarine, the Archerfish. Department that it has transferred materials are also an important WASHINGTON—^An upsurge in The 468-foot freighter was in­ Anchorage area mail contracts to US coal exports this year, the first cargo item hauled by the vessels. bound for Alameda, Calif., from a truck line. Both vessels were converted by since the Suez crisis of 1956-57, is Maryland The loss of these contracts will Shipbuilding and Dry Honolulu with a miscellaneous expected to result in increased mean an $800,000 a year reduction cargo. shipping activity to a number of Dock Company in Baltimore in Earlier, President Kennedy and in revenue to the SIU Pacific Dis­ 1960 for Containerships, Inc., and areas and eome extra cargoes for entered coastal service for the SIU- Secretary of Defense Robert S. trict company. To heap misery on American vessels. contracted Erie and St. Lawrence McNamara congratulated the Pa­ to woe, Alaska Steamship earlier Coal industry officials foresee a Corporation. The service was ter­ cific District-contracted company lost a $200,000 mail contract to five-million-ton increase in ship­ minated about six months later. on the eightieth anniversary of its the Fairbanks area. The Govern­ ment also threatens to turn the ments over the 1960 total of 40 The ships then saw service with service to Hawaii. mail contract for Southeastern million tons. This advance would Bull Lines under a charter on the Matson service to the island state signal the end of four consecutive North Atlantic to Puerto Rico run. was begun by Capt. William Mat- Alaska over to the new Alaska years of decline which saw coal After the charter was fulfilled the son, who sailed the three-masted, State Ferry System, which will exports dwindle from 76.4 to 35 ships became idle until called back 300-ton Emma Claudina from San start operations in the fall of this million tons a year. into service with South Atlantic Francisco to Hilo, Hawaii, arriving year. A spokesman for Alaska Steam­ The upswing has been attributed and Caribbean. thero on May 4, 1882. ship said that the losses would not to Japan's tremendous industrial affect the schedule of the line for growth as well as the slightly in­ the remainder of the season, but, creased needs of Italy, Sweden and beginning next fall, the mainte­ Spain. France may soon provide nance of full service will be de­ another outlet for US coal, but pendent on the ability of the line negotiation on a one-million-ton to replace the revenue cargo it is package is still in the works. Japan, losing. very short on coal, is building up The Federal Government has ex­ its own collier fleet. plained away Its cutback on ship The Government has made it mail contracts on the ground that clear that it would like to help faster delivery justifies the addi­ develop overseas outlets for do­ tional cost of truck service. mestic coal, and last year Congress In a separate development, the amended the Foreign Assistance Post Office announced that it has Act to provide that wherever no plans to terminate the mail boat feasible American suppliers should service to the Aleutian Islands be­ be awarded fuel procurement con­ fore the expiration of the present tracts. The Defense Department contract on June 30, 1963. ultimately followed the hint in Aleutian Marine Transport cur­ ruling that almost a half million rently holds the mail contract and tons of coal for US Army bases in operates the M/V Expansion on The Hawaiian Cifiien (Matson) shows no ill effects during We.st Germany would move under the run from Seward to Nikolski. unloading at berth in Alameda, across the bay from San the "50-50" law. It earlier had The ship also carries freight and Francisco, after collision with Navy atomic sub Permit. She sought to use foreign ships ex­ passengers from Seattle once a clusively. month. had slight hull damage below the waterline. Seafarers Again Man New Yorker Coast Ship, Sub Coliide C i! .t •ii :I (Edf. note: The following ac­ count is another in a series which will appear in the LOG on Sea­ farers who serve as ship or de­ partment delegates. Future issues will carry interviews from other SlU vessels.) Sailing with SIU ships since 1947, Seafarer Joseph Obreza has acquired an understanding of vari­ ous crews, officers and ships which proved helpful during his tour as desk delegate on board the tanker Montauk Point (Seatrade). Often, Obreza explained, the type of ship you're on sets the tone for the beefs that occur. "An understanding mate can be a great help In settling beefs when the skipper doesn't see the light," Obreza added. Deck members and other department Seafarers can help or hin­ der the duties of a delegate. Usu­ ally Obreza Is able to settle a beef involving his own department but, when the volume of unresolved beefs Is heavy, it's time to get to­ gether on the tricky ones with the ship's delegate. "Your best guide is the SIU working agreement when you have to settle an overtime beef. It clearly states the conditions," Obreza declared. "Of course, human personality differences sometimes bring a minor depart­ ment beef to a ship's delegate or the boarding patrolman." The 43-year-old Obreza lives with his wife and stepson in Lindenhurst. Long Island, and sails out of the New York hall, prefer­ ring tankers over other types of ships. Coal Export Trade Gains Mail Contract Cutback Hits Alaska Steam �f * r 1962 At AkERS m-..- K • Pace El«Wi' LbG 'The Blinders' ISBRANDTSEN SUBSIDY—The Secretary of Commerce has an­ nounced that he has approved the action of the Maritime Subsidy Board in awarding 'n operating-differential subsidy to Isbrandtsen Steamship Co. Inc.-American Export Lines, Inc. The Secretary's de­ cision follows recent advice from the Comptroller General that there is no statutory or regulatory objection to the use of current market values (rather than book values) on the 14 ships which Isbrandtsen proposes to sell to American Export as part of the plans on which the subsidy application is based. The Marine Engineers Beneficial Asso­ ciation had urged the Secretary to disapprove the subsidy application on the ground of a breach of labor contract between Isbrandtsen and the engineers. The disputed labor matter was ultimately settled by arbitration. OIL PIPELINE—The American Maritime Association has asked the Attorney General to begin an antitrust investigation of a plan by nine major oil companies to build a 1600-mile pipeline to transport petro­ leum products from Houston, Texas, to Linden, New Jersey. The Asso­ ciation said that the plans violate at least three sections of the anti­ trust laws and attempted the "circumvention" of duties imposed upon common carriers by the Interstate Commerce Act. It contended that the pipeline would: (I) Constitute an "unreasonable restraint of trade" by permitting each of the nine participating and competing companies to play a significant role in the pricing of its competitors' product. (2) Permit the companies to divide markets among themselves by the allocation of fixed percentages of low-cost transportation to certain areas. (3) Constitute an "attempt to monopolize" a part of the trade in several states in violation of section 2 of the Clayton Act. The AMA said that transportation costs were one of the primary expenses in­ curred in the oil industry, and thus was one of the primary factors in oil industry competition. "These companies cannot combine to fix their transportation costs, when these costs are inextricably and directly related to tiie price of oil products," the Association said. The com­ plaint to the Attorney General said that the building of the pipeline would add to the destruction of the domestic tanker fleet, in which the Government has more than a $200 million investment in insured mort­ gages on vessels. 4FISH REPORT—Of the almost 9.3 million pounds of domestic and foreign fresh and frozen shrimp exported and re-exported from the United States during the year 1961, almost 5.8 million pounds were shipped to Japan. In 1960, almost 3.8 million pounds of frozen shrimp were exported or re-exported from the United States, only 364,000 pounds of the total going to Japan . . . South Africa's new tuna in­ dustry early this year reached another stage in its development with the formation of a $280,000 tuna corporation. The South African move toward tuna fishing on a commercial scale has been a steady process, but as of early 1962 there have been no substantial landings of large exports . . . The Japanese Fisheries Agency is expected to authorize a large Japanese fishing company to establish a joint company in Canada to carry out whaling off the west coast of Canada. The Cana­ dian side will invest $800,000 and the Japanese firm $600,000 in the joint company to be established on Vancouver Island. The Japanese firm is said to intend using the base on Canada's west coast not only for whaling, but also for trading in tuna, salmon, and other products. 4" 4" i SHIPBUILDING—According to Lloyd's register of shipping, there were 1,454 steamers and motor ships amounting to 8.7 million gross tons under construction in shipyards throughout the world at the end of the first quarter in 1962. The figures do not include vessels on order or those under construction in Communist China, East Germany and Russia. Of the major shipbuilding nations, only the United States, United Kingdoih, West Germany, and Yugoslavia reported declines from the previous period. The 1.3 million tons under construction in Great Britain is the lowest quarterly figure since March, 1945 . . . The Indian Merchant Marine entered last year a third 5-year expansion plan under its Ministry of Transport. It is expected that the growing merchant marine of India would probably reach 1.5 miiiion gross tons by 1966. Ten years ago, fewer than 400,000 tons were in the fleet. The national fleet of 16 lines carries about ten percent of the country's seaborne cargo. 4> 4 4 TRANSPORTATION ACT—Congress has received in "draft" form two bills which would implement certain recommendations contained in President Kennedy's transportation message of April 5, 1962. The bills are entitled, respectively, "To provide for strengthening and im­ proving the national transportation system, and for other purposes," cited as the Transportation Act of 1962, and "To exempt certain carriers from minimum rate regulation in the transportation of bulk commodities, agricultural and fishery products, and passengers, and for other purposes." 4 4 4 MARITIME ADMINISTRATION—At a hearing before a Maritime Administration examiner considering the application of AmericanHawaiian Steamship for Title XI mortgage and loan insurance or help constructing three containerships, spokesmen for the New York and California Congressional delegations strongly urged Government aid in the form of mortgage insurance to help rescue the intercoastal shipping trade from its present plight. Rep. Celler of New York, speak­ ing for the delegation, referred to the erosion of the coastal and inter­ coastal trade in the face of an accelerated industrial expansion and a booming economy. "I must say," he said, "that I fail to see how the intercoastal trade can be salvaged unless we encourage or make pos­ sible the construction of new ships of the type that is required for successful operation. Rep. Roosevelt, speaking for the Calif. Con­ gressional delegation, noted: ''The vessels of American-Hawaiian would be the-first new ships for the domestic general cargo trade since the emergency efforts during World War II." • The sorry state in which the US maritime industry finds itself currently, in the midst of such commemorative occasions as "Na­ tional Transportation Week," "World Trade Week" and "Maritime Day," is both ironic and unfortunate, to say the least. The vari­ ous festivities this month actually have lit­ tle to do with the American merchant ma­ rine, except for the fact that they mark an historic event in the US maritime industry some 140 years ago when the good ship Savannah inaugurated the use of steam power in a trans-Atlantic crossing. US-flag shipping cannot subsist today by pointing to its historic achievements, nor on any of the relics of the past. And surely one of these is the long-outmoded Merchant Ma­ rine Act of 1936, the promotional legislation adopted less than three decades ago to up­ grade the industry. There have been repeated efforts by US maritime unions calling for re­ examination of this legislation and the Presi­ dent too has indicated that perhaps it needs some kind of overhauling in line with today's 1962 conditions. Certainly there is something wrong with the Act if the US now finds itself in a posi­ tion where it is 11th among the 12 great maritime countries of the world in the move­ ment of its foreign trade on its own national flag vessels and in the ninth spot among the world's shipbuilders. The fact that the Government has turned up figures which tend to show that the US 50-50 cargo prefer­ ence legislation has worked to the advantage of the US-flag industry is no comfort. This only emphasizes the utter chaos that would now exist without 50-50 legislation, keeping in mind the efforts both here and abroad to scuttle this major source of cargo for Ameri­ can ships.. In assessing the condition of the US ship­ ping industry right now, the record should also show the virtual collapse of domestic shipping, the efforts to open this trade to foreign and runaway-flag vessels and at­ tempts by other modes of transport to crip­ ple this once-powerful segment of the indus­ try. At a time also when one-quarter of America's foreign trade is handled by taxdodging American operators, they are still somehow regarded in official circles as superpatriots who will run back to, the flag when­ ever needed. Despite the experience in every recent crisis since Korea, military "experts" still count on the profiteering runaways as the basic shipping support force in an em­ ergency. It should be well settled by now that what the US industry needs is ships and cargoes, and that Washington has hot i the right and duty to set the proper conditions that will build up an American fleet to handle this nation's domestic and overseas commerce which, incidentally, has kept growing while American-flag ships carry a smaller share of it each year. The confines of the 1936 Act, with its se­ lective arrangements for Government assist­ ance, its complete disregard for the changing nature of ocean-borne cargoes from package freight to bulk items and its well-intentioned but ineffective means of developing a com­ petitive US fleet have brought things to their present condition. Executive orders and scattered agency ef­ forts to remedy the situation are nowhere near enough. Every departmental, agency or commission study made merely breeds another one soon after, whether the subject matter be cargo preference, shipbuilding, la­ bor relations or any other area. The overall picture remains unchanged, and the cargoes are fewer and fewer for less and less ships. The root of the problem is in a promotional act that does not promote because it has too long been behind the times, while every other maritime nation keeps moving ahead and every complaint from overseas about US shipping legislation gets more attention and recognition than it deserves. �§1 11 SBAFARERS F»g9 Twdw High Court Reaffirms Rule CAN'T CUT MAINTENANCE BENEFITS WASHINGTON—The US Supreme Coiurt has served notice on shipowners and claims agents that it will not tolerate attempts to short-change seamen on maintenance and cure benefits owed as a matter of law and also required under union collective bargaining agree­ ments. A decision handed down by claim for maintenance and cure, week's maintenance unpaid, but the nation's highest court on the court noting that the operator ruled against compensation for at­ Ifl May 14 said the amount of main­ tenance and cure owed by a ship­ owner to an ill seaman cannot be reduced by any amount earned by a seaman during his illness. The court said it would be a sorry day for seamen if shipown­ ers could disregard a claim for maintenance and cure—thus forc­ ing a disabled seaman to seek other work—and then evade part or all of their legal obligation by having benefits reduced by the amount of the seaman's earnings. Maintenance and eure benefits are currently fixed at the rate of $8 per day and are designed to pro­ vide a seaman who becomes sick or injured in the ship's service with food and lodging while he is not receiving hospitalization. Ben­ efits extend during the period when he is unable to do a sea­ man's work and eontinue until he makes maximum medical re­ covery. The decision was provoked by the case of a seaman who was discharged from a vessel in 1957 and entered a US Public Health Service hospital a few days later to be treated for a suspected lung ailment. He remained in the hos­ pital for about three months and then was an outpatient for two more years until given a fit for duty discharge. It was during the outpatient pe­ riod that he was given a fast ahuflle by the company on his Sea-Land Car Ferry Run Next Sea-Land Service has completed epecifications for conversion of the former Navy seaplane tender Tangiers into an auto ferry and Is now considering bids from a num­ ber of shipyards for the job. The SlU-contracted company plans to use the vessel on a twoweek turnaround schedule between San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Port Newark and may provide service Into other Atlantic ports if there is a demand. On the island, the company is reportedly considering launching LST service between San Juan, Mayaguez and Ponce to replace the cutback in Bull Line operations between the ports. Sea-Land is also studying expansion of its proposed service into an inter-islands opera­ tion offering sailings to the Domin­ ican Republic and the Virgin Islands. The auto carrier operation would involve driving cars into a special cage device which would be lifted into the ship. Cars would then be driven out of the cage into storage areas on various decks. Similar to a C-3, the Tangiers is now in Bethlehem Steel's Hoboken, New Jersey, yard. It was pur­ chased by Sea-Land from a Carney, NJ, scrap dealer who obtained the ship at auction from the Navy. It had been in the Government re­ serve fleet previously. "did not bother even to admit or deny the validity of that claim." Unable to work at his profession, the seaman found work as a taxi driver, ultimately hired an attor­ ney and sued for the maintenance due him. The case was first tried in the lower Federal courts, which al­ lowed $8 a day maintenance after deducting the amount he earned as a taxi driver. The court assigned six percent interest for each Mar, im LO& torney's fees. The case next went to the US Court of Appeals, which upheld the verdict, but the Supreme Court overturned the lower court rulings. It ruled that the seaman was entitled to full maintenance, with no deduction of what he earned as a taxi driver. It also awarded full compensation for le­ gal fees, as the plaintiff was en­ titled to receive the benefits with­ out recourse to a court of law. Suzanne In Philadelphia STIIL VOYAOIR (ItthmUn), D«c. t4-Chalrm«n, L. D. Sutllnltu Sacratary> W. Wallaca. One man left In Blngapora dua to lUneaa. No beefa reported. No money In ahip'a fund. Motion made that each member make donation. Requeat patrolman to bring appUcatlona for new booka upon ar­ rival in New York. Have patrolman check drinking water aa it contalna articlea that atain clothing. OLENBROOK (Victory Carrlari), Jan. 23—Chairman, S. Frank, Jr.; Sec­ retary, K. C. Smith. Repair list turned in. Motion made that vacation pay be limited to tlx montha instead of one year, with S400 vacation pay and 1 month on beach. COEUR D'ALENB VICTORY (Victory Carriers), Jan. 2—Chairman, Mike — -y;vL; Machel; Secretary, Arthur Young. Everything running smoothly. Repair list made up. Make repairs necessary for safety of ship. Pumps and water very bad. Steward to make up new list for atores. Suggestion to mem­ bers of deck department to Rush toilets. Crew requested to turn in dirty linen. ATLAS (Bull), Jan. 14—Chairman, e. B. Gillespie; Secretary, J. E. Mc- Kreth. Repair list sent to headquar­ ters. $60 in ship's fund. