Seafarers Log: Vol. 20 No. 1 (1958-01-03)

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• OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THI flAFARERI INTf RN ATI ON AL UN ION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •

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(top, left) presents gift
carton of smokes, $25 26nas bonus and regu­
lar $21 weekly SIU benefit to F. Bacomo at
Manhattan Beach PHS hospital. Below,
kids enjoy gala SIU party In New Orleans.
(Stcry on Page 3. More pictures on Page 5.)

Dump Robin Vote
NMU Begs Court

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NMU Begs Court
To Reverse Robin
Ship Vote Losses

Unsuccessful in its original attempt to stall off all Robin
Line balloting, the National Maritime Union is now desperate­
ly trying to ward off a complete rout in the fleet by the SIU.
The SIU has won six of the>
seven ships voted so far.

The NMU is scheduled to

... And The Wine Flowed Like Oil

go into, court next Thursday to seek
an injunction barring SIU certifi­
cation on the last two ships voted,
plus a ban on balloting aboard the
Robin Hood, tentatively set for the
same day. The Hood is due to ar­
rive in Boston from Capetown on
Tuesday, January 7th, and will be
the last ship to vote of the eight
Robin Line vessels now operated
by Moore-McCormack. The actual
balloting will probably be in New
York, as has been the case on all
the other ships voted.

With a large SIU crew aboard,
she would in all probability cast a
heavy majority for the SIU, to give
the SIU bargaining rights for seven
of the eight ships polled. The NMU
managed to win only one vessel in
the fleet, and then only because
11 Seafarers were fired and re­
placed through the NMU hall. The
count on this vessel went 25-11
against the SIU as a result.

Would Upset Certification
The basic objective of the i^IU

court action is to overturn the Na­
tional Labor Relations Board's
order certifying SIU bargaining
rights on the ships already polled.
These were the Robin Kirk, Robin
Gray, Rdbin Sherwood and Robin
Locksley.

Robin Line jobs went back up on
SIU shipping boards in mid-Decem­
ber, when replacements for the
Robin Lockeley were dispatched
from SIU headquarters in New
York. This was the first ship cov­
ered by the certification ^orders to
call for men.

The NMU itself is now barred
by a separate injunction from
picketing the ships already certi­
fied, plus the two awaiting cer­
tification (Robin Trent and Robin
Goodfellow), as well as other
Moore-McCormack ships. It ex­

posed the nature of its "picket-
line" when it sent NMU replace­
ments for some of the Robin ships
through its own lines.

NMU desperation has arisen
largely due to the weak support of
the Robin Line raid by the mari­
time union's own membership.
Uneasiness gripped the NMU still
further following NLRB balloting
aboard the Robin Trent in which
two NMU members cast ballots for
the SIU.

The SIU originally petitioned
for an election on Robin ships last
August after Mooremac, which had
purchased the fleet earlier, began
calling replacements from the NMU
and forced SIU men to work-under
the inferior NMU contract. Robin
Line had previously been under
SIU contract since 1941.

Peck gang crewmembers of the wine tanker Angelo Petri are
shown hooking up hoses for discharge of wine at the company's ter­
minal in Port Newark. The vessel is contracted to the SIU Pacific
District. (A future issue of the SEAFARERS LOG will carry a fea­
ture on the wine tanker operation.)

Tramps Assail Amcoa! Charters
WASHINGTON-^Tramp ship operators have made a direct frontal attack on American

Coal Shipping in their efforts to get the Federal Maritime Board to pull back Government-
owned charters. The tramps are arguing that because of the shipping slump, the FMB
should act immediately to ter­
minate charters on ACS ships
and other charters outstand­
ing.

The tramps, in a new gambit,
have also argued that the Federal
Maritime Board is violating the
"50-50" law by permitting military
arid aid cargoes to be carried on
Government - chartered vessels.
They have pointed out that the law
calls for 50 percent of these car­
goes to be carried on privately-
owned US vessels. This phase of
the tramps' claim does not affect
American Coal.

James G. Dunaif, president of
the Navigator Steamship Corpora­
tion and the Tramp Freighter Cor­
poration, both of them NMU-con-
tracted companies, has been lead-

Boost For Shipping Seen
In US Oil Import Slash

WASHINGTON—The Government has requested 18 west
coast oil companies to voluntarily cut their foreign oil im­
ports by 37 percent. Most of the big companies have in­
dicated they will comply. 4

A Government committee
found that domestic produc­
tion was insufficient to meet the
western states' needs and that im­
portation was necessary, but the
report said the imports planned
were "substantially in excess" of
what was necessary and "would in­
evitably lead to a situation which

In-Transits
Perk Tampa

TAMPA—Shipping was good
during the past period with eight
in-transit vessels providing the
bulk of the jobs. - '

The Rion (Actium) paid off while
the Ocean Deborah- (Maritime
Overseas) signed on. The Warrior
Wacosta (Waterman); Azalea City,
Fairland and Gateway City (Pan-
AtUritlc) and the Steel Age (Isth-
mlaoj were in pcH-t for

would constitute a threat to the
national security ..." The Govern­
ment is seeking more domestic oil
exploration by Us producers.

Some of the companies most af­
fected by the request were. Stand­
ard Oil of California, Tidewater
Oil, Shell -Oil, and Wilshire Oil.
The sharpest cut recommended was
for Superior Oil Company, a new
importer^ The government re­
quested It to cut its imports from
a planned 35,000 barrels daily to
an average of 3,000 barrels daily.

While most of the companies
said they would comply with the
request, Richfield Oil Company
said it would not. The company
said the quotas would only result
in severe "inequities." Opposition
to the plan also came from the
Canadian Government.

The proposed cutback will, have
some effect on foreign shipping,
but will result in an increase in
US cq^tai ,

ing the attack on American Coal.
In a recent message to the Board
he called for "immediate action"
because the tramps' position is
"desperate."

The tramps maintain that before
a company such as American Coal
operates Government-owned ships
it should seek privately-owned ton­
nage for chartering. Such tonnage
is now available with a number of
privately owned tramps in lay-up.

"We wish to draw your attention,"
Dunaif wired, "to the fact that
American Coal Shipping Company
is employing the one vessel which
it owns, namely the Coal Miner, in
the grain trade while they are us­
ing a Government-owned ship to
perform their coal contract. We re­
quest to know why American Coal
Shipping Is not required to use
their own vessel to perform their
contractual obligations.

"We would draw your further at­
tention to your findings as set
forth in Docket M-70 approving
the charter of Government-owned
ships to American Coal Shipping.
In thiii docket, you found that
American Coal Shipping was ask­
ing for the use of Government
owned ships as a 'stop gap' meas­
ure until they could place orders
fqr new construction or reconver­
sion of vessels for the coal trade,
and you stated that after the

SEAFARERS LOG
January 3. 1958 Vol. XX, No. 1

PAUL HAIX. Secretary-Treasurtr
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MAN. Art Editor. HEBMAN ABIUCH. IBWIN
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Writers. BiLl MOODT. Culf Area Repre­
sentative.

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charters had been in, effect for six
months the Maritime Administra­
tor should review the progress
made by American Coal Shipping
in carrying out its new contract
program to determine whether suf­
ficient progress had been made to
warrant continuation of the char­
ters and 'lacking reasonabie excuse
for insufficient progress (the Marl-
time Administrator) should excr-
else his option to terminate the
charter.'

"You further stated that one year
is a reasonable time for American
Coal Shipping to complete its plan
and undertake definite commit­
ments for new ships.

"The period for the six months'
review has long since passed and
it is now more than fourteen
months since the Board decision
and there has been no review of
tile construction plans of the Amer­
ican Coal Shipping on which the
granting of the charters was pred­
icated."

Other tramps have supported
the Dunaif position including Tak
Shipping Corporation, Pacific Wa­
terways, Ocean Transportation,
Ocean Clippers and Maritime
Overseas.

On the "50-50" protest, Dunaif
has petitioned the US Comptrol­
ler General to stop what he called
"improper and illegal expenditure
of Government funds" which are
going to Government-operated
ships.

There has been no change in the
past two weeks in the status of the
American Coal fleet, now down to
six ships. One ship, the Cleveland
Abbe, has been returned to the
boneyard in the place' of the Cast-
mir Pulaski which was ordered
back by the Federal Maritime
Board.

The Pulaski, Waiter Hines Page,
Harry Glucksman and Martha BCT-
ry are idle in Norfolk while the
Thoirias Paine is now completing
its last Voyage on its consecutive
charter. It will lay up upon its re­
turn, as present plans stand.. The
Coal Miner Is en a .grain run as it
has been for sever^ months.noqi.

For Mobile
MOBILE—Constniction is under­

way on temporary facilities up the
Alabama River, under terms of a
proposal to expand the Alabama
State Docks. The docks are part
of the state's long-awaited Alabama
state liver iiriprovement project.
On completion shippers in the
northern part of the state will be
able to send their cargoes straight
down-river to the port of Mobil*
where they can be transferred to
deep sea vessels.

Many companies are taking .ad­
vantage of these improvements and
are adding and improving their
own facilities here. Waterm'jn
Steamship Company recently
brought in a Navy drydock in order
to handle their own repair and
drydock work.

All of these Improvements spell
more woik for Seafarers on the
beach and for members of the
SID'S Harbor and Inland Water­
ways Division in the ports.

Christmas dinner for the mem­
bers on the beach and their fami­
lies was a huge success as some 290
persons sat down to full-cour.se
meals in the snack bar jn the hall
here. The way the food disappeared
was a tribute to the men in the
galley.

Shipping was on the slow side
during the past period and from all
indications, the next period will be
about the same. The Alcoa Planter,
Patriot, Corsair, C ipper, Pennant
(Alcoa); Madaket, Monarch of the
Seas, LaSalle (Waterman) and tne
Steel Age (Isthmian) were in port
during the last two weeks.

Mates Local
14 Reelects
Weinstein

BALTIMORE—Morris Weinstein
has been reelected to his third
term as president of Local 14, Mas­
ters, Mates and Pilots. The local
ballot committee reported that
Weinstein received 201 votes, and

his opponent, H.
Diemel, 36 votes.

Ballots were
counted Decem­
ber 26 following
a 90-day referen-
dum. Local offi­
cials serve two
year terms.

Incumbent 1st
vice-president H.
J. Mohr won re­

election over his opponent H. F.
Kirk. Mohr received 197 votes to
Kirk's 46.

A five-hian contest for 2nd vice-
president went to W. Bchiller, who
polled 90 votes. Schiller succeeds
J, R. Silver, who quit as 2nd VP
to run unsuccessfully for secretary.
The new secretary is Capt. T. F.
O'Callaglian, who received 75 votes
to win in a five-man field. He suc­
ceeds Capt. Arthur N. Goodrich.

Weinstein

LOG Marks
20th Year

LOG -readers will note that
this issue begins Volume XX,
marldng the 20th year of LOG
publication. The last two is-;
sues of 1957 were incorrectly
numbered^ and were actually
Numbers 25' and 129 of XIK.;
The LOG regularilir pubUshes
Zfiissries.-.peir-„ : ,. ..

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SlU Welfare Services representative Toby Rynn brings Christmas
cheer to a group of Seafarers recuperating in Staten Island PHS
hospital. Among those waiting to receive their $25 Christmas
bonuses and smokes are Leslie Simmons, Hannaford, Gomez, Jose
Rayes, John Broad, Stan Swienkowski and Franz Mietke.

Dinners, Hospital Bonus
Mark Sill's Christmas

Christmas, 1957, was celebrated in typical SIU style in ports
throughout the nation. Many Seafarers on the beach brought
their families into SIU cafeterias and restaurants for holiday
dinners while Welfare Serv--t
ices Dep't representatives
visited Seafarers in the hospi­
tals and helped spread some of the
holiday cheer with Christmas
bonuses and gifts of cigars and
cigarettes.

As has been the custom in the
past, SIU halls In the various ports
sponsored Christmas dinners for
the men on the beach, their fami­
lies and friends. Some of the din­
ners were given in the hall while
those halls without facilities pro­
vided meals in hotels and restau­
rants.

Over 450 Seafarers and their
families enjoyed their Christmas
Day dinner in the headquarters
cafeteria. Mobile reported over 250
persons filled the snack bar there
for their, holiday meal. Similar
turnouts • were reported in Balti­
more, New Orleans and other ports.

Although the complete figures

are not available as yet, it is esti­
mated that the Welfare Represen­
tatives gave out more than $4,000
in Christmas bonuses to th^ men
in the hospitals, plus additional
gifts of smokes.

A $25 Christmas bonus is given
to every Seafarer in the hospital,
and to those on the disability bene­
fit, to help him purchase gifts for
his family and friends. This bonus
had been paid to these men every
year since the Welfare Blan began
in 1950.

Await US Budget
Verdict On Future
Of PHS Hospitals

SIU headquarters will closely scrutinize the President's forthcoming budget
message to Congress for the first concrete evidence of the Administration's plans
for the Public Health Ser^ce Hospitals. The proposals on the Public Health budget
for the coming year will in-| ^
dicate whether the Bureau
of the Budget has ap­
proved plans to close the
Savannah hospital and
three others and turn sea­
men over to private facilities
for medical care.

The budget agency had sug­
gested to the PHS in September
that it "suivey" the possibilities
of closing Savannah, Chicago,
Detroit and Memphis and enter­
ing into contracts with private
doctors as an "economy" measure.
The announcement of the .survey
drew immediate fire from the SIU
and other maritime unions, with
the SIU viewing the move as a
fiank attack on the whole hospital
system.

Now, with the prospect of in­
crease defense spending as the re­
sult of the Soviet success in the
rocketry field, the fate of the hos­
pitals is linked with that of all oth­
er social welfare benefits provided'
by the Government. Moves are al­
ready afoot in Congress to cut
back on these services as "unnec­
essary" and devote the funds saved
to missile production and a bal­
anced budget.

SIU Secretary-Treasurer Paul

Lakes Eng'r
Meet Draws
MTD Unions
. A Brotherhood of Marine Engi­
neers' delegation headed by BME
President Ray McKay will attend
the three-d y convention of the
newly-formed Local 101, Marine
Engineers Beneficial Association,
In Cleveland next week. The new
local, which will represent all
MEBA men on the Lakes, is hold­
ing the convention January 6
through 8 to draft an organizing
program and get its local machin­
ery set-up.

The BME's attendance at the
meeting is part of the MEBA-BME
agreement to cooperate on organiz­
ing projects in line with the even­
tual merger of the two organiza­
tions. Also expected to attend the
conyention are representatives of
the SIU Great Lakest District, the
International Brotherhood of Long­
shoremen and other affiliates of
the Maritime Trades Department.

Local 101 was formed through a
consolidation of previously-existing
separate MEBA groups on the
Lakes. It is expected to play an
active role in organizing in . that
area when the St, Lawrence. Sea-

. way starts functioning,
7 The Seaway has a potential of
. ^5,000 new jobs for-maritime work^ ; •. •

5IU-HIWD Welfare
Increases Benefits

NEW ORLEANS—Substantial increases in benefits paid
under provisions of the Health and Welfare Plan of the SIU's
Harbor and Inland Waterways Division went into effect Janu-

1. Approved by the^ ary
HIWD Welfare Plan Trustees
at their January 1 meeting,
benefit features are:

^Elimination of the $50< deduc­
tible provision on hospital benefits.

• Increase in the death benefit
from $2,000 to $3,000.

The increases represented sub­
stantial gains for SIU-HIWD men,
and signified remarkable progress
for the SIU-HIWD's Welfare Plan

SCHEDULE OF
SIU MEETINGS
SIU membership meet­

ings are held regularly
every two weeks on Wed­
nesday nights at 7 PM in,
all SIU ports. AH Sea­
farers. are expected to
attend; those who wish to
be excused should request
permission • by telegram
(be sure to include reg­
istration number). The
next SIU meetings will be:

January 8
January 22

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which has been in existence for
only a year and a half. The plan
became effective June 1, 1956.

The Increased benefits apply
only to cases occurring on or after
January 1, 1958, J. Michael Early,
administrator of the plan, said. For
example, the increased hospitaliza­
tion benefit will not apply to hos­
pital in-patients admitted prior to
January 1. It will apply in all cases
where patients were admitted to a
hospital after midnight, December
31, 1957.

Similarly, the increased death
benefit will be paid only in those
cases where death occurred on or
afterjanuary 1, 1958.

The SIU-HI^ Welfare Plan
also provides for payment of a $3
daily hospital benefit to SIU-HIWD
meff confined to a USPHS hospital,
a $200 maternity benefit, and the
following hospital and surgical ben­
efits:

Up to 31 days' hospital room and
board at $10. a day; maximum of
$100 for hospital extras; makimum
of $300 for surgical fees in accord­
ance with a published schedule for
various operations and $4 » day for
doctors' calls at the hospital, up to
a maximum of 31 days.

Hospitol and surgical, benefits
apply to dependent wives and un-
mairied children under 19 of SIU-
HIWD men and to covered workers
themselves wb^ tjhey are hospital­
ized itt insUI^Uii^^ii-ether than^ a
USPHS hosp|{^>'7

Hall, who is also president of the
AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­
ment, pointed out that the recent
MTD convention took a very strong
stand against any moves to cut
back on hospital services, a stand
which wasv subsequently endorsed
at the AFL-CIO convention.

"The MTD position," Hall said,
"is that the Government and Con­
gress should not use international
problems as-an excuse to reduce or
eliminate highly essential services,
of which the hospitals are one. As
far as we are concerned, any at­
tack on the hospital budget should
be regarded as the signal for an
assault on all Federal welfare serv­
ices. All unions of tlie Maritime
Trades Department are united in
their determination to press for
adequate appropriations for the
Public Health Service."

The importance of the hospitals
to seamen was pointed up by Pro­
fessor Elmo P. Hohman of North­
western University in a paper read
to the annual meeting of the In­
dustrial Relations Research Asso-
siation. Dr. Hohman said in part:

"Seafaring has long ranked as
one of the most dangerous occupa­
tions in the world, both in . terms
of accident and of disease. Numer­
ous major causes, ranging from
storms and exposure to sudden
changes of climate and unsanitary
conditions in foreign ports, explain
why the average seaman spends an
uncommonly large proportion of
hLs working lifetime in hospitals
and in various stages of convales­
cence. Coupled with the fact that
he is usually away from home
when requiring medical attention,
this high incidence of accident and
disease obviously demanded spe­
cial consideration. Consequently
Congress long ago provided
chain of special Marine Hospitals
(now incorporated into the Public
Health Service) . .

The 1957 ^udget was the first
time injseveral years in which the
hospitals were given a full ap­
propriation without organized op­
position from the Bureau of the
Budget. Prior to that, they had
been the target of "economy"
drives dating b'. ck to May, 1953. It
was then that Savannah was listed

for the ax, but was saved by a vig­
orous SIU campaign. In 1954, ef­
forts were made to discontinue all
medical services for seamen, but
these plans were dropped after the
late Harry Lundeberg conferred
with President Eisenhower on the
subject.

The new tactic adopted by the
Bureau of the Budget pays lip
service, in the SIU view, toward
providing medical services for sea­
men since it proposes contracting
out such services. Experts on medi­
cal care are agreed that it would
be practically impossible to pro­
vide services under a contract
basis that Would be equivalent to
those given by the hospitals. The
net effect would be a serious re­
duction in such services to seamen.

See Delays In
Jobless Claims

ALBANY—The New York State
Labor Depturtment has predicted a
100,000 jump in unemployment in­
surance claims this month over the
286,000 total registered in Decem­
ber. To accommodate the increases
in claims, the Department is in­
creasing its staff by about one-third
and adding newjoffice equipment.
However, it warned that there will
be delays in collecting claims be­
cause of the big boosts in layoffs
in the state.

The department said that unem­
ployment was on the increase,
throughout the state with little
prospect of immediate improve­
ment. Claims in 1.957 wwe alrqafiy
running weR^'aliea^' ' i

Navy Pilot
Rescued By
Claiborne

En-route to Puerto Rico, the
SlU-manned Claiborne picked up
some unexpected cargo when a
Navy jet plane ditched a half mile
from the ship east of Great Inagua
Island. The incident took place on
December 16.

Despite heavy rain and eight to
ten-foot swells, a lifeboat gang
from the Claiborne had Lt. Com­
mander E. Holmgaard aboard
within 45 minutes.

Commander Holmgaard had run
out of fuel in the storm when he
broke through some overcast and
spotted the ship. Captain Donald
E. Bolhuis ordered the boat crew
into the water as the plane ditched.
The pilot got off a flare enabling
the boat crew to spot him, pick
him up and transfer him to the
ship.

The Claiborne had difficulty get­
ting the boat back aboard in the
rough water but finally made it
after heading for the lee of the
island. "All in all it was a most
successful operation," the skipper
concluded, "and the crew did out­
standing work in effecting the res­
cue and handling the ship during
this critical period. The man most
pleased was Commander Holm­
gaard."

Registration Of
Aliens Underway

The annual registration of
aliens is now underway. All
aliens must report their ad­
dresses to the Immigration
Service during this month.

Blanks are available at post
offices and field offices of the
Immigration and Naturalization
Service.

General J. M. Swing, the
Inyni g r a t i o n Commissioner,
warned that aliens deliberately
failing to register are subject, to
severe penalties including. de-

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Herman Cooper And %idford Lay/
The November 8,1957, edition of the SEAFARERS LOG carried an article entitled, "The NMU and Herman Cooper."

The article dealt with what thfrLOQ called "a number of striking privileges" Mr. Cooper has been accorded in the NMU.
These privileges, the article pointed out. Included freedom to p^icipate in internal union matters and to electioneer on
behalf of the NMU president
the right to rim a signed
column m the "NMU Pilot"
dealing exclusively with seamen's
lawsuits under the Jones Act, and
the privilege of having a special
eolumn devoted to notices his law
firm wishes to insert in the "Pilot."

The LOG also noted that its
prior announcement, in Septem­
ber, of its intentions to discuss Mr.
"Cooper's activities, brought an im­
mediate communication from Mr.
Cooper, warning of the existence
of libel laws and his intent to hold
the SlU accountable for anything
that was said of him—to which the
LOG replied it would not be dis­
suaded from discussing subjects of
interest to its readers and would
draw from the record for its male-
rial.

The National Maritime Union, as
the LOG pointed out, is one of
several unions Mr. Cooper re­
presents. He also represented un­
til recently the Bakery and Con­
fectionery Workers International
Union, just expelled from the AFL-
CIO, and a number of that union's
local affiliates.

For months, up until its ex­
pulsion and the chartering of a new
AFL-CIO bakery union, the inter­
national had been torn with strife.
A clean-up faction headed by Cur­
tis Sims,_then secretary-treasurer,
raised a number of serious charges
against James Cross, union presi­
dent. The charges dealt with
Cross' handluig of union funds for
personal purposes, his acceptance
of loans from major employers
dining contract negotiations, his
withdrawal of strike authoriza­
tion from local unions with whom
these same employers dealt and
similar matters. This activity
lead to detailed questioning of
Cross by the McCellan Committee.

For bringing up these charges,
Sims was suspended from the m-
temational on the Initiative of
Cross. It was brought out that Mr.
Cooper drafted the guilty verdict
against Sims even before charges
brought against Sims by Cross had
been heard by the appropriate un­
ion hearing board.

Mr, Cooper was also involved in
the successful defense of Cross
before a ^and jury on charges
that Cross had assaulted members
of the Sims group.

The evidence against Cross was
deemed sufficient by the AFL-CIO
Ethical Practices Committee to
Justify the ouster of Cross. When
the bakers international refused to
actrthe union was voted out at the
last AFL-CIO convention by an
overwhelming majority and a new
union chartered. The vote fol­
lowed a recital of a lengthy list of
Cross' misdeeds by AFL-CIO Presi­
dent George Meany.

Mr. Cooper's questioning by the
McClellan Committee dealt with
two distinct matters involving the
Bakers and Confectioners interna­
tional Union. One was the man­
lier in which Mr. Cooper had
drafted the guilty verdict against
Sims before Sims had been tried.
The second was the disposition of
f24,00fl[ in fees, which arose out of
Mr. Cooper's defense of Cross be­
fore a grand jury on assault
charges. Mr. Cooper was ques­
tioned the first day on the fund
Issue.

Extracts from the committee rec-
«rd follow:'

THE CHAIRMAN. "Let us start
witji the whole •$24;000. What was
that for"/"

MR. COOPER. _ ". . . there was
,®n introductory statement by
Pi'bsldent Cross in which he indi­
cated there had been legal ex-

incurred by h;

to perform extraordinary services
in connection with the preparation
for the convention and the con­
vention itself . . .

"I was asked by a member of
the board what I would consider
to be a fair fee ... I mentioned the
sum of $24,000. There were com­
ments of pleasure . . ."

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THE CHAIRMAN. "What was

the occasion for the $8,000 in cash
and the $16,000 check?"

MR. COOPER. ". . . the prior
hostility to me personally of Mr.
Sims became Increasingly appa­
rent . . ."

"... I told Mr. Cross I v^as most
uneasy about what would happen
. . . particularly with respect to
Curtis Sims . . ."

"... I said to Cross that I would
appreciate receiving my part of
the fee at that point in $8,000 in
cash and that the balance could be
sent to me

". . . When I returned to my of­
fice". . . I reported to my ... of­
fice manager that I had $8,000 in
cash ... I gave her the $8,000 in
an envelop^ which she put in the
office safe . . ."

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MR. KENNEDY. "When did you

deposit the $8,000?"
MR. COOPER. "I deposited

the $8,000 about two weeks ago."
MR. KENNEDY. "After we con­

tacted you?"
MR. COOPER. "Yes . .

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MR. KENNEDY. "The $16,000

and $8,000 in cash, why didn't you
take this money and deposit it in
your bank account? Why did you
wait until after this committee
started to investigate?"

Did you give any of this cash to
anybody in San Francisco?"

MR. COOPER. "I did not.
Categorically not."

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At the conclusion of that day's

.testimony, the investigators turned
to the question of the pre-judg­
ment of Sims. The following dia­
logue took place:

MR.. KENNEDY. "Did yon cause
to draw or did yon draw np the
resolution against Mr. Sims?"

MR. COOPER. "If Lmay respeet-
fnliy discuss the "

MR. KENNEDY. "If It is going to
be ar long answer, we will resume
it tomorrow, j •

MR. COOPER. "Whatever you
prefer to do ... I am a little re­
luctant to go into what I have done
in terms of my relationship vdth a
client, whether I drew up the reso­
lution or did not."