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. STEEL ARTISAN (Isthmian), Jan. 21 —Chairman, Nick Swokia; Secretary, Justin Burdo. No beefs reported. $26.15 in ship's fund; $5 donated to library. Discussion regarding mr.ttresses. Improper stowing of cargo and safety meeting. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), Jan. 21 — Chairman, John Crews; Secretary, Harry Huston. Some repairs still have to be completed. Captain requests no unauthorized persons be allowed aboard. $17.36 in ship's fund. Crane maintenance requests working agree­ ment. Dlseussion on new SUP wel­ fare retirement plan and recommend SIU work out similar plan Vote of thanks to steward department. COEUR D'ALENE VICTORY (Vic­ tory Carriers), March 10—Chairman, M. Michael; Secretary, J. Schubert. Seafarers T. Sopyeklis (left) and Mel Waters are pictured setting up a shackle for a wire runner on the deck of the Suzanne when she stopped off in Philadelphia recently. The Bull Line ship made it a short visit, heading out again after cargo work was completed and all gear was secured. Joseph B. Logue, MD, Medical Director Trends In Quarantinable Diseases It is difficult to obtain a complete picture of the extent of quarantin­ able diseases due to the unreliability of data obtained from the various countries. However, certain trends are discernable from a review of the Incidence of these diseases during recent years as submitted to the Committee on International Quarantine, World Health Organization, recently and reported In the Navy Medical News Letter. Plague. There has been a noticeable decrease in human plague in recent years, even in those countries where it remains epidemic. This is strikingly illustrated in the case of India, where the mortality has been reduced from over one-half million in the years 1898-1908 to 6,300 in the years 1949-1958. According to early data, there were only 412 cases in the entire world in 1960. A majority of these occurred in South America, only two in the United States and the remainder in Afro-Asian countries. The mortality rate has been generally declining in Asia, Far East and the Mid-East. A large proportion of these cases of plague occur in South America, notably Bolivia, Brazil, Equador and Peru. There has. been only an occasional occurrence in Europe in recent years. There have been none in Australia since 1924, and in Hawaii since 1949. Although plague has to be regarded as potentially dangerous, no port or airport used for international traffic has reported a human case since 1958. Cholera. Although Cholera has not been reported in the Americas since 1911 or in Europe since 1923, it still remains a sei'ious problem in Asia. In India and Pakistan, since 1923, the annual total deaths have surpassed 100,000 on 18 occasions and, in 1943, 460,000 deaths were reported. Nevertheless, there appears to be a long-term decrease in the mortality rate in these countries. In 1960, Cholera appeared outside its traditional locale in India a*^d Pakistan, affecting neighboring countries north, east and west. In the first 6 months of 1961, there was a serious outbreak in West Bengal, hut there were no deaths reported from West Pakistan, and only one from Burma. 'Thus, the Immediate outlook appeal's favorable in south and cast Asia, although there were reported cases from Hong Kong, Macoa and Sarawak, suggesting that the disease may be able to establish it­ self in new territory. Yellow Fever. In Africa, statistic.s give an inaccurate picture of the extent of Yellow Fever due to the frequency of mild cases, the dif­ Food plan to be brought up at payoff. No beefs reported by department delegates. Washing machine needs to be fixed. New drinking fountain neede(l. TIMBER HITCH (Suwannee), March 12—Chairman. Prater Pait; Secratary, A. Pedaroaa. No beefa reported by department delegatea. Ship needa fumigation. HASTiNCS (Waterman), March 11— Chairman, Joseph D. McPhee; Secre­ tary, John Walls. One man hospi­ talized in Syria: radiogram sent to headquarters. Safety meeting held. $5.09 in ship's fund. Some disputed OT ii) deck and engine departments. BEATRICE (Bull), Jan. 20—Chair­ man, P. Cunphy; Secretary, J. Mueh•eck. Disputed OT in deck depart­ ment. New York patrolman should see to it that more bread is put aboard ship. DifFerence of opinion between 4-8 AB and chief mate re­ ferred to boarding patrolman. STEEL ARCHITECT (Isthmian), Jan. 14—Chairman, E. W. Goulding; Secre­ tary, A. C. Carpenter. Old beef wiih chief mate squared away in New York. Another beef came up at sea and was iinaliy squared away by the captain. $25.65 in ship's fund. John Giles elected ship's treasurer. No beefs reported by department dele­ gates. .Suggestion made to increase ship's fund by voluntary contributions. Crew urged to maintain sanitary con­ ditions by cooperating to keep mcsshali and library clean at ail times. Request door checks for screen doors. Request to move all cots and linen from deck after use. SEATRAIN TEXAS (Seatrain), Jan. 21—Chairman, Morton Trehern; Secre­ tary, Joachim R. Von Holder. $63.45 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Water spigot for washing machine to be fixed. $20 for ex-watchman from ship's fund. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), Dec. 24 — Chairman, Walter Brightwell; Secre­ tary, Harry Huston. Two men missed ship leaving Houston, Texas. Ail re­ pairs not taken care of yet. $17..36 in ship's fund. Eggs should be checked. Should get eggs every 14 days instead of 28. Vote of thanks to delettates for job well done. Vote of tlianks to steward department. STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Dec. 17—Chairman, Walter C. Cole; Secre­ tary, Isidore Avecilla. No beefs re­ ported by department delegates. Ail hands urged to eooperate in an effort to keep unnecessary native (ralTie out of the passageway. Sugge=(i>m to keep crew messhall, PO mess and pan­ try locked while in port; man on watch to keep the key. VILLAGE (Consolidated Mariners), Jan. 21—Chairman, H. E. Resecrans; Secretary, P. Triantafilos. Ship's dele­ gate reported that all went well last trip. Ship came in with no beefs and it is hoped to have another voyage the same way. See master about opening slupciiest. Locker to be re­ paired in 12-4 deck department room. Everyone to cooperate to keep natives out of passageways and foc'sles when ship arrives in Tunisia. ficulties of diagnosis and the scarcity of medical service in the aaea. Ethiopia had two epidemics in 1959 causing 100 deaths, plus a similar number In the Blue Nile and Upper Nile provinces in the Sudan. In February, 1961, cases were reported from the southwest near th# Kenya border. Investigation revealed that there had been two waves of infection In late 1959 and 1960 in the Dime and Kaure area respect­ fully, killing 3,000-8,000 persons (up to 10% of the population). In the Americas, the data on Yellow Fever for 1959 and 1960 is still Incomplete. Cases were reported from Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil, Vene­ zuela and Peru. Cases also occurred in Ecuador, Honduras, Panama and Trinidad. Smallpox. Exceft for a few minor outbreaks arising from imported cases. Smallpox disappeared in the first half of this century from Europe, North America, Costa Rica and El Salvador. It also became very rare in a number of African and Asian countries. There has been a parallel regression in Mexico, South America, Japan and the Philip­ pines. Smallpox has never been epidemic in Australia. Total world reported cases fell from 490,000 In 1951 to less than 60,000 In 1960. About 90% of the reported cases were from India and Pakistan. Although cases of Smallpox have occuiTed in recent yea(s near major ports and airpiorts, sea passage has lost much of Its im­ portance in transmission. Air passage however, enables a traveller infected just before de­ parture to arrive and infect contacts before the first symptoms appear. Smallpox has been exported in this way from India and Pakistan In 1960 and 1962, causing localized epidemics in Moscow, Europe and the British Isles. Typhus. There is a certain amount of confusion in the statistics regarding typhus as a clear distinction is not always made between th# louse-born typhus and similar rickettsio.ses with different vectors. In Africa, the annual number of cases has greatly declined since th# 1930's and 1940's. Ethiopia-Eritrea remains the main reservoir of th# disease, with thousands of known cases yearly. The disease is per­ sistent In the Congo, Kenya, Ivory Coast and central African ai'eas. In the Americas, typhus is rarely encountered except In Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia and Equador. It is reportedly rare in Argenw tina and Brazil. Thousands of eases are reported annually from India and East Pak­ istan. There has been a decrease in Afghanistan, Iran, South Korea and Turkey, plus a few doubtful cases in Singapore. It has disappeared from Israel, Japan, Jordan and Viet-Nam. The only European coun­ tries with more than a few cases are Poland and Yugoslavia; there is no data from the USSR. Louse-born typhus is rare in Oceania. Relapsing Fever. Since 1951, louEC-born relapsing fever has been included in quarantinable disease. It apparently is not epidemic out­ side of Africa, where it occurs, particularly in Ethiopia, and is often confused with the tick-born variety. fComments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can be submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) �Xay.lM* •(i t k i r SEAPARERS LOG 11 A VISIT ABOARD ALCOA RUNAWAY SlU Trinidad Union Starts Pact Talks One of nine Alcoa runaway bulk carriers, the Discoverer shows Monrovia as home port on her stern. LOG story on runaways is special item of interest for ves sel's West Indian crewmen gathered in ship's messhall. Francis Mungroo (leftl, secretary of SWWTU seamen s section, discusses possible contract terms with crewmembers. Vessel was in NY at time of visit. SlU rep. Mike Carlin gets rundown from crewmember on ship's working conditions. Putting into practice union proce­ dures learned while visiting SIU head­ quarters, four delegates from the affi­ liated Seamen's and Waterfront Workers Trade Union of Trinidad went aboard an Alcoa-Liberian runaway when the ship hit New Yorl? to meet and assist the newly-organized crew. This followed recognition of the SWWTU as bargaining representative for crews on all nine Alcoa runawayflag ships a short time earlier. The visit was the next step in the union's organ­ izing campaign covering the fleet serv­ icing Alcoa's bauxite terminals in the Gulf. The four delegates — Basil Douglas, first vice-president; Stephen Joseph, as­ sistant secretary for grievance proce­ dures; Francis Mungroo, secretary of the seamen's section, and Norman Har­ ris, member of the stevedoring branch —together with Michael Carlin, SIU in­ ternational representative, boarded the bulk carrier to see the living and work­ ing conditions close up. They learned what the cx'ew wanted and needed to better their conditions and cataloged a wide range of items to be covered in a union contract. They have since returned to Port-ofSpain to report back on their trip and are now working on developing a full working agreement in negotiations with management of Alcoa's two Panamani­ an and Liberian subsidiaries. An SIU representative is assisting in the talks set up by the SWWTU, whose 6,000 members affiliated with the SIUNA last October. Looking forward to better days under union contract, Discoverer crewmen pose with SWWTU officials (center) S. Joseph, N. Harris, B. Douglas, F. Mungroo and SIU rep. Mike Carlin. Trinidad delegation is back home now for negotiations on agreement. �mb'Fodfteiia ik^. im SEAFAkiBitB ^d& Urge New Surplus Plan WASHINGTON—The Agency for International Development is trying to work out a plan that will provide a major long-term outlet for surplus US feed grains plus an added source of cargoes for US shipping at the same time. Under the projected pro-* gram, the US will apportion term, low-interest loan# to cover stock 1# now underway. Besides to underdeveloped countries construction and distribution costs Brazil, six other Latin America countries that are likely to be con­ millions of dollars worth of feed in cooperatives. sidered for aid are Columbia, A similar plan to supply Brazil grains every year, as an Incentive to meat - growing cooperatives with 2,000 ton# of US corn to ad­ Ecuador, Argentina, Bolivia and abi'oard. Under law, at least 50 vance Brazilian research in live­ Venezuela. percent of the traffic administered :;:ms through foreign aid must be car­ ried in American bottoms. AID is considering several areas in Latin America as well as Hong LONDON—Winning what may prove to be an important prece­ Kong to serve as pilot studies for dent, the owners of the Italian vessel Pino Onorato have received the plan. Northeast Brazil seems a court judgment for damages due to a delay caused by another likely to be one of the first areas vessel while both were passing through the Suez Canal. to reap the advantages of the ex­ In June, 1959, the Norwegian vessel Hoegh Cape ran aground in panded agricultural aid program. the canal due to fog. The Pino Onoratp and several other ships 5-8 Year Program were following when the mishap occurred and were delayed for Once initiated, the plan would several hours. The net result was that the owners of the Italian be for the US to grant underdevel­ ship sued for damages caused by the delay. oped countries grains for periods An Egyptian court heard the case and awarded the Pino Onorato ranging from five to eight years, on damages amounting to 200 Egyptian pounds, in contrast to the the condition that the receiving original suit for 500 pounds compensation. government eventually puts into However, the case is believed to be the first one of its kind economic and social projects funds tested before a legal body and, unless it's reversed on appeal, a equivalent to the donated grains. far-reaching precedent has been set by the judgment rendered. It The grains would be utilized to raises the interesting question whether shipowners may have re­ provide feed for poultry or hog course to the courts in the future if they are delayed by the mishap cooperatives in protein - deficient of another vessei. markets. AID may eventually ex­ pand the program to include long- Can Ship Claim Damages Due To Another's Mishap? By Sidney Margolius Food Fads Costly, Sometimes Even Harmful Labor and co-op medical specialists for years have been campaigning to guard wage-earning families from food fads and notions. These can be expen­ sive and sometimes even harmful. But the fads persist, fostered by sensational books, nutritional lecturers and articles. There are two types of costly food fads that plague the public. One is centered around a partic­ ular "miracle" food or vitamin product, like the current safflower oil fad, and the recent honey-andvinegar sensation. The other expensive nutritional notion, found especially among moderate income families. Is that the higher-grade foods have more nutrition than cheaper grades. As one housewife recently told this department, "If you try to save on food you spend money on doctors instead. I don't want my family to get stomach trouble for cheap food." This is only a part-truth, of course, since the ex­ pensive and cheap grades of the same foods have the same nutrition. In at least several examples, notably meat, the lower-priced grades have more or higher-quality nutrition. A favorite device of diet-food and vitamin-supplenient manufacturers is to promote their products with claims made in popular books and articles. The US Food & Drug Administration already has miade four seizures of safflower oil capsules that had been promoted with copies of a best-selling book, "Calories Don't Count," by Dr. Herman Taller. Safflower oil products have become popular re­ cently because of reports that this is the most highly poly-unsaturated vegetable oil, even more so than corn oil. The Food & Drug Administration charged that the Dr. Taller's book and other labeling material represent the safflower oil capBules as effective in controlling weight without regard to caloric intake. Other claims made for the capsules are that they are effective in lowering the cholesterol level of the blood, treating arteriosclerosis and heart burn, improving the complexion, increasing resistance to colds and sinus trouble.s, increasing .sexual drive and other purposes. Supplies Small Amounts Actually, says the FDA, the products supply such small amounts of safflower oil daily that they are insignifioant for any purpose. Moreover, the FDA points out, while Dr. Taller's book claims that over­ weight people can eat thousands of calories a day and still lose weight by including unsaturated fats, the typical diet in the book actually is restricted in calories. The truth is, calories do count. Nor is it just the so-called fringe dealers who have been involved in the controversial promotion of safflower oil and the "Calories Don't Count" book. The Government seizure actions were taken against such leading chains as thd United Whelan Drug Stores, and such big department stores in various parts of the country as Korvette and Thalheimer's. In a similar action involving another product, the FDA seized tablets claimed to contain enzymes or other ingredients claimed to be effective in treating many conditions, together with reprints of a Read­ er's Digest article titled "Enzymes, Medicine's Bright Hope." FDA said claims for the products were based on the article, which speculated on the possible future of enzymes in medicine. Reliance on such claims may be harmful in delaying ade­ quate medical attention for diseases. Government Regulation Understand that the Government does not seize books or magazine articles or attempt to regulate radio broadcasts on nutrition. Anyone can suggest any food or health idea if he can get it published, with no Government reprisal. But when these pub­ lished claims are used to sell products in what the Government considers to be a misleading way, the FDA can step in. For example, Carlton Fredericks is a radio broad­ caster whom the FDA describes as a "self-styled nutritionist." Many sincere people swear by Fred­ ericks, although nutritional and medical experts have been more apt to swear at him. Fredericks also often has recommended many vitamin and other products over the air for various serious conditions, and in his commercials plugged products containing these substances sold by Foods Plus, Inc., a mail-order firm. Recently the FDA seized a large part of this firm's inventory together with copies of its catalog. Among allegations in the catalog with which FDA took issue, are; that the Foods Plus products are better than others because they are Fredericks' ex­ clusive formulas; that certain Foods Plus formulas promote a healthy, vigorous feeling, promote a healthy, vigorous feeling, promote growth in chil­ dren, convert fatty tissues into energy; and that Fredericks is internationally and prominently rec­ ognized as a competent authority on nutrition. Ac­ tually, says FDA, he has a doctor of philosophy degree in health education and recreation, but no formal training or educational qualification as a nutritionist. Another popular health food lecturer and book writer is Lelord Kordel. He also is president of a health-food company, Detroit Vital Foods, Inc. FDA charged that this company sold honey as a cure for wianing virility, arthritis, and even, "pre­ mature death." Honey is only a food with no such preventive or curative properties, the FDA said. Honey was also the miracle item in the promotion of the recent best-seller "Folk Medicine." This book prescribes unpasteurized honey and appleelder vingar for preventing or treating 60 different conditions from heart attacks to falling hair. Phila, UIW Contract Scores Solid Cains PHILADELPHIA—Wrapping up an earlier smashing vic­ tory over Jimmy Hoffa's Teamsters at the A. A. Gallagher Warehouse Corporation here, the United Industrial Workers negotiated a new two-year*'" contract with the company did a flip-flop earlier when it backed off from a showdown vote this month. Previously, in March, the UIW whipped a Teamster local per­ sonally chartered by Hoffa, win­ ning by a 2<l margin among Gal­ lagher employees. The secret ballot National Labor Relations Board election was the first clear-cut test of strength between the un­ ions among workers in this area. Topping off the union victory, the new contract provides Gal­ lagher workers with an extra week of vacation, travel time and two meal allowances, guarantees four hours when reporting for work, calls for 40 hours notice in the event of layoff and provides for a wage reopener within six months after May 1, 1962. In the representation election at Gallagher, the UIW opponent on the ballot was Teamster Local 158, personally chartered by Hoffa a# he attempted to retaliate for wholesale desertions of Teamsters from his discredited union in Philadelphia and other areas. Besides its defeat at the hands of the UIW at Gallagher, Local 158 Baltimore Shop Okays New Pact BALTIMORE — United Indus­ trial Workers members employed by F. M. Stevenson, canvas fabrica­ tor, have unanimously approved a new two-year contract negotiated with the company. The agreement provides for a ten-cent hourly wage increase, job security provisions and complete coverage under the UIW health and welfare program. Workers have been represented by the un­ ion since 1958. Effective last month, the con­ tract runs until April 25, 1964, with a five-cent hourly pay increase this year and another nickel hike start­ ing next April. UIW members also will receive one day off with pay in the event of a death lu the family. at another union-contracted plant. Despite claims of overwhelming support, the Hoffa group shied away from an NLRB vote at Southwark Cooperage, although the UIW and the company had con­ sented to a secret ballot election to settle the representation issue. Southwark has had a UIW contract since 1957. Await Appeal In NY Drive NEW YORK — UIW efforts to provide legitimate union represen­ tation and conditions for employees of Flore Brothers and Salmirs Oil are continuing despite strong op­ position from the two companies and a discredited back-door union. The two Staten Island oil dis­ tribution firms are joined with cut-rate "independent Local 355" in opposing efforts by workers to obtain recognized labor represen­ tation. They have appealed Na­ tional Labor Relations Board rul­ ings that they and the "independ­ ent" engaged in unfair labor prac­ tices. Their latest stall is an appeal to Washington of decisions by the regional NLRB director here, which charges that the "independ­ ent union" and the companies en­ gaged in unfair labor practices and conspired to prevent em­ ployees from joining the UIW. The NLRB also found that Local 355 and the. concerns signed sweet­ heart contracts. Local 355'3 tradi­ tion of signing back-door, sub­ standard contracts led to its ex­ pulsion from the AFL-CIO some time ago. Meanwhile, a US Department of Labor suit is still underway against the "independent" in Brooklyn Federal Court. This action was taken by the Government after Local 355 failed to comply with Federal regulations requiring minimum standards of union democracy and membership rights. "Union Guide" explaining UIW membership activities and programs is distributed at F. M. Stevenson plant in Baltimore by shop steward Anton Nora (left). Joseph Znonlee it on the receiving end. Shop just gained new UIW contract. �Wy 8EAFARERB LOO Pace Fiftees Neva West 'Safest' For Bloomfleld Lakes SlU Wage Pacts Up Passenger-Tanker $ DETROIT—An increased wage scale has been negotiatec by the Great Lakes SIU and five contracted passenger anc tanker companies. The pact is similar to the agreemen made with 16 SlU-contracted"^'^ freighter operators earlier Tanker, 2, and the Browning Tanker Company, 4. this year. Retroactive to March 1, the con­ tracts cover the unlicensed crews of the five lines, which operate a total of 12 ships, until July 15, 1963. It calls for hourly wage rate increases, clarification of working conditions and transportation pay. The new agreement followed un­ ion negotiations with the compa­ nies during April. Companies agreeing to the new contract and the number of ships they operate are: Wisconsin-Michi­ gan Steamship Company, 2; Chicago-Duluth and Georgian Bay Company, 2; Bob-Lo, 2; Michigan Lakes Welfare Pays $300,000 In First Year DETROIT — The Great Lakes Seamen's Welfare Plan celebrated its first birthday in April. SIU Great Lakes members and their families received $296,409.83 in benefits duing the plan's initial year of operation. The plan, won by the union after lengthy negotiations with the operators, was a "first" on the Lakes, guaranteeing members and their dependents welfare coverage for sickness, accident, In-hospital treatment plus surgical, maternity, disability and death benefits. About half of the funds dis­ pensed by the plan, $145,560, covered members' wives and chil­ dren for hospital and surgical ex­ penses. Great Lakes members received the remainder of the pay­ ments for in-hospital, sickness and accident, special disability and death benefits. The plan is administered by a six-man board of trustees, three each representing the union and the operators. In September, 1961, the plan was boosted when the Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region of the SIU Inland Boat­ men's Union became part of the program after agreement with tug and dredge operators. New Copies Of Agreement At fitout, new copies of the agreements with the freighter, passenger and tanker operators are being made available to the crews The new wage scales and clarlflca tions are incorporated Into the text of the contracts. The 16 freighter companies that agreed to the new wage scale are American Steamship CompanyAmersand Steamship Corp.; Brown ing Lines, Inc.; Erie Navigation Company; Erie Sand Steamship Company; Gartland Steamship Company; Redland Steamship Company; T. J. McCarthy Steam­ ship Company; Midland Steamship Lines, Inc.; Tomlinson Fleet Corp.; Reiss Steamship Company; Pioneer Steamship Company; Buckeye Steamship Company; Huron Port­ land Cement Company; Penn-Dixie Company; Wyandotte Transporta­ tion Company, and Kinsman Transit Company. Lakes IBU Pact Won In Wesfcoft DETROIT—The Great Lakes Tug and Dredge Region of the SIU In­ land Boatmen's Union has com­ pleted a top contract with the J. J. Westcott Company, which operates two mail and supply boats here and in Port Huron. Company boatmen voted 100 per­ cent to ratify the contract negoti­ ated by the IBU Allied Marine Section. The union won a National Labor Relations Board representation election at Westcott just before the close of last year's shipping season. The precedent agreement in­ cludes holiday and vacation pay for company boatmen and provides them with welfare and seniority protection through the Great Lakes Seamen's Welfare Plan and Job Security Program, The Westcott operation is unique to the Great Lakes and well-known to all seamen in the area. The two boats carry mail on and off vessels as they transit the Detroit River. Great Lakes Shipping March 18, 1962 Through April 15, 1962 Port DECK ENGINE STEWARD TOTAL Alpena 6 5 1 12 Buffalo 14 44 16 74 Chicago 39 25 10 74 Cleveland 26 31 10 67 Detroit 104 62 34 200 Duluth 0 7 2 0 42 38 30 110 231 212 103 546 Frankfort TOTAL Storm Victim Sues US Weather Men LAKE CHARLES—A $360,000 damage suit now being con­ tested here in Federal District Court may determine whether ship owners can sue the US Government for damages incurred to vessels through-*' inaccurate weather reports. legal principle: Did the Weather The case of Whitney Bartie Bureau exercise reasonable care against the United States Weather Bureau revolves around the fact that Bartie lost his wife and five children in 1957 when Hurricane "Audrey" struck Cameron Parish and cost hundreds of lives and millions in damage to homes and property. Bartie attributed the tragedy to the Inaccuracy on the part of the Weather Bureau in determining the arrival of the storm. The Bureau has conceded that it misjudged the onset of the storm, which struck Louisiana several hours earlier than storm warnings had anticipated. The agency con­ tends, however, that with the scattered information it had access to from ships, planes and weather stations, it did the best job pos­ sible. Seafarers and members nf many AFL-CIO unions throughout the area took part In a massive laborsponsored effort after the 1957 storm to repair damage and re­ build homes that were destroyed. The suit, reportedly the first case of Its type in the annals of the US courts, will bring forth this and caution in basing its forecast on the amount of evidence avail­ able. The case is being closely ob­ served by 109 other claimants, who have filed suits for damages total­ ing almost $10 million The Amalgamated Cloth ing Workers of America has charged two city detectives in Bethlehem, Pa., with interfering in a union organizing drive at the city's largest unorganized plant. Forte Neckwear. The ACW said the detectives had questioned em­ ployees right at the plant about their union support in an effort to intimidate them. Charges were also filed against the mayor a.id the city's public safety director . . . Five union-management pension plans covering 26,000 members of unions in the New York Joint Board of Hotel and Restaurant Employees AFL-CIO, have signed a reciprocal agreement under which workers will be able to move from job to job without los­ ing any of their retirement rights. The agreement will cover a worker as long as he stays in the Industry even though he changes CHICAGO — Gov. Luis Munoz jobs. Marin received the AFL-CIO Mur­ 4« 3" ray-Green Award at the Federa­ tion's seventh National Conference The Textile Workers Union of on Community Services here for America has won an eight-cent his "contributions to the health wage and fringe benefit package and welfare of the Puerto Rican for cotton-rayon workers at seven people." Berkshire-Hathaway plants in Mas­ In presenting the award, AFL- sachusetts and Rhode Island and CIO vice-president > Joseph A. two plants of Pepperell Manufac­ Beirne, chairman of the Federa­ turing in Maine. The two-year con­ tion's Community Services Com­ tracts can be reopened after one mittee, said Munoz had created "a year for wages . . . Owners of a new definition of progress" which Catskill Mountain resort hotel in stresses "the growth and develop­ New York were ordered to stop ment of people," as well as eco­ interfering with an organizing nomic resources. drive by Local 343, Hotel and Beirne also read a message from Restaurant Employees, after a AFL-CIO president George Meany, waiter told a Buffalo NLRB hear­ who said Munoz "personifies the ing that the hotel had paid him very principles of the award" since $600 to spy on union meetings. 'for 25 years he has led the strug­ t it gle of the Puerto Rican people to New Jersey's law banning strike­ cast off the ancient burdens of breaker-imports passed last year poverty, illiteracy and disease," The award commemorates Wil­ was used to thwart a Teaneck dry liam Green, late president of the cleaning store owner involved in a former AFL, and Philip Murray, dispute with Laundry Workers late president of the former CIO. Local 284. The case involves Philip The AFL and the CIO merged In Ratner of Tyron Cleaners, who is being held for the Bergen County 1955. AFL-CIO AWARD TO MUNOZ MARIN Bloomfield's Fleet Safety Award goes to the Neva West this time, ending the two-year reign of Lucile Bloomfield as the safety champion in the SlU-contracted fleet. The presen­ tation in the Gulf pictures (l-r) Seafarer Michel E. Gorei, engine delegate; W. Byrne, company opera­ tions mgr.; Bill Moody, SIU asst. safety director; chief engr. J. C. Golmon; Capt. M. J. Deronja; Sea­ farers B. R. Kazmierski and Audley Dombriifo, deck and steward delegates. m Grand Jury . . . Furniture workers at the Ivers and Pond Piano Com­ pany in Memphis have negotiated a three-year contract providing a 13-cent hourly increase and major fringe benefit improvements for 625 members of Local 282, UFWA. The union is engaged in securing equalized wages and working con­ ditions ill all Winter Piano Com­ pany plants, of which Ivers is a subsidiary. 