MR. KENNEDY. "This resolu­
tion is of some interest to us since
it was drawn two days before Sims'
charges were heard ... If yon
were a part of that then it gets to
be a quesdon of whether you were
representing the union or repre­
sent Mr. Cross and being paid by
the union. I think it gets into your

integrity, and I think you would
want to answer it."

MR. COOPER. "I am prepared
to match my integrity to anyone."

MR. KENNEDY. "Why not an­
swer the question?"

MR. COOPER. "That may not be
the only way to match integrity,
Mr. Kennedy. There are other
ways."

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The witness then was excused

until the following day. When tes­
timony was resumed the next day
the committee went into the mat­
ter of Mr. Co9per's role in draft­
ing resolutions calling 'for the
ouster of Sims before Sims had
been tried.; Mr. Cooper explained
his action as anticipatory, in line

vance of a case. He was asked
why he did not draw up a resolu­
tion for Cross' ouster, since Cross
was the subject of charges by
Sims; or why he did not draft one
for Sims' acquittal. He declared
that Sims did not ask him to do so.
Committee members then asked
him why he^did not proceed with­
out Sim's request, as attorney for
the entire international union.

He was also questioned as to the
executive board's rapid action in
suspending Sims a few minutes
after it had reached its conclusions
as a hearing board.

The following are a brief ex­
cerpts from this testimony:

MR. KENNEDY. "You had some
official capacity in the hearing that
was held ..."

MR. COOPER. "As general
counsel to the union ... I acted
as legal adviser to the hearing
board."

MR. KENNEDY. . . ."I asked
you yesterday .... whether you
had anything to do with drawing
up these charges against Sims."

MR. COOPER. "Yes, I did."
MR. KENNEDY. "You drew

them up?"
MR. COOPER. "I at the request

of President Cross . . . and as law
officer for the international
union . . ."

MR. KENNEDY. "So you drew
up the charges or the resolutions
of Mr. Cross against Mr. Sims .
prior to the time that the execu-
ive board had reached its deci­
sion ..."

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MR. KENNEDY/ "You recognize

that you were wbrking for the in­
ternational union and not just for
Mr. Cross?"

MR. COOPER. "I was working
for the international union . . ."

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THE CHAIRMAN. "Did you draw

one up against Cross in advance?"
MR. COOPER. "I was not asked

to by Mr. Sims ..."
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SENATOR ERVIN . . ."Did you
draw up an alternative one in Mr.
Sims' favor?"

MR. COOPER. "It was not sug­
gested to me and I did not do so.
There wouM have been no occa­
sion." -

SENATOR ERVIN. "Did you
Miow*^ in advance of the meeting
what action the committee was go­
ing to take?"

MR.-COOPER. "No, I did not."
SENATOR ERVIN. "Why did

you not draw them in the alterna-

getting papers ready in ad-

tive, so you would have whatever
action was taken covered?"

MR. COOPER. "Because the con­
duct of the board at that point was
in consideration of charges against
Cross."

SENATOR ERVIN. "So you pre­
pared a verdict, what was equival­
ent to a verdict of guilty, and
neglected to .prepare a verdict of
not guilty? . . .^You drew up a
resolution which was a' resolution
anticipating in advance that the
board was going to take action
against Sims . . . Why did you hot
draw an alternative one? . . ."

MR. COOPER. "I think such a
resolution might have been pre­
pared by Mr. Sims' personal coun­
sel, for all I know . . ." •

SENATOR ERVIN. "You were
the counsel employed by the union
to draw up the resolutions showing
the action of the executive board,
rather than Mr. Sims personal
counsel, were you not?"

MR. COOPER "I am, sir."
SENATOR ERVIN. "And you

went to a meeting at which a deci­
sion was to be made and which
decision could have been made
either one way or the other. You
prepared the resolution to take
care of the situation if the action
v/as adverse to Sims, but no reso­
lution to be used in case action
was favorable to Sims. Is that not
correct?"

MR. COOPER. "That is cor­
rect, sir."

SENATOR ERVIN. "To my mind
it is sort of similar to the Lidford
Law. T oft have heard of Lidford
Law'....'l-

MR. COOPER. "I am unfamiliar
with that, "sir."

SENATOR ERVIN. "Listen and
you can hear about it."

MR. COOPER. "I wiU be happy
to learn,"

SENATOR ERVIN. "You may
not have heard of it, but you seem
to be familiar with it. 'I oft have
heard of Lidford Law, how in the
morn they hang and draw, and sit
in judgment after'."

. . In other words you drew
a resolution in advance of .the
meeting to sustain the charges pre­
ferred by Cross against Sims be­
fore the Executive board had had
an opporitunity to pass on. those
charges." »

MR. COOPER. "Not at all, sir.
The suspension re'bolution which 1
drew related to the . charges not
yet heard."

SENATOR ERVIN. "That is
(Continued on page 15)

Supertanker
Readied For
SlU Ship Co.

BALTIMORE — A new super­
tanker has been launched here for
the SlU-contracted Metro Petro­
leum Shipping Company and is
being outfitted for her maiden voy­
age to take place sometime in
February.

The 32,650-ton tanker has been
named the Atlantis. It was con­
structed under the Maritime Ad­
ministration's trade-out and build
program, under which American
T-2 tankers were transferred for­
eign in return for promises to build
new ships.

The Atlantis is 630 feet long and
90. feet in the beam. It rates at
15,000 shaft horsepower and has a
16-knot cruising spded. It was built
at the Sparrows Point yards of the
Bethlehem Steel Corp.

SUP Has New
Shipping Board

SAN FRANCISCO—A new riK
tary shipping board has been in­
stalled in the Sailors Union of the
Pacific headquarters hall-here in
San Francisco. The board, similar
to the ones used in.several hMls
by the A&G District, is part of an
extensive improvement program
taking place in the SUP headquar-'
ters building.

The board is made of green and,
white Incite which is lighted from
the rear. The ships' names, com-,
pany, type of vessel and the run it"
is on are ilsted on the left side of
the board.

The Jobs are listed under the
various ratings. Each section also
has a space reserved for any re­
marks that may be necessary con­
cerning the particular job.

A big SUP emblem in the shape
oi a ship's helm and bearing the
legend, "Brothexhood of the Sea," -
is attached to wall directly above
the board.

It is. expected that similar
boards will l>e constructed in all
SUP branches on the We^ Coast.
One major advantage of the-board
is that it gives the sailors a com­
plete listing of the available jobs at '
a glance. It is well lighted for easy
reading, and is already in great
favor with the membership.

New dispatph .boqrcl at SUP headquarters is now jn.operation, ftpti^d As..fnpds
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LABOR ROUND-UP
In an effort to brinir ita meetlnra

to the membership, the United
Steelworkers of America is present­
ing monthly television programs
of the various activities of the
union. The programs, which started
on November 10, will be shown In
23 steel centers, including most of
the largest cities in the country.
The programs will also enable the
general public "to look over our
shoulder and see how a big, in-
fluencial union operates," Steel-
worker president David McDonald
said.

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The AFL-CIO convention has

termed a strike by members of the
Electrical, Radio & Machine Work­
ers against Sunbeam Corp. in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, as "wholly
Justified." The workers are seeking
union recognition and collective
bargaining rights. The resolution
pointed out that the growing plo-
cation movement among big com­
panies from the mainland to the
islands is a threat to American

.union standards. In Puerto Rico,
wages "average fractionally over
(1 an hour comparrd to plant aver­
ages of $2.80 an hour and assembly
line rates of $3 an hour in Chi­
cago." The company's attitude Is
taken in view of the many tax ex­
emptions and salary subsidies
granted the company by the
island's government.

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The Brewery Workers Union,

Local Nine, has become the first
local union in the country to get
five-week vacations for its mem­
bers. Members of the local ratified
the agreement which provides for
the five-week vacation after 20
years of service, with the Froedtert
MaU Co., Kurth Malting Co. and

the Kurth Zinn Malting Co. Wages
for production workers were in­
creased from 10 to 18 cents an hour
according to the shift the employee
works, and more paid holidays
added. Minimum salaries under
the new contract will be $3 an hour
for powerhouse workers, $2.90 for
maintenance workers and $2.77A^
for production workers, retroactive
to November 1.

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A major organizing victory was

won by the United Papermakers
and Paperworkers Union when the
employees at the new market pulp
mill of the Gulf State Paper Corp.,
in Demopolis, Alabama, voted in
favor of representation by the
newly-merged union. This plant Is
considered to be the most highly
mechanized pulp operation in the
South. The victory was of special
importance, said UPP Vice-Presi­
dent Mark Fisher, because it indi­
cates "pulp and paper workers in
the South are aware of the superior
bargaining benefits to be derived
from affiliation with the union
that has done something about
labor unity in the industry."

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Six-hundred striking employees

of the "St Paul Dispatch" an^ the
"Pioneer-Press" said they were
preparing for a long siege and
would publish their own daily tab­
loid newspapei:. The strike started
last week over a failure to reach an
agreement on wages and other ben­
efits in the contract between the
papers and the Mailers Union. The
stivers were Joined by the mem­
bers of the Typogi'aphical Union
and the Newspaper GuUd. The
strike paper will be published by
the St. Paul unit of the Twin-Cities
Guild and will come out every day
except Monday.

Transfers^ Shipping Aid
High On Congress' List

WASHINGTON—The opening of a new Congress session usually stimulates a rash of
speculation, investigation and proposed legislation on the US merchant marine. This year
is no exception, with the hottest subject on the griddle being the whole question of the mer­
chant marine's role in theJ^
Sputnick age.

Both the Senate
Commerce Committee

Foreign
and the

House Merchant Marine Commit­
tee have this item on the agenda.

Scrap Liberty
Bidding Opens

The Maritime Administration
will accept bids for the scrapping
of 11 old and damaged Libefty-
type vessels now in the Govern­
ment's reserve fleets. The bids
must be filed with the MA and the
US Department of Commerce on
January 14, 1958.

The ships are among 100 Lib­
erty* which will go to the scrap
pile as part of the Government's
merchant marine replacement pro­
gram. Under this program, new and
faster ships are to go into active
service with the current vessels to
be used as trade-ins.

Bids for the vessels may be made
by American citizens only. They
will be accepted on the condition
that the ships, including their hulls,
engines, machinery and machinery
spares and all major items of
equipment, will be completely
scrapped, dismantled or destroyed
within the continental limits of
the United States within 18 montjbs
after delivery.

plus a number of specific proposals
to assist US shipping. Some of
these proposals are holdovers from
the last session where they Vere
never acted upon. These include
Senator Warren Magnuson's bills
to impose strict limits on ship
transfers, and to give full approval
to maritime hiring halls. Both of
these bills have the full support of
the SIU and the AFL-CIO Mari­
time Trades Department.

Magnuson, who is chairman of
the Foreign Commerce Committee,
has announced that these measures
and other important items wili be
on his committee's agenda, includ­
ing widening'Of the Panama Canal
and an investigation of the impact
of the Military Sea Transportation
Service on private shipping opera­
tions.

Another matter due for consid­
eration is Government aid to non-

It's An SIU Xmas In New Orleans

Celebrating the day at dinner in SIU hall (left) were Seafarer and Mrs. Theodore "Beau" James, with youngsters Ronald, Alden and Lynne.
In center. Seafarers John Doyle, Clyde "Whitey" Lanierund their wives,-with SIU port agent Lindsey Williams and Emil Herek. At right,,
jSeafarer H. C. "Red" Muilins, a delegate in the Phillips Petroleum fleet, and his wife and daughter. Group below included Seafarer and
Mrs. Dominie Feraci and son Jimmyi Seafarer and Mrs. Anthony S. Conti, Winnie Feraci, Richard Bergeron and Bonnie FeracL

subsidized shipping companies,
possibly in the form of tax defer­
ments on new ship construction,
as well as the long-discussed pro­
gram of aid to tramp shipping
which, as before, has dubious pros­
pects in the eyes of Washington
observers.

The biggiest issue, of course, is
the hotly debated one—are ships
really necessary as a defense item
in the hydrogen missile and space
ship age. The question is being
studied by top-level Government
commissions, and the Office of De­
fense Mobilization, for one, has re­
ported it favors the idea of a mer­
chant marine as essential for de­
fense purposes.

Possible revision of the 1948
Safety of Life at Sea convention
will come up before the House
Merchant Marine Committee as a
result of the Andrea Doria sinking
of 1956.

Another big item, in light of the
heavy run of foreign transfers in
recent years, is a proposal to give
the US greater authority over for­
eign (that is, runaway) shipping.
The fact that such proposals are
being brought up, in the view of
SIU headquarters, confirms charges
that the US has no genuine con­
trol over the runaways, despite
claims to the contrary in Wash­
ington.

Many of these Items are old fam­
iliar tunes as far as the merchant
marine is concerned, but they have
been given new urgency this year
in light of the general reexamina­
tion of the US defense and foreign
affairs program.

The SfU and other maritime
unions are also vitally interested
in the fate of the US PubBc Health
"Service hospitals which are surei
to come under attack again this
year as the Administration looks
around for places to do a bit of
budget cutting in return for in­
creased spending on sputnick-age
defense items.

Seafarers who volunteered ps cooks and waiters for the dinner
aeft) Included a to r) Patrick Oh>, Martino De Salvo, M. R. "Soot-
tie" Klbg, Stafford Hembree, H. Greeo, A. McDlarmld, T. "Beau"
jam(», patrolman Ray Vaughan, I. Ilenos, dispatcher Herman Trcx-
elair, Ed. Taylor, H. Heisch and A. Veroher. The dinner menu is
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Earnings Up
In Domesfic
Ship Trade

WASHINGTON — Contradictory
reports of the status of the domes­
tic trades have been made by the
Interstate Commerce Commission
and the Maritime Administration.
An ICC report on the profits of
companies in this business for the
period July through September,
1957, shows most companies in the
coastwise and intercoastal serv­
ice picking up business over the
year before. However, a survey by
the Maritime Administration of In­
tercoastal shippers has found that
there was a sharp drop-off in lum­
ber and steel cargoes, two of the
mainstays of this service.

The ICC report showed five of
six coastwise companies registering
gains in freight revenue. Included
on the plus side were Pan-Atlantic
and Seatrain. In the intercoastal
trade seven companies showed
gains with Calmar racking up a
healthy 42.6 percent over the pre­
vious year and Pan-Atlantic also on
the upside. American President
Lines and Isbrandtsen were the
losers.

Pacifio Coast coastwise service,
consisting mostly of barge lines^
showed mostly decreases except for
the Coastwise Line and the Cana-"
diata PkClfic' ' ComjlRny.

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^Don't Regulate My
Funds', Boss Cries
" Just as on the national level employer groups are fighting I
legal controls, over management-operated we^are fimds, re­
presentatives of insurance companies and management are
lutting up the same kind of j - pu ,

. beef against proposed state
legislation.

The New York State Banking
and Insurance Departments held
public hearings on proposals to
bring welfare and pension funds
operated exclusively by manage­
ment, or by unions exclusively, un­
der state supervision.

At present joint union-manage­
ment funds, such as that operated
by the SIU Welfare Plan, are re­
quired to post financial reports
with the state. Management-oper­
ated funds, comprising the bulk of
auch enterprises, are exempt.

When the public hearings were
held, banks, Insurance companies
and industry spokesmen were near-
unanimous In opposing any regis-
^ation and financial reporting on
their part, claiming thfit all their
funds are administered "legiti­
mately" and do not need to report
to the state.

The state agencies have pointed
out that joint union-management
funds total 960 with total assets of
$200 million. By comparison the
total assets of all funds are $9,700,-
000,000, showing that funds in
which unions are involved are a
very small proportion of the over­
all total.

In 1956, and again in 1957, efforts

Seven Vessels
Pep Up Boston

BOSTON^—Shipping snapped out
of its slump in this area as seven
vessels, four of them paying off
and signing on, hit the port during
the period.

One vessel, the Northwestern
Victory (Victory Carriers), took on
22 men alone. As she did not call
for the men until the Saturday she
paid off, there was some difficulty
in finding enough class "A" and
"B" men to man her.

The other three vessels paying
off and signing on during the last
two weeks were the-Pan Oceanic
Transporter (Penn. Nav.); feents
Fort and the Government Camp
(Cities Service).

The Steel Worker (Isthmian),
Robin Good^ellow (Robin) and the
Cantigny (Cities Service) caUed
into the area for servicing.

There were a few minor repair
and painting beefs on. the Govern­
ment Camp, but they were straight­
ened out by the patrolman.

Pick Up 'Shot'
Card At Payoff
Seafarers who have taken the

series of inoculations required
for certain foreign voyages are
reminded to be sure to pick up
their inoculation cards from the
captain or the pimser when they
pay off at the end of a voyage.

The card should be picked up
by the Seafarer and held so that
it can be presented when sign­
ing on for another voyage where
the "shots" are required. The
Inoculation card is your only
proof of having taken the re-

. quired shots.
Those men who forget to pick

up their inoculation card when
they pay . off may find that they
are required to take all the
"shots" again when they want
to sign on for another such voy­
age.'

Big Go's Make
More Than US
Admits: Meany

WASmNGTON—AFL-CIO Pres- |
ident George Meany has charged
the Commerce Department with I
creating "a false impression of cor­
porate profits" to the tune of $3-$4
billion.

Meany said that corporate profit
figures published by the depart­
ment were way understated by fail- |
ing to take into account revised
procedures for fast tax writeoffs
by manufacturers. The department
continued to stand by its figure,
however.

Fast tax writeoffs and deprecia- |
tion allowances have been a storm
center for some thne as an un-|
warranted Government subsidy for
big business. The fast tax witeoffs
were first permitted at the start of |
the Korean War to help get de­
fense production rolling again and
had been continued as an aid for
aU new plant construction. New I
ship construction benefits in the
same" manner.

The current rise in unemploy- j
ment and layoffs throughout the|
country at a time when corporate
prices continue going up already I
has (government economic plan­
ners on the run. The false profit
picture charged by Meany would |
serve to show a wider gap than
ever between profits and Jobs.

Lk. Charles
Has 'Boom'

LAKE CHARLES—Shipping was |
booming for the last two weeks in
this port as many of the brothers
got off their ships to enjoy the
holidays with their familief' at
home. There was a shortage of
"A" and "B' cards here In the
port so some of the Jobs were
filled by Houston while others were
taken by "C" cards.

Calling into this area during the
past period were the Fort Hoskins,
Council Grove, Bents Fort, Chi-1
wawa. Royal Oak, Winter HiU,
Cantigny, Bradford Island and{
the CS Baltimore (Cities Service);
the Val Chem (Heron); Petro Chem I
(Valentine) and the Del Santos!
(Mississippi).

This spurt of activity, said Leroy ]
Clarke, port agent, will be short
Uved since the holidays are over
and most of the men who got off
will be back in 'the hall looking for

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to pass a bill for control of aR j
welfare and pension funds were
blocked by employer interests. The
two state departments intend to |
sponsor such legislation this year.]

In addition, the State Insurance
Department announced that it will
expect all insurance companies to
conform to a new code of ethics in j
dealing with group insurance.

The code is aimed principaUy at I
excessive commissions as well as
payments to individuals for arrang- |
ing groiip insurance contracts with
insurance companies.

The code sets up a scale of max- j
imum commissions which would
drop percentage - wise as the I
amount of the premium went up.

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Good housekeeping Is on Invaluable safety asset all^
over the ship, and the storerooms are no exception/
Cases left on the deck, boxes stacked awry on th#
shelves con breed ln{uries, especially when the motion
of the ship is token into account.

Just trying to get at ^mething on the shelves con
lead to mqshed fingers and painful bruises if coses
are In disorder.

Stock them neatly and stock them securely. It's |ust
OS easy to do it the right way, and it's a lot safer.

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YOUR DOUAR'S WORTH
Seilarer's Glide Ti. Better Baytii^

By Sidney Margoliug

Inflation's Not Dead Yet
Your family should prepare for higher living costs again In 1958.
The Inflation of 1956-7 barely had leveled off this vi^inter when a

new Inflation started boiling up, largely the result of a sudden Jump
in wholesale food prices. Last January this department had estimated
living costs would rise 2-2Vi percent in 1957 before prices leveled oft
in the fall. The actual rise turned out to be 2.4 percent. This year's
boost in living expenses is likely a be smaller, in the neighborhood
of Y4 percent, before prices level off ogain next fall. But before that
leveling-off is reached, you will be pa.'ing a new all-time record bill
in the late summer or early fall of 1958.

Significantly, the rise in unemployment .has marched almost side
by side with the rise in prices, in fact, has moved a little faster. By
last October industrial employment had fallen four percent from the
high of December ,'56.

This will be a year to make every dollar you spend bring home as
much as possible in goods, both to protect your own family's living
standard, and help fight encroaching unemployment. The recent price
rises have been largely a manufacturers' and processors' inflation.
Prices of basic raw materials actually have fallen and by fall had
dropped to the lowest point in 7V4 years.

The big problem this year will be food costs. Within recent weeks,
the Dun & Bradstreet wholesale-food index Jumped flve percent to
reach the highest level in two and a half years.

IN FOOD, this will be M year to use more pork and poultry, less beef
and veal. You'll eat chicken more often on weekdays, principaUy broil­
ers which will be in heavy supply, but fewer beef roasts and steaks.
Beef will be scarcer this year. Some cuts already are flying dollar-a-
pound price tags. Eggs will be expensive this winter too.

In buying pork, the New York Extension Marketing Service points
out that the proportion of lean in different cuts varies considerably.
Here is a table the market service prepared ahowing actual costs per
pound of lean at typical recent prices:

Lean Price Lean
Cut Meat Lb. Cost

Blade steak 84% $ .45 I fl4
Boston butt 84 .49 .58
Picnic 61 .39 .64
Spareribs ...••••«••••*59 .53 .90
Ham (butt) 63 .57 .90
Loin roast ............67 .63 .94

- ' Center chops 67 .79 1.18
Lamb is cheapest in winter. Here too consider the cost of the lean.

Leg of lamb is most lean' followed by shoulder chops, loin chops and
breast. But because of the wide difference in retail prices of these
cuts, breast of lamb is generally cheapest for the amount of lean, fol­
low^ by leg, shoulder chops and loin chops.

Citrus and other fresh fruits are relatively cheap this winter. Frozen
fruits, berries and Juices will offer consumers better values because
of heavy supplies.

Higher Payments
IN CARS, for the first time, new car buyers Will have to meet higher

mont|ily payments. The price hike on 1958 models averages 4 percent.
Up to now, the annual boost In car
prices since 1947 had been made
painless by a stretching out of pay­
ments from 24 months to 36. One
trade expert reports that a car
buyer who paid $700 down on a
$2,000 car in 1947 and owed a bal­
ance of $1,300, was able to pay off
at $54 a month for 24 months plus
finance and insurance charges. By
'57, the price had risen to $2,800,
but with 36 months to pay a bal­
ance of about $1,900, the pay­
ments were only about $53 a
month plus finance charges. But

. now, the price has gone to $2,900,
t and the payments will be about
^ $61 plus charges.

At the same time the finance
charge has Jumped both because
of the higher car price and the
longer" terms. The finance charge,
exclusive of insurance, on the typi­
cal 1947 balance repaid in two

years was $156, but the 1958 balance repaid in 36 months requires a^
fee of $360 or more.

Finance companies report used cars are priced the lowest in two
years. The dealers are taking the beating for the latest new car price
Jump. -

IN HOUSES, financing wiii still be a problem in 1958. The slightly
easier money market has dampened lenders' hopes that mortgage rates
would go to seven percent in 1958. They insist they won't be cut from
the present level of 5% to six percent.

The rise in mortgage interest has been one of the worst Jolts. A fam­
ily that got a $10,000 mortgage at four percent five years ago, paid
back $52.79 a month, exclusive of taxes, on a 25-year loan, for a total
of $15,837. A family that undertakes the same mortgage at 6 percent
in 1958, will pay $64.44 a month for a total of $19,332 in - principal
and Interest.

Rents and prices of houses will be firm to higher in 1958 as building
starts in 1958 remain imder the mililon-a-year mark.

CLOTHING will cost a little more in 1958. Some shoe manufactur­
ers have raised prices for spring. Save by shopping the January shoe
sales and clothing clearances to fill in family needs. This is the month
men's coats are cleared at sharply reduced prices. Women's Orlon-
Dynel coa s have been cut again and will be at their lowest in: prices hi

UK Ship,Transfer Ban Stalled
By US Position, British Imply

. LONDON—A proposed curb on the transfer of British ships to runaway flags is appar­
ently stalemated by US inaction on this issue. ^

The British government has rejected the suggestion of a Labor Party member that it
take the lead in banning trans-
fers to flags of convenience.

A Ministry of Transport of­
ficial told Hector Hughes, the
Labor member, that "a unilateral
ban by the United Kingdom would
have little or no effect unless
agreement could be reached with
the other major maritime countries
to follow our lead." He added
pointedly: "I see little prospect of
securing such agreement."

The Transport Ministry state­
ment was an obvious reference to
the US, which has the largest pool
of surplus ships in the world and
has shown little reluctance to curb
their sale despite the effect on the
remaining US merchant fleet.
Proposals for restrictions on trans­
fers have been stalemated in Con­
gress for several sessions. ^

A bill introduced by Sen. War­
ren G. Magnuson last year to
impose strict limits on US trans­
fers never got beyond the com­
mittee hearing stage, although a
new effort is expected to try imd
bring the measure out this session;
The hili got the endorsement of
Secretary of Labor James Mitchell,
but conflicting Defense Depart­
ment statements^ on the transfer
program as a part of US merchant
marine policy kept it bottled up.

The British statement indicated
that a UK ban on transfers would
be ineffective since owners of
runaway fleets could still obtain
tonnage elsewhere, in'cfuding the
US. It pointed but that the ban
would thus work to the disad­
vantage of British shipowners who
wanted to get rid of second-hand
tonnage.

Ships under the registries of
Panama, Liberia, Honduras and
Costa Rica enjoy virtually un­
limited freedom from taxation,
safety and manning standards and
other regulatory devices imposed

on vessels of the bona fide marl-
time nations to protect their ships,
crews and cargoes. For this reason,
runaway ships generally are far
less costly to operate. They also

have the worst safety performance
records siirce the ships are under­
manned, often by inexperienced
crews, and are seldom subject to
safety inspections.