3> t Greater Philadelphia area paint­ ers have secured a two-year con­ tract with a 22^^-cent hourly wage increase affecting 1,600 workers. The agreement was reached be­ tween District Council 21, Brother­ hood of Painters, Decorators and Paperhangers, AFL-CIO, and an association bargaining for 150 firms. ... A three-month strike by 1,460 workers seeking a wage boost and increased fringe benefits has ended at the Brunswick Corpora­ tion's Muskegon, Mich., plant. The new contracts won by Machinists Lodge 1813 and Carpenters Local 824 assure an eight-cent hourly in­ crease this year plus an additional seven-cent boost in January. SkuletfiikLOS! �Pace fOzienB SMAFdRERS MiirrlMlv LO^ Easy Does It At Baltimore • i i i' i • ? •? SEAFARERS IN DRYDOCK The following is the latest available list of Seafarers U hospitals around the country: Relaxing between runs and job calls at the Baltimore hall, Seafarers Will Strickland (left) and A. Fiedler, both steward department members, try their hand at table shuffleboard game. Strickland looks set to make a score. Joe Alcina, Safety Director Play It Safe With 'Empty' Tanks An incident recently reported shows up the plain foolishness of entering any kind of tank or compartment that hasn't been thoroughly ventilated ahd tested first. A couple of men very nearly lost their lives this time, including one man who went in to rescue somebody else from a tank that apparently was never properly tested. Certainly one of the most common hazards aboard ship results from harmful gases collecting in tanks, holds, coal bunkers, etc. Spaces containing such gases sometimes also contain less than the normal amount of oxygen. A man entering such a tank unprotected can quickly suffer asphyxiation or suffocation. This may occur both from lack of air and from the poisonous effects of the gases he may breath in without knowing it. Since free air normally contains about 21% of oxygen by volume, a small reduction of the oxygen content due to the presence of other gases is enough to cause unconsciousness or death almost immediately. In addition, ship's tanks that have remained sealed for relatively long periods may be unsafe to enter even though they contain no oil or other cargo residues. Accidents have occurred in tanks which are at times filled with water for ballast or other purposes. Deaths have resulted from men entering unused, sealed tanks painted with red lead to protect against corrosion. In one case, the paint had come off in a number of places, caused the contained air to react with tlie metal and produced a probable concentration of carbon monoxide. Investigators have found carbon monoxide concentration as high as 0.4% in small compartments coated with linseed oil paints. A concentration of 0.2% may bring about death in 2 to 4 hours. A few seconds of breathing air containing 2% of this gas will bring uncon­ first. There may be no hint at all sciousness, followed by death in 3 that the air is lacking in oxygen or to 4 minutes. otherwise harmful. Oxygen deficiency itself is a ma­ Use of a flame safety lamp is a jor cause of accidents in empty recommended means to • test the tanks since moist steel tanks use oxygen content of the atmosphere up oxygen by rusting. The oxygen in spaces where there is even a volume in an enclosed space can remote chance of oxygen de­ be reduced to le.ss than 4% as a ficiency This includes holds or result of "routine" oxidation. compartments where a fire has There is nothing in the appear­ been smouldering. The lamp will ance or odor of the air in these stop burning if the oxygen content tanks to indicate the lack of normal of the air is below normal levels oxygen, which makes this condi­ and, due to its construction, the tion very dangerous. Rescue at­ lamp will not cause inflammable tempts on men who have entered gases to ignite. such tanks without proper pre­ Gases and vapors arising from cautions often produce further petroleum products in fuel bunk­ casualties, as gas masks, respira­ tors, etc., serve no purpose at all. ers and other tanks are both toxic A breathing apparatus that func­ and explosive. These spaces must tions through its own independent be tested prior to entry.. The ef­ supply of oxygen is the only suit­ fects from the gases and vapors vary with the composition, concenable device to use. Many substances besides iron Iration and exposure. They may and steel can cause an unsuspected produce reactions ranging from oxygen deficiency in an enclosed mild irritation to the eyes and space. The most common hazards headache to complete unconscious­ result from decomposition of cer­ ness and death. Inhalation of small tain organic substances. Combined quantities of petroleum vapor with moisture, cargoes such as often produces mild exhilaration, tobacco, rosin, coal, linseed cake, but anyone addicted to this habit is potatoes, oranges and certain best advised to get his "kicks" animal oils generate CO2 gas as elsewhere. well as carbon monoxide. The (Comments and suggestions are circumstances are different in invited by this Department and each case, which explains why can be submitted to this column proper testing ruLst be conducted in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) USPHS HOSPITAL NEW OBLEANS. LA. Edward Armand Abraham Mander Sarauel Bailey William Mason George Berry Than Mercer Frederick BiouJ Lito Moralles Percy Boyer Wilmer Newsom Clarence Owens Lester Brown Francis Pastrana Manuel Church Harry Peeler Jorge Coto Ancil Cunningham James Pendergrass A. Qulnones Thomas Dailey James Regan Lorenzo Diana William Roberts Alan Doujet William Van Dyke Calvin Rome John Sansome John D. Edwards William Scarlett John Eisenhardt George Schmidt Louis Estrada Theodore Simmonds Thomas Folse Raymond Franklin Murray Smith Clinton E. Franks A1 J. Thibodeaux Clyde Thompson Eugene Gallaspy Patrick Thompson Charlie Gcdra J. K. Wardwell George Hammock James Wtason James Helms Richard Weir Hayden Henry George Wendel Paul Kronbergs Frankie Laihapell Cariie White William Wiemers Arnt Lar.sen Eugene Williams TUlman LeBlano Dewey York Jose Leston Herbert Young Millard Lindsey Thomas Long USPHS HOSPITAL STATEN ISLAND. NEW YORK Theodore Lord Rocco Albaneso Theodore Maltes* Omar Alt John McNerney Allie Androh Pedro Mena WUliam Bcrqulst Ed Morales C. J. BoeUles WUliam Morris Robert Burton Robert Nielsen Michael Callahan N. PapageorgioU Alfredo Cedeno J.imes Cooper Robert Patterson William Cutley James Purcell Arthur Queary Herbert Dierking Napoleon Douglas Jose Quimera William Relyea Charles Fertal Carol Reni David Fischer Conrad Reyes Arthur Graf Wiiliam Granger William Reynolds William Hathaway Michael Ronda Lewis Hertzog Alejandro Serrano Oscar Jones Michael Sluke James Stripp Charles Kinnkc Adolph Swenson Christos Kourtis Thomas Thompson Harold Kyle William Vidal Starling Lee USPHS HOSPITAL BRIGHTON. MASS. George Fleming Anthony Hlckey Arthur Heroux USPHS HOSPITAL SAVANNAH, GEORGIA Lawrence Moore Cleveland Walker C. Murray, Sr. Hughlin Warren Robert A. Perrott Edward Bate USPHS HOSPITAL GALVESTON. TEXAS Edwin Alnsworth Elbert Lawson Arthur Peoples Isham Dufton Alfredo Perez John Gibson Warren Reck Burl Haire Charles Ridley Harold Holmes Arthur Sibler Oliver Kendricks USPHS HOSPITAL NORFOLK, VIRGINIA German Aban Gilbert Pitcher William Armstrong Clarence Robinson Waller Grimsiead USPHS HOSPITAL BALTIMORE, MARYLAND George Amblard Walton Hudson Lars Johansen James Bergsria Perle .Tohnson Charles Crockett Edw. KleczkowskI George Dakis Peter Kordonis Jeff Davis Eugene Langlols Stanley D.avis Wayman Lizotte Edward Denchy Juan Lopez Eusebie Cherman James Mitchell George Cussman Lawrence Holbrook Albert Morse Lucas Hernandez Theodore Riley 2SIUCo's Win Awards Two SlU-contracted companies, Sea-Land Service and Alcoa, have received awards for their promo­ tional work on behalf of US ship­ ping. The Sea-Land citation was pre­ sented on May 8 on the occasion of the first charter awards to be pre­ sented by St. Francis College of Brooklyn. The company was com­ mended for its effort in promoting business for the Port of New York via its containerization program and entry into the intercoastal shipping trade. Earlier, Alcoa was one of several lines singled out for an advertising award by the American Merchant Marine Institute. Alcoa was cited for a new.spaper adverti-sement, the text of which read: "In Honor of National Maritime -Day We Salute Gur Country's 'Fourth Arm of De­ fense'— The United States Mer­ chant Marine." PINE CREST HAVEN COVINGTON, LA. Frank Martin Thomas Robertson Harold Splcec Harry Rost Frank Taylor John Schoch Walter Walsh Charles Shaw Albert Yumul USPHS HOSPITAL SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Edward Lowe James Cobb John Cormier Phillip Mason Harry Cronin Grover Peter.soa Anders Ellingsen Richard Ripley Anderson Gowder Milton Reeves Eric Joseph Frank Soriano SAILORS SNUG HAKBOIt STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK Alberto Gutierrez Thomas Isaksen Get Certificate Before Leaving USPHS HOSPITAL FORT WORTH, TEXAS Benjamin Delbler Grant L. Saylor Abe Gordon Willie Young Thomas Lehay Bozo G. Zelencio Max Olson VA HOSPITAL WEST ROXBURY, MASS. Raymond Arsenault VA HOSPITAL KERRVILLE, TEXAS WiUard CahiU VA HOSPITAL WEST HAVEN. CONN. George Johnson SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA HOSPITAL MANDEVILLE, LA. Robert McKean Seafarers are advised to se­ cure a master's certificate at all times when they become ill or injured aboard ship. The right to demand a master's cer­ tificate verifying illness or In­ jury aboard a vessel is guaran­ teed by law. Be sure to get a master's certificate before you leave a vessel as a means of assuring your right to benefits later on. P/vys/co/ f xoms—Al/ SlU Clinics March, 1962 Seameni 74 Port Baltimore Houston Mobile New Orleans ... New York Philadelphia ... 60 43 wives 20 10 9 16 41 B 104 TOTAl ......... Children TOTAl 104 10 138 6 77 8 244 21 432 28 54 3 1049 76 51U Blood Bank Inventory April, 1962 Previous Balance 9 105 .106 Port Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore Norfolk Jacksonville Tampa Mobile New Orleans Houston Wilmington San Francisco 57Vi 15 44 1 16 20 25 4 (9)+ Seattle 15 TOTAL 408V& * Figures in parenthesis ( Pints Credited 0 17 2 Pints Used 2 75 0 TOTAL ON HAND 7 . 47 108 IVi 0 4 0 1 23 5Vz 0 0 0 0 0 .0 1 0 0 0 0 15 ' ; 48 . 1 " ; 16 ; 43 30V4 4 (9) 0 0 54 78 15 384V4 ) indicate shortage to be made up. SlU Welfare, Vacation Plans Cash Benefits Paid—March, 1962 CLAIMS Hospital Benefits (Welfare) ... .10568 Death Benefits (Welfare) AMOUNT PAID $25,978.92 26 63,534.78 Disability Benefits (Welfare) ... 251 38,388,00 Maternity Benefits (Welfare) ... 45 9,165.00 Dependents Benefits (Welfare) .. 506 70,398.88 Optical Benefits (Welfare) 835 7,978.87 Outpatient Benefits (Welfare)-.. 9749 54,231.00 Summary (Welfare) ...... 21980 $269,675.45 1331 $213,671.09 TOTAL WELFARE, VACATION BENEFITS PAID THIS PERIOD... 23311 $483,346.54 Vacation Benefits �lur. UM SEAFARERS Face Seventeea LOG 1,150 Seafarers Passed On Since '50 BSCXTXtXTT DEATH BENEFITS TOP $4 MILLION The Seafarers Welfare Plan last month passed the $4 million mark in death benefit pay­ ments to survivors of some 1,150 SIU men who have died since the original benefit was in­ augurated in 1950, The total amount paid out covers both active and retired Seafarers who World-Wide Problems Of The Aged The coining International Labor Conference has been called on by have passed on during the>' David A. Morse, director-general of the International Labor Organi- 12-year period. also jumped in several steps to the Seafarers who have died due to cation, to "redress the balance of social attention" and pay a little One of the original two present $8 daily rate now in effect various causes since 1950, records Joseph Volplan, Social Security Director more heed to the needs of older men and women. "The benefits of change are apt to pass them by and as a result they are cast out of the mainstream of economic and social life," he said in a report. The conference was asked "to lay down lines" along which the ILO "can assume its full responsibilities in dealing with the problems that are its special concern." "Other organizations of the United Nations family are playing their part," Morse continued. "But while these organizations, each in its field, gre striving to promote better social adjustment, health, nutri­ tion and other improvements for older people, the ILO must take the Initiative to ensure that their latter years are lived in reasonable con­ ditions of security, comfort and human dignity." This report, entitled "Older People: Work and Retirement," was one ©f two the ILO staff prepared for the conference. The older-people report is the first item on the agenda. Stressing the need for action, It pointed out that there are 200 million people past the age of 60, «n increase of 45 million in the last decade. This means an annual growth rate of 2.5 percent, comparable to 1.6 percent for the popu­ lation at large. With automation and changing technoiogies, older workers often find that the skills which served them over many years no longer are marketable, the report noted. It added that the labor movement, in­ dustry and the community can do much "to eliminate those (problems) which are the product of imagination and prejudice and to work out constructive approaches to those which remain" because "premature withdrawal from work is a burden on any community." "Ideally all people who wish to go on working and who are capable of work should be able to find and retain suitable employment," the report asserted, noting that the capacity for work "persists far longer than is commonly recognized" and often reaches a peak past 60. At the same time, it continued, the right to retire must be established more widely and more firmly—and on a sound financial basis. "The right and the capacity to go on working is one thing," it declared. "The right and the capacity to retire is another. "Many old people have to work throughout their lives whether they wish to or not. They have no practical alternative. The leisure they have earned through hard work never comes to them. Much remains to be done to provide solid old-age security in developed and de­ veloping countries alike." (Comments and suggestions are invited by this Department and can he submitted to this column in care of the SEAFARERS LOG.) benefits provided when the Plan was established in 1950, the death payment to eligible Seafarers' beneficiaries has been increased five times since then to the pres­ ent amount of $4,000. The figure was $500 at the time the welfare program started. First Increase The first increase in the benefit rate took effect in April, 1951, when the payment was doubled to $1,000 and, three months later, the amount was raised again, to $1,500. A further increase was Instituted at the end of 1951 to bring the rate up to $2,500. This figure continued for several years until, in May, 1955 the amount was boosted to $3,500. In October, 1956, the present rate of $4,000 was started. Benefits in the amount of $4,000 are paid to survivors of all active Seafarers, who may name any beneficiary they choose, and to dependent beneficiaries of Union oldtimers retired on monthly pen­ sions. Designated beneficiaries of SIU pensioners who are not de­ pendents qualify for a $1,000 death benefit. In-Hospital Payment The rise in the rate of death benefits has been matched by a similar increase covering the inhospital benefit for Seafarers, vvhich was the other original bene­ fit of the Welfare Plan at its start In 1950. Originally set at a $7 a week rate, the hospital benefit has for up to 39 weeks plus $3 per day thereafter for as long as a Sea­ farer is hospitalized. In contrast to the total of 1,150 maintained at the time show that more than 1,200 SIU men lost their lives due to enemy action in World War II. 4 More Seafarers Retire On Pension The number of veteran Seafarers retiring on Union bene­ fits during 1962 reached an even two dozen last month as four more SIU oldtimers were approved for lifetime $150 monthly pensions following-^' joint trustee action. Joining the 20 Seafarers al­ ready retired on pensions this year are Albert De Forrest, 61; William Robert Mcllveen. 63; Henry M. Robinson, 53, and John Luther Sikes, 62. Welfare Benefits They and all other SIU pen­ sioners are assured the complete protection of the SIU Welfare Plan for themselves and their depend­ ents in addition to the regular $150 monthly pension benefit. De Forrest joined the Union in 1941 in Mobile, and began shipping in the steward department. He paid off his last ship, the Vivian (Inter­ continental Victories), on October 9, 1961. Born in New York City, the 61-year-old seaman now lives with his wife, Blanche, in Mem­ phis, Tenn. The oldest Seafarer in the group. DeForrest Mcllveen Mcllveen is 63 and has been sailing with the SIU since 1944 after join­ ing the Union in New York. He signed off his last ship, the Maiden Creek (Waterman), on May 30, 1961, while a third cook. A friend in Baltimore is listed as his next of kin. A 20-year veteran with the Union, Robinson joined the SIU in 1941 at New Orleans. The 53-year- Visiting Time For SIU Men At Staten Isiand Hospitai Bringing benefit payments, mail, LOGs and other pub­ lications, SIU welfare rep­ resentatives who make the rounds at the marine hos­ pitals are always welcome visitors. The scenes here show some of the drydocked brothers at the Staten I s la n d hospital. At left, Edward Kruhlinski, an SlU-IBU Railway Ma­ rine Region tugman on the New Haven Railroad. Be­ low, (l-r), Vernon Koehler, SUP, with Seafarers Ar­ temis Vaiquez and Rulof DeFretes. Robinson Sikes old engine department seaman paid off his last ship, the Del Rio (Mississippi), on December 29,1961. He lists a friend, Louis M. Ander­ sen, of Jersey City, NJ, as next of kin. Sikes is a World War I army vet­ eran who first shipped with the SIU from Savannah, Ga., in 1939. He paid off his last ship, the Royal Oak (Cities Service), on January 22, 1962. The 62-year-old engine department member resides with his wife, Catherine, in Savannah. Get Polio Shots, PHS Urges Al fop (l-r), Seafarers Knobby Graff, Welfare rep, John Dwyer, Bill Granger, Will Cully and Edward Morales look over union news. Above, Dwyer assists Pacific SIU affiliate, deliveirs benefits to MGS veteran Pete Leon. The Public Health Service urges. Seafarers who have not already done so to get their polio shots as soon as possible. The shots can be gotten at any PHS hospital without charge. Plenty of vaccine is available so there is no delay in the admin­ istering of the shots. The few minutes a Seafarer takes to in­ sure himself against the crip­ pling disease by getting the shots are well worth the saving of time, money and, most of all, the avoidance of suffering and possible disability �SKAFARE'RS L'O€ Blgkfc« f!l I i ,F(' •'^•-. f' ;• Fi ? :• T 1 i IJ .