Ramsey

A good ship's delegate is easily
recognized by the manner in which

he keeps the ship
in top shape. The
crew of the Del
Oro wish to ex­
press their ap­
preciation of the
time and effort
put into that po­
sition by D. A.
Ramsey. The re­
port from the
ship was very

concise, "The ship is coming in for
payoff very clean. There were no
beefs, no logs and no disputed
overtime." This has been the r^
port throughout the entire trip,
they said.

^ $ i.
It was just one big family on

the Omar E. Chapman according to
John Horn e n,
ship's delegate.
Everything ran
smoothly with
both the old man
and the chief
engineer well
pleased with the
trip. There wffre
no beefs to re­
port and all of
the repair- lists
have been completed. Special men­
tion must go to Jack Gates, deck
engineer, and Chester Hugart,
ship's treasurer for the fine Job
they have been doing to keep
peace and harmony among the men.

Gates has been one of the most

Homen

SlU Votes 'Well-Done'
For Robin Line Crews

NEW YORK—The membership has again given a vote of
thanks for a job well done to the gang on the Robin Line
ships. The SIU has already won six of the seven Robin IJne
ship elections. The remaining-* —
one, on the Robin Hood, is ex­
pected to be held by January
9th.

Shipping held up very well for
"A" seniority men during the past
two weeks. Some of the Jobs hung
on the board for two or three calls
before finding takers.

There were 24 vessels paying off,
one signed on and IF^were in

Use Only One
Mail Address

Seafarers with beefs regard­
ing slow payment of monies due
from various operators.in back
wages and disputed overtime
should first check whether they
have a protker mailing address
on file with the company. SIU

. headquarters officials point out
that reports received from sev­
eral operators show checks have
been mailed to one address
while a beef on the same score
lis sent from another, thus cre­
ating much difficulty in keeping
accounts straight..

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transit during the past period.
There were also four ships going
into temporary lay-up during the
period. They were the Kathryn
and Edith (BuU), Armonk (NJ Ind.)
and the Lawrence Victory (Missis­
sippi).

The vessels paying off were the
Steel Apprentice, Steel Worker,
Steel Maker, Steel Chemist (Isth­
mian); Elizabeth, Kathryn, Edith
(Bull); Seatrain's Louisiana, Savan­
nah and New York; Bradford Is­
land, Fort Hoskins, CS Baltimore
(Cities Service); Maxton (Pan-At­
lantic); Morning Light, Fairlahd
(Waterman); Alcoa Puritan, Roam-
er, Pegasus (Alcoa); Robin Trent,
Robin Locksley, Robin Goodfellow
(Robin); Coe Victory (Victory Car­
riers); Ocean Deborah (Ocean
Transport). The Robin Locksley
(Robin) was the vessel signing on.

The in-transit ships were the
Almena, Gateway City, Chickasaw.
Arizpa (Pan-Atlantic); Azalea City,
Wild Ranger, Morning Light (Wat­
erman); Losmar, Pennmar (Cal­
mer); Wang Ranger (Denton) and
the Michael (Carrrfs); ' " '

accommodating brothers on tho
vessel, Homen said. He was always
willing to fix fuses, plugs, lights
and fans at any hour, and in addi­
tion to which, "he makes one swell
shipmate." Hugart has been per­

forming miracles
with Just a few
bucks in keeping
a well stocked li­
brary on board at
all times. "This
has been one of
the best kept li­
braries ever seen
on this vessel."

Besides the ef­
forts of G a t e s

and Hugart, mention must be given
to the cartoons drawn by Moose,
the 12-8 AB watch. Besides there
were always plenty of tall stories
from the fishermen aboard, who,
while keeping us supplied with
some 900 pounds of fish. Just never
seemed able to bring in that "big
one."

Hugart

One Drink In
Gran, 5 Months
In The Legion?

TANGIER—A binge in Oran,
northern Algeria, turned into a
five-month hitch in the French
Foreign Legion and ended in a
fantastic 500-mile escape hike
across the North African desert,
according to a story told by two
merchant seamen.

The two men. Van Lester Hollis
of Oklahoma City and Raymond
Rouse of Philadelphia, told the
American counsel in Tangier that
they got a skinful while their
Swedish cargo vessel was in Oran.
The next morning, they claimed,
they found themselves in the For­
eign Legion and on their way to
Sidi Bel Abbes, the legion training
center.

The legion was not a picnic ac­
cording to Hollis. The training was
"tougher than our marines," the
World War H veteran said. With
rifles and 50 pound packs they
were marched miles in the broiling
African sun to "toughen them up."

The pair decided to take up the
offer of Algerian nationalists who
said they would aid recruits to get
out of the country. With 20 other
legioneers, their story goes, they
walked out of the fort and into
Saida where the nationalists sup­
plied them with civilian clothes
and food. They started their trek
at night, they said, in order to
avoid the intense heat and the Riff
Arabs who are friendly to the
French.

After a month's wandering they
reached Tetuan, where they tele­
phoned the American consulate, at
Tangier. They said the consul re­
ported the incident to Washington'
and would arrange passage home. •

Newspaper accounts failed to
mention what kind of hard stuff
they sell in Oran that was respon­
sible for all this. fi*.

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ONE OF SEVERAL HiWD-eon-
tracted deep sea and harbor
tug operations, the G&H tow­

ing fleet rates as the biggest com­
pany In the Gulf. It has exclusive
harbor towing rights in several
Texas ports including the Houiston-
Galveston area, operates a deep-
sea towing service and has a big
stake in tidelands oil marine serv­
ices.

Members of the SlU Harbor and
Inland Waterways Division man
the 26-boat fleet in all ratings un­
der the top contract in the Texas
area.

Pictured here are a few aspects
of the G&H operation and some of
the HIWD crewmembers who man
the tugs.

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shown heading into
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tug Marathon in Houston harbor.

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Sill Drive In Baltimore
Spreads, Await New Vote

BALTIMORE—Organizing is still going on in high gear in
the unorganized harbor operations here. One petition has
been filed with the Labor Board and is awaiting official rul­
ing, and efforts are continuing
in two other companies in the
harbor.

"Nearly every man in the mari­
time industry in this port carries
seaman's papers in his pocket,"
reports Earl Sheppard, port agent.
Since they are unorganized, they
represent a threat to the security
of every union member, not only
in times of strikes, but in helping
to keep wages and conditions at a
low level."

Shipping for the port was fair
during the past period. Home­
town boys taking to the beach for
the Christmas and New Year's
holidays account for the large
number of men on the registration
list. All hands on the beach had
a fine time at the annual Christ­
mas party.

There were fiftMn ships paying
off during the period. They were
the Emilia (twice), Jean (Bull);
Venore, Baltore, Oremar, Marore,
Cubore, Chilore, Feltore (Ore);
Chickasaw (Pan-Atlantic); Losmar
(Calmar); Royal Oak (Cities Serv­
ice); The Cabins (Terminal Tank­
ers) and the Steel Maker (Isth-
m-an).

The Bethcoaster (Calmar); Jose-
fina (Liberty Nav.); Baltore, Na-
rore, Cubore, Chilore, Oremar,
Feltore (Ore); Chickasaw (Pan-
Atlantic); Seastar (Traders), and
the Steel Maker (Isthmian) paid
off.

The in-transit vessels included
the Alcoa Puritan, Roamer, Ran­
ger, Runner (Alcoa); Robin Mow­

bray (Robin); Pennmar (Calmar)
and the. Morning Light (Water­
man).

Golden Bear
Haul? Just
Lofsa Bull

One bull in a pasture may be
more than enough to handle, but
think of the problems of the gang
aboard the Golden Bear with 146
of them aboard. The SIU Jacific
District-contracted ship is carrying
a cargo of prize Santa Gertrudis
stock, including 135 heifers, to the
Philippines from Texas. (What do
those 11 extra bulls do to pass the
time of day?)

The Santa Gertrudis cattle are
well-known for their durability
under temperature extremes and
their ability to forage on scanty
pasture.

To meet the problem of handling
so much beef on the hoof, the Pa­
cific Far East Line installed a new
type of "portable corral." The
corrals consist of vans capable of
carrying six bulls or heifers, with
detachable water and feed troughs,
sliding doors and detachable side
partitions for ventilation.

Each vw with its cattle load
inside can be lifted to the deck by
ship's gear. The partitions are
then opened and the water and
feed troughs attached.

December 11 Through December 24
Registered

Port Dock

Boston 12
New York 88
Philadelphia 16
Baltimore ^. 80
Norfolk 6
Savannah 25
Tampa 18
Mobile 24
New Orleans 63
Lake Charles' 23
Houston 22
Wilmington .^ 23
San Francisco 23
Seattle 7

Total 440

OOCk
B
2

21
2

21
6
4
2
5

17
12
16
6
7
7

OOCk
B

128

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Eng. St«w. Staw. Tetal Total Total
B A B A B Rag.
7 5 2 25 11 36
14 62 7 225 42 267
2 4 1 31 5 36
24 36 17 171 62 233
6 5 3 21 15 36
4 8 3 53 11 64
4 10 1 34 7 41
5 22 3 75 13 88
8 39 9 141 34 175
9 5 11 43 32 75
12 11 4 46 32 78
24 20 10 58 40 98
10 15 8 S3 25 78
12 10 14 30 33 63
Eng. Staw. Btaw. Total Total Total
B A B A B- Bag.

141 252 93 1006 362 13M

Port Dock Deck
A B C

Boston 13 5 1
New York 61 18 6
Philadelphia 13 2 2
Baltimore .7. 44 27 9
Norfolk 8 4 1
Savannah 3 0 0
Tampa 9 3 0
Mobile 21 6. 0
New Orleans 36 16 0
Lake Charles 17 12 0
Houston 30 24 0
Wilmington- 1 0 0
San Francisco 2i 7 0
Seattle 8 10

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Total/.............. 288 125 19*^

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151
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With no marked holiday pile-off to give things a lift, SIU shipping just inched forward
during the past two weeks. A slight rise was recorded from the 1,037 jobs dispatched; re­
gistration climbed also, to 1,368.

The coming period is expected "•
to show improvement ail along the
line, with a number of ships due
to come out of lay-up and take full
crews. This, rather, than the holi-

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Hfaashi Kageyama, head of Japan's^
seamen's union and Mnnemichl Suwa
of the same organizaHon study head-
anarters filing set-np.

Group of visitorB represrating ' JspB-
nese seamen's imd shlpbnildiiig wdoiiB
get mndonm on SIU registrattons pro-
cednre.

Sen Koga, repraenting Japanese shlpywd workers, examines model of Cities Service tanker. Others
in group Included representatives of electrical workers and coal miners. They ar# on tour spdhsoied

day season, is the spur for future
job activity in sight.

This period was marked by an
overall decline in shipping by class
A men, and an "A" registration
that went over the l.OOO-mark for
the first time since July. The
class B registration was unchanged
from the last report. However, as
the class' A shipping fell off. the
"B" and "C" job figures went up.

Six ports managed to show a
shipping increase over the previ­
ous period, with no particular
trend evident. These were Boston,
Philadelphia, Tampa, Lake Charles,
Houston and San Francisco. The
falloff involved New Yorkr"Salti-
more, Norfolk, Mobile, Wilming­
ton and Seattle,, while Savannah
and New Origans stayed where
they were before.

• There- was some shake-up in
shipping by seniority groups, par­
ticularly for class A men. The
class A proportion of the total
shipping fell off to 62 percent. In
turn, class B accounted for 31 per­
cent of the total, and class C for 7
percent. Houston and the West
Coast ports continued, as they have
for several weeks, to ship no class
C men\t alL

The foUowing is the forecast
port by port: Boston: Fair .. . New
Yorii: Good .. . Philadelphia: Fair

, . Baltimore Good . .'. Nmrfolk:
Fair . . . JSavimnah: Good . . .
Tampa: Fair . Mobile: Good .. ,
New Orleans: Fair . . . Lake
Charles: Good . . . Houston: Good
... Wilmington: Slow ... San Fran-
eisco: Fair II. . Seattle: Fair.

Sign Name On
LOG Letters

For obvious reasons the LOG
cannot print any letter or
other Communications sent in
by Seafarers unless the author
signs his name. Unsigned
anonymous letters wUl only
wind up in the waste-basket.
It circumstances justify, the
LOG will withhold a signature
on request.

Virglal Coash
Please contact Rosc-oe Milton,

1933 July Street, Houston 16,
Texas.

Placido Dias
Contact Jane JBrannon-McMas- '

ter,"attomey at law, 317 Stovall
Professional Buildipg, Tampa,
Florida. She Is holding legal pa­
pers- for you.

J. B; Dyess
The gear you left aboard the

Topa Topa is being held by Rail­
way Express in New Orleans.

Clande Woo^ow Pritchett
Your father is very anxious. to

hear froni you. Please contact him '
at 22 East Tab Street, Petersburg,
Virginia.

Georgios Spiliotis, FWT
Please get in touch with your

mother as soon as possible.
Joseph C. Lewallen, AB

Get in touch with Russell Bran­
don, Cities Service Oil Company,
17 State Street, New York City.

Jo Jo Touart
John Mack

Your gear left on the Jean La-
fitte has been sent to the Seattle
SIU haU.

Harold Kammet
Please contact your father at 966

Southern Boulevard, Bronx 59, NY.
_ F. Landry

S. Manard has your hat you left"
in headquarters cafeteria Christ­
mas Day and believes you have his. -
Contact him at CLoverdale 6-5079.
- Paul Essman, Doyle Essman

Get in touch with Mr, Emilio
Rodriguez, 1326 Caledonia Hotel^
Seattle, Washington. It is urgent.

Robert Creel
Please contact Perry M. Peder-

sen in care of the headquarters-
hall. He is holding something for
you.

Louis Mayberger ,
Your sister, Mrs. Rose Klein

wants yoq to contact her at 1268 ;
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SlU Victim
Xrifical' In
BarShoofing

HOUSTON—Seafarer Raymond
J. "Blackie" Arsenault is in criti­
cal condition at the Galveston
'USPHS hospital after being shot
by a tavern owner next door to the
SIU hall here. Arsenault suffered
a severed spinal cord and other
injuries in the ..shooting.

According to reports in the
"Houston Press," Arsenault and a
chipmate from Boston were in the
tavern when the shipmate fell
asleep with his head on a table.
Witnesses said the tavern owner,
Walter R. Brightwell, ordered Ar-

"aenault to leave and take his sleep­
ing friend with him.

Seafarer Ralph Hampson of New
York, one of the witnesses, report­
ed that Arsenault protested that
the sleeping seaman wasn't bother­
ing anybody, but that the tavern
owner picked up a gun and started
shooting. Brightwell was subse­
quently charged with assault to
murder.

The SIU Houston haU reported
Arsenault is holding his own, but
chances of full recovery are ruled
out. A member of the deck de­
partment, he Uves in Lowell, Mass.,
and ships out of Boston.

The recent—and still continuing—debate in some quarters
in Washington over the necessity for a strong merchant fleet
has ignored some obvious and persistent trends in the US
economy. That trend is simply that the United States, with
each passing day, depends more and more heavily on out­
side sources of supply to keep its economy going. And as that
dependence grows, the need for more adequate merchant
shipping grows with it. ^

The day has long since gone when this country could sup­
ply all the oil and iron it needs for its own uses.

Domestic production of those two commodities, plus a very
lengthy list of equally essential items like copper, tin, rub­
ber and bauxite (the raw mat^ial of aluminum) must be
supplemented by very heavy imports from the outside world.

In fact the only critical raw material that the US is well
supplied with in ample quantity is coal. Even our apparent
wealth, of foodstuffs would quickly dwindle. Into scarcity if
we no longer could get enough iron to manufacture farm and
food-processing machinery and enough fuel oil to run that
equipment.

The harsh fact is that as a "have not" nation in many vital
raw materials, the United States depends for its very exist­
ence on ad^uate shipping. We are not now at the status of
Great Britain which as everybody knows, could not survive
for more than a few weeks if its shipping was cut off. But if
the US merchant marine would disappear today, this coun­
try would face such serious scarcities that there would be
widespread unemjployment and a real "hair-curler" of a de­
pression to quote the former secretary of the treasury.

This is among the major reasons why the need for a strong
merchant marine becomes more urgent as time goes by. It
would lake a foolhardy outlook indeed to rely heavily on for­
eign-flag shipping in such a situation.

US Responsible
An interesting bit of by-play took place in {he British

parliament recently. The opposition Labor Party demanded
that the British government take action to stop transfers to
runaway flags. The answer of the government was, in effect,
"We can't do anything until other m'aritime nations agree to
do the same in an international conference."

The government spokesman was being diplomatic, but what
he really was saying was, "Why should we stop transfers
wheii United States shipowners are free to continue doing
so?"

If the US and Britain were to take joinf action in this area,
it would be the start of the death-rattle for the runaways. It
Temains to be seen then what action Congress will take on the
MkgWt*

CP Drops ^Worker';
Fronts To Fore?

The "Daily Worker," long-time mouthpiece for the Com­
munist Party, has been voted out of business by the Party's
national executive committee. If the "Worker" ceases to pub­
lish as voted by the commit-
tee, that would leave the job
of carrying on Communist
propaganda programs to other pub­
lications not directly identified
with the Party. However, there is
a report that a new Party publica­
tion is in the offing, as yet un­
named.

The closing of the "Worker" re­
portedly is the result of a split in
the Party which dates back approx­
imately to the 1956 rebellion in
Hungary. The actions of Russian
armed foi'ces in tliat rebellion
proved too much for many Party
members to stomach and the Party
has been wracked with strife ever
since.

William Z. Foster, a long-time
Stalinist and Party wheel from way
back in the founding days, is trying
to whip'the domestic Communists
back into line in a 100 percent en­
dorsement of whatever the Soviet
Union does. Foster's opposition is
being led by John Gates, editor of
the "Dally Worker." Gates sees a
show of outward Independence
from Moscow as the only way the
Communist Party can survive in
the US.

The vote to shut down the "Daily
Worker" is being generally inter­
preted as an act of the Foster fac­
tion to punish Gates. However, the
"Daily Worker" has been on the
skids for some time. The climate
being what it is, some observers see
the move as a Party tactic to con­
centrate Its energies in front
groups, because very few want to
be openly associated with Commu­
nist Party activities these days.

. The "independent" line being
talked up by the Gates faction
could be a useful delaying, action,
with the Party lying low and wait­
ing for the day it is appropriate to
sing Moscow's praises again. It is
pointed out that groups who fol­
low the Party line, but are not
openly associated with the Com­
munists, have been more success­
ful in bucking the anti-Conununist
tide. Prominent among them are
outfits like the International Long­
shoremen's and Warehousemen's
Union, headed up by Harry
Bridges, who have been able to

Notify Union
On LOG Mail

As Seafarers know, copies of
each issue of the SEAFARERS
LOG are mailed every two
weeks to aU SIU ships as well as
to numerous clubs, bars and
other overseas spots where Sea­
farers congregate ashore. The
procedure for mailing the LOG
involves calling all SIU steam­
ship companies for -the itiner­
aries of their ships. On the
basis of the information sup­
plied by the ship operator, three
copies of the LOG, the head­
quarters report and minutes
forms are then airmailed to the
company agent in the next'port
of calL

Similarly,' the seamen's clubs
get various quantities of LOGs
at every mailing. The LOG is
sent to any club when a Sea­
farer so requests it . by notifying
the LOG office that Seafarers
congregate there.

As' always the Union would
like to hear promptly from SIU
ships whenever the LOG and
ship's mail is not delivered so
that the Union can maintain a
day-to-day check on the accu-.

maintain their position with far
more success than the Party itself.

The "Worker" had a difficult
time of it trying to cover up for
the crushing of the Hungarian
rebellion as some of its own staff
members and many case-hardened
Party members bombarded it with
critical letters attacking the Soviet
action. Since then, many of these
people have dropped out, leaving
the Party to the hard-core Stalinists
led by Foster.

One direct result of the Hun­
garian rebellion was a very sharp
decline in the financial support for
the "Worker" which forced it to cut
back to four pages recently.

Poultry Group
In Union Bid

LAKEWOOD, NJ—Eggs with a
union label are the announced
objective of the New Jersey Coun­
cil of Poultry Farmers Coopera­
tive Unions, AFL-CIO, recently
organized here.

The group is now establishinjK a
monthly newspaper to promote
the sale of union-produced eggs
and poultry. In the hopes of drum­

ming up sympathetic support
among consumers as well as among
union members who handle and
package their product en route to
the supermarket.

The group is an affiliate of the
National Agricultiural Workers Un­
ion, AFL-CIO, which has been at­
tempting to enroU farmers and
farm laborers in various sections
of the country.

Seattle On
Slow Side

SEATTLE—It has been a slow
p^iod on the shipping side with
01^ one vessel, the Ocean Joyce
(Ocean Transport) paying off and
signing on during the last two
weeks.

There were five Vessels, the
Massmar, Marymar, Yorkmar (Cal-
mar); City of Alma and the Yaka
(Waterman) In transit. AU vessels
were reported eledn with only
minor beefs.

The men on the beach and their
famlUes. enjo^ fine. Christmas
dinner ilt tiib Kilowatt Restaurant

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Black gang members Antonio Cruz, Joe R. More and Julio Soils (top, left) take their leisure on the
deck of the Emilia. L T. Knight, MM^ takes his on the beach to escape the chipping noise on the Del
Sol. Photo by Jose F. Santiago. Above (left), Korean women are shown handling the chipping chores
on the- deck of the Ocean Deborah. The trio at right, from the Wacosta, includes ABs Laurence
Anderson, L. Stone and A1 Glassner ashore in Bremen, Germany.

STIIL VOYAOIR QiHimlan), Nov.
IS—Cholrman, R. ionow Saorotary. A.
Hunt. Ona man hoapltallsadi two men
laid uy with flu. Dlapnta resardins
elaanlns chorai. Scraan doora needed
for meaa haU. Beer conflacated from
foc'ala. Shlp'a fund SIS. Cook misaed
ahlp. rejoined In Suei. Motion to
tranafer messman becauae of Unsatia-
factory aervice. New delegate elected.

OIL MAR (Mitt.), Nov. 17—Chair­
man, R. Slough, Jr.; Saerafary, C.
Dowling. Food not to be prepared
too far in advance—members urged
to be patient for their ordera. No
beefa. Sample letters of protest re:
closing of hospitals to be posted, to­
gether with names, address of Sena­
tors and Representatives. Delegate
will mall letters—each man urged to

write at least 10 letters. Ship's fund
S144. Report accepted. New delegate
elected.

FLORIDA STATR (Fence), llov. 31—
Chairman, O. Laa; Saeretary, M. Dad­
dy. Washing machine agitator to be
repaired. Crew to use officer's ma­
chine In meantime. Ship's fund
S15.24. Some disputed ot. Request
Installation of safety cut-off switch
for washing machine. Bulkhead-type
mirrors requisitioned . for crew's
quarters.

STEEL ADMIRAL (Isthmian), Nov.
17—Chairman, D. Dean; Secretary, L.
Guaiinltz. Awaiting water analysis.
Sickness aboard. Discussion on broken
tables; economy and cooperation on
food surplus.

KATHRYN (Bull), Nov. 30—Chair­
man, none;. Secretary, none. Every­
thing in good shape, with exception
of exhaust fans In bathrooms not
working. Will be taken care of this
trip—mparts ordered. Report accepted.

Nov. 17—Chairman, F. Cornier; Sec­
retary, M. Zelontka. Request change
Ivory soap to Lifebuoy or Palmolive.
Everything ship-shape.

WAND ARCHER (Marine Bulk), Nov.
10—Chairman, S. Tlllatt; Secretary,
L. Hail. Repair list to be submitted.
One man hospitalized—^replaced. Dis­
cussion on money draws. No Ameri­
can money aboard. Master and crew
dissatisfied — refer to Union to
straighten company out In this mat­
ter. Motion to set up fund for ship's
business—iSOc per man to start. Bath­
rooms to be' checked by engineer.
Rooms to be checked for fans!

ALCOA CORSAIR (Alcoa), Nov. 10—
Chairman, T. Costello; Seeretsry, J.
Prastwood. Ship's fund $181,. Several
hours disputed ot. Collection of $93
for brother who left ship ill. Report
accepted. 'Vote of thanks to out-going
delegate. New delegate elected. Dis­
cussion on Trinidad shore gang run­
ning around ship, also slamming of
doora when off-watch is sleeping; un­
necessary noise. Return dirty cups
to pantry.

STEEL ADVOCATE (Isthmian), Oct.
37—Chairman, W. MItchail; Secretary,
A. Shrlmpton. Ship's fund $16.16.
Few hours jlisputed ot. Request for
mora coffeo mugs: menu to bd worded
in good American rather than hotel
French: serving ham steaks. Steward
asked for crew's cooperation in taking
linen inventory.

$EATRAIN NEW JERSEY (Saatrain),
Nov. 34—Chairman, A. Whitmer; Sae­
retary, P. Patrick. 80 hrs. disputed
ot. Report accepted. Motiou to re­
lieve delegate oh duty to give his re­
port. New delegate elected. Sug­
gestion to have meetings oh Saturday
night. Repair list to be made up for
each dept.

STEEL NAVIOATOR (Isthmian),
Nov. II—Chairman, J. McLaren; Sec­
retary, P. Harayo. Repair lists turned
In to captain—^repairs now being
made. Steward willing to cooperate
with crew and wants suggestions and
beefs brought to his personal atten-

tlott and ha will sattte same to bast
of hU ability. Ship's fund $18.39. Few
hours disputed ot which will be taken
care of before payoff. Coffee um to
be replaced in States. Need new
washing machine and new coffee um.
Dinner meats to be served hot from
galley. Mora care In washing of cups
and glasses urged. No discrimiiution
to be shown on ship.

OCEAN EVELYN (Ocean Trans.),
Nov. 17—Chairman, P. Claary; Saere­
tary,' C. Barg. One man missed ship
In Ma^a, rejoined in Formosa. Few
beefs (o be taken up with patrolman.
New . wringer needed. Need new
washing machine. One man hospitai-
Ized In Okinawa. Slilp's fund $4.23.
One man missed ship in Formosa.
Question of number of men required
to replace tank tops to be taken up
at payoff—whether ot and If all hands
are required. Radio operator to post
MTD news.

MANKATO VICTORY (Victory Car­
riers), Nov. 17—Chairman, W. Har­
well; Secretary, A. Spaneda. Ship'a
fund $41.30. Suggestion to purchase
$15 worth of magazines. All dogs
need greasing: port holes on foc'sles.
Each member to donate to ship's
fund.

MARORE (Ore), Nov. 17—Chairman,
D. Stone; Secretary, R. Murry. One
man missed ship in Bait. Ship's fund
$29.02. Report accepted. Check food
coming aboard—food is short. Stew­
ard claims he caimot get more food.

L0N6VIEW VICTORY (Victory Car­
riers), Nov. 3—Chairman, W. Lewis;
Secretary, R. Irlzarry. Six new mat­
tresses put aboard. Ice box doors
repaired. Small repairs to be done
at sea. Valves to be fixed In mess-
room radiator. Ship sailed messman
short. Some disputed ot. New dele­
gate elected. Need replacement for
steward dept. Draw to be in US
dollars. e

DEL ORO (Miss.), Nov. 3—Chairman,
D. Ramsay; Sacratary, H. Gardes.
Clean ship at payoff. No beefs, no
logs, no disputed ot. New delegate
elected. Ship's fund $3.68. Purchased
books. Ship to lay up for strapping
on completion of voyage. Report ac­
cepted. Safety meetings to be held
by all depts. and delegates to be
elected. Discussion on use of maga­
zines and books—to be returned to
messroom. Discussion on food policy.
Steward Informed crew of food policy
by SIU. This has been carried out
for past two voyages. Notices posted
concerning same..

CHiWAWA (Cities Service), Nov. 31
—Chairman, A. Allalne. Secretary, W.
Dickens, Few hours disputed ot. Re­
port accepted. New delegate elected.
Suggestion that slamming of doors be
discontinued and return knives to
galley: men getting off ship to strip
bunks and turif in soiled linen: leave
rooms clean.

ALCOA RANGER (Alcoa), Nov. 17—
Chairman, J. Ruada; Secretary, none.
Some disputed ot. Repair list sub­
mitted. Keep pantry clean: extra.
linen to be turned over to BR. Do
not throw cigarettes in shower.

MAXTON (Pan-Atlantic), Nov. If—
Chalrntan, P. Cathcart; Secretary, D.
Bordeaux. Contact patrolman on
posting sailing board. Ship's fund
$22.50. One man missed ship. Ona
man getting off.

ELIZABETH (Bull), Nov. If—Chair­
man, none given; Secretary, none
given. No beefs, all depts. in good <
shape. Bosun's room needs heat. Re­
ports accepted. Ship in good shape.

SEATRAIN LOUISIANA (Seatrain),
Nov. 17—Chairman, J. Glenif. Secre­
tary, B. Williams. Ship's fund $85.04.
Few hours disputed ot. Report ac­
cepted. See patrolman about payment
of disputed ot. All extra and soiled

Jinen to be turned in, in order to get
full count. Suggestion to have Thanks­
giving dinner Nov. 28 because ship
will be in port Nov. . 28. All agreed,..

CHIWAWA (Cities Service), Dec. S—
Chairman, W. Tatum; Secretary, W.
Dickens. One man sick—will see doc­
tor on arrival. Deck delegate elected.
Two men getting off. Report accepted.
See patrolman about fresh stores—
eggs put aboard are spoiled. Repair
list to be made up and submitted.

M V DEL CAMPD (Delta), Nov. 34—
Chairman, G. Champlln; Sacratary, C.
Braux. New delegate elected. Ship's
fund $16. New secretary and treasurer
elected. Repair list to be made up '
soon as possible—repairs to be made
before arrival. Vdte of thanks to
steward dept. Return books to library
after' reading.

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Pa^ ThlHeca

Urges No More
Cliques On Ships
To the EdttoR

I have a gripe! May I present
It this way?

How do yoa part your hair?
Is It important to your job?
Do you feel it should be an ob­
ject for kidding or sarcasm
from your fellow workers? Is
it anybody's business but your
own?

Harmony among employees
who work together every dAy

letters To
The Editor

All letters to the editor for
publicattbn in the SEAFAR­
ERS LOG must be riemed
by the writer. Names will
be withheld upon request.

is very essential, especially in
the confined area alraard ship.
When men work together, there
is no time for petty jealousies,
taking sides or indulging in
moods. Whether you like it or
not, the men around you are
the men you are going to be
working with for quite a while.
Why not get along?

Personalities have no place
when there is a job to be done.
Joining up with others to form
a clique is not the answer. Ac­
cept your fellow man as you
find him; he has a right to live,
too. The Union is here'for the
benefit of ail the men, not one
or severaL Every man should
have an equal part and each
should do the best job he- can.

Cliques are a dangerous
thing. They are small time and
petty, and lead to only one
thing: trouble!

• Why do men who have the
protection of their Union -and
their job indulge in petty jeal­
ousies and fights? If you don't
like your job, get another one.
Nobody but yourself is stopping
you.

The Union is here to do a
j(d} by protecting our jobs,
looking out for our best Inter­
ests and producing the best
men it can to get these jobs
done. Why not have, the Union
send a representative aboard
the ships to protect each man's
God-given rights and end the
squabbling, fighting, and cliques
which are so prevalent today?

Tony Nottage

Swedish^Shlp is
Tops in Styling
To the Editor:

Recently it was my pleasure
to visit the M/S Stiireholf, a
fine Swedish ship that has such
radically-advanced concepts of

I* design that this country could
take notice and perhaps build a
similar ship of its own.

In additioirto the fine, sweep­
ing superstructure, elegant sa­
lons and passageways, each
foc'sle is also designed for fine
living. Nice roomy cabins for-
the crew are done up in the
most expensive woods and are
designed with beautiful lockers
and drawer space that are de­
lightful to touch.

Here solid woods enrich the
design more effectively than
veneers. Deep penetrating oils
bring out the warm brown
ebony fig;ures of the wood and
emphasize the exquisite siurface
quality of the finish. Exposed
tenons join tops and sides, com-
tributing an important design
element.

The messrooms are cafeteria

modern, and are ako the last
word in comfort. All of the rest
of the utility rooms are just as
modem, which gives this, ship
an extra-added look. In fact,
one gets the impression he is.
on a regular passenger ship,-
rather than a mere freighter.

It's no wonder that when the
crewmembers join these iships
they stay on for long periods.
It seems nothing is spared to
retain solid comfort for the
crew. Perhaps if some of that •
money was channeled into a
central fund to provide the crew
with a health and welfare fund
and a retirement plan these
fleets would really be superior
to ours.

However, I am confident the
day will come when an alliance
will be reached among all the
unions in the interest of fair
play. Then all the brothers of
the maritime industry can join
hands to maintain the highest
traditions of the merchant ma­
rine.

H. George Horowits

Sees Xmas Bonus
A Real Assist
To the Editor:

While I am here at the Staten
Island marine hospital, I wish
to express my' appreciation tp
the SIU, its officials and all my
brother members who helped
make it possible for SIU men
here in the hospital to receive a
$23 Christmas gift.

It is a damn nice feeling to
have that when misfortune has
you laid up, as you can relax
feeling you have a fine X^ion
to back you up when you need
it. I am not only speaking of
the Christmas bonus, but also
about all the 12 months in a
year when I am proud and hon­
ored, as all my Union -brothers
are, to belong to the SIU. As
the old saying goes, it is not the
big things that count; it's the
little ones, too.

As has been said many times,
we have come a long way, and
none of it happened overnight
or came easy. It was gained
through the years from all the
little things that have made our
Union strong and honored. As
the years pass along, the SIU-
will continue-to become strong­
er, because we have whAt it
takes.

John W. Broad

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Lauds Treatment
By PHS Doctors
To the Editor:

Please convey my thanks to
all the staff at the marine hos­
pital in Manhattan Beach, Brook­
lyn, for the excellent help and
treatment they have been giving
me.

I" know that this letter alone
is not enough to express my Ap­
preciation to them, but I would
like all of them, especially Doc­
tors Hass and Lang, to know
that I'm deeply grateful for their
efforts. The kind of Uft they
give you is not available any­
where else, as we seamen all
know so well.

Pat McCann
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Welcomes Aid
By Transporter
To the Editor:

I would Uke to thank the
officers and crew of the Pan
Oceanic Transporter for their
kind and generous expression
of syrnpAthy after the tornado
struck our homa lii Groves,
Texas, on November 7, 1957.

We wish the best for all of.
yoji. \

styIe,^^done up in traditiopafe . \ Mrs. Jfphii Lager

ii>eaiEion'A
Each year at this time greetings

Jor all SIU brothers arrive at the
LOG office. Here are some of them,
reprinted with thanks. '

Greetings and salutations, and a
wish for a victorious and very
prosperous New Year and for many
years to come for our great and
powerful Union.

George H. Seeberger
t t it ' •

' From Singapore, on our way to
the Persian Gulf, greetings from
a fine ship to our brother members
wherever you are.

SS Cities Service Miami
s>

Hope you all have the happiest
New Year yet in 1958!

"Sir Chailes"
t 4« 4"

Hearty good wishes to all hands.
HaroId-"George" Horowitz

^
"Hello" to all my buddies at this

season. I wish I could be enjoying
it with some of you but I am in the
drydock at Savannah for repairs.

/- 4^ i t
- W. D. Warmack

"Zalig Nieuwjaar" or Happy
New Year to all members of the
SIU from Rotterdam, where I am
working ashore due to illness.

G. Abbema
^ ^ t.

Greetings also from the crews
of the SS National Liberty and SS
Jean Lafitte, from Ruby's Drapers
in Bombay and the Home Hotel,
Lake Charles. ---,

Seafarer Bob Reynolds poses for a farewell pfioia witfi a group of
tfie Polish Heart orphans shortly before the City of Alma left Pusan.
Third from left is Mrs. Helen Kim, housemother for the 273 young­
sters sheltered at the home.

Alma Gang Plays Santa
For Korean Orphanage

Proving again that seamen always have a soft spot in their
hearts for kids, no matter where they are, Seafarers on the
City of Alma turned out in force to help some 300 Korean
youngsters at the Polish Heart •*
Orphanage in Pusan.

Led by ship's reporter J. F.
"Big John" Wunderlich, they con­
tributed a total of 114,000 wan
plus assorted goodies to present to
Mrs. Helen Kim, housemother of
the orphanage located in the hills
above the US Army's Hialeah Com­
pound. Gifts of chewing gum and
candy were also heaped on the kids

USPHS
STATEN

W. Swilley
A. Verdemare
W. Malcewics
J. Broad
P. Seidenberg
S. SwienckoaU
O. Adama
N.. Rlchia
I.. Rhino
Xi. pitiniTnftnB

W. Shaw

HOSPITAI.
ISLAND. NY
P. King
P. Robertson
I. Sieger
J. Reyes
V. CoateUetos
S. Odegard
H. AU
C. Reyes
C. Anderson
R. Freeman
J. Matthews

USPHS HOSPXTAL
SAN FRANCISCO. CAL.

I George Aanensen C. B. Owens
Joseph H. Berger
John G. KeUy
Charles T. Nangle
Wm. A. Oswinkle

L. A. Ready
Chas. J. Sincere
WUiiam C. Watson
I.ewie A. Wilkerson

USPHS HOSPITAI.
SEATTLE. WASH.

IR. I. McLeod Joseph W. Waite
F. R. NapoU J. F. Slusarciyk

I A. W. Sadeiiwater
USPHS HOSPITAL

GALVESTON. TEXAS
I B. P. Grice OUver J. Kendrlck
I Lottie HoUiday James A. Winget

USPHS HOSPITAL
MANHATTAN BEACH

BROOKLYN. NY
J Manuel Antonana Patrick HcCann
Eladio Aris
Fortunato Bacomo
Joseph J. Bass
Melvin W. Bass
James F. Clarke
Juan Denopra
John J. Driscoll
Fabin Furmanek
Otis L. Gibbs
Joseph M. Giliard
Bart E. Guranick
Everett Haislett
Wade B. MarreU
Taib Hassen
Antonio Infante

I Thomas Isaksen
I Claude B. Jessup

Archibald McGuigan
Herbert C. Mclssac
Leo Mannaugh
Albert MartinelU
Vic MUazzo'
Joseph B. Murphy
W. P. O'Dea
C. Osinski
George G. Phifer
G. A. Puissegur
Winston E. Renny
G. E. Shumaker
Kevin B. SkeUy
Henry E. Smith
Michael Toth
Harry S. Tuttle
VirgU E. WUmoth

^SAILORS SNUG HARBOR
STATEN ISLAND. NY

Victor B. Cooper
USPHS HOSPITAL

NEW ORLEANS. LA.
Edward P. Avrard Leo Lang
William Bargone
Anthony Benedict
John W. Bigwood
Claude Blanks
Charles CantweU
L. CarrasquUlo
Thomas Caylor Jr.
George Curry
Donald Dambrlno
Ben Foster
Adelin Fruge
WUey B. Gates
Dennis Gomez
Leon Gordon
Alvin Henderson
George Hobbs
John R. Holladay
George Huber
James Hudson
William Hunter
John KeUy
ISdward G. Knapp
Antoine Landry

EASTERN SHORE STATE HOSPITAL
CAMBRIDGE. MD.

Thomas R. Lehay
USPHS HOSPITAL
BALTIMORE. MD.

Ben L. Bone F. L O'Laughlln
Allen Boone John Ossrow
David Caldwell Murray A. Plyler
Antonio Doamaral Alexander Rever

William Lawless
Isidore Levy
John Linn
Michael Muzio
Charles Nicholson
Faustlno Orjales
Peter Ortho
Milton A. Poole
Winford Powed
Ailen Ritchie
Wert A. Spencer
Jay C. Steele
Nicholas Tala
Gerald L. Thaxton
Lucien Theriot
Peter Walsh
James E. Ward
Francis Wasmer
Lloyd Wetzel
Thomas White
Clifford Wuertz
Jacob Zimmer

during one visit by Wunderlich,
Paul Finrow and Bob Reynolds.

The orphanage was started some
time ago by Mrs. Kim, who left
Poland 18 years ago and found
refuge in Korea from her politi­
cally turbulent country. A total of
273 children are sheltered at the
home under church supervision.
Most of them are under the age of
six.

Although reluctant to make a
"big deal" of their generosity. Fin-
row probably expressed the over­
all sentiments of the crew when he
commented: "Hell, what's five or
ten dollars to the*average seaman?
I'm single, with no financial wor­
ries, and make good money, thanks
to my Union. I'd spend that much
on a round,of.drinks ashore."

Reynolds added that he didn't
"want to be a softie or a pushover
for the can-shakers, but places like
that kind of tear you apart. You
just can't help trying to do some­
thing for those kids."

As a final gesture before leaving
Pusan, the crew even made use of
whatever broken dunnage they had,
which is always welcomed for fire­
wood by the Koreans. The chief
mate authorized the agent to sell
the dunnage and present whatever
he got to the orphan.nge also.

The crew urged anyone wishing
to contribute to the orphanage to
send it to the Polish Heart Orphan­
age, 220 Yungi Dong, Pusan, Korea.

Days Gone By

Ludwig Kristiansen Pon Wing
I Frederick Landry Dexter Worrell

USPHS HOSPITAL
NORFOLK. VA.

I Francis J. Boner Walter PuUiam
I BuUard Jackson George R. Trimyer

Clarence Gardner
Gorman T. Glaze
Sam Hacker
Frederick Harris
Walter Jackson
Daniel Lippy
Walter MitcheU

Joseph Roll
Eugene Roszko
August A. Smith
John A. Smith
Joseph A. WilUams
Lioyd Wilson

Eltner B. Frost
Verlon B. Jackson
Jimmie Littleton
Roy H. McCance
Louie T. McGowan
Fred MiUer
James T. Moore

USPHS HOSPITAL
SAVANNAH. GA.

John A. Muehleck
WiUie C. Sanders
Vincent San Juan
Theodore Smith
L. M. Vaughn Jr.
W. D. Warmack

USPHS HOSPITAL
BOSTON. MASS.

Edward J. FarreU George D. Rourke
Florencio Letie Leo Q. Strange
William J. Powers Steven A. Williams

MONTEBELLO
CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITAL

BALTIMORE. MD.
Francisco Bueno

USPHS HOSPITAL
FORT WORTH. TEXAS

B. F. Deibler John C. Palmer
Siegfried Gnittke Harold J. Pancost
James R. Hodges August J. Panepinto
W. E. Orzechowski

VA HOSPITAL
BOSTON. MASS.

Thomas W. KilUon
VA HOSPITAL

HOUSTON. TEXAS .
John P. WiUiamson

USPHS, HOSPITAL
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"Duke of Bourbon Street" in
New Orleans, Tony Pisono
submitted this 1944 tintype to
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"Junior! I told you to practice until daddy ahips out!"

USPHS Has Last
Say On Duty Slip

Under the SIU contract, US
Public Health Service doctors
have the final say on whether
or not a man is fit for duty. If
there is any question about
your fitness to sail, check with
the nearest USPHS hospital or
out-patient clinic for a ruling.

LOG-A-KHYTHM:

This Is Me
•By J. F. Wunderlich-

Some men will strive for riches,
They only loork 'cause they must;

Others are hungry for glory.
Careless of what it may cost.

In misery some save their pennies.
Holding the money they earn.

Then deposit them all in a bank
So they can get more in return.

I myself, I'm just a seaman,
Happy if the sun will shine; b

When ashore in a foreign port.
Having a glass of wine.

I might be poor and a wand'rer
But the world is mine and yours,

I believe it is just i heaven
Maybe you think it's a curse.

There'll always be a maiden
To share my love of life.

And when I meet the right one,
I'll take her home as my wife.

So why should I worry of riches.
When there is a woman to love,

And a tropic lagoon to anchor in
With a bright moon above?

You can keep the dollars and glory,
I'll take the loving and joy;

On my cruises around the globe
To me the world is a toy.

SIU HALL DIREdORY
SIU, A&G District

BALTIMORE 1216 E. Baltimore St
Earl Slieppard. Asent EAatern 7-4900
BOSTON 276 State St.
James Sbeehan, Agent Richmond 2-0140

4202 Canal St.
Agent
Capital 3-4089: 3-4080

HOUSTON
Robert Matthews.

LAKE CHARLES, La...
Leroy Clarke. Agent

1419 Ryan St.
HEmlock 6-5744

MOBILE 1 South Lawrence St.
Cal Tanner. Agent HEmlock 2-1754
MORGAN CITY 912 Front St.
Tom Gould. Agent Phone 2156
NEW ORLEANS 523 BlenvUle St.
Lindsey WiUiams, Agent Tulane 8626
NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn

HYaclnth 9-6600
NORFOLK 127-129 Bank ' St.
Ben Rees. Agent MAdison 2-9834
PHILADELPHIA 337 Market St.
S. CarduUo. Agent Market 7-1635
PUERTA de TIERRA PR 101 Pelayo

Phone 2 5996
.. . 450 Harrison St.

Douglas 2-5475
.2 Abercom St.

Adams 3-1728

Sal CoUs. Agent
SAN FRANCISCO
Marty Breithoff. Agent
SAVANNAH
E. B. McAuley, Agent
SEATTLE
Jelf GUlette. Agent
TAMPA 1809-1811
Tom Banning, Agent

N.

.2505 1st Ave.
EUiott ,4334

FrankUn St.
Phone 2-1323

FORT WILLIAM ...408 Simpson St.
Ontario Phone: 3-3821

PORT COLBORNE >.103 Durham Sk
Ontario Phone; 5591

TORONTO. Ontario 272 King Sk E.
EMpire 44719

VICTORIA. BC 617% Cormorant St.
^ EMpire 4531
VANCOUVER, BC 298 Main St.

Pacific 3468
SYDNEY. NS 304 Charlotte St.

Phone: 6346
BAGOTVILLE. Quebeo 20 Elgin St

Phone: 545
THOROLD. Ontario 52 St. Davids St

CAnal 7-3202
QUEBEC 44 Sault-au-Matelot

QOebec ,/ Phone: 3-1369
SAINT JOHN 177 Prince WUliam St.

NB OX 2-5431

' Great Lakes District
ALPENA, 1215 N. Second Ave.

Phone; 713-J
BUFFALO. NY 180 Main St.

Phone: Cleveland 7391
CLEVELAND 734 Lakeside Ave.. NE

Phone: Main 1-0147
DRTROrr 1038 3rd' St.

Phone: Woodward 1-6857
DULUTH . 621 W. Superior St.

Phone: Randolph 2-4110
SOUTH CHICAGO 3261 E. 92nd SV.

Phone: Essex 5-2410

WILMINGTON. Calif. .. 505 Marine Ave.
Reed Humphries, Agent Termitml 42874
HEADQUARTERS. . 675 4th Ave.. Bklyn.

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Paul HaU

ASST. SECRETARY-TREASURERS
J. Algina. Deck C. Simmons. Joint
J. VolpSan. Eng. W. HaU. Joint
B. Mooney. Std. R. Matthews. Joint

SUP
HONOLULU 16 Merchant St.

Phone 5-8777
PORTLAND 211 SW Clay St.

CApital 3-4336
RICHMOND. Calif... 510 Hacdonald Ave.

BEacon 24925
SAN FRANCISCO.. 450 Harrison St.

Douglas 2-8363
SEATTLE 2505 1st Ave.

Main 0290
WILMINGTON ...605 Marine Ave.

Terminal 43131
NEW YORK 675 4th Ave.. Brooklyn

HYaclnth 9-6165

Canadian District
HALIFAX. N.S.. 128% HoUls St.

Phone 3-8911
MONTREAL 634 St. James St. West

PLateau 8161

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Less Safety Talk
To the Editor:

I bavo ]ust read tho prize-
winning LOG editorial on the
faults of the Andrea Doria
which was reprinted In the Dec.
20th issue. It was a damn good
one.

But there are still quite a few
questions to he asked on this
score, such as what is being
done about all these unsafe and
unfit ships?

We who do so much damn

letters To
The Editor

All letters to the editor for
publication In the SEAFAR­
ERS LOG must be signed
by the writer. Names toiU
be withheld upon request.

talking in print and-so little in
action haven't too much to say.
I, for one, have seen many ships
come into port with equipment
so fouled up that you'd have to
be a fool to sail them. You'd
have to be>a fool or need a Job
so badly that your life didn't
mean much to you. Then once
you got out to sea, you'd dis­
cover for yourself what a hazard
you are on.

Before that, you were so anx­
ious to get the job you wouldn't
listen to the guy who was pay­
ing off; the job meant more than
anything else.

There are a "^at many ships
sailing today that are so unsafe
that even the rats have sense
enough to leave them, yet we
sign on and sail them and don't
complain until they crack up,
sink or blow up. Then we com­
plain because the lifeboats
wouldn't work or the davits
were frozen. These were all the
same things we talked about and
griped about while at sea, then
forgot about when the ship was
paying off because the crew was
in a hurry to get ashore and fig-
ime the next crew-would take
care of itself.

Little did they realize that by
paying off the ^hip and not say­
ing a word about its condition
they were only helping out the
company and maybe hurting
their own Union brothers. They
may not even have realized they
would he ljetter off staying on
the old ship and. fixing It up
than by paying off and taking
another one blind.

Safety is a good thing as long
as something is done about it
and goes further than idle talk.
You decide, fellows. Think about
it and when you get. through
laughing and sober up, remem­
ber someday it may be your own
life you're playing with.

- Dave Barry
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Steel King Raps
Threat To PHS
To the Editor:

The following is the text of
a letter sent to Sen. Warren G.
Magnffsen, chairman of the
Senate Interstate and Foreign
Commerce Committee, protest­
ing the action being taken by '
the Budget Bureau with a view
to gaining the shutdovm of four
USPHS hospitals.

It wati sighed Individually liy
myself and 32 other members
of the SIU imlicensed crew on
the Steel Kinf -

"Dear Senator: • , f ' ; y
"The unpredictable e'fideavors

of the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare ^ave
again b^en brought to light.
Their impelling aim of trying
to presenCus with unchallenge­
able authority and affect a per­
manent purge of seamen from
the USPHS.

"Yes, Senator, we are des­
tined to he stripped ... and
we don't like it!!"

Wallace J. Lanasa
Shlp^s delegate

4" t 4"

Asks Payment
On Old Debts
To the Editor:

I've always been in favor W'
guys who fight for their rights
as long as they don't take ad­
vantage of those who can't fight
hack.

In my own case, 1 have been
disabled for some time and feel
some people have been taking
advantage of me in a way that
hurts. When 1 was able' to go
out and make more money I did
not care aBout it, hut now that
I can't I think it's about time
those who owe me money should
pay hack what they ho^iestly
owe.

1 don't think any names
should be mentioned at this
time because these men know
what the score is. I'd just like to
say that any monies owed me
would he appreciated at this
time. My address is 20 Grand
Ave.. Hicksville, NY. , -

Jimmy HaWlton

Recalls 'Worst'
Voyage in 1905
To lift Editor:

1 received the SIU disability
benefit check and the Christ­
mas bonus yesterday, for which
1 am very grateful.

1 havp a lot of time I don't
know what to. do with since our
hall here in Miami closed, down,
so 1 have spent the last few

Refired Senafarer B." M.
Larsen offers a stern view
of fiis frihdel of a brig ho
sailed on bock in 1905.

months making a replica of a
brig on which 1 made a trip
from Port Arthur, Texas, back
in 1905. If 1 had the .exact dates
of that voyage 1 probably could
capitalize on it for some maga­
zine or newspaper, because it
really is unbelievable what a
sailing skipper could get by
with 50 years ago. ,

This was what would be an
unbelievable stoiy of the worst
trip 1 ever made during my 50
years of seafaring. The voyage
irom Port Arthur on board the
brig, the Frances S. HampshirS,
ended in Brooklyn 32 days later
during Abe faU of 1905., The
navigation waa done by our
buccaneer sWp^jBr,, Captain Van
Born. ..

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Summary Of Events In 7957
(Continued from page 16)

ment-owned Canadian Nation^ Steam-
ahips, Ltd., brought the Canadian Prime
Minister into the dispute. A settlement
was seen imminent aftei> the failure of
company strikebreaking tactics that in>
eluded the transfer of its eight ships to
Trinidad registry. This got nowhere when
neither West Indian nor British seamen
would man the "hot" ships, and the In­
ternational Transportworkers* Federation
firmly supported the Canadian Seafarers.