•', ! i All of the following SlU families have re­ ceived a $200 maternity benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name, representing a total of $9,000 in maternity benefits and a maturity value of $1,725 in bonds: Debra Perez, born January 23, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Haymond E. Perez, Seattle, Wash. Toni Palmes, bom January 7, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Anto­ nio Palmes, Baltimore, Md. Susan M. Seaman, born Febru­ ary 3, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter Seaman, San Anselmo, Calif. Jason Franks, born August 19, 1960, to Seafarer and Mr^. James Franks, Houston, Texas. Irene Vasqnez, born July 12, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Peter Vasquex Vasquez, Houston, Texas. Marcinda Stewart, bora Novem­ ber 8, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Bob W. Stewart, Panama, Oklaho­ ma. James Coyne, Jr., born Febru­ ary 8, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. James A. Coyne, Covington, La. Margaret Doyle, bora October 21, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Jo­ seph Doyle, Philadelphia, Pa. Jane Webb, bora October 14, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. James Webb, Mobile, Ala. Roger Williamson, bora January 24, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Williamson, Revere, Mass. Lisa Kinney, bora February 17, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Richard Kinney, New Orleans, La. Victor Alvarez, born February 4, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Ranulfo Alvarez, Baltimore, Md. Michael Simpson, born Septem­ ber 9, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Robert Simpson, South Amboy, NJ. Joann Hammock, born February 14, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Whitten Lee Hammock, Brooklyn, NY. Aubrey Waters, born January 27, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Au­ brey Waters, Vancouver, Wash. Michael Raczka, born February 11, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rudolph Raczka, Galveston, Texas. Lawrence A. Hall, born Febru­ ary 6, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vernon Hall, Mobile, Ala. Timothy White, born February 3, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Houston R. White, Jacksonville, Fla. Francisca Garcia, born Novem­ ber 17, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vincent Garcia, North La Marque, Texas. Glen Knox, born January 28, Moving? Notify SlU, Welfare Seafarers and SIU families who apply for maternity, hos­ pital or surgical benefits from the Welfare Plan are urged to keep the Union or the Wel­ fare Plan advised of any changes of address while their applications are being proc­ essed. Although payments are often made by return mail, changes of address (or illegible return addresses) delay them when checks or "baby bonds" are returned. Those who are moving are advised to notify SIU headquarters or the Wel­ fare Plan, at 17 Battery Place, New York 4, NY. 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. George 5. Knox, Kenna, La. Lorene O'Connell, born March 15, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Lawrence O'Connell, Brooklyn, N. Y. Ana Brown, born February 9, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Isaac V. Brown, Playa Ponce, Puerto Rico. Laora Cann, born March 28, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. James K. Cann. Brooklyn, N. Y. Rita Dimitrions, born February 23, 1962. to Seafarer and Mrs. Nicolaos Dimitrious, Staten Island, N. Y. Lisa Wright, born February 23, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Thomas Wright, Jacksonville, Fla. Alfred Barnes, born January 23, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Dalton Barnes, Bushnell, Fla. Donnie Lynn Towns, born De­ cember 24, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Hughes P. Towns, New Or­ leans, La. Dale Joseph Ivankovie, bora February 17, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John Ivankovic, Struthers, Ohio. Tracy Annette Forbes, born February 19, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Marvin K. Forbes, Norfolk, Va. Robin Anderson, born February 16, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Walter Anderson, Prichard, Ala. Theresa M. Thompson, born February 27, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. James R. Thompson, Chicka­ saw, Ala. John P. Morris, born January 16, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John P. Morris, Savannah, Ga. Edward R. Naptdeonis, bora De­ cember 21, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Julio Napoleonis, Brooklyn, N. Y. Annette Escobar, born August 18, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Sixto Escobar, San Francisco, Calif. Joan EUen Becker, bora March 18, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Howard Beeker, Brooklsm, N. Y. Stephen KIndya, bora March S, 1962. to Seafarer and Mrs. Michael J. Kindya, Center Moriches, N. Y. Patricia Pacheco, born Jannary 30, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Francisco Pacheco, Brooklyn, N. Y. Charisse Farago, born February 7, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. George Farago, New Brunswick, N. J. Deborah Menor, bora February 15, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Vic­ tor Menor, Brooklyn, N.Y. John Causey, born November 11, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Leon N. Causey, Lucedale, Miss. Kelly Anne White, born March 6, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. Terrance J. White, San Francisco, Calif. Julia Tlllls, bora February 27, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. John U. Tiilis, Savannah, Ga. Michael Pagan, bora February 11, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs. An­ tonio Pagan, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Robin Morrow, born December 20, 1961, to Seafarer and Mrs. Coy L. Mion ow. Mobile, Ala. Nancy Neal, born March 2, 1962, to Seafarer and Mrs, Wayne Neal Baytown, Texas. The deaths of the following Seafarers have been reported to the Seafarers Welfare Plan and a total of $29,500 in benefits was paid. (Any apparent delay in payment of claims is normally due to late filing, lack of a beneficiary card or necessary litigation for the dis­ position of estates.) Hugh C. Randall, 53: Brother Randall died of a ruptured spleen on March 11, 1962, at Tampa General Hos^tal, Tampa, Fla. He started ship­ ping with the SIU in 1938 in the engine de­ partment and had been receiving special disability benefits since January, 1961. His wife, Tommie Lee Randall, of Tampa, survives. Burial was at Rose Hill Cemetery, Tampa. Total benefits: $4,000. 4" 4" t Domingo L. Orbigoso, 59: Broth­ er Orbigoso died of a stomach ail­ ment on Febru­ ary 16, 1962, at the USPHS Hos­ pital, Baltimore, Md. He started shipping with the SIU in 1951 In the deck de­ partment. Bene­ fits were paid to William H. Engelmen, administrator of his es­ tate. Burial was at St Peters Cemetery, Baltimore, Md. Total benefits: $500. 4) ^ 4^ Martin Spnrgeon, 31: Brother Spurgeon was lost at sea while aboard the Del Mar near San Juan, Puerto Rico, on April 4, 1961. He had been sailing in the steward de­ partment with the SIU since 1960. Benefits were paid to Rosalie Spurgeon, of Brooklyn, NY, his wife and the administratrix of the estate. Total benefits: $4,000. ^ James A. Elliott, 53: Brother Earl W. Lovett, 34t Brother Lovett died an accMental death on Elliott was lost at sea while aboard the SS Claiborne March 16, 1962, on March 14, in New York 1962. He began City. He began shipping with the sailing with the SIU in 1939 and SIU in 1958 and sailed in the steshipped in the ward depart­ steward depart­ ment. His wife. ment. His wife, Mrs. Craig C. El­ Louise Lovett, of liott, of Prichard, Mobile, Ala., sur­ A1 a., survives. vives. Burial was at National Cemetery, Mobile. Total benefits: $4,000. Total benefits: $4,000. ^ 4) 4> Jose A. Perez, 68: Brother Perez 4^ » 4^ died of natural causes on Decem­ James C. Brannon, 29: Brother ber 14, 1961, in Brannon died an accidental death Huelva, Spain. on August 29, He began ship­ 1960, in Mobile, ping with the Ala. Ha had been SIU In 1939, sail­ sailing in the ing in the deck deck department department and with the SIU had been on re­ since 1956. His ceiving special wife, Mrs. Margie disability bene­ Brannon, of fits since 1958. Mobile, survives. His wife, Juana Perez, of Coruna, Burial was at the Spain, survives. Burial was in Wolf Ridge Cemetery, Mobile. Huelva, Spain. Total benefits: $4,Total benefits: $4,000. 000. COUNCIL OROVB (Cities Service), Feb. 12—Chairman, T. E. Frtzler; Sec­ retary, A. H. O'ICregty. Mate concongratulated In having pasaageways and crew's quarters sougeed and painted. Milk shortage twice in four weeks. Requeat that awning be in­ stalled on after deck. Lockers to be brought on board in Boston. Vote of thanks to eteward department. JEAN LA FITTE (Waterman), Fab. 9—Chairman, George Scragge; Secre­ tary, A. J. Nelson. Contracted patrol­ man on draws. Captain will oblige as long as no one overdraws. Crew re­ quested to take better care of waeliing $ 4^ $ Edward Glenn, 70: A heart at­ tack was fatal to Brother Glenn on April 7, 1961, in Bay St. Louis, Miss. He began shipping with the SIU in 1939, sail­ ing in the deck department, and had been receiv­ ing special dis­ ability ben efits since 1958. A friend, Mrs. Mathilda Davis, of Bay St. Louis, survives. Burial was at Garden of Memory Cemetery, Bay St. Louis. Total benefits: $1,000. L. A. Smith elected sliip's delegate and Noel W. McLaughlin elected treasurer. Everything going along smoothly. Money drawn In ports has been satisfactory. Nearly aU quarters and showers have been painted. Sixty dollars in ship's fund. Vote of thanks to steward department for job weU done. ORION PLANET (Colonial), Feb. 4— Chairman, Rudolph J. LoizzI; Secre­ tary, LIndley R. MacOonald. Ship's delegate reported he saw captain about hiring men for replacements. Eighty dollars in ship's fund. C. Spafford elected ship's treasurer. Motion made regarding sale to American Ex­ port lines. No LOGa or OT aheets re­ ceived. Vote of thanks to steward department for a Job well done and good food. MAE (Bull), Feb. 4 — Chairman, Frank Bona; Socretary, Jamss Bond. X James W. Grant, 56i A heart condition was fatal to Brother Grant on April 2, 1962, at Provi­ dent Hospital, Baltimore, Md. He had been sailing in the steward depart­ ment with the SIU since 1944. His wife, Gladys Grant of Balti­ more, Md., survives. Burial was at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Baltimore. Total benefits: $4,000. ATLAS (Bull), Feb. S—Chairman. R. C. Mills; Secretary, J. E. McKreth. Ship's delegate reported everything running smoothly. $41.50 in ship's fund. No beefs reported by depig­ ment delegates. Discussion on having a phone on dock In Pasadena. machine and to return cups and glasses to pantry. Delegates will sea patrolman in Wilmington. Vote of thanks to steward department end ship's delegate. Approxiinatoly $50 in ship's fund. ZiPHyRHiLL$ (Fan American), Feb. 9—Chairman, Carl Fags; Secretary. W. H. Dunham. G. C. Peterson elected new ship's delegate. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew wants to know what is to bo done about fumigating ship, for roaches. Ship's delegate to seo pa­ trolman about taking up tha matter with company. LONGVIEW VICTORY (Victory Carrlort), Feb. 2—Chairman, J. Schroederi Secretary, Karl O. Hagstrom. One man taken to hospital on sailing day due to injuries Incurred Just before sailing. One man taken off ship in Honolulu because of injuries. $1.03 in treasury. Uredl elected new ship's treasurer. Motion that vacation pay be increased to $400 for six months' continuous service and to $1J)00 for one year's service. Vote of thanks to steward department. No one is to enter the messrooms or pantry in shorts. See patrolman regarding re­ pairs in toilets and lockers. OMNIUM FREIGHTER (Mel), Febru­ ary 2—Chairman, Tom Driseol; Secre­ tary, Chuck Deniert. Repairs to be made in New York. Ship needs new W. M. Hand. Three men hospitalized. washing machine: should have two. One man missed ship and rejoined. Will call attention to medical chest. Few hours disputed OT wiU be AH members asked to watch out for turned over to patrolman. $24.50 in their papers In Casablanca. movie fund and $19.50 in ship's fund. Dec. 30—Chairman, Chuck Demers; Steward department members should Secratary, Robert Ayars, Tom DriscoU keep clean and follow general work­ elected ship's delegate. No beefs re­ ing rules on attire. Crew asked not ported by department delegates. Crew to slam doors and to show consider­ asked to Bush toilet bowls and not to ation for other members who are wear underwear in messroom. Wash­ sleeping. Suggestion that watchstand^ ing machine needs to be repaired. Re­ ers move to starboard away from day quest for more cheese In night lunch. workers. SEATRAIN NEW YORK (Seafraln), JACQUELINE SOMECK (Peninsular), Feb. 9—Chairman, J. N. Fisher; Sec­ (Jan. 2$—Chairman, D. Sacheo; Sec­ retary, J. R. Bstson. Ship's delegate retary, G. Wilson. $3.78 in ship's went to headquarters regarding short­ fund. Bosun made motion to appoint age of food and repairs. Motion made a three-man committee to check stew­ not to pay ott until everything is ard's stores before ship leaves port. settled with all delegates aud ship's This Is to be discussed with patrol­ delegate. Have patrolman present man. Have patrolman look Into unsafe when stores are taken aboard, aa ship condition when oilers have to cUmb is not getting proper quality food and not enough food. to check feed pump. STEEL WORKER (Isthmian), Feb. 4 —Chairman, John F. Smith; Secratary, �wu9.vm SEAFARERS 'Almost Page One' Item: Thetis, Ammo Barge Hit The story had all the ingredients to make page one of the SEAFARERS LOG and any other newspaper in the country: Supertanker . .. ammunition barge ... busy San Diego har­ bor .. . collision. "The tugs failed to heed some The story? commands the bridge," Coats The supertanker Thetis and writes, and from "the result was that we a Navy ammunition barge collided in busy San Diego harbor and . . . And "nothing" happened. That is, according to Ira Kenneth Coats, ship's delegate on the tanker, nothing serious happened. No ex­ plosion to rock the West Coast Coots city's waterfront. No sinking of a million-dollar ship. No Coast Guard Board of Inquiry to investigate a major marine disaster. A fouled port anchor and a damaged propeller were the end results of an "almost-page-one" accident. As Coats reported the story to the LOG, the Incident went something like this: The Thetis had made a smooth trip to San Diego where it had dis­ charged 210,000 barrels of Navy special fuel oil and was preparing to depart for San Francisco using tugs to help it maneuver out of the harbor. Seafarer's Wife Hails Blood Aid To the Editor: I wish to express my sincere thanks to the SIU Welfare Plan for the financial assistance which it provided during my stay at the hospital in Houston, Texas, for surgery. I also wish to thank the many Seafarers who took the time and came to the hospital and gave blood for me. Many of the mem­ bers are unknown to me and I therefore cannot thank them personally. I hope they will see this and realize how much their aid is appreciated. Mrs. Julie Alexander had a collision with a Navy am­ munition barge." Nothing happened—^nothing like what might have happened, since the tanker was empty and the barge wasn't carrying any cargo. Only a few bumps, a fouled anchor and a damaged propeller resulted. The ship was tied up six hours be­ fore they could free the anchor, then proceed to a San Francisco shipyard. In the yard, the ship was quickly surveyed and the damaged screw was replaced. With everything back to normal, the tanker con­ tinued on its voyage, he added. Besides the accident, Coats noted that during the trip the crew took care of a number of repair jobs, soogeed and painted out 16 foc'sles and the crew mess hall and took care of other odds and ends. The Thetis had a good trip, Coats said, in spite of the collision and he voiced his own "vote of thanks" to the officers and crew, "who have made possible the changes that have taken place aboard this ship." Ana, John Sidney, Jr., William James, Sonja Faye, Paul An­ tonio, Adrian Charese and I wish to thank the Union and the Welfare Plan for their as­ sistance and wish them success. John S. "Red" Burke ft ft ft Henry Comments On Vacation Plan To the Editor: We see In the LOG that some of our brothers wish to make some changes concerning the Vacation Plan and invite com- ft ft ft Cites Argentina 'Angel Of Mercy' All letters to the Editor for To the Editor: publication in the SEAFARERS I would appreciate your send­ LOG must be signed by the ing the SEAFARERS LOG to a writer. Names vnll be withheld Mrs. Eleanore Leddin in Buenos upon request. Aires, Argentina. She has been an "Angel of Mercy" to Sea­ ments on their suggestions. farers, vi.siting members in the Well, here are the ideas of the hospital and assisting passen­ crew of the Henry (American gers and crewmen on all Delta Bulk Carriers). Line ships in having their laun­ First. It's been suggested that dry picked up and in arranging the vacation pay be $400 for six other details. She is a proud months. We go along with that wearer of our emblem, too. 100 percent. Who wouldn't? Thomas D. Garrity Second. It is suggested that ft ft ft a man be required to stay aboard the same ship for six months to collect the $400. It is claimed that this would also create a bigger turnover in jobs. We To the Editor: I can't find words to express disagree with these suggestions my thanks to the SIU. tlie Wel­ 100 percent. We think that making a man fare Plan and to my fellow brothers for the special consid­ stay on a ship for any period of eration shown me concerning lime to draw a higher vacation tile hospitalization of my wife, or any other benefit is playing into tlie companies'hands. This Mrs. Willie Mae Burke. She was seriously burned on requirement would give com­ December 16, 1961 and was con­ pany representatives a whip to fined in a hospital until her hold over a man's head. As our brothers probably realize, these death on February 12, 1962. I am very proud to be a mem­ people would then try to put ber of the finest seamens union pressure on the crew by threat­ in the world and a brother to ening to let them go before the such wonderful men who are six-anonth period was up. As for creating more jobs, mindful of their fellow seamen we believe the change would in times of need. Again, my children, Yolanda freeze jobs. Most men today Thanks All Hands For Assistance Pafv Nioeteca LOG Reading matter to help pass the long hours afloat were the subject of discussion aboard a number of vessels lately. * The crew of the Del Oro (Mississippi) gave a vote of thanks to Seafarer Ewing A. Rihn for bringing a library collec-"* tion from the Mobile hall science fiction, as they're right In came ill. Doyle was taken to the middle of the latest rocket and carrier Yorktown by helicopter. when the ship stopped off in the space developments. The crew is ft ft ft that port. Rihn was commended for doing all hands a good turn by providing some fresh material for the crew's mixed tastes. On the Robin Trent (Robin Line), the library is getting a good workout and some crewmembers have be­ come so involved with their read­ ing that they have forgotten to return the books. Come on, fellas, everybody knows that the butler is ROID the guy who done it. It always works that way. now waiting for a new library to see if the authors have gotten ahead of the space engineers. The gang aboard has also cited the ship's relief skipper, Capt. Allen M. Ross, who is returning state­ side, for being "a regular guy." is, is, i, An awning for the after-deck was the center of discussion on the Council Grove (Cities Serv­ ice). The crew called for a bit of shade as a "help for men who have hot foc'sles to sleep in." Seafarers off watch could enjoy their out­ door sleep with an awning protect­ ing them from the hot sun and "the peaceful % is, rest will make a Library assistance in reverse was new man out of the order of the day on the Steel each individual." Age (Isthmian) as the SIU crew t ft i made a donation from the ship's The captain and fund to the Seaman's Church In­ radio operator on stitute in New York for a new the Wild Ranger library. (Waterman) were LOWSOM is, X is, thanked for the Down on the missile range, the excellent job they did to assist in Sampan Hitch (Suwannee) finds the transfer of Seafarer Edward that science fact has caught up to Doyle to a Navy ship when he be- make from three to five months answer my above question. I on a ship, then get off. If they am very concerned about this had to stay six months to draw and am sure other wives must vacation money they would do feel the same, for if we have so, thereby freezing jobs for an hospital coverage assured It is additional two or three months. not necessary for us to carry On a round-the-world ti-ip such Blue Cross or other plans of as Isthmian makes for four and that sort. Before my husband left on his a half months, the change would result in a man having to make present trip we discussed this another trip. It would freeze and he could not answer either, the job for the additional voy­ so I am writing this really at age instead of having a man ofif his request. There must be many of us at the end of the first trip. We believe the present 90-day who are unnecessarily paying system we have is the best in high premiums if we are cov­ Lite maritime industry. We think ered fully by the Welfare Plan. we should have more money, I shall certainly look forward but let's look at all the angles to your answer, and thank you. before we change the system. May I add, for Stanley's and Crew, SS Henry my many friends in the SIU, (Ed. note: The above letter and their wives, that he is now was signed by 25 creivmenibers aboard the E42-1836, one of the on the Henry.) Suwannee missile ships, cur­ ft ft ft rently in Gambia, West Africa. Mrs. Stanley A. Holden (Ed. note: Under the rules of the Plan, in the event an SIU To the Editor: pensioner precedes his depend­ This is to offer our sincere ent wife in death, she would be thanks to the SIU Welfare Plan covered by welfare benefits for for taking care of our hospital a period of six months after the benefits during my wife's hospi­ date of his passing. Pension talization after slie broke a bone payments would cease imme­ in her leg. diately, however. It would have been very dif­ ft ft ft ficult for us to have taken care of our hospital bill at that time. The Welfare Plan made it pos­ sible to handle everything very simply and comfortably. Many To the Editor: On behalf of the 8,000 strik­ thanks again. ing members of Republic Lodge Mr. and Mrs. Norman Small 1987, International Association ft ft ft of Machinists, I would like to thank the SIU for its coopera­ tion in loaning us the Seafarers' bus. To the Editor: We have been using the bus I should like a clarification on one facet of the wonderfully- to transport pickets from our set-up SIU Welfare Plan. I building here in Huntington know that my husband and I are (Long Island, New York) to both fully covered as to medical their stations at the gates of and hospital care siiould he be Republic Aviation, and the bus forced to retire, but in the event has helped us to coordinate our that he should precede me in activities tremendously. We certainly appreciate your death \vin I still be entitled to help and hope that we will be any benefits? I feel sure that the pension In a position to reciprocate would stop at such a time, but should the occasion ever arise. Justin Ostro see nothing in your printed President-Business Manager "Welfare Benefits" spread to Praise Assist in Hospitalization Machinists Laud SIU Strike Aid Queries Extent Of SIU Coverage Safety is being emphasized on the Steel Executive (Isthmian) and crewmembers are urged to secure any loose gear they see lying about on deck or elsewhere aboard the ship. Doing this will eliminate hazards and create an atmos­ phere of safety that will benefit all hands, bosun Carl C. Lawson said. Seafarers o n the Emilia (Bull) are acting t o have safety bars RofbsduM welded across the messroom portholes. This will prevent the glass from splattering on everyone in case the frames are struck when number 3 hatch is being worked. Apparently this has happened before. ft ft ft A famous financial name has been elected ship's treasurer on the Del Alba (Mississippi). The man is Sigmund Rothschild and the name's the same, so he shouldn't have too much difficulty getting necessary assistance from the in­ ternational banking company, Rothschild, Ltd., London. ft ft ft Seafarers, not being either mad dogs or Englishmen, want to get out of the noonday sun, and an awning is just the thing. The aft awning on the Florida State (Ever­ glades Steamship) has taken a beating during the past year and the crew is working to have it re­ placed for the new summer-time season ahead. The sun can get mighty hot down in the Southland where the ship runs regularly. ft ft ft The radio officer on the Steel Architect (Isthmian) has been warmly thanked by the crew for turning out news of what's hap­ pening in the world every day. The ship's newspaper via radio kept everybody filled in on events of in­ terest. The word is "no thanks," however, on the old washing ma­ chine the Architect has been con­ tending with. The crew is about ready for a new one and will be happy to "cannibalize" the old one for extra parts. ft ft ft The latest products of Hollywood are going to be shown on the Del Norte (Mississippi). The crew is ex­ changing the lens on its movie projector for "Cinemascope" equipment and will also pay off what it owes for the machine. At some futui'e date it may show a movie about a seaman searching for his "good chair." Seems one Seafarer's chair was replaced by an old broken one and he is now hunting for the misplaced item. Good hunting, brother. ft ft ft A four-day stopover in Yo­ kohama, Japan, w as just the thing for the Steel Apprentice (Isthmian). Ship's reporter Ralph Master says "a good time was had by all in Master that oriental paradise." The vessel was sched­ uled to load cargo for the Great Lakes and this will mark its entry into Isthmian's new service to ports on America's fourth and newest "Seacoast." �m On Persian Gulf Run: Scenes Along The Snez Pietnred By Seafarer Scenes along the Suez could be the theme of the pictures that Sea­ farer Wilfred Lachance took while serving in the black gang on the Ines (Bull) during a run to the Persian Gulf. The ship was return­ ing home from Karachi, Pakistan when these photographs were snapped. Entering the canal from the Suez end, the ship passed through Therofik (top), where a monument erected as a memorial for World Wdr I serves as a landmark for seamen. Out in the quiet harbor (middle), an Arab trader on his water camel came alongside to of­ fer his wares, including some magic carpets. Once in the water­ way (bottom), the ship passed one of the many dredges used to sweep the canal clean of sand and silt resting peacefully along the Mv. U« SEAVAKEKS^ LOO Page Tweal^ Sees ID Card Still Needed To tho Editor: From time to time in the LOG, I've seen articles flora different members and wives about an identification card for Seafarers' dependents. A card of this kind in wallet size, would be a big help when some member of a seaman's family needed Union assistance in a hurry. So far I've heard nothing about preparation of such a card, so I think we should really consider the idea. I can understand that there would be some kind of problem in issuing cards that certified a man's eligibility for benefits, since eligibility changes from time to time under the rules of our Welfare Plan. But I still think that a Sea­ farer's wife ought to be able to have an ID card to keep with her that would specify a man's Z-number, Social Security num­ ber and his Union book num­ ber. How many men's wives have this kind of information when they need it? If the wives could be issued a card like I'm talking about, they'd at least be able to simplify an eligibil­ ity check when they contacted the Union or the Welfare Plan regarding benefits. Another thing I'd like to see Introduced is a change in the pension rules so that benefits would be available to a seaman at any time after he puts in his 12 years of seatime. We all know it takes a lot more than 12 years by the calendar to make the seatime, so why not recognize this in the rules? It seems to me that after the 20 or more years of sailing it takes to accumulate 12 actual years of seatime, we should be able to fall back on a pension at any age. As far as I'm con­ cerned, let's knock out the scholarships if we have to in order to give more oldtimers a chance at a pension. Nobody ever gave me a scholarship when I was a kid A smart youngster today can get by on his own as far as college Is concerned. Jack Farrand 4" t 4" Union Welfare Assist Praised To the Editor: I wish to thank the Union for its help in paying my hospital and doctor bills during my re­ cent illness. It is always nice to know you have a friend in the SIU. My husband, Henry Faile, was on a ship and couldn't be home. Mrs. Elsie Faile 4> 4bank at the end of a day's work. In Pakistan (above), Lachance snapped his version of the classic picture showing an Indian snake charmer performing. The stage was the Ines' deck. 4> Beached Seaman Appreciates Aid To the Editor: I have been a hospital out­ patient for two and a half months and don't know how long I will remain laid up. Please put me on your mailing list for the LOG, so I can keep posted on waterfront activities. I joined the Union in New Orleans in April, 1939, and since then we have made many gains and much progress. I thank God for the benefits available to us today, including hospital pay, and sickness, medical and eyeglass benefits for my family. I am proud and thankful to To The Bditor All letters to the Editor for publication in the SEAFARERS LOG must be signed by the writer. Names will be withheld upon request. belong to the best maritime union and am very grateful for the hospital benefits that I am receiving. Steady as she goes. Walter II. Cook t Fanwood Finds Place to Relax To the Editor: We, five crewmembers of the Fanwood (Sea-Land), plus the three department delegates, would like to recommend the "City Hall Bar" in Port New­ ark, NJ, to all our brothers. It is located at 882 Broad Street in Newark and is run by a couple of fine men, Frank Martin and Nick Stokes. Nick's son is sailing with the SIU and is now on the Losmar with Capt. "Windy" Gayle. Any Seafarer who is looking for a nice place to relax should stop in and in­ troduce himself. John Hogge Ship's delegate 4-4 4 Union interest Assisted Widow To the Editor: I would like to thank the SIU for its interest, cooperation and assistance in helping me after the death of my husband. I just don't know what I wouldhave done had it not been for the Union. I am grateful for the $4,000 death benefit check recently delivered to me by the officials of the Norfolk branch. My husband believed in the Union and was very Interested in all Union activities. I know he appreciated the privilege of being a member working under an SIU contract. Again I wish to thank the SIU, It is so comforting to know that even though my hus­ band has passed on 1 still have friends in the Union. I would like to receive the LOG and would appreciate be­ ing put on the regular mailing list. Mrs. Alma Norris Pensioner's Wife Cites 'Miracle' To the Editor: I am writing as the wife of a World War I veteran and an SIU member to relate his "case history," which nearly turned out tragically for all concerned. My husband, Gregory Morejon, came to the US from Spain while <n his late '^eens. At the time of the first World War he was living and working in Chi­ cago. From there he was draft­ ed, sent to France, served in the Artillery, "mustard gassed," and finally honorably dis­ charged. He always kept up his association with the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars; often he was un­ able to attend meetings due to being at sea; nevertheless, he always paid his dues and was proud to be a member. At one time he lived and worked in New York in his own little business But his busi­ ness was wiped out during the depression. He worked at vari­ ous jobs for a time and finally made his way to New Orleans where he began shipping with Alcoa and Mississippi. This was before the SIU was formed. When the Union was organ­ ized he joined and together with the other seamen, his lot became better. He continued sailing out of New Orleans as a steward and purser. In 1945 we met and were married. In 1952 we had a son. In 1958, due to failing health, we came to Miami. His health continued to go down and we were advised by doctors that an operation was necessary. He tried to obtain entrance into the Veterans Hospitai in the area but was told there was a waiting list and he was placed on it. His health continued to get worse and all the VA was able to do was put him on the "urgent list" which meant a shorter waiting period—but we still had to wait. Attempts to obtain assistance through the Marine Hospital in New Or­ leans and the VA there were also unsuccessful. But in March, our "minor miracle" occurred. My husband went down to the Union and through the Welfare Plan's ef­ forts was admitted to the Jack­ son Memorial Hospital in Mi­ ami. As a pensioner, the Wel­ fare Plan took care of our needs and provided assistance and assurance of the best pos­ sible'care. He was operated on at the end of the month and for a man his age, 74, is doing very well. Soon we hope t-^ have him back with us. We are going to leave Flor­ ida shortly and return to our old home. New Orleans. When we do leave we will be taking good and bad memories. But among the most happy is the help that the SIU generously gave us in our hour of need. Mrs. Helena Morejon �SEAFARERS Shipshape by Jim Mates LOG Pace Twenty One Seafarers On Many Ships Cite Good Galiey Feeding, Service "That was a good meal," said the AB to the OS. "Yes," agreed the fireman. "We ought to thank the cook." "We can do that at the next shipboard meeting," the wiper piped in. And more and more ships are going on record thanking ary crew tries to accomplish far "fine food," "job well done," "efficient service," were some of the SIU galley crews for the from the comer store. the words used by many crews in "Steward over there's really making sure there are no chow beefs on this trip." fine meals they are turning out. The crews are also becoming more aware of the problems of the ste­ ward department as representa­ tives make known what the culin- LOG-A-RHYTHM: A Seafarer^s Remembrances By Eugene A. Stanton Leaving the tea, to sail no more. So now my tasks to seek ashore. The tvays and means, to make a home: For I've decided no more to roam. The far places have no hold. With northern seas, which are so cold. Even though woolens I did wear, I was always frozen, I declare.. Through stormy seas, some calm as glass, I observed the sea birds, of every class. While rolling waves were piling high; The wondrous sunsets lit the sky. I saw the monsters of the deep. And let the ships rock me to sleep. Loved the salt breezes of southern seas, But often longed to sight some trees. I met the natives of every land. And watched the ever-hungry band. Aged, lame, blind and ragged children, too. All pleading alms, from even you. Now the steel ship at anchor rode. At a Euphrates port, to unload. I hired a rowboat to go ashore. To see the Arabs all ragged and sore. See the groves of tall palm trees. Along the banks of the Euphrates. COASTAL SENTRY (Suwannee), Jan. 8—Chairman, Richard Blomquist; Secretary, Joel Radford. One man hospitalized in steward department. No beefs reported by department delegates. JACQUELINE SOMECK (Peninsular), Dec. 12—Chairman, David Sykes; Sec­ retary, David Sacher. $3.78 in ship's fund. William Bedgood elected ship's delegate. Suggestion that new repair list he made. Request the Union to send OT sheets, repair lists, meeting blanks and LOGs. Many memories, I will keep; Of my life upon the deep. So—my shipmates, good and true; I'll be praying for all of you. Now I close this lengthy ditty, Hope to meet you in the great city; Where there is no more discord When the river we will ford. A clean robed aging man. Invited me to join his clan. So dining royally with them MERMAID (Mttro PefroHum), Feb. 4—Chairman, H. C. Berner; Secretary, W. C. sink. Ship's delegate reported no beefs except the heat in crew'a quarters. Delayed sailing for watchstander* only In Tampa. Anyone not getting delayed Bailing at the last payoff to put It on OT sheet for next payoff. I ate and talked till four P.M. Everything was clean and neat. With, of course, shoes off our feet. Sat around an oriental carpet s^ead. On our haunches, and bowed our head. The white haired leader softly spoke, A blessing as the bread he broke. Allah's mercy he did ask. Strength to face life's every task. When he finished speaking so,"' All hands were busy eating roe. This and curry, rice and goat. Threw then the bones into the moat. Dessert they served was pudding fig. What was next? They danced a jig. They all ask questions, as pictures I took, I have them now, safe in a book. Thus me they feted, as a son. Not with a knife nor with a gun. Shared with me all they had. To make me welcome, they were glad. instead of uppers and lowers. Crew asked not to slam doors when coming in and out of rooms. Grade of meats to be checked. JOSEFINA (Liberty), Jan. 4—Chalr^ man, Joseph Roll; Secretary, N. Pat Ragas. A. WiUiams elected ship's dele­ gate. Talked with captain about get­ ting some more money for crewmembers before the ship gets into USA. One man in engine department sent home due to illness. Some disputed OT in steward department to be checked. VILLAGE (Consolidated Mariners), Jan. 9—Chairman, H. Rosecrans; Sec­ retary, P. Triantifillos. Clean trip. h; Lane elected ship's delegate. $100 in ship's fund. One man in deck depart­ ment and one in steward department missed ship. No beefs reported. STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Jan. 21—Chairman, George D. Finklea; Sec­ retary, John J. Reinosa. Refrigerator needs to be replaced. Engine room doors to be kept closed to keep the heat from crew quarters. Door latch In deck department toilets to be checked. Crew to coopciatc in kecpin.g outsiders from crew passageways. Doors should be locked while the ship Is In port. Coffee cups and water glasses to be kept in messhall. PENN CHALLENGER (Penn Ship­ ping), Jan. 28—Chairman, M. E. Beach­ ing; Secretary, J. F. Santiago. Pa.voff on arrival. Captain will have agent notify Union hall when calling for replacements. Not enough money car­ ried on board for draws at sea. Chief will try to get parts for washing ma­ chine in Corpus Christ! or order in New York. No beefs reported. Crew asked not to start washing machine without water in It. Discussion on m.'