Washington Atis
On Ship Issues

A key role for the merchant marine in
US defense planning seemed assured at
year's-end despite the advent of sputnik
and contradictory "policy" statements from
the Pentagon. This buoyed hopes that ship
construction funds would be restored.
Congress cut over-all foreign aid funds but
authorized more surplus agricultural sales
including shipments to "friendly" Com­
munist nations, so that US ships returned
to Poland after a 20-year absence. Appro­
priations for USPHS hospitals were in­
creased, but right after adjournment the
budget bureau took steps seeking a shut­
down of four hospitals.

Ship operators finally won the right to
24-hour quarantine in US ports, providing
they paid the Inspectors' OT bills . . . Pro­
posals for strict limits on ship transfers
got nowhere, but won a key backer in

Labor Secretary James Mitchell. At the
same time, "runaway-ship" operator Robert
Anderson became Treasury Secretary.

A strong protest finally convinced the
Defense Department that US rather than
foreign seamen should man strategic mis­
sile test ships . . . The Coast Guard's dis­
credited profiling system for screening out
seamen popped up in the report of a spe­
cial Commission on Government Security.

SlU Organizing
Gains Mount

A new string of organizing successes
were scored by the SIU, bringing thou-

the first union contract for marine em­
ployees with a major company, Phillips
Petroleum. In rapid order, other pacts
set a pattern of $50-$75 more per month
in base pay alone for the men involved.

The largest tugboat operator in the Gulf
was also brought under contract again
after a 33-day strike at G&H Towing . . .
Similar victories at shoreside marine
plants in many ports and a series of vir­
tually unanimous SIU victories in elections
covering Baltimore tugboatmen also high­
lighted the year ... In Houston, when the
SIU asked an election covering two boats,
they were chartered to an operator already
under SIU-HIWD contract so the men got
a $125 monthly pay increase without even
having to vote.

Top Marine
News Items

SIU broke into tideiands Held or­
ganizing tugs and service vessels.

sands of workers vast gains in wages and
benefits. The SIU's Harbor & Inland
Waterways Division cracked the Gulf tide-
lands oil industry wide open by winning

A top news story for the year, revolving
around the Russian sputniks, brought on a
call for merchant ships to act as spotters
of the man-made moons . . . The Suez
Canal reopened in April, ending the need
for ships to make the long, dreary voyage
around A.'rica. There was little enthusiasm
thereafter to build standby pipelines for
moving Persian Gulf oil in the event of a
new Suez crisis. Ambitious tanker-building
programs also fell by the wayside.

The Panama Canal was confronted with
a crisis of its own when long dry spells
lowered the level of Gatun Locks to the

danger point for many big ships and emer­
gency measures had to be invoked . . .
Work on the "big" seaway steadily ad­
vanced, and there was talk of a "little
seaway" to Unk Montreal and New York
via Lake Champlain and the Hudson . . .
At long last a start was made on a shortcut
to the sea for the port of New Orleans,
and a plan dating back to Napoleon I for
a tunnel under the English Channel link­
ing Britain and France was revived.

Ships in the Far East were right on the
spot for the first wave of the Aslaa fin
virus long before it started an epidemic of
scare headlines In stateside newspapers ...
Cigarette sales rose In spite of new "evi­
dence" linking smoking and lung cancer,
which got a big push from the prohibition­
ists as well. Teetotalers cited another set
of statistics to show that smoking and
"excessive" drinking were lethal also. It
was a year when even an innocent coffee
break once or twice a day was called bad
for the health, and a little snooze on the
boss' time was suggested instead.

The actual wreck of the old mutiny ship
Bounty was found by a skindiver, and the
vaunted replica of the Pilgrim ship May­
flower nearly capsized at her launching.
She finally made it across the Atlantic
into Plymouth, Mass., under tow but in­
stead of staying left for New York and
Miami where the tourist trade was better
. . . Least surprising news item of '57 was
Harry Bridges' statement to a national TV
audience that the Commies were better
than ever and that there weren't enough
of them in the labor movement.

Herman Cooper & 'Lidford Law'
(Continued from page 4) | ute. As a matter of fact, you drew

what I am talking about. That is
exactly what I thought."

Anotlier pa.ssage reads as fol­
lows:

SENATOR ERVIN. "Wait a min-

the resolution, the proposed reso­
lution, suspending Sims before the
charges on which he was to be sus­
pended were prepared and
served?"

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MR. COOPER. "1 think that is
so."

SENATOR ERVIN. "In other
words, you draw up what is equiv­
alent to a verdict of guilty before
the indictment is even present­
ed . . ."

MR. COOPER. "Well you can
place fbat construction on it, but
I tell you this is customary prac­
tice in courts, in administrative
agencies and elsewhere. There is
nothing unusual about that. Sena­
tor."

SENATOR ERVIN. "Having
spent a large part of my life in
courts, I have never yet heard of
drawing up a verdict, which is to
be rendered in a case before the
charges are preferred against the
person against whom the verdict
is to be rendered. This is the first
time I have ever heard of it in
human history."

MR. COOPER. "Senator, per­
haps I did not make myself clear."

SENATOR ERVIN. "You made
yourself too clear."

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Discussion then developed on

why Sims was not present at the
hearing at which he wa.s charged
and why the board did not wait
after it made its findings before
notifying Sims and acting on the
charges.

MR. KENNEDY. "I think It is a
little peculiar to have a meeting
at 2 o'clock in the morning, an ex­
ecutive board meeting at 2 o'clock
in the morning, not inform any­
body that it is going to take place,
and then suspend somebody. If
that is the way you operate, fine.
You are the attorney and you have
advised them to do it."

". . . Would you tell the commit­
tee why you would not want to
wait unti! the following morning
at 10 o'clock?"

MR. COOPER. "The resolution
will indicate the reasons why . . .
It was to provide an interim or­
derly method "

MB. KENNEDY. "They could
not do it from 2 AM to 10 AM?
You could not wait eight hours?"

MR. COOPER. "For a variety of
reasons which I submit the reso­
lution spea^ for itself . , ."

(This is'the second of a series
of articles on Mr* Cooper.! '

RECENT ARRIVALS
All of the following SIU families have received a $200 maternity
benefit plus a $25 bond from the Union in the baby's name:

Robert Owen Brooke, born De­
cember 1, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Osborne M. Brooke, Prichard,
Alabama.

Charles Robert Brown, born De­
cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Robert Brown, Houston,
Texas.

Terry Ray Casanova, born No­
vember 22, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Ray H. Casanova, New Or­
leans, La.

Wanda Mae Crawford, born No­
vember 11, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Willie D. Crawford, Jackson­
ville, Fla.

Robert Sidney Cutrer, bom De-
cembe 7, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. George S. Cutrer, Mobile, Ala.

Robert M. Espino, born October
28, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. An-
tanasio Espino, San Francisco,
Calif.

Bobbie Sue Faircloth, born De­
cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and

Mrs. John W. Faircloth, Crichton,
Ala.

Therese Denise Gibson, born De­
cember 7, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Samuel L. Gibson, Chickasaw,
Ala.

Karen Ann Gouldinan, born De­
cember 6, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs, James I. Gouldman, Mctairie,
La.

Terry Thomas LeMau-e, born
November 20, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. George T. LeMaire, Balti­
more, Md.

Dorothy Louise McDonald, born
December 11, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. Sam W. McDonald. Mobile,
Ala.

William McLaughlin, born No­
vember 11, 1957, to Seafarer and
Mrs. John F. McLaughlin, Balti­
more, Md.

Grace Principe, born December
1, 1957, to Seafarer and Mrs. Rob­
erto Principe, Santurce, PR.

The deaths of the following Sea
farers have been reported to the
Seafarers Welfare Plan and the
SIU death benefit is being paid to
their beneficiaries.

Leo B. DeLoach, .33: Brother
DeLoach died on
December 5,1957,
in Mobile, Ala­
bama. Death was
caused by a ma­
lignant condition.
He became a full
member of the
Union on May 15,
1946, and sailed
in the steward

department. Brother DeLoach is
survived by his wife, Mary Nell
DeLoach, of Chickasaw, Alabama.
Burial took place in Pine Crest
Cemetery. Mobile, Alabama.

4> ^
Franeiseo A. Bartulomei. M:

Brother Bartulomei died of a heart

condition on November 5, 1957, in
San Juan, Puerto Rico. He became
a full member of the Union on
May 11, 1946, and sailed in the
engine department. Brother Bar­
tulomei is survived by his wife,
Jovita C. Bartulomei, of Mayaguez,
Puerto Rico. Burial took place in
Municipal Cemetery, Mayaguez,
PR.

^ 4 4>
Charles E. Spencer, 65: A heart

condition caused
the death of
Brother ,Spencer
on November 25,
i957, in Pinson,
Alabama. Ho be­
came a full mem­
ber of the Union
on December 17,
1638, and was
sailing in the

deck department. Brother Spencer
is survived by bis wife, Lola Sjien-
cer; of Birmingham, Alabama.' i



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9 OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION • ATLANTIC AND GULP DISTRICT • AFL-CIO •

liiiiii The SlU In 1957

Notable for many outstanding de­
velopments, 1957 will probably be
remembered most as the year that
saw the untimely end of the Harry
Lundeberg era; that brought 70-
year-old sailors to the forefront of the
seamen's movement via the American Coal
beef and produced impressive strides to­
ward maritime labor unity.

A variety of memorable "firsts" were re­
corded, among them the opening of the
first three SIU medical centers. The first
union contracts were won by the SIU in
the growing Gulf Tidelands oil industry.
The first US wine tanker, "roll-on-roll-off"
ship as well as the first true "lift-on"
trailership all went into service. A hint
of the future was the start of construction
on the first atom-powered merchant ship.

It was a year the SIU built a new string
of organizing and election victories; when
too much ballyhoo turned the "good will"
ship Mayflower 11 into a tourist attraction;
and the traditional "women and children
first" disaster rule came under attack. At
the same time, the Suez Canal reopened
and the Panama Canal almost dried up.

1957 also saw Robin Line jobs taken off
then put back on SIU shipping boards
where they belonged, in the face of a
National Maritime Union raid. It also was
the year the Seafarer Welfare Plan ex­
panded its list of no-cost benefits for Sea­
farers and their families to a new high of
16 items.

Kern Hills
Opens Clafh

SIU crewmen on the tanker Kern Hills
eaimed world-wide recognition last spring
when they sailed the first American ship
through the disputed Gulf of Aqaba into
the Israeli port of Elath. Their action
eventually paved the way for an opinion

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Israeli troops shown guarding SlU-
manned Kern Hills in Elath.

by the State Department that the Aqaba
straits were international waters and all

' ships were entitled to free passage. For its
part, the Kern Hill was blacklisted and re­
fused services in Arab ports.

SIU Aid To
Other Unions

The SlU's traditional policy of aiding
other unions and various worthy causes
made the headlines again, when Seafarers
volunteered their help in the clean-up
work after last summer's Hurricane
Audrey. In the wake of the devastation
caused by the big blow along the
Louisiana-Texas coast, AFL-CIO building
tradesmen and SIU men from the New
Orleans and Lake Charles halls won
plaudits for their work in erecting 25 new
homes for Louisiana hurricane victims.

On the union front, the American Guild
of Variety Artists presented the SIU in

, Philadelphia with a plaque expressing
thanks for Seafarers' aid in various local

p beefs . . . In Puerto Rico, similar recogni­
tion for SIU assistance came from the In­
ternational Brotherhood of Longshore-

SIU Fought
Major Beefs
- The biggest beefs of 1957, which are

carrying over into the New Year, are
American Coal with its famous battle of
the oldtimers, the NMU's raid on the
Robin Line and the Bull Line strike. The
year 1957 opened with Seafarers picket­
ing American Coal ships in New York,
Baltimore and Savannah in protest against
company discrimination against the SIU.

Group of SIU of NA oldtimers on
American Coal's Cleveland Abbe.

Previously mates and engineers had struck
the ships because the company signed a
contract with a paper local union. District
50 of the United Mine Workers, which is
part-owner of the company.

The NMU's support of the paper local
contract led to a breach of its 20-year al­
liance with the Marine Engineers Bene­
ficial Association, and the subsequent en­
trance of MEBA into the Maritime Trades
Department.

Following a court order on hiring, SIU
oldtimers from all districts vied for the
coal ship jobs in a still-continuing fight.
At last report, the company had just two
ships running of the seven it started

Harry Lundeberg,
87 Others Died

The deaths of 87 SIU men were re­
ported during the year, but the stork
delivered five times as many potential
replacements, including four sets of
twins. Two men were lost on the tug
Kay R. out of Tampa, and another, sail­
ing as mate, died in a collision involv­
ing the Navy tanker Mission San-Fran­
cisco that also took the lives of nine
West Coast crewmen.

A heart attack last January cut short
the militant career of Harry Lundeberg,

56, secretary of the
Sailors Union of the
Pacific and founder
and president of the
SIU of North America
from 19^8 on. A mem­
orial statue of Lunde­
berg will be dedicated
at SUP headquarters
this January 28 on the
anniversary of his
death. A new US

bulk carrier was renamed the SS Harry
Lundeberg in his honor last June.

Othe^ well-known SIU inen who
passecf away were ex-circus acrobat
Curt Starke, only four feet tall but a
big man in the memory of his friends;
Vic Litardi, veteran of many SIU water­
front beefs who also served as an organ­
izer of runaway ships' for the Inter­
national Transportworkers Federation,
and oldtlmer Claudio Barreiros, 64, who
died while serving on the Casimir Pul­
aski in the American Coal beef.

Lundeberg

operating, with one due to lay up, as the
coal market collapsed.

The Bull Line strike over contract gains
for Seafarers was brought to a tempor­
ary halt by a US Court injunction. How­
ever, the US Court of Appeals reversed
the injunction and a company appeal from
that reversal is currently pending in the
US Supreme. Court. The strike ran for
64 days.

The NMU's raid on Robin Line followed
purchase of this fleet by Moore-McCor-
mack last spring. Seafarers stuck to the
ships despite NMU pressure on them to
get off, and their persistence was re­
warded when the National Labor Rela­
tions Board called for an election.

So far, the SIU has won six of seven
ships voted and has been certified on
four. The last ship is scheduled to vote
next week, with the NMU making at­
tempts in court to block crewmembers
from obtaining the union of their choice.

Safety Program
ftecorcfs Cains

The SlU's industry-wide shipboard
safety program got up a full head of steam
in a year in which there were no major
disasters involving SIU A&G ships. Before
being sold, the Robin Tuxford was cred­
ited with a world safety mark of 502 days
without a lost-time accident. In their own
fleets, the Wild Ranger (Waterman), Del
Monte (Mississippi) and Steel Artisian
(Isthmian) got special safety awards and
bosun William Velazquez received a Coast
Guard citation for the rescue of a drown­
ing shipmate in 1958. SIU ships also had
their share of rescues with the Steel Ap­
prentice saving 15 Indian seamen near
Suez and the Claiborne doing the same for
43 men off a Liberian freighter in the Gulf.

The loss of twice as many passengers as
the 94 rescued by the SIU Pacific District's
Mormaesurf from an Argentine River
steamer sparked an SUP demand for
motorized lifeboats on all US vessels to
speed rescue efforts . . . Eighteen months
after the Andrea Doria disaster, there still
was no real change in world sea safety
rules to bring them up to US standards.

Union Welfare
Benefits Expand

The first SIU medical center opened in
Brooklyn to provide no-cost medical exams
for Seafarers and their families.' Two simi­
lar facilities were operating on a tem­
porary basis in New Orleans add Mobile
by December . . . The SIU Welfare Plan
also added a new benefit covering blood
transfusions and eliminated outright the

Sen. Warren Magnuson cut ribbon
opening first SIU Health Center.

"$50 deductible" provision so that all
hospital room and board costs were paid
from the first dollar up to $10 daily.

Active Seafarers-again walked off with
four of the five annual SIU scholarships.
The daughter Of an SIU man won the fifth
$6,000 award . . . A new SIU hall was

Trends In
Shipping

Trailerships took a firm hold in the in­
dustry, with four types in use or planned.
Pan-Atlantic brought out converted C-2s
modified to load and discharge 225 trailer
vans via moveable deck cranes, a refine­
ment of its earlier "lift-on" tankers. Sea-
train planned a service hauling trailer
vans on flatcars in addition to regular rail­
road boxcars. TMT's Carib Queen, tha
first true "roll-on-roll-off" vessel, got a
new lease on life after operating diffi­
culties and money troubles had idled it
most of the year.

Russia launched a 16,000-ton atomic ice­
breaker and the US commissioned its third
nuclear sub. Performance flgares on the
first atom snb, the Naatilas, showed it had
traveled 60,000 miles on its original charge

Lift-on ship Gateway City came
out with radically-new cargo gear.

of nuclear fnel about the size of a golfbaU.
"The upgrading program for World War

11 Libertys was termed a success, but 100
of the oldest ones were ordered scrapped
anyway . . . Mississippi signed up for a
$160 million fleet replacement program
after rejecting merger offers from Lykes
. . . Tests showed a good hull paint job
could add half a knot to a ship's speed ...
Shore leave for supertanker crewmen be­
came a problem when some ships began'
unloading into pipeline "terminals" IH
miles offshore.

Sea Labor
Unity Crows -

Virtually all marine unions were united
in the AFL-CIO Maritime Trades Depart­
ment in 1957, including a former CIO
affiliate, the Marine Engineers Beneficial
Associaiiuii. AFL-CIO president George
Meany reiterated that MTD was the "one
place ... in the AFL-CIO trade union
structure" for all marine unions. Twelve
international unions are now members of
MTD.

A referendum on an interim program
leading to final merger in 1960 by the SlU-
affiliated Brotherhood of Marine Enginr -:•«
and the MEBA was already underway ...
The two AFL-CIO radio officers unions
also negotiated a no-raiding and mutual
assistance pact.

The same joint action which had estab­
lished the Marine Cooks & Stewards Union
on West Coast ships was continued under
the banner of the SIU Pacific District,
composed of the Sailors, Firemen and

, Cooks. It produced greater contract gains
as well as increased benefits under a
merged pension plan for members of all
three unions .. . With broad labor support,
Harry Bridges' longshore unioii was'
whipped in two separate raids on SIU-
affiliated fishery unions in Los Angeles
Harbor and Alaska. .

A demonstration of international labor
unity behind the SIU Canadian District in
its six-month strike against the govern- j

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CONSTITUTION
Seafarers Infernatienal Union A&G District AFL-CIO

(As Amencfecf, August, 1956)

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PREAMBLE
We, the Seamen and Fishermen* of America, realizing

^ the vdue and necessity of a thorough organization of sea­
faring men, have determined to form one union, the
SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL UNION OF NORTH
AMERICA, to embrace aii seamen and fishermen of North
America. Canada, Alaska, and the Territories, based upon
the following principles:

Whatever right belongs to one member belongs to all
members alike, as long as they remain in good standing
In the Union.

First of these rights is the right of the American sea­
men to receive their employment through their own
Union Halls, without interference of crimps, shipowners,
fink halls or any shipping bureaus maintained by the
Government.

That it is the right of each member to receive fair and
Just remuneration for his labor, and to gain sufficient
leisure for mental cultivation and physical recreation.

Further, we consider it our right to receive healthful
and sufficient food, and proper forecastles in which to
rest.

Next, is- the right to be treated in a decent and respect­
ful manner by those in command.

We hold that the above rights belong to all seamen
alike, irrespective of nationality or creed.

Recognizing the foregoing as our inalienable rights, we
are conscious of corresponding duties to tliose in com­
mand, our employers, our craft and our country.

We will, therefore, try by all just means to promote
harmonious relations with those in command by exercis­
ing due care and diligence in the performance of the
duties of our profession, and by giving all po'-«ible assist­
ance to our employers in caring for their gear and
property.

Based upon these principles, it is among our objects:
To use our influence indivfdually and collectively for the
purpose of maintaining and developing skill in seamen-
ship and effecting a change in the Maritime law of the
United States, so as to render it more equitable and to
make it an aid instead of a hindrance to the development
of a Merchant Marine and a body of American seamen.

To support a journal which shall voice the sentiments
of the seafaring class, and through its columns seek to

- maintain the knowledge of and interest in maritime
affairs.

To assist the seamen of other countries in the work of
organization and federation, to the end of establishing
the Brotherhood of the Seq.

To assist other bona fide labor organizations whenever
possible in the attainment of their just demands.

To*regulate our conduct as a Union and as individuals
so as to make seamanship what it rightly is—an honorable
and useful calling. And bearing in mind that we are
migratory, that our work takes us away in different direc­
tions from any place, where the majority might otherwise
meet to act, that meetings can be attended by only a
fraction of the membership, that the absent members,
who cannot be present, must have their ihterests guarded

* from what might be the results of excitement and pas­
sions aroused by persons or conditions, and that those
who are present may act for and in the interest of all,
we have adopted this constitution.^
STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES AND DECLARATION

OF RIGHTS
In order to form a more perfect union, we members

of the Brotherhood of the seamen, fishermen and allied
workers ashore—realizing the value and necessity of unit­
ing in pursuit of our improved economic and social wel­
fare, have determined to bind ourselves together in the
Seiafarers International Union of North America, Atlantic
and Gulf District, and hereby dedicate ourselves to the
following principles:

In promoting our economic and social welfare, we shall
ever be mindful, not only of our rights, but also of our
duties and obligations as members of the community,

, our duties as citizens, and our duty to combat the menace
of communism and any other enemies of freedom and
the democratic principles to which we seafaring men
dedicate ourselves in this Union.

We shall affiliate and work with other free labor or­
ganizations,'' we shall support a journal to give additional
voice to our views,-^we shall assist our brothers' of the
sea and other workers of all countries in these obligations
to the fullest extent consistent with our duties and ob­
ligations. We shall seek to exert our individual and col­
lective influence in the fight for the enactment of labor
and other legislation and poiicies which look to the at­
tainment of a free and happy society, without distinction
based on race, creed or color.

To govern our conduct as a Union and bearing in mind
that most of our members are migratory, that their duties
carry them all over the world, that their rights must and
shall be protected, we hereby declare these rights as
members of the Union to be inalienable:

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No member sliall be deprived of any of the rights or

privileges guaranteed, him under/ the Constitution of

the Union.
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Every member of this Union shall have the right t<Mrote.
No one shall deprive him of that right

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Every member shall have the right to nominate himself

for, and to hold, office In this Union.
, IV

No member shall be deprived of his membership with­
out due process of the law of this Union. No member
shall be compelled to be a witness against himself in the
trial of any proceeding in which he may be charged with
failure to observe the law of this Union. Every official
and job holder shall be bound to uphold and protect the
rights of every member in accordance with the principles
set forth in the Constitution of the Union.

V
Every member shall have the right to be confronted by

his accuser whenever he is charged with violating the law
of this Union. In all such cases, the accused shall be
guaranteed a fair and speedy trial by an impartial com­
mittee of his brother Union members.

VI
No member shall be denied the right to express himself

freely on the floor of any Union meeting or in committee.
VII

A militant membership being necessary to the security
of a free union, the members shall at all times stand ready
to defend this Union and the principles set forth in the
Constitution of the Union.

vra
The powers not delegated to the officials and job

holders by the Constitution of the Union shall be reserved
to the members.

CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I

NAME AND GENERAL FOWERS
This Union shall be known as the Seafarers Interna­

tional Union of North America, Atlantic and Gulf Dis­
trict. Its powers shall be legislative, judicial, and execu­
tive. and shall include the formation of, and/or issuance
of charters to, subordinate bodies, corporate or otherwise,
the formation of funds and participation in funds, the
establishment of enterprises for the benefit of the Union,
and similar ventures. A majority vote of the membership
shall be authorization for any Union action, unless other­
wise specified in this Constitution. This Union shall, at
all times, protect and maintain its jurisdiction over all
work which belongs to the seaman and all such work as
seamen now perform.

ARTICLE II
AFFILIATION

This Union shall be affiliated with the Seafarers Inter­
national Union of North America and the American Fed­
eration of Labor. All other affiliations by the Union or
by the Ports shall be made or withdrawn as determined
by a majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE III
MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. Candidates for membership shall be ad­
mitted to membership! in accordance with such rules as
are adopted, from time to timet by a majority vote of
the membership.

Section 2. Candidates for membership shall be
American citizens, or eligible for such citizenship. No
candidate shall be granted membership who is a mem­
ber of any dual organization or any other organization
hostile to the aims, principles, and policies of this Union.
No candidate shall be granted membership until he has
taken the following oath of obligation:^

OBLIGATION
"1 pledge my honor as a man* that I will be faithful to

this Union, and that I will work for its interest and will
look upon every member as my brother; that I will not
work for less than Union wages and that I will obey all
orders of the Union.. I promise that I will never reveal
the proceedings of the Union to its injury or to persons
not entitled to know it. And if 1 break this promise, I
ask every member to treat me as unworthy of friendship
and acquMntance. SO HELP MIB GOD!"

Section 3. Members more than one quarter in ar^
rears in dues, or more than three months in arrears in as­
sessments or unpaid fines, shall be automatically sus­
pended, and shall forfeit all benefits and ail other rights
and privileges in the Union. They shall be automatically
dismissed if they are more than two , quarters in arrears
in dues or more than six months in arrears in assessments
or unpaid fines.

This time shall not run:-
(a) While a member is actually participating in a strike

or lockout.
(b) While a ̂ member is an in-patient in a USPHS

Hospital. ; -
(c) While a member is under an incapacity due to ac­

tivity in behalf of the Union. /
(d) While a member is in the Armed Services of the

United States, provided the member was in good standing
at the time of entry into the Armed Forces, and further
provided he applies for reinstatement within tfO days
after discharge from the Armed Forces

(e) While a member has no opportunity to pay dues
because of employment aboard an American flag mer-
cnaot- \'essel.

Section 4. A majority vote of the membership shall be
sufficient to designate additional circumstances during
which the time specified in Section 3 shall not run. It.
shall be the right of any member to present, in writing,
to any Port at any regular meeting, any question with re­
gard to the appiication of Section S; in accordance with
procedures established by a majority vote of the member­
ship. A majority vote of the membership shall be neces­
sary to decide such questions.

Section 5. The membership shall be empowered to es­
tablish, from time to time, by majority vote, rules under
which dues and assessments may be remitted where a
member has been unable to pay dues and assessments for
the reasons provided in Sections 3 and 4.

Section 6. To preserve unity, and to promote the com­
mon welfare of the membership, all members of the Union
shall uphold and defend this Constitution and shall be
governed by the provisions of this Constitution and all
policies, rulings, orders and decisions duly made.

Section 7. Any member who advocates or gives aid to
the. principles and policies of any hostile or dual organiza­
tion shall be denied further membership in this Union.
A- majority vote of the membership shall decide which
organizations are dual or hostile.

Section 8. Evidence of membership or other affiliation
with the Union shall at all times remain the property of
the Union. Members may be required to show their evi­
dence of membership in order to be admitted to Union
meetings.

Section 9. Only members in good standing shall be al­
lowed to vote. . ' ^

ARTICLE IV
REINSTATEMENT •v

Members dismissed from the Union may be reinstated
in accordance with such rules as are adopted, from time
to time, by a majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE V
DUES AND INITIATION FEE

Section 1. All members shall pay dues quarterly, on a
calendar year basis, on the first business day of each quar­
ter, except as herein otherwise provided. The dues shall .
be those payable as of the date of adoption of this Con­
stitution and may be changed only by Constitutional
amendment.

Section 2. No candidate for membership shall be ad­
mitted into membership without having paid an initiation
fee of one hundred ($100.00) dollars.

Section 3. Payment of dues and initiation fees may be
waived for organizational purposes only, in accordance
with such rules as are adopted by a majority vote of the
membership.

ARTICLE VI
RETIREMENT FROM MEMBERSHIP

Section 1. Members may retire from membership by
paying all unpaid dues, dues for the quarter, in which they
retire, assessments, fines, and other monies due. and ow­
ing the Union. A retirement card shall be Issued upon re­
quest, and dated as of the day that such member accon^- .
plishes these payments and request. •

Section 2. All the rights, privileges, duties, and obli­
gations of membership shall be suspended dhring the pe­
riod of retirement, except that a retired member shall
not be disloyal to the Union nor join or remain in any
dual or hostile organization, upon penalty of forfeiture of
his right to reinstatement.

Section 3. Any person in retirement for a period of six
months or. more shall be restored to membership, ex­
cept as herein indicated, by paying dues for the current
quarter, as well as all assessments accruing and newly
levied difjring the period of retirement. If the period of
retirement is less than six J6) months, the required pay­
ments shall consist of all dues accruing during the said
period of retirement, including those for the current
quarter, and all assessments accrued and newly levied
during that period. Upon such payment, the person in
retirement shall be restored to membership, and his mem­
bership book, appropriately stamped, shall be given to him.

Section 4. A member in retirement may be restored to
membership aftei* a two-year period of retirement only
by majority vote of the membership.

Section 5. The period of retirement shall be computed
from the day as of which the retirement, card is issued.

ARTICLE VII /
SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATION

Section ]. This Union, and all Ports, Officers, Fort
Agents, Patrolmen, and members shall be governed, in
this order, by:

(a) The Constitution
(b) Majority vote of the membership
Section 2. The functions of this Union shall be ad­

ministered by Headquarters and Ports.
Section 3. Headquarters shall consist of the Seci'etary-

Treasurer, and one or more Assistant Secretary-Treas­
urers, the exact number of which shall be determined by
majority vote of the membership to be held during the
month of August in any election year, as set forth more
particularly in Article X, Section 1-D.

Section 4. Each Port shall consist of a Port Agent and
Patrolmen, as provided for herein, and the Port shall
bear the name of the city in which the Union's Port'' ;/
Offices are located, v'

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Section 5. Every member of the Union shall be regis­
tered in one of tl^ departments; namely, deck, engine,
or stewards department. The definition of these depart­
ments shall be In accordance with custom and usage.
This definition may be modified by a majority vote of
the membership. No member may transfer from one de­
partment to another except by express approval as evi­
denced by a majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE VIII
ATLANTIC AND GULF DISTRICT OFFICERS. PORT

AGENTS. AND PATROLMEN
Section 1. The officera of the Union shall be elected,

except as otherwise provided in this Constitution. These
officers shail be the Secretary-Treasurer and one or more
Assistant Secretary-Treasurers.

Section 2. Port Agents and Patrolmen shall be elected,
except as otherwise provided in this Constitution.

ARTICLE IX
OTHER ELECTIVE JOBS

Section 1. The following jobs in the Union shall be
voted upon in the manner prescribed by this Constitu­
tion:

(A) Meeting Chairman
(B) Delegates
(C) Committee Members of:

(a) Auditing Committee
(b) Trial Committee
(c) Quarterly Financial Committee
rd) Appeals Committee
(e) Negotiating and Strike Committee.

Section 2. Additional, committees may be formed as
provided by a majority, yote of the membership. Commit­
tees may also be appointed as permitted by this Consti­
tution.

ARTICLE X
DUTIES OF OFFICERS. PORT AOENTS. AND OTHER

ELECTED JOB HOLDERS
Section 1. The Secretary-Treasurer
( ) The Secretary-Treasurer shall be the Executive Of­

ficer of the Union and shall represent, and act for and in
behalf of. the Union in all matters except as otherwise
specifically provided for in the Constitution.

(b> He shall be a member ex-officio of all committees,
port or otherwise.

( ) He shall be responsible for the organization and
maintenance of the correspondence, files, and records of

. the Union; setting up, and maintenance of, sound account­
ing and bookkeeping systems; the setting up. and main­
tenance of, proper office and other administrative Union
procedures; the proper collection, safeguarding, and ex­
penditure of all Union funds. Port ..r otherwise. He shall
be in charge of, and responsible for, all Union property,
and shall be in charge of Headquarters and Port Offices.
He shall issue a weekly comprehensive report covering the
financial operations of the Union for the previous week.
Wherever there are time restrictions or other considera­
tions affecting Union action, the Secretary-Treasurer shall
take appropriate action to insure observance thereof.

<d) Subject to approval by a majority vote of the mem­
bership. the Secretary-Treasurer shail designate the num­
ber and location of Ports, the jurisdiction, status, and
activities thereof, and may close or open such ports, and
may re-assign Port Agents and Patrolmen of closed ports
to other duties, without change in wages. The Ports of
New York. New Orleans. Mobile, and Baltimore may not
be closed except by Constitutional amendment.

Where ports are opened between elections, the Sec­
retary-Treasurer shall designate the Port Agents thereof,
subject to approval by a majority vote of the membership.

The Secretary-Treasurer shall supervise'the activities
of all Ports.

Subject to approval by a majority vote of the member­
ship. the Secretary-Treasurer shall designate, in the event
of the incapacity of a Port Agent or Patrolman, a replace­
ment to act as such during the period of incapacity.

At the first regular meeting in August of every elec­
tion year, the Secretary-Treasurer shall submit to the
membership a pre-balloUng report. This report shall rec­
ommend the number and location of Ports, the number
of Assistant Secretary-Treasurers and Agents, and the
number of Port Patrolmen which are to be elected lor
each Port. It shall also recommend a bank, a bonded
warehouse, a regular officer thereof, or any other similar
depository, to which the ballots are to be mailed or de­
livered at the close of each day's voting, except that the
Secretary-Treasurer may. in his discretion, postpone the
recommendation as to the depository until no later than
the first regular meeting In October.

This recommendation may also specify, whether any
Patrolmen and/or Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, shall be
designated as departmental or otherwise. The report shall
be subject tOv approval or modification by a majority vote ,
of the membeisMp.

(e) The Headquarters of the Union shall be located in
New York. The Secretary-Treasurer shall also be the Port
Agent of that Port

(f> The Secretary-^asurer riiall be chairman of the
Agents' Conference and may cast one vote.

(g) He shall be responsible, within the limits of his
powers, for the enforcement of this Constitution, the
policies of the Union, and all rules.and rulings duly
adopted by a majority vote of <he membership. Within
these limits, he shall strive to enhance the strength, posi­
tion, and prestige of the Union.

(h> The foregoing duties shall be in addition to those
other duties elsewhere described in this Constitution, as
well as those other duties lawfully imposed upon him.

U) The f esponsibUity of the Secretary-Treasurer may

not be delegated, but the Secretary-Treasurer may delegate
to a person or persons the execution of such of his duties
as be may in his discretion decide, subject to the limita­
tions set forth in thi/ Constitution.

(j) Immediately after assuming office, the Secretary-
Treasurer shall designate one of the Assistant Secretary-
Treasurers to assume his duties in case of his temporary in­
capacity. This designation may be changed from time .to
time. These designations shall be entered in the minutes
of the Port where Headquarters is located. The provisions
of Section 2-A of this Article shall apply in the case of a
vacancy in the office of Secreta> y-Treasurer. as set forth
in that section.
• (k) Any vacancy in any office or the job of Port Agent
or Patrolman shall be filled by the Secretary-Treasurer by
temporary appointment except in those cases where the
filling of such vacancy is otherwise provided for by. this
Constitution. Such appointment shall be submitted to a
regular meeting for approval, modification, substitution of
a replacement, or postponement of a vote to a later date,
by a majority vote of the membership. In the event of the
postponement of the vote, the temporary appointment shall
remain in effect until a vote is taken.

(I) The Secretary-Treasurer is directed to take any and
all measures, and employ such means, which he deems
necessary or advisable, to protect the interests, and further
the welfare, of the Union and its members, in all matters
involving national, state or local legislation, issues, and
public affairs.

Section 2. Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
(a) In the event the Secretary-Treasurer shall be unable

to carry out his duties by reason of incapacity, the Assist­
ant Secretary-Treasurer designated in accordance with
Section 1-J of this Article shall assume the office of Sec­
retary-Treasurer during the period of such incapacity.
Upon the death, resignation, or removal from office of
the Secretary-Treasurer, succession to the office shall be-
determined as follows:

That Port Agent of the Ports of New Orleans, Mobile,
or Baltimore who received the highest number qf votes
in the last regular election shall be the first in line of
succession. The next in the line of succession shall be that
Port Agent of the said Ports who received the next highest
number of votes in that election. The next in the line of
succession shall be that Port Agent oMhe said Ports who-
received the next highest number of votes.

The Port Agents of ti}e said Ports shall also be deemed
to be Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, whether or not so
referred to on the ballots or elsewhere.

(b) The Assistant Secretary-Treasurers shall assist the
Secretary-Treasurer in the execution of the letter's duties
as the latter may direct.

(c) The Assistant Secretary-Treasurers shall be mem­
bers of the Agents' Conference and each may cast a vote
in that body.

Section 3. Port Agents
(a) The Port Agent shall be in direct charge of the

administration of Union affairs in the Port of his juris­
diction.

(b) He shail. within the jurisdiction of his Port, be
responsible for the enforcement^and execution of the Con­
stitution. Uie policies of the Union, and the rules adopted
by a majority vote of the membership. Wherever there are
time restrictions or other considerations affecting Port
action, the Port Agent shall take appropriate action to-
insure observance thereof.

(c) He shall be prepared to account, financially or other­
wise. for the activities of his Port, whenever demanded
by the Secretary-Treasiurer.

(d) In any event, he shall prepare and forward by reg­
istered mail, addressed to the Secretary-Treasurer. »
weekly financial report showing, in detail, weekly income
and expenses, and complying with all other accounting
directions issued by the Secretary-Treasurer.

(e) The Port Agent, or someone acting under his in­
structions, shall open each Port meeting and shall deter­
mine whether a quorum exists. Nothing contained herein
shall permit the Port Agent.to otherwise act as chairman
of any meeting, unless so properly designated by a
majority vote of the members present at the said Port
Meeting.

(D Each elected Port Agent may cast one vote at any
Agents' Conference.

(g) The Port Agent may assign each Port Patrolman to
such Union jobs as fall within the jurisdiction of the Port,
regardless of the departmental designation under which
the Patrolman was elected.

(h) The Port Agent shall designate which members at
that Port may serve as representatives to other organiza-
tior*. affiliation with which has been properly permitted.

(i> The foregoing is in addition to those other duties
prescribed elsewhere in this Constitution.

Section 4. Port Patrolmen
Port Patrolmen shall perform whatever duties are

assigned to them by the Port Agent.
Section 5. Meetinr Chairmen
(a) The chairman of each meeting at any Port, including;

the Port in which Headquarters is located, shall be the
presiding officer of the meeting, shall keep order under
rules of order provided for, from time to. time, by a
majority vote of the membership and, if none, then by
such rules as are adopted, from time to time, by a majori^
vote of the membership in each Port.

(b) The meeting chairman may cast a vote only in the
event of a tie.

(c) The meeting chairman shall not permit the discus­
sion of any religious subject

Seetlaa 6. Delegates

(a) The term "delegates" shall mean those members of
the Union who are elected, under the provisions of this
Constitution, to attend the convention of the Seafarers
International Union of North America.

(b) Each delegate shall attend the Convention and fuily
participate therein.
*'(c) Each delegate shall, by his vote and otherwise,

support those policies agreed upon by the majority of tho
delegates to the convention.

Section 7. Committees
(a) Auditing Committee
The Auditing Committee in each Port shall audit the

regular weekly financial report of the Port Agent and, in
writing, certify or refuse to certify said report. The
Auditing Committee for the Port where Headquarters is
located shall also audit the Secretary-Treasurer's financial
report, to which the same rules as to certification and
refusal to certify shall apply. The said report in its en­
tirety shall then be presented to the membership with
action thereon to be taken as per a majority vote of tho
membership.

(b) Trial Committee '
The Trial Committee shall conduct trials of persons

charged, and shall submit findings and recommendations
as prescribed in this Constitution. It shall be the special
obligation of the Trial Committee to observe all the re­
quirements of this Constitution with regard to charges
and trials, and their findings and recommendations must
specifically state whether or not. in the opinion of the
Trial Committee, the rights of any accused, under this
Constitution, were properly safeguarded.

(O Quarterly Financial Committee
1. The Quarterly Financial Committee shall make a

quarterly (thirteen weeki audit of the finances of Head­
quarters and each Port, shall note discrepancies where
they exist, shall report on their findings, and make rec­
ommendations. Members of this Committee may make
dissenting reports, separate recommendations, and sepa­
rate findings.

2. The report and recommendations of this Committee
shall be completed within a reasonable time after the
election of the members thereof, and shall be submitted
to the Secretary-Treasurer who shall cause the same to
be read in all Ports, at the first or second regular meet­
ing subsequent to the submission of the said report and
recommendations. ^

3. Ail Port Agents are responsible for complying with
ail demands made for records, bills, vouchers, receipts,
etc., by the said Quarterly Financial Committee.

4. No report shall be considered as complete without
an accompanying report and audit statement by a com­
petent accountant, and the Secretary-Treasurer is charged
with the selection of such an accountant, who must be
certified under state law.

5. Any action on the said report shall be as determined
by a majority vote of the membership.

(d) Appeals Committee
1. The Appeals Committee shall hear all appeals from

trial judgments, in accordance with such procedures as
are set forth in this Constitution and such rules as
may be adop^^fd by a majority vote of the membership,
not inconsistent therewith.

2. The Appeals Committee shall, within not later than .
one week after the close of the said hearing, make and
submit findings and recommendations in accordance with
the provisions of this Constitution and such rules as may
be adopted by a majority vote of the membership, not
inconsistent therewith.

(el Negotiating and Strike Committee
1. The Negotiating and Strike Committee shall repre­

sent the Union in all negotiations for contracts and
changes in contracts, with persons, firms, corporations,
or agencies, etc., wherein wages, hours, benefits, or other
terms and conditions of employment of the members of
this Union are involved.

2. Upon completion of negotiations, the Committee
shall submit a report and recommendations to the mem-^
bership of the Union at a regular or special meeting.
The Committee may also make interim reports and rec­
ommendations and submit them to the membership at a
regular or a special meeting.

3 A Port may establish a similar Committee for Itself
provided permission by a majority vote of the membership
has been obtained. In such event, the Port Negotiating
and Strike Committee shall forward its report and rec­
ommendations, together with comments by the Port
Agent, to the Secretary-Treasurer, who shall then cause
the said report and recommendations to be submitted ta
the membership of the Union at the earliest subsequent
regular or special irieeting. whichever he chooses, to­
gether with any report and recommendations which the
Secretary-Treasurer deems desirable to make. The Port
Negotiating and Strike Committee shall submit the report
and recommendations upon completion of the negotiations,
and may submit interim reports and recommendations, in
the same manner above set forth.

4. In no event shail a Negotiations and Strike Commit­
tee obligate this Union or any Port thereof, in any man­
ner. without the approval of the membership of the
Union as evidenced by a majority vote of the member­
ship.

5. A Negotiating and Strike Committee may decide
the time of entry into a strike, provided prior authority,
as evidenced by a majority vote of the membership, is
granted therefor. In all other cases, a majority vote of tho
membership shall decide when a strike shall begin. ' .

6. This Committee shall be charged with the prepara­
tion and execution of a strike plan which shall be bind­
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inay repeal, or otherwise treat or dispose .of any part or
^ of a strike plan.

ARTICLE XI
WAGES AND TERMS OF OFFICE OF OFFICERS AND

OTHER ELECTIVE JOB HOLDERS. UNION
EMPLOTEES, AND OTHERS

Section 1. The following elected offices ana jobs shall
be held for a term of two years:

Secretary-Treasurer
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer
Port Agent
Patrolman

The term of two years set forth herein is expressly
subject to the provisions for assumption of office as con­
tained in Article XIII, Sec. 6(c), of this Constitution.

Section 2. The term of any elective jobs other than
those indicated in Section 1 of this Article shall continue
for so long as is necessary to complete the functions there­
of, unless sooner terminated by a majority vote of the
membership or segment of the TTnion, whichever applies,
whose vote was originally necessary to elect the one or
ones serving.

Section 3. The compensation to be paid the holder of
any office or other elective job shaP be determined from
time to time by a majority vote of the membership.

Section 4, Subject to approval by a majority vote of the
membership, all other classifications of employees of the
Union shall be hired or discharged, as well as compensated,

. as recommended by the Secretary-Treasurer.
Section 5. Subject to approval by a majority vote of

the membership, the Secretary-Treasurer may contract
for, or retain, the services of any person, firm, or corpora­
tion, not employees of the Union, when he deems it neces­
sary in the best interests of the Union.

Section 6. The foregoing provisions of this Article do
not apply to any corporation, business, or other venture
In which this Union participates, or which it organizes or
creates.' In such situations, instructions conveyed by a
majority vote of the membership shall be followed.

ARTICLE XII
QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICERS. PORT AGENTS.

PATROLMEN, AND OTHER ELECTIVE JOBS
Section 1. Any member of the Union is eligible to be a

candidate for, and hold any office or the job of Port Agent
fir Patrolman, provided:

(a) He has at least three (3) years of seatime, in an un­
licensed capacity, aboard an American Flag merchant
vessel or vessels; if he is seeking the job of Patrolman or
Assistant Secretary-Treasurer in a specified department,
this seatime must be in that department, and

(b) He has at least four (4) months of seatime, in an
unlicensed capacity, aboard an. American flag merchant
vessel or Vessels, covered by contract with this Union, or
four (4) months of employment with, or in any office or
job of, the Union, its subsidiaries, or affiliates, or at the
Union's direction, or a combination of these, between
January 1st and the time of nomination, and

(c) He has been in continuous good standing in the
Union for at least two (2) years immediately prior to his
nomiuaiion, and

(d) He is a citizen of the United States of America.
Section 2. All candidates for, and holders of, other

elective jobs not specified in the preceding sections shall
be members of the Union.

Section 3. All candidates for and holders of elective
offices and jobs, whether elected oi appointed in accord­
ance with this Constitution, shall maintain membership in
good standing. Failure to do so shall result in ineligibility to
hrld such office or job and shall constitute an incapacity
with regard to such office or job.

ARTICLE XIII
ELECTIONS FOR OFFICERS, PORT AGENTS

AND PATROLMEN
Section 1. Nominations
Any member may submit his name for nomination for

any office, or the job of Port Agent or Port Patrolman, by
delivering or sending a letter addressed to the Credentials
Committee, in care of the Secretary-Treasurer, at the ad­
dress of Headquarters. The Secretary-Treasurer is charged
with the safekeeping of these letters and shall turn them
over to the Credentials Committee upon the letter's re­
quest. This letter shall be dated and shall contain the fol­
lowing:

(a) The name of the candidate
(b) His home address and mailing address
(c) His book number
(d) The title of the office or other job for which he is a

candidate, including the name of the Port in the event the
position sought is that of Agent or Patrolman

(e) Proof of citizenship
(f) Proof of seatime and/or employment as required for

candidates.
The letter must reach Headquarters no earlier than Au­

gust 12tb and no later than September 12th of the election
year.

Section 2. Credentials Committee
(a) A Credentials Committee shall be elected at the first

regular meeting in September of the election year, at the
Port where Headquarters is located. It shall consist
Of six members in attendance at the meeting, with two
members from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards De­
partments. In the event any Committee member is un-
abie to serve, the Committee shall suspend until the Sec­
retary-Treasurer calls a special meeting at the Port in
order to elect a replacement. The Committee's results
aball be by majority vote, with any tie vote being resolved by

a majority vote of the membership at a special meeting
called for that purpose at Headquarters Port

(b> After its election, the Committee shall immediately
go into session. It shall determine whether the person
has submitted his application correctly and possesses the
necessary qualifications. The Committee shall prepare a
report listing each applicant and his book number under
the office or job he is seeking. Each applicant shall be
marked "qualified" or "disqualified" according to the find­
ings of the Committee. Where an applicant has been
marked "disqualified," the reason therefor must be stated
in the report. Where a tie vote has been resolved by a
special meeting of the membership, that fact shall also be
noted, with sufficient detail. The report shall be signed
by all of the Committee members, and be completed and
submitted to the Ports in time for the next regular meet­
ing after their election. At this meeting, it shaU be read
and incorporated in the minutes, and then posted on the
Bulletin Board in each port

(c) When an applicant has been disqualified by the
Committee, he shall be notified immediately by telegram
at his listed addresses. He shall also be sent a letter
containing the reasons for such disqualifications by air
mail, special delivery, registered. A disqualified^ appli­
cant shall have the right to take an appeal to the mem­
bership from the decision of the Committee. He shall
forward copies of such appeal to each Port, where the
appeal shall be presented and voted upon at a regular '
meeting no later than the second meeting after the Com­
mittee's election-. It is the Tesponsibility of the applicant
to insure timely delivery of his appeal. In any event,
without prejudice to his written appeal, the applicant may
appear in person before the Committee within two days
after the day on which the telegram is sent, to correct,
his application or argue for his qualification.

The Committee's report shall be prepared early enough
to allow the applicant to appear before it and still reach
the Ports in time for the first regular meeting after its
election.

(d) A majority vote of the membership shall, In the
case of such appeals, be sufficient to overrule any dis­
qualification classification by the Credentials Committee,
in which event, the one so previously classified shall then
be deemed qualified.

le) The Credentials Committee, in passing upon the
qualifications of candidates, shall have the right to con­
clusively presume that anyone nominated and qualified in
previous elections for candidacy for any office, or the job
of Port Agent or Port Patrolman, has met all the require­
ments, of Section 1-A of Article XII.

Section 3. Balloting Procedure.
(a) The Secretary-Treasurer shall insure the proper

and timely preparation of ballots, without partiality as
to candidates or Ports. The ballots may contain general
information and instructive comments not Inconsistent
with the provisions of this Constitution. All qualified
candidates shall be listed thereon alphabetically within
each category. The listing of the Ports shall follow a
geographical pattern, commencing with the most northly
Port on the Atlantic coast, following the Atlantic coast
down to the most southerly Port on that coast, then west­
erly along the Gulf of Mexico and so on, until the list of
Ports is exhausted. There shall be allotted write-in space,
on each ballot, sufficient to jpermit each member voting to
write in as many names as there are offices and jobs to be
voted upon. Each ballot shall be so prepared as to have the
number thereon placed at the top thereof and shall be
so perforated as to enable that portion containing the said
number to be easily removed. On this removable portion
shall also be placed a short statement indicating the nature
of the ballot and the voting dates thereof.

(b) The ballots so prepared at the direction of the Sec­
retary-Treasurer shall be the only official ballots. No
others may be used. Each ballot shall be numbered as
indicated in the preceding paragraph and shall be num­
bered consecutively, commencing with number 1. A suf­
ficient amount shall be printed and distributed to each
Port. A record of the ballots, both by serial numbers and
amount, sent thereto shall be maintained by the Secre­
tary-Treasurer, who shall also send each Port Agent a
verification list indicating the amount and serial numbers
of the ballots sent. Each Port Agent shall maintain sepa­
rate records of the ballots sent him an4. shall inspect and
count the ballots, when received, to insure that the amount
sent, as well as the numbers thereon, conform to the
amount and numbers listed by the Secretary-Treasurer
as having been sent to that Port. The Port Agent shall
immediately execute and return, to the Secretary-Treas­
urer, a receipt acknowledging the correctness of the
amount and numbers of the ballots sent, or shall notify
the Secretary-Treasurer of any discrepancy. Discrep­
ancies shall be corrected as soon as possible prior to the
voting period. In any event, receipts shall be forwarded
for ballots actually received. The Secretary-Treasurer
shall prepare a file in which shall be kept memoranda and
correspondence dealing with the election. This file shall
at all times be available to any member asking for in­
spection of the same at Headquarters.

(c) Balloting shall take place in person, at Port Offices,
and shall be secret. No signature of any voter, or other
distinguishing mark, shall appear on the ballot, except
that any member may write in the nande or names of any
member .or members, as appropriate, for any office, or the
Job of Port Agent or Patrolman.

(d> No member may vote without, displaying - his
Union Book, in which there shall be placed, an appro­
priate notation of the date and of the fact of voting, both
prior to being handed a ballot, A ballot shall then be

banded to the member who shall thereupon sign his nams
on a roster sheet (which shall be kept in duplicate), to*
gether with his book number, and ballot number. ThO,
portion of the ballot on which the ballot number is printed!
shall then be remo.ved, placed near the roster sheet, and |
the member shall proceed to the voting site.

(e) Each Port Agent shall be responsible for the estab*.
iishment of a booth or other voting site where each mem* <
her may vote in privacy.