<king rooms with only single beds April 21—Chairman, M. A. Rendules) Secretary, D. Wilson. S6 in ship's treasury. Letter sent to headquarters regarding conditions on ship and to see if a patrolman could be sent to France to square things away. MONTAUK POINT (Bull), Jan. 3— Chairman, Frank R. Myatt; Secretary, Barney Kelly. Few beefs in deck de­ partment to be settled later. No beefs in engine and steward depart­ ment. Steward shower needs painting and doors in steward department foc'sles need to be fixed. Ship paying off in Corpus Cbristl. MT. WHITNEY (Bull), Jan. 14 — Chairman, George Maramoto; Secre­ tary, Doyle Huff. Letter written to headquarters regarding bad water and two men sick aboard ship. $6.62 in ship's fund. Motion made to fumicale ship for roaches. Crew remimied to take care of laundry and to use as little water as possible. BETHTEX (Ore), Feb. 4—Chairman, 8. Garcia; Secretary, John C. Reed. ROBIN LCCKSLEY (Robin Line), Jan. 30—Chairman, Steve Huren; Sec­ retary, Allan L. Lake. All's well. Al­ most all repairs were handled okay. Delegates will collect $1 from each member for the ship's fund. MICHAEL (MayDower), Jan. 21 — Chairman, M. A. Renduelss; Secretary, none. Captain promised to get pantry­ man. $6 in treasury. Some disputed OT in engine and steward depart­ ments. Motion to have all ladders in holds inspected for missing and loose rungs. Get first-aid kit for the fireroom and see that proper medicine chest is put aboard. Extra large fan needed in messroom. Crew would like some large sheets. Volft of thanks to stew­ ard department STEEL SEAFARER (Isthmian), no date—Chairman, Lancelot Alexander; Secretary, F. V. Davis. Ship's delegale reported no beefs. Suggested that men contribute to ship's fund by means of arrival pools, etc. Re­ quest Union to check and control sanitary supplies. Vote of thanks to steward department. VENORE (Ore), Jan. 28—Chairman, Stroud; Secretary, Korcl. One man hospitalized and repatriated from Tur­ key. No beefs reported by department delegates. CITIES SERVICE MIAMI (Cities Service), Feb. 2—Chairman, Theodora Weems; Secretary, William Connolly. No beefs reported by department delegates. Ted Weems elected ship's delegate. ALMENA (Marine Carriers), Jan. 14 —Chairman, Robert A. Kongeibak; Secretary, E. J. Riviere. Robert A. Kongeibak elected ship's dele.gale. Ship's delegate will look into drink­ ing water which gets muddy at times. Messroom. head and washing machine room locks were discus.sed and re­ ferred to repair list. Ship's tlele.g::te requested all departments to turn in repair list at Yokolfaiiia. Vote of thanks to steward department. STEEL TRAVELER (Isthmian), Jan. 27—Chairman, John Cummings; Sec­ retary, A. H. Schwartz. No beefs re­ ported. Discussion on holding a proper shipboard meeting. Motion to do away with travelers checks. Dis­ cussion on safety meeting re chains on No. 5 forward winches. Remove chains or provide hand rails. Poor medical attention on ship. MONTAUK POINT (Bull), Jan. 28— Chairman, J. C. Keal; Secrelary, C. J. Copeman. Few beefs on food and launch service. Crew requested to put OT down for no launch service. Preparation and cooking of food nrcis improvement. A case In point took place aboard the Chatham (Sea-Land), where the steward gave "a wonder­ ful explanation of the current food plan and explanation of immedi­ ate feeding problems" at a meet­ ing. The crew "accepted and ap­ preciated" the difficulties and gave the steward and the steward department "a vote of thanks." Upgrading Plan The plan's upgrading through the use of pasteurized canned fresh grade A milk was discussed by the steward on the Steel Rover (Isthmian). The crew agreed to have the milk served for breakfast to insure all Seafarers getting at least one pint of fresh milk daily while at sea. The steward on the Antinous (Waterman) also explained the new milk plan, pointing out how it pro­ vides fresh milk all voyage long on offshore runs. The galley gang's effoits were cited by the ship's crew. Besides the regular bill of fare, many galley contingents are turn­ ing out special items. The crew of the Rocky Point (Bull) appreciated the extra efforts of the ship's baker and gave him a vote of thanks for turning out "coffeetime goodies everyday." Pacificus Pastries A similar situation was the order of the day on the Pacificus (Orion Steamship) until the baker became ill. The crew last reported he was improving "and we soon hope to have more of his fine coffeetime pastries." "Good service," "good menus," STEEL MAKER (Isthmian), Jan. 28— Chairman, C. Butch Wingert; Secre­ tary, M. Dutch Keefer. $35.30 in ship's fund. S2 used to notify headquarters of man left in hospital in E.gypt. No beefs reported. Suggestion to change toilet tissue to softer grade. Crew asked to turn in room keys when get­ ting off ship. Vote of thanks to stew­ ard department for job weU done. COASTAL CRUSADER (Suwannee), Dec. 17—Chairman, Earl McCakey; Secretary, Cliff Taggart. Sliip short one messman, engine utility and 3rd cook. $5.29 in stiip's fund. Ship's delegate to see chief engineer and captain regarding disputed OT. Ex­ pressed gratitude and appreciation to port agent in San Juan for all things he did on behalf of the crew. CHATHAM (Sea Land), Dec. 23 — Chairman, W. LeClair; Secretary, J. E. Higgins. Ship's fund increased from $10 to $20 fhrongh donation by un­ known person. Disputed OT and de­ layed sailing beefs in engine and steward department. Proper slopchest aboard ship to be taken up with pa­ trolman. Vote of thanks to steward department. VILLAGE (Consolidated Mariners), Nov. 19—Chairman, H. E. Rosecrans; Secretary, P. Triantifillos. G. Gage elected ship's delegate. Engine dele­ gate to see cliief about washing ma­ chine wringer. Cover needed for steam line through bosun's room. Dis­ cussion on storing late on sailing day. This causes hardship on deck depart­ ment, which still has to secure ship, does not allow enough time to get items that are short. STEEL FLYER (Isthmian), Dee. 17— Chairman, Calvin J. Siover; Secretary, Pete Cakanic. Ship's delegate reported most of repair list submitted at end of last voyage has been completed. $15 in treasury. No beefs reported. Ship's library depleted. Crew asked to ease load on men doing sanitary work by cleaning their own fans. DEL MONTE (Mississippi), Jan. 13— Chairman, E. Bates; Secretary, Ramon Irizarry. Almost all repairs taken care of in New Orleans. All mat­ tresses ordered could not be replaced because of the amount required. Some will be replaced next voyage. Request for oranges aboard ship. E crything running smoothly. citing their steward departments. A small list would include the fol­ lowing ships, among many others: Atlas (Bull), Mankato Victory (Victory Carriers), Floridian (Bull), Alamar (Calmar), Ames Victory (Victory Carriers), Ocean Dinny (Maritime Overseas) and Elie V (Ocean Cargoes). Add al«o the Hilton 'Bull), Omnium Freighter (Mol Trading), Short Hills (Sea-Land), CS Balti­ more 'Cities Service), Maiden Creek (Waterman) and Maroro (Ore Navigation) to an ever-grow­ ing list of good feeders. Turned Down OT? Don't Beef On S$ riers wishes to re­ mind Seafarers that men who are choosy about working < -rtain overtime cannot expect an equal number of OT hours with the rest of their department. In some crews men have been turning down unpleasant OT jobs and then demanding to B up with €' 'T! "vertime when 'e easier jobs come 'o „ This practice is unfair to Sea­ farers who take OT job' as they come. The general objective is to ic.j. ..ze OT as m as possib'e but if a man refuses disagree­ able jobs there is no require­ ment that when an i-asier 1"b comes along he can m-' up the overtime he turned down before. MORNING LIGHT (Waterman), Dee. 31—Ch.airman, C. Stennett; Secretary, W. E. Morse. Everything OK. J. Con­ nors elected ship's dele.gate. Vote of thanks to steward department for job well dene. THETIS (Rye Marine), Jan. 25— Chairman, Melvin W. Bass;. Secretary, Ira K. Coats. Ship's delegate re­ ported all beefs were taken up with company and are to be squared away. Fans and seats in messroom need to be repaired. $9 in ship's fund. Her­ man Wltisenant elected new ship's treasurer. Crew congratulates port officials for their support and job well done at the January 20th payoff. ALCOA POLARIS (Alcoa), Jan. 17— Chairman, J. Peterson; Secretary, P. Maranda. Nothing to report as to beefs $6.89 in ship's fund. Crew asked not to put glasses in sink when filled with water. Linen should be thrown on the side of 'be ladder and not at the foot. MARORE (Marven), Jan. 29—Chair­ man, J. Mehalcv; Secretary, R. Gowan. One man hospitalized in Peru and another passed away while at sea. Su.ggest crewmembers make iloral offering. Motion made to oo'ain bet­ ter quality meats. Will hold special meeting before payoff on various is­ sues. Suggested to have captain post price list on slopchest items as prices are not the same from one voyage to another. PC messman to keep star board passageway clean. TWIN FALLS VICTORY (Suwannee), Dec. 28—Chairman, J. Nayior; Secre­ tary, H. T. Larson. !(IcCorvcy elected ship's delegate. $95.02 on hand in ship's fund. Submitted recommenda­ tions to negctialin.g cutnmittee to be incorporated in future contracts. Re­ quest larger size bed linens to fit inner sprmg mattresses now in use on most ships. BIENVILLE (Sea-Land), March 19— Chairman, H. Huston; Secretary, P. H. Lambis. Repair list turned in. .See patrolman about draw 24 hours before arrival. Watch below unable to sleep aft due to chipping. Ordinary cannot do sanitary work on bridge before 7 AM. Check on mail In New Jersey. Garza is acting ship's delegate. More eooperalion expected in keeping messroom and pantry clean at night. Need more care in closing fidley door at ni^bt when ship l.s rollin-'. �SEAPAttgH» 1:00 tii» Twfmir Ttf SS Calmar Aground On A Reef Gear.. 'Balanced On Point Of Needle, Your for ship .,. for shore Then Next Wave Took It Off r,^ %' "The ship seemed to ba balanced on the point of a needle for about five minutes. Then the next wave took it off." That was Seafarer George Litchfield's graphic description of events on the Liberty ship Calmar (Calmar Steamship) when she ran onto a reef in cident will be remembered, Litch­ torpedoed and sunk. Litchfield generally ships from said, along with another March while sailing off the field voyage—one that he didn't make. Baltimore and he was glad to get west coast of Mexico. The vessel was on an intercoastal run to California with a cargo of partially finished steel when the accident occurred. A veteran of 25 years sailing on US-flag ships. Litchfield now sees the accident as just one of those things that can and do happen at He explained that during the war he made a trip on a Bull Line ship to Puerto Rico, where he signed off. A short while after the ship left the Island, she was back to that port. The Calmar ac­ cident was as close as he wants to get to abandoning ship. I'll also never forget the feel of riding the Calmar'a tanks to port, he added. Over The Side sea. He said that everything was going along smoothly when suddenly the ship "ran aground on top of somethin g." Once aground, "the ship seemed to be balanced on Litchfield the point of a needle for about five minutes. Then the next wave took her off." When the ship settled again in shallow water it was discovered that she had run onto the reef. Her bottom was a mess, with the hull torn up all the way from the No. 2 to the No. 5 hold. Fortunately the tear wasn't very deep and the tanks were still intact. "Of course we didn't know that at first. So we got ready to aban­ don ship if that became necessary," Litchfield explained. "After all, we were carrying a cargo of steel and for a few minutes, we were worried." After the crew examined the ship, they hammered sticks into the holes ripped into the hull and the Calmar got underway again. The accident slowed down the old li.berty a few knots, but she was able to make her own way to Long Beach. From there she was taken to the Bethlehem Steel Company's shipyard in San Francisco, where she is now tied up alongside one of the docks. The 58-year-oid galley gang member is looking forward to re­ tiring to his farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico. The Calmar in- LOG-A-RHYTHM: Forgotten Man By Henri Percikuw The whip oj greed Has carved deep Into my raw ilanks. lyith pangs in my heart, I live The chipped laughter of infants, The dead-end of youth. And the wasting of men. I, wheel turner. Hobble through life. Clinging to revels of happiness. And remain unsung In the chronicles of my nation. " ^ ,• -"jiv . • t •• ,v. Whatever you need, In work or dress gear, your SlU Sea Chest has it. Get top quality gear at substantial savings by buy­ ing at your Union-owned and Unionoperated Sea Chest store. Sport Coots Slacks Dress Shoes Work Shoes Socks Dungarees Frisko Jeans CPO Shirts Dress Shirts Sport Shirts Belts Khakis Ties Sweat Shirts T-Shirts Shorts Briefs Swim Trunks Sweaters Sou'westers Raingear Caps Writing Materials Toiletries Electric Shavers Radios Television Jewelry Cameras Luggage Seafarer Roy Guild, bosun, poses with the raft "SS Antlnous" used by the SlU deck gang on the Waterman ship of the same name for painting over the side. Guild renewed the deck on the pontoon and says she ought to hold up now at least as long as her namesake keeps afloat. CHATHAM (Sea-Land), October 4— Chairman, Harry Larson; Secretary, O. Mlhalopoulos. Delegate to see patrol­ man about first aid kit for engine room. Crew asked for cooperation in keeping longshoremen out of crew quarters. Would like headquarters to take this matter up with the long­ shoremen in Puerto Rico. Ship's li­ brarian elected. DEL SOL (Mississippi), October 29 —Chairman, Thomas; Secretary, W. E. Adams. Vote of thanks to the steward for his help and for donating all essential needs to ease the job of the delegate and department delegates. No beefs reported. Vote of thanks to the steward department for a fine job and a good menu. ROBIN LOCKSLEY (Robin Line), December 3 — Chairman, William Walker; Secretary, A. L. Lake. Every­ thing running smooth. A vote of thanks to the steward department. Request to repair the washing ma­ chine. delegate to see the captain about cleaning up the entire ship. ORION PLANET (Orion), November 2S—Chairman, B. B. Mace; Secretary, Waiter Kuchta. E. Layne elected new ship's delegate. No beefs reported. Crew discussed poor menus and lack of food variety. Very poor mail serv­ ice. Company wlU not forward maU to Persian Gulf. THETIS (Rye Marine), December 15— Chairman, A. Campbell; Secretary, A. Blornsson. Captain accused of dis­ criminating against AB for legitimate Union activity. D. K. Coate elected new ship's delegate. Motion not to pay off until beefs are squared away. Night lunch considered poor. ROYAL OAK (Cities Service), Jan. 28—Chairman, F. Boudin; Secretary, STEEL ADVOCATE (isthmian), No­ vember 27—Chairman, George D. Finklea; Secretary, John J. Relnosa. No beefs reported by department delegates. Motion made to contact tha safety representative If exhaust fans in dry storerooms are not replaced. Ice machine should be fixed. New parts needed for crew pantry refrig­ erator. All garbage to be dumped aft instead of midship. Request to bring back all excess linen and cots to chief steward after leaving Gibral­ tar. Vessel needs fumigation. COASTAL SENTRY (Suwannee), November 14—Chairman, James P. O'Mara; Secretary, Charles B. Jen­ nings. Ship two men short. $18.50 in ship's fund. Disputed OT still out­ standing in engine department. Dis­ crimination by chief engineer and 1st engineer against unlicensed per­ sonnel. Motion to write headquarters about Cuban refugee new empioyed as OS. Topside pantryman brought up the feeding of Mauritian guest with­ out payment of extra meals. Steward claims he will take care of this. Qual­ ity of food furnished at Mauritius Is­ land Is way under SlU standards. LUCiLE BLOOMFiELD (Bloomfield), October 4—Chairman, Chester Hugeart; Secretary, F. Mitchell, Jr. Dis­ cussion on fish oil on the deck and the large denomination of bills that the captain put out in draw. Ship's delegate reported that the captain will obtain smaller denominations for the voyage pending. Old ship's dele­ gate resigned and J. E. Roberts elected new ship's delegate. Ship's C. A. Yam. Discussion on washing machine. Everything running smooth­ ly. No beefs. SEACHEST tary, J. Rieiiy. Repairs from last trip not completed. $27.25 in ship's fund. No beefs. Ship's delegate will accept donations for the retiring guard at the section gate In Edgewater. Crew asked to place soiled linen in bag and turn It in to laundry room. STEEL VOYAGER (isthmian), Jan. 14—Chairman, L. D. Sueiiniti; Secre­ tary, William Wallace. Some disputes between members which wUl be re­ ported to patrolman. 