(f) Upon completion of voting the member shall fold th*
ballot so that no part of the printed or written portion It
visible. He shall then drop the ballot into a narrow-slotted
ballot box, which shall be provided for that purpose by
the Port Agent, and kept locked and sealed except at
hereinafter set forth.

(g) Voting shall commence on November 1st of Iht
election year and shall continue through December 31sl«,
exclusive of Sundays and (for each individual Port) holi­
days legally recognized in the city In which the Port
affected is located. If November Ist or December 31st
•falls on a Sunday or on a holiday legally recognized In
a Port in the city in which that Port is located, the bal­
loting period in such Port shall commence or terminatt^
as the case may be, on the next succeeding business day.
Subject to the foregoing, voting in all Ports shall com­
mence at 8:00 AM, and continue until 5:00 PM, except
that, or Saturdays, voting shall commence at 9:00 AM

• and, continue until 12 Noon, and, on regular meeting
days, voting shall commence at 9:00 AM and continue
until 7:30 PM.

Section 4. Foils Committees
(a) Each Port shall elect, prior to the beginning of th#

voting on each voting day, a Polls Committee, consisting
of three members. For the purpose of holding a meeting
for the election of a Polls Committee only, and notwith­
standing the prov* <ns of Article XXIV, Section 2, o»
any other provision of this Constitution, five (5) mem-'
hers shall constitute a quorum for each Port, with the;
said meeting to be held between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM>
with no notice thereof required. It shall be the obliga­
tion of each member wishing to serve on a Polls Com­
mittee, or to observe the election thereof, to be present
during this time period. It shall be the responsibUity
of the Port Agent to see that the meeting for the purposa
of electing the said Polls Committee is called, and that
the minutes of the said meeting are sent daily to Head­
quarters. In no case shall voting take place unless a
duly elected Polls Committee is functioning.

(b) The duly elected Polls Committee shall colled
all unused ballots, the voting rosters, the numbered stub*
of those ballots already used, the ballot box or boxes*
and the bal.ot records and files kept by the Port Agent!
It shall then proceed to compare the serial pu.mbers ani'
amounts of stubs with the number of names and corre-:
sponding serial numbers on the (roster, and then com*;
pare the serial number and the.amounts of ballots used!
with the vet fication list, as corrected, and ascertain
whether the unused ballots, both by serial numbers and
amount, represent the difference between what appears
on the veritication list, as corrected, and the ballots used.
If any discrepancies are found, a detailed report thereon
shall be drawn by the Polls Committee finding such dll*
crepancies, which report shall be in duplicate, and signed
by all the members of such Polls Committee. Each
member of the Committe. may make what separate com*
tnents thereon he desires, provided they are signed and
dated by him. A copy of this report shall be given th«
Port Agent, to be presented at the next r«>t:ular meetin|^
A copy shall also be simultaneously sent to the Secrets:
Treasurer, wlio shall cause an. investigation to be mai
forthwith. The results of such investigation shall be re­
ported to the membership as soon as completed, with
recommendations by th'* Secretary-Treasurer. A majority
vote of the membership shall determine wha) action, tf
any, shall be taken thereon, with the same effect as In­
dicated in Article I.

(c) The Polls Committee shall also insure tnai the balloi^
box is locked and sealed, which lock and seal shall no|
be opened except in the manner hereinafter set forth.
The same procedure as is set forth in the preceding para­
graph with regard to discrepancies shall be utilized la
the event the Polls Committee has reason to believe tb#
lock and seal have been illegally tampered with.

(d) The Polls Committee shall permit qualified membe:
only tq^vote. Prior thereto, it shall ascertain whether the;
are in good Standing, stamp their book with the wt..
"voted," and the date, issue ballots to voters, insure tha
proper registration on the roster takes placq, collect
stubs, and keep them in numerical order. It shall preservf
good order and decorum at the voting site and viciniti
thereof. All members and others affiliated with the UnlOR
are charged with the duty of assisting the Polls Commii
when called upon, in the preservation of order aoi
decorum.

(e) In order to maintain the secrecy and accuracy of
the ballot, and to eliminate the possibility of errors of.
irregularities la any one day's balloting affecting all thf'
balloting in any port, the following procedure shall bi
observed:

At the end ot each day's voting, the Polls Committal^
in the presence of any member desiring to attend, pro*'
vided he observes proper decorum, shall open the balIo|

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box or boxes, and place all of that day's ballots thereU
in an envelope, or envelopes, as requiriB, which shaS
then be sealed. The members of the Polls Committef
shall thereupon sign their names across the flap of t^
said envelope or envelopes, with their book numb.rs nMft
to their signatures. The Committee shaU also placf tlii

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date and name of the Port on the said envelope or en­
velopes, and shall certify, on the envelope or envelopes,
thct the ballot box or boxes were opened publicly, that
all ballots for that day only were removed, and that all
of thOKv ballots are enclosed In the envelope or envelopes
dated for that day and voted In that Port. The Polls
Committee shall check the rosters, and any other records
they deem appropriate, to Insure the foregoing. At the
discretion of Headquarters, official envelopes may be pre­
pared for the purpose of enclosing the ballots and the
making of the aforesaid certification, with wording em­
bodying the foregoing Inscribed thereon. In which event,
these envelopes shall be used by the Polls Committee for
the aforesaid purpose. Nothing contained herein shall
prevent any member of a Polls Committee from adding
such comments to the certificate as are appropriate,
provided the comments are signed and dated by the
member making them. The envelope or envelopes shall
then be placed In a wrapper or envelope, which, at the
discretion of Headquarters, may be furnished for that
purpose. The wrapper or envelope shall then be securely
sealed and either delivered, or sent by certified or reg­
istered mall, by the said Polls Committee, to the deposi­
tory named in the pre-election report adopted by the
membership. The Polls Committee shall not be dis­
charged from Its duties until this mailing Is accomplished
and evldencv of mailing or delivery Is fumishe"^. the Port
Agent, which evidence shall be noted and kept In the
Port Agent's election records or files.

The Polls Committee shall also insure that the ballot
box or boxes are locked and sealed before handing them
back to the Port Agent, and shall place the key or keys
to the boxe" In an envelope, across the flap of which the
members of the Committee shall sign their names, book
numbers, and the date, after sealing the envelope se­
curely In addition to delivering the key and ballot box
or boxes as aforesaid, the Polls Committee shall de­
liver to the Port Agent one copy of each of the roster
sheets for the day, the unused ballots, any reports called
for by this Section 4, any files that they may have re­
ceived, and all the stubs collected both for the da} and
those turned over to It. The Port Agent shall be respon­
sible for the proper safeguarding of all -.he aforesaid ma­
terial. shall not release any of It until duly called for,
and shall Insure that no one illegally tampers with the
material placed in his custody. The remaining copy of
each roster sheet used for the day shall be mailed by the
Polls Committee to Headquarters, by certified or regis­
tered mall or delivered In person.

(f) Members of the Polls Committee shall serve without
compensation, except that the Port Agent shall compensate
each Polls Committee member with a reasonable sum for
meals while serving.

Section 5. Ballot Collection. Tallying Procedure.
Protests, and Special Votes.

ra» On the day the balloting in each Port is to termi­
nate. the Polls Committee elected for that day shall, m
addition to their other duties hereinbefore set forth, de­
liver to Headquarters, or mail to Headquarters (by certi­
fied or registered mail), all the unused ballots, together
with a certification, signed and dated by all members of
the Committee that all ballots sent to the Port and nut
used are enclosed there\vith, subject to the right of each
member of the Committee to make separate comments
under his signature and date. The certification shall
specifically identify, by serial number and amount, the
unused ballots so forwarded. In the same package, but
bound separately, the Committee shall forward to Head­
quarters all stubs collected during the period of voting,
together with a certification, signed by all members of
the Committee, that all the stubs collected by the Com­
mittee are enclosed therewith, subject to the right of each
member of the Committee to make separate comments un­
der his slgnatuce and date. The said Polls Committee
members shall not be discharged from theij duties until
the forwarding called for hereunder is accomplished and
evidence of mailing or delivery Is furnished the Port
Agent, which evidence shall be noted ai.d kept. In the
Port Agent's election records or files.

(b) All forwarding to Headquarters, called for under
this Section 5, shall be to the Union Tallying Committee,
at the address of Headquarters. In the event a Polls
Committee cannot be elected or cannot act on the day
the balloting in each Port Is to terminate, the Port Agent
shall have the duty to forward the material specifically
set forth In Section 5(a) (unused ballots and stubs) to the
Union Tallying Committee which will then carry out the
functions in regard thereto of the said Polls Committee.
In such event, the Port Agent shall also forward all other
material deemed necessary by the Union Tallying Com­
mittee to execute those functions.

All certifications called for under this Article XIll
shall be deemed made according to the best knowledge,
information, and belief of those required to make such
certifications.

(c) The Union Tallying Committee shall consist of 14
members.. Six shall be elected from Headquarters Port,
and two shall be elected from each of the four ports of
Baltimore, Mobile, New Orleans, and San Francisco. The
six to be elected from Headquarters Port shall consist of
two from each ctf the three departments .of the Union.
The others shall be elected without regard to department.
The election shall be held at the last regular meeting In
^December of the election year. No Officer, Port Agent,
:Patrolman. or candidate for office, or the Job of Port
fAgent or Patrolman, shall be eligible for election to this
'Committee. In addition- to its duties hereinbefore set
forth, the Union Tallying Committee shall be charged

with the tally of all the ballots and the preparation of p
closing report setting forth In complete detail, the results
of the election. Including a complete accounting of all
ballots and stubs, and reconciliation of the same with the
rosters, verification lists, and receipts of the Port Agents,
all with detailed reference to serial numbers and amounts,
and with each total broken down Into Port totals. The
Ta.ly.ng Committee shall be permitted access to the elec-
» 0-1 records and files of all Ports, which they may require
to be forwarded for inspection at Its discretion. The re­
port shall clearly detail all discrepancies discovered, and

cjntain recommendations for the treatment of these
discrepancies. All members of the Committee shall sign
the report, without prejudice, however, to the right of any
member thereof to submit a dissenting report as to the
accuracy of the count and the validity of the ballots, with
pvrt'nent details.

The Tallying Committee Is also charged with the re­
ceipt and evaluation of written protests by any member
" ho claims an Illegal denial of the right to vote. If It
finds the protest invalid. It shall dismiss the protest and
so inform the protesting member, by wire, on the day of
dismissal. If it finds the protest 'valid, the Committee
shall order a special vote, to be bad no later than within
the period of its proceedings, on such terms as are prac­
tical. effective, and Just, but which terms. In any event,
shall Include the provisions of Section 3(c) of this Article
and the designation of the voting site of the Port most
convenient to the protesting member. Where a special
vote is ordered in accordance with this Section 5(c), these
terms shall apply, notwithstanding any provisions to the
contrary contained In this Article. Protests may be made
only In writing and must be received by the Union Tally­
ing Committee during the period of Its proceedings. The
reports of this Committee shall include a brief summary
of each protest received, the name and book number of
the protesting member, and a summary of the disposition
of the said protest. The Committee shall take all reason­
able measures to adjust the course of Its proceedings so
as to enable the special vote set forth In this Section
5(c) to be completed within the time herein specified. No
closing report shall be made by It unless and until the
special votes referred to in this Section 5(c) shall have
been duly completed and tallied.

Id) The members of the Union Tallying Committee
shall proceed to Headquarters Port as soon as possible
after their election but, In any event, shall arrive at Head­
quarters Port prior to the first business day after Decem­
ber 31 of the election year. Each member of the Commit­
tee not elected from Headquarters Port shall be reim­
bursed for transportation, meals, and lodging expense oc­
casioned by their traveling to and returning from Head­
quarters Port. All members of the Committee shall also be
paid at the prevailing stand'Dy rate of pay from the day
subsequent to their election to the day they return, in
normal course, to the Port from which they were elected.

The Union Tallying Committee shall elect a chairman
from among themselves and, subject to the express terms
of this Constitution, adopt Its own procedures. Decisions
as to special votes, protests, and the contents of the final
report shall be valid if made by a majority vote, provided
there be a quorum In attendance, which quorum Is hereby
fixed at nine (9). The Union Tallying Committee, but not
le'ss than a quorum thereof, shall have the sole right and
duty to obtain the ballots from the depository immediate­
ly after the termination of balloting and to Insure their
safe custody during the course of the Committee's pro­
ceedings. The proceedings of this Committee, except for
the actual preparation of the closing report and dissents
therefrom. If any, shall be open to any member, provided
he obseri'es decorum. In no event shall the Issuance of
the hereinbefore referred to closing report of the Tallying
"-.mmittee be delayed beyond the January 15th Imme­
diately subsequent to the close of voting.

(e) The report of the Committee shall be made up In
sufficient copies to comply with the following require­
ments: two copies shall be sent by the Committee to each
Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer prior to the first
regular meeting scheduled to take place subsequent to the
close of the Committee's proceedings or, In the event such
meeting Is scheduled to take place four days or less from
the close of this Committee's proceedings, then at least five
days prior to the next regular meeting. Whichever meet­
ing applies shall be designated, by date, In the report,
and shall be referred to as the "Election Report" meeting.
As soon as these copies are received, each Port Agent shall
post one copy of the report on the bulletin board, in a
conspicuous manner. This copy shall be kept posted for
a period of two months. At the Election Report meeting,
the other copy of the report shall be read verbatim.

(f) At the Election Report meeting, there shall be
taken up the discrepancies, if any. referred to i.. Section
5(c) of this Aitlcle and the recommendations of the Tally­
ing Committee submitted therewith. A majority vote of
the membership shall decide what action, if any, in ac­
cordance with the Constitution, shall be taken thereon,
which action, however, shall not Include the ordering of
a special vote unless the reported discrepancies affect
the results ot the vote for any office or job, in which
event, the special vote shall be restricted thereto. A
majority of the membership, at the Election Report meet­
ing, may order a recheck and a recount when a dissent to
the closing report has been issued by three or more mem­
bers of the Union Tallying Committee. Except for the
contingencies provided for in this Section S(f). the closing
report shall be accepted as finaL

(g) A special vote ordered pursuant to Sec. 5(f) must
take place and be completed within seven (7) days after

the Election Report meeting, at each Port where the dis­
crepancies so acted upon took place. Subject to the fore-

; going, and to the limits of the vote set by the member­
ship, as aforesaid, the Port agents In each such Port shal]
have the functions of the Tallying Committee as set forth
In Section 5(c). Insofar as that section deals with the terms
of such special vote. The Secretary-Treasurer shall make a
sufficient amount of the usual balloting material immedi­
ately available to Port Agents, for the purpose of such spe­
cial vote. Immediately after the close thereof, the Port
Agent shall summarize the results and communicate them
to the Secretary-Treasurer. The ballots, stubs, roster sheets,
and unused ballots pertaining to the special vote shall
be forwarded to Headquarters, all In the same package,
but bound separately, by the most rapid means practicable,
but, in any case, so as to reach Headquarters in time to
enable the Secretary-Treasurer to prepare his report as
required by this Section 5(g). An accounting and certifi­
cation, made by the Port Agent, similar to those required
icf Polls Committees, shall be enclosed therewith. The
!Secretary-Treasurer shall then prepare a report contain­
ing a combined summary of the results, together with a
schedule Indicating in detail how they affect the Union
Tallying Committee's results, as set forth in. its closing
report. The form of the latter's report shall be followed
as closely as possible. Two (2) copies shall be sent
each Port, one copy of which shall be posted. The other
copy shall be presented at the next regular meeting after
the Election Report meeting. If a majority vote of the
membership decides to accept the Secretary-Treasurer's
report, the numerical results set forth in the pertinent

'segments of the Tallying Committee's closing report shall
be deemed modified accordingly, and, as modified, ac­
cepted and final. If the report Is not accepted, the
numerical results in the pertinent segments of the Tally­
ing Committee's closing report shall be deemed accepted
and final without modification.

If ordered, a recheck and recount, and the report there­
on by the Union Tallying Committee, shall be similarly
disposed of. and deemed accepted and fi. -l, by majority
vote of the membership at the regular meeting following
the Election Report meeting. If such recheck and -e-
count Is ordered, the Union Tallying Committee shall be
required to continue its proceedings correspondingly.-

Section 6. Installation into Office and the Job of
Port Agent or Patrolman.

(a) The person elected shall be that person having the
largest number of votes cast for the particular office or
Job Involved. Where more than one person is to be
elected for particular office or Job, the proper number
of candidates receiving the successively highest number
of votes shall be declared elected. These determinations
shall be made only from results deemed final end ac­
cepted as provided' in this Article. It shall be the duty
of the Secretary-Treasurer to notify each individual
elected.

(b) All reports by Committees and the Secretary-Treas­
urer under this Article, except those of'the Polls Com­
mittees, shall be entered in the minutes of the Port where
Headquarters Is located. Polls Committee reports shal)
be entered in the minutes of the Port where It functions.

(c). The duly elected Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant
Secretary-Treasurers, Port Agents, and Port Patrolmen
shall take over their respective offices and jobs, and
assume the duties thereof, at midnight of the night of the
Election Report meeting, or the next regular meeting,
depending upon at which meeting the results as to each
of the foregoing are deemed final and accepted, as pro­
vided in this Article. The term of their predecessors
shall continue up to, and expire at, that time, notwith­
standing anything to the contrary contained in Article
XI, Sec. 1. This shall not apply where the successful
candidate cannot assume h'- office because he is at sea.

In such event, a majority vote of the membership may
grant additional time for the assumption of the office or
job. In the event of the failure of the newly-elected
Secretary-Treasurer to assume office, the provisions of
Article X, Section 2(a), as to succession shall apply until
such office is assumed. If he does not assume office
within 90 days, the line of succession shall apply until
the expiration of the term. All other cases of failure to
assume office shall be dealt with as decided by a majority
vote of the membership.

(d) Before assuming office, every Officer, Port Agent,
and Patrolman shall take the following oath:

"I do solemnly swear that I will • faithfully execute
the duties of ^ of the Seafarers
International Union of North America, Atlantic and
Gulf District, and I will, to the best of my ability,
protect and preserve the Constitution of this Union
and the welfare of the membership."

ARTICLE XIV
OTHER ELECTIONS

Section 1. Auditing Committee.
Each port shall elect an Auditing Committee on Friday

of each week, at 3:00 P.M.. for the purpose of auditing the
financial report for that week. These reports shall be
submitted to the next regular meeting of that port, for
membership action. The Committee shall consist of three
members. No Officer. Port Agent, Patrolman, or employee
shall be eligible to serve on this Committee. The election
shall be by majority vote of the members in attendance
at the meeting, provided that any member eligible to
serve may nominate himself.

The same provisions shall apply with regard to the Port
where Headquarters is located except that the Auditing
Committee there shall audit the financial reports of the
Headquarters Port Agent and the Secretary-Treasurer.



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Section 2. Qnarterly Financial Committee.
The Quarterly Financial Committee shall be elected at

the Port where Headquarters is located, at the first or sec­
ond regular meeting held after the close of the calendar
quarter for which the Committee is to make the required
audit. It shall be the duty of the Secretary-Treasurer to
decide at which of these meetings the election shall take
place. The Committee shall consist of six members, with
two members from each of the Deck, Engine and Stewards
Departments. No officer. Fort Agent. Patrolman or em­
ployee shall be eligible to serve on this Committee. The
members shall be elected by a majority vote of the mem­
bers present at the meeting provided that any member
eligible to serve may nominate himself.

Section 3. Trial Committee.
A Trial Committee shall be elected at a Special Meeting

held at 10:00 A.M. the next business day following the
tegular meeting of the Port where the Trial is to take
place. It shall consist of five members, of which threj
shall constitute a quorum. No Officer, Port Agent, Port
Patrolman, or employee may be elected to serve on a Trial
Committee. No member who intends to be a witness in
the pending trial may serve, nor may any member who
cannot, for any reason, render an honest decision. It shall
be the duty of every member to decline nomination if he
knows, or has reason to believe, any of the foregoing dis­
qualifications apply to him. The members of this Commit­
tee shall be elected under such generally applicable rules
as are adopted by a majority vot of the membership.

Section 4. Appeals Committee.
The Appeals Committee shall consist of seven members,

five of whom shall constitute a quorum, elected at the
Port where 'Headquarters is located. The same disqual­
ifications and duties of members shall apply with regard
to this Committee as apply to the Trial Committee. In
addition, no member may serve on an Appeals Committee
in the hearing of an appeal from ^ Trial Committee deci­
sion, if the said member was a member of the Trial Com­
mittee.

Section 5. Negotiating and Strike Committee.
The members of a Negotiating and Strike Committee,

whether of a Port or otherwise, shall be composed of as
many members as shall be determined, by a majority vote
of the membership, upon recommendation of the Secre­
tary-Treasurer. Any member may attend any meeting of
this Committee provided he observes decorum. However,
a limit may be set by the chairman of the Committee on
the number of those who may attend.

Section 6. Meeting Chairman.
The meeting Chairman shall be a member elected from

• the floor by majority vote of the members at any meeting.
Section 7. Delegates,
As soon as the Secretary-Treasurer is advised as to the

date and duly authorized number of delegates to the con­
vention of the Seafarers International Union of North
America, he shall communicate such facts to the Port
Agent of each Port, together with lecommendations as to
generally applicable rules for the election of delegates.
These facts and recommendations shall be announced and
read at the first regular meeting thereafter. Unless
changed by a majority vote of the membership during thit
meeting, the election rules shall apply. These rules shall
not prohibit any member from nominating himself. The
results of the election shall be communicated to each Port
Agent, posted on the bulletin board, and announced at the
next regular meeting of the Port. Rules of election here­
under may include provisions for automatic election of all
qualified nominees, in the event the number of such
nominees does not exceed the number of delegates to be

AKTICLE XV
TRIALS AND APPEALS

Section 1. Any member may bring charges against any
other member for the commission of an offense as set
forth in this Constitution. These charges shall be in writ­
ing and signed by the accuser, who shall also include his
book number. The accuser shall deliver these charges to
the Port Agent of the Port nearest the place of the of­
fense, or the Port of pay off, if the offense took place
aboard ship. He shall also request tlie Fort Agent to
present these charges at the next regular meeting. The
accuser may withdraw his charges before the meeting
takes place.

Section 2. After pre.sentation of the charges and the
request to the Port Agent, the Port Agent shall cause
those charges to be read at the said meeting.

If the charges are rejected by a majority vote of the
Port, no further action may be taken thereon, unless
ruled otherwise by a majority vote of the membership of
the Union within 90 days thereafter. If the charges are
accepted, and the accused is present, he shall be auto­
matically on notice that he will be tried the following
morning. At his request, the trial shall be postponed
until the morning following the next regular- meeting, at
which time the Trial Committee will then be elected. He
shall also be handed a written copy of the charges made
against him.

If the accused is not present, the Port Agent shall im­
mediately cause to be sent to him. by registered mail ad­
dressed to his last known mailing address on file with
the Union, a copy of the charges, the names and book
numbers of the accusers, and a notification that he must
appear with his witnesses, ready for trial the morning
after the next regular meeting, at which meeting the Trial
Committee will be elected

In the event a majority of the membership of the Union
shall vote to accept charges after their rejection by a
Port, the Trial shall take place in the Port where Head­
quarters is located. Due notice thereof shall be given to
the accu.sdd. who shall be informed of the name of his
accusers, and who shall receive a written statement of
the charges. At the request of the accused, transportation
and subsistence shall be provided the accused and his
witnesses.

Section 3. The Trial Committee shall hear all pertinent
evidence and. shall not be bound by the rules of evidence
required by. courts of taw but may receive all relevant
testimony. The Trial Committee may grant adjournments,
at the request of the accused, to enable him to make a
proper defense. In the event the Trial Committee falls
beneath a quorum, it shall adjourn until a quorum does
exist.

Section 4. No trial shall be conducted unless all the
accusers are present. The Trial Committee shall conduct
the trial except that the accused shall have the right to
cross-examine the accuser, or accusers, and the witnesses,
as well as to conduct his own defense. The accused may
select any member to assist him in his defense at the
trial, provided, (a), the said member is available at the
time the trial and (b) the said member agrees to render
such assistance. If the accused challenges the qualifica­
tions of the members of the Trial Committee, or states
that the charges do not adequately inform him of what
wrong he allegedly committed, or the time and place of
£uch commission, such matters shall be ruled upon and
disposed of. prior to proceeding on the merits of the de­
fense. The guilt of an accused shall be found only if proven
by the weight of the evidence, and the burden of such
proof shall be upon the accuser. Every finding shall be
based on the quality of the evidence and not solely on the
number of witnesses produced.

Section 5. 'The Trial Committee shall make findings as
to guilt or innocence, and recommendations as to pun­
ishment and/or other Union action deemed desirable in
the light of the proceedings. These findings and recom­
mendations shall be those of a majority of the Committee,
and shall be in writing, as shall be any dissent. The Com­
mittee shall forward its findings and recommendations,
along with any dissent, to the Port Agent of the Port
where the trial took place, while a copy^ thereof shall be
forwarded to the accused and the accusers, either in per­
son or by mail .addressed to their last known addresses.
The findings shall include a statement that the rights of
the accused under this Constitution, were properly safe­
guarded. The findings also must contain the charges
made, the date of the trial, the name and address of the
accused, the accuser, and each witness; shall describe each
document used at the trial; shall contain a fair summary
of the proceedings, and shall state the findings as to
guilt or innocence. If possible, all the documents used at
the trial shall be kept. All findings and recommendations
shall be made a part of the regular files.

Section 6. The Port Agent of the Port of Trial shall,
upon receipt of the findings and recommendations of the
Trial Committee, cause the findings and recommendations
to be presented, and entered into the minutes, at the next
regular meeting.

Section 7. The Port Agent shall send the record of
the entire proceedings to Headquarters, which shall cause
sufficient copies thereof to be made and sent to each
Port in time for the next regularly scheduled meeting.

Section 8. At the latter meeting, the proceedings shall
be discussed. The meeting.shall then vote. A majority
vote of the membership of the Union shall;

(a) Accept the findings and recommendations, or
(b) Reject the findings and recommendations, or
(c) Accept the findings, but modify the recommenda­

tions, Of
'd) Order a new trial after finding that substantial jus­

tice has not been done with regard to the charges. In this
event, a new trial shall take place at the Port where Head­
quarters is located and. upon application, the accused, the
accusers, and their witnesses shall be furnished transpor­
tation and subsistence.

Seetion 9. After the vote set forth in Section 8, any
punishment so decided upon shall become effective. The
Secretary-Treasurer shall cause notice of the results
thereof to be sent to each accuse'' and accuser.

Section 10. An accused who has been found guilty, or
who is under effective punishme.nt may appeal in the fol­
lowing manner:

He may send or deliver a notice of appeal to the
Secretary-Treasurer within 30 days after receipt of the
notice of the decison of the membership.

Section 11. At the next regular meeting of the Port
where Headquarters is located, after receipt of the notice
of appeal, the Secretary-Treasurer shall present the notice,
which shall then beqome part of the minutes. An Appeals
Committee shall then be elected. The Secretary-Treasurer
is charged vdth the duty of presenting the before-men­
tioned proceedings and all available documents used as
evidence at the trial to the Appeals Committee, as well as
any written statement or argument submitted by the ac­
cused. The accused may argue his appeal in person, if he
so desires. The appeal shall be heard at Union Headquar­
ters on the night the Committee is elected. It shall.be
the responsibility of the accused to insure that his written
statement or argument arrives at Headquarters in time for
such presentation.

Section 12. The Appeals Committee shall decide the ap­
peal as soon as possible, consistent with fair consideration
of the e\idence and arguments before it It may grant ad­
journments and may request the accused or accusers to
present arguments, whenever necessary for such fair con­
sideration.

Section 13. The decision of the Appeals Committee shall
be by majority vote, and shall be in the form of findings
and recommendations. Dissents will be allowed. Decisions
and dissents shall be in writing and signed by those partic­
ipating in such decision or dissent. In making its findings
and recommendations, the Committee shall be governed
by the following:

(a) No finding of guilt shall be reversed if there is sub­
stantial evidence to support sucli a finding and, in such
case, the Appeals Committee shall not make its own find­
ings as to the weight of evidence.

(bi In no event shall increased punishment be recom­
mended.

(ci A hew trial shall be recommended if the Appeals
Committee finds^fa) that kny member of the Trial Com­
mittee should have been disqualified, or (b) that the ac­
cused was not adequately Informed of the details of the
charged offense, which resulted in his not having been
given a fair trial, or (c) that for any other reason, the ac­
cused was not given a fair trial.

(d) If there is no substantial evidence to support a
finding of guilt, the Appeals Committee shall recommend
that the charge on which the finding was based be dis­
missed.

(e) The Appeals Committee may recommend lesser
punishment.

Section 14. The Appeals Committee shall deliver its
decision and dissent, if any, to the Secretary-Treasurer.
The Secretary-Treasurer shall cause sufficient copies to be
published and shall have them sent to each Port in time
to reach there before the next regular scheduled meeting.
He shall also send a copy to each accused and accuser at
their last known address, or notify them in person.

Section 15. At the meeting indicated in Section 14 of
this Article, the membership, by a majority vote, shall
accept the decision of the Appeals Committee, or the dis­
sent therein, if any. If there is no dissent, the decision of
the Appeals Committee shall stand.

If a new trial is ordered, that trial shall be held in the
Port where Headquarters is located, in the manner pro­
vided for in Section 2 of this Article. Any decision so
providing for a new trial shall contain such directions as
will insure a fair hearing to the accused.

Section 16. The Secretary-Treasurer shall notify the
accused and each accuser, either in person or in writing
addressed to their last known address, of the results of
the appeal. A further appeal shall be allowed as set forth
in Section 17.

Section 17. Each member is charged with knowledge of
the provisions of the Constitution of the Seafarers Interna­
tional Union of North America, and the rights of, and
procedure as to, further appeal as provided for therein.
Decisions reached thereunder shall be binding on all mem­
bers of the Union.

Section 18. It shall be the duty of all members of the
Union to take all steps within their constitutional power
to carry ouf the terms of any effective decisions.

Section 19. Any accused may waive any or all rights
and privileges granted to him by this Article. If an accused
has been properly notified of his trial and fails to attend
without properly requesting a 'Postponement, the Trial
Committee may hold its trial without his presence.

ARTICLE XVI
OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

Section 1. Upon proof of the commission of the follow­
ing offenses, the member shall be expelled from mem­
bership:

(a) Proof of membership in any organization advocating
the overthrow of the Government of the United States
by force;

(b> Acting as an informer against the interest of the
Union or the membership in any organizational campaign;

(c) Acting as an informer for, or agent, of the Company
against the interests of the membership or the Union;

(d) The commission of any act as part of a conspiracy
to destroy the Union,

Section 2. Upon proof of the commission of any of the
following offenses, the member shall be penalized up to a
penalty of expulsion from the Union. In the event the
penalty of expulsion is not invoked or recommended, the
penalty shall not exceed suspension from the rights and
privileges of membership for more than two (2) years, or
a fine of $50.00, or both:

(a) Wilfully misappropriating or misusing Union prop­
erty of the value in excess of $50.00;

(b) Unauthorized use of Union property, records, stamps,
seals, etc., for the purpose of personal gain;

(c) Wilful misuse of any office or joh« elective or not,
within the Union for the purpose of personal gain, finan­
cial or otherwise, or the wilful refusal or failure to
execute the duties or functions of the said office or job.
or gross neglect or abuse in executing such duties or
functions;

(d) Unauthorized voting, or unauthorized handling of
ballots, stubs, rosters, verification lists, ballot boxes, or
election files, or election material of any sort;

(e) Preferring charges with knowledge that such charges
are false; '

(f) Making or transmitting, with intent to deceive, false
reports or communications, with knowledge of the falsity
thereof, or unauthorizedly altering reports or communica­
tions which fall within the scope of Union business;

(g) Deliberate failure or refusal to join one's ship, or
misconduct or neglect of duty aboard ship, to the detri­
ment of the Union or its agreements;

(h) Deliberate and unauthorized interference, or delib­
erate and malicious villification, with regard to the execu­
tion of the duties of any office or job;

(i) Paying for, or receiving money for. employment
aboard a vessel;

(j) Wilful refusal to submit evidence of affiliation for
the purpose of avoiding or delaying money payments to
the Union, or unauthorizedly transferring or receiving
evidence of Union affiliation, with IntOnt to deceive;

(k) Wilful failure or refusal to carry out the orders of
those duly authorized to make such ordeys during time
of strike. . y ..

Section 3. Upon proof of the commission of any of the
following offenses, members shall be penalized up to
suspension from the rights and privileges of membership
for two (2) years, or a fine of $M.OO, or both:

(a) V/ilfully misappropriating or misusing Uniop prop­
erty of the value under $50.00; . ' V

(b) Assuming any office or job, whether elective or not, -
with knowledge of the lack of possession of the qualiflca- ~
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(e) Misconduct dating any meeting or otiier offldal
Union Ihroceeding. or bringing the Union into disreputo
by conduct not provided for elsewhere in this Article:

(d) Refusal or negligent failure to. carry out orders of
those duly authorized to make such orders at any time.

Section 4. Upon proof of the commission of any of the
following offenses, members shall be penalized up to a
fine of $50.00:

(a) Refusal or wilful failure to be present at sign-ons
or pay-offs;

(b> Wilful failure to submit book to Union representa­
tives at pay-off;

' (c) Disorderly cbnduct at pay-off or sign on;
(d) Refusal to cooperate with Union representatives in

discharging their duties;
(e) Disorderly conduct in the Union Hall;
(f) Gambling in the Union Hail;
(g) Negligent failure to join ship.
Section 5. Any member who^ has committed an offense

penalized by no more than a fine of $50.00 may elect to
waive his rjghts under this Constitution and to pay the
maximum fine of $50.00 to the duly authorized representa­
tive of the Union. .. , , .

Section 6. If offense against the Union and its principles
and poiicies takes place in the meeting, the meeting may
go into a Committee of the Whole and try the member
at once, and in this case, the findings and recommendation
of the Committee of the Whole shall be acted upon as
if the report were made by a duly elected Trial Committee.

Section 7. This Union, and its members, shall not be
deemed to waive any claim, or personal or property rights
to which it~l)r its members are entitled, by bringing the
member to trial or enforcing a penalty as provided in
this Constitution. . . ,

Section 8. Any member under suspension for an of­
fense under this Article shall continue to pay all dues
and assessments and must observe his duties to the Union,
members, officials and jdb holders.

ARTICLE XVII
PUBLICATIONS

This Union may publish such pamphlets. Journals, news­
papers, magazines, periodicals, and general literature, in
sucYf manner as may be determined, from time to time,
by a majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE XVUl
BONDS

Officers and job holders, whether elected or appointed,
as well as all other employees of the Union, may be re­
quired to be bonded under such terms and conditions as
may be determined, from time to time, by a niajority vote
of the membership.

ARTICLE XIX
EXPENDITURES

^ Section 1. Policies or specific instructions with regard
' to expenditurts to be made or expenses* to be incurred

shall be determined by a majority vote of the membership.
In the event no contrary policies or instructions are in
existence, the Secretary-Treasurer may authorize, make,
and incu^ such expenditures and expenses as lie within
the authority conferred upon him by Article X and Ar­
ticle XI of this Constitution.

, Section 2. The provisions of Section 1 shall similarly
apply to the routine accounting and administrative pro­
cedures of the Union except those primarily concerned
with trials, appeals, negotiations, strikes, and elections.

Section 3. The provisions of this Article shall super­
sede, to the extent applicable, the provisions of Articles
X and XI. ARTICLE XX

INCOME
Section 1. The income of this Union shall include re­

ceipts from dues, initiation fees, fines, assessments, con­
tributions, loans, interest, dividends, as well as income
derived from any other legitimate" business operation or
other legitimate source.

Section 2. No member shall be required to pay or de­
liver any sum of money to any Union representative with­
out obtaii)ing an official Union receipt, signed and dated.
It shall be ihe duty of the member to demand such re­
ceipt. ,

Section 3. No assessments shall be levied except after
a ballot'conducted under such general rules as may be
decided upon by a majority vote of the membership, pro*
vjded that:

(a) The ballot must be secret.
(b) The assessment must be approved by a 2/3 ma­

jority of the valid ballots cast.
Section 4. All payments by members or other affiliates

, of this Union shall be applied succe.ssively to the mone­
tary obligations owed the Union commencing with the
oldest in point of time, as measured from the date of
accrual of such obligation. The period of arrears shall
i)e calculated accordingly.

ARTICLE XXI
PERMITS AND OTHER TYPES OF UNION AFFILIATION

This Union, by majoHty vote of the membership, may
provide for affiliation with it by individuals in a lesser
capacity than membership, or in a capacity other than
meapbership. By majority vote of tt\e membership, the
Union may provide for the rights and obligations incident
to such capacities or affiliations. These rights and obli­
gations may include, but are not limited to: (a) the applica­
bility or non-applicability of all or any part of this .Con­
stitution; (b) the terms of such affiliation: <c) the right of
the Union to peremptory termination of such affiliation
and, the fees required for such affiliation. In no event
may anyone not a member receive evidence of affiliation
equivalent to that of members, receive priority or rights
over members, or be termed a member.

ARTICLE XXlI
FORMULATION OF SHIPPING RULES

Section 1. The formulation of shipping rules shall not
be deemed part of any routine administrative task. Ship­
ping rules governing the details of-the assignments of
jobs and governing conduct and procedure connected

therewith may be Issued and take effect only after ap­
proval by a majority vote of the membership. Shipping
rules duly issued shall be deemed to bb Union policy.

Section 2. A majority vote of the membership may
make special exceptions .or rules for any company or
vessel, for organizational purj^oses, whether covered by
a contract or not

ARTICLE XXIII
QUORUMS

Section 1. Unless elsewhere herein otherwise specif­
ically provided, the quorum for a special meeting of a
Port shall be six members.

Section 2. The quorum for a regular meeting of a Port
"^shail be seven members.

Section 3. The quorum for the Agents' Conference shall
be a majority of those eligible to attend.

Section 4. Unless otherwise specifically set forth here­
in, the quorum for any committee shall be the majority of
those duly elected or appointed thereto.

Section 5. Unless otherwise specifically set forth here­
in, the decisions, reports, recommendations, or other func­
tions of any segment of the Union requiring a quorum to
act officially, shall be that of the majority of the quorum,
and shall not be official effective unless the quorum
requirements are met.

ARTICLE XXIV
MEETINGS

Section 1. All ports shall hold regular meetings, provided
a quorum is present, on every other Wednesday, at 7:00 P.M.
If such meeting night falls on a holiday, the meeting shall
take place, providing a quorum is present, at 7:00 P.M. the
following night. In the event a quorum is not present at
7:00 P.M., the Port Agent of Lhe pertinent port shall post­
pone the opening of the meeting until a quorum is pres­
ent, but in no event later than 7:30 P.M. A majority vote
of the membership shall be sufficient to change the date
of any future regular meeting.

Section 2. A special meeting at a Port may be called
only at thendirection of the Port Agent. No special meet­
ing may be held, except between the hours of 9:00 A.M.
and 5:00 P.M. Notice of such meeting shall be posted at
least two hours in advance, on the Port bulletin board.

ARTICLE XXV
AGENTS' CONFERENCE

Section I. The Secretary-Treasurer shall call an Agen^jr'
Conference once a year, and may call, with the approval
of a majority vote of the membership, additional Agents'
Conferences during the year. The time and place of each
such meeting shall be fixed by the Secretary-Treasurer.
These conferences may be postponed or cancelled by a
majority vote of the membership in case of emergency.
A majority vote of the membership shall determine when
such emergency exists.

Section 2. The Agents' Conference may discuss and
prepare reports and recommendations on any part of the
Union's activities, policies and plans. The adoption of any
such recommendation by a majority vote of the member­
ship shall make the provisions thereof binding Union
policy, until modified or otherwise altered by a majority .
vote of the membership provided such recommendation
id'Tiot inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitu-

ARTICLE XXVI
DEFINITIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

RELATING THERETO
Section 1. Incapacity. Unless otherwise set forth or

dealt with herein, the term "incapacity." shall mean any
illness or condition preventing the affected person from
carrying out his duties for more than 30 days; or absence
from the United States; or suspension from office or
membership as provided for in this Constitution; or the
due replacement of one under an incapacity as indicated.
However, nothing contained in this,Article shall be deemed
to prohibit the execution of the functions of more than
one job and/or office, in which <)vent no incapacity shall
be deemed to exist with regard to the regular job or of­
fice of the one taking over the duties and functions of the
one incapacitated. The period of incapacity shall be the
time during which the circumstances exist.

Section 2. Unless otherwise set forth or dealt with
herein, the term "vacancy," and the term "vacancy not
caused by an incapacity," shall be deemed to be the same,
and shall include failure to perform the functions of any
office or job by reason of death, or resignation, or expul­
sion' from the Union with no further right to appeal in ac­
cordance with the provisions of this Constitution.

Section 3. When applicable to the Union as a whole,
the term, '^majority vote of the me.nbership," shall mean
the majority of all the valid votes cast by members at an'
official meeting of those Ports holding a meeting. This
definition shall, prevail notwithstanding that one or more
Ports cannot hold meetings because of no quorum. For
tbat purpose of tbis section, the term ."regularly scheduled
meeting-night at which the pertinent vote may take place"
shall refer to a meeting or mretings during the time
period within which a vote must be taken in accordance
with: ta) The Constitution

(b) Union policy, and
(O Custom and usage of the Union

In the indicated priority.
Section 4. When applicable solely to Port action and

not concerned with, or related to. Union action as a whole,
and not forming parf of a Union-wide vote, the term,
"majority vote of the membershjp." shall refer to the
majority of the valid votes cast by the members at any
meeting of the Port, regular or special.

Section 5. The term, "membership, action" shall mean
the same as the term "majority vote of the membership."

Section 6. Where the title of any office or job, or the
holder thereof, is set forth in this Constitution, all refer­
ences thereto and the provisions concerned therewith shall
be deemed to be equally applicable to whomever Is duly
acting in such .office or job.

Section 7. The term "Election Year" shall be deemed

Sapptemcntaiyr'^Paga Seveji

to mean that calendar year prior to the calendar year la
which elected officials and other elected job-holders are
required to assume office. The first election year shall be

, deemed to be 1954.
Section 8. The terms, "this Constitution," and "this

amended Constitution," shall be deemed to have the same
meaning and shall refer to the Constitution which takes
the place of the one adopted by the Union in 1939. as
amended up through August 1951.
. Section 9. The term, "member in good standing," shall
mean a member not In arrears or under suspension or
sentence of expulsion. Unless otherwise expressly indi­
cated. the term, "member," shall mean a member in good
standing.

Section 10. The teiA, "membership book," shall mean
any official certificate issued as evidence of .Union mem­
bership.

Section 11. Whenever the day on which a Union meeting
or action is to take place falls on a holiday, the meeting
or action shall be put off until the next business day, at
the same hour.

ARTICLE XXVIl
AMENDMENTS

This Constitution shall be amended In the following
manner: ^

Section 1. Any member may submit, at any regular
meeting of any Port, proposed amendments to this Con­
stitution in resolution form. If a majority vote of the
membership of the Port approves it, the proposed .amend­
ment shall be forwarded to aii Ports for further action.

Section 2. When a proposed amendment is accepted by
a majority vote of the membership, it shall be referred
to a Constitutional Committee in the Port where Head-

Siarters is located. This Committee shall be composed
six members, two from each Department and shall be

elected in accordance with such rules as are established
by a niajority vote of that Port. The Committee will
act on all proposed amendments referred to it. - The
Committee may receive whatever advice and assistance,
legal or otherwise, it deems necessary. It shall prepare
a report on the amendment together with any proposed
changes or substitutions or. recommendations, and the
reasons for such recommendations. The latter shall then
be submitted to the membership by the Secretary-Treas­
urer. If a majority vote of the membership approves
the amendment as recommended, it shall then be voted
upon, in a yes or no vote by the membership of the
Union by seciet ballot in accordance with the procedure
outlined in Article XIII, Section 3(b) through Section 5,
except that, unless otherwise required by a majority vote'
of the_ membership at the time it gives the approval
necessary to nut the referendum to a vote, the Union
Tallying Committee shall consist of six (C members, twO
from each of the tiiree (3) departments of the Union,
elected from Heaiqrarters Port. The amendment shall
either be printed on the ballot, or if too lengthy, shall
be referred to on the ballot. Copies of the amendment
shall be posted on the bulletin boards of all Ports and
made available at the voting site in all Ports.

Section 3. If-approved by a % majority of the valid
ballots cast, the amendment shall become effective im­
mediately upon notification by the Headquarters Tallying
Committee to the Secretary-Treasurer that the amendment
has been so approved, unless otherwise specified in the
amendment. The Secretary-Treasurer shall immediately
notify all Ports of the results of the vote on the amend­
ment.

ARTICLE XXVIII
TRANSITION CLAUSE

Section 1. It is the purpose and intent of this Article
to provide for an orderly transition from Union operations •
and activities as governed by the Constitution in effect
prior to the adoption of this amended Constitution, to
operations and activities conducted in accordance with this
amended Constitution. Accordingly, the following sections
are to be given the_ interpretation required to effectuate
the foregoing purpose and intent

Section 2. All routine administrative, accounting, and .
other similar procedures and processes of this Union, in
effect immediately prior to the adoption of this amended
Constitution, shnll be deemed to be permitted hereunder
and shall continue in effect, unless or until changed, in
accordance udth the provisions hereof.

Section 8. All methods and means of collecting and
disbursing Union funds, all segregations of Union funds,
the sequence of regular meeting nights, rules of order
generally followed, bonding procedures, shipping rules,
permit systems, reinstatement procedures, and any other
practices or procedure, in effect immediately prior to the
adoption of this amended Constitution, shall be deemed
to be permitted hereunder, and shall continue in effect
unless or until changed in accordance with the provisions
hereof.

Section 4. All Union policies, customs, and usage, in­
cluding .those with regard to admission into membership,
in effect immediately prior to the adoption of this amended
Constitution, shall be deemed to be permitted hereunder
and shall continue in effect unless or until changed in
accordance with the provisions hereof.

Section 5. The Secretary-Treasurer, the Assistant Secre­
tary-Treasurer, all Port Agents and Patrolmen, and all
others elected as a result of the balloting held by this
Union during November and December of 1952, shall be
deemed to have been duly elected in conformity with the
provisions of this Constitution. From the date of adoption
of this Constitution, they shall focecute the powers and
functions, and assume the responsibilities, of the said
offices and jobs, as set forth in this Constitution. They
shall hold office, pursuant hereto, until the expiration
date of the terms of office set forth herein. The terms of
Article XIH, only insofar as they apply to election of
Officials, Port Agents, and Patrolmen, shall take effect the
first election year.

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ARTICLE I—Name and General Powers: Mte''t^e
name of the union afid defines its general powers,

A rsTi^i c II A£M* A* Provides for affiliation of the At-
AKTICLC 11—AUlliaflOn: lantic and Gulf District with the
Seafarers International Union of North America, the American
Federation of Labor and other bodies as may be determined by a
majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE Ill-Membership: 4fyir,'dX";uJe7:SS
set by a majority vote of the membership—Defines certain eligibility
requirements that must be met by candidates for new membership
—Provides relief for members who may be unable to pay duea
because of incapacity beyond their control—States the Union's oath
of obligation—Outlines rules for suspension and dismissal for non­
payment of dues and assessments—Rights of membership to expel
those who might support dual and hostile groups.

ARTICLE IV-Reinstatemen»: ,
statement of dismissed members..

ARTICLE y-Dues and InlHafion Fee: g£'g'd'u?i
schedule, initiation fee and method of payment—^Provides dues may
not be changed except by constitutional amendment—Permits the
membership, by majority vote, to waive dues and initiation fees for
organizational purposes only.

ARTICLE VI—Retirement from Membership:
Defines the procedure by which a Seafarer may retire his book and
outlines the method of reinstatement.

ARTICLE VII—System of Organization:
ments of the Union and provides for administrative authority.

ARTICLE Vlli-Officers:
urer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurers and Port Agents and Patrol­
men.

ARTICLE IX-Ofher ElecHve
gates and members of certain committees must be elect^ by the
membership.

ARTICLE X-Duties of Eledive Officers: Sute'Si
the Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treasurers, Port
Agents, Patrolmen, Meeting Chairmen, Delegates and members of
the Auditing, Trial, Quarterly Financial, Appeals and Negotiating
and Strike Committees—Provides proc^ure for filling vacancies
in office—Requires all Port Agents to file weekly financial reports-
Establishes membership control over actions and reports of officials
and committees.

ARTICLE XI—Wages and Terms of Office:
Provides that the Secretary-Treasurer, Assistant Secretary-Treas­
urers, Port Agents and Patrolmen-shall serve for two-year t^ms
and that their wages shall be set by a majority vote of the mem­
bership—^Provides for hiring and dismissal of other employes and
personnel, subject to a majority vote of the membership.

ARTICLE XII—Qualifications for Elective Office:
Sets forth that any member has the right to nominate himself for
any office—Lists eligibility requirements for the various offices. .

ARTOE XIJI-Electlons:
election of * six-member Credentials Committee to inspect the
candidate' eligibility according to rules of Constitution—Estab-•••• •

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hshes safeguarife for the right of a member to nominate himself to
ofiSce. Describes the Union's balloting procedure in detail—Pro­
vides for electiqni of Polls Committees to conduct elections and ^

Committee, including ifiembers; from New;
York, Baltiznore, Mobile, New Orleans and San Francisco to tal^

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CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE XlV-Other Elections: SLtT"!
chairmen, delegates and members of the following committees:
Auditing, Quarterly Financial, Trial, Appeals, Negotiating and
Strike—Defines qualifications for these positions.

ARTICLE XV-Trjals and Appeals: El|h1"o/"vSy
member to
brothers.

a fair trial by an impartial committee of his Union

Lists in detail the procedure for bringing charges and for pi
senting charges to the membership—Provides for election of fis
member trial committee and defines Committee's procedure and

re-
ve-

duties—Requires that accused must be confronted by the accuser-
Gives accused right to repriesentation by a brother member before
the trial committee—Requires presentation of the Committee's find­
ings to the membership for acceptance, rejection or modification by
a majority vote of the members—Provides procedure for appeals.

ARTICLE XVI-Offenses and Penalties:
fenses for which a member may be brought to trial—Places limita­
tions on penalties that may be imposed upon members found guilty
of such offenses—Gives a member the right to waive trial and
accept an automatic penalty for infractions not involving suspension
or dismissal from the Union—Provides for trial by meeting acting
as committee as a whole for offenses committed during course of
meeting.

ARTICLE XVII-Publicalions:
lication of a hewspaper and other literature.

ADTI/'*IC V\/ill Provides for bonding of officers
AKI iVwLC AYIII—DOnaS: and employes o£.the Union under
such conditions as may be determined by the membership.

ARTICLE XIX-Expendilures:
cies or specific instructions with regard to expenditures.

ADTI^I C VY Defines the Union's sources of in-
AKIICLC AA income: come—Sets forth the duty of mem­
bers to require Union representatives to give them a receipt for any
payment of money to the Union—Provides that no assessment piay
be levied unless approved by a two-thirds majority of the valid
ballots cast by the members in a secret election—Gives memter-
ship power to set up general rules-for asse^ment balloting—Pro­
vides for the Union to derive income from dividends, interest and
legitimate business operations.

ARTICLE XXI-Degi-ees of Membership:
rules for affiliation of individuals other than full members must be
determined by the Union's membership. <

ARTICLE XXII—Formulation of Shipping Rules:
Guarantees, as did the previous Constitution, that shipping rules
may not be revised unless approved by membership.

ARTICLE XXIII-Quorums:
shall be six members and the quorum lot* a.regular Port meeting
shall be seven members.

ARTICLE XXIV-Meetings:
every Other Wednesday—Exceptions are noted for holidays and
failure to obtain a quorum. -

ARTICLE XXV-Agenf's Conference: SSiifJSir:
ence of Port Agents to .be called by the Secretary-TresAurar.

ARTICLE XXVI-DeflnWons!
of the.Cmstitution.

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ARTICLE XXVII-Amendmenfs:
sdtution by the mend>ership.

ARTICLE XXNmi--Traniit»n Cleu$e!SlS»,fSi.S
p^actic^ and procedures to regiUMibh by ^
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