84 In ship's fund. Mora money to be donated at payoil. No beefs reported. GLOBE PROGRESS (Maritime Over­ seas), Feb. 7—Chairman, Andy C. Noah; Secretary, S. F. Schuyiar. Ship's delegate reported discussion on light­ ing in main deck and formation of safety committee with captain. Latter was refused. Main deck lighting also negative due to hindrance to naviga­ tion. Submitted suggestion on safety. PRODUCER (Marine Carriers), Jan. 20—Chairman, John Brady; Secretary, Leroy Pierson. Heating vents to ba repaired for next trip. No beefs. Letter written to HQ and answered regarding 3rd engineer doing deck engineer's work on winches. Referred to patrolman. Heating vent beef to be referred to patrolman. Wash basin should be In steward department head so men in department can wash hands after using head. Request en­ gineers not to use crew's wa.shing machine'. M. E. Greenwaid. Two crewmembera reported to ship's delegate that meat was second grade. $3 in ship's fund. Request that coifeetime be increased to 30 minutes when men oCC walch are called out. Suggestion that all members be entitled to full $800 va­ cation pay as there may be cases where a man may be laid off after a period of less than year at no fault of his own. Vote of thanks to tha steward department for job well done. ALCOA ROAMER (Alcoa), Feb. 11— Chairman, Charlie Gadru; Secretary, same. No beefs. Everything running smoothly except some disputed OT in deck, engine and steward depart­ ments. DB SOTO (Waterman), Jan. 3D — Chairman, F. J. Mears; Secretary, J. F. Castronover. Repairman called to fix washing machine but It still tears clothes. Will try and get new washing machine aboard. $16.75 in ship's fund. No LOGs or Union liter­ ature received. NATALIE (Maritime Overseas), Feb. 24—Chairman, Joe McLaren; Secre­ tary, Robert W. Freesandlz. Repair list given to captain. $10 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Fan in meatbox to be replaced. Request that longshoremen stay out of the crew messroom. FRANCES (Bull), Feb. 12—Chair­ man, A. Ferrara; Secretary, William TWIN FALLS VICTORY (Suwannee), Jan. 24—Chairman, J. Nayior; Secre­ tary, H. Larson. Disputed OT to be paid at payoff. $103.87 in ship's fund; disposition to be discussed. Letter regarding food poisoning sent to HQ. Nesta. New ship's delegate C. Gon­ zalez elected. No beefs reported by department delegates. Crew asked to remove cloths from washing machine when finished. Try not to slam doors going in and out of rooms. Vote of thanks to steward department. ALCOA PLANTER (Alcoa), Feb. 3 —Chairman, Andrew W. Lutiaves; Secretary, Zee Young Ching. Bosun demoted to AB; this beef to be straightened out at payoff. $9.76 in ship's fund. No other beefs reported by department delegates. SEATRAiN NEW YORK (Seatraln), Feb. 9—Chairman, J. Fisher; Secre­ tary, J. R. Batson. Crew requests patrolman to see that ship gets better quality food and more of it. No other beefs reported by department delegates. SWORD KNOT (Suwannee), Jan. 14 —Chairman, Jack Craven; Secretary, Roy Eiford. Replacements ordered for arrival Ascension Island. Ship's delegate notified that OT checks sent to JacksonvUle. Replacement for AB left in Capetown. $22.45 in ship's fund. No beefs reported. Men who leave ship should clean out rooms and not dump garbage out of messroom portholes. KENMAR (Calmar), Jan. 20—Chair­ man, no name given; Secretary, Felipe Quintayo. Few hours disputed OT. Request to have company put wooden locker In every room. Ship's delegate to ask chief engineer to drill a bigger hole for wasiilng ma­ chine so it will not take so long to drain the water. New mattresses needed for 8-12, 12-4 and carpenter's rooms. Suggestion that after payoff each member give 50 cents to ship's fund. New delegate In each depart­ ment should be elected on every trip. FAiRLAND (Sea-Land), Fab. 14— Chairman, Waiter Newberg; Secretary, Charles Goldstein. $9.80 In ship's fund. Request headquarters look into time off for Sea-Land crews, one-half to be off on either end with guaran­ teed weekend and holiday OT. Red Fisk elected ship's delegate. SEATRAiN NEW JERSEY (Seatraln), Jan. 28—Chairman, P. Sarano; Sacra- ORiON COMET (Colonial), Jan. SiChairman, M. M. Cross; Sacratary, CAPRI (Peninsular Navigation), Jan. 25—Chairman, John J. Lesken; Sec­ retary, Kenneth Hayes. Ship will pay off In Norfolk, then go coastwise to Port Arthur and pay off again. Crew advised to put in for restriction to ship in Jacksonville. Captain notes no transportation available. Will have patrolman check with captain on the amount of US dollars to be put on ship. Crew asked to turn in all re­ pairs to department delegates. Stew­ ard asks all men to turn in dirty linen when they get off and not to wear dirty clothes in messroom. Re­ quest for library. YAKA (Watarman), Fab. 4—Chair­ man, J. Guard; Secretary, S. K. Dodd. All going smoothly. Ship's delegate to speak to chief mate about mora items in the slopchest. Many repairs have not been completed. Request LOG to use large type envelopes in order for post office employee to read without the need of glasses. �Jlay/1961 SEAFARERS LOG Fw Twenty Tbree Family Get-Together At SlU riNANCIAI, REPORTS. The Constitution of tho SIU Atlantic, Gulf, takes and laiand Waters District nakes specific provision for safeguarding the nenbership's Boney and Union finances. The constitution requires a detailed CPA audit every three months by a rank and file auditing committee elected bership. "All Union records are available at SIU headquarters in Should any member, for any reason, bo refused his constitutional spect these records, notify 6XU President Paul Hall by certified receipt requested. by the Bea« Brooklyn. right to in­ mail, return TRUST FUNDS. All trust funds of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland "Waters District are administered in accordance with the provisions of various trust fund agreements. All these agreements specify that tho trustees In charge of these funds shall consist equally of union and management represent­ atives and their alternates. All expenditures and disbursements of trust funds are made only upon approval by a majority of the trustees. All trust fund financial records are available at the headquarters of tho various trust funds. If, at any time, you are denied information about any SIU trust fund, notify SIU President Paul Hall at SIU headquarters by certified mail, return receipt •requested. SHIPPING RIGHTS. Your shipping rights and seniority are protected by the con­ tracts of the SIU Atlantic, Gulf, Lakes and Inland Waters District, and by Union shipping rules, which are incorporated in the contract. Get to know your shipping rights. If you feel there has been any violation of your ship­ ping or seniority rights, first notify the Seafarers Appeals Board. Also notify BIU President Paul Hall at headquarters, by certified mail, return re­ ceipt requested. It was reading time for Seafarer Bernard Mace, steward, visiting the SlU hall in New York with his son, Bernard, Jr., 21, and grandchildren Stacey, 2, and Steven, 4. The young< sters had a time of it while Mace caught up on Union news via the LOG. He's just back from the Far East off the Orion Planet and made it in time to see his son, a Marine private, who's home on leave. Nicholas Vidoljak Buyer must pick up. George PitContact your sister, Mrs. A. J. our, 12-23 Astoria Boulevard, Long Bruno, at 119 South 61st Avenue, Island City, NY, phone RA 8-0129. Duluth, Minn. i 3) Buddy Dyas J- $• 4> Your gear , is at the Men's Club James C. Brazell Contact your brother Eugene as on Cities Service Highway, Lake soon as possible at PO Box 41- Charles. Send your address to the LOG and I'll ship your gear. C. 29480, Michigan City, Jndiana. Wiggins. in $• $1 4 3) 3) Air Condition«r Selling Fedders s^-ton, 6,000 Robert B. Grant John E. Fanning BTU air conditioner in perfect Eugene McGuinn condition (cost $399) for $100. Gear from Glenbrook voyage 19 is still at KLM baggage room. Idlewild Airport, New York. Contact Miss Slowy, PL 9-2400, ext. 654. 3> 3. 3i Thomas Robles Contact Miss Julia Robles, 616 Webb Street, Bo. Obero, Santurce, Puerto Rico. Blood Bank Aids Wife's Recovery SAN FRANCISCO—Drawing on the SIU Blood Bank for 25 pints of blood, Mrs. Oreh Kim, wife of Seafarer You Honh Kim, is now reported to be well on the road to recovery following a recent opera­ tion. Mrs. Kim spent 19 days at St. Luke's Hospital here in San Fran­ cisco, during which she underwent corrective surgery for an intestinal ailment. The SIU bank supplied the 25 pints of blood from its reserve for use during and after the complex surgical procedure. In addition, the SIU Welfare Plan provided benefits totaling $1,610.50 to de­ fray a variety of bills for the sur­ gery, medical ex­ penses and hospi­ tal care during the course of the hospitaliza­ tion and treatment she was given. Shipping in the black gang. Sea­ farer Kim has been sailing with the SIU since 1952, when he joined up in San Francisco. Born in Hawaii, he now makes his home here in California. In a letter to the Union, Kim said he "greatly appreciated" the aid of the blood bank and welfare program in assisting his wife's re­ covery. The all-round assistance of the SIU helped ease much of the difficulty surrounding her Illness, Kim noted. 3« 4" 3)' Kenneth Blackstone Let Fred Shaia on Steel Vendor (Isthmian) know your address. 3> 4> 3/ Harold Macfarlane Contact your sister, Mrs. Mary L. Hankins, at Wallingford Arms, Wallingford, Pa., phone LOwell 6-9565. CONTRACTS. Copies of all SIU contracts are available in all SIU halls. These contracts specify, the wages and conditions under which you work and live aboard ship. Know your contract rights, as well as your obligations, such as filing for OT on the proper sheets and in the proper manner. If, at any time, any . SIU patrolman or other Union official, in your opinion, fails to protect your contract rights properly, contact tho nearest SIU port agent. In addition,' notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. EDITORIAL POLICY—SE.AFARERS LCXj. Tho LOG has traditionally refrained from publishing any article serving the political purposes of any individual in the Union, officer or member. It has also refrained from publishing articles deem­ ed harmful to tho Union or its collective membership. This established policy has been reaffirmed by membership action at the September, 1960 meetings in all constitutional ports. The responsibility for LOG policy is' vested in an edi­ torial board which consists of the Executive Board of the Union. The Exec­ utive Board may delegate, from among its ranks, one individual to carry^ut this responsibility. . I . > •••_ i» PAYMENT OF MONIES. No monies are to bo paid to anyone in any official capacity in the SIU unless an official Union receipt is given lor same. Under no cir­ cumstance should any member pay any money for any reason unless he is given such receipt. If in the event anyone attempts to require any such payment be made without supplying a receipt, or if a member is required to make a payment and ^ given an official receipt, but feels that he should not have been re­ quired to make such payment, this should immediately be called to the attention of SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. ii CIWSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS. The SIU publishes every six months in the SEAFARERS LOG a verbatim copy of its constitution. In addition, copies are available in all Union halls. All members should obtain copies of this constitution so as to familiarize themselves with its contents. Any time you feel any member or officer is attempting to deprive you of any constitutional right or obligation by any methods such as dealing with charges, trials, etc., as well as all other details, then the member so affected should immediately notify SIU President Paul Hall by certified mail, return receipt requested. "If* RETIRED SEAFARERS. Old-time SIU members drawing disability-pension bene­ fits have always been encouraged to continue their union activities, in­ cluding attendance at membership meetings. And like all other SIU members at these Union meetings, they are encouraged to take an active role in all rank-and-file functions. Including service on rank-and-file committees. Because these oldtimers cannot take shipboard employment, the membership has reaffixmed the long-standing Union policy of allowing them to retain their good standing through the waiving of their dues. 3> 3) 4* Eugene Warren Bent Contact your mother, Mrs. George E. Bent, at 853 Inman Ave­ nue, Railway, NJ. 4" 4" 3' Y. R. Tallberg Contact immediately Jack R. Farris at 8610 Sharondale, Houston 23, Texas. 3ii 4 4> Frederick Meinerth Contact Jerry at same address in Houston. Urgent. 4 4' 4 John Iglebekk Anyone knowing the whereabouts of John W. G. Iglebekk is asked to contact Roderick DimofF, attorney, at Greive and Law, 4456 California Avenue SW, Seattle, Wash. 4 4 4 Tax Refunds Income tax refund checks are being held for the following by Jack Lynch, Room 201, SUP Build­ ing, 450 Harrison Street, San Fran­ cisco 5, Calif.: Joseph A. Alves, Freddie Bailey, Margarito Borja, Roy C. Bru, Theo­ dore G. Calopothakos, Orlando R. Frezza, Ho Yung Kong,, Milledge P. Lee, James D. Mann, Anthony Nottage, Marvin E. Satchell (4), Jolin W. Singer (4), Harold A. Thomson and Francis J. White. 4 4 4 Joseph Fawlak Contact your wife, Janice, at 3409 Cricklewood Street, Torrance, Calif., by phoning DA 6-4883, or TE 5-2763 in Wilmington, Calif., or by wire. Seeger, attorneys, 400 Madison Ave., New York, NY, regarding accidents on the vessels indicated: Christopher Karas, Alan E. Whitmer, ex-Fort Hoskins; Mathew Bruno, Walter Ferguson, ex-Orion Comet; Joseph Giardina, Antonio Gonzales, Donald Hicks, Svere Petersen, ex-Steel Voyager; Manu­ el Landron, Jose Reyes, ex-Alcoa Roanier; Buford E. Stockman exCouncil Grove. 4 4 4 John L. Whisnian It is most urgent to contact your wife. Bertha, at 2089 Market Street, San Francisco, Calif., as soon as possible. [ Brooklyn 32, NY * I wooM like to receive pet my tieme on your moiling 4 4 4 Raymond £. Leonard Contact your daughter, Alice, at 903 Pine Street, Henderson, North Carolina, as soon as possible. 4 4 4 Alan R, Miller Important! Contact your mother at 41 Marbelle Court, New Brit­ ain, Conn. J ABDRfiSS 4 4 4 The following men are asked ; CITY to get in touch with Miller and > in » ^ i t ^ i' \ �Il- Vel.XXiV Ne.l SEAFARERS»L06 May 1962 OFFICIAL ORaAMOPTHE 8EAFAR|ji INTERNATIONAL UNIPN • ATLANTIC, GULF, LAKES AND INLAND WATERS DISTRICT • AFL-CIO Wherever Seamen Gather li.t . V -, v.;, •..•/SO-' • \H' I: l^-i" I hi I 1 all seamen gather, the SEAFARERS LOG is a premier attraction for news of the SlU, ship­ ping and maritime developments of every kind. Copies of the LOG ore air-moiled to every SlU vessel around the world, wherever a ship is due to hit port, because the Union's newspaper is their guide to events that help shape the livelihood and security of every Seafarer. One of the basic sources of Union and indus­ try information plus stories about other ships and shipmates, the LOG is also dispatched in quan­ tity to hundreds of meeting places, seamen's clubs and US consulates where copies of each issue are readily available to SlU members ar­ riving in port. Constantly seeking to build up and expand its mailing list, the LOG urges Sea­ farers to keep it posted on new locations, ports and addresses where the paper can be sent to continue the best possible distribution system for the LOG and other Union communications. T HIS is in line with the goal of keeping the membership alert and well-informed on all developments affecting their well-being and interests. 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 1960-1969 Description An account of the resource Volumes XXII-XXXI 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. 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Title A name given to the resource May 1962 Description An account of the resource Headlines: SEAFARER, FOUR SIU CHILDREN WIN $6G EACH TREASURY BACKS DOWN ON TAXING RUNAWAY FLEET SIUNA WILL HOLD JUNE CONFERENCE FOR FISAH UNIONS SIU PICKETLINES HIT MOOREMAC IN ROBIN BEEF SIU WINS ANOTHER TUG FLEET IN NLRB VOTING NEW PROBE BYPASSES KEY TO SHIPPING INDUSTRY PROBLEMS SILAS AXTELL DIES AT 77; VETERAN ALLY OF FURUSETH SHIP PROBE BYPASSES KEY ISSUES ORE, CALMER AGAIN WIN PHS SANITATION AWARDS SEA UNIONS STUDY RUNAWAY JOB PLAN ON BULK CARRIES DRIVE FOR MEDICAL CARE PROGRAM SHOWS SUPPORT BANKS, BIZ SPARK DRIVE TO LICK TAX WITHHOLDING URGE NEW SURPLUS PLAN LAKES SIU WAGE PACTS UP PASSENGER-TANKER $ SEAFARERS ON MANY SHIPS CITE GOOD GALLEY FEEDING, SERVICE 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 05/1962 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. XXIV, No. 5 1962 Periodicals Seafarers Log